Grade 2 News

📅 Important Dates & Reminders

All important dates and events are available on our Compass Calendar. Please check the calendar regularly to stay up to date.

Upcoming Dates and Key Information

Monday 23rd  February: School Photos

Friday 27th  February: House Cross Country

Monday 9th  March: Labour Day Public Holiday

Thursday 2nd  April: Last day of Term 1. Dismissal at 2.30pm

*Icy Poles will be sold by the Grade 6's on Monday and Tuesdays! $1 each*

Learning Reflection

📖 Literacy

Literature

Over the past fortnight, the Grade 2s have concluded their unit ‘Under the Southern Cross’. Throughout this unit, students learned to:

• respond to and identify the features of a hybrid narrative non-fiction text

• identify how the language and form of a text vary according to purpose, audience and mode

• express personal responses to the world represented in the text and use language to show appreciation and preferences

• understand and use tier 2 vocabulary from the text

• identify and convert fragments into sentences

• expand simple sentences using who/what, where and when

• extend a noun into a noun group with an article, adjective and noun

Additionally, this unit had an overarching theme of ‘Connection to Country’ where students built knowledge about how places are shown on maps, from local areas to regions and states/territories, and how people are connected to these places, including the strong connections First Nations Australians have to Country. This important focus has continued into their new unit ‘The First Scientists’. This story by Corey Tutt shines a light on the remarkable scientific knowledge of Australia’s First Peoples. During their first week of this unit students have explored the following: 

• exploring new vocabulary (e.g. familiar, harsh, notorious, modern)
• identifying the features of an informative text
• planning an informative text
• comparing text purposes and audiences
• concluding statements
• identifying the author's opinion

Preview - Over the next fortnight, students will complete their unit on ‘The First Scientists’. By the conclusion of this unit, they will have created their own information report. We will then move into a Knowledge Rich unit, looking at 'Geography of Australia.'

Word Work

➗ Maths 

Students have continued building their confidence in Grade 2 Maths over the past two weeks, working deeply with 3-digit numbers up to 1000. We have been placing numbers accurately on a number line, using what we know about hundreds, tens and ones to help us estimate and position them correctly. Students have also been comparing and ordering 3-digit numbers, remembering to look carefully at the hundreds column first to determine which number is larger or smaller.

Alongside this, students have been writing numerals in words and identifying target numbers on a number chart using place value clues. We have also explored renaming numbers by regrouping tens, ones and hundreds, helping students understand that numbers can be represented in different but equal ways. It has been wonderful to see students applying their place value knowledge with increasing confidence and accuracy.

Preview - Over the next fortnight, students will begin their unit on Time, focusing on reading, representing and drawing o’clock, half past and quarter past/to times on an analogue clock. They will also explore clockwise and anti-clockwise turns, building a strong understanding of how time moves around the clock face.

😊Wellbeing

Over the past fortnight in Wellbeing, our Grade 2 students have been continuing their learning through the Friendology program. In Session 3, Making Friends, students explored four practical strategies to help build connections: 

1. Super Introducer

2. Ask and Pass

3. Quick Questions, and

4. Be a Friendship Magnet. 

They enjoyed practising these skills through role-plays and class discussions. In Session 4, Friendship Facts, students focused on understanding the ‘truths’ of friendship and developing realistic expectations. We explored what trust and respect look and feel like in a friendship, and how these important qualities help build strong, positive relationships.

Preview -  In the upcoming weeks, the Grade 2 students will participate in Friendology Session 5 Friend-o-meter and Session 6 Friendship Fires. These sessions will support students to reflect on their own and their friends’ feelings in friendships, while learning strategies to resolve conflict.

🌿Acknowledgement of Country

This week, our Grade 2 classes worked together to create their own Acknowledgement of Country. We discussed its purpose -  to show respect to the Traditional Custodians of the land where we learn and play, recognise their ongoing connection to Country, and honour the history, culture and contributions of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples. Students thoughtfully shared ideas to create a class statement reflecting our commitment to respect and inclusion.

Each student then decorated a leaf, which we combined into a beautiful mural. The leaves symbolise growth, unity, and our shared responsibility to care for the land and one another.

📚 Grade 2 Homework Options

If you would like some additional homework activities - CLICK HERE

From the Grade 2 Teachers

Zoe Callanan, Bronte Darvidis, Mikayla Harvey and Tessa Holmes