Year 2 Update

2A - Mrs Middlebrook 2B - Ms Crowe 2C - Ms Maund
2D - Ms Bond 2E - Ms Jones & Mrs Camilleri

During the next fortnight, students will be undertaking learning in the following areas:

Subject	Learning Focus
Reading	Week 4 & 5 - Students will learn the diphthongs ow/ou as in cow/house and oo/u as in book/bull, by reading and writing words containing these phonemes. Students will also continue to develop their reading comprehension skills by making in depth inferences about the text. Students connect their prior knowledge with what they read in texts to gain a greater understanding about the story.
Writing	Week 4 & 5 - Students will be revising the persuasive text type, and review the structure of persuasive texts, how to formulate an effective argument to convince their reader to see their point of view. Students will also revise an edit a persuasive piece of writing to demonstrate their understanding of the structure and features of persuasive texts.
Maths	Week 4 & 5 - In week 3 Students will be investigating the features of 3D shapes, and will identify the number of corners, edges and vertices of a variety of shapes. In week 4 Students will explore statistics and data, by formulating a question, surveying the class to gather data, present the data in a graph and evaluating their findings.
Inquiry	In this unit students will prepare for the roles of the future such as innovation, creativity, reasoning, problem-solving and technical science skills such as questioning, observing, systematic experimentation and analysis and interpretation of data. Students will enjoy STEAM challenges, while building resilience, teamwork skills and strengthen their ability to explain.
SEL	Week 4 & 5 - Students will continue to engage in games and activities in mixed groups across the module, to support friendship development and resilience. See below for some photos taken during these sessions. The students have enjoyed interacting with different students, and learning about each other.

News and Reminders.

As part of our Inquiry unit, the children will learn the 8 R's of recycling, for our maths inquiry project, we would be grateful for donations of yogurt containers (washed), egg cartons, newspapers, magazines, single and multiple small snack boxes, and kitchen tubes (cling wrap, paper towel etc - not toilet rolls please) Please give to your child's teacher.
Monday the 6th of November (Cup weekend) will be an altered day. Regular classes will not be running and class teachers will not be available. Alternate arrangements will be made for students attending.
Monday 18th December - Year 2 long day camp.