Year 1/2 2026

Welcome To Term 1 2026!!!

Key Dates

Term One Overview

What's Happening In The Classroom

Literacy

In reading and writing, we place a strong focus on explicit, systematic instruction in core literacy skills. These include word-level reading, word-level spelling, oral reading fluency, handwriting and syntax. Using the latest research on evidence-based techniques, we will utilise a range of texts to model text comprehension and explicitly teach content vocabulary while building on students' subject/content knowledge. 

During the first half of the term, students will focus on developing their understanding of persuasive texts, with an emphasis on analysing language features and text structures. In the latter half of the term, the focus will shift to poetry and narrative writing, where students will explore various styles and techniques to enhance their creative expression. 

Sounds Write

Our daily Sounds-Write phonics program will help enhance students' reading and spelling abilities. As students advance through the year levels, they will apply, develop, and refine these essential skills in increasingly sophisticated ways. Through our Sounds Write Program, all students develop the following conceptual knowledge:

• Letters are symbols (spellings) that represent sounds.

• A sound may be spelled by 1,2,3 or 4 letters.

• The same sound can be spelled in more than one way (one sound- different spellings).

• Many spellings can represent more than one sound (one spelling - different sounds).

Students also build on the following skills:

• Blending- the ability to push sounds together to build words.

• Segmenting- the ability to pull apart the individual sounds in words.

• Phoneme Manipulation- the ability to insert sounds into and delete sounds out of words.

Syntax Project

Syntax will be explicitly and systematically taught within the context of writing, with a focus on how grammatical functions operate in both oral and written language. Students will learn how sentence structure, word order, and punctuation contribute to meaning and clarity in communication. Through modelled, guided, and independent writing tasks, they will apply their understanding of syntax to enhance sentence fluency, cohesion, and overall writing quality. 

Mathematics

In Mathematics, students engage in explicit teaching sessions alongside differentiated and open-ended learning activities designed to cater to a range of abilities. During Term 1, the focus areas include Number Patterns and Skip Counting, Measurement, Collecting and Recording Data, Time & Duration of Events. 

Integrated Studies

Science - “Rockpool Discovery”

Students will explore different creatures and plants that inhabit a rock pool environment. They will also be looking at the different features of a rockpool.

Science

Science - “Up, Down and All Around”

Our biological unit “Up, Down and All Around” will provide opportunities for our students to observe, record and investigate changes in our local environment.

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