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

2.3 The Easter Season

This unit is about Easter. After recalling the resurrection story, it explores light as a symbol in the Easter Vigil. The unit also highlights the place of Baptism in the Easter Vigil. In recalling Pentecost, the unit explores the presence of the Holy Spirit.

2:4 Signs of God’s Love 

The Church’s year is marked by seasons which celebrate the mystery of God revealed in Jesus Christ. Students will explore the seasons of the Church’s year.

English

This term Year 2 students will be exploring the structure and language features of information reports. They will explore the texts; ‘Sea Country’ by Aunty Patsy Cameron, ‘My Grandad Marches on ANZAC Day’ by Catriona Hoy and Benjamin Johnson, ‘Anemone is not the Enemy’ by Anna McGregor  ‘Platypus’ by Sue Whiting and ‘Great White Shark’ by Claire Saxby. Through these texts the students will be taught explicit skills in relation to informative texts,and will continue to learn about the importance of characterisation, context and representation. 

The children will also continue the Soundwaves spelling program. They will complete weekly activities which include brainstorming, segmenting sounds, dictionary meanings, alphabetical order, spelling rules and rhyming activities.

You can assist your child by:

• Listening to them read nightly and asking them to retell what they have read in their own words. This is essential for comprehension. Also asking some literal and inferential questions about the text to ensure they have understood what they have read.
• Checking their spelling words during homework and visiting Soundwaves online to play games

Mathematics

The students will be explicitly taught concepts from the NSW Mathematics K-10 Syllabus with a focus on problem solving, communication, reasoning and understanding. All activities are differentiated in order to cater to all student needs and ability. 

The topics taught in Term 2 are: 

Statistics and Probability (Data), Non spatial Measure (Mass), Combining and Separating Quantities (addition and subtraction), Representing Whole Number and Geometric Measure (Length and  Position).

You can assist your child by:

• Revising counting skills (e.g. forwards and backwards by tens on and off the decade ie. 267, 277, 287, 297, 307, counting forwards or backwards by 100’s)
• Encouraging them to solve simple addition and subtraction problems involving one- and two-digit numbers using a range of efficient mental and written strategies including the jump strategy and split strategy.
• Providing opportunities to describe and draw two-dimensional shapes, with and without the use of digital technologies

Science and Technology

In Term Two, students will continue our unit on Earth and Space. They will observe changes in the sky and landscape as well as explore how the Earth’s resources are used. Students will also investigate how digital systems display data.

Geography

In Geography lessons, the students will continue exploring 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

In sport lessons, students they will be continuing their development of their fundamental movement skills such as running, jumping, balancing, throwing and catching. Students will also be learning some Indigenous games to promote cultural appreciation and awareness. All games throughout the unit will also assist in developing their sportsmanship, teamwork, communication, strategy and resilience. 

On Fridays they will participate as a grade in activities organised by the Year 9 PASS students. The De La Salle students will instruct our students on many aspects of the Physical Education Curriculum with a focus on games and ball skills.This is a partnership we have enjoyed for many years. The De La Salle students' coaching skills are assessed during this time. Supervision is provided by all three classroom teachers, LSO’s and the De La sports teachers. The program will take place on De La Salle playground or the Caringbah Oval. The program starts in Week 3 and will culminate in a Fun and Fitness day (a date to be confirmed).  Year Two will participate on Fridays and are required to wear their sports uniform on Tuesdays and Fridays this term.

Amadeus Music Program

Students will continue their participation in the Amadeus Music Education program, introduced by Sydney Catholic Schools to our school this year.

Students will participate in activities in listening, performing and organising sound (Kindergarten to Year 6), within their regular Classroom Music lessons. Within these lessons, students will:

• Sing in unison and in parts
• Play tuned and untuned percussion instruments
• Play available instruments such as Ukulele, Guitar and Keyboard

Creative Arts

In Drama with Mr Parlato, we will be focusing on mime and movement through Rod Campbell’s Dear Zoo. Students will engage with drama through learning warm-ups, using adjectives in the novel to create characters and create their own masks and collaborative  performances.

Mandarin

Our students continue to enjoy participating in the Chinese language program called the Meg Language Program. The Meg Curriculum is written by the co-author of the Australian Curriculum. All students and teachers will participate in the digital learning platform via Zoom weekly sessions with educators in China.

Homework 

It is recommended that Year 2 students spend up to a duration of 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 sent home every Friday.

Please record and sign your child’s daily reading on the appropriate page in their reading log. It is very important that your child is reading aloud each night to ensure they are fluent, expressive and self monitoring. Asking comprehension questions at the end is also essential. 

Year 2 has access to RAZ4KIDS Online which include comprehension questions on each book. Please refer to their password sheet or homework books for login information. 

2B - Mrs Katrina Hedges

2G - Mrs Lauren Govers

2W - Mrs Alison Bofinger and Mrs Carly Beaven

Important Dates for Year Two

Sport Days are as follows:

2Blue - Tuesday, Friday

2Gold - Tuesday, Friday

2White - Tuesday, 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 - Tuesday

2Gold - Tuesday

2White - Tuesday

2024 - School Term 2

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