Prep Term 1 Overview 2023
Term Overview
We would like to welcome you and your child to what will be an amazing and successful partnership in Prep at Trinity Beach State School. We have an exciting year ahead of us with our Prep students beginning their learning journey at school.
Our Prep teaching team consists of Ms Kaileh Cavenett (Prep A), Miss Lauren Shouldice (Prep B), Ms Darelle Andersen (Prep C), Mrs Angela Buckley (Prep D) and Miss Gayle Kyle (Prep M).
Our Math, Science, English and HASS programs will follow the Australian Curriculum for Prep. Term 1 is a 10 week term, finishing on the 31st of March.
Our Specialist lessons include Music, Visual Arts, Technology and HPE. These vary across the classes for the Semester.
The assessment schedule for Term 1 is included in this outline. This provides a good insight into what your child is working on in class and their assessment task. If you have any questions regarding this please contact your child’s classroom teacher.
Classroom doors will open at approx. 8.45am in the mornings and the playground is out of bounds as there is no supervision in place. Please make sure students are not unsupervised by you until the bell rings at 8.55am.
It is important for every student to have a healthy breakfast before coming to school and a healthy lunch to help their concentration and ability to learn. Please put water in the water bottles and try to avoid juice if possible. If names come off lunchboxes and water bottles, make sure you rename them throughout the year to avoid confusion.
Just a reminder… No hat, no play! Ensure you have spare clothes in your child’s bag every day.
To build a sense of belonging, pride and respect, students are expected to wear their full school uniform -
- No jumpers with hoods or jumpers that are not a dark blue. School jumpers are available at the school uniform shop.
- No jewellery with exception to watches, medical alert bracelets or religious/ memorial references.
- No knee-high colourful socks (Black, blue, white)
- School Hats to be worn (Prep orange hats)
QParents
QParents is here
Great news: Trinity Beach SS provides our parent community with the opportunity to register for QParents.
We will be sending out invitations for parents to register for QParents next week.
QParents won’t replace the traditional ways you communicate with our school, but it will provide another way to communicate with us.
More information about QParents can be found at https://qparents.qld.edu.au/#/about
Attendance
How to report an absence:
- Email attendance@trinitybeachss.eq.edu.au or
- Call the school's absence line on 4057 1444, then press #1 and don't forget to leave a reason why your child/children are away, or
- Send a note to the classroom teacher on their return
Our schools attendance target is 95%
English
In this unit, students will listen to and read texts to explore predictable text structures and common visual patterns in a range of literary and non-literary texts. They will engage in many opportunities to learn about language, literature and literacy.
Maths
This term we will be covering a range of mathematical concepts.
- Patterning and Algebra – copying and continuing patterns
- Number and place value - count in ones, forwards and backwards from different starting points, identify small collections, connect number names, numerals and quantities, rote count to 10 and beyond.
- Location and transformation - follow and give simple instructions, describe position
Science
Move It Move It - The unit this term is called – On the Move. The students will develop an understanding of how things move. They will explore the push and pull forces they can use to move objects in ways such as sliding, bouncing and spinning. Through investigations, students will observe and gather evidence about rolling objects and explore the idea of fair testing.
HASS
My Family History - This semester students will explore families and their relationships with each other. They will identify who is in their family and learn about their family background and relationships within their family. They will learn how families can be the same or different. Students will identify important events in their own lives. They will identify how they, their families and friends know about their past and commemorate events that are important to them.
HPE
In PE, students in Prep will be involved in a unit that allows them to demonstrate personal and social skills when working with others in a range of activities. In Health, students will recognise how they are growing and changing and will identify actions that help them be healthy.
Music
In this unit, students will become aware of rhythm, pitch, dynamics and tempo. They will develop their singing voices, play percussion instruments and learn to listen as performers and as audience. Students will listen and analyse a variety of musical pieces from different cultures and times.
Visual Arts
This term in Visual Arts, Prep students will view various famous artworks that also relate to characters in books and animated cartoons. Students will explore ideas, experiences, observations, and imagination to recreate the subject of the artwork by crafting. They will use and experiment with different materials, techniques, and processes to make artworks.
Drama
Stories Come to Life; ‘Journey’
Students make and respond to drama by using the picture book ‘Journey’ as a stimulus as they bring the characters to life with voice, movement and improvisations for performance.
Technology
In Technologies, students in Prep step into the shoes of a Fairy-tale character to make a designed or digital solution to assist them in a time of need. The following characters have been selected to explore.
- Rapunzel and Little Red Riding Hood: Exploring how local delivery services meet different needs for people eg/ online shopping items arrive at a person’s home, exploring digital hardware and software.
- 3 Little Pigs: Compare the houses built by the pigs and discuss the properties of the materials.
- Hanzel & Gretal – Students identify the different food that covers the Gingerbread house, sort and display the data in different ways.
Assessment Schedule
LEARNING AREA | UNIT/TASK | DUE DATE |
ENGLISH | Exploring Our New World - Answer questions about a familiar story (what happened, main character, likes/dislikes) | Week 9 |
MATHS | Sorting Shapes and Objects- Students identify and sort shapes in different ways. Using Language to Describe Location – Students use appropriate language to describe different locations in a familiar place. Understanding Numbers from 1 to 20 - Task is administered as an interview, allow students to manipulate the objects to answer the questions. | Week 5 Week 9 Week 9 |
SCIENCE | Investigating Movement – students will investigate how objects move, describe properties of objects that effect movement and share observations. | Week 8 |
HASS | My Family History - Students will explore celebrated events in their lives and identify how people and objects help them to remember. | Term 2 - Week 6 |
HPE - Health | I am growing and changing - short answer response | Week 9-10 |
Contact Information
Contact your childs teacher via email:
Prep A – Kaileh Cavenett kcave12@eq.edu.au
Prep B – Lauren Shouldice lrsho0@eq.edu.au
Prep C - Darelle Andersen dande135@eq.edu.au
Prep D - Angela Buckley ambuc1@eq.edu.au
Prep M - Gayle Kyle gkyle4@eq.edu.au
Specialist Teachers
HPE - Jodie Donovan jdono63@eq.edu.au
HPE - Rochelle Powell rapow1@eq.edu.au
Visual Arts - Vaness Graham vgrah5@eq.edu.au
Music - Svetlana Walker swalk146@eq.edu.au
Drama - David Terry dater1@eq.edu.au
HPE/Technology/Drama - Karen Arthur kaart0@eq.edu.au
Technology - Jacqui Kidney jkidn6@eq.edu.au