Year One 

Spotlight on Learning

Dear Families,

Welcome back to Term 4! We hope you all had a restful and enjoyable holiday break with your families. This term is always an exciting and busy one as we continue to build on the wonderful growth our students have made so far this year. We look forward to working together with you in making Term 4 a positive and rewarding finish to the school year. Thank you once again for your ongoing support in helping us educate and keep our children safe.

Important Reminders

1. Term 4 is a sunsmart term and 'No hat, no play', please ensure your child has their hat for school.
2. 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. 
3. Here is some information to help you prepare for our upcoming excursion, please read with your children.

This week:

Literacy-Reading - During whole class Reading, we focused on brain and emotions. We read the book 'Hey Warrior', a powerful and reassuring story that helps children understand anxiety and the role of the amygdala in the brain. It was wonderful to see how students connected with the message of the book, gathering strategies to recognise and manage big feelings, and writing about their own understanding of how to face worries with courage.

Literacy-Phonics -During Phonics, we looked at the o_e as in 'nose' and oe as. The grapheme s represents the /z/ sound when it is preceded by a voiced vowel. We also looked at oe as another way to write the the /o¯ /  sound. 

Mathematics-This week and next week for Mathematics, we focused on addition and subtraction. We were also very excited to begin the journey of introducing Number Fluency Program for Term 4 with both Foundation and Year 1 in Term 4. Number fluency is when students can flexibly apply strategies to accurately and efficiently solve number-based problems. 

Integrated-Health-This week we learnt about how our brain works.

Religious Education-This week we learnt about the Rosary and the Good Samaritan.

SEL-This week we learnt about Trusted Adults - Part One.

AUSLAN - This week we learnt about how to sign different colours.

Next week

Literacy-Reading - We will continue focusing on brain and emotions.

Literacy-Phonics - We will focus on the ow, o sound.

Mathematics - We will continue implementing our Number Fluency practise each day and focus on partitioning two-digit numbers into tens and ones and write the addition equation.

Integrated - We will continue learning about how our brains works.

Religious Education -  We will learn more about the Rosary and continue our Socktober charity focus.

SEL - We will learn about Trusted Adults - Part Two.

AUSLAN - In Auslan we will sign the object first and then describe its features.

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
• Tuesday, 4 November -Melbourne Cup Day-Pupil Free Day
• Wednesday, 26 Nov - Mass from 9:30am to 10:30am
• Monday, 1 December-F-2 Athletics Day @ Casey Fields
• Carols Tuesday 9th December 4pm - 7pm
• Friday, 12 December - Last Day of Formal Classes

• Monday, 15 December-Clean Up Day - No Formal Classes-Last Day of School

   

Contact Us @ Jerusalem

jerusalem@cranbourneeast.catholic.edu.auOR

The Jerusalem team