Year One Team News

Hello Year One families,

We are excited to welcome Grace Pante to the Year One team who will be taking over from Zoe in 1K on Wednesday- Friday. We wish Zoe all the best and are looking forward to hearing about her baby news!

Seeking Shoe boxes:

Later in the term, students will make a moving toy using a shoe box. Please send along any unwanted shoe boxes to school for this activity.

Hats:

Term 4 is a Sun Smart term, and the students are expected to wear their wide brimmed or legionnaire hats when outside. Students know that if they forget their hat, they are to play in designated shaded areas.

Specialist Timetable

The timetable has changed for Term 4. Each classes’ specialist timetable is outlined below:

Year One Dinner: 

The much anticipated Year One Dinner is scheduled for Thursday November 7th, 2023, beginning at 4:30pm and concluding at 6:30pm. 

The experience of having a meal and independently getting ready for bed in the school environment is the first stage of our sequenced camp program that develops throughout their primary schooling years. This will provide students with educational, physical and social experiences to complement the learning provided in the school environment and is designed to allow students to experience a range of activities that they may not have participated in previously.

Students will be dismissed as normal at 3:30pm and then return to school at 4.30pm. They will play games, have dinner, change into their pyjamas and brush their teeth. Parents will pick up their child at 6.30pm outside the RedBrick Hall (playground side). Please lookout for the dietary/allergy/cultural/religious limitation and dinner preference form that has gone home in book bags the other week.

Curriculum Focus: Weeks 4-6

Reading: During this term we will be covering stage 7.4 of the Little Learners Love Literacy program. Next week, the focus will be the alternative graphene for /m/ - mb and the alternative grapheme for /r/ - wr.  In week 6, the focus will be the suffix ‘ing’ and dropping the ‘e’ at the end of a word. 

Writing: The students will continue to work on their narrative story. With lots of guided work and scaffolding, the students are creating another wonderful story which they are already excited to share. 

Numeracy: We will be focusing on representing data using simple graphs and moving on to focusing on months of the year. 

Inquiry:  Our topic this term is ‘What Makes Things Move?’ and have been exploring the different forces used to make things move. Over the next few weeks, the students will continue to make their own moving toys. 

Willy Kids/Respectful Relationships: The Willy Kids focus is “Willy Kids are Honest” where students will be discussing honesty and fairness and how it promotes healthy relationships.  In Respectful Relationships lessons, we will be focusing on learning on ‘stress management’ throughout term 4.

Warm regards,

The Grade One Team –  Zoe Kitchen & Anna Swan (1K), Edan Bacegga (1B) & Claire Davies (1D)