Hello lovely Prep RT families and friends,

Would you believe next week is already week 7! Where has the time gone. We have loved reading the letters from the children this week as well as seeing the amazing facts they have learnt about Giraffes. All of the Giraffe drawings were fantastic! 

The new timetable has been updated for your convenience under the tab ‘timetable’. Please take the time to scroll through and note when your childs literacy and maths groups are. 

Next week we thought it would be lovely to have Show & Tell. This will run during week 7 and week 8. We have allocated three children per day. If you do not see your child’s name this means they will be on the following week. 

This is a wonderful opportunity for the children to share with their class family something of their choice. Some examples of Show & Tell could be a: toy, pet, drawing, photo, book, something they got on a holiday etc……

It’s forecast to be a wild and woolly weekend, so stay safe and warm.

Warm regards,

Mrs Sian Roberts & Ms Marcelle Branigan

Hello Families, 

Thank you for another wonderful week. It was great to see how excited the children were while celebrating their 100 Days of School! 

Next week there are significant changes to the timetable, so please take note of when your child’s google meets are.

We have now moved into taking small fifteen minute math focus groups as well as the regular twenty minute English focus groups. 

We wanted to thank you all for the tremendous effort you are going to to assist with your child’s remote learning. As parents ourselves we can appreciate the challenges this time is presenting and the juggle families are managing at home. You are doing an amazing job and the little learners of Prep RT are very lucky indeed!

Enjoy the weekend and stay safe.

Warm regards,

Mrs Sian Roberts & Ms Marcelle Branigan

Please take some pictures of your child in their 100 day outfit and any pictures of them completing activities today and post to Seesaw.

Warm regards,

Sian & Marcelle

We are all very excited to be celebrating 100 days of Prep tomorrow!

Here are a few reminders:

• Children are invited to wear a 100 days themed costume or their best party clothes
• Children will have two google meets. One at 9am and one at 12pm- use normal class code
• Children are to bring their 100 day envelope unopened 
• If your child attends school please send them with their 100 day pack in their party clothes or costume
• At 12pm your child will receive their certificate (these are in their 100 day pack so please ensure your child has this with them)

We understand that some families are still awaiting the arrival of their 100-day pack. Hopefully, these will arrive in time. If you do not receive yours by tomorrow, all of the activities are on the blog, under a tab titled ‘100 Days’. Parents may print from these or children may copy the general activity idea into their Remote Learning book or on some blank paper.

Thank you for your support,

Mrs Sian Roberts & Ms Marcelle Branigan

With Thanks from Mrs Roberts & Ms Branigan

Hello Prep families,

We wanted to take the time to say thank you for another terrific week. We know it’s been tough, but please be reassured that you’re all doing a tremendous job. The children are starting to show more independence in their learning and the morning google meets are amazing! 

The week 5 timetable has now been uploaded under the tab ‘Timetables’. Please take note of any changes for next week. 

We hope you enjoy the weekend and take some time to recharge and most of all stay safe and look after yourselves.

Warm regards,

Mrs Sian Roberts and Ms Marcelle Branigan

We love seeing all of your AMAZING work on Seesaw! It makes us so proud to see how much you are learning and how much you are improving all the time.

One area for improvement we have noticed we can all try to work on (even Mrs Roberts & Ms Branigan!) is our drawing and colouring.

When we add pictures or illustrations to our work we are adding extra details for the people reading our work. Sometimes after we draw a picture it can even help us think of extra things we want to add to our writing!

We have added some pictures below that you can use to help you improve your drawing and colouring.

We can’t wait to see 5 STAR colouring in your work. It might take some extra time, or even a few go’s to get right, but it is all a part of our learning and making our work WOW Work!

Happy Learning friends!

Prep RT Week 4 Morning Google Meets

Dear Prep RT families, 

It was so lovely to chat with you all on Wednesday and great to introduce Marcelle into our class family. 

We have updated next weeks timetables, under the ‘Timetables’ tab at the top of this page and have kept English groups consistent. While these small groups do run differently to our focus teaching groups at school, they are off to an incredible start and will continue to have an impact on our learning. We do remind families though not to prompt your Prep child with answers. We use those moments of silence and pause as thinking time and we use those moments to gauge what a child may need further support with. These lessons are designed to build on from each other and help children learn skills to apply when working independently. While some lessons in isolation may appear ‘easy’ to an adult, they contribute to larger understandings that develop over time for young children. We thank each family for their support.

Below are important Google Meet Dates: 

• Monday 3rd August- Bring a special book (optional)

• Thursday 6th August- Bring play-dough or blu tack (optional). We also have a special guest joining us! 

Enjoy the weekend and stay safe.

Warm regards,

Mrs Sian Roberts & Ms Marcelle Branigan

Good afternoon Prep RT,

We noticed many children struggled to complete the counting in pairs activity today. We apologise there were not enough tens frames. It has been reassigned if you wish to have another go. If not that is ok.

Kind regards,

Sian & MArcelle

Dear Prep RT Families,

Thank you for a wonderful first week of remote learning. 

Please look at the Week 3 timetable, found under the ‘Timetables’ tab at the top of this page. To accommodate interviews next week, some small group meet times may have changed.

Please also note some of the fun we will be having in our morning check-ins:

• Tuesday Morning Check-In – Bring a special toy 

• Thursday Morning Check-In- Wear a Crazy Hat 

• Friday Morning Check-In – Wear a costume