Year 3 - 6 Community

Wonderful start to 2025!

Classrooms are working together to create a calm environment while fostering a strong learning culture. This journey begins with our cross-college Starting Right program, which emphasizes the college values of Growth, Persistence, Collaboration, and Kindness in everything we do.

We value our partnership with parents and carers, which plays a vital role in your child’s learning success. This will be highlighted during our Student-Led Conferences in Week 9. We encourage you to regularly ask your child about their day, establish home reading routines, and celebrate positive behaviours.

Teachers will acknowledge student achievements through Positive Behaviour notifications on Xuno. If you haven’t signed up for Xuno yet, please contact your campus admin team for assistance, as it is a key communication tool.

Thank you for supporting your child’s learning journey and for ensuring they arrive with their hat each day.

INCURSIONS, EXCURSIONS & IMPORTANT DATES

Further details will be provided closer to the date and specific to each campus.

NAPLAN Dates

This term our year 3’s and 5’s will be completing NAPLAN in week 7 on Wednesday, Thursday and Friday.

HASS / Inquiry

This term the 3-6 students are exploring biological science.

The year 3/4 students will understand how to group living things based on observable features and distinguish them from nonliving things. They will investigate relationships that assist the survival of living things. Students will  compare the key stages in the life cycle of a plant and an animal and relate life cycles to growth and survival. By the end of the unit students will follow the design process to create and build either a habitat for a mini beast or green house for a plant to survive in. Students will follow a scientific procedure as they monitor the survival of their mini beast or plant.

This term the year 5/6 students will focus on recognising questions that can be investigated scientifically and undertaking investigations and evaluations using the design process. Students will explore how changes can be classified in different ways. Students are introduced to cause-and-effect relationships that relate to form and function through an exploration of adaptations of living things. Students will understand the structural and behavioural features of an animal are determined by the physical conditions of their environment. By the end of the unit students will design and produce an animal using Tinkercad software which will then be 3D printed. 

English

In English, our students have been learning about their daily Reading and Writing routines through our Starting Right program. 

In year 3/4 students are learning how to retrieve information directly stated in the text.

They are developing their scientific vocabulary.

Our year 3/4s are using researched facts to write information texts.

In 5/6 students are revising the features of narrative texts.

They are identifying parts of speech and learning how to use appositives and adverbs to enhance their writing.

Mathematics

In Maths, students are learning about number and  place value, they are modelling numbers and finding practical applications for addition and subtraction. Students are developing their mathematical knowledge through NumberTalks and understanding there are lots of different ways to solve mathematical problems. 

Juanita Mountjoy

Assistant Principal - Wexford Campus

Year 3 - 6 Stages of Learning Coordinator 

Rachelle Koepler

 Assistant Principal - Peacock Campus

Year 3 - 6 Stages of Learning Coordinator