YEAR ONE

Our Lady of Fatima Catholic Primary School provides a range of holistic learning experiences to enable students to:

• Participate in the life and mission of the school.
• Deepen their knowledge and engagement with the Catholic faith and tradition.
• Build the capacity to continuously reason, reflectively, logically and critically.
• Embrace interdependence of human existence as global citizens, who are responsible to and for themselves and others.
• Engage in learning in a multitude of ways, through personalised and self-paced learning.

Religious Education

1.7 Creator of God - This unit focuses on God the creator who is present in all of creation. The focus of the creation story is God the creator, the goodness of creation, and creation as a reflection of God's love and goodness. The students will be introduced to Psalms of Praise as a way of expressing praise and thanks to God. 

1.2 Lent and Holy Week - This unit focuses on the season of Lent as a time to grow in the life of God. It explores ways we can foster that growth by trying to be better people. The unit then looks at Jesus' journey in Holy Week from the Last Supper to Holy Saturday.

English

The students will experience opportunities to engage with different texts including 'Boy' and ‘The Black Book of Colour’. 

Students are learning to make connections with texts and understand how an author’s context and personal experiences help them create texts. The students will explore the concept of narrative with elements of figurative language.

The students will develop and display their knowledge and understanding in the areas of:

• Oral language and communication
• Vocabulary
• Phonological awareness
• Print conventions
• Phonic knowledge
• Reading fluency
• Reading comprehension
• Creating written texts
• Understanding and responding to literature
• Spelling

Handwriting - The students will continue to work on their pencil grip, correct letter formation, and writing within the lines.

Mathematics

The topics taught this term are Geometric Measure (Position and Length), Combining and Separating Quantities, Data, Representing Whole Numbers, and Non-Spatial Measure (Mass and Time). All classes will be working through the Stage One outcomes from the New South Wales Mathematics Syllabus. 

The lessons will be differentiated to cater to the diverse needs of our students. The students will be engaged in open-ended tasks designed with increasing complexity. Consolidation tasks and fluency programs will also be implemented to ensure students have opportunities to grasp key concepts and skills.

Science and Technology

This term Year One will be studying the unit ‘Spot the Difference’. The unit provides students with an opportunity to observe change and explore the materials in their everyday world. They will explore change through the context of food e.g. ice blocks, chocolate, spaghetti, and popcorn. Students will learn how heating and cooling food can change its properties and whether the change can be reversed or not. Using technology to evaluate their investigations will assist them in concluding how fast or slow a change can happen and the consequences of these changes. Students will be engaged in design and production activities using technology and STEM skills.

Geography

Students investigate the natural and human features of Australian places. They describe the reasons places change and identify the active role of citizens in the care of places. Students explore activities occurring in places and how spaces within places can be used for different purposes. 

Personal Development, Health and Physical Education

In Physical Education, students will be continuing to develop their Fundamental Movement Skills and build confidence in various sports and physical activities. The Fundamental Movement Skills include balancing, running, jumping, catching, throwing, skipping, and dancing. Students will practise and apply these skills through various activities and games. These games are encouraged to build teamwork, communication, game sense and resilience. Students will also be encouraged to understand different rules and strategies in various sports.   

'Open Parachute' will be implemented K-6. Open Parachute aims to provide practical support on mental health to students. The program aims to reduce stigma and generate authentic dialogue in classrooms about the real issues students face. The psychological skills-building exercises aim to increase empathy, self-compassion, self-awareness, mental health literacy, and self-efficacy in students.

Music Program

In Music, students perform through learning experiences, demonstrating a greater awareness of their own capabilities in using their voice and various sound sources to make music.

Creative Arts

In Visual Arts, students will be introduced to the various elements of Art, creating artworks using a range of mediums, including pencil, oil pastels and watercolours. Students will create artworks that link with the curriculum areas of English, Geography, Science and Technology and Religious Education.

Mandarin

Our students continue to enjoy participating in the Chinese language program called the Meg Language Program. The Meg Curriculum is written by the co-author of the Australian Curriculum. All students and teachers will participate in the digital learning platform via Zoom weekly sessions with educators in China.

Homework 

Homework will commence in Week 3 for students in Year 1. This Term Homework will include reading daily and reviewing spelling words that are taught from our Soundwaves Spelling Program. Parents are asked to sign the Reading Log each night and it is to be returned to school each day in your child's reading folder. Homework books will be sent home on a Monday and returned on a Friday for marking. 

Miss Dominique Vuaran (1Blue)

Mrs Chonteau Poot (1Gold)

Miss Holly Pooley (1White)

Important Dates for Year 1

Sport Day

Sport days for Year 1 are as follows

1Blue –   Tuesday & Thursday

1Gold –   Tuesday & Thursday

1White –  Tuesday & Thursday

Library

Each week, students will have the opportunity to borrow books from our school library. Please ensure your child brings their Library Bag to school on their allocated day.   

1Blue –    Tuesday

1Gold –    Tuesday

1White –  Tuesday

2024 - School Term 1

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