Year One 

Spotlight on Learning

Dear Families,

It’s been another great week of learning and growing together in Year One. Our students have settled back into school routines with enthusiasm and are continuing to build on the wonderful progress they’ve made this year. Thank you for your continued support and partnership as we work together to make Term 4 a positive and rewarding finish to the school year.

Important Reminders

1. Next Monday, students will be choosing their three Learning Friends— peers they enjoy learning with. We encourage families to have a chat at home over the weekend about who their child learns well with, including friends from other classes.
2. Term 4 is a Sunsmart term and 'No hat, no play', please ensure your child has their hat for school.
3. All students are expected to wear full St Thomas’ school uniform — either summer, winter or PE is fine, but it must be the official school uniform. 
4. Here is some information to help you prepare for our upcoming excursion, please read with your children.

This week:

Literacy-Reading - We adopted the book 'What's cooking at 10 garden street' to introduce our upcoming community garden activity at Myuna Farm. 

Literacy-Phonics -During Phonics, we looked at the kn, gn, ch sound. 

Students Highlight Learning Moments: Drew their favourite pictures from their Readers.

Mathematics-We continued implementing our Number Fluency practise each day and focused on Measurement - time - ordering, analog to the hour.

Integrated-Health-This week we pre taught for excursion, planted a herb pot for sale at the end of the year.

Religious Education - This week we continued focusing on the Month of the Rosary- October. The lessons focused on how to use the Rosary to pray and reflect, understand fairness and how we can make the world fairer.

Social & Emotional Learning - This week we learnt about Respect My Body, Respect My Personal Space. We focused on the first two rules in the 5 Body Safety Rules this week which are My body is my body and it belongs to me and Private Parts, and we will focus on the other three next week.

Auslan - This week we learnt about how to sign the object first and then describe its features.

Next week

Literacy-Reading - We will adopt the book 'What's cooking at 10 garden street' to introduce our community garden activity at Myuna Farm. 

Literacy-Phonics - We will look at /yoo/ u-e, ue sound. 

Mathematics - We will continue implementing our Number Fluency practise each day and focus on Measurement - time - ordering, analog to the hour. 

Integrated - We will focus on Excursion Preparation. 

Religious Education -  We will learn stewardship of creation from the Noah's ark and learn about why we are collecting cans, reduce reuse recycle, garden of Eden planting the jar, creating something beautiful and giving back to creation. All the money we collect goes to donations. 

Social Emotional Learning - We will be away at the Excursion on Friday for W4. 

Auslan - In Auslan we will have our End-Cycle Assessment.

Ways to engage with the newsletter:

• Read or watch the weekly book with your child at home (there is often a read aloud on you tube). Talk about what the book's most important ideas are.

• Ask your child to retell the story using their own words.

• Talk about who the characters are, where the story is happening.

• Use the spelling words provided to make up sentences at home or simply a 5 word mini dictation.

• Take the idea around Mathematics and ask students to repeat an activity they did at school, with you.

   

Important Dates

Term Four:

• Month of the Rosary- October
• Upstanding- U have the POWER Week 13 – 17 October 2025
• Friday 31st October - Excursion to Myuna Farm
• Monday 3rd Nov — SCHOOL CLOSURE
• Tuesday, 4 Nov - Melbourne Cup Day Holiday - No school
• Week 7- All week — Kid’s Roar – Protective Behaviours Sessions (F–Year 5)
• Wednesday, 26 Nov - Mass from 9:30am to 10:30am
• Monday, 1 Dec - F-2 Athletics Day @ Casey Fields
• Carols Tuesday 9th Dec 4pm - 7pm
• Friday, 12 Dec - Last Day of Formal Classes

• Monday, 15 Dec - Clean Up Day - No Formal Classes

   

Contact Us @ Jerusalem

jerusalem@cranbourneeast.catholic.edu.auOR

The Jerusalem team