Welcome to Year 1 and our learning journey!

In Reading this year, we will be focusing on reading strategies to build on the students comprehension and reading fluency skills. We will learn how to make predictions about the stories we are reading, find the main idea in a text, learn about characters, setting and author's purpose of texts.

We will explore recounts during our Writing lessons, by thinking about the following question words: who, what, where, when, why and how. There will also been a strong focus on boundary punctuation, including full stops and capital letters, which will then lead into use of exclamation marks, question marks and commas. Students will learn how to write narratives, procedural texts, expositions, and persuasive texts through targeted Writing lessons. Students will also have a daily focus on Phonics and spelling through the DET Phonics Plus Program.

During Maths lessons, we will explore skip counting, friends of 10, patterns and hundreds charts throughout the year, as well as Measurement & Geometry and Statistics & Probability topics. Students will continue to have the opportunity to use various concrete materials (Unifix cubes, mini teddies, match sticks, counters etc) during lessons. They will also be exposed to many open-ended scenarios and questions to enhance their understanding and broaden their knowledge of a topic.  

The Year 1 Integrated Studies topics, include Health, Drama, Geography, Digital Technology and History.