Year 2

Reminder that next week is swimming! Please read below for more details about the program and what students need to bring. 

Important Dates

19th - 23rd May – Grade 1 and 2 Swimming

26th May – Whole School Assembly

9th June – King’s Birthday Public Holiday

16th June – F-2 Assembly

16th June – 2KL + 2BM Excursion to Mont de Lancey Homestead

17th June – 2JH + 2CC Excursion to Mont de Lancey Homestead

23rd June – Science Week

30th June – Whole School Assembly 

Swimming

Grade 1 and 2 students will have swimming lessons NEXT WEEK (Monday 19th – Friday 23rd May). 

Please send your child to school wearing their bathers under their uniform to save time. We encourage students not to stockings as these are especially tricky to get on after swimming or if they get slightly damp. They will also need a small bag to take to the swimming pool with:

• A towel
• Goggles
• Underwear for after swimming
•  swim cap is optional
• Plastic bag for wet items

Please make sure everything is clearly named! Lost items can only be returned if they are labelled.

Huge thank you in advance to all of our parent helpers that have offered to assist with swimming next week. Please check your emails as information has been sent to our selected parent helpers for each day!

We would like to request that anyone who attends the pool to watch swimming lessons please be considerate of student privacy. If you intend to take photos, videos, or digital images, they should only be of your child. Please do not upload pictures of any other child to social media or reproduce or publish for any purpose without the permission of those children's legal guardians.

Grade 2 Timetable:

• 2JH + 2BM class: Depart VPS 11.40am, return 1.10pm
• 2KL + 2CC class: Depart VPS 12.15pm, return 1.45pm

Science Week

From Monday 23rd to Friday 27th June, Vermont Primary School will be celebrating Science Week. The students will be involved in a range of activities throughout the week. Some of the activities that the students might do are making bouncy balls, creating slime, making an egg that can bounce and more.

AFL Clinic

Last week we loved taking part in a special AFL clinic. Check out our photos!

What’s On in the Classroom?

Literacy

We are learning about improving our sentence structure in our writing. We are doing this by focusing on:

• Sentence starters
• Sentence length
• Creating rhythm and flow when read aloud

Here is some of our work from the past fortnight:

Mathematics

We have been focusing on our additive thinking and increasing our strategies to solve an addition or subtraction problems. Some strategies we have been learning about include:

• Addition and Subtraction Fact Families
• Jump Strategy
• Backwards Doubles
• Backwards 10 Facts

Our other mathematics topics include

• Time – reading time on analogue clocks and writing digital time

Inquiry

Excursion to Mont de Lancey

On Monday 16th June (2KL + 2BM) and Tuesday 17th June (2CC + 2JH) will be attending Mont de Lancey Homestead! The day is broken up into 2 parts.  The first part of the day is spent looking through the museum, homestead, chapel and artisans workshops.  The afternoon is spent doing various olden days activities – an old fashion school lesson in the schoolhouse, craft activities, rope making and old-fashioned games (billy carts, hoops etc). 

As part of this excursion, we ask for students and parent helpers to be dressed up in old fashioned clothing! It is not necessary for children to purchase clothes – just be creative with existing wardrobes (i.e., rolled up jeans, checked shirts, caps and dresses).

The excursion will be available on Compass soon – we will let you know when – but wanted to give you advance warning due to the different clothing required. 

We have been exploring olden day games and we even made bread this week!

Show and Tell