Year Prep - Year 2

Assistant Principal's Report

Junior School News

Welcome back to Week Six and some much colder and wetter weather!  Whilst not technically starting until tomorrow, it seems that winter is well and truly upon us already.

However, in spite of the unpleasant weather, there has been some fantastic learning taking place across the school in the past fortnight.  Our Prep students have been learning all about re-using and recycling and seemingly having a lot of fun in the process, creating all sorts of amazing creations out of re-used materials!  Preps have also begun their new writing unit on Procedural texts and seem to be having a lot of fun learning all about how to make fairy bread!  I look forward to seeing the finished products and hopefully getting a taste as well.

Year One's have also enjoyed getting stuck into some procedural writing, and have been carrying out some interesting and yummy procedures so that they can then write about them.  In classes today I saw some yummy biscuit creations and heard all about how yesterday involved making fairy bread.  Students did, however, understand that the purpose of creating these yummy treats was to help them learn all about the purpose of a procedural text and it wasn't just a special treat!  Again, I look forward to seeing their completed procedural texts.

Year Two's have also begun learning about procedural writing, but have spent time looking at really strong examples of procedural texts and exploring the features of these.  I look forward to seeing them draft their own procedures. In Numeracy, they have just about finished learning about addition and different addition strategies, and will soon start exploring subtraction and how addition and subtraction are inverse operations. 

This is certainly a very busy time of year for all members of the school community,  but Teachers in particular, as the process of writing student reports is well and truly underway.  An enormous amount of time and commitment goes into writing detailed student reports that provide parents with a thorough understanding of what their child has achieved and the next steps in their learning. There is so much that has happened throughout Semester One to celebrate as well.

Until next time, please take care and keep warm!

Regards

Danny Forster 

Assistant Principal in Junior School