Year 1 News
From Joey, Year 1 Teacher
What a Fantastic Start to Term 3, Week 1!
All Year One teachers are thrilled to welcome our students back to RISE and shine in Year One! It has been delightful to see everyone reconnecting with one another and diving enthusiastically into their learning. Students have settled in well and begun an exciting new learning journey across Literacy, Numeracy, specialist classes, Wellbeing, and Humanities.
Literacy Phonics Plus
Students have been reading and spelling both one-syllable and multisyllabic words featuring the grapheme–phoneme correspondences (GPCs) ‘ph’ and the short ‘oo’ sound.
They were also introduced to the suffixes ‘-s’ and ‘-es’ for third-person singular verbs, learning that these are added to verbs when one person performs the action. Students continued to strengthen their accuracy, fluency, and comprehension through reading passages and writing dictated sentences.
Reading
This term in Reading, students will develop their comprehension skills by learning to make inferences and identify parts of speech. They will continue applying and consolidating previously introduced strategies—visualising, predicting, connecting, summarising, and questioning—while drawing on newly learned vocabulary and an increasing understanding of context and text structures to construct both literal and inferred meanings.
As part of our Book Week preparations, students will also enjoy the class novel James and the Giant Peach by Roald Dahl to enrich their literacy experience.
Writing
In Writing, students will continue exploring various genres, including narrative, persuasive, and informative writing. They will focus on improving sentence fluency by applying their knowledge of parts of speech developed through Reading. Students will also engage in creative tasks that encourage them to innovate using inspiration from rich literature.
Numeracy
Students began Term 3 by exploring place value with numbers beyond 120, applying their knowledge to rename and represent numbers in different ways. Using a variety of hands-on materials—including base-ten blocks, bundling sticks, and number lines—students are building strong number sense and deepening their conceptual understanding.
Later this term, students will also be introduced to:
- Fractions
- Duration and Time
- Data Collection & Representation
- Patterns & Sequences
- Addition and Subtraction
Alongside these topics, they will continue to practise and consolidate their fluency in basic addition and subtraction facts.
Humanities
This term in Humanities, students will continue our journey across the continents, Africa, North America, South America and Antarctica. They will then learn about the geography and civilisation of ancient Mesopotamia, which was located between the Tigris and Euphrates Rivers, in an area that roughly corresponds to modern-day Iraq. They will learn that Mesopotamia is known as a “civilisation,” one of the first places that people began to live together in cities instead of as nomadic hunters and gatherers.
