Year 6 News

As we wind down to the final few weeks of Term 2, it's always a great opportunity to reflect on what we’ve learned. The Year 6 students have done an amazing job navigating the busyness of Term 2. From completing numerous summative assessment tasks for reports and Parent Teacher Interviews, to working on Unit of Inquiry projects, the Year 6 teachers are very proud of every student. 

Literacy 

Over the past few weeks, Year 6 students have continued to develop their writing by applying their new understanding of proofreading, editing, and using prepositions, as well as consolidating their knowledge of sentence structures. In the final weeks of the term, we will shift our focus to formal and informal letter writing, which will tie in with our new Unit of Inquiry. 

Mathematics 

It’s been another busy fortnight in Maths! Our focus has been on fractions, decimals, and percentages. Building on their understanding of factors and multiples, students have been learning to calculate fractions or percentages of numbers. This will be the foundation for our upcoming unit on Money and Financials. 

Inquiry 

Reflecting on Our Previous UOI 

We have just concluded our Unit of Inquiry, Who We Are, where students explore how different cultures are influenced by many factors. They identified key aspects of a country, including issues affecting its people, customs, values, rituals, celebrations, and lifestyles, while also exploring connections to Australian traditions. 

Although shorter than other units, Who We Are was a highlight of the year for many; especially the Mystery Briefcases activity, where Year 4 students investigated the many cultures our Year 6 students had researched. 

Introducing Our New UOI 

With no time to spare, we’ve launched straight into our next Unit of Inquiry, How We Organise Ourselves, with a focus on "Our Needs and Wants Influence Economic Activities." 

This unit will carry us through the remainder of the term and into the next. Our first task, which students thoroughly enjoyed, involved learning about Needs vs. Wants, and the concepts of Supply and Demand. They created bracelets and calculated production costs in order to generate a profit. 

Please enjoy reading about our past and current Units of Inquiry! 

On the 13th of June the year 6 students presented a mystery suitcase to the year 4 students.

We set up the tables in a square shape while the year 6 students sat on the inside of the tables and the year 4 students walked around the tables with our boxes facing them with information about each of our own countries, while they tried to guess our countries, I chose Chile but unfortunately, they were learning about South America and Chile is located in South America. 

But only one student was stuck in my country. 

Thank you for reading,  

- Asha L. 

I learned that there is 10 billion Baguettes made a year in France and each person alone in France eats 145 Baguettes per person per year. I also learned that the Eiffel tower expands in summer since it is metal. For France I chose to bring in a Beret, a mini-Eiffel tower that I have and a small French flag. 

If I had to do it again, I would probably not bring in the French flag because it gave it away too much and I would do more of it at home if I had the chance because I was away for some of the time that we had this homework.  

- Yves A  

During this presentation, I had a lot of interesting and cultural things that i presented and spoke about. I researched lots of interesting things about my country during this unit of inquiry but one fact that i learnt about Ukraine is that one of their distinguishing features of Ukraine is their hospitality and that they are a very kind community. 

During the showcase with the year 4s, I brought in traditional hand painted easter eggs so that i have good items to help me represent. The year 4s surprised me with their questions and also how many of them guessed right. Their questions were also very detailed. If i did this presentation again, then I would reconsider probably bringing in more handy objects that I could explain better. Overall, it was a great experience with the year 4s.  

- Emily H  

I bought a Big ben Lego to represent the famous landmark in England (London).

The UK flag to represent their country, a Paddington bear to show the famous bear and Paddington station, the royal mews to show the Queens carriages and horses and a Harrods mug to show a famous store in England. Most of the kids knew strait away because of the flag and the big ben Lego but i think some of the guesses i wasn't too surprised about because some kids said London witch is understandable because that is a city in England. 

If I got the chance to do this unit of inquiry again i would have added more to my speech to make it more informative  

- April B 

On Thursday morning our learning intension was about supply and demands. Mr Marashli told us that we would make a pretend bracelet factory. We had take responsibility of our wages, the supply and demand.  Our group also had to figure out how much we would get paid with each bracelet we sold and how much to produce. We got into groups had  5 or 6 and we had to name our group. Our group was named Bbracelets.Co. 

In our group we had Alexandra, Isla, Annabel, Siabella and Olivia. We got 10 minutes to plan and 7 minutes to make the bracelets. There were 3 rounds, and the first round was that we had to make as many bracelets as possible. 

Our group made 9 bracelets. Mr Marashli walked to each 'factory' and decided which bracelets he wanted to buy from each group. We were lucky enough to have sold 5 in the first round.  

There were trends now, so we had to not use green and lots of pink and yellow. In the second round we had to draw pattens on the bracelets. We had the option to 'buy' special scissors that that made pattens but every time we used them for a bracelet it cost extra money. 

The third round was the last one. We couldn't get any more coloured paper so we had to work with what we had. We didn't have to draw pattens on them so it was pretty simple. 

At the end we had to add up our total amount of profits. Overall we came second. By the end Mr Marashli had so many bracelets. 

• Olivia J and Siabella M 

Mandala Lunch Club  

This term Iris, Lauren, Takai, Liam, Hitomi and Toby from Year 6 have been running a mandala lunch club every Tuesday, for the Year 2, 3 and 4 students.  

The lunch clubs have been buzzing with creativity! Students have been working together to create a beautiful seahorse mandala jigsaw. Each piece has been carefully coloured in, showcasing teamwork and artistic skills. This project not only encouraged collaboration but also allowed students to express themselves through art. 

We’re excited to see the finished mandala come together and brighten our school community! Well done, everyone! 

Thanks to Mrs Lawrence and Mrs Levine for your support.