What’s Happening in Grade 1 in Term 1 2026
In Literacy students will be:
- listening to fables and discussing the characters, plot, setting and moral.
- identifying nouns, pronouns and verbs and using them accurately when forming sentences.
- learning to use boundary punction correctly when forming sentences.
- participating in daily formal handwriting sessions learning how to form letters correctly and how to correctly hold a pencil.
- engaging in daily activities that involve manipulating sounds and forming words.
- revising consonant digraphs (ch, sh, th, ng, wh, ck) and blending words that contain 5- 6 sounds.
- learning to use their letter sound knowledge to blend the sounds together to read words and sentences.
- building fluency by reading decodable passages connected to the sounds we have learnt.
- developing their abilities to comprehend different types of Fiction and Non-Fiction texts.
In Mathematics students will be:
- practising automatic recall of Number Knowledge up to 10. (combinations, numbers before and after and how many more to 10)
- representing numbers using base ten blocks (MAB).
- recognising, ordering, and representing numbers to 120.
- partitioning two-digit numbers and writing number bonds.
- representing two-digit numbers with materials.
- partitioning numbers to ten into two and three parts.
- subitising to identify parts of numbers to ten.
- recording data with tally marks.
- identifying categories for gathering data.
- interpreting data. (tally marks)
- collecting, recording and reporting data with picture graphs.
- locating numbers to 100 on a chart and a number line.
In Inquiry students will be:
- further developing their knowledge of Fables and stories through a play-based approach.
- further developing their knowledge of Ancient Mesopotamia and comprehension of Non-Fiction texts.
- identifying what personal information is and understanding the importance of keeping this information private online.
- developing an understanding of the purpose of the internet and other information and communications-based technologies.
In Wellbeing students will be:
WeWe will be using the Respectful Relationships program to focus on emotional literacy.
Students will engage in lessons looking at:
- recognising and identifying their own emotions.
- responding appropriately to the emotions of others.
- using smiling minds as a tool to support students in understanding and connecting with their emotions.
- regulating their emotional responses when expressing opinions, values, and choices.
There will be a continued focus on our SWPBS Expectations as outlined in our whole school matrix.