Prep
What a busy and fun Term Three we have had in Prep! Students have continued to grow, play and learn and it has been wonderful to see them enjoying all the activities this term had to offer!
Our reading and writing skills have continued to develop through our Phonics program! We have learnt about double consonants and have begun exploring digraphs- when two letters make one sound- such as ‘sh’, ‘ch’ and ‘ck’. In Reading we have started to build our inferring skills by using our prior knowledge and clues from the text to guess how the character was feeling or what they were doing.
In Writing we learnt all about character description and how we can add detail to our work to make it more interesting. We even learnt about different parts of speech, including nouns, verbs and adjectives.
In Maths we explored Australian money, capacity, graphing and sharing! We worked hard on further developing our knowledge of teen numbers and learnt about how numbers are made up of tens and ones.
We learnt all about Sustainability during the first half of the term. This Inquiry unit taught us all about reducing, reusing and recycling, and things we can do to make our planet more sustainable. In the second half of the term, we learnt all about how things have changed over time. We played games such as marbles and hopscotch, explored old and new ways of communicating and got to see some old toys during our Toy Incursion.
We had a terrific time celebrating many things this term, including NAIDOC week, Book Week, Regency’s Got Talent, Father’s Day and Footy Day! However, the most exciting event of the term for us was 100 DAYS OF PREP! We had an amazing day celebrating together- making cookies, creating crowns, showing off our dance moves and eating hot chips for lunch! There were some awesome t-shirts created for the special day and we all had such fun celebrating all the things we have learnt in our first 100 days of school!
We are so proud of how the Preps are continuing to thrive at school and can’t wait to see all they will achieve in their final term of 2026!
Year 1
Term 3 was action packed!
Year Ones attended swimming lessons at Knox Leisureworks and represented our school in a respectful and cooperative way each day.
Book Week was celebrated by dressing up as a favourite book character. What a fantastic celebration to have after we all successfully participated in the Victorian Premier’s Reading Challenge!
Year Ones then attended Ambleside Historic Homestead to learn about what Knox was like in the olden days. It was fantastic to see students make links to what we learned about in the classroom and then experience it firsthand at Ambleside. We received some very positive feedback from the volunteers about our students’ thoughtful questions and excellent manners.
In Writing, students spent time unpacking the elements of procedural texts and students enjoyed creating their own butter and fairy bread after writing their own set of instructions. Images and sounds from Indigenous perspectives were explored as ways to communicate a story, such as through traditional music and dance.
In Maths we practised making collections and estimating to to count efficiently. This culminated in a competition to win a jar of jellybeans for your class. Congratulations to 1Q for being the best estimators in Year One!
We look forward to a term 4 full of exciting learning and new challenges.
Year 2
