Beaumaris Primary School: Stop Press

What's Happening in the Junior School

Prep

What’s Happening in Prep in Weeks 7 and 8

 

The Preps have had a fantastic couple of weeks at school. We have been exploring our big question ‘How are we part of a community?’ by visiting the Beaumaris Community Library. One of these visits was for National Simultaneous Storytime, where librarian Maddie read us ‘Truck Cat’. 

 

Wellbeing

  • Focusing on our school values of Respect, Responsibility, Relationships and Resilience
  • Practising independence and organisation skills in preparation for swimming

Literacy

  • Reviewing short vowel sounds a, i, u and o
  • Retelling the main events of the story in order
  • Identifying and using nouns, verbs and adjectives in sentences

Maths

  • Identifying, naming and making circles, squares and rectangles
  • Sorting shapes by their feature
  • Sorting shapes in different ways
  • Creating pictures using different 2D shapes

Knowledge Unit

Big Question: How are we part of a community?

 

Over the next fortnight, students will be exploring the following lines of inquiry:

  • What is a community? 
  • Who and what is in the community? 
  • What are the different places in the community?

Homework 

Students take home 3 decodable readers in their reading pouch each week as well as their green Decoding Detective book and Sound Pack. Please continue to read these with your child, the Preps love showing you how they can recognise and recall all learnt letters and sounds. Reading pouches are returned on Mondays to be changed over and checked by their teacher. 

 

Reminders

  • Morning Melodies – Monday mornings from 8:45am-8:55am in the Performing Arts classroom for Prep-Year 3 students
  • Friday 6th June, 11:40-1:00pm - Walk to Banksia Reserve with our Year 6 Buddies
  • Swimming begins in Week 8. Please refer to compass event/information sent out

 

Year 1

What’s Happening in Year 1 in Weeks 7 and 8

 

Wellbeing 

In wellbeing students will be working in pairs and small groups learning about how to be a good friend as part of our school value of building relationships. Student will also be exploring another school value of respect.  

 

Literacy 

Students will be working on:  

  • Phonics: We will be learning how to read and use the suffixes of –es, -ed and –ing
  • As our phonics lessons teach new digraphs and diphthongs, sound pack cards will be added to the students’ reading pouches for practice at home 
  • Reading Fluency: Reading with accuracy and appropriate rate 
  • Handwriting: Correctly forming short letters i.e. c and s 
  • Weekend recount writing  
  • Non-fiction writing will be the language and literature focus. Students will look at the structure of non-fiction books including how to use contents pages, page numbers, index pages and glossaries. Students will read and write sentences, identifying the difference between facts and opinions. 
  • Writing sentences and correctly using capital letters, punctuation and finger spacing

Maths 

Students will be working on: 

  • Measurement – Length, capacity and mass 
  • Patterns – Identifying and continuing 

Knowledge Unit 

Students will explore how transport has changed over time by comparing modern transport and transport from the past. Students will also learn about First Nations families and culture.   

 

Library 

The school library borrowing system is now up and running and students will be able to borrow one library book a week to take home. The Year 1 cohort go to the library on Thursday. Please ensure they have their blue library satchel in their bag to keep their borrowed book protected when transporting to and from school. This will help keep these books separate from their Classroom Library picture story book that they take home on a Monday. 

 

Take Home Readers 

Each week, your child will take three decodables home. We strongly encourage students to reread these texts multiple times across the week as this is an important way novice readers develop automaticity and reading fluency. In addition, students are bringing home one quality text from their classroom library each week. As novice readers, they will not necessarily be able to read these books independently. However, they will benefit a great deal from hearing these texts read out loud by an expert (you!). As our phonics lessons teach new digraphs and diphthongs, sound pack cards will be added to the students’ reading pouches for practice. Keep practicing the sound pack cards the students already have.  

 

Mathletics 

Your child has their Mathletics code pasted into their Homework Diaries. Activities have been set by the classroom teachers. Mathletics tasks will be set each Wednesday by your child's classroom teacher. Each week we will continue to set maths tasks for students to work through at their own pace, if desired. Completing these tasks is optional. We have been really excited to see students completing Mathletics tasks at home. These help to consolidate their understandings from the classroom. 

 

Reminders 

  • Fruit and veggie break snack: Please ensure that students are bringing their fruit and veggie snack in a container separate to their lunch box. This supports students in transitioning during fruit and veggie break time in the classroom.  
  • Students are to bring in their reading pouch every Monday to swap their take home readers and classroom library book. It is really important students are completing their 20 minutes of nightly reading to support their reading progress. New readers are only sent home until the previous week’s books have been returned.   

 

Year 2

What’s Happening in Year 2 in Weeks 7 and 8

 

The Year 2 students enjoyed a fascinating visit from Cartia, a marine biologist. Cartia shared her knowledge and passion for marine life, introducing the students to various sea creatures and plants. The students had the opportunity to handle sea plants and seashells, sparking their curiosity and wonder. A highlight of the session was observing a 'mermaid's necklace' and red algae up close through a microscope—an engaging and memorable hands-on learning experience! As part of our Geography unit, we are continuing to deepen our understanding of the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Peoples' connection to Country and Place. Students are learning how this deep spiritual and cultural relationship shapes identity, traditions, and care for the land.

 

Over the next fortnight, the Year 2 students will be learning:

 

Wellbeing 

Resilience, Rights and Respectful Relationships curriculum:

  • Strategies for coping with stress 
  • Who can I ask for help?

Phonics

We are learning:

  • The graphemes ew, ui, ue  for the phoneme /ū/
  • The graphemes au, aw, augh for the phoneme /or/

Literacy

We are learning to:

  • Finish sentences that start with subordinating conjunctions
  • Correctly form the ‘short letters’ of the alphabet when writing
  • Building background knowledge of First Nations People and their connection to country through literature 

Maths

We are learning:

  • Two-digit number addition using base-10 blocks (with regrouping)
  • Two-digit number subtraction using base-10 blocks (with regrouping)
  • Two-digit number addition on an empty number line (no regrouping)
  • Two-digit number subtraction on an empty number line (no regrouping)
  • Two-digit number addition on an empty number line (with regrouping)

Knowledge Unit

This term, the Year 2 students will be learning about Geography. We will be exploring the big question: 

 

How do Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people connect to Country and Place?

 

Over the next fortnight, students will be exploring the following lines of inquiry:

  • The story of Bunjil and its importance to the First Nations People.
  • Compare present day map of Victoria with pre-settlement map of Aboriginal Victoria.
  • Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples connect to Country

Homework 

  • Please continue to read the take home reading books each week, aiming for 15 – 20 minutes each evening. Changing readers will continue to occur on a Friday.
  • Please enjoy sharing a new Classroom Library text each Friday. This book is for enjoyment and can be read by parents/carers.
  • Optional: Mathletics logins have been placed in the front cover of reading diaries. Students may work through these tasks at their own pace, if desired. 

Reminders:

  • Hats must be worn if the UV Index is 3 or above, please ensure your child has a hat at school each day.
  • The library is open! Please ensure that your child brings their library books to school on their library day. 

Library Days: 

2A - Friday

2F - Friday

2L - Wednesday

2P - Wednesday