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

 Our Religious Education units for this term are:

2.5 Reflecting God’s Goodness

This unit explores the concept of living as a follower of Jesus. It introduces Jesus’ commandment to love others as Jesus loved us. It draws on the children’s knowledge of stories about Jesus and of their experience of people who reflect God’s love. The unit introduces saints as ordinary people who reflected God’s goodness to the world and brought God’s love to others.

2.7 Caring for Creation 

This unit reflects on living in a harmonious relationship with all of God’s creation. The parable of ‘The Good Samaritan’ is presented. Through it, children explore Jesus’ teaching about caring for others. Children learn about the beauty and wonder of creation and their responsibility towards it. 

You can help your child by:

• Encouraging simple daily prayers with your child
• Attending Mass regularly with your child

English

This term, the students will deepen their understanding of perspective and argument through a study of fractured fairy tales. They will explore how arguments can be presented from different perspectives and use extended text features to enhance their writing. Students will compose persuasive texts that present a different perspective from the traditional fairy tale. Texts will include The True Story of the Three Little Pigs written by John Scieszka, traditional fairy tales such as The Three Little Pigs, Little Red Riding Hood and Jack and the Beanstalk.

Students will build on their understanding of how cultures and traditions can be represented in texts. They will engage with texts that depict real and imagined representations of significant people from various cultures and backgrounds. Students will explore how cultural representations can be shared through creative visual features. Texts will include Drawn Together written by Minh Le, Littlest Refugee written by Anh Doh, Out written by Angela May George.

 The children will also continue the Soundwaves spelling program. 

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, ask 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 to cater to all student needs and abilities.

The topics taught in Term 3 are: Forming Groups, Data, 3D Spatial Structure and Combining and separating quantities.

You can assist your child by:

• Revising counting skills (e.g. counting by 2's, 5's and 10's from any given three-digit number or by 100’s from any 3 digit number)
• Rounding 2 and 3-digit numbers to the nearest 10 and 100. E.g. 26 rounded to the nearest 10 is 30. 
• Revising how 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.
• Go shopping - notice prices, which is more/less, how much altogether
• Play games involving money and trade money eg. coins for notes, notes for coins, coins for coins.

Science and Technology

The Science unit this term is called 'Physical World' and will focus on the identification of light, sound and heat energy, and how they are sensed and produced. The students will further develop their understanding of forces and energy and how these can be used for specific purposes in products. The Digital Technologies strand focuses on digital systems and their components.

History

The unit this term is called "The Past in the Present". The students will explore, recognise and appreciate the history of their local area by examining remains of the past and considering why they should be preserved. They will identify and describe significant people, events, places, sites and changes in the local community over time. They will also investigate the effects of changing technology on people’s lives.

Personal Development, Health and Physical Education

This Term, Year 2 will participate in Physical Education (PE) lessons with Miss Reid and their classroom teacher. Students will be focusing on developing their knowledge of different games and sports. They will also be involved in an Olympic Game Class Challenge. Students will also work on their skills learnt in previous terms and apply them to different sports and games. Students will be learning different rules and requirements in various sports. They will be working on their teamwork, communication and resilience skills. Students will also be involved in a Fun and Fitness day in week 2. 

In our Open Parachute lessons, students will be exploring the concepts of Friendship Challenges, Making Safe Choices & the importance of Being Brave.

Creative Arts

Students will continue participating 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, within their regular Classroom Music lessons with Mr Parlato. Within these lessons, students will:

• Sing in unison and parts
• Play tuned and untuned percussion instruments
• Play available instruments including percussion instruments 

In class, the students will engage in Visual Art lessons based on literature linked to Book Week 2024. In Year 2, students create artworks representing both real and imagined situations exploring a range of techniques and media. They will discuss the qualities of artworks such as subject matter and technique, recognising that artists create artworks for different audiences.

Mandarin

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

Homework 

Homework will follow the same structure as Semester One. It is recommended that Year 2 students spend up to 20-30 minutes of homework per day. Homework consists of daily reading, spelling and Mathematics activities. This includes 10 minutes of reading every night. Year 2 also has access to the reading and comprehension site Raz-kids.

These activities are to be completed weekly. Homework is due each Thursday and will be sent home every Friday. 

Thank you for your partnership and support. We are looking forward to another productive term!

2B - Mrs Katrina Hedges

2G - Mrs Lauren Govers

2W - Mrs Alison Bofinger and Mrs Carly Beaven

Important Dates for Year Two

Sports Days are as follows:

2Blue - Tuesday

2Gold - Tuesday

2White- Tuesday

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 3

 Parent calendar available at this link