Term 1 Diary Dates

10th Feb Life Education starts

11th Feb Year 1 Parent Info Night 5:30pm

12th Feb Year 2 Parent Info Night 5:30pm

12th Feb Perf Band—School of Rock

13th Feb Kindy Parent Info Night 5:30pm

14th Feb Last day Kindy finishing at 2:30pm

17th Feb Kindy finish at 3:20pm

17th Feb High School Info session 5-5:30pm

17th Feb Year 5 Info night 5:30pm

17th Feb Year 6 Info night 5:30pm

18th Feb SISA starts for Kindy 2:15-3:15pm

18th Feb Year 3 Parent Info Night 5:30pm

19th Feb Year 4 Parent Info Night 5:30pm

19th Feb Chickens return to MW

21st Feb Summer PSSA starts—Round 1

27th Feb Promotional photographs

28th Feb Clean Up Australia Day

28th Feb PSSA Round 2

2nd March Year 6—Young Leaders Conference

3rd March 3M/3C Excursion

6th March PSSA Round 3

9th March Prefect Leadership Camp

10th March Prefect Leadership Camp

10th March 3R/3C Excursion

12th March Zone Swimming Carnival

12th March 2021 High School Selective Exam

13th March PSSA Round 4

16th-27th March Parent Interviews

20th March PSSA Round 5

24th March Year 1 Excursion

25th March Year 1 Excursion

6th April Class Photographs

7th April Group Photographs

9th April Last Day of Term 1

EARLY STAGE ONE NEWSLETTER

TERM ONE 2020

Dear Parent/Caregiver,Welcome to Kindergarten at Manly West Public School!

We are all excited to be teaching your child/children and look forward to a fantas-

tic year ahead.

During our first week, Kindergarten students have been settling into class and

learning school-based routines, discussing school and class rules, and having fun

getting to know one another. Classes have been established with consistent pro-

grams linked to the New South Wales Syllabus.

Our kindergarten teachers for 2020 are:

Our school starting time and finishing times are:

Week 3: Monday 10th February - Friday 14th From 9:20 -2:30

Please note that teacher supervision for our morning playground commences at

8:50am. If you are unable to pick up your child at 2:30pm, please mark this on

your class roll outside the K-Yellow classroom to inform your child’s teacher. They

will be supervised until 3:20pm when the rest of the school finishes.

From Week 4, Monday 17th February, all Kindergarten students will follow school

times: Start: 9:20am - Finish: 3:20pm

Each Wednesday, a school newsletter is emailed to parents and can be accessed

on our school’s website. Please contact the office via email

manlywest-p.school@det.nsw.edu.au, if you need to provide your email

address or need a paper version given to you. We encourage all parents to visit

our school website for continued information throughout the year.

Thank you to all families for promptly coming to your Best Start assessment ap-

pointments. Best Start information will be provided to parents later in the term.

MANLY WEST PRIMARY SCHOOL Griffiths Street, Balgowlah. NSW 2093

T: 9948-2257

E:manlywest-p.school@det.nsw.edu.au

TEACHER LIBRARIAN Mrs Swick

MUSIC TEACHER Miss Esparraga

CLASS K-BLUE K-GREEN K-ORANGE K-SILVER K-YELLOW

TEACHER Mrs Tinsley Miss Brown Mrs Paikea Miss Crawford

Mon/Tue/

Wed/Fri

Mrs Fuller

Mon-Thurs

Miss Davis

Thursday

Miss Davis

Friday

VISIBLE LEARNING:

Visible Learning will be embedded in every classroom with teachers utilising Learning Intentions and Success Criteria. Visible Learn-

ing assists students to understand the purpose of the lesson and what they need to do to achieve student outcomes. Visible Learn-

ing engages students in their own learning and provides students with self regulation strategies. Teachers provide feedback to

allow students to strive to improve and to take ownership of their learning.

ENGLISH: Every student will be taught the five essential components of reading in order to grow into a confident and fluent reader. These

aspects will include phonics, phonemic awareness, vocabulary, fluency and comprehension.

In Term 1, Kindergarten students will be learning the following sounds and sight words.

MATHEMATICS:

In Mathematics, students will be learning the concepts of Whole Number and Measurement (Time).

Learning to count and understand the many concepts of number is a valuable foundation tool studenst will be taught in Early Stage

One. The National Council of Teachers (USA, 1989) identified five components that characterise number sense: number meaning,

number relationships, number magnitude, operations involving numbers and referents for numbers and quantities. These skills are

considered important because they contribute to general intuitions about numbers and lay the foundation for more advanced

skills.

WEEK SOUNDS SIGHT WORDS

1 BEST START ASSESSMENT

2 S A T I AM A

3 S A T I AM A

4 P I N THE AND TO

5 M D G BE WAS OF

6 O C K THAT THE

7 E U R NOT ON SO

8 H B F HAD HIS HER

9 L S J THEY WE YOU

10 V W REVISION

11 REVISION REVISON

GRAMMER: ENe-9B Understands that punctuation is a feature of written text different from letters; Recognises

how capital letters are used for names, and that capital letters and full stops signal the beginning and end of

sentences.

WRITING :ENe-3A develops basic skills of writing, including correct pencil grip, good posture, handwriting

movements and accurate use of alternative writing tools, to form some lower case and upper case

HISTORY:

This term our major theme is entitled ‘All About Me’. This is an integrated unit of work where we will explore the sequence of

each child’s life stages so far, discover their likes and dislikes and the diversity within families. The unit will incorporate the

Key Learning Areas of English and Creative and Performing Arts.

SCIENCE:

The students will explore and investigate the Science unit ‘Weather in my world.’ This involves a link with science and literacy

in the classroom. Students’ beliefs and understandings about the air, sun and wind will be developed as they work through

hands-on activities. Through investigations, they will increase their knowledge of how the characteristics of weather affect

their daily lives.

PDHPE:

Kindergarten’s Gross Motor day will be on Tuesday afternoons starting in Week 4 ,17th February. Students are expected to

wear their sports uniform. The gross motor program is provided by Sports in Schools Australia (SISA). The focus will be on the

fundamental motor skills and physical activities.

VISUAL ART:

Our Visual Art Unit is linked with the Early Stage One History Unit ‘All About Me’. The children will create artworks such as self

-portraits and pictures of their family and experiences. The students will experiment with a range of art materials and will be

introduced to the qualities of different artworks.

LIBRARY:

Each week library sessions will be taught by Mrs Swick. Please ensure your child has their library bag every Monday, starting

Week 5, 24th February.

MUSIC:

Miss Esparraga is our music teacher and will be introducing the children to rhythm and a variety of musical instruments each

week.

Our morning lines can be rather crowded with children, bags, parents and siblings. We ask that you drop your child off at

lines and leave as soon as possible in order to allow enough space for all five classes. This will also help with children who

experience difficulty when separating from mum or dad.

If you have any concerns, please do not hesitate to see your child’s class teacher to discuss these. We are looking forward to

a happy, productive year ahead in Kindergarten and look forward to seeing you on Thursday 13th February at 5:30 PM.

Yours Sincerely

Early Stage One Teachers

Theresa Fuller Katie Davis Julie Organ

Nicole Tinsley Simone Paikea Principal

Vanessa Brown Karen Crawford