Year Prep - Year 2

Assistant Principal's Report

Junior School News

Welcome to Term Two!

With two Public Holidays and a Curriculum Day last week, it has been a funny old start to the term, but a very settled one nonetheless. It has been wonderful to get around and spend some time in classrooms, talking to students about their holiday break and observing the learning that is taking place. Students appear to have returned, well-rested and ready for another exciting term of learning.

Our Prep students have hit the ground running this term, and learned all about the letters 'r' and 'y'. Be sure to ask your Prep children about these letters and the sounds that they make.  In Numeracy, students have been learning about how to sort objects into groups based on different features such as shape, size and colour.  Our whole school Writing focus has shifted this term to narrative writing, and as such, the Preps have been learning all about a basic narrative by drawing a fictional picture and writing a sentence that matches. 

Year One students have been learning all about how to tell the time, on digital and analogue clocks. In Year One, the expectation is that students can read o'clock and half-past times.  Students have been learning all about the features of analogue clocks, what the different hands mean and practicing to draw and make different times with clocks.  Some students have shown that they are ready to learn about more complex times such as quarter-to and quarter-past which has been great to see.  Make sure you talk about time at home, on both digital and analogue clocks, so that the students can discuss and demonstrate their learning.  It has also been great to see the Year One students use their understanding of what a narrative text is, developed last year in Prep, to hit the ground running and start producing some wonderfully imaginative narratives.

In Year Two, students have been exploring the features of narrative texts during Reading sessions, to prepare them for narrative writing during Writing sessions.  Students have been practicing skills such as making predictions based on different text features and using different strategies to infer the meaning of unknown words that they read.  This has really supported them in their narrative writing, having already read so many strong examples, and it is exciting to read some of the stories that are currently being planned and drafted.

I look forward to seeing plenty of families in attendance at our Parent-Teacher interviews on Tuesday, May 7th and I would encourage all parents to make a booking if you have not done so already.  

Until next time, take care!

Regards

Danny Forster 

Assistant Principal in Junior School