Term 4 Year 6 2026
Year 6 Term 4 Overview
As we celebrate our final term of Year 6 at Hampton Primary School, students are engaging in a rich and varied program that prepares them for secondary school while making the most of their final weeks together.
Diary Dates – Term 4
- Monday 2nd November- Curriculum Day (no students required at school)
- Tuesday 3rd November- Melbourne Cup Day
- Thursday 3rd December- House Swimming
- Monday 7th December- Hampton Harmonies 11- 3.30pm
- Tuesday 8th December- Statewide Transition Day (Victorian Government Secondary Schools)
- Monday 14 December- Curriculum Day (no students required at school)
- Tuesday 15 December- BYO Lunch at Thomas Street ParkIce cream will be provided 🍦
- Wednesday 16 December- Graduation Lunch — held in the Quad during the school day. Students only
- Year 6 Graduation Ceremony 🎓Brighton Secondary College6:00–7:00 pm, Please arrive by 5:30 pm
- Thursday 17 December- Water Safety Session at Waves Followed by a BBQ
- Friday 18 December- Last Day of Term 4Assembly and walk with buddies (time to be confirmed)Early finish
Reading
This term our Reading, Speaking and Listening program is split into two exciting phases. In Weeks 1–5, every student will take on a role in our class play. Students will explore how playwrights use dialogue and stage directions to reveal character, map the plot and turning points, and infer characters' motivations using evidence from the script. They will also develop fluent, expressive reading through table reads and rehearsals, working on voice, movement, mood and stagecraft. This phase finishes with a dress rehearsal and a live performance.
In Weeks 6–10 we turn to poetry. Students will look at structure, word choice, figurative language, imagery, sound, mood and the poet's voice, and compare different poems. They will then draft and revise an original poem of their own and perform it at our end-of-term Poetry Café.
Writing
Our Writing program this term is closely linked to our Inquiry unit on natural hazards. Students will begin with a cold write so we can see their starting point. They will then build their skills in sentence control, writing for different purposes and audiences, and using precise, scientific language rather than dramatic language.
From Weeks 1 to 6, students will learn how explanation texts work, how to write about maps and data, and how to take notes from sources and acknowledge them correctly. This will lead to an independent scientific explanation of how a natural hazard becomes a disaster, complete with a labelled diagram.
In Weeks 7–10, students will contribute to their team's resilience proposal, write up testing results, create public safety information and prepare a persuasive council pitch.
Mathematics
Our Mathematics unit this term focuses on place value and the four operations. Students will read, write and represent numbers into the millions, multiply and divide by powers of 10, and compare and order decimals to thousandths. They will build mental and written strategies for addition, subtraction, multiplication and division, including working with remainders. They will apply these skills to real-life money problems involving totals, change, discounts and percentages. The unit finishes with an introduction to order of operations (BODMAS) and simple algebra.
Inquiry
Our Inquiry unit, "Natural Hazards and Resilient Communities", asks the driving question: How can science, evidence and design help a community reduce the impact of a natural hazard?
Working in teams as a "Disaster-Ready Community Council", students will each be matched with a fictional community facing a bushfire, flood, cyclone, earthquake or tsunami. They will learn the science behind geological and weather-related hazards, use maps and data to identify who is most at risk, and plan and run fair tests to design and improve a prototype. Each team will have a budget of 100 "Resilience Credits" to spend on its safety plan and will need to justify every choice with evidence. Along the way, there will be some surprise budget cuts to manage. The unit ends in Week 10 with our Resilient Community Expo, where teams will present and defend their plans.
Wellbeing
In Wellbeing, we are continuing the Resilience, Rights and Respectful Relationships (RRRR) program with Topic 3: Positive Coping. Students will learn about self-talk, the conversations we have with ourselves in our heads, and how it can affect our feelings and actions. Through scenarios and role-plays, they will practise noticing unhelpful self-talk and answering it with realistic, honest and encouraging messages. Students will also explore the difference between productive and unproductive ways of coping. This is a great topic to talk about at home, especially as students prepare for the move to secondary school.