Year 5/6

This fortnight's newsletter article is brought to you by the 5 / 6 Students. 

Sport: By Rose 

TENNIS: This term, we have started tennis. Every Wednesday we go down to the tennis court next to the library. Birdie, the coach, is teaching us how to play tennis. The moves are backhands, forehands, adult serves and a smash. The games we played were tennis, cricket, and king of the mountain. We have lots of fun and laughs, and ⅚ would like to say we love tennis.

ATHLETICS PRACTICE:  

We practised shot put, discus and high jump. Many of our students from ⅚ have done very well in these practices. In discus, we have learnt how to throw it further, the positions on how you are allowed to throw it and what weight we have to use. Furthermore, in high jump we have learnt how to do the technique, scissors and the flop. Scissors is when you leap off the outside foot and scissor kick over the bar. In shotput, we have learned the technique of how to throw the shot properly and where exactly to throw it.  

English: By Fred & Leo 

In English, we have started reading a very interesting book called Once. It is all about a young 10-year-old Jewish boy who is living through World War II.  His parents dropped him off in a catholic orphanage when he was around 7 years old.  However, they dropped him off before World War II started.

Ochre is a literacy program that is a fun learning activity that teaches us all sorts of things, from spelling and grammar, to information texts.  We have also been learning about extending our vocabulary, which results in a lot of smart students.  We've also done a lot in our Ochre booklet, which is also linked to the Ochre lessons.

Each week, we have a spelling pre-test on Mondays and our test on Friday. In Ochre, learn new words and learn how to spell them, because we get better at spelling the words over time.  We were also talking about nouns, adjectives and normalisation. 

HSIE: By Roch & Viv

Since the start of term 2, we have learned a bit about ANZAC DAY and some of the traditions. In particular, ANZAC Biscuits and why people made them. It is because they wouldn’t go off for months while they were sent off to the ANZACS, and they also tasted nice (obviously).

Also in History, we are learning about the early settlers. They lived in Sydney Cove, a land governed by Arthur Phillps.  As there wasn’t enough food to go around, he granted land grants to convicts in the hope of more food. They had a big problem, though, the blue mountains. A mountain pattern they couldn’t cross. However, Gregory Blaxland, William Lawson & William Charles Wentworth finally crossed it

Art: By Agnes & Anna-Rose

In these past two weeks for art, 5/6 have created a colouring picture or created animals with shapes. We made some get-well cards for Mrs Wailes, who has recently been sick. We also made some wonderful Mother's Day cards for all our mothers, and with Mrs Mack, we did sewing for our Mother’s Day gifts, which were table runners. 

PDHPE (Sport & Athletics)

• PD3-4: Adapts a range of movement skills and applies them to different physical activity contexts (practising tennis strokes, shot put, discus, and high jump techniques).
• PD3-11: Demonstrates control and accuracy when performing specialised movement sequences and skills.
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English (Reading, Grammar & Vocabulary)

• EN3-RECOM-01: Analyses signals, information and ideas in sophisticated texts, and makes connections to context (reading and discussing the historical context of 'Once').
• EN3-VOCAB-01: Extends vocabulary knowledge by exploring words in context, word origins and morphological patterns (learning smart words and extending vocabulary through Ochre).
• EN3-SPELL-01: Uses knowledge of letter-sound correspondences, orthography and morphology to spell unfamiliar words (weekly spelling tests and Ochre booklets).
• EN3-GRAM-01: Explains how grammatical structures create meaning and impact in texts (learning about nouns, adjectives, and nominalisation).
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HSIE / History (ANZAC Traditions & Early Settlers)

• HT3-1: Describes and explains the significance of people, groups, places and events to the development of an Australian identity (exploring ANZAC Day traditions).
• HT3-2: Describes and explains different experiences of people living in Australia over time (learning about Arthur Phillip, early convicts, and the crossing of the Blue Mountains).
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Creative Arts (Visual Arts & Craft)

• VAS3.1: Investigates subject matter in an attempt to represent something that is like the world or can be imagined (creating shape animals and cards).
• VAS3.2: Makes artworks for different audiences, exploring the suitability of particular techniques and media (designing cards and sewing table runners for Mother's Day).