Our Terrific Twos

What's happening in Term 2...

The students of Room 14 have been straight back into action after a lovely two week break! This term, I will be teaching from Tuesday through to Friday, while Ms Peake is keeping very busy with important Admin duties! Ms Peake will continue to teach in our classroom on Monday for the rest of Term 2. Last term, Ms Peake and I sent home Test Books for parents to share with your child. Thank you to all parents for writing a comment to their child and returning the books so promptly. It is fantastic to work in partnership with you in your children's learning, your involvement truly makes a difference to their learning!

Mother's Day

We hope all the Mums from Room 14 had a fantastic Mother's Day! The class had a great day of creating their specials gifts to take home. We had a photo booth set up in the classroom, where everyone was able to say why they loved their mum. We hope these photos made you smile!

Our Class Photo Booth!

Science Superstars!

In an endeavour to lift the profile of Science across the school and get students enthused about all things 'sciency', we have a whole school fun competition in mind. Participation and enthusiasm is our key objective here. 

This competition has 3 stages:

Stage 1: Each student will research and present either a short science experiment or report on a science related concept, to our class. The students in our class will then select their top two 'super scientists'. 

Stage 2: The selected two students will then have to present (again) to ALL the students and teachers in Year 2. An admin representative will will then choose their year group's #1 scientist!

Stage 3: Finally, we celebrate our top 6 scientists by getting them to present their report or experiment to the entire school, at a giant Science assembly! There will be prizes awarded to all students who made it through each stage of the process. 

The Presentation:

• Can be a report or an experiment 
• Can be a maximum of 5 minutes in length
• Students can use ICT resources such as Microsoft PowerPoint, Microsoft Word (or similar) to support their presentation
• Posters and charts are also an option to assist their presentations
• Experiments should be simple to set up, demonstrate the outcome within the time limit, and be safe!

There are many websites that can help assist in finding ideas on what to present. These have been listed on the letter sent out to parents and students last week. 

Due Date:  All experiments/reports will be presented in Week 6 on your child's regular news day. 

If you have any further questions please feel free to come and see myself or Ms Peake during the week. 

Principal's Volunteer Reading Program

The Principal's Volunteer Reading Program will be taking place again this year, after having such a great success last year. The reading program is so successful, as it provides all students with greater opportunities to read. 

A huge thank you to parents who have signed up to volunteer their time to assist our student's reading! If you are able to volunteer, please do come and see us in class and we can arrange to fit you into the timetable- the more volunteers that we have the more opportunities students will have to read.

We thank you and appreciate you offering your time to help our students! 

Miss Domenica Gerace