Prep 2019 Parent Information Session & Open

MorningFootscray City Primary School

Tuesday 24th July 2018

Meet our Leadership Team

PrincipalJessie Hand

Assistant PrincipalNatalie Vulic

ActingAssistant Principal

Prep–6 Literacy LeaderChrissy Purcell

ActingAssistant Principal

Juliet Taylor

Meet our Leadership Team

Learning Specialist Prep - 2

Grace Speight

Learning Specialist 3-6

Juliet Taylor

Numeracy LeaderPrep-6

Lauren Minehan

Student Engagement & Wellbeing Coordinator

Alison Handley

Meet our Administration ‘Dream Team’

Business ManagerJo Diaco

Office ManagerSue Southern

Administration ManagerMichelle Cox

Our Mission and Vision at FCPS . . .

We are future making for every child so that they are learning to learn, learning to thrive and learning to

contribute.

We aspire to graduate students who possess the skills, knowledge and ways of thinking that will support them to embrace learning, respond to

challenges and thrive as active members of the community.

What our students want to know . . .

What is the work?

Can I do it?

Am I accepted?

Will I get help?

How we support your child’s transition

Growth Mindset

Each Lesson is 45-60 minutes Mindful Moment

Learning Intention

Story Set Up- Yoga, props

Main Lesson

Relaxation or Visualisation

Reflection

Mindful Storytelling

Student Engagement & Wellbeing

LEARNING TO THRIVE

Student agency and voice

Individualised learning programs

Social and emotional intelligences

LEARNING TO LEARN

Understanding themselves as learners

Relationship between effort and achievement

LEARNING TO CONTRIBUTE

Rights and responsibilities

Communication & Collaboration

Solution minded - taking action

Building Social Skills - Bucket Filling

How to be a Bucket Filler

A tool for vocabulary

Common language from Prep to 2

Reinforcing Effort and Providing Recognition

Responding to Social Challenges

Student Learning – what you can expect

• Identify prior knowledge, skills and understandings• Place on learning continuums – reading, writing and mathematics

• What is essential learning in prep• What are the priorities (point of need) for your child• Learning goals in reading, writing and mathematics

• Student Learning Conferences• Individual Learning Plans and Digital Learning Portfolios• Setting Objectives – Feedback – Reinforcing Effort - Recognition

How we deliver on Individual Learning Plans

• Learning Intention and Success Criteria• Mini Lesson – whole class• Engage prior knowledge and prepare for new learning

• Guided Practice – teacher facilitates small group who share learning goals• Conference – student and teacher discuss growth towards learning goals• Independent practice – students apply strategies from guided/conference

• Revisit learning intention and success criteria• Connections – Feedback – Refine learning goals

Growth for Every ChildFocus on Results

Collaboration

What do students need to learn?

How will we know they’ve learnt it?

How will we respond to

students who need more time and

support?

How will we respond to

students who are proficient?

How do we continue to support

student growth?Professiona

l Learning

Community

Specialist Programs

4 one hour sessions per week for:

Visual Art

Performing Arts - Music

Physical Education

LOTE – Mandarin

1 session per week

Perceptual Motor Program (PMP):

Gross motor skills, Fine motor skills, Crossing the midline of the body (laterality), balance, body and space awareness

Visual and Performing Arts

Structure of the Day

Time Activity 8:55am - 9:00am Music playing – setting up for learning 9:00am Session 1 – Reading (9:55 Fruit Break)10:00am Session 2 – Writing (10:50 Eating Recess Snack)11:00 - 11:30am Recess Break11:30am Session 3 – Maths12:30pm Session 4 – Specialists 11:40pm - 2:30pm (1:30-1:40 Eating Lunch) and Lunch Break 2:30pm Session 5 3:30pm Home Time

Footscray Learning Precinct

INFRASTRUCTURE

MANAGING TRANSITIONS

FRAMEWORK FOR STUDENT

LEARNING

Children have the right to be placed in their designated neighbourhood school.

The designated neighbourhood school is the school that is nearest the student’s permanent

residence.

Enrolment

Enrolment

Where there are insufficient places at a school for all students who seek entry, students are enrolled in the following priority order:

Students for whom the school is the designated neighbourhood school.

Students with a sibling at the same permanent address who are attending the school at the same time.

Where the regional director has restricted the enrolment, students who reside nearest the school.

Students seeking enrolment on specific curriculum grounds.

All other students in order of closeness of their home to the school.

In exceptional circumstances, compassionate grounds.

What’s Next . . .

We are currently taking enrolments for students for whom we are their local school and who have siblings already enrolled in the school

We are taking Expressions of Interest for those who live outside of our local area and these families are being placed on a Wait List

September/October – we will start the process of considering whether we have the capacity to take any enrollments from the Wait List

If students are enrolled from outside of the local area, this will be done in order of closeness of their home to our Designated Neighbourhood Area.

Upcoming Community Events

Big Day Out - Saturday 20th October

This is our biannual Performing Arts event that showcases student learning in Music, Instrumental Music and Drama

Prep Welcome BBQ & Community Picnic – Friday 14th

December

We continue the tradition of welcoming our new students and families with a relaxed BBQ, followed by the Community Picnic where we all gather to celebrate and look forward to the coming

year

FCPS Open Morning

Small Tour Groups – School and Student Leaders:

Prep classrooms - Peppercorn Building

Grade 1 and 2 Classrooms – Main Building (upstairs)

3/4 Classrooms – Main Building (up & downstairs)

Art Program – Main Building (downstairs)

Sport Program – Main Building (downstairs)

5/6 Hub – Main Building (upstairs)

Playground