23 Mar 2018

Yr1 Curriculum Update – 23/03/18

Working together to achieve success for every child

 

Greetings! – It’s our 15th edition!

We write a regular newsletter keeping you up-to-date and informed about your child’s learning. This will provide you with a good understanding of happenings in Year 1 and how you can support these learning experiences.

 

Let’s Inquire – Sharing the Planet

This week, the students have begun their new inquiry into the central idea, “People’s choices can help or harm the Earth.”  We have tuned in and learnt about waste and what it means to reduce, reuse and recycle.  At the beginning of the week, students collected our rubbish (apart from the smelly bits!) and had a look at what we had thrown away.  The children sorted the rubbish using their knowledge of materials.  Each class collected data from their investigation, recorded their results in a tally chart and created a block graph.  They then discussed how to reduce the amount that would be thrown away.

 

Students came up with lots of ideas including donating clothing to the Redress HK clothes drive, using bottles and plastic bags to create jellyfish art, using paper to make chatterboxes and collecting fruit and vegetables for compost.  Some of the remaining items, such as aluminum cans and paper that could not be reused, were identified as recyclable by the students.  Students will now continue to carefully separate items that we reused and recycled from the rubbish in our classrooms.

As our inquiry begins, students continue to use their research skills and make connections to what they already know, finding out facts and compiling their findings into non-fiction information books. The students have also been designed posters to remind their friends of the importance in reducing, reusing and recycling.

Within Maths, students continue to inquire into number, learning to solve open ended problems in different ways.  We have focused on the use mathematical language such as add, subtract, more, less, equal, same and balance. The concept of measurement has also been introduced this week. Student haves shared their ideas about what it means to measure and how it might be done.

 

No Hat – No Play

Commencing this week, we have begun a strict ‘no hat – no play’ policy.  Students that do not have a hat to wear in the playground will not be able to play with their friends.  The weather is getting warmer and the sun is beginning to shining brighter, therefore making it dangerous to expose children to sun without the protection offered by their hat.  The children’s safety and wellbeing is of the utmost importance to us.  Please ensure your child brings a hat to school, looks after it responsibly and brings it home at the end of the day.  If you need to purchase a new hat for your child, they are available from the PTA.  Please remember to write your child’s name and class clearly on the hat or the label inside.      

 

Monday 26th March

Trip to Discovery Bay Beach (North Plaza).  We are anticipating a sunny day!

Please ensure your children are wearing sunscreen, mosquito repellant, and a light long sleeved top.  All children will also need to wear a hat. 

Students will need a suitable snack in a reusable container, we do not want to throw away any rubbish at the beach.

Tuesday 27th March

Sports Day.  The event will begin at 9.15am and we should be finished by 11.00am. 

Friday 30th March

Easter Holiday Begins.  Please note that this is not a half day and school finishes at 2.45pm.

 

Photo Stories

We hope that the pictures we add to our curriculum update each week will help you to make connections to the information shared above and to give you an insight into our week in Year 1.