Year 5/6

Year 5/6 Cluster News

Year 6 Graduation:We would like to share a photo gallery of the graduating class on graduation night. We need 2 photos of your child to show how they have grown up into the students we know today. Please include a baby photo and first day of school photo.  These photos can be emailed to Jade Fielke (fielke.jade@goldengrove.sa.edu.au) by the end of Term 3. Emails have been sent to those families who have yet to do this, I do appreciate that it can be difficult to locate said photos. Please reach out if you are having any difficulties.  

Graduation Dinner is at Dimples, Tea Tree Gully Golf Course on Wednesday, November 25th. This is a wonderful night to honour and share with our Year 6 families! More information will be available soon. 

SACSA events: 

We have begun training for SACSA Basketball, which will be held in Week 3 this term. 

Please encourage your child to continue to practise their fitness, ball and teamwork skills at home.

HOME INQUIRY:  

Reading: Aim for 20 minutes minimum reading per night. We encourage students to read aloud, either to themselves or a parent.   

Mathematics: Continuing to develop their recall of multiplication facts, with the goal of building automatic recall of multiplication facts up to 10 × 10. 

Reader’s and Writer’s Workshop:  

Students have started to look at the features of historical narratives by reading a variety of texts from different authors. They will use these features and techniques in their own historical narrative writing. 

Mathematics:   

Students have begun a unit on algebra using the systematic approach of BEDMAS. They will tackle problems which include brackets, exponents, division, multiplication, addition and subtraction.  

Inquiry:  

We have begun our ‘Where We Are in Place and Time’ Unit of Inquiry. The central idea for this unit is:  

“The actions and decisions of people shape the development and identity of societies over time.” 

Students have explored different migration stories and identified different push and pull factors to migration, they will be looking at individual stories from Australian history. 

Reminders:   

Hats – As the UV steadily increases it is important that students bring their hat every day.  Please check with your child to see if they have a hat 

School Calendar:    

https://www.goldengrove.sa.edu.au/calendar/   

Blessings for the week ahead, 

The 5/6 Team 

Luke Napier    napier.luke@goldengrove.sa.edu.au  

Jade Fielke

 fielke.jade@goldengrove.sa.edu.au 

Rachel Saunders saunders.rachel@goldengrove.sa.edu.au