Year 2 Term 1 Overview 2024
Term Overview
Welcome to Term One!
We have already had a fantastic start to the year, and have received an overwhelming amount of positive feedback regarding the transition to Grade 2.
Following on from 2023, the Trinity Beach State School rules are Be Safe, Be Respectful, Be a Learner.
Our student expectations are:
- Whole Body Listening
- Full school uniform (including correct shorts and wearing shoes)
- Black or white socks
- School hats to be worn or remain undercover
- No jewellery (except approved sleepers, studs, medic alert bracelets etc.)
- Walking on concrete or through walk-way area/ between classrooms/ buildings
- No playground play before or after school
- Bikes/ scooters are to be walked in school grounds
- All rubbish to be placed in the bins
- Remain in correct play areas (under the JLC, 1/2 Oval or 1/2 Playground)
If you need to take your child out of school early or arrive late please go via the office to receive an early/late slip. From time to time personal details such as telephone numbers and addresses change. If this happens, please notify the office to update your details.
Thank you for sending your child to their new class with the necessary school supplies they need to ensure a successful start to the year. As the year moves on, please check with your child to see if items require replenishing.
We look forward to working with you throughout 2024!
Arrival at school
Students are to arrive to school no earlier than 8:15am. Students are to sit in the Covered Outdoor Learning Area (COLA) until the 8:30 bell rings. Classrooms will be open from 8:30 - 8:45 depending on individual teachers.
Lost Property
Please ensure all your child’s equipment and clothing is named. If it is located and has a name all effort is taken to return the property to your child. If it is not named it is sent to the lost property box which is located in the hall.
QParents
QP is an online portal helping the school move toward a cashless and paper friendly school.
- The QP portal allows Parents and Carers to grant participation consent online for activities such as swimming and excursions which reduces our need to print out paper consent forms
- Also, the QP portal enables Parents and Carers to make payment online for school activities and viewing unpaid invoices payment history.
Thank you to all those parents who have registered for QParents. This means every registered parent now has the opportunity to access to their children’s student records at their fingertips, anytime, anywhere. Haven’t received an invitation from us yet? There’s still time! Please let us know immediately. Or if you are simply looking for further information, videos and FAQs on QParents, visit https://qparents.qld.edu.au
Attendance
How to report an absence:
- Email attendance@trinitybeachss.eq.edu.au or
- Call the school's absence line on 4057 1444, then press #1 and don't forget to leave a reason why your child/children are away, or
- Send a note to the classroom teacher on their return
Our schools attendance target is 95%
Reading / Spelling
Our school continues to embed a whole school approach to reading and spelling across Prep to Year 6. This involves teaching the reading and spelling demands of the Australian Curriculum, providing students with a systematic synthetic phonics approach and unpacking the Big 6/Science of Reading through engaging and meaningful lessons. Students engage with decodable texts when learning to read and rich authentic texts when reading to learn and continue to use the PLD approach for their spelling and sound focus.
English
Students listen to, read and view narratives, traditional stores and fairy tales. They will investigate and explore text structure and features such us: title, orientation, characters, setting, complication, problem, sequence of events, resolution and coda. Students will identify language features such as: simple and compound sentences, noun groups and text connectives. They will use their knowledge and understanding of the structural and language features to create their own written recount of a familiar story.
Maths
Through use of our new text book, Maths Trek, students will explore a range of mathematical concepts, where students will learn to:
- Describe outcomes for everyday events
- Recognise, draw and describe two-dimensional shapes
- Recognise, draw and describe three-dimensional shapes
- Make sense of collected information
- Collect, organise and represent data to make simple inferences
Through daily and incidental maths, students will also strengthen their number skills, and review the main mathematics strands of: Number and Algebra, Measurement and Geometry, and Statistics and Probability.
Science
Mix, Make and Use
Throughout this unit, students will investigate how various materials can be combined to make an object. Through investigations, students will understand that materials have different properties, which allows each material to be useful for various scenarios. Students will use their knowledge to create an object for a particular purpose, combining two known materials and explaining their choices through scientific language and observations.
HASS
In this unit students will explore the following inquiry question: How are people connected to their place and other places?
Learning opportunities support students to:
- draw on representations of the world as geographical divisions and the location of Australia
- recognise that each place has a location on the surface of Earth, which can be expressed using direction and location of one place from another
- identify examples of places that are defined at different levels or scales, such as, personal scale, local scale, regional scale, national scale or region-of-the-world scale
- understand that people are connected to their place and other places in Australia, the countries of Asia and other places across the world, and that these connections are influenced by purpose, distance and accessibility
- represent connections between places by constructing maps and using symbols
- examine geographical information and data to identify ways people, including Aboriginal peoples and Torres Strait Islander peoples, are connected to places and factors that influence those connections
respond with ideas about why significant places should be preserved and how people can act to preserve them
HPE
In PE, students in year two will demonstrate fundamental skills to test alternatives to solve movement challenges, to reach their targets in different games and sports. In Health, students will describe changes that occur as they grow older. They identify how emotional responses impact on others’ feelings.
Music
During Term one, students will reinforce knowledge of the rhythmic elements – crotchet, quavers and minim. They will learn about strong and weak beats, rhythmic ostinato and percussion instruments.
Visual Arts
This term in Visual Arts, year 2 students will be exposed to each of the seven basic elements of art. Elements of art are stylistic features that are included in artwork to help the artist communicate. These elements are line, shape, colour, texture, value space and form. Students view various famous artworks that have each element depicted in the artwork. Students will use and experiment with different materials, techniques, technologies and processes to make artworks using the basic elements of art. This year in Visual Arts our theme is ‘Bugs, grubs and all thing nice.’
Technology
Students will explore a range of familiar services and identify how each services meets a particular need within the community.
Drama
Amy and Louis’. Story Book Drama
Students create and perform roles in a story book drama based on the book Amy and Louis by Libby Gleeson and Freya Blackwood
Assessment Schedule
Learning Area | Assessment Task | Due Date |
English | Recount | Term 1, Week 9 |
Maths | Recognising two-dimensional shapes and three-dimensional objects | Term 1, Week 4 |
Representing chance | Term 1, Week 7 | |
Collecting and representing data | Term 1, Week 9 | |
Science | Combining materials for a purpose | Term 1, Week 9 |
HASS | Present Connections to Places | Part A: |
HPE | Health Stay Safe | Weeks 7/8 |
Drama | Making - Performance Improvisation from the book. | Week 8 |
Responding – Oral test | Week 9 | |
Music | Singing the core song ‘Tony Chestnut’ with body percussion ostinato | Week 7/8 |
Visual Art | Portfolio of work throughout the semester | Week 6 Term 2 |
Technology | • Students identify a problem within their classroom. • Students will design a service to help solve this problem. • Students will share their service through the use of a digital platform. | Week 10 |
Tuckshop
Tuckshop operates daily during the two breaks. Orders can be placed online via FlexiSchools or at the tuckshop on a paper bag. Tuckshop orders are placed in class tuckshop basket before 9am. Miscellaneous items can be purchased over the counter. Please talk to your child about not giving money away or sharing food.
Homework
Developed at a point of need for your child and your family, homework may look different in each classroom. Through the welcome letter and “open afternoon”, your child’s teacher should have already discussed this with you. Please contact individual teachers with any further questions.
Contact Information
Classroom Teachers
2A – Mrs Kristie Pittorino kpitt32@eq.edu.au
2B – Mrs Nicky Passfield nscan15@eq.edu.au
2C – Miss Renee Harper rkhar1@eq.edu.au
2D – Mrs Nicola Rasheed nrash1@eq.edu.au
Specialist Teachers
HPE Jodie Donovan jdono63@eq.edu.au
HPE Steve Kotzikas sskot0@eq.edu.au
Visual Arts Vanessa Graham vgrah5@eq.edu.au
Music Svetlana Walker swalk146@eq.edu.au
Drama David Terry dater1@eq.edu.au
Technology Alex Einerman aeine0@eq.edu.au