Term One Overview
Dear Parents and Guardians,
Welcome to Term One, 2025.
This term, the Discovery Grade One Learning Community is focusing on imaginative and literary texts such as narratives. Students will be focusing on the features of a narrative, such as a title, a blurb, and characters and will be exposed to a range of vocabulary. Students will be exposed to a range of comprehension strategies, such as visualising, predicting, connecting, summarising and questioning. We will also start to look at different combinations of letters (consonant digraphs) and their phonemes, such as ‘sh’, ‘ch’, ‘wh’, and ‘ph’. The students will be taught how to use this knowledge to help them read, spell and write words.
At home, you can support your child by:
- encouraging them to participate in daily reading, either independently or with siblings and parents.
- asking your child to retell the important parts of a text, identifying who the main character is and where the story takes place.
- listening to your child read aloud and ensuring they are not reading too fast or too slow and are pausing at full stops.
- encourage your child to ask questions about words or things in the book or story that they don’t understand.
In Mathematics this term, the students will be focusing on the skills of displaying data, counting and placing value, money, addition, and subtraction. They will collect and record categorical data and compare and discuss data using tally frequencies. Students will regroup, partition, represent, compare and order two-digit numbers. They will count forward and backward from 0 – 120. They solve problems involving addition and subtraction of numbers up to 20 using tens frames, base -10 blocks, number bonds and materials.
At home, you can support your child by:
- practising counting forward and backward from different starting points.
- Identifying and reading larger numbers
- skip counting by twos, fives and tens from different starting points.
In Investigations, this term, we are going to explore the topic, ‘Emotive Me,’ focusing on the emotions that we may feel and experience. They will be exposed to alternative words for emotions and how these can be expressed non-verbally. Students will explore how honesty and kindness can influence others. Later in the term, we will be exploring the concept of Geography in our unit ‘Where do I live?’ They will identify the neighbourhood and significant features of the area, including rivers, shopping centres, parks, schools, and religious buildings. They will also discuss how places in the community can support people’s lives.
At home, you can support your child by:
- discussing your local neighbourhood
- asking your children questions about why it is important to have these places in the neighbourhood.
Our Discovery students have begun the term learning about the concept of prayer as we lay the foundation for spiritual connection and reflection. In the upcoming weeks, we will begin to explore the observance of Lent before preparing our students for the events of Holy Week and the celebration of Easter.
At home, you can support your child by:
- discussing the religious events that your child is a part of.
- discuss your religious traditions and events around the Easter season.
Specialist Timetable
All students are to wear their sports uniforms on Friday. The specialist classes that are scheduled for Fridays are Physical Education, Performing Arts, STEM and Visual Art.
If you have any queries or concerns, please contact your child’s teacher. We have provided emails below and will endeavour to respond between 8.30 am and 3.30 pm on school days.
Regards,
The Discovery (Grade One) Learning Community Team
Discovery 1 (Jessica): jessica.minniti@slweirviews.catholic.edu.au
Discovery 2 (Alison): alison.attard@slweirviews.catholic.edu.au
Discovery 3 (Charlene): charlene.zhou@slweirviews.catholic.edu.au
Discovery 4 (Rachel): rachel.wilson@slweirviews.catholic.edu.au