Montessori 1/2 Term 1 2025 Curriculum Overview

Welcome & General Information

Welcome to all our existing and new parents and carers in Year 1 and 2. We have a fantastic school community so please if you can, take some time to connect with each other ahead of a busy term 1.

It is very important for students to attend school every day so they do not miss out on any of the curriculum or fall behind. It is also important for every student to have a healthy breakfast before coming to school to help their concentration and ability to learn. Please ensure your child comes with a healthy lunch, preferably as soft plastic free as possible.

In Montessori year 1 and 2 our children now join the rest of the cohort at break time to eat lunch together in the undercover JLC area.  After they eat, their lunchbox and water bottles are stored in our class tubs and then brought back to classroom fridge at the end of breaktime. If names come off lunchboxes and water bottles, please make sure you rename them throughout the year, to avoid confusion and lost property issues. It may be a good idea to have a special sticker, ribbon or keychain attached to your child’s bag for quick identification, as some children may share the same type of schoolbag. 

English

In Term 1, they will begin with an on-going focus on grammar and the role words play within what they read and write. This will incorporate the unique Montessori Grammar approach of assigning each part of speech with a shape, colour and special story meaning. It will be hands on, visual, verbal and fun!

Students will participate in a variety of cooking activities, before engaging in writing a series of procedural texts. There is a strong focus on skills including writing simple and compound procedural sentences with appropriate spacing, punctuation and handwriting skills.

Maths

Term 1 and 2 we are focusing on building children’s understanding of numbers. For our year one children, this means ensuring they have a sound foundation in numbers to 20 including zero. They will then work with numbers to 120, ordering and connecting number names, numerals, quantities and applying knowledge of place value to partition two-digit numbers. Year two will work with numbers to at least 1000, applying knowledge of place value to partition, rearrange and rename two and three-digit numbers in terms of their parts, and regroup partitioned numbers to assist in calculations. 

Measurement will also be a strong focus this term. Our year one children will compare and order objects and events based on the attributes of length, mass, capacity and duration, communicating reasoning. They will also explore the use of uniform informal units to measure length.  Year two will extend this knowledge to use uniform informal units to measure and compare shapes and objects re a range of different attributes.  Our children will continue to use a range of learning methods, including the specialized Montessori number materials to develop their mathematic knowledge this year..

Science

Humanities & Social Sciences (HASS)

This Semester all students will engage in a unit entitled People and Places. During this time, students will learn to describe and represent the features of familiar places at a local scale.  They will collect and sort data related to local places. They will then practise drawing labelled maps of these places.  Students will also discuss and describe how to care for places and build an understanding why it may be important to preserve these places and their features. 

Health & Physical education (HPE)

Year 1

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.

Year 2

In PE, students in year two will demonstrate fundamental skills to test alternatives to solve movement challenges, to reach their targets in different games and sports. In Health, students will describe changes that occur as they grow older. They identify how emotional responses impact on others’ feelings.

Music

Year 1

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.

Year 2

During Term one, students will reinforce knowledge of the rhythmic elements – crotchet, quavers and minim. They will learn about strong and weak beats, rhythmic ostinato and percussion instruments.

Digital literacy

Year 1

This term, students will explore familiar digital systems, recognising systems are made up of hardware and software. They recognise digital systems can be used as solutions to solve everyday problems.

Year 2

Students will explore the properties of materials and how they affect movement in a range of products. They will develop skills to generate, design and implement a solution. They will also learn to evaluate a designed solution by expressing personal preference against a success criteria.

Visual Art

Year 1

Our theme this year in Visual Arts is ‘The Splendiferous World of Roald Dahl’.  Each year level will have a different book to use as a creative focus. This term, year 1 students will be drawing various characters from the book ‘The Fantastic Mr Fox’.  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 their final art piece.

Year 2

Our theme this year in Visual Arts is ‘The Splendiferous World of Roald Dahl’.  Each year level will have a different book to use as a creative focus. This term, year 2 students will be creating art pieces based on the book ‘George’s Marvellous Medicine’. Students will be learning about the seven basic elements of art. Elements of art are stylistic features that are included in artwork to help the artist communicate their ideas. These elements are line, shape, colour, texture, value space and form. Students will use and experiment with different materials, techniques, technologies and processes to make various artworks which they will critic and display.

IEC

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

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

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