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Welcome
Welcome to the WPPS Online Year One digital notice board. This website will be used for Term outlines, Homework, Student of the Week notices and year level and class related matters. All forms requiring payment will only be issued via Compass. You may contact us on the following email addresses:
Kathy Skantzos (1A)
kathryn.mananis@education.vic.gov.au
Amy Easterbrook-Neath (1B)
2025 Year 1/2 Information Forum - Slideshow
Year 1_2 Information Evening.pdf2025 Year 1/2 Information Forum - Recording
Year 12 2025Information Forum-20241203 0445-1.mp4
Term Four News
Term Four News
Term Four.
We hope you are ready for another busy and
fun-filled term.
Year One Class Party
When: Thursday 19th December
Where: Year One classrooms
Time: 1-1.40 pm
To celebrate the end of the school year, we are having a class party on Thursday the 19th! Please bring a plate of party food to share with the Year Ones.
Morning Routine
When the music at 8.50am is played, this is 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 9.00am or leaving the school before 3.30pm 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 leaving 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.
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.
Dates For Your Diary
Term Four
October:
Monday 7th - First Day of Term Four - Students Return
Wednesday 9th - Cameron Close 1B - 10-11 am
Friday 11th - Assembly - 9:15 am
Monday 14th- Homework Begins
Wednesday 16th -Tickets go on Sale at 9:00 am for School Production
Trybooking QR code or via https://www.trybooking.com/CUJDA
Wednesday 16th - Cameron Close 1A - 10-11 am
Friday 18th - Assembly - 9:15 am
Wednesday 23rd - Cameron Close 1B - 10-11 am
Friday 25th - WPPS Colour Fun Run- 2-3:15 pm
Monday 28th - Canteen Closed due to whole school dress rehearsal
Monday 28th- Whole school dress rehearsal at Besen Centre
Tuesday 29th - School Performance Besen Centre- 6:30 pm
Wednesday 30th - Cameron Close 1A- 10-11am
Thursday 31st - Mango Drive Orders In
November:
Friday 1st - Assembly - 9:15 am
Friday 1st - WPPS Fun Run Prize Ordering Opens
Monday 4th - Curriculum Day
Tuesday 5th - Public Holiday Melbourne Cup
Wednesday 6th - Cameron Close 1B - 10-11 am
Friday 8th - Assembly 9:15 am
Monday 11th - Remembrance Day
Wednesday 13th - Cameron Close 1A - 10-11am
Friday 15th - Assembly- Cancelled
Monday 18th - Melbourne Museum Excursion
Monday 18th - Homework Ends for the Term
Wednesday 20th - Cameron Close 1B - 10-11 am
Friday 22nd - Assembly 9:15 am
Wednesday 27th - Cheer Toastie Truck
Wednesday 27th - Cameron Close 1A - 10-11am
Friday 29th - Assembly 9:15 am
December:
Wednesday 4th- Cameron Close reading program 1B -10-11
Wednesday 4th - Mango Drive Delivery
Friday 6th - Assembly - Cancelled
Friday 6th- Whole school swimming program begins
Tuesday 10th -Whole school transition
Friday 13th- Assembly - Cancelled
Friday 13th - Carols in the gym- 2-3:30 pm
Monday 16th- Student reports go live on Compass
Monday 16th - Last day of canteen
Tuesday 17th - Whole school swimming program concludes
Wednesday 18th - Cameron Close 1A & 1B Christmas Party 1-2 pm
Thursday 19th- Class Parties - 1-1:40
Thursday 19th- Dress as your future self - no gold coin donation
Thursday 19th - Final Assembly - 2:35 pm
Friday 20th- Assembly - Cancelled
Friday 20th- Cleaning Day, no canteen- 1:30 pm finish
What's Happening In The Classroom
Reading
Students will begin to develop their fluency and comprehension skills through daily reading activities. These activities will be based on developing the following skills:
Active readers understand that reading helps them learn more about themselves, others and their world. It is also a great form of enjoyment.
Active readers use a range of strategies to decode and understand a variety of texts. We will spend a great deal of time focussing on both decoding and comprehension strategies.
Active readers read, think and share/write about their reading with purpose and enthusiasm.
Active readers use their time wisely to read, think and share/write about the books they read
Students will begin to develop their fluency and comprehension skills through daily rotational activities. Students focus on a different comprehension strategy every two weeks. Students take part in weekly guided reading sessions which allow us to focus on specific strategies and skills.
Take Home Readers
It is very important that daily home reading becomes part of your child's routine. Please sign the reading log each time your child has finished reading their book. Your child will be responsible for changing their reader and selecting a new book everyday. We are seeking to develop fluency, confidence, and an enjoyment of reading. Books sent home are from broad banded boxes which provide a selection of levels within your child's reading range. They are usually 'easier' texts for students to practise various reading skills.
Decodable Readers Australia are a series of learn-to-read books, designed to match a child's developing knowledge of phonics.
Children will be receiving their usernames and passwords to use at home as part of their homework.
Writing
Students will begin to build on their skills within each stage of the writing process. This term, there will be a large focus on instructional and narrative writing. Students will continue to consolidate the structure and language of recounts.
Spelling
Students will work through the SOUNDS WRITE spelling program. This is a structured synthetic phonics approach, which is based on the science of reading. Students will complete a variety of multisensory, code-orientated activities on a daily basis to provide for a sequential method of learning.
Mathematics
During Mathematics sessions, students will be exposed to hands-on activities and encouraged to use mental strategies and practise basic skills.
Term 4 topics include Fractions, Place Value, Capacity, Mass, Data, Grouping and Sharing.
Integrated Studies
"Minibeast"
In our 'Minibeast' unit, children explore and learn about how living things, have a variety of external features and live in different places where their needs are met. Students are provided with opportunities to ask questions and share wonderings. They are provided with hands-on, shared experiences of the features, behaviour and habitats of different minibeasts. Students are supported to represent and explain their understandings and observations about the similarities and differences between minibeasts.
Science:
Science - ''Schoolyard Safari"
In our Science unit, students will investigate a variety of minibeasts that inhabit our local environment and learn how they feed, move and protect themselves. Students will observe the features of minibeasts and develop an understanding of how their features helped their survival.
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