🗓️ TERM 2 DATES

🌱 Wednesday 2nd July: Adolescent Health - Parent Information Session

🌱 Thursday 3rd July: Last Day of Term 2 (2:30 dismissal)

🌱 Friday 4th July: Curriculum Day - Student free day

Adolescent Health - Parent Information Session will be held on Wednesday 2nd July at 7pm – 8pm.

You will need to follow the below link to register and secure your place in the session. Once you register, you will access the session via the ticket you are emailed.

Below is the URL that will direct you to the registration page:

https://events.humanitix.com/wonga-park-ps-primary-school-information-session-2nd-july-2025

🌱 LITERACY – Reading

This week, students will continue to build their skills in reading, interpreting, and retelling short texts. These activities provide valuable opportunities for students to demonstrate their comprehension and analytical thinking, as well as make inferences supported by evidence from the text. An exciting highlight will also be exploring each other’s published picture storybooks—giving students the chance to read with purpose, ask questions, and celebrate their peers' creativity.

What you can do at home

Encourage your child to talk about the texts they are reading and how they are using clues in the text and illustrations to make inferences. You might like to ask questions such as, “What makes you think that?” or “How do you know?” to support their thinking.

🌱 Writing

This week, students will be putting the finishing touches on their picture storybooks!

Any additional writing sessions this week will be used to revisit Sentence Level Writing through our creative spinner activity. In each session, students spin for a topic, an emotion, and a writing focus—such as vivid vocabulary, dialogue, or figurative language. This familiar and engaging routine continues to inspire creative thinking while allowing students to practise targeted writing techniques. These short, focused bursts of writing are building confidence, encouraging experimentation, and helping students refine their unique writer’s voice.

What you can do at home

Encourage your child to talk about the story they created and the cultural themes they explored. Ask them what inspired their ideas, and what they found challenging or rewarding about the process. You might also like to try a mini spinner-style prompt at home—choose a topic, an emotion, and a writing focus together, then set a short timer for some fun, creative writing! These conversations and activities help reinforce classroom learning and build your child’s confidence as a writer.

🌱 NUMERACY

This week in Mathematics, students will continue to explore the concepts of location and transformation. They will use their understanding to locate and describe positions on a grid, give and follow directions, and understand how shapes move through flips, slides, and turns. By using mathematical terms like reflection, translation, and rotation, they’re building both vocabulary and understanding. These activities are not only developing spatial thinking but also showing students how geometry applies to real-life contexts.

What you can do at home

Support your child’s learning by encouraging them to complete their assigned activities on Mathletics. These tasks are a great way to practise what they’ve learned in class. Talking through the questions together or asking your child to explain their thinking can help build their understanding and confidence in working with chance and probability.

🌱 CBL

There’s a real buzz of excitement as students prepare to complete their CBL challenge – ‘to share a story that captures the experienes of cultural diversity and human connection’. It will be wonderful to discover the different themes of cultural diversity their peers have chosen to represent, and the reasons behind those choices. Grade 5 and 6 students will come together in classrooms to read, discuss, and ask thoughtful questions about each other’s ideas, challenges, and creative processes. To conclude, they’ll complete a reflection to thoughtfully wrap up the experience.

🌱 HOMEWORK

Students are expected to complete homework on a weekly basis. This consists of

- 100 minutes total of reading a novel/factual text of their choice

- 3 (minimum) Mathletics tasks, which the teachers will assign

- 2 Nessy activities

This homework is to be recorded in the Calendar App on student iPads. Your child's teacher will check this homework on Friday.

🌿 REMINDERS

🌱 Please assist your child in ensuring that their iPad comes to school every day, fully charged. This is especially important this week as students are completing a range of online assessments.

🌱 HAPPY HOLIDAYS! Enjoy your break and we will see you back here, ready for Term 3!

DROP OFF AND PICK UP IN LANTANA

Please be mindful of the road signs on Lantana Road. It is a NO PARKING zone in front of the school during school start and finish times. To ensure a smooth and safe process, we have a designated pick-up system at the end of the day, where a teacher monitors and guides students into cars lined up in the queue. This system works efficiently when there are no parked cars breaching the signage during these times. Thank you for your cooperation.

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Term 2, Week 11 2025 · 30 Jun 2025

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