Year 1 - Term 3 Curriculum Overview 2023

Term 3

Welcome back!  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!

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 will be continuing to learn about telling time to the hour and half hour. There will be more investigation into solving addition and subtraction problems and we will continue to learn about Australian coins. Assessment this term is based on measurement, number and time.

Science

Living Adventure

This term students will be learning about the links between animals and the environments in which they live and how these environments meet their needs. They will be comparing the difference between healthy and unhealthy habitats. They will be learning about how to care for environments and how environments change over time.

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.

HPE

In PE, students in Year One will explore a range of dancers 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.

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.

Drama

In this unit students explore the world of toys through improvisation, movement and storytelling. They will base a character on their favourite toy and bring it to life!

Technology

In Technologies, students in Year 1 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

Social Emotional Learning/Self-Regulation

The Pause Program will commence in week 6 of this term. Why the Pause approach?

• Pause teaches students the importance of recognising the signals in their body that their brain sends them.
• Pause teaches students the three key parts of the brain that are responsible for thinking, emotions and long term memory.
• Pause empowers students to self-regulate their own behaviour by taking notice and acting on the signals they receive from their brain in a positive way.
• Wellbeiing underpins the way children feel about themselves and how they relate to others.
• Pause improves children’s wellbeing by teaching them about Neuroscience and Mindfulness.

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.

Attendance

How to report an absence: 

Either:

• Text (SMS)* 0428 621 921 (preferred method) *SMS line does not take calls & no emoji’s please SMS any time, with student name, reason for absence and duration.

• Call the absence Line: 4057 1444 (press #1) only available after 8:30 am Leave student name and reason for absence.
• Email: attendance@trinitybeachss.eq.edu.au before 9:30am.

QParents

Tuckshop

Tuckshop operates daily during the two breaks. Orders can be placed online via FlexiSchools or at the tuckshop on a paper bag. Tuckshop orders are placed in class tuckshop basket before 9am. Miscellaneous items can be purchased over the counter.  Please talk to your child about not giving money away or sharing food.

Contact Information

Contact your child’s 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 - Vanessa 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