1 | Page Holy Spirit School Year One Parent Information Booklet 2019 Vision Statement Holy Spirit Catholic Primary School is committed to the pursuit of Christian Truth and Excellence. All members of the school community are encouraged to develop their true potential and special qualities in an environment centred on Christ. Principal: Mr Steve Versteegen Assistant Principal: Mrs Natalie Sims Teacher: Miss Annetta Priolo Education Assistants in Year One: Mrs Connie Spinelli Mrs Jane Parker Miss Aley Mechant Miss Bernadette Flynn
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Holy Spirit School
Year One
Parent Information Booklet 2019
Vision Statement Holy Spirit Catholic Primary School is committed to the pursuit of Christian
Truth and Excellence. All members of the school community are encouraged to develop their true potential and special qualities in an environment centred on Christ.
Principal: Mr Steve Versteegen Assistant Principal: Mrs Natalie Sims
Teacher: Miss Annetta Priolo Education Assistants in Year One: Mrs Connie Spinelli
Mrs Jane Parker Miss Aley Mechant Miss Bernadette Flynn
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Year 1, 2019
Parent Information Evening
School Prayer
O God, who has taught the heart of the faithful, by the light of the Holy Spirit, grant that by the gifts of the same Spirit, that we may be always truly wise and ever rejoice in his happiness. Amen
Welcome to Year One, Term One! This year your child’s learning journey will be diverse, challenging and rewarding. You will be working with talented and dedicated staff at Holy Spirit School. It has been wonderful to see how the children have enthusiastically commenced each day. They have settled in well to their start of Year One. I am looking forward to spending a wonderful and exciting year with them. The following is a summary that highlights the academic program for this coming term: Learning Areas in 2019 Religious Education Religious Education is an integral part of our daily school activity. All children in the school community are encouraged to develop to their full potential and their special qualities, in an environment that is centred on Christian values. Religious Education is taught as a subject and is the underlying principle of our Christian faith. Catholic schools follow the W.A Catholic Education guidelines. Our religious guidelines for this term are as follows:
Loving Others – (Jesus) This Religious Education unit introduces the children to the many ways they use their bodies, including their senses. The children will be invited to wonder about their bodies and wonder about God, who created the human body and that God loves each and every one of them. The children will be introduced to the ways Jesus showed his love for all people, including those who were sick and who had disabilities. Finally, the unit explores ways in which the children can use their bodies to show love.
Growing and Changing – (Eucharist) This Religious Education unit will explore God who represents love and Christian life. These are gifts from God. Jesus gave his friends the Eucharist, to help them say thank you, to all God’s gifts, including the gift of life. Jesus wants us to use these gifts he gave us to care for others.
A Special Holy Time – (Lent/ Easter) This Religious Education unit begins with wondering about the human experience of new life and what it brings. The unit explores how Jesus’ story teaches people about new life and how to love, share and care for others. Jesus’ death and Resurrection teaches us his followers, about God’s love and that Jesus was raised to a new life. Ash Wednesday Mass: 6th March at 9am in the Church Year One Liturgy: 4th April at 9am in the Church
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English The English Curriculum is built around the three interrelated strands, Language, Literature and Literacy. Together the three strands, focus on developing students’ knowledge, understanding and skills in listening, reading, viewing, speaking, writing and creating. Spelling The whole school uses the resource called Sound Waves to support our spelling program. Sound Waves is a word study program, designed to develop reading, spelling and writing skills through phonemic awareness. Phonemic awareness is the knowledge and understanding of sounds in our language. The Sound Waves program also includes activities on grammar, prefixes and suffixes. - Explore phonemes: smallest unit of sound in a word. - Identify graphemes: the letter or letter combinations used to represent the sound. - Develop awareness of spelling patterns - Segment words into their component sounds - Relationship between letters, sounds and words
Sounds for this term include: Week 1 getting started, revision Week 2 b as in balloon Week 3 a as in apple Week 4 k as in kite Week 5 e as in egg Week 6 d as in duck Week 7 I as in igloo Week 8 f as in fish Week 9 o as in orange Week 10 g as in girl
For access to the student online page and spelling activities: www.soundwaveskids.com.au Password: ship101
Grammar Grammar provides the building blocks for children to understand and express themselves. When children increase their language complexity (with word endings, or longer/more complex sentences), they can express and understand more complicated ideas. Grammar features within both our spoken and written communication and allows us to have our messages clearly understood. Writing The children will be involved in a variety of writing activities, to develop early literacy skills.
- Writing from left to right - Use capital letters at the beginning of a sentence - Use full stops at the end a sentence - Correctly form all upper and lower case letters - Handwriting - Correct pencil grip - Provide details about ideas or events
Reading The children will be involved in a variety of reading activities to develop their knowledge and skills when reading.
- Holds book correct way and turns pages correctly from front to back
- Maintains correct, one to one, matching spoken words and printed words
- Recognises high frequency words in the text
- Use picture information
- Demonstrates understanding of letter sound relationships
- Begins to process text by pausing, repeating and rereading using picture information
Mathematics The iMaths progam immerses students in relevant real life maths investigations and tasks. The highly motivated and engaging investigations, will allow allow students to apply and practise their knowledge of maths concepts. The iMaths investigations and tasks build and develop the student’s understanding of the maths concepts. It will also improve their mathematical fluency and problem solving skills. The text also provides real-life contexts, in which the children can develop higher-order reasoning. The three content strands in Mathematics include: Number and Algebra, Measurement and Geometry and Statistics and Probability. Mathematics guidelines for this term in Number and Algebra, will include:
- Develop confidence with number sequences from one 100 - Recognise and model numbers - Read and write numbers - Order numbers to 100 - Count collections to 100 - Place value to 100 - Locate numbers on a number line - Represent and solve simple addition problems - Represent and solve simple subtraction problems
Mathletics Online The maths online learning program ‘Mathletics’ will also be used and is linked to the curriculum. Mathletics is a captivating, safe learning, online educational website, specialising in the improvement of mathematical literacy. The Mathletics program combines targeted and adaptive mathematics curriculum content, with structured and interactive support, plus engaging gaming and rewards. The ‘Mathletics’ online mathematical program, is also used as a support tool and a learning resource. If you would like your child to complete some fun mathematical activities, the Mathletics program uses play as a way, to encourage students to enjoy and improve their number skills. The Mathletics website can be found at www.mathletics.com.au The app called Mathletics can also be downloaded from the app store, (if using an ipad). Each child has their own username and password which is located at the front of their homework book. Incursion: Start Smart Banking Incursion – Thursday 7th March The Start Smart Primary program presented by the Commonwealth Bank, teaches money saving skills in a way that students can understand and enjoy. With also a brief introduction to Australian money, notes, coins and saving strategies.
Science Primary Connections provides an inquiry based approach. This helps students develop their learning of Science and guides them to find scientific ways to answer their Science investigations. It is based on an inquiry orientated teaching and learning model. Students use their prior knowledge to develop explanations for their hands-on experiences of scientific phenomena. They will be actively engaged in the learning process. Students develop scientific investigations skills and an understanding of the nature of science.
Teaching and learning progresses through five phases: Engage, Explore, Explain, Elaborate and Evaluate. These five phases of the Primary Connections teaching and learning model are based on the 5Es instructional model (Bybee, 1997). Physical Science: Look and Listen This unit provides opportunities to investigate sources of light and sound. We will investigate how they are produced and how light and sound travel. Students’ will understand the role of light and sound in our lives and our community. They will learn this through hands on activities. Incursion: Nitro Mike Science Show – Thursday 7th March The Nitro Mike Liquid Nitrogen Science Show, is filled with many Science experiments using liquid nitrogen. The show is aligned with the Science school curriculum. Nitro Mike will discuss the scientific properties of nitrogen and cover other learning areas including: - Properties of materials - Solids, liquids and gases - How materials change when warmed and cooled. - Investigate how liquids and solids respond to changes in temperature.
Health Friendology URSTRONG program URSTRONG is an internationally recognised friendship program that empowers children in Year One to Year Six with the skills, language and self-confidence to be better friends and develop healthier relationships. The skills-based program teaches girls and boys how to put a voice to their feelings, create healthy friendships and build a solid foundation for future relationships. The topics are centred on the following key concepts:
1. How to make friends
2. How to be a great friend
3. How to put out friendship fires
4. How to remember URSTRONG
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Humanities and Social Science History Throughout Term One the children will learn about the way of life of the first Australians - Aboriginal Australians. The children will be learning about ‘Present and Past Family Life.’ The children will be discovering different family structures and roles of each family member. The children will learn how these have changed over time or have remained the same. Incursion: The Time Detectives Discover How Things Have Changed In The Town of Cambridge Thursday 14th March A local history session looking at how things have changed over time, such as transport, early houses, school days, uniforms, childhood games. The children will view photographs of ‘then and now’ followed by hands-on-activities. Art The students will apply their ideas, skills and techniques to create artwork. They will share simple ideas with a specific audience, using some visual art elements, materials, techniques and technologies. This term the students will produce artwork, using shape, line, space, texture and explore the use of space. The students will create artwork exploring and experimenting with simple technique. They will also respond to artwork by expressing their own feelings or ideas. Digital Technlogy: Mrs Nicole Sanders Digital Technology lessons are held on Friday with Mrs Nicole Sanders This term children will use different devices beetbots, ipads and dash robots to:
- Explore digital systems (hardware and software components) - Recognise patterns in data (pictures, symbols and diagrams) - Follow a sequence of steps - Create simple algorithms
Library: Mrs Alison Wilmot Library book swap is on Monday with Mrs Alison Wilmot. Please help your child by reminding them to bring their books their library bag to school. Italian: Mrs Elena Cinini Italian lessons are held on Monday and Wednesday with Mrs Elena Cinini. This term, the children will learn how to introduce themselves using the Italian language. The children will give information in Italian about their name, age and favourite colour. Music / Singing: Mrs Eleanor Milne Music and singing lessons are held on Tuesday with Mrs Eleanor Milne. This term the Year One class will be exploring the difference between rhythm and beat through clapping and other body percussion, playing percussion instruments and moving to known songs. They will learn how to notate 1 or 2 sounds in a beat (i.e. ta’s and ti-ti’s or crotchets and quavers). Students will compare high and low pairs of notes, and demonstrate pitch matching by echo singing pitch patterns sung by the teacher. They will have the opportunity to listen and respond to famous pieces of classical music and identify the dynamics as loud or soft and the tempo as fast or slow. During the music class we will also be preparing hymns for the Year One Liturgy, Ash Wednesday Mass and the Easter liturgy.
Physical Education: Ms Jodi Newton Physical Education skill lessons are held on Wednesday with Ms Jodi Newton. During this hot term the children will try to keep cool, whilst focusing on fundamental movement skills and various modes of locomotion. These will be embedded within fun games, which highlight awareness of space, safety and positive sportsmanship. Mindful meditation and stretching will occur within the hall on very hot days. During some weeks the children will work on large ball control, throwing and tracking. Special funding from Sporting Schools, has enabled Holy Spirit to book a coach from Bowling Australia to run a short bowling program which will start in week 2 & 3. As a reminder, our Junior Primary swim lessons at Haleswim, will be conducted during Term Four. Year 1 and Year 2 will show case their aquatic skills and development on the final swimming lesson of this program. In addition, the children may participate in a variety of fitness activities in the morning. Classroom Policy / Behaviour Management All children are expected to show courtesy and respect of themselves and others at all times. Children are expected to be responsible and accountable for their own actions and behaviour. This will keep our learning environment within the classroom happy, safe and fair. There are positive rewards for children who follow class rules and school rules. There are also consequences for those children who do not. Year One Class Rules 1. Raise your hand if you would like to speak
2. Listen carefully and be polite to others
3. Take turns
4. Always try your best
5. Respect ourselves and others in our words and actions
Golden Tickets At Holy Spirit School, we believe that in focusing on positive behaviours, children will be empowered with the ability to accept responsibility for their own actions. The school introduced a school system where children are rewarded with a ‘Golden Ticket.’ They achieve this when they display; Christian values, positive social skills, good manners and follow the school rules. The ‘Golden Tickets’ will come home for parents to sign and celebrate their child’s positive behaviour. Homework Bags * Please ensure the homework bag comes to school each day and comes home each night. * Please check your child’s homework bag each day. Messages and notes will be in their homework bag. * Please encourage your child to keep the homework book in the homework bag. * Ensure your child brings this homework book to school every Monday to glue in the news plan sheet. * Homework items are given every Monday.
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Homework Policy Students in Year One will receive approximately 15 minutes homework each night. All homework is designed to: * Deepen the students learning and understanding of a particular concept. * Foster independent study and develop time management. * Develop organizational habits and skills for later education. Homework in Year One will commence in week 3. Term One homework will consist of the following: 1. Home Reading Oral reading each night to improve fluency and comprehension skills. Children will be given home reading books each Monday to read over the week. Children are encouraged to read their books more than once throughout the week. Parents are requested to sign their child’s reading log. Reading logs are checked every Monday when the reading books are changed. Please return reading books to school every MONDAY for book change. 2. Sight Words Sight words (high frequency words) are commonly used words that young children are encouraged to memorize as a whole by sight, so that they can automatically recognise these words in print without having to use any strategies to decode. Sight words will be given every Monday, these words need to be practiced daily. Sight words account for a large percentage of the words used in beginning children's print materials. The advantage for children being able to recognize sight words automatically is that a beginning reader will be able to identify the majority of words in a beginning text before they even attempt to read it. This allows the child to concentrate on the meaning and comprehension without having to stop and decode every single word. Recognising sight words automatically is said to be advantageous for beginning readers. 3. Class News The children will be involved in re-telling events and experiences with their peers. This will enable the children to retell, explain and share news. (News on even weeks 2, 4, 6, 8, 10). Please help your child complete the news planning sheet in the homework book and bring the homework book to school on your child’s news day.
Communication Between Parent/Teacher If there is an issue you would like to discuss, such as your child’s progress, please come and see me personally. You are welcome to come and see me in the morning before school 8:00-8:30am or in the afternoon after school from 3:10pm. If the matter is urgent please see me in the morning. Communication is best spoken face to face. However, should you wish to contact me by email, please send brief emails to: [email protected] If it is an important and lengthy matter, please make an appointment to see me, either before school or after school. Parent/teacher meetings are an important means of discussing your child’s progress. This is the most effective way to discuss any concerns you may have. As I am unable to read emails during the day, please send urgent communication / absentees emails to Mary. Please be advised that emails can be unreliable for immediate attention, due to teaching requirements, recess or lunch duties and other meeting commitments.
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Alternatively, if you wish you are also welcome to write me a note and place it on the desk, to inform me of an event during the day, request a meeting, or to explain that your child will be leaving early/coming late to school. Classroom Organisation Each child is required to maintain a tidy desk and the surrounding area. They are also required to be responsible for their homework and materials needed each day. Reminders maybe needed to help your child achieve these requirements. By allowing your child to take responsibility for these daily activities, you are helping to foster their independence. Before the bell goes each morning, the children are expected to follow a ‘Morning Routine’ which is on a chart in the classroom. Absentees If your child is absent from school please email Mary in administration or complete a student absence notification form. They are available at the back of classroom. Icy Pole Friday If you wish for your child to have an icy pole on Friday please bring $1 to school in your child’s school bag. (Please place the money in the zip pocket in the school bag). The children are dismissed after eating lunch on Friday to collect their icy pole at the hall. School Bell Times First bell classroom is opened: 8:30am Start of school: 8:50am Recess: 10:40am to 11am Lunch: 12:45pm to 1:25pm End of school: 3:10pm Children may be picked up outside the classroom or from kiss-and-drive along Bent Street. Children will be supervised on the oval until 3:25pm. There after they are required to wait at the school office. The Holy Spirit kiss-and-drive system is designed to ensure children and families are safe at all times. This has been done to minimise the impact on school neighbours and to enable families to collect children as efficiently as possible. The designated kiss-and drive zone is located on Bent Street and is in place for morning drop off and afternoon pickup. Education Assistants in Year One: Mrs Connie Spinelli – Monday and Friday Mrs Jane Parker – Tuesday and Wednesday Miss Aley Mechant –Thursday Miss Bernadette Flynn – Tuesday Important Dates: 11th February Parent night PP, Yr1, Yr2, Yr3 at 7pm 12th February Parent night Yr4, Yr5, Yr6 at 7pm 4th March Labour Day Public Holiday 5th March Senior Guild Swimming Carnival (Yr3-6) 6th March Ash Wednesday Whole School Mass 7th March Year One Science Incursion by Nitro Mike 7th March Year One Start Smart Banking Incursion 14th March Year One History Incursion The Time Detectives 21st March Harmony Day 4th April Year One Liturgy at 9am in the Church 4th April Open afternoon in classroom (3:10pm -3:40pm
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5th April Open morning in classroom (8:20am-8:50am) 8th April Interschool Swimming Carnival HBF Stadium (Yr3-6) 10th April Three Way Interviews from 12:30pm 11th April Easter Liturgy at 9am in the Church 12th April Last day of term
Holy Spirit School Policies Hat Please ensure that your child wears their school hat each day. All children need to wear a hat if they are playing outside. Uniform Please ensure your child wears the correct school uniform, in particular shoes, jewellery and hair styles. All clothing and possessions such as hat, bags and jumpers must be clearly marked with your child’s name. Years One and Two wear their sports uniform on Wednesdays and Fridays. Years Three to Six wear their sports uniform on Tuesdays and Fridays. Duty of Care All students in Years One to Six are supervised during their recess and lunch break by the teacher on duty. Students’ In/Out Policy All students arriving at school after 8.50am are required to be signed in at the front office. All students leaving the school grounds before 3.10pm are required to be signed out at the front office. Parents picking students up must report to the office first and be given a slip to give to the teacher before students are released. Communication Newsletters will now be on a fortnightly basis (Tuesdays). The Skool bag app has been replaced by SEQTA Engage. All parents should have a login to enable them to access messages, school reports, class pages and have interaction with this site. Holy Spirit has a Facebook Page found at- https://www.facebook.com/holyspiritprimaryschoolcitybeach We would love for you to like the page and follow the good news stories. It is essential that for communication purposes, the front office have up-to-date information, including emergency contacts. Whole School Discipline Wherever possible students are recognised for positive behaviours. Innovations such as the golden ticket, kindness tree and others support this. Disrespectful and disruptive behaviour is usually dealt with time out at recess or lunch. Parents are notified if this behaviour is repeated. All students, in an environment of dignity and respect have to the right to learn, be safe and belong. Staff Professional Development Days This takes place on the first Monday of every term, with others planned for the end of the year.
Banking Every Wednesday is Commonwealth Banking Day. Please ensure your child bring his or her bank book on this day. Kiss and Drive Parents are to pull up to the first available yellow bay in the kiss and drive. This is a constantly moving line of traffic. As each car leaves the kiss and drive zone, all vehicles move forward slowly and carefully to the yellow pick up zone. Please minimise big gaps between cars and keep alert for children crossing at all times. Absences If your child is away, please inform Mary at the front office. For legal purposes, it is a requirement that we have either an email or note upon your child’s return to school for the period that your child was absent from school and the reason. Allergy Aware Anaphylaxis is a severe, rapidly progressive allergic reaction that is potentially life threatening. The school has a number of students with allergies to various foods. For this reason, the school is promoting being ‘Nut Aware/Allergy Aware’. Children are not to share food with anyone and should wash their hands before and after eating, your support with this important issue is greatly appreciated. Accidents/Injuries Should your child be involved in an accident at school which warrants medical attention, parents or the nominated emergency contact person will be contacted at home or work. In the event that immediate attention is required, a staff member will access the appropriate medical support and the parent is contacted as soon as possible. It is Holy Spirit School policy that a parent is contacted if children receive a knock to the head, even if no apparent injury has been sustained. Holding Hands – Child Protection Curriculum In Term 3, all students participate in the Holding Hands Protective Behaviour program. Protective Behaviours is an internationally acclaimed personal safety and child abuse prevention program endorsed by the Department of Education in Western Australia. The program is based on two themes; “We all have the right to feel safe at all times” and “We can talk with someone about anything no matter what it is”. I look forward to working with all the Year One parents and their children this year.
