What’s Happening in Foundation in Term 1, 2025

Important Dates:

• Thursday 20^th February – Foundation Family Fun Night and BBQ (5:30pm – 7:00pm).
• Monday 17^th February – Foundation Show and Tell begins (please refer to note given out at Meet the Teacher for weekly Show and Tell topics).

In Literacy students will be:

• explicitly taught the correct articulation and pronunciation of Stage 1 and 2 letters and sounds from the Little Learners Love Literacy program (m, s, f,a, p, t, c, i, b, h, n, o, d, g, l, v).
• engaging in daily activities that involve manipulating the sounds in words to support students to read and spell.
• learning to use their letter sound knowledge to blend sounds together to read words and break sounds in words up to spell them.
• learning to identify the beginning, middle and end sounds of a word.
• participating in daily formal handwriting sessions learning how to form letters from Stage 1 and 2 of the Little Learners Love Literacy program correctly and how to correctly hold a pencil.
• introduced to the conventions of writing; writing from left to right and leaving spaces between words.
• provided with daily opportunities to write their name using correct letter formation.
• reciting nursery rhymes to build their knowledge in rhythm and rhyme.
• exploring fables and learning to identify characters, behaviours and virtues.
• building their vocabulary when reading nursery rhymes and fables.
• learning story grammar elements like character, setting, problem, solution, feelings to build their oral language skills.

In Mathematics students will be:

• taught the correct formation for writing the numbers 0 -9.
• counting, comparing, ordering, making, naming and recording numbers to 5 and beyond.
• subitising (recognising without counting) collections to 5.
• copying, continuing and making two-part patterns.
• ordering daily events.
• discussing parts of the day.
• naming and ordering the days of the week.
• describing the position of objects and their position in relation to other objects.
• participating in a daily review of concepts taught to support them with consolidating their learning.

In Inquiry students will be:

• identifying the five senses and the body parts associated with these senses.
• describing how our senses help us learn about the world and protect us from harm.

Wellbeing

We will be using the Respectful Relationships program to focus on emotional literacy.
Students will engage in lessons looking at:

• recognising and identifying their own emotions.
• developing vocabulary to identify emotions.
• recognising other people’s emotions.

Students will also learn about our SWPB Expectations as outlined in our whole school matrix. They will establish what it means to ‘Be Safe’, Be a Learner’ and ‘Be Our Best’ at school.