Hi families and friends of Year 2,

What a term! From the school dance, to NAIDOC, to book week, to Father’s Day and all the things in between...we’ve been busy! Thank you to each and every family for their participation and support in making our school such an engaging and fun environment for the students.

Over the past few weeks, the students have been writing and presenting their persuasive texts to the class. This has been a great opportunity for students to develop their presentation skills, including pitch, volume and even confidence when speaking in front of others.

The end of the term maths activities has centered around data and statistics. Students have been collecting data from different inquiry-based questions and recording and representing this data in various forms, such as pictographs, tally marks, line graphs and bar graphs. Students were also required to make justifications and inferences based on their findings in each data set.

Across our other learning areas, the students have mapped out the changes that occur in the human life cycle, ranging from baby to adult, as well as the different stages of life in animals and plants. In our history lessons, the students investigated what life was like at school 50-100 years ago and wrote a short diary entry of a school student of that time. It was also great to see the students sharing their grandparents' school life adventures, some were quite the comparison!

Thank you to the families who were able to attend the student-led conferences in Week 8. It was great to see the children take ownership of their work and show their families where they spend most of their time!

With only an 8-week term coming we will be getting straight back into routine in week 1, please keep an eye out for upcoming calendars, curriculum letters and seesaw messages for dates and events. I wish you all a lovely school holiday break with your families.

Thanks, Emily