Level 2: Connect

We’re so excited to kick off a fantastic year of learning and growth with your child! As we begin this journey together, we can’t wait to get to know each student, celebrate their strengths, and support them every step of the way. This year will be packed with engaging learning, new friendships, and lots of fun along the way.

Thank you for being part of our school community—we’re looking forward to an amazing year ahead and can’t wait to share the adventure with you!

Kym Seccull, Zoe Whitaker, Jess Steel & Sean Daley

English

Core Literacy

Over the past two weeks, students have been revising some of the sounds they learnt in Year 1. We have been so impressed with their established routines during Core Literacy and their ability to work fluently and cooperatively in pairs during partnered reading.

Looking ahead in Core Literacy:

Week 3: Students will learn about the spelling pattern -age and the prefixes mid- and mis-.
Week 4: Students will explore the “busy” letter y, focusing on when it makes a short vowel sound, as well as the suffixes -ly and -ish.

Reading & Writing

In our reading and writing lessons, we are exploring the text 'The World's Most Pointless Animals'. We are learning about information texts and the features that help us understand them. Students are practising how to identify and write facts, recognise statements that are not factual or are meant to be humorous, and explain how labelled diagrams add extra information to a text. This learning helps students become more confident readers and writers who can find, write and understand important information in non-fiction texts.

Some of the new vocabulary that we have introduced and discussed so far includes: amphibian, regenerate, remarkable, delicacy, excessive, microscopic, complex, disguise and subterranean. Please feel free to discuss and revise the meaning of these words with your child.

Maths

Maths has been buzzing in Year 2 as students dive into exploring two-digit and three-digit numbers! Using hands-on materials like MAB blocks and place value charts, students have been building numbers, breaking them apart, and explaining their thinking as they learn how tens, hundreds and ones work together. It’s been fantastic to see students so engaged, confident, and excited to show what they know as their number sense continues to grow.

Here is a game you can play to practise their place value understanding.

Inquiry

Our focus in Inquiry this term is Families, Growth and Change. Students are learning about families and daily life, exploring how family structures and roles can be different today and how some things have stayed the same over time. They are also comparing aspects of their own everyday lives with those of their parents and grandparents, noticing what has changed and what has remained the same. This learning helps students understand that families and lifestyles can look different for everyone, both now and in the past.

Friendly Reminders

All students' need to bring in an art smock that will remain at school for the year, please ensure that it is labelled clearly with your child's name. We need this ASAP, art smocks will be kept in their classroom.
Students are required to wear a hat for Term 1, we also encourage students' to bring a roll-on sunscreen, this can be kept in the student's bag or lunch box.
Parent Information Night is on Monday, the 9th. We look forward to seeing you there. If you cannot make the session, the slides will be sent to parents the following day.
The library will now be on a Wednesday. It would be great if the students' could bring in a library bag/tote/satchel.
Overdue library books need to be returned ASAP.
Any ICT permission forms must be returned by the end of week 3.