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

Religion

During Term 3, students will engage in the topics of:

1.5 Stories of God's People

This unit presents stories from both the Old and New Testaments. The parables of the Yeast, Hidden Treasure and Precious Pearl are explored throughout this unit as well as the stories of ‘Joseph’ and ‘Moses and the Burning Bush’. The unit develops the concept of the Bible as sacred, telling us about God’s relationship with people.

1.4 Nourished by God

This unit focuses on the Sunday celebration of the Mass. It introduces students to Sunday as the special day when Catholics gather at Mass to listen, remember and give thanks to God, receive Holy Communion and go out to love and serve the Lord.

English

Our quality literature focus this term will be focused on the textual concepts of context, perspective and argument and imagery, symbolism and connotation. Students will explore these concepts through quality literature with a focus on persuasive techniques, persuasive and informative text structure and forming paragraphs using multiple sentences.

Reading - The students will continue to read a variety of texts with automaticity, focusing on self-correcting errors and retrieving words automatically or by sounding out the word in their head instead of blending out loud. Students will continue to develop their skills to comprehend texts by activating background knowledge, vocabulary knowledge and by making connections to the text. 

Phonics and Spelling - Students are engaging with phonics and spelling on a daily basis. Students are explicitly taught different letter/sound correspondences. The focus this term is on vowel digraphs. 

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

Mathematics

The students will explicitly be taught concepts from the NSW Mathematics K-10 Syllabus with a focus on using mathematical language, reasoning and understanding. Activities are differentiated to cater for all student needs and ability. Mathematics lessons occur daily for 60 minutes including a daily review and mental. The topics taught this term are:  

• Data (Week 1)
• 2D Spatial Structure (Week 2)
• Combining and Separating Quantities (Weeks 3-4)

Nonspatial Measure -arithmetic. 

•  Mass (Weeks 5-6)
• Geometric Measure - Length (Weeks 7)
• Forming Groups (Weeks 8-9)
• Nonspatial Measure - Time  (Week 10)

Science and Technology

This term students will be looking at and investigating the topic, ‘Living World’ with a focus on animals. Living World focuses on the features of living things, their environment and how they change and reproduce. This strand develops students’ understanding of how living things and their environment play a central role in the support for and survival of humans. Towards the end of the term, students will complete a design and make where they apply their knowledge of the needs of living things.

History

This term the students will be looking at present and past family life. This topic provides a study of present and past family life within the context of the student’s own world. Students learn similarities and differences in family life by comparing the present with the past. They begin to explore the links and the changes that occur over time and are introduced to the use of historical sources. Students will also create and present a speech about their family's past. To further consolidate their learning on families past and present, Year One will be attending an excursion to the Schoolhouse Museum in North Ryde on 1st August.

Personal Development, Health and Physical Education

This term, students will develop their fundamental movement skills through engaging in ball games and gymnastics activities. Students will refine their coordination, teamwork, and spatial awareness in basketball, soccer, and hockey, with a focus on passing, dribbling, and striking. Gymnastics lessons will build flexibility, balance, and body control through rolls, jumps, and basic routines. With an emphasis on cooperation and personal growth, this unit encourages students to explore movement creatively while fostering confidence, persistence, and enjoyment in physical activity.

Additionally, students will learn about road safety, covering essential topics such as safe practices when walking, riding as a passenger, and responsible use of roads.

Music Program

In Music with Mr Parlato, students will learn traditional Australian compositions and develop their understanding of Beat, Rhythm and Pitch. They will use percussion instruments and their voices to perform compositions.

Creative Arts

Students will create artworks using a variety of media and materials such as watercolours, oil pastels, collage and paint. They will explore and appreciate Kandinsky’s artworks and create their own artwork based on his unique form and style. The artworks that the students complete this term links in with English, History, Religious Education and Science and Technology units.

Homework 

This term, homework will consist of daily reading and the review of spelling words linked to the phonics sounds being taught in class. Parents are kindly asked to sign the Reading Log each night and ensure it is returned to school each Thursday in their child’s reading folder.

In addition, students will receive a differentiated Mathematics worksheet to be completed each week. Homework books will be sent home every Friday and are to be returned each Thursday for marking.

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 fortnight on a Thursday (weeks 1,3,5,7,9) 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.   

2025 - School Term 3

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