Grade 1
Grade One Teachers for 2024 are:
1W - Siobhan Walkden 1OD - Karlee O'Donnell 1O/P - Karly O'Toole & Karen Plain 1G/P - Mandy Gladman & Karen Plain What's on in our week
Monday - Tuesday - Phys Ed, Performing Arts, Chinese Wednesday - Chinese, Art, Environmental Science Thursday - Art Friday - Assembly, Phys Ed, Performing Arts *Please check with class teachers for more specific timetable information. |
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grade 1 Curriculum
literacyreadingStudents at Grade 1 continue to develop their reading skills and decoding strategies using the Little Learners Love Literacy program.
We focus on specific phonemes and graphemes, along with appropriate reading strategies during Reading sessions. Students will be reading decodable readers that closely align with the Spelling and Phonics sequence they are learning in class. Supportive strategies that we will be focussing on include:
SpellingChildren will continue to focus on the sounds found in the Little Learners Love Literacy program.
We also continue to use Secret Stories to help children remember the rules for digraphs (2 letter sounds) and trigraphs (3 letter sounds). writingIn Writing we will have daily lessons on using the starting points, writing on dotted third lines and formation of our upper and lower case letters. Any practise at home would be great!
Throughout the year, students learn the components of writing a Recount, a Response, an Information Report, and a Narrative. Each week we will focus on specific grammar that is applicable to their Writing focus. speaking & listeningSpeaking, listening, negotiating, and taking turns to express ideas is an important part of learning in all curriculum areas at Maiden Gully Primary. In addition to this in Grade 1, Share-time is the chance for students to show or tell about special topics. This develops confidence in speaking to a larger audience.
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numeracymathematicsIn Grade 1, learning in Mathematics builds on each student’s prior learning and experiences. Students engage in a range of approaches to develop their understanding and fluency with concepts and processes by making connections, reasoning, problem-solving and practice.
Students employ mathematical strategies to solve problems as they:
Arrow reading interventionThe ARROW Program offers further support to our reading program for targeted students.
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integrated StudiesA feature of Grade 1 is exploring and learning about the world around us. We learn about our local community, but we begin with a look creating a happy classroom community and how we each contribute to this. We explore the social messages and imagination in Fairytales. The world around us is full of science and in Grade 1, we learn about Push and Pull forces, Non-living and Living things and how they survive, their habitats and life cycles.
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Grade 1 extra-curricular highlightsThere are many special events for our Grade 1 students to look forward to during the year.
The Fairytale Parade, Spelling Bee and the Prep/One Games Afternoon are several favourites, as well as excursions. On the sporting calendar, the House Athletics and Cross Country are a great opportunity for students to get involved in House spirit. On the performing arts stage, we can't go past the Easter Hat Parade or the Junior School Concert. |
Wellbeing
At Maiden Gully Primary School, we believe that Wellbeing begins with relationships and getting to know each other both individually and as members of a group.
Students participate in three wellbeing programs, The Resilience, Rights and Respectful Relationships program, Play is the way program and the Smiling Minds program.
The RRRR learning materials are designed to develop students' social, emotional and positive relationship skills.
Play is the way is a practical methodology for teaching social and emotional skills using guided play, classroom activities and an empowering language. It is a process that gives students a way to develop, improve and entrench the personal and social capabilities. Smiling Minds is a life-long, evidence-based tool to deliver the essential mental fitness skills needed to underpin good mental health and resilience from an early age.
Students participate in three wellbeing programs, The Resilience, Rights and Respectful Relationships program, Play is the way program and the Smiling Minds program.
The RRRR learning materials are designed to develop students' social, emotional and positive relationship skills.
Play is the way is a practical methodology for teaching social and emotional skills using guided play, classroom activities and an empowering language. It is a process that gives students a way to develop, improve and entrench the personal and social capabilities. Smiling Minds is a life-long, evidence-based tool to deliver the essential mental fitness skills needed to underpin good mental health and resilience from an early age.
hOme Partnership
Daily Home readingAll students at Maiden Gully Primary are required to read 5 times a week at home and parents need to sign their yellow reader diaries each night.
Independent Home Reading Goals that focus on the areas of Accuracy and Fluency are stapled into student diaries. We encourage parents to support these goals when reading each night at home. Other learning goals related to comprehension and exploring and building vocabulary are focussed on more in the classroom. COMmunicationThe Compass Parent Portal is one of our major communication methods between Teachers and Parent/Carers. Please check your child’s profile regularly for any updates.
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Numeracy at Home:The parents role in helping to point out maths in everyday life is crucial to early learners seeing themselves as capable mathematicians. How can you help?
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