Highlight

For those of you in Foundation, the Discovery Centre last year, welcome to Grade 1/2 otherwise known as the Inquiry Centre and for those families in the Inquiry Centre, welcome back. We hope you had a restful break and are refreshed, ready for the 2025 school year.

The past two days, we have focused on settling in, learning about each other and establishing routines and expectations in our new classes. This is vital in supporting your child's learning growth, to be a successful learner who is ready to learn. Students have enjoyed morning circle (a berry Street practice) playing Maths games, getting to know their new classmates and starting their specialist classes.

Important Information

Students will begin to take home readers as well as their reading journal next week (Week 2). This will look a little different this year and students will take home 5 books for the week on a particular day, having a change over day. This means they will have 5 books in their reader bag at once. One reader for each week night. However, it is important to bring your orange folders in their bags daily. We recommend that your child reads aloud to you or to themselves nightly and fills in their reading journal. Either you or your child can do this, they do love to do it though... there is even nights of reading awards!! Next week in class we will explicitly teach students how to fill in their reading journal. This will be discussed more in depth at the 1/2 Info Night.

We hope you have a fabulous weekend.

A peek inside our classrooms...

Once permissions for published photos are returned we will share photos of students. Thanks for your understanding.

Inquiry centre Term 1 Statement of Intent

Melinda (Miss Emmett), Em Glen & Jonny Hobbs, Shaye Arnel, Katrina Chooi, Melanie Seadon & Cassie Brisbane

Student Voice

The first day of school...

This is the best day ever! -Nam 1/2E

I loved seeing my friends! - Zakia 1/2E

I liked playing on the web again! - Elsie M 1/2E

I am happy to be back! - Zara 1/2E

So far my first day of school is a blast already! - Lewis 1/2E

On the holidays I...

... went to Disneyland and got a pin! - Elsie P 1/2E
... went to the beach at Cape Paterson. - Lewis 1/2E
... went to Perth! -Sophie 1/2E
... was in Vietnam with my family! - Nam 1/2E

Reminders

Please bring hats to school.
Please bring a box of tissues to school for your child's class.
At the start of the year, students are particularly hungry. Please send some extra fruit for students to snack on through the day.
Take-home readers will begin in Week 2. Please bring orange folders to school.


3 Feb	Budja first day	08:45am - 4:15pm
3 Feb	Dharug first day	9:00am - 2:00pm
4 Feb	Marram first day	8:30am - 4:00pm
4 Feb	Gawarn first day	08:45am - 4:15pm
19 Feb	Kinder picnic	5:30pm - 6:30pm

First Steps Centre

Term 1 Important Dates