Year 5-6

Key Dates

• ESC Transition Day for Year 6: 9th and 10th of December.
• FCJ Year 6 Transition Day: 10th of December
• Swimming Program: 9th, 10th, 12th, 13th and 16th of December.
• Reports released: 16th of December.
• End of Year Mass: 17th of December.
• Year 6 Graduation: 17th of December.
• Last day of Term: 18th of December.

Check out what we have been up to lately!

Religion:

Recently, 5/6 students were visited by an organisation called, Courage to Care. They spoke about the problems such as stereotyping others, prejudice, racism and discrimination as well as the importance of everyone being an upstander rather than a bystander. 

We were then told a story from a daughter of a woman during WW2, who was living in Poland during this time. The daughter spoke of the importance of people standing up for others during this time, resulting in random acts of kindness that saved her mothers life.

Students will aim to be an upstander and help those in need, rather than others who just watch as a bystander.

Literacy:

Our focus this term is information writing. We have been using novel study of Morris Gleitzman's book, Once, which is set in Poland to guide this. 

Students enjoy listening to the story read, reading it to a partner and understanding life for the Jewish people during WW2. We then have been focusing on creating our own information reports about Poland, focusing on paragraph structure and writing techniques. 

Numeracy

The focus this term is multiplicative thinking. Recently we have been exploring factors and multiples, then identify the Lowest Common Multiple and Highest Common Factors. We are learning to identify Prime and Composite numbers before learning about the Order of Operations.

The Resilience Project.

An idea for an after school walk or weekend activity.

Kaboom Sports

Kaboom sports came to join us again! Check out the photos below of their visit.

My Future Academy

Check out what we have been up to lately!

Year 5 - Just Leadership Day

Kerry Stone visited our school as part of Caritas, to teach a group of our Year 5 students about equity, equality and what we can do to help support others. Students learnt about how fortunate we are to live in Australia compared to other countries around the world.

Science, Mathematics and Real Technologies (Smart)

The team from SMART came to school to do experiments and build upon their understandings from STEM.

Highlights included:

• Ping Pong Ball Launcher
• M&M Jar explosions
• Air Canon

Cake Raffle Volunteers

We would love students/parents/grandparents to be a part of our cake making team. Every assembly, we draw a raffle for a cake/slice/biscuits and children love being a part of the 

competition. If you would be interested in contributing, could you please send us an email and we can add you to a roster.

School Uniform, Water and Hats

Just a reminder about our school uniform policy. 

• The expectation is that ALL students have their own hat at school with their name on it. 
• Students need to wear green socks and black shoes when we do not have PE or Bluearth. 
• Earrings need to be studs or sleepers.
• No nail polish or necklaces.  No Makeup
• White socks and runners on PE and Bluearth days.
• Hair that reaches the collar needs to be tied back.
• Only water is to be brought to school.

If this is unable to be achieved on a particular day, please write a note or email to your child's classroom teacher.

Weekly Timetable

Monday: Art

Tuesday: 

Wednesday: Japanese (5/6M), STEM (5/6F)

Thursday: PE (Both classes), STEM (5/6M), Japanese (5/6F).

Friday: Bluearth (Even weeks) Assembly (Odd weeks)

Each week we have specialist subjects. On Bluearth and PE days, students can wear their PE uniform.

Lou, Linc, Fiona, Kerry and Lisa.