“Every child has a different learning style and pace. Each child is unique, not only

capable of learning, but also capable of succeeding.” - Robert John Meehan

2020 into 2021

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Prep Enrolment ProcessPick up an Application for Enrolment Pack from our front office, or call 4034 7333 to have one posted

to your address. Below is our enrolment process for you to follow.

3. Confirmation of Enrolment

Enrolments within our catchment area:

All students who live in our catchment area have an automatic enrolment to the school.

Enrolments outside our catchment area:

We will contact you within two weeks of your enrolment interview to confirm

whether or not you have a place at the school.

At this stage, we anticipate there will be some spaces for out of catchment enrolments.

An email will be sent in Week 10 of Term 4 with the following information:

• Class and Classroom Teacher

• Uniform Shop Information

• School Map

• Tuckshop InformationIf you have any

questions in relation to

our interview process,

please do not hesitate

to contact the school

on 4034 7333.

2. All Parents and Children are to attend a Prep Enrolment Interview

Enrolment Interviews are being held on the following days:

Thursday 13 August 2020

Thursday 10 September 2020

Thursday 22 October 2020

Thursday 26 November 2020

The purpose of the interview is to go through the information you have submitted on your enrolment

form and prep questionnaire and to clarify any details regarding these forms.

It is also a chance for you to ask any questions you have regarding your child’s enrolment.

1. Paperwork to be handed in when you Lodge your Enrolment:

• Application for Enrolment Form

• Your Child’s Birth Certificate

• Junior Resource Form

• Prep Questionnaire

• Proof of residency (if you live in our catchment area)

• Court Orders (if any)

Our office staff will then contact you to organise an enrolment interview.

Pre Prep Activities

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Come along to our Early Learning Fun (ELF) Day

This has been deferred due to COVID-19 restrictions – date to be advised.

Our ELF Day (Early Learning Fun Day) promotes ways to explore and celebrate young

children. There are many different ways learning occurs in the early years, and it is important

for parents, teachers and community members to foster this learning.

Some important areas of learning include:

• respect for others

• how to relate to others, both adults and other children

• how to resolve conflict

• problem solving skills

• communication

• getting used to the things that make people different from each other

• self-knowledge - understanding of feelings, a sense of your own strengths,

talents and uniqueness

• confidence

• behaving in acceptable ways and controlling your own behaviour.

Email the school on admin@whitfieldss.eq.edu.au to RSVP your attendance.

Every student

is capable of

achieving

success

Join in on one of our Principal’s ToursExperience what Whitfield State School has to offer by visiting our classrooms and school. See and hear

about our High Impact Teaching and Learning practices, the breadth of opportunities students have to grow

and extend their talents; and witness how fun, safe and enjoyable a place our school is for students to learn.

The best way to get a feel for our school is to experience it for yourself. We warmly invite parents or

prospective parents of our school to participate in a Principal’s Tour, followed by an opportunity to have a

conversation with our Principal over morning tea and meet other school personnel. These tours are for

parents only.

Principal tour dates for 2019 are:

Friday 14 August at 9.30 am

Thursday 27 August at 9.30 am

Friday 11 September at 9.30 am

Friday 23 October at 9.30 am

Thursday 5 November at 9.30 am

Thursday 19 November at 9.30 am

Friday 27 November at 9.30 am

For further information or to arrange a booking please contact

principal@whitfieldss.eq.edu.au, or call us on 4034 7311.

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Pre Prep Activities (continued)

Attend our Prep Experience/Open Day

This is being held on Wednesday 4 November 8.45am to 11.00am

Come and experience Prep the “Whitfield Way”.

All parents who have submitted an Application for Enrolment form will be invited to this event. Your child will

be allocated to a classroom with a prep teacher and teacher aides.

Each child will experience the following:

• A music /dance/drama/HPE lesson

• A library session

• Classroom learning

• Indoor play

The Prep Experience Session, will provide you and

your child with information needed to:

• have a little taste of what prep learning will be all about

• gain vital information needed for a smooth transition to prep

• give your child more confidence starting prep at the beginning of 2021.

Parents are encouraged to attend the classroom visits. There will also be a question and answer session for

parents during this Open Day.

Come along to our ‘Tears and Tim Tams’ Morning TeaThis is being held on Tuesday 27 January 2021 from 9.15am to 10.00am

A morning tea will be held for all parents of new students in the Learning

Resource Centre (LRC) for you to meet other parents and our Leadership

Team. Please come along and have a cup of tea/coffee and a chat to other

Mums, Dads and Carers

Don’t forget

that first

day photo!

Fast Facts

Start and finish of day

• During the first term, Prep Students must be signed in and

out of their classrooms

• School starts at 8.50am. Please note that the opening times

of each classroom can vary between 8.30am and 8.50am.

Parents are welcome to wait outside the classroom until the

teacher arrives.

Preparatory Learning

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What will my child learn in the Preparatory Year?Our school teaches the Australian Curriculum to all year levels. Your child

will participate in learning in English, Maths, Science, History and Social

Sciences, Technology, the Arts, including Music, Drama, Dance and Health

and Physical Education.

Learning experiences in the preparatory year will help your child to;

• Take on responsibilities

• Become more independent

• Respect other people

• Cooperate with others

• Develop their physical skills

• Learn about the environment

• Develop their oral language

• Develop early literacy understanding.

• Use their imagination and creativity

• Develop early mathematical understanding

• Learn how to be thinkers and problem solvers

• Make sensible choices about personal health and safety

What will I see my child doing?• Investigating

• Making choices

• Designing

• Singing and dancing

• Painting, cutting, pasting and drawing

• Listening

• Playing games inside and out

• Climbing, balancing and jumping

• Planning

• Sharing

• Using computers

• Constructing

• Writing and copying Measuring

• Reading

• Talking with other students and teachers

Every Child

Every Day

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Enrichment of Learning

Prep Programs delivered within the school are to support student learning and provide students with an

opportunity to ‘strive for the peak’ throughout their school journey. Students participate in daily literacy and

numeracy lessons within busy classrooms where students are engaged in collaborative learning

experiences which are explicit, scaffolded and rich with language.

Programs and lessons covered include:

Jolly Phonics

Jolly Phonics is a fun child centred approach to teaching synthetic phonics.

There are actions for each of the 42 letter sounds and motivating lessons

for students to participate in. The letters are delivered into 7 distinct

groups to support the beginning stages of reading and writing.

In-class activities are daily.

For more information please visit:

http://jollylearning.co.uk/

Sight Words

Sight words are words that need to be recognised quickly in order to be

read fluently. The Magic 100 words make up 50% of words that we

encounter when reading.

In Prep, students are expected to learn these Magic 100 Words.

Recognition of each word is to be automatic.

For more information please visit:

https://www.magicwords.com.au/pages/parents

Reading

Students participate in reading lessons daily to develop the necessary skills

and strategies to become life-long readers. Students use their knowledge

and practice of Jolly Phonics to decode texts using strategies like Chunky

Monkey, Stretchy Snake, Eagle Eye, Flippy Dolphin, Skippy Frog.

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Enrichment of Learning (continued)

Fingergym

Fingergym is a fine motor school readiness program developed

to assist students in becoming independent in the classroom

through participating in fun and motivating activities. The

program encourages problem solving while developing

necessary skills required for schooling, while building

confidence.

Maths (hands on, problem solving…)

Within the Maths sessions, students participate in a variation of

lessons to enhance their skills in number and algebra,

measurement and geometry and statistics and probability which

all involve hands on activities and games.

Spelling Mastery

Spelling Mastery is a direct instruction program which enables

teachers to deliver interactive, structured lessons that help

students learn spelling skills through learning strategies, patterns

and rules. Students participate in these lessons 2x per week

starting at various stages throughout the year.

Caterpillar Handwriting

The story of ‘Casey the Caterpillar’ provides a context for

children to identify basic shapes that later become the

foundations of letter foundation. The learning process breaks

down the different skills into manageable chunks and scaffolding

the learning for students in fun and enjoyable context.

Every

Day

Counts

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Thank you for choosing our school!