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Our school rules are: Be safe, Be respectful, Be responsible and Be a learner.
Strong Minds is a whole school approach to support improvements in student wellbeing.
It supports our whole school community in developing a culture of inclusiveness and resilience.
Students will participate in learning activities to develop the following skills:
- Oral language and communication
- Vocabulary
- Phonological Awareness
- Phonic Knowledge
- Reading Fluency
- Reading Comprehension
- Creating Written texts
- Spelling
- Handwriting
- Understanding and responding to literature
In Kindergarten, maths is all about exploring numbers, patterns, shapes, and measurement through hands-on activities.
Students will learn to:
- Count, recognise, and represent numbers.
- Explore how to combine and separate quantities through practical activities.
- Copy and continue repeating patterns.
- Sort and describe 2D shapes and 3D objects.
- Connect events to days of the week.
- Tell time to the hour.
- Create and interpret simple data displays, like picture graphs.
- Solve problems through thinking and reasoning.
SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY
Students will develop skills in conducting investigations and designing solutions. They will explore changes in weather, day and night, and how living things respond to their environment. In the Living World, students will learn about the basic needs of plants and animals and how living things are used to meet our needs.
HISTORY
History focuses on understanding personal and family heritage. Students explore their own family stories, traditions, and special events, helping them develop a sense of identity and connection to the past.
GEOGRAPHY
Students begin to build an enduring understanding of the world and their place in it through the exploration of familiar places and the establishment of connections with previously unfamiliar places.
In PDHPE, students will explore what makes them unique and how to stay healthy, active, and safe. They will develop fundamental movement skills like balance, sprinting, jumping, and catching. During grade sport, students will strengthen their gross motor and coordination skills through fun and active games.
Students will develop skills in Drama, Visual Arts, Music, and Dance, with many activities connecting to concepts from other learning areas.
In general, students are not expected to complete formal homework in Kindergarten. Students may be given books to read at home, as appropriate.
To further support reading enjoyment and concepts explored in the classroom:
Home readers: please read with your child every night
Literacy and Numeracy activities: a range of activities are provided at the beginning of every term, for families to work through at their own pace.
Kindergarten students will have weekly library lessons exploring quality literature, authors, and book selection strategies. They will also borrow and return books, so please provide a clearly labelled waterproof bag.
Scripture: Thursday
Sports Day: Wednesday
Library Day: Each class is on different day. Class teacher will inform their own class.
If you would like to know more about your child’s progress, please contact your child’s teacher to organise a conversation on the phone.
If you have any further queries, please make an appointment to see Ms Jallis (Assistant Principal Kindergarten) or Mrs Jubb (K-2 Deputy Principal). Please be reassured teachers will contact you if there are any concerns or questions to support your child’s learning and wellbeing.
For this reason and in case of an emergency, we ask that you ensure your contact information is up to date at the office.
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