Year 2 Term 2 2023 Curriculum Overview
Term Overview
Welcome to Term 2!
A very busy term ahead. Term 2 and 4 are our reporting terms and report cards will go out to parents in week 10. Throughout the term teachers may ask you to come and discuss student progress. A reminder that children can go to the library during their breaks to borrow books or ask your child’s teachers whether or not they have a designated library time. If you have to take your child out of school early or arrive late please go via the office to receive an early/late slip.
If you would like us to celebrate a birthday, cupcakes are preferred for ease of sharing. The tuckshop also now offers icy pole buckets or brownie share platters that you can order specifically for a birthday. From time to time personal details like phone numbers and addresses change. If this happens please make sure you notify the office to update your details. Please also check with your child to see if they need to replenish any school materials ie pencils, rubbers etc
Before School
We encourage parents to drop students off to school after 8:30am. If students arrive before this time, they are to sit in the COLA until the 8:30am bell.
QParents
QParents is here
Great news: Trinity Beach SS provides our parent community with the opportunity to register for QParents.
We will be sending out invitations for parents to register for QParents next week.
QParents won’t replace the traditional ways you communicate with our school, but it will provide another way to communicate with us.
More information about QParents can be found at https://qparents.qld.edu.au/#/about
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
Reading: Students work in guided reading groups 4 days per week, at similar levels to develop skills of comprehension, fluency and vocabulary. Students are tested at the beginning of each term/end of the term to determine their progress and new guided reading groups.
Spelling: Students work in ability groups with different goals, 4 days per week, developing their spelling skills. Students are tested at the end of each term to determine their progress and new spelling words/groups
English
Writing: Innovating a Poem
In this unit, students read and listen to a range of poems to create a poetry innovation. Students present their poem or rhyme to a familiar audience and explain their preference for aspects of poems
Maths
Number and place value - recall addition and subtraction number facts, represent two-digit numbers, partition two-digit numbers into place value parts, represent addition situations, describe part-part-whole relationships, add and subtract single- and two-digit numbers, solve addition and subtraction problems, represent multiplication, represent division, solve simple grouping and sharing problems.
Fractions and decimals - represent halves, quarters and eighths of shapes, describe the connection between halves, quarters and eighths, and solve simple number problems involving halves, quarters and eighths.
Money and financial mathematics - describe the features of Australian coins, count coin collections, identify equivalent combinations, identify $5 and $10 notes, count small collections of coins and notes.
Patterns and algebra - identify the threes counting sequence, describe number patterns, identify missing elements in counting patterns, and solve simple number pattern problems.
Using units of measurement - identify the number of days in each month, relate months to seasons, tell time to the quarter hour, compare and order area of shapes and surfaces, cover surfaces to represent area, measure area with informal units.
Science
Science: Push and Pull (physical sciences)
Forces are at work in everything we do, we push to open doors, and pull to tie ropes. Gravity pulls on things to make them fall down or to keep them down. Scientists and engineers study forces to design better bridges and faster aeroplanes, and to reduce the forces that affect people in car accidents.
The Push-pull unit is an ideal way to link science with literacy in the classroom. The unit provides the opportunity for students to explore pushes and pulls. Through investigations, students observe and gather evidence about how these forces act in air and water, and on the ground. Students identify the effect of the pull of gravity and learn that both air and water can ‘push’.
HASS
This term we continue:
- looking at the world and how we can divide it up into sections.
- looking at the world and how it’s divided into countries.
- looking at our country and how it is divided into states and territories.
- looking at our states and how we are divided into cities and towns.
- looking at how people communicate and travel with other people around their country and the world.
- looking at why and how people are connected to different places.
HPE
In PE, students in year two will continue to demonstrate fundamental skills to test alternatives to solve movement challenges and reach their targets in different games and sports. They will also explore running, jumping and throwing activities and take part in simple challenges and competitions in athletics.
Music
In this unit, students will appreciate and analyse the music of Saint-Saens. They will consolidate their knowledge of rhythmical elements – Ta, Ti-ti and Za and learn tika-tika (semiquavers). Students will create and perform different rhythmical patterns using known rhythmical elements. They will learn about tuned and un-tuned percussion instruments and use these to produce rhythmical ostinatos. Students will be introduced to the musical forms of the canon, A form and AB form by singing different songs. They will consolidate their knowledge of the pentatonic scale.
Visual Arts
This term in Visual Arts, year 2 students will continue to explore the seven elements of art. They will then use this knowledge to complete their very own art piece from different materials and mediums. This will communicate their ideas as an artist and wrap up our semester of art for 2023.
Technology
Students are taking a closer look at Technologies in the production and processing of food as they.
- Identify and explore how digital systems are used on the farm
- How digital systems are a useful device to solve problems.
- Students explore and create a conveyor belt to use movement in farming and production by following steps.
- Student evaluate the create using their personal preference.
Drama
‘The Pied Piper of Hamelin’
Students explore the legend of The Pied Piper of Hamelin and consider how the parents of the missing children would have felt (empathy). They make choices about the roles of the Pied Piper, the mayor and the parents of the missing children as they participate in a process drama. The students explore ideas and solutions by participating in the developing drama and, while in role, share these with others.
Swimming
Swimming has come early this year. All year 2 classes are swimming Tuesday – Friday in both weeks 3 and 4. They will require payment and a permission form to be able to attend. Please ensure that all uniform is named as it’s not unusual for things to go missing or students not being able to identify what clothing belongs to them. Check with your child’s teacher regarding the requirements of when to have their swimmers on.
Assessment Schedule
LEARNING AREA | UNIT OUTLINE | TASK | DUE DATE |
MATHS | Students recognise increasing and decreasing number sequences involving 2s, 3s and 5s. They associate collections of Australian cons with their value. Students count to and from 1000. They perform simple addition and subtraction calculations using a range of strategies. Students order shapes and objects using informal units. They tell time to the quarter-hour. | Number Patterns Time Value of Money Addition & Subtraction | Week 2 Week 3 Week 5 Week 6 |
SCIENCE | In this unit, students will understand how a push or pull affects how an object moves or changes shape | Experimental/ Investigation | Week 8 |
ENGLISH | In this unit students read and listen to a range of poems to create a poetry innovation. Students present their poem or rhyme to a familiar audience and explain their preference for aspects of poems. | Written Oral | Week 8 Week 9 |
HASS | Students describe a person, place, site or event of significance in the local community and describe why places are important to people. meaning for different people and why the significant features of places should be preserved. | Short Answer | Week 6-8 |
MUSIC | Making - composing Responding | Practical Written | Week 7-8 Week 9 |
HPE | Target Sports | Practical | On-going |
You Can Do It
'You Can Do It' is our social and emotional learning programme. It focusses on 5 keys to success. These are – persistence, organisation, getting along, confidence and resilience. Parents are encouraged to attend meetings offered throughout the term.
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.
Religious Instruction
Religion classes are Monday 12.30-1.00pm. Students who had a religion nominated on their enrolment form will attend religion classes. Students not attending religion will participate in social skill lessons with either their classroom teacher or another Year 2 teacher. Please contact the office if you wish to change your child’s current religious preference.
Homework
Homework consists of: a homework folder that contains reading books or games based on where your child is currently reading at or their reading goal for the week. As well as a weekly spelling activity. Some teachers may also be adding a Math component. Homework folders should be returned to the classroom boxes by Thursday/Friday depending on individual teachers, so they can be changed ready to go home for the next week.
Contact Information
Contact your childs teacher via email:
2A - Tanara Jackson tljac0@eq.edu.au
2B - Nicky Passfield nscan15@eq.edu.au
2C - Renee Harper rkhar1@eq.edu.au
2D - Nicola Rasheed nrash1@eq.edu.au
2E - Kristie Pittorino kpitt32@eq.edu.au
Specialist Teachers
HPE - Jodie Donovan jdono63@eq.edu.au
HPE - Rochelle Powell rapow1@eq.edu.au
Visual Arts - Vaness Graham vgrah5@eq.edu.au
Music - Svetlana Walker swalk146@eq.edu.au
Drama - David Terry dater1@eq.edu.au
HPE/Technology/Drama - Karen Arthur kaart0@eq.edu.au
Technology - Jacqui Kidney jkidn6@eq.edu.au