Year 6
Welcome to our Grade 6 Classroom Communication for Term 1, Week 5!
This issue's guest reporters are Holley Allen and Lily Bodycoat.
Year 6 News by Holley Allen and Lily Bodycoat
English
Year Six have been working on persuasive writing, spelling and reading. Students have been working on persuasive writing about the importance of family history. Do you know much about your family origin or where your family originated?
We have also been reading a novel called ‘A Ghost in my Suitcase’. It’s about Chinese and French people, with a young girl named Celeste visiting China to spread her mother’s ashes but encounters some GHOSTS!
Spelling is also a key subject in year six, lately we have been focusing on the sounds /ph/ and /sc/. To test our knowledge, we do a spelling test every Friday to see how we have improved over the week.
Maths
During Maths we have been working on data and how to show data by creating different graphs, such as bar and line graphs and side by side column graphs. It is interesting to look at the graphs side by side to compare the data. We have also started learning about prime and composite numbers. A prime number is when it is only divisible by itself and one.
A composite number is when it is divisible by more than just itself and one.
We have also been adding and multiplying some huge numbers!!
Science
In science we have been learning about the states of matter, Solids, Liquids and Gases. A solid is something hard and stable, a liquid will take the shape of the object they are placed in, and a gas can be steam, air, or helium.
Religious Education
In RE we are learning about, Who is Jesus in the Gospel? And learning about how Jesus is represented in the books of Matthew, Mark, Luke, and John.
Swimming
Year 3 to 6 could participate in swimming sports on Thursday 5th of February at the Euroa swimming pool. The strokes they could choose between were freestyle, backstroke, breaststroke, and butterfly, and if you were in year 6 you could be a year 6 helper. If you were swimming and came 1st or 2nd you would go to the next level. District was Friday 13th of February and you would compete against other schools.
Specialist
In specialist we do Art, PE, STEM and Japanese, in STEM we are learning about animal habitats and answer questions about what we learned about at the end. In PE we play lots of games and then focus on something like throwing and catching or tennis. In Japanese we are learning about oni aka a Japanese demon that you throw beans at for the new year. And in art we are doing a honeycomb all about me to make a huge honeycomb.
PE and Art are on a Tuesday this term, and Japanese and STEM are on a Wednesday.
Shrove Tuesday
On Shrove Tuesday we prepared and cooked over 400 pancakes!!!!! Everyone just loves the smell of pancakes and having whatever toppings they choose!!! It was a fantastic day for all! All the funds raised went to Caritas to help the poor and needy.
Buddy Program
As year six students, we start the Buddy program, each student has been given a Foundation student to take care of, help and be friendly to each other.
Mercy Day
Mercy Day was held on the 6th of February. We visited church for a whole school mass, this was the first mass for the new foundation students, and as buddies we had to teach them about the expectations of church. As an afternoon treat Year Six were going to host fun little games, but due to extreme heat it was cancelled, however we cooled off with free Zooper Doopers!
Photos
A quick word from Mr. Tunks
Welcome to Week 5 of Term 1 everyone! It has been fantastic getting to know all of the Year 6 students and we are really starting to settle into a nice routine and students are showing that they are more than capable leaders of our lovely school. We have Mr. Damien Saxon in our classroom as our Learning Support Officer and Damien will begin working with some students on Literacy Intervention starting in the next week.
Just a few reminders of our expectations in Year 6
-Students to have their own drink bottles and hats at school
-Students to read and have their reader signed nightly and checked by the teacher before school each morning
-Students to practice their spelling words nightly and checked by the teacher before school each morning.
Key Dates
February 2026 🌞
26th - Mass 12.30pm Farewell to Fr Tony in the Mercy Centre
Euroa Secondary College to visit Grade 6 at 2.30pm
27th - FIRE Carrier Commissioning School Assembly 2.20pm
March 🍀
6th - World Day of Prayer
9th - Labour Day Public Holiday
13th - Division Swimming
School Assembly 2.30pm
18th - Regional Swimming
27th - School Assembly 2.30pm
April 🐰
2nd - Stations Of the Cross Liturgy 1.45pm
Student's last day. End Term 1
3rd - Good Friday
5th - Easter Sunday
20th - Pupil Free Day CESL Learning and Teaching
21st - Student's return to school - Term 2 begins
27th - Euroa Secondary College Discovery Night
Thanks for taking the time to read our Year 6 Classroom Communication, I am looking forward to what the rest of the year brings! If you have any questions or need to contact me please feel free to email me at jtunks@sjeuroa.catholic.edu.au
Take care,
Jake Tunks (Year 6 Classroom Teacher) and Damien Saxon (Learning Support Officer)