Year 1 Update

1A-Mrs Zach 1B-Miss Strickland 1C-Mrs Beamish 1D-Ms Bartlett 1E-Mrs Dorman

Upcoming Learning

During the next fortnight, students will be undertaking learning in following areas:

Reading	Week 2 and 3- We will be exploring popular texts, Feathers for Phoebe and Room on a Broom. Students will participate in a range of reading activities such as exploring vocabulary, character traits and sequencing.
Writing	Week 2 and 3- Students will be participating in a whole class learning experience and then exploring how to write a recount making sure to include who, what, where, when and why as well as sequencing events in the correct order.
Maths	Week 2 and 3 - Students will be investigating patterns including recognising the core of a pattern and naming and creating a variety of patterns. They will create patterns with colour, shape and numbers.
Inquiry	Week 2 and 3 - We will be exploring their physical identity and cultural backgrounds, looking at what makes them different or the same as others.
SEL	Week 2 and 3 - Students will be learning about what makes a good friend and how to maintain friendships as well as identifying skills they need to build respectful gender relationships.

News and Reminders:

Please remember that your child needs a sun smart hat to be able to play outside.
Reader satchels need to be brought to school.
All items from the booklist including an art folio, headphones and a handwriting book.

Take home readers:

We have purchased hundreds of NEW decodable, take home books to support our work on increasing phonemic awareness and phonics in the junior years through Little Learners Love Literacy. These books are currently being covered and catalogued. As such, take home readers are still a couple of weeks away from starting. Stay tuned for updates. In the meantime, we encourage you to read to your child and enable opportunities for them to read for enjoyment.

English Online Interview – Year 1 students:

From 2023, the Department of Education is mandating the administration of the English Online Interview (EOI) for every Year 1 student.

While it has been mandated for Prep students for some time, this is a new requirement for Year 1 government school students to enable teachers to collect data to support them in further developing their literacy skills.

To facilitate this assessment, Year 1 teachers will be released from their classroom for two days in the coming fortnight.

Celebration of Learning