Term 4, 2025
Curriculum News - Year1

Year One Curriculum News – Term 4 2025

On Thursday 4 December, the Year One students will be venturing to Werribee Zoo. In line with our unit of inquiry, Sharing the planet.

The students will be immersed in exploring habitats, discovering the interdependence of natural systems and determine how the survival of living things are interconnected.

This term we are continuing to encourage the students to take independent action in response to their units of inquiry. Please encourage them to bring in any items related to our unit of inquiry on Fridays.

Units of Inquiry

Sharing the planet

Central Idea

Living things adapt for life in their environment

Concepts

change, connection & responsibility

Classifying changes in living things
How human’s actions play a role
Influence of habitat on survival

Learner Profile Focus

 October – Inquirers

We nurture our curiosity, developing skills for inquiry and research. We know how to learn independently and with others. We learn with enthusiasm and sustain our love of learning throughout life.

November -Principled

We are fair, acting with integrity and honesty

We take responsibility for our actions and their consequences

December- Knowledgeable

We develop and use conceptual understanding, exploring knowledge across a range of disciplines. We engage with issues and ideas that have local and global significance.

Literacy

Reading

During our literacy sessions we will continue to work on developing our reading strategies, comprehension, accuracy, fluency and expanding vocabulary. Each week we will have a language, and conventions focus. In Term 4, these include:

Nouns and pronouns
Adjectives, verbs and adverbs
Homonyms/homophones/homographs
Suffixes and prefixes
Contractions

The students will continue to build reading stamina through: Read to Self, Read to Someone and Listen to Reading. Our Guided Reading books will be linked closely to our unit of inquiry, Sharing the planet.

Writing

This term, Year 1 students will be exposed to a range of writing styles including persuasive texts, informative texts and narrative texts. They will be engaged in activities to expand their vocabulary and expressive language skills, through our focussed literacy groups and writing sessions.

Grammar

This term, students will be encouraged to read their own work aloud to listen for grammatical correctness: checking use of capital letters, full stops, question marks and exclamation marks. They are encouraged to identify high frequency words which might not be spelt correctly. We will continue to explore dictionaries in the classroom to research the correct spelling and meaning of unknown words.

Speaking & Listening

This term students will deliver an oral presentation to their classmates on an animal of their choice, using information they have learnt and researched during our unit of inquiry. It will be our final Learning Task for the year.

Spelling

We are continuing with the SMART spelling approach where students can select six words from the given list plus two BOB Words. They are then required to practice these at home. We also reinforce these words by completing several spelling activities in class. On Friday there is dictation, where the students are asked to write two sentences which include other words (not from their list) that contain that same sound. Year 1 students will transition to ‘Partner Testing’ whereby they are required to test one another on their specific words in readiness for Year 2.

Numeracy

Number

This term, Students will be introduced to the concept of division through sharing objects equally. This will then lead onto multiplication where the students will be putting objects into set groups and working out the total using concrete materials and visual strategies.

They will also continue to consolidate their understanding of place value as well as worded problems involving addition and subtraction.

Algebra

Students will further develop their understanding and confidence with number sequences. They will continue to practice interpreting sequences, describing the repeating part of the pattern and explaining what comes next in the sequence.

Measurement

The students will revise mass, capacity and length by completing hands-on activities to deepen their understanding. We will also revise over the duration of months, days, weeks and years.

Space

We will review familiar shapes and compare and classify their properties while also recognising them in our environment.

Statistics

Students will be collecting data to create a class graph on their favourite animals and discussing their findings to link in with our next unit of inquiry.

Inclusive Approaches

Cyber Safety Project

This semester the students will be continuing with the ‘Cyber Safety Project’. The focus for the Cyber Safety Project is to provide a whole community approach focused on developing future skills, lifelong habits and self-regulation when using digital technologies for work and play. During this program the students will learn how to participate safety and responsibly in a digitally engaged world.

Resilience, Right and Respectful Relationship

As part of our Wellbeing Program in Year 1 we will continue to access the government mandated Resilience Rights & Respectful Relationships lessons.