Beaumaris Primary School: Stop Press

What's Happening in the Junior School

Prep

What’s Happening in Prep in Weeks 1 & 2

 

The Prep teachers hope you and your family had a great break! We can’t believe it is now Term 4. We are looking forward to a busy and fun-filled term ahead. Please keep an eye out for communication around specific events and details.  

 

Wellbeing 

  •  How do we keep our bodies healthy and safe?  

 

Literacy 

  • Reviewing FLOSS rule 
  • Reviewing learnt diagraph; ck /k/ 
  • Reviewing superhero e with gentle cindy rule (c and g making their “soft” sounds /s/ and /j/) 
  • Identifying the suffix - es 
  • Identifying the suffix - ed.  

 

Maths 

  • Identifying equal shares 
  • Sharing equally between two and three groups 
  • Sharing equally with one left over 
  • Identifying amounts that can be shared equally into two groups 

  • Solving problems by sharing collections.   

     

Knowledge Unit 

Big Question: How are families the same and different around the world?  

 

Throughout Term 4, students will be exploring the following lines of inquiry: 

  • Who is in my family? 
  • What people can be in other families? 
  • What do families do together each day? 
  • How are family routines (like meals or bedtime) the same or different?  
  • Where do families live and how might homes look different around the world? 

 

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.  Mathletics login codes are placed inside the front cover of students reading journals. This is an optional task that students may wish to complete at home.  

 

Reminders 

  • Fire Education Session 1 – Thursday 16th October 
  • Fire Education Session 2 – Thursday 23rd October 

 

 

Year 1

What’s Happening in Year 1 in Weeks 1 & 2

 

Welcome back to Term 4! We hope everyone enjoyed the term break. 

 

During Week 1 and 2, Year 1 student's will be learning about...

 

Literacy 

Students will be working on:  

  • Phonics:  
  • Learning how to read and spell ai /ā/, ay /ā/, ee /ē/, ea /ē/, ey /ē/ and oa /ō/, ow /ō/, oe /ō/ 
  • Reading Fluency: Reading with accuracy and at an appropriate rate 
  • Handwriting: Correctly forming the letter W and R, both uppercase and lowercase  
  • Exploring the text: The Imagineer by Christopher Cheng and Lucia Masciullo.  

  • We will be looking at the narrative structure, how illustrations help tell a story, alliteration, use of time connectives and conjunctions. 

     

Maths 

Students will be working on:  

Week 1:  

  • Reciting and putting days of the week in order and identifying which days of the week are weekdays and weekends 
  • Reciting and recording months of the year in order 
  • Create a classroom calendar with special events that are happening this term 

  • Learn about the duration of years and decades and centuries 

     

Week 2: 

  • Understand and follow directions using terminology such as left, right, straight ahead, forwards and backwards 

  • Create and follow a set of instructions to move objects or find locations 

     

Wellbeing 

During Weeks 1 and 2 in Wellbeing, students will be discovering their individual strengths and celebrating what makes each of them unique.  

 

Knowledge Unit 

This term in Geography, students will explore our local neighbourhood, regional Victoria, and Australia as a whole. In Weeks 1 and 2, they will focus on developing map skills—learning how to read maps, identify their features, and recognise significant parts of Australia.  

 

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!).   

 

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  

  • 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 1 & 2

 

Welcome to Term 4! We hope everyone had a relaxing and enjoyable holiday. It's been fantastic to see our students back in the classroom, ready for a new term. We had a great time wrapping up last term by designing and building our very own arcade games. The students showcased their creativity, problem-solving skills, and had a lot of fun sharing their games with the Prep students. In the coming weeks, students will engage in a range of meaningful and exciting learning opportunities across all areas of the curriculum. This week, we will be beginning our new Knowledge Unit: History, where students will investigate the history of Ancient Egypt and explore its culture, achievements, and lasting impact. 

 

We are excited to make the most of our final term with productive and engaging learning! 

 

Over the next fortnight, the Year 2 students will be learning about... 

 

Wellbeing 

  • Understand and describe how working together helped the team succeed in activities. 
  • Recognise examples of cooperative behaviour during group tasks. 
  • Identify ways that cooperation supports problem-solving in different situations. 

  • Practice using cooperative skills to overcome challenges and work effectively with others. 

     

Phonics 

We are learning to: 

  • use Alternate Long U (ew, eu, ue /yū/; ou /ū/)

  • use ough /aw/, /ō/

     

Literacy 

We are learning to: 

  • building background knowledge of truck drivers and immigrants
  • introduce the features of a narrative text: characters/setting
  • writing sentences using adjectives, nouns, adverbs, and verbs

 

Maths 

We are learning to: 

  • solve addition and subtraction word problems using the CUBES strategy 
  • solve multiplication and division word problems using the CUBES strategy
  • identify the operations needed to solve word problems 
  • solve mathematical problems
  • identify half of a collection
  • identify the whole from half of a collection
  • identify one quarter of a collection 
  • identify one eighth of a collection

 

Knowledge Unit 

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

The History of Ancient Egypt – Pyramids, Pharaohs, and the Past 

 

Over the next fortnight, students will be exploring the following lines of inquiry: 

  • What is history? 
  • Why is it important and why should we learn about it? 
  • How do we learn about the past? – artefacts, primary and secondary sources. 
  • Where is Egypt and The Nile River? 

 

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. 

 

Library Days:  

2A - Friday 

2P- Friday 

2L - Wednesday 

2F – Wednesday