Oakhill Drive Public School
Stage 1 (Year 1 and Year 2) Areas of Focus
Term 1 2014
The focus areas listed below will be targeted in all Stage 1 classes during the term.
Content has been jointly identified by the Year 1 and Year 2 teachers from the NSW
Board of Studies Syllabuses and our school’s scope and sequence documents. It will
enable consistency in programming and planning to occur across all Stage 1
classrooms.
ENGLISH
(‘New’ Syllabus)
Parents are invited to refer to the ‘Stage Statement’ for Stage 1 English, located on
the Board of Studies website via this link:
http://syllabus.bos.nsw.edu.au/stage-1-stage-statements/
This statement provides a guide to learning content over two school years.
English Syllabus Content Areas for Stage 1:
 Speaking & Listening
 Writing & Representing
 Handwriting & Using Digital Technologies
 Reading & Viewing
 Spelling
 Responding & Composing
 Grammar, Punctuation & Vocabulary
 Thinking Imaginatively and Creatively
 Expressing Themselves
 Reflecting On Learning
Stage 1 Term 1 English Unit – ‘Identity’
Overview - In this unit, students learn to analyse and respond to texts, with a focus
on multimodal and visual literature. They explore the ways in which texts are
structured and presented in order to communicate ideas and influence viewers. They
make connections between texts and between their own experience and information
in texts. The students will explore the English concept of ‘characterisation’ when
reading, viewing listening to and writing a variety of traditional and fractured fairy
tales during the course of this unit of work.
All students will continue to develop their reading and writing skills by working in
groups to enable teaching to be targeted at the appropriate level of the students.
Spelling and handwriting will be taught each week and related to the unit when
possible.
MATHEMATICS
(2002 Syllabus)
Students will be learning to:
Number
Patterns & Algebra
Measurement
Space and Geometry
Read, order and represent two-digit and three-digit
numbers
- Model addition and subtraction using concrete
materials
- Develop a range of mental strategies and informal
recording methods for addition and subtraction
- Record number sentences using drawings, numerals,
symbols and words
Indicate chance by ordering events and assigning
numerical value to likelihood
Not addressed in Term 1
- Use informal units to estimate and measure length
and distance
- Compare and order 2 or more lengths
- Recognise the need for metres and centimetres,
and use them to estimate and measure length and
distance
- Use appropriate informal units to estimate and
measure volume and capacity
- Compare and order the capacities of two or more
containers and the volumes of two or more models or
objects
- Identify, name, compare and represent hexagons,
rhombuses and trapeziums
- Name, describe, sort and model cones, cubes,
cylinders, spheres and prisms
- Recognise three-dimensional objects in pictures
and the environment, and presented in different
orientations
Data
- Gather and record data using tally marks
- Display the data using concrete materials and
pictorial representations
Working Mathematically
Ask questions to clarify
mathematical terminology
understanding
using
HSIE (Human Society & Its Environment)
Celebrations (Year 1)
No HSIE unit in Year 2 in
Term 1
Students will be learning to:
 Understand the concept of celebrations
 Identify the origins of important days and
events celebrated in Australian society.
 Explore events celebrated in other cultures
and countries, including Indigenous
Australians.
SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY
The Five Senses (Year 1)
Water
Year 1 students will be learning to:
 Recognise the five senses.
 Investigate ways that the senses help us to
communicate and
 Understand the difficulty in communicating
with people who do not have full use of their
five senses.
Year 2 students will be learning to:
 Develop an understanding of, and appreciation
for, a precious natural resource.
 Investigate to explore how water is used,
where water comes from and how to use it
responsibly, through investigations
CREATIVE ARTS
Music
Year 1 students will be learning to:
 Perform a variety of music through
singing , playing and moving
 Listen to and respond to a variety of
music
Year 2 students will be learning to:
 Organise sound through listening,
performing and notating using a symbol
system
 Identify simple features of music as they
learn to play the recorder
PERSONAL DEVELOPMENT, HEALTH & PHYSICAL EDUCATION
Personal Development
Health
Physical Education
Child Protection
School Swimming Carnival
Daily ‘Crunch ‘n Sip’
Fundamental Movement Skills
Year 1: catch, sprint, hop, side gallop
Year 2: overarm throw, side gallop, modified
games
LIBRARY PROGRAM
Activities will include borrowing, reading for
Premier’s Reading Challenge and learning word
processing computer skills, with tasks linked to
Science unit.
SPECIAL EVENTS Please check the school newsletter for updates!
Week 4
Week 5
Week 6
Week 9
Meet the Teachers Evening
Bravehearts
School Photos
Harmony Day
2014 Stage 1 Team:
Elizabeth Smart (Assistant Principal),
Kathy Bradey, Gretchen Bowry, Helen Kirkaldy, Jill Mahony– Year 1 Teachers
Judy Dixon, Kath Berryman, Jenny McMunnigall, Carol Pease, Scott Osborne –
Year 2 Teachers