Year 1 Term 1 Overview 2024
Term Overview
Welcome to Year 1. We have had a busy start to the year and we look forward to a wonderful term. Thank you to parents that have brought in all of their children’s books and equipment. This helps students to be organised and ready to begin lessons. Now that your child is in Year 1, we appreciate your assistance in encouraging them to maximise their independence. The expectation is that by now students should be able to enter the classroom in the morning by themselves, put their own lunch box in the fridge, their bag on the hooks and organise their own resources ready for the day. It is important for all children to be seated in the classroom before 8:55am every day as our reading programs and specialist lessons start promptly at 9:00am every day. If your child arrives after the 9:00am bell, please collect a late pass from the office.
Unlike prep, the year 1 children are released from class at the end of the day. To minimise congestion upstairs in the JLC, please organise with your child a location for pick-ups. This may be downstairs under the JLC, at the tuckshop, at a particular gate, at the Stop, Drop and Go or afterschool care.
Before school
Children who arrive at school before 8:45am need to go to the COLA and wait until the 8:30am bell goes. The gates for the JLC are opened around 8:45am.
Lunch time routine
At lunch the year ones and twos eat downstairs in the JLC. This eating time is supervised by two staff members. Please speak to your child about eating expectations. As you can appreciate, it is difficult for two staff members to ensure 275 students have eaten all their lunch prior to going to play.
QParents
QParents is here
Great news: Trinity Beach SS provides our parent community with the opportunity to register for QParents.
We will be sending out invitations for parents to register for QParents next week.
QParents won’t replace the traditional ways you communicate with our school, but it will provide another way to communicate with us.
More information about QParents can be found at https://qparents.qld.edu.au/#/about
Attendance
How to report an absence:
- Email attendance@trinitybeachss.eq.edu.au or
- Call the school's absence line on 4057 1444, then press #1 and don't forget to leave a reason why your child/children are away, or
- Send a note to the classroom teacher on their return
Our schools attendance target is 95%
Reading / Spelling
Our school continues to embed a whole school approach to reading and spelling across Prep to Year 6. This involves teaching the reading and spelling demands of the Australian Curriculum, providing students with a systematic synthetic phonics approach and unpacking the Big 6/Science of Reading through engaging and meaningful lessons. Students engage with decodable texts when learning to read and rich authentic texts when reading to learn and continue to use the PLD approach for their spelling and sound focus.
English
Procedural Text
This term we are writing procedural texts. Students will be learning about the purpose and structure of procedural texts. Students will write a procedure for making a sandcastle, a pirate hat, a kite and some wombat stew. The assessment task for this unit will require students to write a procedure on how to make a ‘disgusting sandwich’.
Maths
Students will be learning how to utilise and record various counting strategies with numbers up to 100, both forwards and backwards. They will learn and practise addition strategies, as well as reading a calendar and comparing the length of things. Students will explore teen numbers and the language of chance – impossible, possible, certain and uncertain. You could assist your child’s learning by providing them with opportunities to practise these math skills at home.
Science
Exploring Light and Sound
In this unit students explore sources of light and sound. They manipulate materials to observe how light and sound are produced, and how changes can be made to light and sound. They examine how light and sound are useful in everyday life. They respond to and ask question, make predictions, share observations and compare their observations and predictions with each other.
HASS
My Changing Life
In this unit students explore the following inquiry question - How has my family and daily life changed over time? In order to answer this question, students will investigate family structures and the roles of family members over time. They will identify and describe important dates and changes in their own lives. Students will compare aspects of their daily lives to aspects of daily life for people in their family, in the past to identify similarities and differences. They will sequence and describe events of personal significance.
HPE
In PE, students in year one will develop the fundamental movement skills of dodging and running and test alternatives to evade others and objects in tagging games. They will explore positive ways to interact with others, including strategies to work in groups and play fairly during tagging games. In Health, students will select and apply strategies to keep themselves healthy and safe and will be able to ask for help with tasks or problems.
Music
During Term one, students will focus on solfa notes and reinforce knowledge about rhythm and beat. They will listen and analyse musical pieces and learn a number of songs and musical games.
Visual Arts
This term in Visual Arts, year 1 students view various famous artworks that also relate to characters in books and animated cartoons. Students will explore ideas, experiences, observations, and imagination to create visual artworks and design. They will use and experiment with different materials, techniques, technologies and processes to make artworks. This year our theme is ‘Bugs, grubs and all thing nice.’
Drama
The Magic Beach’
Students explore the picture book "Magic Beach", through improvisation, mime, movement and reader's theatre.
Technology
Students will explore how plants and animals are grown for food, clothing and shelter and how food is selected and prepared for healthy eating. They will design solutions for a farm to enable successful food and fibre production.
Assessment Schedule
Learning Area | Assessment Task | Due Date |
Maths | Classifying Outcomes | Week 5 |
Understanding Teen Numbers | Week 7/8 | |
Science | Part A Understanding light | Week5 |
Part B Understanding sound | Week 8 | |
History | Part A My life in the past | Week 6 |
Part B A year in my family | Week 10 | |
English | Creating a procedural text on how to make a disgusting sandwich | Week 8 |
HPE | Health- My safety, my responsibilities | Week 7/8 |
Visual Arts | Creating a story | Week 9 |
Music | Sing and play on glockenspiel the song ‘Rain, rain’ with lyrics and solfa. | Week 7/8 |
Technology | • Students design a farm and describe what grows on their farm and what food is produced. • Students identify problems that may occur on the farm. • Students create a path for a robot to be programmed to move through the farm | Week 10 |
Drama | Making - Improvisation Performance | Week 9 |
Homework
We understand that parents are busy with work and children are tired once they get home from school. With this in mind the year 1 teachers have decided to only set reading as homework. Please try and read with your child at least 3 times a week. Homework will be sent home at the beginning of week 4.
Contact Information
Contact your child’s teacher via email:
1A - Christine Abood caboo4@eq.edu.au Kate Kay klkay0@eq.edu.au
1B - Shannon Hanley shanl17@eq.edu.au
1C - Sharyn Yeabsley syeab2@eq.edu.au
1D - Kerry-Ann Wright kwrig176@eq.edu.au
Specialist Teachers
Specialist Teachers
HPE Jodie Donovan jdono63@eq.edu.au
HPE Steve Kotzikas sskot0@eq.edu.au
Visual Arts Vanessa Graham vgrah5@eq.edu.au
Music Svetlana Walker swalk146@eq.edu.au
Drama David Terry dater1@eq.edu.au