YEAR ONE
Grade Bulletin - Term Three, 2023
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
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 told. Then stories of ‘Joseph’ and ‘Moses and the Burning Bush’ are told. 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 English Literature Focus this term will focus on informative texts. Students will learn how to plan and create written information texts on a variety of topics. We will be reading books based on '‘The Insect Series’ by Rebecca Johnson. The students will continue to engage in guided and shared reading activities aimed at developing their comprehension, decoding skills and fluency. The students will be planning and presenting speeches by interviewing family members to find out what school was like in the past. They will present these to the class. This will help students build on their oral language and communication skills.
Handwriting: Using the text ‘Writing Time 1’ the students will continue to work on their pencil grip, correct formation of letters (including starting point and direction), and correct sizing of letters. They will continue to improve writing within lines and develop a fluent handwriting style.
Spelling: The Soundwaves program incorporates sound-to-letter strategies, meaning that sounds can be represented in more than one way. This approach focuses first on the basic units of sound in our language. In Term 3, we will be focusing on the graphemes oa, o_e, ow, o, p, pp, r, rr, ar, a, s, ss, x, xe, ir, ur, er, t, tt, or, ore, a, aw, au, v, ve, w, wh, u, oo, u.
Mathematics
This term we will focus on the topics chance, representing whole numbers, combining and separating quantities, 2D spatial structure, forming groups, 3D spatial structure and non-spatial measure (Time - tell time to the half hour). The students will engage in daily review activities which include counting in 1's, 2's, 5's and 10's forwards and backwards. The students will have the chance to work in whole class and group differentiated activities using concrete materials to assist them.
Science and Technology
Students will be looking at living things in particular different mini beasts and their characteristics. They will look at life cycles, growth and change of living things, and habitats.
Mandarin
This term students in Kindergarten to Year 6 will continue to participate in the Chinese language program called the Meg Language Program. The Meg Curriculum is written by the co-author of the Australian Curriculum. All students and teachers will participate in the digital learning platform via Zoom weekly sessions with educators in China.
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 students' 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.
Amadeus Music Program
Students will continue their participation in the Amadeus Music Education program, introduced by Sydney Catholic Schools to our school this year.
Students will participate in activities in listening, performing and organising sound (Kindergarten to Year 6), within their regular Classroom Music lessons. Within these lessons, students will:
- Sing in unison and in parts
- Play tuned and untuned percussion instruments
- Play available instruments such as Ukulele, Guitar and Keyboard (Grade appropriate)
Creative Arts
Students make pictures and other artworks using the media and materials given, representing both real and imagined situations. They appreciate that artists made artworks and they begin to describe some aspects of artworks.
The artworks and crafts that the students complete in the 10 week program link in with their English and Science and Technology units.
Personal Development, Health and Physical Education
In Term 3 students will begin to learn the developmental gross motor movements that help to establish the sequences that assist in performance when participating in a team sport. Sports that will be focused on include, Basketball, Netball, Soccer and locomotor movement skills that assist in all sports. The students will be taking part in the Jump Rope for Heart Program. Students will work together in a team environment and encourage and support each other throughout the learning process. If you wish to register to raise funds use this link jumprope.org.au/parents .
Sport Days for Year One will be on Wednesdays and Fridays.
Homework
Students are to be:
- Reading a book each night - Reading Diaries and books to be returned every Monday.
- Completing their spelling words and sentences in their homework books - Homework books are due each Friday
- History Speeches - Please refer to the handout in your child's homework book for more information regarding this.
- Soundwaves Website Activities (optional)
We look forward to working with you and your child this term. If you have any concerns, please do not hesitate to contact your child’s teacher via a note or by email through Compass.
Miss Dominique Vuaran (1Blue)
Mrs Nicole Pyne and Mrs Gabrielle Devine(1Gold)
Miss Holly Pooley (1White)
Important Dates for Year 1
Grandparents Day - Friday, 28 July
K-2 Fun and Fitness Day - Friday, 4 August
Book Week Parade - Friday 25 August
Father's Day Liturgy - Friday, 1 September
Year 1 Excursion - Friday, 15th September
School Term - 17th July - 22nd September 2023
Refer to the School Calendar for Staff Development Days