Learning Updates -
School of Wonder
Welcome back to a busy and exciting term
Welcome back for Term 2 at St Anne’s College.
We are excited to be able to welcome families back into learning spaces this term. It has been so nice to see morning reading taking place with family members and their children. I remind adults that reading is with your own children for the time being, and the music is our signal to finish up and for children to make their way to Pastoral Group spaces to begin their day.
Term 1 was an exciting one; very busy with lots of fabulous experiences and successes. This term we continue our learning journey.
Foundation, Year 1, Year 2
‘To see through the eyes of another.’
Children will be exploring the transdisciplinary theme of ‘How we express ourselves’.
Children will be focusing on the lens of ‘perspective’, responding to questions such as:
- Does everyone have a perspective? Is it the same?
- Is our perspective influenced by those around us?
- Can we change our perspectives? Why would we change our perspective?
- Do our perspectives change as we grow?
Learning through play will enable children to explore areas of interest and connect their experiences to learning areas. Children will continue to develop the learning assets of thinking, collaborating, communicating, researching and being a self-manager.
Foundation
Religious Education: The Bible and stories about Jesus’ life.
Literacy: Reading and writing letters and sounds (phonemes), identifying some high-frequency words, speaking clearly and in full sentences.
Maths: Sort and classify shapes, objects, patterns, and sequences of numbers.
Year 1
Religious Education: Scripture and stories about Jesus’ life.
Literacy: Writing for a variety of purposes, attending to text structure, word choice, punctuation and how to use letter formation to represent sounds in words.
Maths: Continuing place value, skip counting, solving simple addition and subtraction problems using a range of strategies, shape and measurement.
Year 2
Religious Education: Scripture and stories about Jesus’ life.
Literacy: Complex sentences, verbalising perspectives/decision making, and reasoning in full sentences, common spelling patterns, hearing sounds in words.
Maths: Maps, measurement - distance and capacity, patterns. Solving addition and subtraction problems using a range of strategies, shape and measurement.
Year 3
‘May the force be with you!’
Children will be exploring the transdisciplinary theme of ‘How the world works’.
The focus lens is ‘causation’. Children will be responding to questions such as:
- Are all objects acted on by forces?
- Do all forces act in the same way?
- Is one force more prevalent than the other?
- Does pushing outweigh pulling?
Children will continue to develop independence and creativity through the use of a Writer's Notebook, and iTime.
Religious Education: Creation - ‘Who is God in me?’
Literacy: Reading and writing persuasive texts, including oral language strategies around persuading and debating points of view to persuade an audience. Structures of different genres of text - what makes texts different? Reading for deeper meaning and author’s purpose, as well as sharing texts for enjoyment.
Maths: Continuing to develop the four proficiencies; Understanding, Fluency, Problem Solving and Reasoning through the four operations (+ - x /). Measure, order and compare objects using a variety of units: mm, cm, m, km, g, kg, L, ml (length, weight, capacity).
Specialists: This term our specialist learning includes Visual Arts, Physical Education, Media Arts, Health/Biology, Library and Italian.
Library: Weekly library sessions continue this term. Please remind your child to pack library books to return, so they can borrow a new one.
Important Term 2 Dates
May 10-13: Year 3 NAPLAN
May 26: Sorry Day
May 30 - June 3: Years 1/2/3 swimming – permission form to come on PAM
June 10: Pupil-free day - staff professional development
June 13: Queen’s Birthday public holiday
June 22: Last day of Term 2
Reminders
Drink bottles - St Anne’s College is a water-only school. Please ensure children have a labelled drink bottled filled with water. Drink taps are available to refill bottles.
Lunchboxes - We are a rubbish-free school - please send lunchboxes to school with as little packaging as possible; any rubbish will be returned in lunchboxes for disposal. Where possible, pack food in reusable storage containers/bags. We appreciate your support in helping us to reduce our school waste and impact on the environment.
Home reading - Children are expected to read to an adult if independent, or an adult read to their child, four times per week for at least 15 minutes. Learning Mentors will ensure texts sent home are at the appropriate level. This experience should be enjoyable for all; talk about the story, what’s happening in the pictures, who is in the story.
Learning Mentors - Please do not hesitate to contact your child’s Learning Mentor should you have any queries or concerns. Email contact is best. Please note, Learning Mentors are generally unable to check and reply to emails between 8:30am and 3:45pm due to teaching commitments, however they will endeavour to reply as promptly as possible.
Parent Access Module (PAM) - PAM is our main form of informing parents/carers of upcoming events and we encourage parents to check this daily. Download the app to access. Contact Mardie at college reception for any PAM queries.
We are looking forward to a fabulous term.
- Kara McCann, School of Wonder Leader
Hoops of fun had on the basketball court!
Year 3 children had a ball during their basketball session with Dylan from the Shepparton Gators as part of their Physical Education learning this week. Dylan was a hit with the kids, playing games with them to teach them basketball skills - they had hoops of fun!
