Level 1 & 2
REMINDERS & UPDATES
iPad Reminders
- Our iPad program works best when all students who have their own iPad bring it to school each day. Please remind your child to pack their iPad in their school bag every morning.
Holidays
If you are intending on taking a holiday during the school term, please make sure you inform your classroom teacher and discuss an absence plan.
Term Three Dates
September 1st - Hats are back!! Please ensure your child is prepared for wearing their hat again from Tuesday, 1st.
Father’s Day Breakfast - Friday 4th
CBL Expo - Date to be confirmed shortly. Parents welcomed!
Book Week Reflection:
CURRICULUM
Literacy
Thank you for your continued support with home reading. Reading together each night, even for just 10–15 minutes, is one of the most valuable ways you can support your child's learning. Regular reading helps build confidence, fluency, vocabulary and comprehension, while also fostering a lifelong love of books. We encourage students to continue recording their reading in their log books each evening, as this helps us celebrate their efforts and monitor their progress. Thank you for partnering with us to make reading a positive and enjoyable part of your child's daily routine.
Grade 1 This week, students will continue their phonics learning with a Controlled Vowel Review, revisiting previously taught vowel patterns. We will focus on ai and ay /a/, exploring how these letter patterns represent the long /a/ sound in words such as rain, train, play and day. Students will practise reading and spelling words containing ai and ay and applying these patterns when reading and writing.
Grade 2 This week, students will continue developing their spelling knowledge by learning the doubling rule for -er and -est and revisiting the drop e rule. Students will practise applying these rules when adding suffixes to base words, helping them become more confident and accurate readers and spellers.
What can you do at home?
- Optional UFLI Home Practice pages found in their home learning book.
Mentor Texts:
Over the coming weeks, our Grade 1 and 2 students will begin exploring a range of wonderful books shortlisted for this year's CBCA Book Week. Through these engaging stories, students will strengthen their comprehension skills by making inferences, identifying connections, exploring similes and other figurative language, expanding their vocabulary, and responding thoughtfully to a variety of texts. We look forward to celebrating the joy of reading together as we discover this year's outstanding Australian children's literature. You can view the full list of the 2026 CBCA Book Week shortlisted books here: https://cbca.org.au/2026-shortlist/
Maths
Grade One Students
Grade 1 students will explore sharing and groups of through hands-on learning experiences. Using concrete materials, students will build and represent equal groups, developing their understanding of how quantities can be organised and counted in groups. They will use practical materials to make, describe and compare groups, building a strong foundation for future multiplication and division concepts.
What can you do at home?
Families can help students develop their sharing and groups of concepts through everyday activities involving equal groups. Using small objects such as Lego, toys, buttons or snacks, encourage students to make groups and count how many there are altogether.
Grade Two Students
Grade 2 students will be learning about operations such as; addition, subtraction, sharing and groups of. Students will be revisiting these concepts through worded problems and arrays.
What can you do at home?
Continue working through allocated Mathletic tasks that have been assigned to your child.
CYBER SAFETY
This week in Cyber Safety, students will explore and learn about different kinds of screen time and using our strength to make good choices. Students will distinguish between 'doing' and 'viewing'.
WELLBEING
What can you do at home?
Continue the Conversation at Home...
Here are some questions you might like to ask your child to reinforce our wellbeing learning:
- What was something that made you feel happy today?
- Did anything feel tricky today? What helped you get through it?
- What helps your brain and body feel calm when you're upset or worried?
- Can you show me one of the calming strategies you've been learning at school?
- Who is someone you can talk to when you need help?
- What is one thing you're proud of yourself for today?
- When you notice a friend having a hard day, how could you help them?
- What is one strategy you could use next time you feel frustrated or overwhelmed?
What are three things that made you smile today?
Taking just a few minutes each day to talk about emotions, challenges and successes helps children build confidence, resilience and a strong understanding of the strategies they can use to support their wellbeing both at school and at home.
CBL
Students will explore different habitats and investigate what the terms endangered, threatened, and vulnerable mean, discovering how some living things come to be at risk. Through stories, discussions and hands-on learning, students will consider the concept of power and reflect on questions such as: What is power? What responsibilities come with having power? How does our power impact living things? Throughout the term, students will be encouraged to think deeply about our essential question: How does our power influence our choices? As they build their understanding, students will explore how the choices we make can help protect and care for the environments and living things around us.
Guiding Questions
What is power?
What responsibilities come with having power?
How does our power impact living things?
How do living things become endangered?
Essential Question
How does our power influence our choices?
Challenge
Prep – 2s Pledge to Do!
Educate the community about how they can use their power to support endangered animals.