1. Doncaster Primary School

2. Attendance
9:00am start
Please inform the school if your child will be absent.  Compass

3. Prep Health, Humanities, Science Themes throughout the year
Thematic instruction is the organization of curriculum around macro “themes’. Thematic instruction integrates basic disciplines like reading, math and science with the exploration of a broad subject, such as communities, rain forests, use of energy and so on.
Term 1 Topic – Me
Term 2 Topic – Weather
Term 3 Topic – Animals
Term 4 Topic – Staying Safe

4. Morning Literacy block
2 Hour Literacy Block
Whole  Part  Whole
Activities related to:
Reading
Writing
Speaking and Listening

5. Recess Supervised play times – Yard duty teachers
Junior School playground
Recess

6. Mathematics Whole – Part – Whole Number & Algebra
Measurement & Geometry
Statistics & Probability

7. Social and Emotional Wellbeing
You Can Do It!
Getting along
Persistence
Organisation
Resilience
Confidence
Circle Time
Class Meetings

8. Library
Once a week
Browsing and borrowing
Stories and activities

9. Lunch Supervised eating in the classroom Outside play. Lunchtime clubs
Extreme weather timetable
Normally starts about Bring a sensible amount. Terms 1 and 4 are sun smart hat terms

10. Specialist programs Physical Education Visual Arts
Asian Cultural Literacy

11. Technology in the classroom
Interactive whiteboards
Ipads
BeeBots & Spheros coding
Time allocated to use the computer lab
Access to classroom computers
Notebooks

12. School finishes at 3:30pm Before and after school care
Pick children up from their classroom.
Please notify the school if:
Late
Someone else is picking up your child
Before and after school care
If students are not piccked up by 3.45 we will take them to the Ofice and call you to collect your child from After Care

13. Prep life

14. Food No sharing Food Water bottles Lunch orders online Miss Peppercorn
Fruit or vegetable snack
Snack
Lunch
Water bottles
Lunch orders online
Miss Peppercorn
Three days a week

15. Packing for school Communication Folder
Uniform Spare change of clothes
Hats – Term 1 and Term 4
Lunch boxes
Packing for school

16. Getting around the school
Toilets
Always able to go to the toilet during class time. At the start of the year, one student goes, everyone goes.
Safety Partners

17. Buddies Program
First week of school Eat and play together to help Prep students around the school grounds
Term 1: Students meet weekly
Terms 2 – 4: Students meet fortnightly
Continues throughout school life
Part of the friendship is the one they make with their buddy from Year 5 or 6

18. Parent Helpers Working With Children Check Parent Helper Training
Term 2 onwards
Classroom
Excursions
Parent Reps

19. Incursions and Excursions & Special events
Beach
Snow
100 Days
Responsible Pet Ownership
Kew Traffic School
VIP
Teddy Bear Day
Excursions tie in with the Humanities or science unit. As do the big books we read

20.  Keeping up to date Compass Newsletter Website Prep Level Blog
Communication book and folder
See your teacher! 

21. School readiness Independence Resilience
Play! Get to know other parents
Suitable bedtime
Read together
Talk to your child about what to expect
Pack schoolbag together

22. Important Dates Tuesday 30th January - Term 1 Starts
Friday 1st December
Meet 2018 class and teacher
Parents – Book a time for Numeracy and Literacy Interview in 2018
Friday 8th December
Parent-teacher interview – Five minutes
Tuesday 30th January - Term 1 Starts
NO SCHOOL ON WEDNESDAYS IN FEBRUARY
Numeracy and Literacy interviews
Parents not required to attend
Full weeks of school start in March
No school on Wednesdays. This will help the teachers gain information in Literacy and Numeracy. It will also allow the teacher to get to get to know your child. The interviews will take about 90min to complete. Parents are not required at the interviews.
1st December students will be with their 2017 teacher and class. During this time parents are invited into the staffroom to get to know other parents in their child’s classroom. During this time the teachers would like a parent or a few parents to volunteer to be the parent rep for the class. Parents will book a time for the 5min interview the next week. We would also like the parents to enter a time to have their child complete the online English and Numeracy interviews.
8th of Dec -Parents will be invited to chat with their child’s 2017 teacher. It is optional and parents may or may not choose to bring their child to the interview.