Year 2 Term 4 Newsletter

Meet the teaching team

2A - Amanda Price 

2B - Penelope Silva 

Welcome to Term 4

Welcome back to the final term of 2026! It's been a wonderful year so far, and we are looking forward to an exciting Term 4. 

It is going to be a busy one as we prepare the students for Year 3. 

General Reminders

Please remember to wait outside the building at drop-off and pick-up times – no parents in the corridors. Your support helps us create a calm and orderly environment for our students.

Specialist Timetable

Important Dates

15/10: Italian Day

02/11: Curriculum Day (No School)

03/11: Melbourne Cup Day

12/11: 70th Year Celebration

03/12: Wild Action Zoo Incursion

14/12: Curriculum Day (No School)

18/12: Last Day of School - 1:30 dismissal

Parent Helpers

At CEPS, we highly value working as a whole community and encourage the participation and involvement of our families. 

When helping with the children at CEPS, it is required that you wear a Working with Children’s Check (WWCC) displayed on a lanyard at all times. 

If you have not got a WWCC and wish to volunteer, application forms can be found online at: www.workingwithchildren.vic.gov.au

Remember to sign in each day you volunteer at CEPS via the computer at the office. This is a mandatory requirement. You will also be required to sign out. 

Teaching and Learning

English

Speaking & Listening 

Students will be given plenty of opportunities to engage in discussions with their peers through whole-class, small groups and paired situations. Students will also take part in short plays that they will present to the class.

Writing

Students will explore a range of writing genres to develop their writing skills, creativity and confidence as authors.

Narrative Writing: Students will create imaginative stories with interesting characters, engaging settings and exciting events. They will learn to use interesting and descriptive adjectives to bring their writing to life.

Procedure Writing: Students will learn how to write clear, sequenced instructions to explain how to make or do something. They will explore a variety of procedures, including recipes and instructions for making different things. 

Information Reports: Students will learn to research, organise and present factual information about a chosen topic. They will explore how to write an information report using a clear title, an introduction and organised paragraphs that share facts and details. 

Throughout the term, students will continue to develop their spelling, punctuation, grammar, sentence structure and handwriting, while learning to plan, write, edit and publish their work for a variety of purposes and audiences.

Reading & Phonics

Our daily phonics sessions will focus on revising letter-sound relationships to develop automatic recall and support reading and spelling more complex words. Students will continue to build reading fluency by using phrasing and expression, varying their emphasis, tone and volume. We will also practise key reading strategies, including Stop and Think, Comparing and Contrasting, Inferring and Reading with Expression.

Mathematics

This term, students will revise and build on their knowledge of fractions, data, location and patterns. 

Throughout the term, students will engage in problem-solving activities to develop confidence, accuracy, and deeper understanding in their mathematical thinking.

Humanities

This term in Humanities, students will begin exploring the concept of environment and how it impacts living things. They will identify the features of places they live and visit, and how they have changed overtime. They will plant a sunflower seed and watch it grow over the term. We will also look at what living things need for survival. 

Wellbeing

CEPS VALUES

COURTESY    RESPECT    CO-OPERATION    RESPONSIBILITY 

Each week, all classes will engage in 'The Respectful Relationships Sessions' as well as discuss our CEPS Skill of the Week. These lessons will encourage the development of skills that promote our school values and the positive and personal growth of all students. GROWTH MINDSET: This term, the students will explore ways that they can change their thinking from ‘I can’t do it yet, but I can get there'. We will be looking closely at the power of ‘Yet’, and we will develop strategies to overcome difficulties in their learning and build on their resilience and positive outlook.

In Year 2, we continue to give out awards at a Friday afternoon assembly for students who have displayed the CEPS values.

Supporting learning from home

Please ensure that you are reading with your child every night. Students can read books of their own choice or an unlevelled reader from school. Take time to ask your child questions about the text to ensure that they are reading for meaning. Students will practise their weekly poem each night and complete any Mathletics tasks set for them by their teacher. 

Communication

You are welcome to contact your classroom teacher via email through Compass. Whilst families are navigating the transition to Compass, we are also still using Dojo for messages between parents and teachers at this stage. This is likely to be phased out at some stage this year. We are also still currently using Dojo to share learning updates from our classrooms.

With that said, you are always more than welcome to pop into the classroom before or after school if you have any queries or concerns. 

Whilst we endeavour to get back to you promptly, please understand that we are often unable to check these messages until after 3:30pm. If you need an important message to be passed on to your child, we ask that you communicate this via the office (e.g. to advise that your child will be collected early or by another family member). The office will then pass the message on to your child's classroom teacher.

Compass: Compass is the formal tool for communication regarding attendance, payments, excursions, camps, permission forms, school reports, etc.

Please use Compass to advise the school in a timely manner of all student absences.

Early Pick Up: If you need to pick up your child early, please collect them from the office area and be sure to sign them out. You will require an Early Leaver's Pass, provided by the office staff, before we are able to dismiss students. 

You can also keep up-to-date by using the school website and weekly newsletters:  http://www.cheltenhameast.vic.edu.au