Year 1 Term 3 2024 Curriculum Overview

Welcome & General Information

Welcome back after what we hope was a great break for all. We would also like to welcome any new families into the Trinity Beach community.  We trust you all had a fabulous holiday and that your child is ready for an even more exciting and action packed second half of Year One.

Like any other term, we encourage our Year Ones to be more independent than they were in Prep, but now that we are in our second semester of Year One (and so close to Year Two), it’s really important that our students are independent in everything they do. This means putting their own bags on the rack, their own lunchboxes and drinks bottles in the fridge, and remembering to bring their library books and homework folders in without blaming Mum or Dad for forgetting!

The purpose of this overview is to share what topics our students will be covering over the duration of this term across all of the learning areas, as well as share when students will be assessed on their learning.

For information about specific events please keep a look out on the Trinity Beach State School Facebook page. https://www.facebook.com/trinitybeachss/

This term, all year levels will be participating in swimming lessons. Each class has been allocated a week in which they will participate in 4 lessons. A detailed timetable has been sent to families.  Please ensure all swimming items, uniforms and bags are clearly labelled.

To ensure a smooth start to the term, please check to see if your child needs any additional equipment, such as stationary or uniforms and ensure that these are named to reduce the risk of losing them.

We hope that this term is a successful term. As always, if you have any questions about your child’s progress or if you have any concerns your first point of contact is your child’s teacher. The contact details for all the teachers are listed in the “Contact Information” section. 

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English

Retell of an imaginative text

This term, students listen to, read and view a variety of imaginative stories in order to analyse, explain and retell the story. The assessment task for this unit will require students to write a retell of a familiar imaginative story. This involves students writing the beginning of the story outlining the setting and characters. Then the middle of the story, which details the complication and the end of the story which details the resolution to the complication. Parents, you can assist your child with this task by talking about the beginning, complication and resolution when reading bedtime stories or even with their home readers. You can also assist by practicing the spelling of common words for example: - and, when, this, them, the, was, went, like, from.

Maths

This term children will be consolidating areas such as counting patterns in 2s, 5s and 10s. We will be learning about measuring length and capacity. We continue to learn about telling time to the hour and half hour. There will be more investigation into solving addition and subtraction problems. Assessment this term is based on measurement, number and time.

Science

Humanities & Social Sciences (HASS)

My changing world

This term, students will investigate a local place to identify and describe its features, the activities that occur there, how the place changes and ways to care for it.

Health & Physical education (HPE)

In PE, students in Year One will explore a range of dances from around the world. In Health, students will identify personal hygiene habits and actions that help keep them healthy. Students will examine the 'Australian Guide to Healthy Eating' to make healthy food choices and will identify ways to keep their bodies physically active. 

Music

During Term Three, 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.

Technology

Students are looking closely at Technologies used on the farm in the following ways.

• Identifying and exploring digital systems and their purpose on the farm.
• Exploring how movement in technologies assist in the growing of plants, and caring for animals to produce food and fibre on the farm.
• Students explore the SeeSaw App and recognise that digital tools may store their personal data to store their information online.
• Permission from a trusted adult to access apps or websites and ask for help when feeling unsafe.

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.’

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Drama

Stories Come to Life; ‘Journey’

Students make and respond to drama by using the picture book ‘Journey’ as a stimulus as they bring the characters to life with voice, movement and improvisations for performance.

Assessment Schedule

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.

Homework

Reading homework will continue the same as Semester 1. Please try and read with your child at least 3 times a week.

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 school’s attendance target is 95% 

QParents

QP is an online portal helping the school move toward a cashless and paper friendly school. 

• The QP portal allows Parents and Carers to grant participation consent online for activities such as swimming and excursions which reduces our need to print out paper consent forms
• Also, the QP portal enables Parents and Carers to make payment online for school activities and viewing unpaid invoices payment history.

Thank you to all those parents who have registered for QParents. This means every registered parent now has the opportunity to access to their children’s student records at their fingertips, anytime, anywhere. Haven’t received an invitation from us yet? There’s still time! Please let us know immediately. Or if you are simply looking for further information, videos and FAQs on QParents, visit https://qparents.qld.edu.au

Contact information