Dear Parents and Carers, Week 3 has been a very productive and wonderful week in the Year 2 neighbourhood. This week we participated in the Walkathon to raise money for the school. We all walked around the school and we calculated that one lap is 448m. We calculated this using Google Maps. We were very […]
Week 7 Learning Reflection Blog Post Dear Parents and Carers, This week we have focused on setting learning goals. Some of the things we have thought about in the Year 2 neighbourhood include the purpose of writing, what we notice in the words around us, how we can develop our independent spelling and our ongoing
Dear parents and carers, It’s Thursday afternoon again and that means it’s time for us to share what we have been up to in Week 4 in the Year 2 Neighbourhood. We have been thinking and brainstorming about where we see writing. Some examples we came up with include: – Egg boxes and recipe books
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Dear parents and carers, Welcome to our second blog post for 2019. These are some of the things we would like to share from the past week in the Year 2 neighbourhood. We have all been working to improve our understanding of wellbeing. We participated in an obstacle course to develop our teamwork skills and
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The Future. What do we want our world to look like? What does it mean to have a liveable city and a sustainable future? These are some of the questions the Year 2 neighbourhood have been exploring this term. At our Year 2 Assembly this afternoon, students shared their visions for the future, both as
In Week 9 and 10 of this term, we have been exploring ‘The Promise’ by Nicola Davies in the neighbourhood as a shared text. The story connects to our inquiry focus of making a positive change in our world, offering an important message through evocative images and descriptive language. In small groups we first enjoyed
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This week, the students in the year 2 neighbourhood wrote down their reflections from their various excursions. We visited Princes Park, Melbourne School of Design and Woolworths. Click on the pictures below to read what everyone found interesting! QUALITY OF LIFE – WOOLWORTHS! SUSTAINABILITY – MELBOURNE SCHOOL OF DESIGN LIFE ON
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The Quality of Life project group embarked on their exciting excursion today – to Woolworths! The group have been focussing their attention on the global goals of Zero Hunger and No Poverty, we have also grabbed on to the Sustainability’s group of recycling. So we thought we’d head down to Woolworths to see what they
On Friday, we had a visit by Rose’s Mum Tamara, who works for an organisation called OXFAM. OXFAM are a humanitarian organisation that help people in difficult situations, such as living in war zones and natural disasters. OXFAM go into these situations and try and help!OXFAM is a big part of the world achieving the UN
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Having students see their learning journey is important in the year 2 neighbourhood. Wondering, reflections and understandings are regularly displayed for students and visiting community members to see. This week, through our global goal projects, students have shared their questions and understandings with their group and then are encouraging others to reflect on their work
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