Year 2 Highlight

Our Year 2 students have been busy becoming imaginative authors as they explored the delightful Australian picture book Wombat Stew by Marcia K. Vaughan and Pamela Lofts. In this much-loved story, a cunning dingo catches a wombat and decides to make wombat stew! With the help of some clever bush animals, the dingo gathers a range of unusual ingredients, following a series of playful, rhyming recipes. However, the animals have a clever plan of their own!

Inspired by this humorous tale, our young writers bravely stepped outside the familiar story to create their very own fractured fairy tale. They demonstrated wonderful creativity and imagination as they invented original characters, dreamed up surprising and sometimes hilarious ingredients, and crafted their own catchy rhyming phrases to bring their stories to life.

Writing a narrative involves much more than simply putting ideas on paper! Our students worked through the important stages of the writing process, beginning with planning their characters, settings and story events. They then drafted their narratives, reread their work, edited their writing to improve their ideas and sentence structure, and published their final pieces. To complete their masterpieces, students created illustrations that beautifully complemented their storytelling.

We are incredibly proud of the courage our Year 2 students showed in sharing their unique ideas and taking creative risks with their writing. Their finished narratives are a wonderful celebration of their growing confidence, developing writing skills and boundless imaginations. Well done, Year 2 authors!