Year 1 Term 1 2025 Curriculum Overview

Welcome & General Information

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 different types of procedures throughout the unit. The assessment task for this unit will require students to write a procedure on how to make a ‘disgusting sandwich’.. 

Maths

Students further develop proficiency and positive dispositions towards mathematics and its use as they:

• develop a sense of equivalence, fairness, repetition and variability when they engage in play-based and practical activities
• use physical and virtual materials
  to demonstrate that numbers can be represented, partitioned and composed in various ways, recognise patterns in numbers and extend their knowledge of numbers beyond two digits
• use curiosity and imagination
  to explore situations, recognise patterns in their environment
  and choose ways of representing thinking when communicating
  with others
• use simple transformations, give directions and follow pathways to move the positions of people and objects to different locations
• use simple surveys to collect and sort data, based on a question of interest, such as colour of eyes; recognise that data can be represented in different ways such as objects, images, drawings, lists and symbols; compare and discuss data by identifying patterns.

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.

Humanities & Social Sciences (HASS)

Health & Physical education (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 this term, 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 will design a playground environment. They will describe the purposes of familiar products, services and environments. Students will describe the features and uses of technologies and create designed solutions. Students select design ideas based on their personal preferences and communicate design ideas using models and drawings. .

Visual Arts

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.

Drama

‘The Magic Beach’

 Students explore the picture book "Magic Beach", through improvisation, mime, movement and reader's theatre.

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 term 3. 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

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