Year One

Communicating with the Year One Team

We look forward to partnering with you in 2025, and welcome your input:

When communicating with the Year One team, please reach out via the below email addresses.  Your child's class teacher is your first point of contact when requiring a discussion. You will usually see us outside the classrooms at the end of the day. This is the preferred time to catch us for a quick chat as we are focused on greeting the students before school.

 Please also note that we have scheduled meetings at 3.45pm on Tuesdays and Thursdays.

We look forward to partnering with you in 2025, and welcome your input:

Ms Zoe Bates (Class 1A) Zoe.Bates@education.vic.gov.au

Mrs. Julie Hall (Class 1B) Julie.hall@education.vic.gov.au

Mrs Tanya Howell (Class 1C) Tanya.Howell@education.vic.gov.au

Welcome Back!

Ms Bates, Mrs Hall and Mrs Howell 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!  

Over the last three weeks we have been taking lots of brain breaks. The students are learning that it is important to take breaks from our work when we are feeling tired or a little bit restless!

Please enjoy some lovely photos of us working.

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 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 2025 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.

Reminders: 

Parent/Teacher Getting to Know You meetings on Tuesday 18th February and Thursday 20th of February. 

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 Monday 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 Monday.  

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) *

SPECIALIST TIMETABLES