Curriculum Overview
Year 1 / Term 3 / 2015
Mathematics
•Text: Maths Plus 1
•Targeting Maths Mentals 1 Working Mathematically in the strands:
Number-100 Chart patterns
Numbers to 1000 & place value
Addition algorithms
Subtraction
Fractions- quarters and half of a collection
Number facts
Linking addition and subtraction
Patterns & Algebra-
Number patterns
Build number facts
Multiplication
Measurement:
Length- centimetres and metres
Area
Time- Clocks
Space & Geometry
3D objects
2D angles / English
•Talking & Listening and Writing centred around the themes:
Winter, Food, the Need for Shelter
Celebrations: Father’s Day
•Text types: Poetry, Recount
•Spelling - Topic and high frequency words, word families and affixes
•Grammar – related to the text types being written
•Handwriting – Text: Targeting Handwriting Book 1 Letters associated with Spelling phoneme focus
•Reading
-Individual home readers
-Individual reading workcards (Yellow Box)
-Reading Groups Flying Colours (ability)
•Phonics - THRASS chart work linked to spelling / Creative Arts
•Father’s Day,
•Performing at Bathurst Eisteddfod
•Art work related to the themes: The Need for Shelter
•Winter
Science
Themes:
A Place in Time - Winter Students investigate the climate during winter, study why we have seasons and how the environment is affected.
Look! Listen! Provides opportunities for students to investigate sources of light and sound, how they are produced and how light and sound travel. Students’ understanding of the role of light and sound in our lives and our community will be developed through hands-on activities. Through investigations, students explore why we have two eyes instead of one. / Human Society and its Environment
Themes:
Celebrations- Father’s Day
This unit provides opportunities for students to explore the customs and practices associated with celebrations. The unit focuses on what celebrations mean to people, and the similarities and differences in the ways people celebrate.
The Need for Shelter
This unit provides opportunities for students to explore the need of people and other living things for shelter, and how built and natural environments can provide this. The unit focuses on the students’ local area and safety needs in familiar environments.
In this unit, students learn about:
- everyday words for location, position and direction
- uses of places in the local area
- natural, built and heritage features in the immediate environment and in other areas
- adaptations to environments to meet needschanges to the immediate environment as a result of meeting needs.
Peer Support Program
Class Assemblies
Weekly PE lessons
Infants Sport
Weekly Chapel services
Christian Studies