Year 2 Term 2 Newsletter

The teaching team

2A - Amanda Price (M, Th-F) and Sonia Uhe (M-W)

2B - Stacey Savva 

2C - Pene Silva

Welcome to Term 2

The Year 2 students have made a great start to the Term! We are enjoying hearing about their wonderful holidays and connecting with each student. It was really special having Captain Newman at our ANZAC service, thank you Archer. We are looking forward to our excursion to the Aquarium.

 Specialist Timetable

Important Dates

13/5: Special Food Day

9/6: King’s Birthday Public Holiday

17/6: Melbourne Sealife Aquarium Excursion

1/7: Curriculum Day

4/7: Last Day Early Dismissal

4/7: Reports Published to families 

Parent Helpers

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 develop their speaking and listening skills during circle time activities and group and individual presentations. They will practise expressing their ideas in appropriate ways and using suitable vocabulary to make their understanding clear. 

Writing

This term, we are focusing on writing fairy tales (narratives) and texts to persuade. Students will explore the text structure and language features of each text type. They will practise using the strategy “Show, don’t Tell”, using their five senses to add detail and description to their stories to help create a mental picture in the readers’ minds. Students will continue to focus on using punctuation correctly, including proper nouns and words in lists, and apply their phonological knowledge to spell unfamiliar words. Proper letter formation and positioning will be a focus. 

Reading

Students continue to participate in daily phonics sessions. This term, our phonics program will reinforce and build upon students’ previous knowledge and will introduce them to letter (grapheme) representations that are less common, e.g. wr, ph. During reading sessions, the teacher will work with your child to become proficient in comprehension strategies. Our lessons will focus on asking questions, finding facts, identifying the main idea and stopping, thinking and rereading for meaning.

Mathematics

This Term, students will continue to build on their knowledge of Place Value. We will also be looking at Addition, Subtraction and Measurement. 

Students will participate in weekly problem-solving investigations. They will learn how to interpret worded problems and use a range of strategies to solve them. Students will explain how they solved the problem using mathematical language. 

Humanities      

Our unit this term links closely with our science unit. Students will explore the Earth’s resource of water and how important it is to our lives at school and at home, and to local businesses. They will compare the uses of water in the past and present and how it was important to the survival of Indigenous Australians. Students will investigate different water sources and where they are located. They will research the ways that they can conserve water and keep it clean and healthy to care for species living in these environments.  Students will visit the Aquarium to reinforce this message. 

Wellbeing

CEPS VALUES

COURTESY    RESPECT    CO-OPERATION    RESPONSIBILITY 

Our School Values are Courtesy, Respect, Cooperation and Responsibility. Each week, all classes will engage in a Respectful Relationships session 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. 

Your child may receive a CEPS raffle ticket for displaying the expected positive behaviours! Award winners will be drawn and announced during assembly on Friday afternoons. 

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.

Communication

If you have any queries along the way, please feel free to contact us using our emails listed below, or you can send a Class Dojo. If any more urgent concerns arise, please organise a time to meet with your child’s teacher.

Amanda Price (Amanda-Jo.Price@education.vic.gov.au)

Sonia Uhe (Sonia.GabronUhe@education.vic.gov.au) 

Stacey Savva (Anastasia.Savva@education.vic.gov.au)

Penelope Silva (Penelope.Silva@education.vic.gov.au)

We use Sentral to communicate School and Year 2 Information, and Class Dojo to communicate the following: - 1:1 communication between teachers and families - Staff posting pictures to celebrate classroom learning. We hope you have been enjoying the Dojo posts and photos from your teacher!