YEAR ONE

Our Lady of Fatima Catholic Primary School provides a range of holistic learning experiences to enable students to:

• Participate in the life and mission of the school.
• Deepen their knowledge and engagement with the Catholic faith and tradition.
• Build the capacity to continuously reason, reflectively, logically and critically.
• Embrace interdependence of human existence as global citizens, who are responsible to and for themselves and others.
• Engage in learning in a multitude of ways, through personalised and self-paced learning.

Religious Education

1.7 Creator of God - This unit focuses on God the creator who is present in all of creation. The focus of the creation story is God the creator, the goodness of creation and creation as a reflection of God's love and goodness. The students will be introduced to Psalms of Praise as a way of expressing our praise and thanks to God. 

1.2 Lent and Holy Week - This unit focuses on the season of Lent as a time to grow in the life of God. It explores ways we can foster that growth by trying to be better people. The students are introduced to Jesus' journey in Holy Week from the Last Supper to Holy Saturday.

English

The students will experience opportunities to engage with various quality texts throughout the term, including ‘Rosie’s Walk’, ‘The wall in the middle of the book’, ‘The Gruffalo’, ‘Three’, ‘Do not open this book’ and ‘Don’t let the pigeon drive the bus!’ Students will use these texts to explore the textual concepts of narrative, characterisation, perspective and argument.

Students will continue to display and develop their knowledge and understanding in the areas of:

• Oral language and communication

• Vocabulary

• Phonological awareness

• Phonic knowledge

• Reading fluency

• Reading comprehension

• Creating written texts

• Understanding and responding to literature

• Spelling

Handwriting - The students will continue to work on their pencil grip, correct letter formation and writing within the lines. 

Mathematics

The topics taught this term are Chance, Time, Length, Combining and Separating Quantities, Position, Whole Number and Data. All classes will be working through the early part of the Stage One outcomes from the New South Wales Mathematics Syllabus. The lessons will be differentiated to cater to the diverse needs of our students. The students will be engaged in open-ended tasks designed with increasing complexity. Consolidation tasks and fluency programs will also be implemented to ensure students have opportunities to grasp key concepts and skills.

Science and Technology

In Science, students will be studying the unit ‘Material World.’ This unit of work allows for students to explore and investigate the many different materials in their everyday lives, whilst conducting experiments to prove their ideas and predictions. Students will be exposed to the varying factors which affect materials in different conditions. Predicting and identifying changes that happen to everyday materials is an important skill that students learn, providing them with solutions to problems in everyday life. 

In this unit of work, students will observe and explore change. Students engage with the content through the changes in food and materials. Students learn how heating and cooling foods can change their properties and whether this change can be reversed. Students investigate which chocolate size melts the fastest, leading them to make conclusions on how fast or slow changes can happen and the consequences of change.

Geography

This Term, students will be engaging with the topic ‘Features of Places.’ Students explore what makes a place unique and special. They examine ways to care for these places and identify different features, including natural, managed and constructed elements. Students also plan and design new features for places like parks and schools.

Personal Development, Health and Physical Education

In Term 1, students will engage in a variety of physical activities designed to develop and refine their fundamental movement skills. This will include developing their non-locomotive and locomotive movement skills such as running, hopping, skipping, throwing, catching and kicking. Through individual, group and team-based activities, students will explore how to move their bodies effectively and with confidence. The unit encourages active participation, problem-solving and decision-making, allowing students to discover new ways of moving while fostering a positive attitude towards physical activity and health. 

'Open Parachute' will also be taught in our PDH lessons. Open Parachute aims to provide practical support on mental health to students. The program aims to reduce stigma and generate authentic dialogue in classrooms about the real issues students face. The psychological skills-building exercises aim to increase empathy, self-compassion, self-awareness, mental health literacy, and self-efficacy in students.

Creative Arts

In Visual Arts, students are introduced to the various elements of Art, including line, shape, space, value, form, texture, and colour. Year One engages in Visual Art lessons, incorporating the elements of art to create unique and vibrant artworks. Students are introduced to using a range of mediums, including pencil, oil pastel and watercolours. Students' artworks reflect the learning that takes place in the curriculum areas of English, Geography, Science and Technology and Religious Education.

In Music with Mr Parlato, students will engage in teacher-guided music learning experiences that develop their ability to sing, play, move and create. They will explore vocal expression and experiment with various sound sources to produce and respond to music. Students will begin to recognise musical concepts such as pitch, dynamics and tempo, demonstrating an increasing awareness of their capabilities as performers and music-makers.

Homework 

At Our Lady of Fatima Caringbah, we acknowledge that the time children spend with their families and their involvement in extracurricular activities are important components in the development of the whole child. Homework brings children's school experience into the home, allowing families to understand their progress and engage more closely with the curriculum.

Homework will commence in Week 3 for students in Year One. This Term our focus will be reading on a nightly basis and reviewing spelling words that are taught from our Spelling Program 'Decodable Readers Australia'. Parents are asked to sign their child´s Reading Log and return it to school each Thursday. Homework books will be sent home each Friday and returned every Thursday for marking. 

We look forward to working with you and your child this Term. If you have any concerns, please do not hesitate to contact your child’s teacher via email. 

Miss Bailey Thomson (1Blue)

Mrs Lauren Govers (1Gold)

Miss Holly Pooley (1White)

Important Dates for Year 1

Sport Day

Sport days for Year 1 are as follows

1Blue   –    Thursday

1Gold   –    Thursday

1White –   Thursday

Library

Each week, students will have the opportunity to borrow books from our school library. Please ensure your child brings their Library Bag to school on their allocated day.   

1Blue    –     Thursday

1Gold    –     Thursday

1White  –     Thursday

2025 - School Term 1

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