Bidwill Public School

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Learning in Kindergarten

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"During their primary school years, students will develop strong literacy and numeracy skills. They will explore new ideas including the use of information and communication technologies (ICT). Lessons are designed to respond to the needs, learning styles and rates of progress of individual students."

- NSW Department of Education

 

Our students will participate in a variety of learning programs based on the NSW syllabus in accordance with the NSW Education Act 1990 for the following Key Learning Areas (KLAs):

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English

In Kindergarten, students will demonstrate active listening behaviours and communicate informally with peers, teachers and known adults. Students develop reading, viewing and comprehension skills and strategies using context, grammar, word usage and phonics to make meaning from short, predictable printed texts on familiar topics. 

Students engage in writing with an increasing awareness of the nature, purpose and conventions of written language. They create simple texts drawing on personal experience and through performance, drawing and images. 

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Maths

In Kindergarten, students ask questions and use known facts to explore mathematical problems and develop fluency with mathematical ideas. They use everyday language, concrete materials and informal recordings to demonstrate understanding and link mathematical ideas. 

Students count to 30 and represent numbers to 20 with objects, pictures, numerals and words. They read and use ordinal numbers to at least ‘tenth’. Students use concrete materials to model addition, subtraction, multiplication and division. 

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Science and Technology

In Kindergarten, students engage in the processes of Working Scientifically, Design and Production to make sense of the world around them. They explore their immediate surroundings and ask questions about their observations and experiences. They collect data and communicate their ideas and observations in a variety of ways.

Students investigate possibilities and solutions, individually and in collaboration with others, and use the design process to develop solutions. 

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History and Geography

In Kindergarten, students explore History through communicating stories of their own family heritage and the heritage of others. They identify similarities and differences between families and recognise how important family events are commemorated.

In Geography, students identify familiar places and recognise why some places are special or important to people and how they care for them. They recognise that places can be represented on maps.

 

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Creative Arts

Students make pictures and other artworks using the media and materials given, representing both real and imagined situations. They sing, play and move to a range of music. They experiment with sounds and begin to organise them into basic structures.

Students engage in roles through imaginative play and dramatic situations. They use movement, spaces and objects to dramatise personal experiences. Students perform dances with some control over body movement and expression. They respond to a range of stimuli, drawing from experience and imagination. 

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Personal Development, Health and Physical Education

In Kindergarten, students identify personal characteristics and strengths, recognise how they are growing and changing and identify different parts of the body.  Students practise interpersonal skills to interact positively with others and identify people who can assist and recognise actions that help them to be resilient, healthy, safe and active. 

Students will practise body movement and control, demonstrating different ways the body can move in relation to space, time, objects, effort and people.

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