What’s Happening in Foundation in Term 3, 2026

Important Dates:

• Wednesday 29^th July – 100 Days of School Celebration (see note sent home at the end of Term 2).
• Weeks 4 and 5 – Swimming Program.
• Wednesday 26^th August – Dyson Bus Safety Program (free session at school).
• Thursday 3^rd September – Father’s Day and Special Friends Afternoon (more information to come).
• Wednesday 9^th September – SES Visit (free session at school).
• Week 10 – Celebration Week and Book Parade (more information to come).

In Literacy students will be:

• explicitly taught the correct articulation and pronunciation of Stage 5 and 6 sounds from the Little Learners Love Literacy program (ck, sh, ch, tch, th, ng).
• revising the correct articulation and pronunciation of Stage 1 – 4+ sounds from the Little Learners Love Literacy program.
• engaging in daily activities that involve manipulating the sounds in words to support students to read and spell.
• learning to read multisyllabic words (words with more than one syllable) by recognising adjacent consonants and consonant digraphs (two letters making one sound).
• developing an understanding of using the suffix -s and -es to pluralise nouns.
• developing an understanding of using the suffix -ed to represent past tense.
• explicitly learning to recognise punctuation and it’s use in texts, including full stops, question marks, exclamation marks and possessive apostrophes.
• continuing to learn a range of Heart Words from the Little Learners Love Literacy program.
• participating in daily formal handwriting sessions, revising how to form both the upper- and lower-case for all letters from A-Z.
• introduced to ‘dirt, grass, sky’ paper as a first step to using dotted-thirds when writing.
• revising the conventions of writing; writing from left to right and leaving spaces between words.
• expanding simple sentences to contain a where, adjective, who, what doing and where both orally and when writing.
• exposed to completing a sentence stem containing the words ‘because’ and ‘but’ to expand written sentences.
• identifying the difference between statements and questions and discussing the relevant punctuation associated with these sentence types.
• explicitly taught how to write a simple information text to contribute the classes ‘multi-genre book’.
• exploring Kings and Queens and vocabulary words associated with the topic, such as ‘royal’ and ‘kingdom’.
• learning and reciting the poems ‘Old King Cole’ and ‘Sing a Song of Sixpence’.
• reading stories associated with Kings and Queens such as, ‘King Midas’ and ‘The Princess and the Pea’, discussing the Narrative structure and answering literal and inferential questions about the texts.
• developing their understanding of fiction texts by exploring, ‘The Gruffalo’ and ‘The Gruffalo’s Child’.
• learning story grammar elements like character, setting, problem, solution, feelings to build their oral language skills.
• participating in weekly ‘Story Champs’ sessions where they are exposed to simple stories, recognising the key Story Grammar elements and orally retelling the story sequentially to a partner.
• participating in weekly Show and Tell opportunities to enhance their Oral Language skills and develop confidence when addressing their peers.

In Mathematics students will be:

• revising the correct formation for the numbers 0 – 20.
• counting, comparing, ordering, making, naming and recording numbers to 20 and beyond.
• subitising (recognising without counting) small collections or parts within a larger collection.
• representing an addition number story using pictures, materials, a number track, or a ten-frame and solving these problems.
• representing a subtraction number story using pictures, materials, a number track, or a ten-frame and solving these problems.
• identifying equal shares by sharing between two or three.
• solving problems by sharing collections.
• making groups of two, three and beyond.
• identifying the attributes of length.
• directly comparing the length or height of two objects.
• ordering objects based on comparison.
• identifying the attributes of mass.
• directly comparing mass using hefting and balance scales.
• making predictions about the mass of objects, then checking to verify predictions.
• identifying the attributes of capacity.
• directly comparing capacity by pouring like amounts.
• making predictions involving capacity and checking these predictions.

In Inquiry students will be:

• enhancing their fine-motor skills through a range of table-top activities such as glueing, cutting, paper folding, threading, playdoh, stickers and dot markers.

Wellbeing

We will be using the Respectful Relationships program to focus on problem-solving, stress management and help-seeking.

Students will engage in lessons looking at:

• Big Problems vs. Small Problems.
• reaction size (matching your reaction to the problem).
• solving problems independently.
• friendly and unfriendly decisions.
• positive play.
• how to ask for help.
• recognising who they can ask for help at home, school and in the community.
• noticing our own and other’s emotions.
• managing our emotions.
• The Zones of Regulation.

There will be a continued focus on our SWPBS Expectations as outlined in our whole school matrix.