Year Prep - Year 2

Assistant Principal's Report

Junior School News

Hello and welcome back to Week Six!  It is a very busy but also very exciting time of year.  Teachers are busy creating class lists for 2020 and writing student reports which will highlight the growth and successes of the students across the year.  Students are demonstrating how they are preparing for the step up into another year level and preparations for a new school year are well and truly underway,  whilst ensuring that a strong learning focus is maintained right through until Week 11.

Our Prep students, in particular, are looking more grown-up by the day, and it's hard to believe that it has almost been a year since their first day of school.  I know in recent weeks that teachers have been looking over many different forms of assessment data, in order to write reports, and are blown away by the growth that the students have made in such a short period of time.  In recent weeks, and coinciding with what should be our warmer summer weather, students have been learning all about the weather and seasons.  In coming weeks, as will be the case for all year levels, they will begin to learn about being sun smart and safe around water as the summer holidays approach.

The Preps and Year Ones have also been learning about helpers in our community which culminated in our 'Community Helpers Day' last Friday.  We had special guests from Victoria Police, the Country Fire Authority and the Victorian State Emergency Service.  Students learned all about the specific role that each play in our society and how they can help us. 

In Year One, students have just finished learning all about division.  In doing so, they have been discussing how they can cut or share shapes and collections of objects equally into parts.  Coming weeks in Numeracy will be spent ensuring that students have grasped all the essential skills that they require before 2020 when they will make the big step up into Year Two!

In Year Two, students have begun revising Narrative writing.  This is a very popular text-type among our junior school in particular as it enables students to showcase their creative sides.  However, this is also valuable revision time ahead of their first NAPLAN tests in Year Three.   Some of creative and interesting stories currently being drafted are very impressive and I am sure they will be more than ready when it comes time next year.

Hopefully in coming weeks we can start to see a little more of the warmer weather that has visited ever so fleetingly! 

Until next time, take care.

Regards

Danny Forster 

Assistant Principal in Junior School