YEAR 2

Our Lady of Fatima Catholic Primary School provides a range of holistic learning experiences to enable students to:

• Participate in the life and mission of the school.
• Deepen their knowledge and engagement with the Catholic faith and tradition.
• Build capacity to continuously reason, reflectively, logically and critically.
• Embrace interdependence of human existence as global citizens, who are responsible to and for themselves and others.
• Engage in learning in a multitude of ways, through personalised and self-paced learning.

Religious Education

Our Religious Education units for this term are:

2.5 Reflecting God’s Goodness

This unit explores the concept of living as a follower of Jesus. It introduces Jesus’ commandment to love others as Jesus loved us. It draws on the children’s knowledge of stories about Jesus and of their experience of people who reflect God’s love. The unit introduces saints as ordinary people who reflected God’s goodness to the world and brought God’s love to others.

2.7 Caring for Creation 

This unit reflects on living in a harmonious relationship with all of God’s creation. The parable of ‘The Good Samaritan’ is presented. Through it, children explore Jesus’ teaching about caring for others. Children learn about the beauty and wonder of creation and their responsibility towards it. 

You can help your child by:

• Encouraging simple daily prayers with your child
• Attending Mass regularly with your child

English

This term Year 2 students will be exploring the structure and language features of narratives. They will explore the texts; ‘One Runaway Rabbit’ by David Metzenthen, 'The Gruffalo's Child’ by Julia Donaldson, ‘The Fearsome, Frightening, Ferocious Box’ by Frances Watts and David Legge, & 'Girl on the Wire’ by Lucy Estela. Through these texts, the students will be taught explicit skills in relation to creative writing. We will follow the 'Seven Steps to Writing Success' program whereby students will think like authors, understand what great writing looks like and learn the skills writers use to create the biggest impact.

The children will also continue the Soundwaves spelling program. 

You can assist your child by:

• Listening to them read nightly and asking them to retell what they have read in their own words. This is essential for comprehension. Also, ask some literal and inferential questions about the text to ensure they have understood what they have read.
• Checking their spelling words during homework and visiting Soundwaves online to play games

Mathematics

The students will be explicitly taught concepts from the NSW Mathematics K-10 Syllabus with a focus on problem-solving, communication, reasoning and understanding. All activities are differentiated in order to cater to all student needs and abilities.

The topics taught in Term 3 are; Whole Number (money), Division, Fractions, Volume and Capacity, 3D Space & Patterns.

You can assist your child by:

• Revising counting skills (e.g. counting by 2's, 5's and 10's from any given three digit number or by 100’s from any 3 digit number)
• Rounding 2 and 3 digit numbers to the nearest 10 and 100. For e.g. 26 rounded to the nearest 10 is 30. 
• Revising how to solve simple addition and subtraction problems involving one- and two-digit numbers using a range of efficient mental and written strategies including the jump strategy and split strategy.
• Go shopping - notice prices, which is more/less, how much altogether
• Play games involving money and trade money eg. coins for notes, notes for coins, coins for coins.

Science and Technology

The Science unit this term is called 'Physical World' and will focus on the identification of light, sound and heat energy, and how they are sensed and produced. The students will further develop their understanding of forces and energy and how these can be used for specific purposes in products. The Digital Technologies strand focuses on digital systems and their components.

In Week 5 we will celebrate National Science Week. The school theme for National Science Week in 2022 is Glass: More than meets the eye. It is based on the UN International Year of Glass. It will celebrate the many roles that glass plays in our lives – from phone screens to optical fibre to glassware in labs – plus investigate glass as a part of our sustainable future

Mandarin

This term Year 2 students will continue the Chinese language program called the Meg Language Program. The Meg Curriculum is written by the co-author of the Australian Curriculum. All students and teachers will participate in the digital learning platform via Zoom weekly sessions.

History

The unit this term is called ‘The Past in the Present". The students will explore, recognise and appreciate the history of their local area by examining remains of the past and considering why they should be preserved. They will identify and describe significant people, events, places, sites and changes in the local community over time. They will also investigate the effects of changing technology on people’s lives.

Creative Arts

This Term the students will participate in Visual Arts lessons with Miss Little or their classroom teacher. The students will engage in art lessons based on literature linked to Book Week 2022. In Year 2, students make artworks representing both real and imagined situations exploring a range of techniques and media. They will discuss qualities of artworks such as subject matter and technique, recognising that artists create artworks for different audiences.

Personal Development, Health and Physical Education

This Term, Year 2 will participate in Physical Education (PE) lessons with Mrs Peterson and their classroom teacher.  Students will begin to learn the developmental gross motor movements that help to establish the sequences that assist in performance when participating in a team sport. Sports that will be focused on include, Basketball, Netball, Soccer and locomotor movement skills that assist in all sports. Students will work together in a team environment and encourage and support each other throughout the learning process.

In PDH lessons students will take part in the Peer Support Program run by the Year 6 students. The Peer Support Program is called 'Living Positively,' with a focus on Optimism.

Homework 

Homework will follow the same structure as Semester One. It is recommended that Year 2 students spend up to a duration of 20-30 minutes of homework per day. This includes 10 minutes of reading every night. Homework consists of daily reading, spelling and Mathematics activities. These activities are to be completed weekly. Homework is due each Thursday and will be sent home every Friday.

As a reminder, Year 2 has access to Wushka Readers Online which includes comprehension questions on each book. Please refer to their password sheet for login information. 

Reminders         

• Please label all your child’s personal items and clothing
• Please remember to send diaries in daily as we are using these as our reading logs

Thank you for your partnership and support. We are looking forward to another productive term!

2B- Mrs Katrina Hedges

2G- Miss Marnie Cleary & Mrs Desiree Djundja (Friday). 

This Term 2G has an intern, Mr Brady, from the University of Notre Dame. Mr Brady will be with us all term. 

2W- Miss Chloe Tozer 

Important Dates for Year 2

Sport Day

2Blue - Tuesday & Friday

2Gold - Monday & Thursday

2White - Thursday & Friday

Library 

2Blue - Thursday (odd weeks)

2Gold - Thursday (even weeks)

2White - Friday (even weeks)

School Term - Monday, 18 July  2022 - Friday, 23 September 2022

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