Year One Team News

Hello Year One families,

Friday the 4th of August saw us celebrate the school’s 150th birthday, and what a celebration it was! It was amazing to see the students’ outfits - there was a lot of fun fluro amongst the Year Ones as well as some beards and walking sticks. The students had a great day rotating through all the activities that gave them an opportunity to engage in games and activities of the past - although it did sound like some got quite the shock when visiting the ‘Old School Classroom’! We are looking forward to Book Week and Swimming coming up at the end of term.

Swimming

There is already a great deal of excitement about our upcoming swimming program. Starting in Week 8, we swim every day for 10 days at Sweeney’s Swim Centre in Altona. The event is open on Compass for you to provide consent and payment for your child to attend. Please also return the paper form that went home during week 2 if your child has asthma. We will be looking for two parent volunteers per class to come along and assist each day. You will need to complete the Parent/Carer Volunteer Registration Process (see your Compass newsfeed) and a valid Working With Children Check, sighted by the office to attend. We cannot run this program without your support, thank you in advance. 

Curriculum Focus: Weeks 5-6

Reading: During this term we will be covering stage 7.4 of the Little Learners Love Literacy program. Next week we will be learning about the split vowel digraph i_e (as in ‘find’). Week 8 will be the phoneme /ī/ represented by the grapheme ‘i’.

Writing: We are preparing books for the fathers and father figures in our lives.

Numeracy: Over the next two weeks we will be focusing on measurement. We will be measuring and comparing lengths, masses and capacities of objects using informal units. 

Inquiry:  Our topic this term is around Geography. So far we have ‘travelled’ Australia, England and France. During the remainder of the term we will be learning about other countries including their geography, cultures and celebrations. 

Willy Kids/Respectful Relationships: Our Willy Kids focus is “Willy Kids Display Perseverance". We will be learning to understand what perseverance is and discussing how to use it to overcome difficulties in the classroom, in the yard and at home. Our focus for Respectful Relationships this term is “Positive Gender Relationships”. 

Important Dates Coming Up:

Friday 25th of August: Book Week Dress Up Day & Parade

Thursday 31st of August- Wednesday 12th September: Year One Swimming Program

Warm regards,

The Grade One Team –  Anna Swan (1S), Marina Robb (1R)  & Claire Davies (1D)