Grade 2 News
📅 Important Dates & Reminders
🏊♂️ Every Thursday (Weeks 1–5)Swimming Program
🚌 Monday, July 28 Grade 2 Excursion – Cranbourne Botanical Gardens
🏊 Swimming Reminders
- Students are encouraged to wear their bathers underneath their school clothes. Please discuss toileting with your child if needed, especially for girls wearing one-piece bathers.
- Ensure all clothing and swimwear items are clearly labelled with your child’s name.
- In addition to their regular school bag, please pack a small swimming bag with the following:
- Towel
- Thongs or Crocs
- Goggles (optional)
- Students will change into their thongs/Crocs at school before departing. Runners are not required at the pool.
Weekly Timetable
Learning in Action
Looking Back
Before we dive into another exciting term, we want to say a huge thank you for your support throughout Semester 1! Here’s a snapshot of how we ended the term:
Disco
Cultural Day
Grade 2 Fun
📖 Literacy
Literature: Intertextual Connections
In Term 3, students will explore intertextual connections through familiar fairy tales such as The Three Little Pigs and Little Red Riding Hood. They will compare characters, settings and events across texts and build their understanding of literal and inferred meaning.
Writing
We’ll begin the term with a focus on sentence-level writing, including the use of:
- Common and proper nouns
- Pronouns
- Conjunctions to combine 2–3 short sentences
Students will also begin developing their whole-text writing skills. They’ll learn to plan and write structured paragraphs using a Single Paragraph Outline (SPO).
Word Work
Throughout the term, students will explore a variety of consonant digraphs and trigraphs, practising both reading and spelling with a focus on rules for when to use each code.
Some examples include:
- qu
- ck vs k
- dge vs ge
- tch vs ch
➗ Maths
This term’s number focus is on multiplication and division. Students will:
- Develop an understanding of each operation
- Explore the connection between them
- Apply their knowledge to real-life contexts
- Practise strategies to solve problems
Students will also be given individual goals to support their development.
In our applied maths topics, students will explore:
- ⏰ Time
- 🎲 Chance
- 🔷 2D Shapes
🧠 Knowledge-Rich Units
This term, Grade 2 students will explore two engaging topics:
🌏 Geography of Australia
Students will learn about:
- Australia’s location in the world
- Our diverse ecosystems and natural features
Australia’s multicultural heritage
💡 Great Inventions
Students will investigate how innovations have shaped our world, including:
- Indigenous Australian inventions
- Advances in transport and communication
- Australia’s contributions to global needs
- The evolution of toys through history
😊 Wellbeing
This term, we will continue with the Resilience, Rights and Respectful Relationships (RRRR) program. Our focus will be on:
- Help-seeking behaviours – understanding how to support others, when to ask for help, and identifying trusted adults
- Building and maintaining friendships using Friendology resources
These lessons aim to strengthen students’ emotional awareness, empathy, and social skills.
📚 Grade 2 Homework Options
From the Grade 2 Teachers
Bronte Darvidis, Mikayla Harvey and Taryn Bailey
Updates from around the school
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