Year 2 Term 3 Newsletter

The teaching team

2A - Amanda Price (M, Th-F) and Sonia Uhe (M-W)

2B - Stacey Savva 

2C - Pene Silva

Welcome to Term 3

We hope you had a restful break and are excited for the adventures ahead. This term promises new learning opportunities, exciting projects, and fun events for everyone. Together, let's make this term a fantastic experience for our students. We're thrilled to have you back and look forward to another successful term!

 Specialist Timetable

Important Dates

8/8: Casual Dress Disco

13/8: Year 1 & 2 Music Concert 2.30-3.30

15/8: Responsible Pet Education

18/8: Book week

19/8: Character Parade

20/8: Special Friend's Day - open classrooms

27/8: Curriculum Day

2/9: Moorabbin Airport Excursion

4/9: Father's Day Stall

19/9: Last Day Early Dismissal

Parent Helpers

When helping with the children at CEPS, it is required that you wear a Working With Children’s Check (WWCC) displayed on a lanyard at all times. 

If you have not got a WWCC and wish to volunteer, application forms can be found online at: www.workingwithchildren.vic.gov.au

Remember to sign in each day you volunteer at CEPS via the computer at the office. This is a mandatory requirement. You will also be required to sign out. 

Teaching and Learning

English

Speaking & Listening 

Students will be introduced to a new take home activity “I’m a Bookseller”. They will have the opportunity to write up a report at home about a book they have read and present their review to the class. They will also have many opportunities to share their ideas and thoughts during lessons. 

Writing

In Writing, students will plan, write and publish texts that persuade and inform. When writing to persuade, students will use language features and choose words to help them assert their opinions. At the end of term students will write an information report about an animal. They will use subject specific vocabulary and learn how to present texts that are visually appealing. They will continue to improve their understanding of the conventions for spelling, grammar and punctuation.

Reading

In our daily phonics lessons students will extend their knowledge to the less common representations of sounds such as <oul>. They will practise reading unfamiliar words by applying taught reading 

strategies and will discuss the meaning and origin of these words to extend their vocabulary. Students will implement strategies to help them make 

connections, comparing and contrasting texts and understand different text features.

Mathematics

This Term, students will be focusing on key number skills including multiplication, division, addition, and subtraction. They will also be looking at the relationship between operations to have a better understanding of these key concepts. Students will explore 2D and 3D shapes by naming, identifying, comparing and describing their features.

Humanities      

This term, our inquiry big question is “How has the way we move changed over time?” Students will generate their own questions about how things move with a specific focus on transport. We will compare transport from the past and present and the effect technology has had on our lives. 

Students will develop their researching skills and complete a project to design ‘Transport for the Future’. 

Wellbeing

CEPS VALUES

COURTESY    RESPECT    CO-OPERATION    RESPONSIBILITY 

Our School Values are Courtesy, Respect, Cooperation and Responsibility. Each week, all classes will engage in a Respectful Relationships session as well as discuss our CEPS Skill of the Week. These lessons will encourage the development of skills that promote our school values and the positive and personal growth of all students. 

Your child may receive a CEPS raffle ticket for displaying the expected positive behaviours! Award winners will be drawn and announced during assembly on Friday afternoons. 

Supporting learning from home

Please ensure that you are reading with your child every night. Students can read books of their own choice or an unlevelled reader from school. Take time to ask your child questions about the text to ensure that they are reading for meaning. Mathletics tasks are also set regularly and are related to the topics we are learning in class. 

Communication

If you have any queries along the way, please feel free to contact us using our emails listed below, or you can send a Class Dojo. If any more urgent concerns arise, please organise a time to meet with your child’s teacher.

Amanda Price (Amanda-Jo.Price@education.vic.gov.au)

Sonia Uhe (Sonia.GabronUhe@education.vic.gov.au) 

Stacey Savva (Anastasia.Savva@education.vic.gov.au)

Penelope Silva (Penelope.Silva@education.vic.gov.au)

We use Sentral to communicate School and Year 2 Information, and Class Dojo to communicate the following: - 1:1 communication between teachers and families - Staff posting pictures to celebrate classroom learning. We hope you have been enjoying the Dojo posts and photos from your teacher!