Year One

Communicating with the Year One Team

We look forward to partnering with you in 2022, and welcome your input:

Laura Kelly (Class 1A) Laura.McQueen@education.vic.gov.au

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

Welcome Back!

Miss Kelly and Mr. McFarlane are so excited to be back and are so proud of how well our lovely Year One students have settle in. In the first couple of weeks we have been getting to know one another and setting up our classroom routines and expectations.

Overview of Inquiry- Term One 2022

In their Term one Inquiry Unit 'Staying Alive' students will explore the concepts of health, safety and wellbeing. They examine health messages to consider healthy decisions and behaviours. They will also investigate actions that help make local places, their school and their classrooms healthy, safe and active places. Students describe ways of making and keeping friends. They consider how actions and words can help or hurt others. They learn will learn how to recognise that conflict occurs and to distinguish between appropriate and inappropriate ways to deal with conflict. Students will also explore the type of acts often considered right and those often considered wrong and the reasons why they are considered so.

In the first week, students decorated a cut out person to look like them and list some things that made them happy.

Take Home Readers

Take home readers will commence in Week 3. All Year One students will be given two InitiaLit Readers to take home and read nightly. Research has shown that the repeated reading and exposure of texts can boost student's confidence when reading and consolidate their reading skills. We urge families to read the InitiaLit readers daily to help support the learning that is happening within the classroom.

InitiaLit readers will be given on a Monday and are required to be returned on Friday the same week.

If you can, please encourage your child to read other books too.

InitiaLit readers can also be accessed online. The login details are the same as last year. If you need your child's login details please email your child's classroom teacher.

Brain Food

The Year One students have had discussion around the importance of fuelling our bodies and brains with fresh fruit and vegetable when we have our daily brain break at 11:30 each day. Students know that during this 10 minute break we are to eat fresh fruit and fresh vegies only.