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WELCOME TO YOUR FOUNDATION DIGITAL NOTICEBOARD
Welcome to the WPPS Online Foundation year level digital notice boards. These websites will be used for Term outlines, parent reminders and class-related matters. All forms requiring payment will only be issued via Compass.
You may contact us on the following email addresses:
Kathryn Skantzos kathryn.mananis@education.vic.gov.au
Term 2 Overview
Term 2 Overview
Hello Foundation Families!
Welcome back to Wattle Park Primary for Term 2! We hope you had an enjoyable holiday break and are ready for a new and exciting term of learning.
This term, we continue to focus on organisation and getting along well with others. We encourage each child to unpack their bag and organise themselves for the school day. This includes changing their take-home book and putting away their lunchbox and other personal belongings.
Please continue to refer to the website to keep up to date with upcoming events and information. If you have any queries, please do not hesitate to contact me.
Thank you for your continued support.
Kathy Skantzos
Morning Routine
When the music at 8.50 am is played, this is the time for students to come into the classroom, put away their bags, change readers and hand in any notices. Parents may also wish to take the opportunity to briefly pass on information to their child's teacher during this time.
Late Arrivals & Absences
If your child is absent, we require you to log this absence on Compass. In addition to this, any student arriving after 9.00 am or leaving the school before 3.30 pm requires a late/early leaver's pass. This is to be completed at the office and presented to the classroom teacher. Students must be collected by an adult if they leave the school.
Classroom Materials
We would greatly appreciate it if your family could please donate a box of tissues and a bottle of hand wash to share with the students in your child’s class.
EXTRA ITEMS FOR SCHOOL BAG:
Please make sure that you pack spare underwear, socks or other uniform items for those little accidents. Place these items in a plastic bag in your child's school bag.
Hats
As part of our SunSmart Policy, students are required to wear their school hats until the end of April. "Remember in September; Put it away in May"
Nude Food
All students are encouraged to bring 'Nude Food' lunches. A Nude Food lunch has no foil, glad wrap or any other packaging. Please unwrap and throw any rubbish out at home to help us significantly reduce the amount of rubbish scattered throughout our school.
SAUSAGE SIZZLE
The Year 6 students are running a Whole School Sausage Sizzle on Thursday, 25th of June 2026!
We are fundraising to support the SolarBuddy program, which aims to provide solar lights to children living in extreme energy poverty.
All students will receive their orders at lunchtime on Thursday, 25th of June, 2026. Please note online ordering closes 8.00 am Wednesday, 24th of June.
Families will place their orders online at Humanitix here:
Dates for your diary
Dates for your diary
April
Monday 20th: Curriculum Day
Tuesday 21st: First Day of Term Two for Students
Friday 24th: Assembly- 9:15am Anzac Day ceremony at WPPS
Saturday 25th: ANZAC Dawn Service- 5:45am-6:30am
Monday 27th: Homework Begins
MAY
Friday 1st: Assembly- 9:15am
Thursday 7th: Mother's Day Breakfast- 8:30am- bottom playground
Thursday 7th: Mother's Day & Special Person's Stall
Friday 8th: Mother's Day & Special Person's Stall
Friday 8th: Assembly - 9:15am
Friday 8th: Uniform Shop- gym- 8:30-9:15am
Monday 11th: Sushi Lunch
Friday 15th: Assembly- 9:15am
Tuesday 19th: 9:15am-10:30am Maths Open Morning Extravaganza- Foundation room
Friday 22nd: Assembly- 9:15am
Friday 29th: Assembly- 9:15am
June
Friday 5th: Assembly - 9:15am
Friday 5th: Uniform Shop- 8:30-9:15am - moved to 12th June
Monday 8th: King's Birthday Public Holiday
Friday 12th: Fairy Tale Dress up Day
Friday 12th: Assembly- 9:15am
Friday 12th: 8.30am - 9.30am Second Hand Uniform Shop
Monday 15th: Sushi Lunch
Thursday 18th: School Disco F-2
Friday 19th: Assembly - 9:15am
Friday 19th: Mad About Science Incursion
Thursday 25th: Sausage Sizzle- Canteen closed today
Friday 26th: Assembly - 9:15am- Canteen open today
Friday 26th: End of Term 2- 2:30pm Finish
What's Happening In The Classroom?
English
This term, Foundation students will continue to build and consolidate their understanding of the alphabet and deepen their awareness that texts are made up of words and groups of words that carry meaning. Students will participate in targeted reading sessions aimed at developing a range of reading strategies to support them in becoming confident, independent readers.
As part of our reading program, small focus groups will be introduced. These sessions will give students the chance to explore unfamiliar words, learn and practise helpful reading strategies, and engage in meaningful discussions about the books they read.
In writing, students will continue working on tasks that align with our Sounds Write spelling program. They will further develop their understanding of the differences between letters, words, and sentences, including the use of correct punctuation to form complete sentences. As their confidence grows, students will be encouraged to take risks in their writing and ‘have a go’ before seeking help. They will also continue to apply letter-sound knowledge to sound out unfamiliar words.
We will maintain a strong focus on correct letter formation, pencil grip, and posture.
Our approach to literacy is grounded in explicit, systematic instruction of essential skills, including word reading, spelling, oral fluency, handwriting, and syntax. Drawing on the latest evidence-based practices, we will use a variety of texts to model comprehension, explicitly teach vocabulary, and continue building students’ background knowledge across subject areas.
Spelling
Students will continue to engage in the Sounds-Write spelling program, a structured, synthetic phonics approach grounded in the science of reading. This program provides daily, multisensory, code-based activities that support a systematic and sequential approach to learning.
Our daily Sounds-Write phonics lessons are designed to strengthen students’ reading and spelling skills. As they progress through the year levels, students will continue to apply, develop, and refine these foundational literacy skills in increasingly complex ways.
Through the Sounds-Write program, students gain essential conceptual knowledge, including:
Letters are symbols (spellings) that represent sounds.
A single sound can be represented by one, two, three, or four letters.
The same sound can be spelled in multiple ways (one sound – different spellings).
A single spelling can represent more than one sound (one spelling – different sounds).
In addition, students build on key phonemic awareness skills:
Blending – combining individual sounds to read words.
Segmenting – breaking words into their individual sounds.
Phoneme Manipulation – adding, deleting, or changing sounds within words.
These skills form the foundation for confident, accurate reading and spelling as students continue their literacy journey.
How to support your child at home:
reading daily with your child,
continue to encourage your child to write for authentic purposes. They can write
cards, shopping lists, invitations, labels, and recounts of special events.
support your child to write by assisting them with sounding out the words, rather than
spelling the words for them
encourage them to draw pictures and then label the picture and/or write about what they have drawn
model writing practice. Ensure your child sees you writing for particular purposes to
show them that there is a need to learn how to write
talking about stories that happen in your own family's life. Telling stories orally helps to support the structure of stories in written form
encourage their fine motor development by providing opportunities to complete threading, colouring in, play-doh, craft, and cut and paste activities.
Mathematics
This term, Foundation students will continue to work on understanding numbers to 20. They will match the number name, numeral and collection of objects, and reasoning with number sequences. Students will develop fluency counting forwards and backwards in meaningful contexts, including stories and rhymes. We will begin looking at whole-part-whole relationships of numbers, using lots of hands-on activities and manipulatives to aid addition strategies and skills. Students will also be exploring the language of position and location, and use direct and indirect comparisons to decide which is longer, heavier or holds more while using language associated with measurement attributes.
How to support your child at home:
Include your child in everyday mathematical situations, e.g. counting objects in a
shopping bag, getting the right number of cutlery to set the table.
Whenever your child is practising maths in a real-life scenario, such as counting their
toys or helping to make a cook, encourage them to talk about the strategies and skills
they are using.
Encourage your child to represent a range of numbers in lots of different ways. They
can use toys, food items, or even outdoor materials.
When you or your child sees a number in your environment, e.g. on a sign, ask your child
to identify whether that number would be one less or one more
Talk about the days of the week and the months of the year. Talking about events
that you have on particular days or times of the year will help your child to begin to
understand the concept of time.
Integrated Studies
This term, we will be investigating the topic of 'Fairy tales', which will be interwoven within our English program. Students will learn about the elements of fairy tales that distinguish them from other types of fiction. They will learn that fairy tales have elements of character, plot, and setting that are found in other types of fiction, and gain an understanding of the “lessons and morals” in fairy tales. By becoming familiar with particular fairy tales, students will be able to add these tales to their repertoire of stories that they can retell orally. Reading these fairy tales will help Foundation students develop a strong foundation for the understanding of other fictional stories in later years.
Science
Students will also be investigating the properties and uses of different materials as part of our 'What's it Made of?' Chemical Sciences unit. They will develop skills of observing, describing, comparing and communicating as they explore what things are made of in the school environment and properties of the materials used to make them.
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