Grade 1 News

Important Reminders

All important dates and events are on our Compass Calendar, please check the calendar regularly to stay up to date!

Grade 1 Specialist Timetable 

Library

Grade 1 Library is on Thursdays. Please ensure your child has their library bag so they can borrow weekly. 

Readers are swapped on Mondays- Please ensure your child brings their old reader and 'Take Home' bag every Monday. Students are required to bring their take-home bags to school daily.

A few upcoming dates

Tuesday, December 3: Christmas Concert

Tuesday, December 10:  Meet your Teacher and 2025 grade 9:30am - 10:30am

Friday, December 13: 2025 Teacher and class. 2:00pm - 2:40pm

Thursday, December 19th: Last Assembly 1:00pm 

Thursday, December 19th: Last day of Term. Dismissal at 1:30pm

Friday, December 20th: Curriculum Day - Student Free

Preview for Learning:

Literacy

This fortnight students have continued their discovery of all things Julia Donaldson! Looking critically at the books we have explored; Tiddler, Snail and Whale, Smeds and Smoos, Baddies and Zog. Students made comparisons whilst working in collaborative partnerships and identified key themes in each text. In the Library students have continued to work together to create Venn diagrams when comparing two Julia Donaldson texts. In Word Work students have been working on the spelling codes - ed, -ea and -ee. 

Students have also been working hard on their narratives, using tools such as the narrative hill to guide the structure of their writing, and engaging in the editing process, while referring to their individual learning goals. It has been terrific reading and watching these written pieces unfold and become published! A very big well done to all the Grade Ones!

Preview of learning:

Students will continue refining their work on conjunctions and look critically at Julia Donaldson's texts. 

Numeracy

In the last fortnight, students have started to revise concepts taught earlier this year, beginning with addition and subtraction. Students revised strategies they had learnt including Friends of 10, counting on from the bigger number, and doubles. We have also started a new program, Daily Review. The students have been completing this 3 days a week. This program allows us to revise many concepts from the year, including positional language, money, counting forwards/backwards, and reading numbers. 

Preview of learning:

Students will continue using Daily Review to revise and ensure they are ready for grade 2. We will also revise the link between addition and subtraction and then begin revising multiplication.

Inquiry

This fortnight in Inquiry, students revised previous topics on natural resources and how to reduce, reuse and recycle. We learnt what composting was and how we could compost our leftover food scraps and turn them into soil for our plants. Students were excited to share how they dispose of food scraps and use a compost bin at home. 

Students also learnt about pollution. We learnt about litter and how that causes pollution on the land, and also pollution in the air. Students explored ways that they could help reduce pollution. Examples included, walking to school, riding our bikes, looking after plants and planting more trees. 

Preview of learning

In the coming weeks, students dive deeper into air pollution and how it is harmful to our environment. Students will develop an understanding of how air pollution is pushed around the earth and affects the entire globe. We will also learn about water, wastewater and why clean water is very important for the environment and all living things! 

Wellbeing

We have been so proud of our Grade 1 students all year for the many ways they display our LPS values of curiosity, acceptance, respect, resilience and integrity. This has particularly been the case this term as we have watched our Grade 1s adjust to a number of whole school initiatives such as our entry routines, Word Work and Maths Daily Reviews, to name a few. There has been so much amazing learning for our students and teachers alike and we have been so impressed with the attitude in which our Grade 1s have approached each and every day.

With all of our new learning, and as we are now nearing the end of the school year, we have noticed many students naturally starting to show some of the signs of tiredness we typically see at this stage of the year. This has been an opportunity for us to have important conversations with the Grade 1s on how to look after our own health and wellbeing. 

We have been doing regular brain and movement breaks, guided visualisations, opportunities to play and explore on the Curious Corner and a range of mindfulness activities whereby we have been giving our brains and hearts an opportunity to slow down, relax and recharge. 

We will continue to prioritise these activities as we head into the final weeks of the 2024 school year.

Preview of learning:

As well as our daily activities to support student’s social and emotional learning described above, we will also continue our final Friendology sessions for the year, exploring the ways in which ‘Friendship is COMMUNITY’, ‘Friendship is TRUST’ and ‘Friendship is FUN’.

Student of the Week

Congratulations to our Grade 1 award winners.

From the Grade 1 teachers,

Caillin Ibbotson, Isabella Albanese, Kayla Pepper & Rachel Ryan