Year 1 Term 1 Overview 2023
Term Overview
Welcome
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 then organise their own resources ready for the day. It is important for all children to be seated in the classroom before 8:55 am 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 (once the building is complete), at a particular gate, at the drop and go or afterschool care.
Before school
Children who arrive to school before 8:45am will be supervised outside the library area from 8:15am. The gates for the JLC are opened around 8:45am. Once the tuck shop area is completed any child who arrives at school before 8:30am will need to wait in this area.
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.
Homework
Homework will be sent home at the beginning of week 4. Your teacher will include some information in your child’s homework folder around their homework expectations.
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 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
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, making fairy bread, making a smiley face biscuit to name a few. 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 and subtraction 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 effects. They examine how light and sound are useful in everyday life. They respond to and ask questions. They make predictions and share observations, comparing their observations with predictions with each other. They sort observations and represent and communicate their understandings in a variety of ways.
HASS
History - My Changing Life
In this unit 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.
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
In this unit, students will learn to move and perform with beat and tempo. They will learn dances to develop body control and movements. Students will practice singing songs as well as listen and analyse music of different cultural back grounds. Also they will consolidate knowledge of solfa notes – C, E, G and A
Visual Arts
This term in Visual Arts, year one 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.
Drama
The Magic Beach
Students explore the picture book "Magic Beach" through improvisation, mime, movement and reader's theatre.
Technology
In Technologies, students in year one 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. Students will investigate how food and fibre are grown to meet human needs.
Assessment Schedule
| LEARNING AREA | UNIT OUTLINE | TASK | DUE DATE |
PLD | Spelling placement test Reading placement test End of term placement test | Written Oral Written | Week 1 Week 1-2 Week 10 |
MATHS | Understanding teen numbers Classifying Outcomes | Written Written | Week 5 Week 6 |
SCIENCE | Part A - Understanding light Part B - Understanding sound | Written Written | Week 5 Week 8 |
HASS | Part A – My life in the past Part B – A year in my family | Written Written | Week 6 Week 10 |
ENGLISH | Creating a procedural text on how to make a disgusting sandwich | Written | Week 8 |
MUSIC | Sing and play on glockenspiel the song ‘Rain, rain’ with lyrics and solfa. | Oral | Week 8-9 |
HPE - Health | My safety, my responsibilities | Short answer response | Week 9-10 |
Please avoid taking time off school during these times.
Contact Information
Contact your childs 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
HPE - Jodie Donovan jdono63@eq.edu.au
HPE - Rochelle Powell rapow1@eq.edu.au
Visual Arts - Vaness Graham vgrah5@eq.edu.au
Music - Svetlana Walker swalk146@eq.edu.au
Drama - David Terry dater1@eq.edu.au
HPE/Technology/Drama - Karen Arthur kaart0@eq.edu.au
Technology - Jacqui Kidney jkidn6@eq.edu.au