Year 1 Spotlight

A Fantastic Start!

This year, our Grade 1 students have been learning important procedures and routines to help set them up for success both in and outside the classroom. From day one, students learnt about their new line-up spots and how to enter the classroom. They have continued to follow these procedures beautifully ever since—well done, Grade 1s!

Literacy

In Literacy, we have been revising sounds using the Little Learners Love Literacy platform, starting reading groups, and learning about recounts. We are now exploring narratives and beginning to write our own stories.

Numeracy

In Numeracy, we have been focusing on place value for numbers up to 120. Students have been learning about partitioning and renaming numbers, and we are now beginning a unit on collecting and recording data.

Inquiry

In Inquiry this term, we have been exploring History, with a focus on personal histories. Students learnt about what school and everyday life might have been like in the past. They are now creating a special Personal History Box filled with meaningful artefacts from their own lives.

It has been a fantastic start to Grade 1, and we are very excited for everything that the year has in store!

Student Reflections

What have you enjoyed most about Grade 1 so far?

1A responses

• Mae: Playing with my friends.
• Rex: Learning and Friyay.
• Leila: Making new friends.
• Isaya: Making new friends too. I also like handwriting.
• Drew: I really like PE even more than last year because it is really fun.

1B responses

• Charlie: Playing footy on the oval.
• Sohi: Making new friends.
• Millie: You can use coloured pencils to do your work.
• Jack: My Lilly Pilly Club that I created with my friends.

1C responses

• Louis: I have enjoyed writing, because I like writing.
• Thea: I like playing with my friends.
• George: I like how we walk up the stairs to our classroom and playing with my friends.
• Emily: I like playing on the monkey bars with my friends.

What is one thing you have learnt so far in Grade 1?

1A responses

• Leila: Maths, and I remember the ‘ea’ sound.
• Drew: Learning more about things that we learnt last year, like different sounds.
• Miro: How to use the iPad properly.

1B responses

• Charlie: Little learners phonic sound ‘igh’.
• Sohi: Inquiry, because we’re learning about our personal history.
• Millie: How to use the dotted lines in our books.
• Jack: Doing flicks on letters like the letter ‘h’.

1C responses

• Louis: When you get back from the toilets, if the teacher is busy you have to ask one of your friends what you have to do.
• Thea: How to read harder books.
• George: How to skip count much better.
• Emily: How to count to 1000.

What is something you are looking forward to in Grade 1?

1A responses

• Isaya: Doing the school running race at the end of the year.
• Drew: Cross country... maybe.
• Gwen: Getting to use the iPads for Get Epic.
• Isobel: Assemblies.

1B responses

• Jack: Swimming!
• Charlie: PE!
• Sohi: Seeing Lauren.
• Millie: Reaching my learning goal.

1C responses

• Emily: The assemblies, excursions and the concert.
• Louis: Excursions and the concert.
• George: Excursions and the concert.
• Thea: Excursions and the concert.

Year 1 teachers (Anneliese, Lauren & Faye) and Students