Levels 1 & 2
What a wonderful start the Grade One and Two student made to the 2026 school year!
Students have had the opportunity to learn and participate in play with members of their class and their grade community! We will continue to give opportunities for students to revisit our School Wide Positive Behaviour Support expectations and practise behaviours that help us build our classroom environment and our relationships with others to support our learning!
Specialist Timetable
Please find the current timetable below.
🧢HATS
Please make sure that your child has their sun smart school hat at school each day!
🚨REMINDERS
Reading pockets:
- Please ensure you have your child's reading pockets and they are being brought to school every day. This helps establish consistent routines and supports the development of positive, lifelong homework and learning habits.
CURRICULUM
📚LITERACY
📖UFLI:
Grade One Students
This week students will be reviewing the 'short a' vowel sound.
This includes words such as: cat, land, map and camp.
They will then be reviewing the 'short i' vowel sound.
This includes words such as: sit, trip, it and list.
What can you do at home?
- Optional UFLI Home Practice pages
Grade Two Students
This week the students will be reviewing the 'short a', 'short i' and 'short o' vowel sounds.
This will includes words such as: jam, lip, hot, hand and kids.
They will then be reviewing all previously learnt short vowel sound. (a, e, i, o, u).
This will include words such as: end, hand, lost, fit and jump.
What can you do at home?
- Optional UFLI Home Practice pages
📔Mentor Text:
This week in Literacy, our students will be exploring the mentor text "Our Class is a Family" to support our CBL Big Idea "Community". They will make connections with the characters, identify nouns in texts, and practise classifying them into proper and common nouns. Students will also be writing creative sentences using their understanding of nouns.
What can you do at home?
- Nessy is a great literacy resource to use that supplements your child's reading in a fun engaging way on their iPad.
- Read books together and ask your child to spot nouns
- Play a “noun hunt” game around the house, finding common and proper nouns in everyday items
🧮 Maths:
Grade One Students:
This week in Maths, our Grade 1 students will be building their understanding of numbers through hands-on activities. They will be practising counting forwards and backwards from 0 to 120, exploring multiples of ten using ten frames, and creating two-digit numbers. Students will also be learning how to bundle ones into tens, helping them develop a strong understanding of place value.
What can you do at home?
- Practise counting forwards and backwards together, starting from different numbers
- Count everyday items (toys, pasta, blocks) and bundle them into groups of ten
- Play simple counting or bundling games
Grade Two Students:
This week in Maths, our Grade 2 students will be exploring two- and three-digit numbers. They will use base-10 blocks to identify numbers, represent them physically, and understand the value of each digit. Students will also practise comparing and ordering three-digit numbers using hands-on materials to strengthen their understanding of place value.
What can you do at home?
- Practise reading and writing two- and three-digit numbers together
- Ask your child to explain the value of each digit in a number (e.g., 347 = 3 hundreds, 4 tens, 7 ones)
- Play simple number games
🌏 CBL:
Our new Big Idea: Community 🏘️
Our Big Idea for this term is Community. Students will be exploring the many different communities they are apart of and value. They will begin by sharing their wonderings ont he word 'community'.
This week, we will read the picture story book 'Circles All Around Us', focusing on the different “bands” of community, from family and friends to their wider world.
We look forward to sharing some of the students reflections from our CBL sessions.