What’s Happening in Grade 1 in Term 3 2026

Important Dates:

• Curriculum day: Friday 21^st July
• Swimming: Tuesday 4^th-Friday 14^th of August
• Father’s Day stall: Week 8 (Beginning of September)
• Celebration week: Week 10 (Last week of Term 3)

In Literacy students will be:

• Identifying and defining proper and common nouns.
• Identifying and defining adverbs.
• Using adverbs correctly when forming sentences. (e.g. measure carefully, smile cheerfully).
• Defining pronouns and using them correctly within a sentence. (e.g. I, you, she, they, it, we, him, her, it, us.)
• Using conjunctives to combine two sentences. (e.g. and, but, so, because.)
• Learning to use boundary punctuation correctly when forming sentences.
• Identifying fragments and converting them into complete 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.
• 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.
• Understanding the structure of an information text.
• Developing simple information texts about a chosen topic.

In Mathematics students will be:

• Sharing collections into equal groups.
• Sharing collections into 2 groups and finding half.
• Learning to use sharing to solve problems.
• Identifying how many groups in a collection and skip counting to find the total.
• Skip counting by 2s, 5s and 10s.
• Creating skip counting patterns in 2s, 5s and 10s.
• Making multiple groups of the same amount.
• Recognising, and continuing three-part repeating patterns.
• Creating repeating patterns using shapes.
• Using suitable informal units of measurement for length of objects.
• Predict, check and compare the length of objects and shapes using informal units of measurement.

In Inquiry students will be:

Engaging in the following units through a play-based approach, investigations and crafts:

• Ancient Egypt.
• The Human Body.
• Changing Families.

In Wellbeing students will be:

We will be using the Respectful Relationships program to focus on positive coping, We will be using the Respectful Relationships program to focus on positive coping, gender identity and positive gender relations.

Students will engage in lessons looking at:

How to seek and ask for help.

Practicing techniques to deal with felling stressed .

How to make new friends.

There will be a continued focus on our SWPBS Expectations as outlined in our whole school matrix.