Year One

Communicating with the Year One Team

We look forward to partnering with you in 2024, and welcome your input:

Julie Hall (Class 1A) Julie.Hall@education.vic.gov.au

Andrew McFarlane (Class 1B) Andrew.McFarlane3@education.vic.gov.au 

                                             Welcome Back!

Mrs Hall and Mr McFarlane are so excited to welcome the Year One students into an amazing year of learning. We are ready and excited to be back!

The students have done a wonderful job settling into their new routines and we love seeing how excited they are to enter the classroom each morning. Together, we have been working as a team and getting to know each other a little bit better. We have been doing this by playing lots of awesome maths games such as race to 120 and number snap!  

Over the last three weeks we have been taking lots of brain breaks, we also did some guided meditation in our first week of school. The students are learning that it is important to take breaks from our work when we are feeling tired or a little bit restless!

Here are some more pictures of all of the amazing and fun things we have been doing.

School Wide Positive Behaviours for Learning (SWPBL): 

As a school community, we hear a-lot about SWPBL, but what is it? 

Here at USPS we operate under the three values of Respect, Responsibility and Resilience. Positive Behaviours are focused on and rewarded through awarding House Points and receiving Green Gotchas from the teaching faculty.

Other programs that we partner with to enhance the wellbeing of our students and compliment our SWPBL framework include Let's TALK (helping everybody talk safely), the Berry Street Education Model (which is embedded into everything we do as teachers at USPS) and in 2024, introducing the Respectful Relationships Program. Students in Year One have already completed some lesson this year with a focus on identifying different emotions and how environmental triggers can cause a variance in how our body responds to different situations. 

It is important that as a student at our school, we are demonstrating the school values at all times, both within the classroom, outside in the yard and when representing our school through the many wonderful extra curricular opportunities provided to our students or on an excursion to consolidate learning outcomes. 

The Year One classrooms have constructed their 2024 Behaviour Matrix's for the year when reflecting upon our settling in activities. Students modelled desired learning behaviours and made pictorial representations that have been set up in classrooms for reference throughout the year.

                                                              This is how we line up.

                                             This is whole body listening, ready to learn.

Take Home Readers

Commencing in week 3, all Year One students have been given their 'Home Reading Diary' for Term One. Each week, your child will be provided with one hard copy reader to read for the week. We ask that the book is read 3-4 times per week and is logged into your child’s reading diary.

Your child’s reading diary and book needs to be brought back to school every Friday morning to be checked and swapped over by your child’s classroom teacher. We kindly ask that all books are taken care of and returned in good condition every Friday.  

Specialist Timetable

Please note the following information regarding the days that each grade has specialist classes.  * These times are subject to change during school-wide events (eg: swimming timetables) *