Year One’s Learning Journey Term 3 2025

English

This term, Year 1 has been expanding their knowledge of sentence writing by using our knowledge of sentences to create simple informative texts. We have also been exploring adjectives, and how they make our writing more interesting. 

We are using a variety of strategies to help us to encode and decode words. During our reading, we have practiced paired fluency routines, which has seen all of us grow as readers. 

Our shared texts have been rich in vocabulary, where we have explored words such as delectable, united and flounder. Some of our favourite books have been Girraffe’s Can’t Dance, Blossom Possum and Edwina the Emu.

Mathematics 

Our learners have become very confident in creating number bonds, finding missing numbers on number lines and telling the time on digital and analogue clocks. We have been measuring using informal units, learnt a variety of strategies when adding and subtracting numbers including bridging. Students are becoming very fluent with fact families and using mental strategies to solve problems. We have excelled at representing numbers using base ten blocks and at creating repeating patterns.

Religious Education

During Religious Education, we have been exploring how people of faith make a difference in their community. 

This week we attended Mass at St Bernard’s Church, where we saw how communities come together to celebrate! 

This has included learning about being called, missions and the actions that people take when they are called. We look forward to looking towards our local community to see how people enact their faith, with some very exciting visitors looking at coming to talk with us in Week 7.

Visual Arts

Each of our art lessons has centred on our weekly text. We have been learning about blending, collage, contrast, texture and space whilst creating amazing animal pictures to compliment our learning for Storyline.

Storyline

Our Storyline unit has centred on learning about animals, their needs and their habitats. We have explored the role of a zoologist, discussed the needs of animals in different locations and considered what features animals have and why these are important. We are very excited to be learning about how to care for a special animal, and can’t wait to welcome you into our classroom to share our learning in Week 10. 

iCentre

Each week we go to the Library to borrow books, this is a fantastic way for us to build our love of reading and to enrich our minds. We also spend time learning how to type and navigate a variety of tools in Microsoft Powerpoint. We are very quick at logging in now, and we can add a new slide, type text, change font and we are learning to insert pictures. Aren’t we clever!

Mrs Rebecca Keough, Mrs Ella Mitchell, Mrs Melissa Reed, Mrs Laura Canning & Ms Alyssa McRae

Year 1 Team