Year 1/2 News
Learning Centre One
It’s hard to believe that we’ve already reached the final newsletter of the term! It has been a busy and rewarding few months for our Year 1/2 students, filled with meaningful learning experiences, personal development, and plenty of growth. Throughout the term, the students have shown great enthusiasm and curiosity across all areas of their learning.
Over the past few weeks in Literacy, students have been diving deeper into how texts are constructed, with a particular focus on sentence structure and informational writing. Here's what we've been working on:
- Understanding Sentence Structure: Students are learning to identify different types of sentences within a text and understand how sentence variety helps make writing more interesting and effective.
- Applying Sentence Structure in Writing: We're encouraging students to use a range of sentence types and structures in their own writing, helping them develop fluency and clarity.
- Reading with a Writer’s Eye: As they read, students are noticing how authors use sentence structure to convey meaning and emphasis. This helps them become more thoughtful readers and writers.
- Sharing Opinions and Justifying Ideas: Through discussions of shared texts, students are learning to express their opinions and support their thinking with reasons—an important skill for both reading comprehension and critical thinking.r our thoughts.
During Maths, we’ve been exploring the exciting world of patterns! Students are learning to identify, create, and extend a variety of patterns using shapes, colors, and numbers. We’ve been working on recognising and labeling repeating patterns — including simple two-part sequences and more complex three-part repeating patterns. The children have also been introduced to matching rules that help them understand how and why patterns repeat. In addition to repeating patterns, we’re beginning to explore incresing and decending number patterns. Students are learning to identify the rules behind increasing and decreasing patterns and use those rules to continue number sequences.
In Religion, we’ve been learning about important figures in the Catholic Church and how we can play a role in our faith community. The children have been exploring the life of Saint Francis and learning interesting facts about other Saints who have lived lives of faith, service, and kindness. We’ve also been learning about the role of a priest in the Church and the many ways priests support and guide their communities. As part of this, we’ve been getting to know the priests in our local Parish and learning to recognise their names and the important work they do. A special highlight was listening to Fr An speak about what it’s like to be a priest — a wonderful opportunity for the children to connect their learning with real-life experience.
Fr. An's Visit to the 1/2 students
As part of our Inquiry learning, students are exploring how we can respond to, create, and share ideas through media artworks. They are currently using comic strips as a way to communicate messages and tell stories, combining images and text to express their thinking creatively and have presented their work in an exciting way to share with their peers.
Farewell Shalome!
Reminders:
- Playground Use After School: The playground is not open after school during pickup time. Please remind your child to head straight to you and avoid playing on the equipment. Your support is greatly appreciated.
- iPads: Students are expected to bring their iPads fully charged each day, as they are an essential tool for learning.
- Brain Food: Students have a brain food break at 10:00 AM. Please pack a healthy snack such as fruit or vegetables for this time.
- Cooler Weather: As we move into winter, please ensure that jumpers, jackets, and beanies are clearly labelled with your child’s name on them.
Important Dates;
- Monday 30th June - Learning Conversations (1:30 - 5pm)
- Tuesday 1st July - Casual Clothes Day ( Gold coin donation) & Learning Conversations (3:30 - 7pm)
- Friday 4th July - Whole School Assembly 12pm
- Friday 4th July - End of Term: 1pm Finish
- Monday 21st July - School Closure Day
- Tuesday 22nd July - Beginning of Term 3
If you have any concerns or questions, please don’t hesitate to contact your child’s learning group teacher or the Learning Centre Leader, Kiah.
1/2 Team: Imogen, Moe Moe, Chelsea, Mary, Sue, Shalome, Selena, Kiah, Kelsey & Marion