Year Two

Communicating with the Year Two Team

We look forward to partnering with you in 2022, and welcome your input:

Julie Hall (Class 2A) Julie.Hall@education.vic.gov.au

Stacey Bowles (Class 2B) Stacey.Bowles@education.vic.gov.au

Inquiry - Term Three

PLACE 

This term students in Year Two will be studying Australia including identifying a variety of Australian locations on a map and show an understanding of the diversity in Australian culture. Throughout this unit students will identify and describe features of places at a local scale and how they change. Students will also identify Australian locations on a map and identify how people are connected to different places. Students will learn about diversity and also describe the weather and seasons and the ways in which they affect different cultural groups, including Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples. 

EXCURSION

On Monday 5th September, all Year One and Year Two classes, will be participating in Puffing Billy Railway’s curriculum-based Education, Program.

The Education Centre Program will cover the following parts of our curriculum: Community History - The history of a significant person, building site or part of the natural environment in the local community and what this reveals about the past. Geographical Knowledge - Natural, managed and constructed features of places their location and how they change. Reasons why some places are special and some places are important to people and how they can be looked after. 

Students will travel by bus from Upwey South Primary School to the Puffing Billy station at Belgrave, departing from school at 9:45am.Students will then travel on Puffing Billy to Emerald and then return by bus to Upwey South Primary School. Students will return to school at approximately 3:00pm. 

You can access the details, give permission and pay for the excursion through Compass. 

Take Home Readers and Spelling Books

As part of InitiaLit-2, students have free-choice of short and extended chapter books to take home and read. Year Two students are able to choose readers from school to take home and read nightly. Students in Year Two are also free to choose books from home to read each night if they wish. Students who choose their readers on a Monday are required to return them the following Monday. After reading, please record the name of the book and the length of time reading in the student diary for the day.

InitiaLit-2 suggests students practice spelling words at home each week. These spelling words will reinforce the words used in the classroom program. Instructions for the Spelling book are on the front cover of the Spelling book.   

Tissues

Thank you to those families that have sent along a box of tissues to be used in your child's classroom. We would love for you to consider sending one in if you are yet to do so. 

SPECIALIST TIMETABLE

Please note the following information regarding the days that each grade has specialist classes.  * These times are subject to change during school-wide events (eg: swimming timetables) *