Curriculum Overview
In Year 1, our students are provided with opportunities to continue to develop the knowledge, understanding and skills achieved in Prep. Throughout the year, students are encouraged to make connections from personal experiences to the world around us.
Year 1 students explore the following subjects/topics:
- English: Students will engage with a variety of texts for enjoyment. They will listen to, read, view and interpret spoken, written and multimodal texts designed to entertain and inform. The texts explored will encompass traditional oral texts including Aboriginal stories, picture books, various types of stories, rhyming verse, poetry, non-fiction, film, dramatic performances and texts used by students as models for constructing their own texts.
- Mathematics: Students will connect names, numerals and quantities, partition numbers in various ways, count in sequences forwards and backwards, locate numbers on a line and name the days of the week, use materials to model authentic problems, give and receive directions to unfamiliar places, use familiar counting sequences to solve unfamiliar problems.
- Science: Students will infer simple cause-and-effect relationships from their observations and experiences, and begin to link events and phenomena with observable effects and to ask questions. They will observe changes that can be large or small and happen quickly or slowly. Students will explore the properties of familiar objects and phenomena, identifying similarities and differences. They will begin to value counting as a means of comparing observations, and are introduced to ways of organising their observations.
- HASS: Students will have opportunities to explore how changes occur over time in relation to themselves, their own families, and the places they and others belong to. They will examine their daily family life and how it is the same as and different to previous generations. Students will investigate their place and other places, their natural, managed and constructed features, and the activities located in them. They will explore daily and seasonal weather patterns and how different groups describe them. Students will anticipate near future events such as personal milestones and seasons. The idea of active citizenship is introduced students explore family roles and responsibilities and ways people care for places.
- Technologies: Students
will explore and investigate technologies − materials, systems, components,
tools and equipment − including their purpose and how they meet personal and
social needs within local settings. They will develop an understanding of how
society and environmental sustainability factors influence design and
technologies decisions. Students will evaluate designed solutions and consider
their impact of decisions and technologies on others and the environment. They
will learn about common digital systems and patterns that exist within data
they collect. Students will organise, manipulate and present data in creative
ways to create meaning.
Term Overviews
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