Year 1 have had a smashing finish to Term 2! We had fun celebrating Under 8’s Day together, with highlights being sharing lunch with friends from outside of St Joseph’s, good times at the photo booth and demonstrating lots of creativity.  Please have a look at the photos of our day on the School website. 

The students have shown terrific growth in their learning and I am very proud of each of them.  In English we have learned new digraphs, trigraphs and even quadgraphs.  We can tell you all about suffixes and how they change the meaning of a word.  Today we will be bringing our Term 2 work home to show you what we are most proud.  We will also have our Term 3 overview to show you what we are looking forward to learning next term, so please keep an eye out for it in our bags.

In Maths we have been consolidating our number sense using place value and have been practising regrouping numbers based on tens and ones.  We had fun counting our Earn and Learn stickers and representing different numbers using these sheets. 

In Religion we have been learning about Jesus’s message of faith and forgiveness and how this is important to us today.  We have been comparing his message to having a Growth Mindset and the importance of believing in ourselves and our abilities succeed.  We will continue this unit in Term 3.

I would like to thank you for your contribution to Year 1 having a fantastic Term 2.  I wish you and your families a happy and safe holiday.  I look forward to welcoming the students back in Term 3 refreshed and ready to learn.

Mrs Bienvenu