Central Idea: Awareness of unique characteristics enhances life

Lines of Inquiry: 

1. Everyone is unique 
2. Recognising and celebrating the importance of diversity  
3. Strategies to enhance personal growth 

We started the year with a focus on inquiring into what makes us unique as individuals and as learners and how our unique characteristics can enhance our lives.

Students thought about what characteristics make them unique and how this could help their friends.

Yr 2 discussed and reflected on themselves as learners. They realised that they are always learning new things and continually developing their understanding and skills, that they need to take risks and make mistakes to be successful learners. People are always somewhere in ‘The Learning Pit’. The students thought about something they are struggling to learn and named ways they would be able to help themselves move through and out of the ‘Pit’.

In pairs, the Year 2 students had to use a range of materials (man made and natural) to build a structure to protect a sugar cube. They needed to consider the waterproofing, wind and impact resistance of the materials they chose. Their designs were tested with simulated rain, wind and flood. They then reflected on ways they could improve their structures.

Testing Phase:

Remote Learning:

Even though many students were at home, the learning about the properties of materials still continued.

Classification of Materials:

Making a boat to hold as many coins as possible:

 Central Idea: Decisions have a range of consequences

 Lines of Inquiry:

1. The process of decision making 
2. Consequences of decision making 
3. The responsibility of meeting community needs 

The students in Yr 2 have been thinking about how we make decisions and the consequences of the decisions we make.  They used the knowledge they had learned about the decision making process to produce a graphical representation of the steps they would take to make a specific decision.