Dear Families of Flanagan,
My name is Mr Brenton Ainsworth, and along with the brilliant Flanagan classroom education assistant, Ms Karyn Best we would like to welcome you to North Kalgoorlie Primary School for 2019.
I am looking forward to a great year ahead with your children, and I am very excited to now have you and your family as part of our Flanagan family.
I began my teaching career last year at North Kalgoorlie primary School, in this wonderful Flanagan classroom. I have also been fortunate to have participated in two practicums at this school, including my final 10 week placement. I honestly could not be more excited to be back in Flanagan Pre Primary.
I am a 25-year-old male who was lucky enough to grow up and reside in the beautiful, pristine location of Esperance. This location and its environment have and continue to play an enormous part in my life. Due to the environment, this location offers, including the beaches, my hobbies include a vast range of outdoor activities including surfing, body boarding, camping, fishing, diving, and 4x4 driving. I also have other various passions in that I partake. I am prominently into physical activity such as Australian Rules football, basketball, cricket and many other sports in that I have competed and coached. In addition, I love and enjoy sitting back and playing my guitar and participating in other forms of art including photography. Being the eldest to my two brother’s and one sister, and living in a close family, I have developed a strong view on the values/beliefs of family, relationships, leadership, commitment, passion, determination, and role modelling.
My name is Mr Brenton Ainsworth, and along with the brilliant Flanagan classroom education assistant, Ms Karyn Best we would like to welcome you to North Kalgoorlie Primary School for 2019.
I am looking forward to a great year ahead with your children, and I am very excited to now have you and your family as part of our Flanagan family.
I began my teaching career last year at North Kalgoorlie primary School, in this wonderful Flanagan classroom. I have also been fortunate to have participated in two practicums at this school, including my final 10 week placement. I honestly could not be more excited to be back in Flanagan Pre Primary.
I am a 25-year-old male who was lucky enough to grow up and reside in the beautiful, pristine location of Esperance. This location and its environment have and continue to play an enormous part in my life. Due to the environment, this location offers, including the beaches, my hobbies include a vast range of outdoor activities including surfing, body boarding, camping, fishing, diving, and 4x4 driving. I also have other various passions in that I partake. I am prominently into physical activity such as Australian Rules football, basketball, cricket and many other sports in that I have competed and coached. In addition, I love and enjoy sitting back and playing my guitar and participating in other forms of art including photography. Being the eldest to my two brother’s and one sister, and living in a close family, I have developed a strong view on the values/beliefs of family, relationships, leadership, commitment, passion, determination, and role modelling.
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Age: 5
My favourite colour is: Pink My favourite food is:Carrot My favourite subject is: Art My favourite book is:The Gruffalo My favourite sport is: Octopus (game) My favourite hobby is: Playing Something that I am really good at is skipping. Something that I would like to get better at is reading. I am looking forward to the weekend. |
First Day Photos
If you would like the digital copy of your child's first day at school photo, please email me, and I will forward it on.
Here is a fun, catchy and quick song that can help your child develop their knowledge of letters and sounds. We have been doing it in Flanagan, and we love it.
A great way to practice counting to 20 whilst having the opportunity to participate in some physical growth development. There is videos available that count to 100.
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What a great commencement we have experienced for the 2020 academic school year. We have settled in well and have been very productive, cheerful and content in their exhausted state after their brilliant first week of full-time schooling. As part of the North Kalgoorlie Primary School Flanagan team, you should all be proud of the efforts of your superstars this week. We have begun to get to know each other including knowing some of our favourite things, things we are good at and have set goals for things we would like to improve. Every day we see new friendships blossom both inside and outside of the playground and everyone is becoming more comfortable and confident in class. From an academic perspective, we have been focused on learning the letter ‘S’ and its sound and are about to move onto the letter ‘A’. We have created some craft masterpieces that involve these sounds. Also, we are remembering the lyrics to the Jolly Phonics Letter Song and are attempting to learn a new Reggae ABC song (please click links to be directed to YouTube versions of these songs). In math, we have been learning about the numbers one to twenty with a significant focus on the number one last week and number two this week. Overall, between this and settling into a routine, we have been busier than a bee in spring. Lastly, thank you to all involved who have brought in all their resources and also who attended the class meeting. I know it is hard with a busy schedule so please do not hesitate to contact me if you have any questions or would like me to go through any of the information from the recent notes or whole class meeting. Once again, thank you for all your great work over the past week. Stay tuned for more Flanagan Fables. Mr Ainsworth. 
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Literacy Block:
1. Introduction (e.g. Letter/sound song, activity or game)
2. Explicit teaching (e.g. focusing on letter/sound recognition, reading strategies, writing etc.)
3. Literacy rotations (e.g. 5 small groups, 1 works with the teacher on an English focus area, 1 group works with EA on focused area-predominately a craft activity.
4. Conclusion/revising activity.
Math Block:
1. Introduction (e.g. Number song, mental maths activity or game)
2. Explicit teaching on focus area/topic
3. earning activities (predominately rotations-e.g. 1 group working with teacher, one group working with EA and three independent groups participating in various math activities that have been previously modelled.
4.Conclusion/revising activity.
1. Introduction (e.g. Letter/sound song, activity or game)
2. Explicit teaching (e.g. focusing on letter/sound recognition, reading strategies, writing etc.)
3. Literacy rotations (e.g. 5 small groups, 1 works with the teacher on an English focus area, 1 group works with EA on focused area-predominately a craft activity.
4. Conclusion/revising activity.
Math Block:
1. Introduction (e.g. Number song, mental maths activity or game)
2. Explicit teaching on focus area/topic
3. earning activities (predominately rotations-e.g. 1 group working with teacher, one group working with EA and three independent groups participating in various math activities that have been previously modelled.
4.Conclusion/revising activity.
Home reading will begin to commence as of term two when your child is believed to be ready both academically and emotionally. This is critical as we do not want to discourage students from being confident to read by overwhelming/scaring them. Home readers will be changed on Monday and Thursday, so please bring in their home reader book on Monday morning.
To support your child's learning at school, they will begin to bring home reading books to practice with you. Home reading is a fantastic opportunity for your child to practise and reinforce reading skills learned at school. It is also a time for your child to build their confidence and fluency; for this reason, your child’s home reading book will be at a manageable reading level and will increase in difficulty as your child’s ability progresses. They may also bring home the same book on a number of occasions. When reading with your child, you may like to follow these steps in supporting them:
Strategies to assist your child to read:
Tell your child to look at the picture.
Tell your child to look for chunks in the word, such ‘as’ ‘it’ ‘in’ ‘sit,’ ‘all’ ‘in’ ‘small’ or ‘and’ ‘ing’ in ‘standing.’
Ask your child to get their mouth ready to say the word by shaping their mouth for the beginning letter.
Ask your child if the word looks like a word they already know. Does could look like should?
Ask your child to go on and read to the end of the sentence. Often by reading the other words in context, they will be able to figure out the unknown word.
If your child says the wrong word while reading, ask questions like: Does it make sense? Does it sound right? Does it look right?
Things to remember:
To support your child's learning at school, they will begin to bring home reading books to practice with you. Home reading is a fantastic opportunity for your child to practise and reinforce reading skills learned at school. It is also a time for your child to build their confidence and fluency; for this reason, your child’s home reading book will be at a manageable reading level and will increase in difficulty as your child’s ability progresses. They may also bring home the same book on a number of occasions. When reading with your child, you may like to follow these steps in supporting them:
- Look through the book and create a story together which matches the pictures.
- Read the story to your child.
- Ask your child to read the story to you. Discuss the story with your child. What was their favourite part? What happened 1st 2nd etc. What do you think might happen next?
Strategies to assist your child to read:
Tell your child to look at the picture.
Tell your child to look for chunks in the word, such ‘as’ ‘it’ ‘in’ ‘sit,’ ‘all’ ‘in’ ‘small’ or ‘and’ ‘ing’ in ‘standing.’
Ask your child to get their mouth ready to say the word by shaping their mouth for the beginning letter.
Ask your child if the word looks like a word they already know. Does could look like should?
Ask your child to go on and read to the end of the sentence. Often by reading the other words in context, they will be able to figure out the unknown word.
If your child says the wrong word while reading, ask questions like: Does it make sense? Does it sound right? Does it look right?
Things to remember:
- Please do not hesitate to read your child a range of texts as this not only can effectively expose them to various text types but can also successfully model reading to them.
- Never cover the pictures up. Using the pictures as cues is an essential strategy for children to learn.
- Some words can’t be read by sounding them out, so do not focus on this too much with your child.
- Talk with your child about which are words, pictures and letters. Children need to be taught the difference between these.
- Do not focus on the mistakes and celebrate the successes!
Please remember that reading with your child should be an enjoyable and stress-free experience. If you have any questions or concerns, please feel free to come and speak with me about how to better support your child at home.
HOME READERS (AND SIGHT WORDS) TO BE SWAPPED MONDAY & THURSDAY (as of term two).
