YEAR 6

FROM THE TEAM

What a great week! Students have enjoyed completing our suspense narrative unit in Writing, creating engaging and thoughtful stories. They used Toolkit 1 to slow the action with sentences of three and dropped-in clauses, and Toolkit 2 to add depth by making characters hear, see, touch, smell, or sense something ominous, which really brought their stories to life.

In Mathematics, students strengthened their understanding of factors, prime and composite numbers, and explored square numbers, practising calculations and applying their knowledge to solve and simplify number problems. In Reading, they continued developing skills by identifying themes, inferring meaning, summarising texts, and exploring how authors’ vocabulary choices influence meaning and emotion.

During Inquiry, students investigated why Australia was known as “The Lucky Country” and the impact of British and European migration, deepening their understanding of how migration has shaped Australia’s history.

LEARNING INTENTIONS FOR NEXT WEEK

READING

• We are learning to explore and explain the use of author vocab choices within a text that can make the reader feel.
• We are learning to identify and infer the main idea through the themes of a text.
• We are learning to summarise a text that we have read.
• We are learning to explore and explain the purpose and main idea of a texts.

WRITING

• We are learning to imitate our new talk for write text “The School of Wizardry.
• We are learning to understand and identify formal and informal language.
• We are learning to uplevel informal responses to formal response.
• We are learning to explain the difference between formal and informal language.

MATHS

• We are learning to identify and calculate triangle numbers.
• We are learning to identify and explain rules used to create growing patterns.
• We are learning to divide decimals by powers of 10s, 100s and 1000s.
• We are learning to discuss the importance of zero and how it applies to place-value of decimals.
• We are learning to solve multiplication and division problems with mental and written strategies.

INQUIRY

• We are learning to understand the treatment and impact of immigrants.

WELLBEING

• We are learning to identify the personal or cultural strengths of others.
• We are learning to understand how these strengths contribute to fair and inclusive treatment.

REMINDERS

As your child is now in Grade 6, we encourage all families to begin looking into secondary school options for next year. Please take some time to explore local schools, attend open days, and discuss what environment will best support your child. 

You can find your child’s zoned secondary school using the Victorian Government’s Find My School tool: https://www.findmyschool.vic.gov.au 

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