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What's Happening in the Junior School

Prep

What’s Happening in Prep in Weeks 5 and 6

 

What an exciting fortnight in Prep! We are going on our very first excursion to Moonlit Sanctuary tomorrow, where we will have the chance to meet a variety of reptiles and mammals - and even get to feed the wallabies! We also can't wait to celebrate Book Week, we're excited to see everyone dressed up as one of their favourite book characters!  

 

Over the next two weeks, we will be learning about:

 

Wellbeing 

  • Identify when I need help and who can help me  

  • Have a growth mindset by trying our best, having a go even when things feel tricky, and understanding that practice helps us improve.

     

Literacy 

  • Writing a sentence to inform 
  • Identifying superhero e. a_e (safe), i_e (pine), o_e (rope), e_e (eve), u_e (mute).  

  • Identify different sentence types. Statement vs question

     

Maths 

  • Identifying the attributes of length 
  • Directly comparing the length of two objects 
  • Directly comparing the height of two objects 
  • Ordering objects based on direct comparison 
  • Identifying the attributes of mass 

  • Direct comparison of mass using hefting  

     

Knowledge Unit 

Big Question: How do living things grow and change?  Throughout Term 3, students will be exploring the following lines of inquiry: 

  • What is a living thing?  
  • What do living things need to survive?  
  • What are some features of animals and plants? 

 

Homework  

Students take home 3 decodable readers in their reading pouch each week as well as their green Decoding Detective book and Sound Pack. Please continue to read these with your child, the Preps love showing you how they can recognise and recall all learnt letters and sounds. Reading pouches are returned on Mondays to be changed over and checked by their teacher.  

 

Reminders 

  • Friday 5th September - Father's Day Stall/ Father's and Special Person's Open Afternoon 2:45pm

 

Year 1

What’s Happening in Year 1 in Weeks 5 and 6

 

Wellbeing 

In wellbeing, students will be participating in workshops run by the Year 5 students. Students will participate in workshops about how to be an upstander, how to be environmentally friendly and how to use the coding app ScratchJnr. 

 

Literacy 

Students will be working on:  

  • Phonics
  • Reviewing concepts that have been taught this term 
  • Learn how to read and spell ar /ar/, or /or/ and ore /or/ 
  • Reading Fluency: Reading with accuracy and at an appropriate rate 
  • Handwriting: Correctly forming the letter E and O, both uppercase and lowercase  
  • Exploring Book Week shortlisted books  
  • Describe their Book Week character that they have dressed as and why they have chosen that character 
  • Exploring the descriptive language used in the picture story book The Boy Who Tried to Shrink His Name by Sandhya Parappukkaran and Michelle Pereira 

  • Writing and expanding simple sentences, including a capital letter and a full stop 

     

Maths 

Students will be working on Shape in Week 5 and Addition in Week 6. As part of these units of work students will be: 

 

Shape 

  • Naming, identifying, describing and sorting two-dimensional shapes 
  • Making and drawing two-dimensional shapes 
  • Identifying and describing quadrilaterals 
  • Identifying and describing three-dimensional objects 

  • Identifying three-dimensional objects in the environment 

     

Addition  

  • Adding to 20 on a number line by counting on 
  • Adding multiple numbers within 20 
  • Adding within 20 by partitioning 
  • Partitioning two-digit numbers into tens and ones and writing addition equations 
  • Partitioning two-digit numbers in different ways and writing addition equations 

 

Knowledge Unit 

Students will be looking at what happens to materials when they are heated and cooled. They will investigate frozen objects and what changes happen over time using their five senses. Students will also look at states of matter (gas, liquid and solid). 

 

Library 

Students will be attending the library on Thursday each week as a cohort. Please ensure that students have their blue library satchel in their bag to keep their borrowed book protected when transporting to and from school. This will help keep these books separate from their ‘Classroom Library’ picture story book that they take home on a Monday.  

 

Take Home Readers 

Each week, your child will take three decodables home. We strongly encourage students to reread these texts multiple times across the week as this is an important way novice readers develop automaticity and reading fluency. In addition, students are bringing home one quality text from their classroom library each week. As novice readers, they will not necessarily be able to read these books independently. However, they will benefit a great deal from hearing these texts read out loud by an expert (you!). As our phonics lessons teach new digraphs and diphthongs, sound pack cards will be added to the students’ reading pouches for practice. Keep practicing the sound pack cards the students already have.   

 

Mathletics 

Your child has their Mathletics code pasted into their Reading Diaries. Activities have been set by the classroom teachers and students can work through assigned task at their own pace. Completing these tasks is optional. We have been really excited to see students completing Mathletics tasks at home. These help to consolidate their understandings from the classroom.  

 

Reminders 

  • Reminder that Friday 22nd August is the book week dress up. Students are invited to come to school dressed up as one of their favourite book characters. At 9.10am we will have a whole school assembly where our students will have the opportunity to parade and celebrate their costume.   
  • Fruit and veggie break snack: Please ensure that students are bringing their fruit and veggie snack in a container separate to their lunch box. This supports students in transitioning during fruit and veggie break time in the classroom.  
  • Students are to bring in their reading pouch every Monday to swap their take home readers and classroom library book. It is really important students are completing their 20 minutes of nightly reading to support their reading progress. New readers are only sent home until the previous week’s books have been returned.  

 

  • Students have multiple opportunities across the week to spend time with students in other classes, these include Wellbeing, FMS, Library and eating recess and lunch together. 

 

 

Year 2

What’s Happening in Year 2 in Weeks 5 and 6

 

The Year 2 students enjoyed designing and building a vessel that could carry at least three eggs without them falling out or breaking. They were challenged to follow the design process, to create something that could collect the eggs from the chicken coop and safely carry them all the way back to the staffroom. This hands-on activity encouraged creative thinking, teamwork, and problem-solving. From planning and building to testing and improving their creations, the students showed fantastic persistence to ensure their creations were functional. It was a joy to see their innovative ideas come to life and how proud they were of their successful designs.  

 

Over the next fortnight, the Year 2 students will be learning: 

 

Wellbeing 

We are learning to: 

  • Building social connections by writing back to Pen Pals 

     

Phonics 

We are learning to: 

  • Doubling Rule when adding a suffix – ed, -ing, -er, -est
  • Drop –e Rule 
  • -y to i Rule 

 

Literacy 

We are learning to: 

  • how to start and end a letter by writing different greetings and sign-offs with the correct punctuation
  • form an opinion statement   
  • use modal verbs and conjunctions to justify and reason 
  • write a persuasive text in response to prompt 

 

Maths 

We are learning to: 

  • Name, identify and describe two-dimensional shapes
  • Identify parallel sides in two-dimensional shapes
  • Sort regular and irregular two-dimensional shapes 
  • Split and combine two-dimensional shapes
  • Create and manipulate two-dimensional shapes 
  • Identify and create patterns by rotating two-dimensional shapes

 

Knowledge Unit 

This term, the Year 2 students will be learning about Design and Technologies. We will be exploring the big question:  

How can we use push and pull forces to design and improve something that moves?  

 

Homework  

 

  • Please continue to read the take home reading books each week, aiming for 15 – 20 minutes each evening. Changing readers will continue occur on a Friday. Please enjoy sharing a new Classroom Library text each Friday. This book is for enjoyment and can be read by parents/carers.  

  • Optional: Mathletics logins have been placed in the front cover of reading diaries. Students may work through these tasks at their own pace, if desired.  

     

Reminders: 

  • Recycled Materials Request: As a part of our Design and Technologies Unit, the Year 2 Students will be constructing their own arcade game, from recycled materials. We would welcome any donations of cardboard boxes, over the coming weeks. Please feel free to drop these off in the classroom. Thank you in advance! 
  • Book Week Dress up 22nd August/ Book Fair