Foundation


Welcome to Foundation 2021


This year our teacher is: 

Ms Lauren Skinner - PLS

Room 9

 

The Foundation Year is the start of an exciting educational journey. We provide a safe and stimulating environment that nurtures and promotes the physical, social, emotional and learning development of your child.

 

Our students develop their reading skills. They use picture cues, build their sight vocabulary and retell stories. Students enjoy the rhythm of language through stories, songs, poems and rhymes. Students learn to read predictable texts with familiar vocabulary and supportive images, recalling events and recognising a variety of text structures. They practise English sounds and letters and apply their knowledge when writing familiar words and phrases to express their ideas. Students develop their formal handwriting skills, along with correct pencil grip. They focus on using appropriate vocabulary to participate in social and class discussions. Students talk about their experiences and retell events with others.

 

Students develop their numeracy skills. They independently estimate, count and compare small groups of objects. Students recognise and order number words and numerals to 20 and beyond.  They form number patterns and solve simple number problems, using a range of strategies. Students compare the length, mass and capacity of familiar objects. They make simple patterns and identify and sort shapes, within their environment, according to their features. Students sort data into categories and make comparisons. They learn to collect, display and interpret data.

 

The children are engaged in ‘hands on' differentiated learning experiences to develop skills and knowledge in all areas of the Victorian curriculum. We celebrate 'One Hundred days of school'  and 'Book Week' with special activities and dress-up days.

 

Our Foundation students have a Year 6 buddy. The buddies help the Foundation students to settle into school and visit them in their classrooms to help with their learning. Both year levels participate in the 'Better Buddies' program from the Alannah and Madeline Foundation.

 

Discovery Learning is where students explore, create and investigate tasks together.

We offer many interesting incursions and excursions that link to the main area of investigation. My personal history and family traditions and celebrations. Foundation students explore who is in their family, where their family originates from and how they are connected to each other. 

 

Our school student well-being program is the 'Resilience, Rights & Respectful Relationships" program. We use mindfulness strategies to develop resilience and confidence.

 

Earthworms

 

Earthworms help the garden grow. Evelyn

 

Earthworms have no legs. Mia

 

Worms don’t have bones. Beatrix

 

Earthworms have no backbone. They make compost. They have no bones. Peter

 

Earthworms eat leaves. They have five hearts. They have no legs. Hannah

 

 

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