Year Five/ Six

Communicating with the Year Five/Six Team

We look forward to partnering with you in 2021, and welcome your input:

Llewela Humphries (Class 56A) Llewela.Humphries@education.vic.gov.au

Melissa Woollard (Class 34C) Melissa.Woollard@education.vic.gov.au

Hot Cross Buns Fundraiser

Maths in Year Five & Six!

Last week our students focused on the Cartesian plane and in plotting positive and negative coordinates. The Learning Intention for this unit was:

• Understanding the four different quadrants (+/+, +/-, -/- & -/+)
• Pinpointing positive and negative coordinate positions
• Following given positive coordinate positions to complete set drawings
• Following given Cartesian plane (positive and negative / x and y) coordinates to develop an unknown picture
• Participate in playing games of Battleship with their peers.

5/6 A Cartesian planes - Battleships

5/6 B Cartesian planes

CHESS Tournament

Each Friday our Year Six students have been participating in a Chess Tournament. This week we are up to rounds 3 and 4. We are coming closer to awarding our winner a new Chess set. Have a look at the photos below to see our students joining in.

John Monash Science School - JMSS

Our 12 selected students attending the John Monash Science School, participated in their first session last week. The three different groups joined in with students from a range of different schools. They were taught by both JMSS teachers and Year Ten students. Below are some photos from the different groups. 

RoboGals

Mini Mathematicians

Little Scientist, Big Science

Our scientist were successful in planning and building a craft that housed a raw egg. These were dropped off the edge of the second level. Success in round one with an unbroken egg. Moving up to the third level there craft unfortunately turned and the egg broke. TOP EFFORT by these 3 students.

HOME LEARNING

The Home Learning expectations and tasks can be found in the link below.