Year 2 Neighbourhood

This week, as a simple reflective process, children were asked, “What has been your favourite experience, provocation or project and why?”. Their responses show that their thinking can be topical, excursions provide endearing memories and also serve as pivotal steps through inquiries, nature and technology remain prevalent in their minds, and projects provide meaningful anchors…

In addition to our collective Indigenous Garden, Year 2 children have progressed with another 2 projects throughout term 4. The Future of Education (FoE) project has led children to collaboratively plan their own workshops to be delivered later in the term. The Mars Rover project involves children designing a vehicle equipped for the challenges of…

Last week, Year 2 children enthusiastically planted Indigenous plants into garden beds surrounding the Year 2 Neighbourhood. This much-anticipated milestone marks the culmination of research, the achievement of a shared goal, and another turning point for inquiry. This will become an ongoing project that the students will share with future year levels. Our students shared…

Welcome back for an exciting and action-packed term four our year 2 community! It has been fantastic to see how all students in year 2 have come back ready to learn and support each other for the final term of what has been a great year so far! One major focus in Year 2 this…

In year 2 we have had an incredibly busy term bookended by two exciting excursions! The students have thrived being given the opportunity for some hands-on authentic learning that they were then able to bring back to our community and most importantly a fun time was had by all! In between our trip to CERES…

Research for our Indigenous Garden is transforming into designing, inventing, mapping, measuring, proposing, planning, preparing, testing, tinkering, visualising and further research. Work and progress is taking a much more physical form and this has generated a fresh buzz of excitement and anticipation. Within the documentation below, we have also noted that different groups’ work and…

This week, National Science Week provoked the Year 2 Neighbourhood to consider the prevalence of science in our lives, learning, thinking and futures. Year 2 children also conducted some experiments, which introduced them to scientific language and processes. When we think about the issues of the future we think about science because no one knows…

Children continue to explore the inquiry research questions – ‘What do we think about the important issues of the future?’ and ‘What can we do about the important issues of the future?’ In response to these questions, their proposals for future change increasingly involve changes to schools. Children are beginning to identify the societal, transformative…

In the year 2 neighbourhood we have started our second semester of 2022 with a bang! On our first Wednesday back we hopped on the tram and headed off to CERES environment park for an excursion that was aligned with our students’ focus and driven by their continual interest about indigenous perspectives on all topic.…

Children and teachers of the Year 2 neighbourhood are excited to begin planning and preparation for a collective project. During semester 2, an Indigenous Water Garden with accompanying revised and collective Acknowledgements of Country will be established along the southern wall of the neighbourhood.  “The garden could help to reawaken Indigenous culture.” (Flynn) “The garden…