Year 1 & 2

This fortnight in Integrated Studies lessons Year 1/2 students have been learning about the history of YRPS and how the 4 houses of the school were named. Students learnt about the significance of Lunar New Year, and that 2024 is the ‘Year of the Dragon’. In Wellbeing lessons students have been learning about safety by identifying the adults that help keep them safe at home, at school and in the community. 

Literacy

When reading, students have been learning to build stamina by reading their independent reading books for longer periods of time without distraction. We have started the UFLI program in the 1/2 area and would like to thank the year 2 parents who helped make the word mats - Leah B, Kirsten R, Amanda B and Danielle M. We all used them for the first time this week. In Writing lessons students have been learning about ‘stretchy sentences’. They have been adding more detail to their sentences in their writing. 

Students wrote a recount about the Smoking Ceremony that they saw in the first assembly of the year. Here are some excerpts:

1/2A:

Hendrix: Today in assembly we saw a smoking ceremony. I saw fire and also I saw animal fur. I heard some kids coughing and so was I! I felt a bit confused because I don’t remember this last year.

Mitchell: Today in assembly, we saw a smoking ceremony. We held leaves and put them in the fire as we left. Aunty Joy told us about the ceremony.

Lenny: Today in assembly, we saw a smoking ceremony. I heard Craig banging the thick sticks together while everyone was walking through the smoke. I heard the school captains.

1/2B:

Quinn: On the 12th of February it was the first assembly of the year. 

Elijah: The Wurundjeri people were here before us.

Isaac: We learnt about the ceremony, it is where you walk through smoke. 

Dante: Aunty Julie told us about the Smoking Ceremony and how the Wurundjeri people. celebrate it. We all got given a gum leaf. 

Maddi: I was so excited and by the way my favourite thing was going in the smoke! 

1/2C:

Cooper: At assembly we had a smoking ceremony and the smoke looked like clouds.

Oviya: We went to a smoking ceremony. Some people didn’t like the smoke but I liked it. It was fun. The people who made fire were Auntie Joy and Craig.

Lucy: Auntie Joy has a son called Craig. He did a smoking ceremony. He burnt the gum leaves and we got to go through the smoke.

Paityn: At assembly we had a smoking ceremony. Auntie Joy and Craig lit the fire. We observed the fire and to me it looked like a pattern, maybe a pattern of clouds. We got to walk through the smoke at the end.

Chelsea: Auntie Joy had some manna gum leaves. Craig lit the fire. I did not like the smoke.

Maths

In Maths lessons students have been learning to count by 2s, 5s, and 10s. Students have traced their hands and feet and used these materials as well as hundreds charts to help them count. On Fridays students have continued their Measurement lessons by learning to order the days of the week and months of the year, and creating a class calendar. Students also used bundles of 10 icypole sticks to count how many they had in the classroom! 1/2C had 681.

Celebrating Our Students

Students are nominated by their teachers to receive a certificate of acknowledgment. The below student's certificates will be presented at our next assembly. 

12A - Mrs Pfander & Mrs James 

Mitchell R

For being so brave when he had his first blood nose.

12C - Ms Van Loenen & Miss Grogan

Paityn E

For her positive attitude to school and always doing her best work.