Year 6 Term 4 Newsletter

Grade 6 Team

6A - Tom Packham (PLC Leader)

6B - Tegan Boucher

Integration Aides - Deb Butler (6A) & Divya Rai (6B)

Welcome to Term 4

The last term of Primary School! 

We can’t believe we are here already, just nine more weeks left at CEPS for our amazing Year 6 students.

Despite this short time-frame, there is much left to do and learn before we say goodbye at the end of the year.

Extra special term highlights include Hip Hop Dancing, Yearbook publishing, Big Day Out and of course, Graduation!

Tom and Tegan 

 Specialist Timetable

Important Dates

Hip-Hop Graduation Dance practise

• Fridays 24/10 & 31/10, Mondays 27/10, 10/11, 17/11, 24/11

October

• Health Education - Fri 10/10, Mon 13/10, Mon 20/10
• Fri 17/10 - Assembly
• Wed 29th - Kingston Youth Services transition incursions (3 sessions)
• Fri 31/10 - Assembly

November

• Mon 3rd - Curriculum Day
• Tue 4th - Melbourne Cup Day
• Fri 7/11 - Assembly
• Wed 12th & 26th - Kingston Youth Services transition incursions (3 sessions)
• Wed 19th - Music Concert 2:30pm
• Fri 21st - Colour Run
• Fri 28/11 - Assembly

December

• Tue 9th - Public Secondary School Transition Day 
• Fri 12th - Luna Park
• Fri 12/12 - Assembly
• Mon 15th - Curriculum Day
• Wed 17th - Graduation (after school time)
• Thurs 18th - End of Year Celebration (lunch and movie at Southland)
• Fri 19th - End of Term and Final assembly. 1:30 pm finish. Farewell CEPS!

Electronic Roles

Our electronic rolls are legal documents therefore we must be accountable for any absences. Please assist with this by informing the school of any absences as early as possible.

Teaching and Learning

Reading

Our Reading Program will continue to engage a wide variety of readers with whole class reading sessions focused on comprehension and discussion, as well as independent reading. We will begin a new class novel, Two Wolves, exploring the themes of moral and ethical dilemmas, nature, fear and family. In addition to our class novel we will be exploring the themes, vocabulary and imagery in the picture story book, 'Girl on Wire'.

Writing

We will be exploring fear and suspense writing this term through a narrative lens. We will be fine tuning our sentence structures as well as continuing to grow our use of precise and purposeful vocabulary to add great depth and detail to our written pieces. We are excited to be writing for our CEPS Primary Years Scrapbook and reflecting on our primary school journey using a variety of writing genres. 

Speaking & Listening

A focus will be on active listening - actually attending to, and listening to, the views and opinions of peers and teachers (and family!). Students will also be given opportunity to present information and ideas in Humanities and other English sessions to whole class and small groups.

Mathematics

Data Investigation – Students will plan and carry out their own statistical investigations by posing meaningful questions, collecting relevant data and interpreting their findings. They will compare different types of data, such as numerical and categorical, and use digital tools to display and communicate their results clearly.

Fractions, Decimals and Percentages – Students will explore how fractions, decimals and percentages represent parts of a whole. They will practise converting between these forms to make calculations easier and apply this understanding to real-world problems such as estimating totals and calculating percentage discounts.

Number and Operations – Students will use a range of strategies to solve mathematical problems efficiently. They will explore how numbers can be combined or partitioned in different ways and use their understanding of number properties to choose suitable methods for addition, subtraction, multiplication and division in practical situations.

Design Technology, Business and Economics

We will further develop our understanding of financial literacy through the 'Banqer' program. Opening up additional modules such as transport and real estate.

Working in groups, students will continue their work from Term 3 on their products they came up with. They will follow design principles to develop their ideas and creativity as well as demonstrate their understanding of different design and construction techniques.

They will take the product and business through a series of steps with the goal to sell this to the sharks in the “Shark Tank”. 

Wellbeing and Transition

In Grade 6 we maintain an emphasis on the promotion of our school values and wellbeing through weekly yarning circles and activities.  

It is important that students feel prepared and positive regarding their transition from Year 6 at CEPS to Year 7 at a new  Secondary School, therefore we will continue with our transition lessons as well as having extra support through three incursion sessions from Kingston Youth Services.

CEPS VALUES

COURTESY    RESPECT    CO-OPERATION    RESPONSIBILITY 

Friday afternoon assembly awards will be given to children who have shown personal growth specific to the school's values. Please note that Friday assemblies are now run fortnightly with grades 3-6 being every 2nd Friday (see 'important dates' above for our Term 4 assemblies). To further support the school values, CEPS follows a SWPBS framework, which we refer to as CEPS Positive Behaviours Support. This framework encourages acknowledging positive behaviours displayed by students within the school. 

Your child may receive a CEPS raffle ticket for displaying the expected positive behaviours! Award winners will be drawn and announced during assembly on Friday afternoons. 

Supporting Learning from Home

Homework

Homework will continue as it has all year with monthly homework tasks, with one due each week on a Friday.

To reinforce what they are learning in the classroom, some additional tasks may be set for the students to complete. Mathletics is open and available to complete at home. It may be good to complete tasks linked to in class learning.

Additional Information

Phones and Devices

In accordance with the Department of Education policy, student phones that are brought to school must be switched off and handed to the teacher to be stored securely during the day. Students will not have access to these phones until 3:30 pm. It is reminded that students are not to be on devices before school.

Social Media

Please communicate regularly with your child about social media and their online use as these can often lead to social issues that carry on into school. A reminder that most social media apps currently have a minimum age restriction of at least 13 years old with the government policy to ban under 16s accessing social media coming into effect at the end of this year.

Lunch/Snacks

When preparing your child’s lunchbox, please avoid nuts and nut products as we have children with allergies within the year level and across the school. Fruit break items should be able to grab and go. Thank you

Communication

Sentral

All notes, messages and information will be located on Sentral. Here you'll find info about excursions, incursions, camps, special food days, permission slips, calendar updates, newsletters and plenty more things that you will need.

Dojo

Individual messages to and from the classroom teacher for non-urgent or informal communication. Photo updates of various events will be posted to the class story.

Phone

For any time-sensitive or urgent messages, please contact the front office by phone as we may not see a Dojo message during the school day.