Grade 1 News
📅 Important Dates & Reminders
All important dates and events are available on our Compass Calendar. Please check the calendar regularly to stay up to date.
Upcoming Dates and Key Information
Tuesday 9th December: Statewide Transition Day (Meet the Teacher 2026)
Wednesday 10th December: Christmas Concert 5:30-6:30pm
Friday 12th December: Meet the Teacher 2:00pm (2026)
Wednesday 17th December: Class Parties
Thursday 18th December: Last day of school for students (1:30pm Dismissal)
Friday 19th December: Curriculum Day (Pupil free day)
2026 DATES
Tuesday 27th January: Curriculum Day (Student free day)
Wednesday 28th January: Curriculum Day (Student free day)
Thursday 29th January: First Day of School 2026
Wednesday 4th February: Curriculum Day (Student free day)
Library
Library borrowing is now completed for this year. From next week, can these books please be returned to school in preperation for our of end of year tidy up.
Take-Home Books
This week your child received their last take home book for this year. From next week, can these books please be returned to school in preperation for our of end of year tidy up.
Learning Reflection
📖 Literacy
This year in Literacy, students have enjoyed reading a number of texts through our Literature Units. Each unit had an overarching theme and students engaged in multiple texts to explore these.
Some themes included:
Overcoming Challenges
Actions have consequences
Diffferent families
Indigenous stories
Poetry
Sustainabilitity stories
In sentence level writing, we have learnt and applied many different skills to improve our sentence understanding.
Some our focuses were:
Nouns, verbs and adjectives
Expanding simple sentences
Conjunctions (because, but, so, when, if, before and after)
Sentence types (statement, question, command and exclamation)
Pronouns
In Word Work, students have enjoyed following routines and learning many new codes through decoding and spelling.
➗ Maths
This year, students engaged in many maths learning opportunities through our Maths Hooks, Maths Masters, Daily Review, Problem Solving, Number and Applied lessons.
Some of the units we have learnt this year include:
- Wholes Number
- Addition and Subtraction
- Patterns
- Sharing and Grouping
- Time (duration, analog and ordering)
- Data
- Location
- Shape
Wellbeing
This year in Wellbeing through our RRRR and Friendology programs, students have participated in a range of activities to build their understanding of respectful relationships. Some of the topics we have discussed include:
- Making Friends and Friendship Facts
- Friend O Meter and Friendship Fires
- Emotional literacy
- Personal strenghts
- Positive Coping
- Gender and Identity
- Community, Gratitude and Trust
Special Events from Grade 1
Healesville Sanctuary Incursion
In Term 2, we visited Healesville Sanctuary as a real world experience connected to our Animals and Habitats unit. It was very exciting as it was our first excursion in Grade 1 students, when we headed to Healesville Sanctuary. Students had the opportunity to observe animals in their habitats and connect their learning to the real world. The excursion involved an educational workshop where students explored the sanctuary and attended the 'Spirits of the Sky' show.
Grade 1 Sustainability Day
Students in Grade 1 participated in a day dedicated to sustainability as part of their Taking Care of the Earth Knowledge Rich topic. As part of this day, students participated in an incursion that encouraged them to think about more than just their home environment and to take a look at how their actions fit in with their suburb, city, country and planet. Throughout the day students created a rubbish timeline, practised sorting rubbish into the correct bins, decorated a tote bag for a sustainable shopping option, planted a seedling to take home and completed a reflection activity.
Scienceworks Excursion
During Term 4, the Grade 1 students went on an exciting excursion to Scienceworks as part of our Astronomy learning in Knowledge Rich. The students started their day by playing on the big playground before heading into the planetarium. Inside, the students got to lay down in special reclining seats and watched an amazing movie on the ceiling about a dog named Tycho who travelled to Mars. They also explored different star constellations, which was a highlight for many students.
Lastly, the students visited Sportsworks, where everyone took part in lots of fun, hands-on activities. Students raced Cathy Freeman, measured how high they could jump, and explored different physical challenges. After this, we spent time in the science room discovering the levels of gravity on each planet and learning about interesting objects and inventions from the past.
Junior School Athletics Day
On behalf of the Grade 1 Teaching team, we’re grateful to all our students and their families for a wonderful year filled with learning, growth, and great memories!
We wish all of our families a wonderful break and happy holidays.
From the Grade 1 teachers,
Miss Albanese, Ms Holmes and Miss Kitteringham