Level 5 & 6
Week 8
Welcome to another exciting week in 5/6. Please find our curriculum updates, Term 1 dates and reminders below.
iPad Check-in!
We have noticed lots of iPads coming to school without school required apps, necessary storage and appropriate screensavers/backgrounds. Please take the time this week to complete a brief iPad check-in. Every iPad coming to WPPS should...
- have your child's face set as their screensaver
- be protected with a passcode
- have spare storage for work at school
- come to school fully charged every day
- have the apps Pages, Keynote, Numbers, iMovie, GarageBand and Showbie
have games stored in a separate folder
Grade 5 NAPLAN Note - nearly there!
Our Grade 5 students will be completing their final NAPLAN assessments this week. Students will complete one assessment per day until all assessments are finished. Throughout the process, our focus remains on helping students feel calm, confident and prepared as they navigate the online assessments.
Literacy
Reading
Our reading focus will continue exploring the world of advertising. Students will analyse a wide range of advertisements and identify the persuasive techniques used to influence an audience. They will examine how images, slogans, repetition, emotive language and carefully chosen words work together to shape messages and promote products or ideas. Through discussion and comparison, students will continue developing their ability to recognise how advertisers target specific audiences.
What you can do at home:
When watching television, browsing online or looking through catalogues, ask your child to identify persuasive techniques in advertisements. Questions such as “What is this trying to make people do?” or “What words or images make this convincing?” can help strengthen their understanding.
Writing
In Writing, students will continue their creative advertising challenge. They will rebrand everyday classroom objects and design advertisements that use persuasive language and marketing techniques to make these ordinary items appear exciting and desirable. Students will experiment with slogans, descriptive language and visual presentation while thinking carefully about their target audience.
What you can do at home:
Ask your child to choose an everyday object at home and try to “sell” it to you using persuasive language. Encourage them to think about what words, slogans or ideas might make the product more appealing.
Numeracy
Level 5
Our Grade 5 students will complete their final NAPLAN assessments this week. Once assessments are finished, students will continue to focus on addition and subtraction strategies. They will work on building accuracy, fluency and confidence when solving problems involving larger numbers.
Level 6
Level 6 students will continue developing their understanding of the order of operations. They will practise solving increasingly complex number sentences involving multiplication, division, addition and subtraction, including problems that contain brackets. Students will continue applying this knowledge through problem-solving tasks that require careful reasoning and step-by-step thinking.
What you can do at home:
Encourage your child to explain their thinking when solving maths problems. Asking questions such as “What step do you solve first?” or “Why do you need to solve that part before the others?” helps strengthen their understanding.
CBL
Big Idea: Community
As we move closer to the Colour Run, students will begin working in groups of three to take on leadership roles in supporting the event. Each group will create promotional material designed to help spread excitement about the Colour Run within our school community, applying the advertising techniques they have been exploring in Literacy.
Students will also design and prepare a range of simple games that will be played with younger year levels during the Twilight Games section of the event. Through this process, students are developing teamwork, creativity and leadership skills while contributing positively to a whole-school community event.
Wellbeing
Bullying Prevention
This week’s lesson will focus on exploring the difference between being a snitch and being an upstander. Students will discuss the importance of speaking up when someone is being treated unfairly and how supporting others can help create a safe and respectful community.
Term One Dates
March
18th – Grade 6: Dream and Lead Conference Excursion (city)
26th – Colour Run
30th – Easter Raffle
31st – School Photos
April
1st - Easter Bonnet Parade
2nd – Curriculum Day