At Sheldon College, Year One marks the commencement of learning within our Primary College. The learning environment of each Year One classroom is warm and nurturing, filled with Love, Laughter and Learning and ensures that students are provided with a safe and comforting start to their journey through the Primary College.
In Year One there is a strong focus placed upon developing a solid literacy and numeracy foundation, supporting each child’s social and emotional development and igniting a love of learning.
Students are provided with opportunities to learn through a range of hands-on experiences, small group activities, whole class explicit teaching and independent work with the support of our teachers and our exceptional Learning and Enrichment team. Each child in Year One is provided with an individual iPad that is used to complement face-to-face and paper based learning opportunities. Examples of how students use technology to enrich their learning in Year One include using the Green Screen to create images of imagined experiences such as trips into space and to theme parks to inspire creative writing. After exploring the natural and constructed features of a local parkland during an excursion students construct their own playgrounds using Sheldon College’s impressive Maker Space facilities, using Stop Motion photography to record the model playground in action, before writing persuasively about the need to care for parklands.
Throughout Year One students engage with learning in the following areas with their classroom teacher:
- English
- Mathematics
- Science
- Humanities and Social Sciences
- Geography
- History
- Visual Arts
- Pastoral Care
Specialist teachers support children in the following areas of their education:
- Technology
- Drama
- Library
- Music
- Health and Physical Education