Grade 5/6 News

Term 3, Week 2 2025
Welcome to the Grade 5/6 News Page

Reminders and Upcoming Events for the 5/6's:

District Athletics Day (select students)- Tuesday 5th August
Division Netball (selected students) - Wednesday 6th August
RESCHEDULED- Girls Football carnival (select students)- Thursday 7th August
RESCHEDULED-Boys Football carnival (select students)- Thursday 7th August
Regional Football/Hockey (select students)- Thursday 14th August
Bendigo Writer's Festival (select students)- Friday 15th August
Regional Soccer (select students)- Tuesday 19th August
Book Week Dress-Up Day- Friday 22nd August
Footy Colors Day (Whole School)- Friday 12th September

Communication

There is always a lot going on in Grade 5/6. We will do our best to communicate through our Newsletter and Compass. Please keep an eye on these two spaces for upcoming events and permissions. If at any stage you need to contact one of our team, our emails are below;

Corey Greer - Corey.Greer@education.vic.gov.au

Kelly Byron - Kelly.Byron@education.vic.gov.au

Emma Clohesy - Emma.Clohesy@education.vic.gov.au

Siobhan Garmey - Siobhan.Garmey@education.vic.gov.au

Luke Staley - Luke.Staley@education.vic.gov.au

Luke Crawford - Luke.Crawford@education.vic.gov.au

Book Week (Week 5)

It’s that’s time of year again when we dust off the hot glue gun and put together a costume to celebrate Book Week. This year, Book Week will be celebrated from Monday 18th to Friday 22nd August, and the 2025 theme is Book an Adventure! 2025 is a milestone year, celebrating 80 years of the Australian Children’s Book Week!

We have organised 2 family events for the week:

On Monday 18th August from 8.45am to 9.00am our school will open our libraries and classrooms for families to read a story book with their child/ren. Our Grade 5/6s will then move on to an activity with their younger buddies.
The second activity will be held on Friday 22nd August for our annual whole-school book parade. This will be held in The Hub at 9am. We encourage all students to dress up as their favourite book character on this day.

Our Grade 5/6 students will do some additional activities during the week to help celebrate and promote Book Week, including our own judging of the short-listed children’s picture books.

Maths Challenge

Check out our first Maths Challenge of the term below!

This fortnight...

In the Classroom

Welcome back for Term 3! It’s been wonderful to see all the smiling faces back in the classroom after the holidays. The students have been quick to settle back in and jumped straight into some exciting new learning and experiences.

In Reading, we’ve been exploring the difference between literal information and inference—learning how to read between the lines and understand what the author is really trying to tell us. It's been fantastic to see students sharing their thinking and backing up their ideas with evidence from the text.

In Writing, we’ve been getting creative with a fun and persuasive twist—writing real estate ads! From “renovator's dream” to “vintage charm,” the students have let their imaginations run wild while sharpening their persuasive language skills.

In Maths, things have taken flight—literally! We’ve been combining our investigations into measurement and data with a paper plane challenge. The students designed, flew, and measured their planes, collecting data to compare flight distances and analyse results. It’s been a great hands-on way to apply their learning.

A highlight last week was our visit to BSE to watch their performance of Matilda. The students represented our school beautifully, and it was also fun to see the talent on display at BSE (including quite a few of our awesome ex-students!)

It’s shaping up to be another fantastic term!

Regards,

Grade 5/6 Team