Prep Information Evening 2019 - Beaumaris Primary School
Transcript of Prep Information Evening 2019 - Beaumaris Primary School
Prep Information Evening 2019“Childhood is not a race to see how quickly a child can read, write and count. Childhood is a small window of time to learn and develop at the pace that is right for each individual child.”
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Miss Anthea Cain
Miss Katrina Hartley
Miss Ally Palermo
Miss Rachel Slatter
Introduction to the 2019 Prep Team
The Prep students are learning the routines of school – drop off /
independence
Getting to know new buddies (peers, Year 6)
Beginning specialist classes
Learning new faces
Adapting to changes at school
Fatigue
Lunchboxes / after lunch-lunch / lunch orders
Prep update
• Developing connections and relationships with teachers and peers - social and emotional
• Circle Time – co-operative games
• Setting class values and norms
• Respect, Relationships, Responsibility, Resilience
The first few weeks of school
9.00 Investigations – personalised learning
10.40 Recess
11.10 English / Mathematics
1.00 Lunch
1.50 English / Mathematics
3.30 Dismissal
Specialist lessons – 4 x 50 min block (Thursday and Friday)
Library 20-30 mins (Tuesday)
A typical day in Prep…
Victorian Curriculum - State-wide standards – skills and understandings
• http://victoriancurriculum.vcaa.vic.edu.au/
Planning
Term Planner
Statement of Intent (SOI)
Weekly Planners
Curriculum
Knowledge, skills and behaviours developed in:
• English (Reading and Viewing, Writing, Speaking and Listening)
• Mathematics (Number and Algebra, Measurement and Geometry, Statistics and Probability)
• The Arts (Visual Art and Performing Arts)
• Health and Physical Education (Movement and Physical Activity)
• Language – (Japanese)
• Technologies (Design and Technology, Digital Technology)
• Humanities (History, Geography)
• Science (Biological, Chemical, Physical, Earth and Space)
Prep Curriculum
• 3-4 days a week • Focus children (roster)• Reporter and Photographer
Lesson Structure:• Tuning in• Investigations• Reflection• Pack up/Reset
Investigations
• Confidence with number 0-9
• Trusting the count
• Hands on activities
• Playing maths games
• Small focus groups
• What you can do at home – real life connections to maths
• Instant recognition of dot patterns – Subitising
Maths
• By "chunking" information, subitising contributes to early forms
of grouping. The process of subitising can also be used with
seeing parts of the whole number. (e.g. 2 and 2 and 2 is 6)
Subitising
Oral Language, Phonemic Awareness, Fluency, Vocabulary, Comprehension
• Reading
• Big Books, book boxes, take-home readers, sound pack
• CAFÉ – Comprehension, Accuracy, Fluency, Expanding Vocabulary
• Writing
• Communicating ideas (drawing pictures, role playing, story telling) for a purpose (to entertain, persuade, inform, instruct)
• Handwriting – beginning from the correct position for each letter
• Victorian Modern Cursive (School Writing)
• Dotted thirds (later in Term 3)
• Speaking and Listening
• Circle Time
• Whole Body Listening
• Investigations – tuning in and reflection
English‘Have a go you never know’
Initially, the purpose is to set a routine and practise ‘good reading behaviours’
Read to, with and in front of your child to develop their oral language and
comprehension skills (take-home books and other books of interest)
To support comprehension
Predict what the picture, page or book is about
Look at the pictures
Talk about the story and make connections (to prior experiences)
Record daily practice in Reading Journal
Make it enjoyable - play games, use silly voices
Reading at home with your child
Sound Pack: Explicit instruction in the classroom Practised and consolidated at home Sequence of sounds will be provided to parents each fortnight in your child’s reading pouch Purchase on QKR
Memory Words: Lists of memory words will be provided in your child’s reading pouch throughout the year
Handwriting App: rED writing – learn to write
Goal: Automaticity
Sound Pack, Memory Words & Handwriting App
Communicated to parents via• Student reports – June and December (available via Compass)
Formal assessments• SEAPART – Phonemic Awareness assessment• Maths and English Interviews (created from data collected from
Wednesday assessment - DEECD)• Running Records (Reading)Informal assessments• Observational recordsRecorded and tracked• SPA – Student Performance Analyser
Tracking your child’s progress
• Communication Board – Please check regularly for updatesLocated outside yellow door at end of Prep building
• Seagull Pocket
• Compass – our online communication platform• Our weekly newsletter: Stop Press• Statement of Intent (SOI) posted on website• Term newsletters posted on website• BPS website - ongoing updated information about school organisation,
policies and a school calendar• Facebook - photos and news items about events at school
• *Please return you privacy permission forms to class teachers asap
Community EngagementSchool and student happenings
• Parent Representatives – for each Prep class
• Parent helpers in the classroom
• Open classrooms throughout the year(1st Open classroom – this Friday 15th, 3pm)
• Parent/Student/Teacher Conferences June and December
• Assembly – 3pm Fridays
Community EngagementTeachers and Parents
• School Council and sub committees including Education, Finance, Buildings and Grounds and Marketing and Communication
• Parent Club including class parent representatives, support for community events during the year and fundraising, Garden Club, BFAC
Parent/Community Involvement
• Phone calls – 9589 2619
• Emails – [email protected]
• After school catch ups – Tuesday, Thursday and Friday
How to Contact Us