Year 1/2 News
Learning Centre One
Welcome back everyone to the start of the 2026 school year! We hope all our students, families, and staff enjoyed a safe, restful, and refreshing holiday break. It has been wonderful to see our school come back to life, with classrooms buzzing, friendships reconnecting, and a strong sense of enthusiasm in the air.
Our students have settled in beautifully, demonstrating positive attitudes, resilience, and excitement as they return to their learning routines. As we begin this new year, we look forward to the opportunities ahead — for learning, growth, creativity, and achievement. Together, we are committed to making 2026 a successful, supportive, and inspiring year for every student.
Meet the team:
Inquiry:
Students have been learning about the school’s core values, expectations, and the ways we act as learners at OLSC. As a learning group, students collaboratively created a group agreement that connects to the behaviour matrix and reflects the key values of Respect, Resilience, and Responsibility.
Literacy:
In Literacy, students have been reading books for enjoyment and exploring the teachers’ favourite texts in Years 1/2. They have been learning about adjectives to make their writing more descriptive, as well as how to write sentences correctly using capital letters, spacing, and full stops. These skills are helping students become more confident, creative, and capable readers and writers.
Maths:
As part of our learning, students have been developing their mathematical thinking through hands-on data activities. They explored matching items into categories, helping them practise sorting, classifying, and recognising similarities and differences.
Students also learned how to use tally marks to record information accurately. This supported their understanding of counting, tracking totals, and representing data in an organised way.
Applications:
Below is a list of the Apps that are needed to be downloaded onto your child's device. Any questions please let us know.
Take Home Friend:
Across the year, each student will have a special opportunity to take the class friend home. This helps students practise kindness, responsibility, and care, while sharing meaningful experiences with their families and the learning group of the adventures that they got up together
Important Dates:
- Welcome Picnic - Tuesday 10th February - 5 - 7pm
- P& F Meeting - Wednesday 11th February - 9am
- School Mass - Friday 13th February - 9am OLSC Hall (All Welcome)
- Community Mass - Sunday 15th February - 10am OLSC Hall (All Welcome)
- Shrove Tuesday - Tuesday 17th February
- Ash Wednesday - Wednesday 18th February - 9am OLSC Hall (All Welcome)
- Labour Day - Monday 9th March - SCHOOL CLOSED
- Community Mass - Sunday March 15th - 10am OLSC Hall (All Welcome)
- School Photos - Monday 23rd March
- Last Day Term: Wednesday 1st April - 3:15pm Finish
- Learning and Teaching Closure Day - Thursday April 2nd SCHOOL CLOSED
- Good Friday - Friday 3rd April
- Term 2 Commences - Tuesday 21st March
1/2 Team - Mary, Sue, Danielle, Sarena, Chelsea, Imogen, Moe Moe, Sarah, Jannine, Marion & Kiah