Year 1/2 Learning Community

Welcome back to school for term three, what a fantastic start we have had! We hit the ground running, and got straight back into learning. In 1/2B, we are lucky to have a pre-service teacher in our classroom, Connor Macdonald, who has spent the first week of school getting to know everyone and learning about BPS.

In literacy, we have been looking at the different types of sentences, as well as compound sentences, and how we can use them in our writing. Our focus in numeracy has been on number and place value, and we have been exploring building and partitioning numbers, using non-standard forms - it's been lots of fun thinking about all the different ways we can partition and represent the one number. In Integrated Studies, we have begun our unit, A Culture of Respect, with a discussion  of fair verses equal, and what that can mean for different people.

Swim Gym

This Friday is the start of our swim gym program, which will run over the next five weeks. The dates are:

• August 1st
• August 8th
• August 15th
• August 22nd
• August 29th

Foundation and grade one students will be going to the Ballarat Aquatic and Lifestyle Centre for a swimming lesson, followed by and a gymnastics session. We will be completing our learning in the morning, before heading off on the bus at 10.30, and will return to school by 3.00. While foundation and one students are away, the grade two students will continue their learning together in the 1/2A classroom.

Please ensure that your child comes to school wearing their bathers underneath their clothes, and that they bring the following in their school bags:

• Towel
• Underwear and socks
• Lunch, fruit, and snacks
• Goggles (optional)
• Plastic bag to put their wet clothes in

Please note, that as we will be gone for most of the day, grade one students will not be able to have a lunch order on our swim gym days.