Year One News

Year One Term Three Newsletter

Welcome back!

We kicked off the term with a fortnight of intense swimming lessons for our Year Ones and a huge appreciation to our parent helpers who have volunteered their time to support the program. 

Here is what is happening in each of our curriculum areas:

Literacy

• Students will continue to engage with the Little Learners Love Literacy Program. They will learn how to identify sounds and syllables through blending and manipulating new decodable words they are introduced to each week. Students will also learn how to implement these new words into their writing and spelling. We will explore texts about significant people who have made an impact in our history such as Cathy Freeman, Amelia Earhart and Ada Lovelace. Through exposure to these texts, students will learn various reading comprehension strategies.
• During writing sessions, students will learn how to form a range of sentence types, such as writing statements and questions, including using conjunctions to add more detail to their sentences. Students will continue to build upon their understanding of structuring sentences correctly by using capital letters, punctuation and finger spaces correctly. Students will also learn about procedural texts and demonstrate their understanding by writing procedures based on tasks and experiments carried out in class. 

Numeracy

This term, students will be learning about multiplication and division. They will be exposed to vocabulary such as sharing, groups of, repeated addition and repeated subtraction, while using concrete materials to support their understanding. Students will learn the measurement concept of length, where they will explore informal and some formal measurement of different objects. They will explore time duration and look at analogue and digital clocks, identifying their features. Our maths lessons reference real life experiences to help students understand how this can be applied in their own lives. Furthermore, students will continue to solidify their understanding of place value and counting strategies. 

History

We are excited to be bringing students a wonderful History unit titled; ‘'Then and Now'. This unit will cover everything from our Indigenous culture looking at significant events of our Australian history, with rich conversations and activities. We will focus on the history of family life, school life, technology and transport. Students will identify timelines and their importance in our history. They will learn about creating their own personal timeline, referring to significant events in their lives. 

Social Skills (Berry Street, Respectful Relationships and Consent Education)

Students will continue to explore Body Consent, Body Autonomy and identify problem solving strategies for social situations as taught in Social Skills sessions. We will begin our day with our Welcome Circles, giving students the best start to the day. Students have enjoyed engaging in brain breaks and teachers will continue to expose students to various strategies throughout the day to allow students to de-escalate and even escalate their mood. Furthermore, students will learn through collaboration in order to develop positive coping skills, build resilience and recognise the importance of following our School Values to create a harmonious learning environment.