Early Years Team Meeting Agenda 2019

Host Kristie
Date: Monday 6th of Present:
May
Facilitator Holly Apologies:
Minutes Kristie Time Keeper Steph
Meeting Objectives 1. Decide on excursion date and location
2. Decide plan for play corner equipment purchasing
3. Decide on strategies to increase rigour across EY literacy
blocks
4. Have a clear understanding of what the explicit teaching of
PA could look like in context and in isolation.
5. Identify key skills and students to target from PASM data
6. Share PA strategies
7. Have clear goals for Big Write implementation in EY classes.
Agenda Items Objectives Who/ Time
Excursion  Thoughts on Pichie - $1222 dollars for the excursion.
Richie pricing? - Kristie to chat to Troy about
 Ideas for fundraising election fundraiser to contribute to
 Suggestion of date for the excursion.
excursion - Bus Quote (Dawn)
 Discuss student Bus to school to the train station.
contribution to price Playground at Quorn.
- 16th of August 2019.
- Steph to organise bus quote.
- Lunch before getting on the train
and get on the train a 11am.
- See if we could get off at
woolshed flat.
- Kristie to ring to see how long the
train takes.
- Leave at 9am.
- Get there at 9.45.
- On train at 11am.
- Lunch 40 minutes.
- Finalise the train times.
- Happy to stop at woolshed flat?
- Work out fundraising (social justice
money)
Play corner  Discuss when/how we - Kmart
will purchase new - Use the budget for the play.
equipment - Up running by the start of term 3.
- Day trip late term 2 after reports.
Literacy block  Re-address the rigour - Working on smaller activities.
of our literacy block – - Working on Big talk and sensory
Holly and Simone to activities to encourage the students
share timetables to write.
 How can we support - All working on a similar experience.
this across all EY - Everyone shared what they were
classes? doing in their literacy blocks.

Phonological awareness  What were the key - Discussed the main points from the
reading points? reading and then worked as a
group to complete our booklets.

2019 Early Years Team, Flinders View Primary School

Danielle Barnes (Literacy Coach/ AET), Simone Koejemans (Reception), Holly
Millbank (Reception-Year 1), Kristie Sonntag (Year 1/2), Steph Kneebone (Year 2)
  What did you find
interesting?
 What do you still
wonder?
Phonological awareness  Discuss what an
explicit teaching and
learning experience of
PA looks like in context
and in isolation
 Look at PASM data –
identify specific skill
and students to target
this term
 Sharing of any
valuable PA resources
– is there anything we
need to source as a
team?
Big Write  Discuss Big Write goals
– what we will do over
the next few weeks
and how we will
measure improvement
to report back to staff
 Discuss what Big Write
currently looks like in
each classroom – are
Big Writes occurring
weekly? What are the
challenges?
Speech Pathologist  Discuss how we would
like to use the speech
pathologist in the Early
Years to support oral
language skills
Document actions - SIP  Documents actions
completed by early
years team in regards
to the SIP
2019 Early Years Team, Flinders View Primary School
Danielle Barnes (Literacy Coach/ AET), Simone Koejemans (Reception), Holly
Millbank (Reception-Year 1), Kristie Sonntag (Year 1/2), Steph Kneebone (Year 2)
- Dani gave everyone a copy of the
literacy overview booklet.
- Focusing on the purple section of
the booklet and looked at key
information in the book.
- Looked at actions for teachers.
- Two ways to teach phonological
awareness.
(Through explicit teaching or
reading experience.)
- Filled out the explicit teaching
phonological awareness in our
booklets.
- Information will be sent out via
email tomorrow.
- Teach us all of the sounds and
mouth movements when making
phonics letter sounds.
- Demonstrations and strategies to
say their sounds.
- Reading:
Phonological awareness.
Best advice papers.
PASM Training.
Decodable readers.
Guided reading.
Bix 6 Reading.
Phonics.
- Writing:
Big write and big talk.
Warm ups
Observations
Learning intentions and success
criteria.
Any other business?

2019 Early Years Team, Flinders View Primary School

Danielle Barnes (Literacy Coach/ AET), Simone Koejemans (Reception), Holly
Millbank (Reception-Year 1), Kristie Sonntag (Year 1/2), Steph Kneebone (Year 2)