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
📚 Readers are swapped every Monday.
Wednesday 17th September - End of Term Special Lunch
Friday 19th September - Last Day of Term. Dismissal at 2.30pm.
Weekly Timetable
Learning in Action
Production
What a huge week it has been with our Moana production! We are so proud of all the students’ efforts. On stage they shone with huge smiles, fantastic dance moves, and wonderful singing. Thank you for all your support at home — we hope you enjoyed the show!
📖 Literacy
We will continue our Intertextual Connections Literature Unit while also developing our ability to order supporting details in Text-Level Writing (TLW) and use fronted adverbial phrases in Sentence-Level Writing (SLW).
Over the past fortnight, students completed their Intertextual Connections unit by exploring the books A Walk in the Park and Voices in the Park. We compared these two stories in a Venn diagram, where students identified many similarities and differences.
✍️ Writing Focus
In Sentence-Level Writing, we have been learning about fronted adverbials.This is when we add a how, when, or where adverb at the start of a simple sentence to expand it. For example:
- Before school, I packed my bag.
- With great care, she painted the picture.
In Text-Level Writing, students have continued to work on ordering supporting details. They have been able to identify the topic sentence, add details in order using first, next, then, and finally, and finish with a concluding statement.
Preview – We have now finished our Literature Unit and are beginning our new Knowledge-Rich Unit. In Sentence-Level Writing, we will be identifying the four sentence types. In Text-Level Writing, we will continue developing skills to match supporting details to a topic sentence.
Word Work
In Word Work we have been focusing on the ‘tch’ vs ‘ch' rule in words.
➗ Maths
In Maths this fortnight, we have started learning about division. Students have been exploring two types of division:
- When you know how many groups there are and you share the total equally.
- When you don’t know how many groups there are, but you know how many items are in each group.
In our Applied Topic on Time, students have completed their learning on clockwise, anticlockwise, quarter turns, half turns, three-quarter turns, and full turns. They have been using clocks to determine how far and in which direction the hand has moved, as well as using shapes to identify turns.
Preview – Over the last few weeks of term, we will continue to explore the connection between multiplication and division.
🧠 Knowledge-Rich Units
This week, we began our new topic: Great Inventions. Students have been exploring questions such as:
- What is an inventor?
- What is an invention?
They are excited to discover what inventions looked like in the past, including early versions of the telephone and the typewriter.
😊 Wellbeing
Over the past fortnight, Grade 2 students have revisited the Friendology resources to explore the meaning of respect and strategies for making new friends. They were reminded of Friendship Fact #3: Trust and Respect are the two most important qualities of a friendship.
Preview – In the last few weeks of term, we will explore the second part of Friendship Fact #3 and learn more about trust.
📚 Grade 2 Homework Options
From the Grade 2 Teachers
Bronte Darvidis, Mikayla Harvey and Taryn Bailey
Updates from around the school
Garden Working Bee – Friday 12th September
We are calling on our wonderful school community to help us freshen up the gardens at the front of the school. On Friday 12th September, from 11.30am to 3.30pm, we will be holding a garden maintenance afternoon and would love your support.
The work will include:
- Removing old plants
- Weeding garden beds
- Planting new plants to brighten up the entrance to our school
If you can spare some time, whether it’s for the whole afternoon or just an hour, your help will make a big difference. Please bring along gardening gloves, tools if you have them, and plenty of energy!
To assist with planning, we kindly ask that you confirm your attendance by emailing the school office at lysterfield.ps@education.vic.gov.au.
Together, we can make the front of our school a welcoming and beautiful space for our students, families, and community.
Green Team News
Under the guidance of Mrs Stokol and Mrs Alexander, the Green Team met for the first time this week, and what a meeting it was! Across Years 3 to 5, we had nearly 50 excited and passionate students eager to do their part for the environment.
Whether it’s helping to keep the school free of rubbish, caring for and developing the gardens, or educating our community about sustainability, there was a real buzz in the air as students shared ideas and signed up for various roles.
A new initiative launched this term is the collection of 10c containers. Thanks to the special lunch day last term, we raised $21, a fantastic start! We’re now working to collect eligible containers daily to reduce landfill waste and turn recyclables into funds that will be reinvested into future Green Team projects.
Participation in the Green Team is inclusive and open to all. It’s not too late for your child to get involved; we’d love to have them on board!
Green Team Newsletter #2
The enthusiastic Green Team members from Years 3 to 6 continue to meet with Mrs Alexander and Mrs Stokol each Wednesday lunchtime. Meetings begin with a check-in on how the yard cleaning roster is going. Students report which areas are the cleanest, which need more attention, and share ideas for improvement.
Sustainability remains a key focus. Whether it’s managing waste, maintaining garden spaces, or spreading awareness, students have shown impressive initiative and creativity.
Our 10c container collection is going strong! We've raised over $30 in just a few weeks. Green Team members manage the collection bin outside the canteen on lunch order days, and also visit classrooms weekly to gather containers from specially labelled tubs. By collecting these items daily, we are preventing waste from going to landfill and turning it into cash to support our environmental efforts.
Be sure to check out the Sustainability Display in the gym over the coming weeks to see what we’ve been up to!
Did you know? You can support the Green Team by nominating Lysterfield Primary School (LPS) as your donation partner through Victoria’s Container Deposit Scheme.
Download the app or visit:🔗 Victoria's Container Deposit Scheme | Learn How To Donate
It’s planting season, and what’s better than free plants?
Help the Green Team — and Earn Free Plants!
Did you know that the Knox Environment Society (KES) offers free native plants as prizes through their Nature Discovery Passport program?
By playing an interactive game and collecting stamps at local reserves, participants can earn plant prizes, and what better way to use those plants than by donating them to our school for the Green Team to grow and maintain?
Explore one of the many beautiful reserves in Knox on the weekend, learn about your local ecology, collect stamps, and claim your prize. It’s a fun way to get outside, support the environment, and contribute to our school’s sustainability efforts.
And who says the fun is just for the kids? Families are welcome to join in too!
To learn more, visit:
🔗 Nature Discovery Passport – Knox Environment Society
🔗 Knox Environment Society Home Page
Thank you — every little bit helps!
Mrs Stokol and Mrs Alexander