Year 6 Term 2 Overwies

Year 6 Term 2 Term Overview

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Welcome back for another eventful term! The Year 6 students have established positive and productive routines and relationships with all teaching staff, which has led to a deep sense of community and collective responsibility existing amongst the cohort.

Within our classrooms this term, the following is an outline of what students will be focused on…

Term 2 Learning:

In Reading, students will be creating responses to characters and events in literary texts drawn from historical, cultural or social contexts by Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander authors and a wide range of Australian and world authors. They will also use comprehension strategies, such as visualising, predicting, connecting, summarising, monitoring and questioning, and connect and compare ideas from a variety of sources to build literal and inferred meanings. Finally, they will analyse how text structures and language features work together to meet the purpose of a text and engage and influence audiences.

In Writing, the students will be exploring biographical writing, creating autobiographies which discuss their own life experiences, as well as creating biographies based on a chosen figure who has made a significant impact to the world as a whole and/or their own personal lives. Through these mediums, students will be able to understand how the choice of verb, elaborated tenses and a range of adverb groups can expand and sharpen ideas, as well as how embedded clauses can expand to complex sentences in order to elaborate, extend and explain ideas.

In Numeracy, students will further their investigation of our ‘Big Idea’ - Fractional thinking, where they will work with fractions, decimals and percentages, understanding how to order these accurately while showing proportions, adding and subtracting them and exploring how these concepts can connect to our other core units, which are:

Measurement (Length, perimeter, area, mass and capacity)
Shape (Transformations and tesselations)
Algebra (Manipulating the four operations to find unknown values in equations)
Time (Measuring and calculating elapsed time and exploring timetables)

This term our Social and Emotional Learning will be heavily connected to the RRRR (Rights, Responsibilities and Respectful Relationships) curriculum. Students will have the opportunity to explore key concepts such as:

The impacts of stereotyping, prejudices and discrimination
The power of talk to both harm and heal
Establishing and maintaining positive and respectful relationships

As well as these, we will continue to touch on and recognise a range of significant days and events within our school community and explore the purposes of each.

Within Inquiry, we will be further exploring Civics & Citizenship through the lens of migration, with the key statement driving our unit being ‘Multicultural Australia is complex because of the laws they are governed by and the communities that exist within Australia’. Students will explore

How laws are made and who makes them (local, state, federal gov)
How laws impact the rights and responsibilities of Australian citizens
The complexities of Australian society due to the variety of groups within it (cultural groups, religious groups, minority groups, political groups, gender identity, LGBTQI+, disability / accessibility, etc.)
Immigration stories (Supported by an excursion to the Immigration Museum)

General Reminders:

Wear runners on PE days (Check with classroom teachers for exact timetabled days) and for Year 6 Sport (Wednesday).
Please ensure that you check emails and log into Compass regularly, as this will be the main portal that we (the teachers) will communicate with you on and provide further information regarding upcoming school events.
Laptops need to be functional and charged each night before bringing them back to school each day. Thank you for your ongoing support with this, we have noticed a genuine improvement across the cohort in this area!
Year 6 Polo shirts are expected to arrive half-way through this term. There has been a slight delay in the manufacture of these and we are working with our uniform supplier to ensure these are delivered as soon as possible. Once they arrive at school, they will be distributed to students.

Homework:

Homework expectations for Year 6s remain unchanged from Term 1:

Reading every night for a minimum of 30 mins and documented in their student diaries. Diaries will be checked every Friday.
Any unfinished work from school - this can normally be accessed via Google Classroom.
IXL / Love Maths Website for further Numeracy fluency practice.

Upcoming events - Term 2:

Project Rockit Incursion - Week 4, Tuesday 12th of May
School Photos - Week 4, Thursday 14th and Friday 15th of May
Year 6 Winter Sport Gala Day - Week 6, Wednesday, 27th of May