What's Happening in the Junior School

Prep

What’s Happening in Prep in Weeks 9, 10 & 11

Wowee! What an incredible few weeks in Prep! Our Preps shone during their very first Junior Athletics Day, proudly showing off their cross-country skills. The Colour Run was an undeniable highlight - students ran, dodged and leapt over obstacles while being sprinkled (or absolutely splattered!) with rainbow colours. The excitement reached a new level when Miss Hartley and Miss Cowie were well and truly slimmed!

A big congratulations to Prep C for raising the most money for our school and earning delicious icy poles as their prize!

To finish off an already amazing fortnight, we were incredibly proud of every student for their fantastic performance in our Flashback to the ’90s Prep Concert. Their confidence, energy and teamwork on stage made it a truly memorable event.

Wellbeing

Preparing ourselves for a transition to Year 1

Literacy

Reading and spelling word with the grapheme –le
Revising all learn graphemes this term. Eg –tch, -dge, Y /i/, y /e/
Writing letters for a specific purpose

Maths

Identifying Australian coins
Sorting and matching Australian coins
Comparing and ordering two-digit numbers with materials
Solving place value problems with reasoning
Responding to place value problems with more than one answer
Solving two-digit place value problems

Knowledge Unit

Big Question: How are families the same and different around the world?

Throughout Term 4, students will be exploring the following lines of inquiry:

Who is in my family?
What people can be in other families?
How do families celebrate different traditions?
How are family routines (like meals or bedtime) the same or different?
Where do families live and how might homes look different around the world?

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. Mathletics login codes are placed inside the front cover of students reading journals. This is an optional task that students may wish to complete at home.

Reminders

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Meet the Teacher Day - Tuesday 9th December
Prep Christmas Lunch* – Wednesday 10th December
Christmas Carols - Wednesday 10th December time 5pm-6pm
Last day of 2025 – Wednesday 17th December 3:30pm finish

Year 1

What’s Happening in Year 1 in Weeks 9, 10 & 11

Literacy

Students will be working on:

Phonics:
Learning how to read and spell the suffixes; -s/-es, -er, -est and -ly
Reading Fluency: Reading with accuracy and at an appropriate rate
Handwriting: Correctly forming the letter Q, Y and P both uppercase and lowercase
In Language and Literature, we will be looking at poetry, letter writing and retelling stories through role play.

Maths

Students will be working on:

Solving practical problems that include money. Students will be using strategies such as highlighting key information, create a number sentence and using concrete materials to understand the question and find the answer.
Completing simple mathematical investigations where they explore number, patterns and everyday mathematical problems. Students will be learning to question and explain their ideas using mathematical language.

Wellbeing

In Wellbeing for Weeks 9, 10 and 11, Year 1 are focusing on cooperation and others’ perspectives. Students will be involved in creating a craft that will involve turn taking, working with others, and sharing materials.

Knowledge Unit

We will conclude our activities on natural and constructed features in Geography and shift our focus to celebrations around the world! We will be using the mentor text ‘What Do You Do to Celebrate?’ by Ashleigh Barton to learn about different ways different cultures celebrate around the world. We will finish with a Year 1 lunch celebration in Week 11!

Library

As we wrap up the year, library books will need to be returned to school and students will not be able to borrow anymore books. This ensures we can complete an audit before the term ends.

Take Home Readers

Take Home Readers will all need to be returned by the end of Week 10. We encourage students and their families to continue to read books from home and the local library over the school holidays.

Reminders

Christmas Carols will be on the 10th of December.

On Monday 15th December the Year 1s will be having a fish and chip celebration lunch. Please check Compass that you have paid and consented for your child.

Thank you to all our families for your wonderful support throughout the year. Your encouragement has helped our Year 1s grow, learn and shine.

The Year 1 Team – Bronte, Charlotte and Megan

Year 2

What’s Happening in Year 2 in Weeks 9, 10 & 11

Wow! What an incredible year we have had with the delightful Year 2s! We can’t believe that there are only a few weeks to go. The students have been working so hard and continue to impress us every day. Our classrooms have been buzzing with creativity, teamwork, and enthusiasm, and we are so proud of everything they’ve achieved. We are especially excited as they are now creating and completing their information brochures on Ancient Egypt, which they can’t wait to share with you!

Over the next few weeks, the Year 2 students will be learning:

Wellbeing

Understand and describe how working together helped the team succeed in activities.
Recognise examples of cooperative behaviour during group tasks.
Identify ways that cooperation supports problem-solving in different situations.
Practice using cooperative skills to overcome challenges and work effectively with others.

Phonics

We are reviewing:

Suffix rules (doubling rule)
Drop -e rule
Replacing y to i rule

Literacy

We are learning to:

Publishing a narrative story
Publish our Ancient Egyptian Booklets

Maths

We are learning to:

follow and give directions between locations on a map
create maps from models
identify and create patterns that increase by one-digit numbers
identify and create patterns that decrease by one-digit numbers
identify, continue and create patterns that increase by 10 or 100
identify and create patterns that decrease by 10 or 100
identify additive patterns with materials

Knowledge Unit

This term, the Year 2 students will be exploring History. We will be learning about:

The History of Ancient Egypt – Pyramids, Pharaohs, and the Past

Over the next fortnight, students will be completing information brochure of Ancient Egypt.

Homework

Please continue to read the take home reading books each week, aiming for 15 – 20 minutes each evening. The last day to change and take home readers will be Friday 5th December.

Reminders:

Christmas Carols, Wednesday 10th December
Christmas Lunch, Tuesday 16th December – If you have not done so already, please pay and consent on Compass, at your earliest convenience.