Year 1 Term 2 Overview 2022

Term overview

Welcome! 

Welcome back to Term 2, we hope you all had a restful holiday and that our students are ready to get back into learning! This term will be jam packed for both the teachers and students with different activities happening throughout the school. Semester one reports will be emailed in week 10 of this term.

We would still appreciate your assistance in encouraging our students to maximise their independent skills. The expectation is that students should be able to enter the classroom in the morning by themselves, put their own lunch in the fridge, their own bag on the bag hooks and then get themselves ready for the day by going to the toilet, getting a drink, filling up their water bottle and sharpening their pencils before school starts.

Late arrivals

Our rolls need to be marked by 9:05am each morning, if you are arriving after 9:05am please ensure that you get a late slip for your child from the office as teachers are unable to change their roll once its marked. On mornings where students have specialist lessons, teachers mark the roll right on 9am in order to get them to their specialist lesson on time. Please be aware of these days and sign them in at the office if you are arriving late.

Breakfast Club

Breakfast is such an important meal in a child’s day, it provides your brain with fuel. Without breakfast children find it very had to concentrate. On a Monday, Wednesday and Friday, near the hall, from 8:15 till 8:45 we have some amazing volunteers who run a breakfast club for the students. No money required just a smiling face and your best manners.

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 is implementing a systematic synthetic phonics approach that has a teaching sequence for reading and spelling which goes across the entire school. Promoting Literacy Development or PLD for short, provides teachers with an innovative, evidence-based approach to literacy and advocates that children’s literacy and learning outcomes are maximized when the areas of literacy, oral language and movement & motor skills are simultaneously targeted.  With this change, we will be working with decodable texts instead of predictable texts in the teaching of reading.

Due to this change, home reading will look different as well. Students may come home with games with high frequency words or sounds instead of home readers. This is reading practice. Please be assured that students will be getting a much higher level of reading mileage at school every day.

English

Poetry

This term, students will read, view and listen to a variety of poems to identifying language features, vocabulary and explore sound patterns used in poetry. The assessment task for this unit will require students to innovate on a familiar poem. As part of the assessment students are also required to recite a poem to the class. Students will be given a poem by their teacher within the first few weeks of school to practice at home.

Students in the 1/2 composite class will be engaged in the theme of this unit however content will be targetted at both year 1 and 2 levels. 

Maths

In math this term children will continue to develop their understanding of counting patterns in 2s, 5s and 10s. We will investigate partitioning of two-digit numbers as well as identify and solve addition and subtraction problems. The children will explore the features of Australian coins and how to tell time to the hour. Assessment will be on the concepts of location and transformation and shape.

Students in the 1/2 composite class will be engaged in the theme of this unit, along with investigating shapes and location, however content will be targetted at both year 1 and 2 levels. 

Science

Changes I can see

This unit provides opportunities for students to explore how and why changes occur in the daytime and night time sky and landscape, and develop students' ability to describe these changes in their local environment. Students will predict and observe if and how objects from the local environment might change over time. They will identify different types of weather and explore how the weather may affect what people do. Students will investigate the properties of natural, managed and constructed features can help predict if observable changes will occur. They will also explore the knowledge of daily and seasonal changes in weather patterns and landscape held by Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples.

Materials

Students in the 1/2 composite class will be engaged in exploring how everyday materials can be physically changed in a variety of ways according to their properties. They describe the actions used to physically change materials to make objects for different purposes, understanding that science involves asking questions and describing changes to objects. Content will be targetted at both year 1 and 2 levels. 

HASS

My Changing Life

This unit is a continuation from last term. Students will 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. 

Technology 

Students in the 1/2 composite class will learn about technology over time and important events and places. With a focus on their family history and impact of technology over time. Content will be targetted at both year 1 and 2 levels. 

HPE

In Year 1 students will explore running, jumping and throwing activities and take part in simple challenges and competitions. In Health, students will continue to select and apply strategies to keep themselves healthy and safe and will be able to ask for help with tasks or problems. 

Students in the 1/2 composite class will be engaged in the theme of this unit however content will be targetted at both year 1 and 2 levels. 

Music

In this unit, students will learn main rhythmical elements – Ta, Ti-ti, Za, Vah and Great Vah. They will explore sounds as they learn to listen to and make rhythmical patterns using a variety of percussion instruments. They will also learn to discriminate between long and short sounds and silence.

Students in the 1/2 composite class will be engaged in the theme of this unit however content will be targetted at both year 1 and 2 levels. 

Drama

‘The Magic Beach’

Students continue to explore the picture book "Magic Beach", through improvisation, mime, movement and reader's theatre. They also learn to confidently and clearly perform their poems.

Students in the 1/2 composite class will be engaged in the theme of this unit however content will be targetted at both year 1 and 2 levels. 

Assessment Schedule

Contact information

Contact your childs teacher via email: 

1A Christine Abood - caboo4@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

1/2 Lauren Shouldice - lrsho0@eq.edu.au