Year 6 Spotlight

To the Class of 2025

A letter to our graduating class of 2025, from Anna, Conor and Anneliese.

Congratulations on an outstanding Year 6 – it has been such a joy to watch you grow throughout the whole of your primary school time at FPS. We hope that you are as proud of yourselves, as we are of you!

You have shown empathy and kindness toward one another, resilience when faced with challenges and an enthusiasm for fun and joy! You celebrate and accept others' unique personalities and passions, showing genuine care and love towards one another.

Our biggest Year 6 highlight was getting to know each of you and smiling with you each day.

Some other memorable moments include:

Sharing the camp Jungai experience and seeing you push yourselves.
The Star Wars Sci-Fi Excursion – seeing your community engagement and sense of fun.
The ‘Crack it’ incursion, where you worked in teams successfully and tried new things.
Watching you representing the school with pride in so many different sports.
The way you conducted yourselves professionally during your debates was impressive.
Your maturity and sense of responsibility shone through in preparing for your concert.
You have embraced leadership opportunities around the school, like being the first FPS SWPBS New presenters and mentoring and being role models to young students.

Please pop in and let us know what you’re up to. All the best for the next adventures!

Podcast Book

After learning about fundamentals of creating, recording choosing a target audience, our students created podcasts!

You can listen to their magnificent work here!

Year 6 Highlights

Year 6 students are in their final couple of weeks of primary school. While they are excited for their next school adventure, they have also been reflecting about the fantastic year they have had and what they’ve most enjoyed! See below everyone's highlight of their Year 6 at FPS!

6A Highlights

Elodie: My highlight was Year 6 camp because we did lots of fun art activities with friends.
Georgia: My highlight of year 6 was learning algebra in maths and playing soccer at lunch.
Barnaby: I really enjoyed going to camp because my cabin was great.
Nadia: My highlight of year 6 is building and sinking the rafts at camp.
Lucas: I really enjoyed school camp, playing with friends and having non-stop fun!
Ella: My year 6 highlight was when we went to the Lego exhibition and watched the IMAX movie.
Pippa: My year 6 highlight was when everyone went to camp, I had a great time and I wish I could do it all again.
Sibella: Camp was my best highlight – having fun with my friends in my cabin and well as the chicken schnitzel dinner.
Evan: Hanging out with my friends was my favourite part of year 6.
Jacob: I loved making podcasts with my mates, creating a funny podcast was fun.
Poppy: I liked the swimming carnival because I hung out with my friends and tried the running backwards in the water races.
Aurora: I loved making the Vietnam, Asia Amazing Race activities with my friends for Year 5s.
Sachin: I really enjoyed the athletics day because I got to hang out with my friends and try lots of sports.
Maddie: I loved the swimming carnival because I tried new things like running in water backwards and sideways.
Erica: I really loved competing in the athletics carnival because I was racing against my friends.
Xavier: I really enjoyed the swimming carnival and hanging out with my friends and also swimming some races.
Lily: My highlight of year six was when we went on camp and out raft broke before it was even in the water.
Rosie: My highlight of year six was doing the high ropes at camp because it stretched my boundaries and built my confidence.
Harry: I liked camp because I loved my last night. My cabin had lots of fun.
Darcy: My favourite thing about year six was my cabin at camp, and how we did caterpillar wars and wrestling.
Sammy: I really liked going on the canoes at camp, because I got to jump into the lake – it was freezing.

6B Highlights

Cecilia: My favourite part of Year 6 was the Lego exhibition because it was really fun to hang out with my friends and build Lego.
Mael: My highlight of this year was going to the Lego Star Wars exhibition because we got to build cool stuff.
Emi: Camp was really fun because we learnt how to work better in teams and I became closer to some of my friends.
Sachi: My highlight from this year was having homework because it gave me an idea of what high school will be like.
Ollie D: I really enjoyed playing footy at lunch time because it brought everyone together and doing the probability maths projects which was fun.
Maxi: I liked going to camp and I loved canoeing because Xavier and I fun splashing around.
Erin: My core memory from this year is going to be camp because all the activities were so much fun and I got to learn new things.
Parker: My highlight was Hoop Time basketball because I enjoyed playing with my favourite sport and hanging out with my friends.
Stella: My core memory was going to camp and trying so many new fun and exciting activities. Also making new memories with my friends.
Henry: I really enjoyed regional basketball. I made new friends and played with new people. It was overall a great experience.
Bea: My highlight of Year 6 was writing; making friends at VHAP, writing/recording my podcast, and debating.
Andy: My highlight for this year was going to IMAX for the Lego Star Wars exhibition.
Giselle: My highlight of this year was going to camp and building a raft – it was really fun.
Oscar: The thing about year 6 that really took me by surprise was camp and how we got to do so many amazing things. I had an amazing experience.
Will: My favourite part of Year 6 was the swimming carnival because I finally got a ribbon, which I have been hoping for... for years.
Lola: My core memory this year was going to camp because I got to learn so many new things, such as how to wash your hands with leaves and how to make a raft.
Freya: This year I enjoyed making our podcast in writing and being part of the school concert.
Amelia: I enjoyed writing and recording podcasts, as well as listening to others podcasts.
Paige: My favourite memory of year 6 was going to camp because I got to go out to new places and I enjoyed getting out in nature.
Oto: The best thing in Year 6 was camp because I made new friends and had lots of fun with raft making.
Jonah: My highlight of the year is having Conor as my teacher.
Clara: I enjoyed the swimming carnival because it was fun and I got to play with my friends and I didn’t get burnt.
Lucien: I loved this year because it brought this year level together.

6C Highlights

Nick: My highlight of year 6 was camp because there were plenty of fun activities to enjoy and we spent time with friends.
Tilly: My highlight was making the podcast with Eliana because it was really fun and we were laughing a lot.
Penny D: I loved all the interschool sports because it was fun versing other schools and learning different sports.
Oli DR: I enjoyed the swimming carnival because I got to hang out with my friends, have ice cream and do a 20m run.
Jamila: My highlight of the year was camp because I got to get closer to people that I wouldn’t usually hang out with.
Jimmy: I liked winning in interschool sports.
Lucia: It was so fun making a raft with my friends at camp and going in the water.
Daisy: My highlight was Year 6 camp because I did lots of fun activities with my friends, including rafting.
Alexandra: I really enjoyed the 5 & 6 concert musical performance because I had a lot of fun playing the role of Steed and wearing the head microphone.
Ella: My highlight was when everyone ‘whisper sang’ Happy birthday to me at camp.
Navin: My highlight of the year was camp and the night we had to do a talent show which was really fun. And also interschool sports when I had an assist to Oli to score against the other FPS team.
Eliana: My highlight of the year was camp because it was great. I liked the possum pull.
Eleanor: My highlight of year six was going to the star wars exhibition at the Melbourne Museum because I enjoyed seeing the creations built by others and building some of my own.
Archie: My highlight of year 6 was camp, because the water activities were really fun.
Tyler: I liked the Star Wars Lego excursion because it was a fun day of building things!
Sully: One of my highlights from year 6 is camp because I liked the raft building.
Annabell: I enjoyed the raft building at camp.
Leni: A highlight of mine for grade 6 was taking part in the concert because it was really fun to be on stage performing.
Penny V: Camp because I loved the possum pull and fun activities, specifically making the pizza.
Weston: My highlight of year 6 was raft building at camp. I loved falling into the cold water at the end.
Eddy: I enjoyed the possum pull at year 6 camp because of the thrills and the view at the top.
Sophia: My highlight was going to Year 6 camp because I was in a cabin with all of my friends.

~ Year 6 Teachers (Anna, Conor & Anneliese) and Students