Year 5-6

Check out what we have been up to lately!

Religion:

World Day of Prayer for the Care of Creation is held on September 1. This day provides us with an opportunity to pause and contemplate the greatness of the gift that God has given us through the magnificence of Creation, and to reflect on our role in honouring, preserving, and protecting that gift for all. The Encyclical Laudato Si: On Care for Our Common Homeprovides a wonderful context for this important day of prayer.

We have been exploring how we look after our natural environment, the effects of consumerism and the importance of biodiversity.

Literacy:

Our focus this term has been on recount writing. We have been looking at the role of subordinate conjunctions in our writing and supporting us to write complex sentences.

We have also been busy with plenty of news and activities from Book Week!

Check out some of the highlights below!

Numeracy

We have been learning about additive thinking, such as finding the total and difference of numbers. We have improving these skills by exploring worded problems and breaking these down worded problems into four clear steps.

• Find the important information.
• Draw a strategy such as number line.
• Create an equation.
• Check your answer.

Students are learning to add and subtract fractions and connecting these to real world problems.

Sale Yards Excursion

This term, Carter and Jock organised an excursion to the Euroa Sale Yards. With consultation taking place with Nutrien Euroa, with expert advise from Mitch and Nick, the boys identified the August Sale as the best one to visit Letters of application were required for students to attend, with a total of 13 students showing their interest.

We would also to thank Suze and Jim Gall for their support, donating hats, shirts and other little pieces from their business, Faithfulls Creek & Co.

It was a fantastic experience, with students recording weights and prices, before heading to the canteen for an early lunch and a final visit to Faithfulls Creek & Co for a picture storybook and checking out their products.

The Resilience Project.

Working on gratitude helps us to be thankful and appreciate what we have in our lives, rather than focusing on what we don’t have or what we want. When we practise being grateful, we start to scan the world to look for positives – this only takes 21 days! Practising gratitude every day increases our levels of energy, and helps us to feel happier and more focused, determined and optimistic. It even helps us have better sleep, lowers levels of anxiety and depression and we are less likely to get sick. So many benefits – let’s all try to be grateful for the things and people in our lives every day!

Arts on Show

My Future Academy

Each fortnight we are lucky enough to have Amalie here to take our students for team building, communication skills, core strength and self umpiring.The students are fully engaged during their time and look forward this each fortnight. Check out our recent photos below, including a special session with the Foundation students.

Melbourne Excursion

From IMAX to the Melbourne Museum, education sessions about climate change and Victoria's future and our final stop at The Melbourne Shrine of Remembrance, we had a full day of activities. Check out our day below!

State Soccer

Good luck to the girls soccer team who are representing our school at State on Wednesday! We wish you all the very best!

Athletics

What a wonderful day we had celebrating team work, persistence, determination and encouragement on our school athletics day.

Congratulations to Gold team for taking out the House Championship ahead of Red and Blue. 

Thank you to the Teagan, Kim and the ESC Sport & Recreation students who were diligent, kind, understanding and professional in their dealings with our students.

Finally, a massive thank you to Mrs Watson for the outstanding organisation and preparation for the day. 

Cake Raffle Volunteers

We would love students/parents/grandparents to be a part of our cake making team. Every assembly, we draw a raffle for a cake/slice/biscuits and children love being a part of the 

competition. If you would be interested in contributing, could you please send us an email and we can add you to a roster.

School Uniform, Water and Hats

Just a reminder about our school uniform policy. 

• The expectation is that ALL students have their own hat at school with their name on it. 
• Students need to wear green socks and black shoes when we do not have PE or Bluearth. 
• Earrings need to be studs or sleepers.
• No nail polish or necklaces.
• White socks and runners on PE and Bluearth days.
• Hair that reaches the collar needs to be tied back.
• Only water is to bought to school.

If this is unable to be achieved on a particular day, please write a note or email to your child's classroom teacher.

Weekly Timetable

Monday: Art

Tuesday: 

Wednesday: Japanese (5/6M), STEM (5/6F)

Thursday: PE (Both classes), STEM (5/6M), Japanese (5/6F).

Friday: Bluearth (Even weeks) Assembly (Odd weeks)

Each week we have specialist subjects. On Bluearth and PE days, students can wear their PE uniform.

Lou, Linc, Thom, Kerry and Lisa.