Foundation Team
This year we have 5 Foundation classes:
FA - Carmel Post
FB - Geordie Corbet
FC - Kathleen O'Callaghan
FD - Nick Baker
FE - Marianne Roberts
FA - Carmel Post
FB - Geordie Corbet
FC - Kathleen O'Callaghan
FD - Nick Baker
FE - Marianne Roberts
‘Start Up’ program
This term is all about settling in and starting to become familiar with routines in both the class and the wider school. Students will explore their school rights and responsibilities, and begin to learn about making good choices. This will help them and others to learn and feel safe at school. Students will also be learning about our new school values: respect, responsibility and resilience. They will practise social and emotional skills such as: sharing their needs and wants, listening to others, having a go with new things and getting to know their class mates.
This term is all about settling in and starting to become familiar with routines in both the class and the wider school. Students will explore their school rights and responsibilities, and begin to learn about making good choices. This will help them and others to learn and feel safe at school. Students will also be learning about our new school values: respect, responsibility and resilience. They will practise social and emotional skills such as: sharing their needs and wants, listening to others, having a go with new things and getting to know their class mates.
Respectful Relationships
The Respectful Relationships program helps to support our emotional and social wellbeing as well by exploring the effects that personal feelings can have on how people behave in situations. Students will engage in one Respectful Relationship lesson per week. We class have also all adopted the ‘Bucket Filling’ philosophy to help support a positive learning environment. We read ‘Have you filled a bucket today?’ written by Carol McCloud. Carol explains this as “Be a bucket filler. You can fill a bucket by sharing kindness, love, or even simply a smile with those around you. Be a helper, be a good friend, and you'll fill your own bucket as well as the buckets of everyone you meet.” If students are showing behaviours or choices that do not meet our agreed classroom norms, the child will be said to be ‘dipping in someone’s bucket.’ To support your child at home, you might like to ask ‘how full is their bucket?’ or ‘did you fill someone’s bucket today?’
The Respectful Relationships program helps to support our emotional and social wellbeing as well by exploring the effects that personal feelings can have on how people behave in situations. Students will engage in one Respectful Relationship lesson per week. We class have also all adopted the ‘Bucket Filling’ philosophy to help support a positive learning environment. We read ‘Have you filled a bucket today?’ written by Carol McCloud. Carol explains this as “Be a bucket filler. You can fill a bucket by sharing kindness, love, or even simply a smile with those around you. Be a helper, be a good friend, and you'll fill your own bucket as well as the buckets of everyone you meet.” If students are showing behaviours or choices that do not meet our agreed classroom norms, the child will be said to be ‘dipping in someone’s bucket.’ To support your child at home, you might like to ask ‘how full is their bucket?’ or ‘did you fill someone’s bucket today?’
English
This term in English, Foundation the students will be learning about;
Reading
· One to one matching as we point under each word.
· Using strategies to work out unknown words. We will learn to: look at the pictures, use the pattern and use the first letter.
· Using the comprehension strategy of predicting and sequencing texts to help us better understand what we read.
· Practising letter names and sounds for upper and lower case letters.
· Practising independent reading behaviours such as: choosing a book, sitting quietly, handling books gently, looking at the words and pictures.
Writing
In Writing, Foundation students will be learning about;
· ‘Having a go’ at writing and trying our best.
· Planning what we want to write by saying our sentence out loud before writing it.
· Saying words slowly, listening for the sounds, and writing letters for the sounds we can hear.
· Writing from left to right and from top to bottom on the page.
· Forming letters correctly.
This term in English, Foundation the students will be learning about;
Reading
· One to one matching as we point under each word.
· Using strategies to work out unknown words. We will learn to: look at the pictures, use the pattern and use the first letter.
· Using the comprehension strategy of predicting and sequencing texts to help us better understand what we read.
· Practising letter names and sounds for upper and lower case letters.
· Practising independent reading behaviours such as: choosing a book, sitting quietly, handling books gently, looking at the words and pictures.
Writing
In Writing, Foundation students will be learning about;
· ‘Having a go’ at writing and trying our best.
· Planning what we want to write by saying our sentence out loud before writing it.
· Saying words slowly, listening for the sounds, and writing letters for the sounds we can hear.
· Writing from left to right and from top to bottom on the page.
· Forming letters correctly.
- Letters will be introduced in the following order: SATPINMDGOCK
Mathematics
This term in Number Maths, Foundation the students will be learning about;
In Applied Maths, Foundation students will be learning about;
This term in Number Maths, Foundation the students will be learning about;
- The counting sequence 0-10 and beyond forwards and backwards
- Counting small collections with 1:1 correspondence (each object counted once)
- Matching number names with numerals and objects to 10 or beyond
- Reading, ordering and making collections for the numbers 0-10 or beyond
- Building mathematical language, such as more, less, bigger, smaller, before, after or the same
- Ordinal number up to 10th or beyond
In Applied Maths, Foundation students will be learning about;
- When and what happens in the morning, afternoon and night
- Describing their location e.g. next to a chair, on top of the mat
- Answering and asking yes/no questions to collect data
- Creating and interpreting picture graphs and tallies
Inquiry
This term our big idea in inquiry is Health. Our focus question is ‘how can we be healthy at school?’ Students will be learning about healthy habits, like hand washing and personal hygiene. We will also focus on healthy relationships and treating others with respect. During reading and writing lessons we will be learning about procedural text through cooking experiences. We will be focusing in on healthy eating and nude food. These recipes will be shared with families at the end of the term.
This term our big idea in inquiry is Health. Our focus question is ‘how can we be healthy at school?’ Students will be learning about healthy habits, like hand washing and personal hygiene. We will also focus on healthy relationships and treating others with respect. During reading and writing lessons we will be learning about procedural text through cooking experiences. We will be focusing in on healthy eating and nude food. These recipes will be shared with families at the end of the term.
Specialists
Foundation Performing Arts Term 1 Overview
Teacher: Kristin Davis
During term one, the Foundation students will be engaged in a variety of learning experiences to do with creating and listening to music, as well as expressing ourselves through music and performance. For the first several weeks, we will focus on the students getting to know one another, and understanding their rights and responsibilities during Performing Arts lessons.
As the term progresses, we will be focusing on three areas: singing, playing and performing. Specifically, we will be learning about matching our pitch when singing simple songs and melodies using hand signals to help us, playing notes on a xylophone, and learning how we can use our body and movements to enact and express different characters in “Peter and the Wolf”. We aim to have lots of fun and look forward to sharing our learning with you.
Foundation focus for HPE Term 1, 2020
Teacher: Kristin Davis
During term one, the Foundation students will be participating in a variety of activities that provide opportunities for them to learn through movement. For the first several weeks, the focus for the students will be to get to know each other and to learn about rights, responsibilities, expectations, and procedures during PE lessons.
The content enables students to develop and practise fundamental movement skills through active play and structured movement activities. The PE program is aimed at providing experiences to further develop the children’s motor skills, coordination, balance and spatial awareness.
As the term progresses, we will be learning about body parts and specific locomotion movements such as hopping, skipping, marching, galloping and jumping. The students will be developing their knowledge and skills through playing games and moving to music. The children will be supported to develop their cooperation, turn taking and concentration abilities.
Foundation focus for Italian Term 1, 2020
Teachers: Jackie Robertson and Sarah Tregonning
This term in Foundation we will be focusing on developing our speaking and listening skills. We will be learning how to say and respond to simple greetings (saluti). We will practise introducing ourselves, look at numbers and count to 20.
The lessons will be conducted in Italian. The students will be learning how to follow simple instructions and understand basic classroom language.
We will also start using the ELLA Ipad Apps to practise greetings, introductions and numbers. You can visit the ‘Italiano a CNPS’ website and ‘Questa settimana’ blog to find out more about the Italian program. On the site you’ll also find the songs, stories, clips, games and activities we use in our lessons.
Foundation focus for Art Term 1, 2020
Teachers: Margaret Corzo and Courtney Jory
This term in Foundation Visual Arts, we will be exploring different techniques associated with painting and drawing. We will be using two texts entitled ‘Little Yellow and Little Blue’ and ‘Mix it Up’, to learn more about the colour wheel. Students will further explore colouring mixing by having the opportunity to experiment with paints and to see what primary and secondary colours they can make.
Students will learn how artists use different types of lines within their work to show emotion, and will create their own line drawings using some of their favourite lines. We will be creating plenty of wonderful art pieces in our lessons including colour wheels, a healthy plate collage, a fruit platter painting and free drawing.
Throughout lessons, students will also be provided with the opportunity to share their artworks and respond to the artwork of other students/artists. You can visit the CNPS website to find out more about the Visual Arts program.
Important Dates
Body Safe Incursion: 12/2, 19/2 and 26/2
First Aide Incursion: 24/2
Home Reader Information Night 26/2
Bullying No Way Day of Action: 6/3
Labour Day: 9/10
Curriculum Days: 10/3 and 11/3
Ride to School Day: 13/3
Harmony Day: 19/3
Last Day of Term: 27/3 – early finish at 2:30
Foundation Performing Arts Term 1 Overview
Teacher: Kristin Davis
During term one, the Foundation students will be engaged in a variety of learning experiences to do with creating and listening to music, as well as expressing ourselves through music and performance. For the first several weeks, we will focus on the students getting to know one another, and understanding their rights and responsibilities during Performing Arts lessons.
As the term progresses, we will be focusing on three areas: singing, playing and performing. Specifically, we will be learning about matching our pitch when singing simple songs and melodies using hand signals to help us, playing notes on a xylophone, and learning how we can use our body and movements to enact and express different characters in “Peter and the Wolf”. We aim to have lots of fun and look forward to sharing our learning with you.
Foundation focus for HPE Term 1, 2020
Teacher: Kristin Davis
During term one, the Foundation students will be participating in a variety of activities that provide opportunities for them to learn through movement. For the first several weeks, the focus for the students will be to get to know each other and to learn about rights, responsibilities, expectations, and procedures during PE lessons.
The content enables students to develop and practise fundamental movement skills through active play and structured movement activities. The PE program is aimed at providing experiences to further develop the children’s motor skills, coordination, balance and spatial awareness.
As the term progresses, we will be learning about body parts and specific locomotion movements such as hopping, skipping, marching, galloping and jumping. The students will be developing their knowledge and skills through playing games and moving to music. The children will be supported to develop their cooperation, turn taking and concentration abilities.
Foundation focus for Italian Term 1, 2020
Teachers: Jackie Robertson and Sarah Tregonning
This term in Foundation we will be focusing on developing our speaking and listening skills. We will be learning how to say and respond to simple greetings (saluti). We will practise introducing ourselves, look at numbers and count to 20.
The lessons will be conducted in Italian. The students will be learning how to follow simple instructions and understand basic classroom language.
We will also start using the ELLA Ipad Apps to practise greetings, introductions and numbers. You can visit the ‘Italiano a CNPS’ website and ‘Questa settimana’ blog to find out more about the Italian program. On the site you’ll also find the songs, stories, clips, games and activities we use in our lessons.
Foundation focus for Art Term 1, 2020
Teachers: Margaret Corzo and Courtney Jory
This term in Foundation Visual Arts, we will be exploring different techniques associated with painting and drawing. We will be using two texts entitled ‘Little Yellow and Little Blue’ and ‘Mix it Up’, to learn more about the colour wheel. Students will further explore colouring mixing by having the opportunity to experiment with paints and to see what primary and secondary colours they can make.
Students will learn how artists use different types of lines within their work to show emotion, and will create their own line drawings using some of their favourite lines. We will be creating plenty of wonderful art pieces in our lessons including colour wheels, a healthy plate collage, a fruit platter painting and free drawing.
Throughout lessons, students will also be provided with the opportunity to share their artworks and respond to the artwork of other students/artists. You can visit the CNPS website to find out more about the Visual Arts program.
Important Dates
Body Safe Incursion: 12/2, 19/2 and 26/2
First Aide Incursion: 24/2
Home Reader Information Night 26/2
Bullying No Way Day of Action: 6/3
Labour Day: 9/10
Curriculum Days: 10/3 and 11/3
Ride to School Day: 13/3
Harmony Day: 19/3
Last Day of Term: 27/3 – early finish at 2:30