YEAR TWO

 Our Lady of Fatima Catholic Primary School provides a range of holistic learning experiences to enable students to:

• Participate in the life and mission of the school.
• Deepen their knowledge and engagement with the Catholic faith and tradition.
• Build the capacity to continuously reason, reflectively, logically and critically.
• Embrace interdependence of human existence as global citizens, who are responsible to and for themselves and others.
• Engage in learning in a multitude of ways, through personalised and self-paced learning.

Religious Education

2.1 Images of God

This unit introduces and explores a variety of biblical images of God that tell something about what God is like. The unit also introduces and explores the Genesis account of human beings made in the image of God. The final section focuses on prayer as a means of nourishing the Spirit of God in our lives. It reflects on the ‘Our Father’ prayer.

2.2 Lent and Holy Week 

This unit focuses on the season of Lent and introduces the Lenten practices of this season. The story of Zacchaeus explores the idea of repentance. The Widow’s Offering explores the practice of ‘giving’. We also look closely at the events of Jesus’ life that are celebrated during Holy Week.

English

The students will experience opportunities to engage with informative, narrative, persuasive texts including, but not confined to, Welcome to Country by Aunty Joy, Sophie Scott Goes South and Peggy by Anna Walker. Students will explore the purpose and importance of an Acknowledgement of Country and the Welcome to Country while making connections to their context and that of Aboriginal communities across NSW. 

Students engage in phonics and spelling daily. Students are explicitly taught different letter/sound correspondences from the complex code  - aw, ew, ou, air, are, ear, eer, ore, dge and tch. 

Students will continue to display their knowledge and understanding in the areas of:

• Oral language and communication

• Vocabulary

• Phonological awareness

• Phonic knowledge

• Reading fluency

• Reading comprehension

• Creating written texts

• Spelling

• Handwriting

• Understanding and responding to literature

Mathematics

This term, Year 2 students will be engaged in tasks designed with increasing complexity and challenge, open-ended high-ceiling, differentiated success criteria and enabling and extending prompts. They will be explicitly taught concepts from the new NSW Mathematics K-2 Syllabus with a focus on problem-solving, communication, reasoning and understanding. All activities are differentiated to cater to all student needs and abilities. The topics taught in Term 1 are: Chance & Time, 2D/3D Spatial Structure, Combining & Separating Quantities, Forming Groups.

Science and Technology

In Semester One, students will be learning about Earth and Space. They will focus on Land, Water and Sky by observing changes in the sky and landscapes. The students will explore how the Earth’s resources are used and how plants and people protect themselves from seasonal changes. 

Geography

Through inquiry-based learning, students will focus on places within Australia and Australia’s location in the world. They will describe the connections people, including Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Peoples, have with places, both locally and globally. The students will also identify factors affecting people’s accessibility to places.

Personal Development, Health and Physical Education

The Stage One Physical Education unit is aimed at providing opportunities for students to develop their skills and build confidence in Athletics using Fundamental Movement Skills. Fundamental Movement Skills focused in this unit include: static balance, sprint run, vertical jump, catch, hop, side gallop, skip and overarm throw. Students will apply these skills through activities and games. Games are encouraged to build teamwork, communication, strategy and game sense and resilience.

Open Parachute will be implemented in K-6. Open Parachute aims to provide practical support on mental health to students. The program aims to reduce stigma and generate authentic dialogue in classrooms about the real issues students face. The psychological skills-building exercises aim to increase empathy, self-compassion, self-awareness, mental health literacy, and self-efficacy in students.

Creative Arts

In Visual Arts, the students will be developing their skills in drawing portraits and silhouettes based on the English texts they will be studying.

In Music with Mr Parlato, students will engage in teacher-guided music learning experiences that develop their ability to sing, play, move, and create. They will explore vocal expression and experiment with various sound sources to produce and respond to music. Students will begin to recognise musical concepts such as pitch, dynamics, and tempo, demonstrating an increasing awareness of their capabilities as performers and music-makers.Type here

Homework 

It is recommended that Year 2 students spend  20-30 minutes of homework per day. This includes 10 minutes of reading every night. Homework consists of daily reading, spelling and Mathematics activities. These activities are to be completed weekly. Homework is due each Thursday and will be brought home every Friday. Homework will commence in Week 3, however daily reading is essential.

Please record and sign your child’s daily reading log/diary. An encouraging comment is always welcome! It is very important that you are reading with your child each night to ensure they are using their reading strategies, fluency, expression and self-correcting an error. Asking comprehension questions at the end is also essential. 

A Maths Plus mentals book will be provided to all students. A weekly task will be set and we ask that this be returned each Thursday. Maths Plus follows a graded and spiralling approach, allowing for the revision of concepts throughout the year. It will provide students with opportunities to sequentially develop, practise and master their skills and knowledge.Type here

2B - Mrs Katrina Hedges

2G - Miss Sophie Heighes

2W - Mrs Alison Bofinger and Mrs Carly Beaven

Important Dates for Year Two

Sport Days are:

2Blue -   Thursday, Friday

2Gold -   Thursday, Friday

2White - Thursday , Friday

Students are to wear their sports uniform on these days. 

Library 

Each week, students will have the opportunity to borrow books from our school library. Please ensure your child brings their Library Bag to school on their allocated day. 

2Blue - Thursday - even weeks.

2Gold - Thursday - even weeks.

2White - Thursday - even weeks.

2025 - School Term 1

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