Grade 1/2 News

Key Dates: 

• Tomorrow - Friday 14th November - Curriculum Day - Reporting & Assessment 
• Grade 1/2 Swimming Week - 24th - 28th November
• Monday 15th December - Junior Athletics 
• Friday 19th December - Last day for 2025

Swimming Program

The Grade 1/2 swimming program will be running from Monday 24th - Friday 28th November (Week 8). Please send the following items with your child's name labelled to avoid items becoming lost:

• Thongs/Slides (to wear on the way to the pool and back - NOT to be worn to school)
• Towel
• Bathers (worn to school under uniform)
• Goggles (if required)
• A separate bag to carry items to and from the pool
• Underwear 

Maths Challenge

Congratulations to 1/2 Murphy for winning this fortnight's Maths Challenge!

Please find our new Maths Challenge below:

What we have been up to...

Last week for Writing, we completed our end of year Cold Write which involved writing a recount about our best birthday ever. This week, we have returned to our focus on narratives. The students completed a piece of rocket writing about an octopus that was sitting in their kitchen sink. They have also begun planning and drafting a narrative of their own.

In Mathematics, we have continued learning about fractions, including halves, quarters and eighths, as well looking at what equivalent fractions are. The students enjoyed constructing a robot made of fractions.

For Topic, the students had a lot of fun sharing the items that they brought in from home that people once used in the past.

Be Awesome Day

Despite the weather, Be Awesome Day and the Colour Fun Run were once again a terrific success. A big thank you to the support and generosity of our school community. The students all looked to be having an awesome time and there were plenty of smiles and lots of colour at the fun run in the afternoon!

Grade 2 Sleepover

Our Grade 2 students all did a wonderful job at the Grade 2 Sleepover. They enjoyed free time exploring the exhibits, learning about the Solar System in the Planetarium and some were even brave enough to take a trip down the vertical slide. We witnessed lots of fun, laughter and smiles and trust they all had an awesome experience - even if it didn't involve oodles of sleep!

Photos from the last fortnight...

Upcoming Learning for Weeks 7 & 8

We have almost completed our end of year assessments. During Week 8, there will be some changes to our regular classroom routines due to the swimming program.

Reading, Writing and Spelling: 

Our focus texts for Weeks 7 & 8:

• Little Red Writing
• Student choice texts

Next week for writing, we will continue with our focus on Narratives. We will revisit the structure of narratives and work on improving the structure of our sentences.

Mathematics: Next week in Mathematics, we will be completing activities to learn how to tell the time on an analog clock.

Topic: For Topic, students will be investigating how the use of technology in our homes have changed over time.

Respectful Relationships: Our school focus in Respectful Relationships this term is Positive Gender Relationships.