Year 1 Term 1 Overview 2022

Term overview

Welcome to Year 1.  Even though we have had a bit of a disruption to the start of the year, 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 this time every day.

In light of the current situation to alleviate congestion on the verandas outside the classrooms, the year 1 teachers have decided to walk the children downstairs at the end of the day. We will do this for the first week of school. In the second week the children will be released from class and instructed to wait downstairs. With this in mind please organise with your child a location for pick-ups. This may be downstairs, at the tuckshop, 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 in the tuckshop area from 8:15am. The gates for the JLC are opened around 8:45am.

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.

Parent Helpers

Unfortunately, we are unable to have parent helpers in the classroom yet. Once this changes your teacher will contact you if they require parent helpers.

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’.

Students in the 1/2 composite class will be engaged in a unit that allows them to read, listen and interpret traditional and digital multimodal texts. Exploring the langugage features and text structures of procedural texts in imaginative and informative contexts. Content will be targettted at both a year 1 and 2 level. 

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.

Students in the 1/2 composite class will be engaged in a unit that allows them to apply a variety of mathematical concepts in real-life, lifelike and purely mathematical situations. Content will be targettted at both a year 1 and 2 level. This understanding, fluency, problem solving and reasoning will allow students the opportunity to develop understanding of:

• Number and place value
• Using units of measure
• Data representation and interpretation
• Chance 

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.

Students in the 1/2 composite class will be engaged in a unit that allows them to understand and describe objects they encounter in everyday life, understanding how push and pull affects these. They will understand that science involves asking questions about and describing changes in the way an object moves, targetted at both a year 1 and year 2 level. 

HASS

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. 

Students in the 1/2 composite class will be engaged in a unit that allows them to understand different connections to places and how these can change overtime. Students will look at their family structure, connection to place and location. Location will also consider scale, such as personal, local, regional and national, content will be targettted at both a year 1 and 2 level. 

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.

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

Music

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. 

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

Drama

 ‘The Magic Beach’

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

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

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 Deb McPherson - dmcph10@eq.edu.au