Level 1 & 2 

What a wonderful start the Grade One and Two student made to the 2026 school year! 

Students have had the opportunity to learn and participate in play with members of their class and their grade community! We will continue to give opportunities for students to revisit our School Wide Positive Behaviour Support expectations and practise behaviours that help us build our classroom environment and our relationships with others to support our learning!

Thank you to everyone who joined our information session on Wednesday, we hope you found it helpful. For those who were unable to attend, here is the link for the recording: 

https://vimeo.com/1165221736/ba388f038b?share=copy&fl=sv&fe=ci

Specialist Timetable

Please find the current timetable below.

🧢HATS 

Please make sure that your child has their sun smart school hat at school each day!

🚨REMINDERS

Reading pockets: 

• Please ensure you have your child's reading pockets and they are being brought to school every day. This helps establish consistent routines and supports the development of positive, lifelong homework and learning habits.

Digital Technology Agreement 

• A reminder that the digital technology agreement sheets need to be signed and returned back to your classroom teacher. 

CURRICULUM

📚LITERACY

📖UFLI:

Grade One Students 

This week students will be reviewing the short 'o' vowel sound.

This includes words such as: hot, plot, frog and soft.

They will then be reviewing the short 'u' vowel sound.

This includes words such as: hut, sun, plum and bump. 

What can you do at home?

• Optional UFLI Home Practice pages

Grade Two Students (42 & 43) 

This week the students will be learning the 'FLZS' rule. When a one-syllable word ends in f, l, z, or s, we double the last letter after a short vowel.

This will includes words such as: off, fell, mess and jazz. 

They will then be learning how the vowels 'a', 'o' and 'u' make a different sound when followed by 'll'. 

This will include words such as: ball, small, roll and pull. 

What can you do at home?

• Optional UFLI Home Practice pages

📔Mentor Text: 

This week in Literacy, our students will be exploring the mentor text "Jabari Jumps" by Gaia Cornwall. Students will be exploring the narrative structure as they identify and describe the characters and setting, retell and plot the story events, and write a GIST sentence to summarise the text. We will also practise inferring by reading beyond the text and discussing how characters are feeling, using evidence from the illustrations. To make connections to our own lives, students will reflect on a time they have been brave and practice positive self-talk.

What can you do at home?

• Nessy is a great literacy resource to use that supplements your child's reading in a fun engaging way on their iPad.
• Read a story together and identify the characters and setting.
• Ask your child to retell the story in order (beginning, middle, end).
• Talk about how the characters might be feeling and ask, “How do you know?
• Share a time when you had to be brave and invite your child to share their own example.

🧮 Maths: 

Grade One Students: 

This week in Maths, our Grade 1 students will explore two-digit numbers. They will use base-10 blocks and other materials to understand tens and ones, break numbers apart with number bonds, and represent numbers in different ways. They will also practise comparing and ordering numbers and identifying the value of each digit, building a strong foundation for addition, subtraction, and place value.

What can you do at home?

• MathsSeeds
• Practise counting forwards and backwards together, starting from different numbers
• Count everyday items (toys, pasta, blocks) and bundle them into groups of ten
• Play simple counting or bundling games 

Grade Two Students: 

This week in Maths, our Grade 2 students will focus on three-digit numbers. They will practise reading, writing, comparing, and ordering numbers using numerals, words, number lines, and charts. They will also explore partitioning numbers into hundreds, tens, and ones, and represent them in both standard and non-standard expanded form, building a deeper understanding of place value.

What can you do at home?

• Mathletics 
• Ask your child to read and write three-digit numbers in words and numerals.
• Encourage your child to break numbers into hundreds, tens, and ones and write them in expanded form.
• Play simple number games, like “Who has the bigger number?” to make learning fun.

Wellbeing ❤️

This week, our SWPB focus is “Be a Learner” in all settings, with a focus on asking for help. Students will also explore the Respectful Relationships lesson “Acts of Friendship”, where they will learn to recognise how others might be feeling and practice ways to help classmates get along and play together.

🌏 CBL:

Our new Big Idea: Community 🏘️

Our Big Idea for this term is Community. Students will be exploring the many different communities they are apart of and value. They will begin by sharing their wonderings ont he word 'community'. 

This week, we will read the picture story book 'Circles All Around Us', focusing on the different “bands” of community, from family and friends to their wider world.

 We look forward to sharing some of the students reflections from our CBL sessions.