Year Two Team News

Hello Year Two families,

Welcome back to what will no doubt be another busy and enjoyable term. We hope that you all had a wonderful break and have settled back into the school routine. It has been great to see our students refreshed and excited about what this term has to offer. As is always the case in Term Two, assessment will be taking place over the next few weeks of term in preparation for your child’s mid-year report.

At the beginning of Term Two, it is a wonderful opportunity to reset our routines and expectations. One of the ways we are doing this is by encouraging our Year Twos to take a proactive approach to their learning. This involves being organised and planning for the day ahead, helping others and finding solutions to problems that they have encountered (or may encounter) in the classroom and yard.  

 Important news for Term Two: 

• Mothers Day stall: Week 3
• Science Incursion in Week 5: We are pleased to announce that we will be having a science incursion run by the company ‘Hands on Science’ on Thursday 21st May. The incursion will support us in our inquiry unit ‘What Are Things Made of and Why?’ Please look out for more information appearing soon on Compass.

Curriculum Focus: Weeks 3 - 4

Literacy: In Writing, we will be learning about and writing our own procedural texts.

Numeracy:  We will be working on multiplication as repeated addition, and exploring visual representation in arrays.

Inquiry: We will be looking at and discussing what materials a range of different objects are made of and why they are made the way they are.

Willy Kids: Through the pillar of Respect, we will be learning about gratitude and strategies to practise being a reflective Willy Kid who shows gratitude.

Special Reminders:

Blue Book Bags: A friendly reminder that in order to help us with our reading program, it is imperative that students continue to bring their blue book bag to school each day. It has been pleasing to see this being done by our Willy Kids consistently in Term One and we ask that this continues just as strongly in Term Two.

Change to the specialist timetable: There have been some changes to the specialist timetable for this term, please see the specialist days for each class below.

Until next time,

The Grade Two Team - Joel Kitchen (2J), Bianca Italiano / Zoe Kitchen (2I) & Rochelle White (2W)