Year 6 Curriculum Newsletter
Reading
During Term Two, students in Year 6 will be undertaking a novel study based on the text ‘The Boy at the Back of the Class’ by Onjali Q.Rauf. Students will be unpacking language features such as simile, metaphor, repetition, alliteration, and rhyme. There will also be opportunities for students to identify themes, summarise the text and discover interesting and new vocabulary. Together with the teacher, they will set individual reading goals and have the opportunity and support to practise applying specific strategies in their independent and small group reading tasks. Students will also be tested on their reading comprehension and fluency during individual conferences.
Writing
Throughout Term Two, students will be looking at writing to entertain and writing to narrate. Students will develop mystery narratives by planning an original idea and expanding on it. There will be a focus on descriptive writing, following the correct structure and incorporating language features such as simile and metaphor. Students will also refine their work to ensure there is correct punctuation and sentence fluency for the text type.
Maths
The Grade 6 students will undertake a unit on the four operations: addition, subtraction, multiplication, and division. Students will be exploring the connection between decimal numbers and the place value system, as well as the expression of decimal numbers within financial mathematics. In Statistics and Probability, the students will collect data with the use of a survey and appropriately present the results using a graph. Students will make observations on the outcomes using unbiased statements. Students will continue to build on their automatic recall of multiplication facts through daily fluency sessions.
Inquiry
The Year 6 students will be jumping into the Cosmic Connections Unit: exploring Earth’s place in the universe. Students will understand that Earth is part of a system of planets and other celestial bodies, orbiting around a star. They will also recognise how technologies developed to aid space exploration have changed the way people live, work, and communicate. Students will also draw connection between outer space and natural disasters on our planet.
Wellbeing:
Grade 6 students are looking forward to continuing to enhance wellbeing in partnership with The Resilience Project. Students will explore the importance of gratitude, empathy and mindfulness through a series of carefully planned and targeted learning experiences. There is a focus on how students can recognise their own feelings and the feelings of others to improve mental health outcomes. Students will also be investigating the ways in which people communicate and interact with one another, expressing emotion in a variety of ways.
Japanese
This term in Japanese, the Grade 6 students are developing their reading, writing, speaking and listening through a unit focusing on food. Students will learn to identify, say and write a variety of food names. They will build their speaking and listening skills through learning to say "I like/dislike ___.” Students will also learn about chopstick etiquette and Japanese vending machines.
They will continue to learn the three scripts of Japanese, with hiragana being the main focus. Students will have opportunities to continue to move through the Hiragana Karate belts this term.
They will also learn about cultural events in Japan such as Ohanami and Children’s Day.
Visual Arts
This term students in Year 6 will continue to explore new techniques and materials when creating their art. They will learn about positive and negative shapes, as well as balance and space as they create a ‘Japanese Notan’ design. Students will learn about new artists including Gustav Klimt as they study his style and techniques, and they will work as artists themselves - exploring their own style and talent. Students will be working along with a community artist as they create their own original canvas art for our upcoming Art Show. They will work towards being courageous artists who give new techniques a go and they will work safely in the art room. I look forward to exciting times this term in the Visual Arts room.
Physical Education
In Grades 6 PE classes, students further develop their physical abilities through challenging activities and sports. In preparation for inter-school competitions students will learn, practise and master different game specific skills. Students continued to refine their skills in different Athletic events whilst having the opportunity to compete in these at Athletics Day. They refine techniques and strategies whilst developing sportsmanship, leadership, and teamwork to best represent Kismet Park against other schools.
Performing Arts
In Term Two in Performing Arts, Grade Six students will proudly share their performances developed from ‘Aesop fables’ with their Prep Buddies. This will complete the production process that they have been working on throughout the semester. Students will then move on to explore the concept of empathy when they created their own digital photo stories based on the themes of inclusion and exclusion.
