Foundation

Welcome to Foundation

             

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. They 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.

They 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'  with special activities and dressing up.

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 sessions occur, where students explore, create and investigate tasks together. They learn the Colby and Scratch junior coding programs.

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

Our 'Swim and Survive'  program at the Monash Aquatic centre is an important event, as learning to swim confidently is an essential survival skill.

Other activities will be placed on the Foundation Blog, as they occur.

Parent helpers

Parents are most welcome to help in our classrooms, in the library, on excursions and camps and on our parent group committee  and School Council committees.

All parents who assist in any way must have a Working With Children Check. This card must be presented at the office when parents sign in

 

 

 

 

 

 

Glendal Primary School