What's Happening in the Senior School
Year 5
What’s Happening in Year 5 in February
We are excited to be back for another year. We hope you all had an enjoyable summer.
We will be running our start-up program to build relationships and spend time learning about each other.
On Wednesday through to Friday of Week 2, we will be attending Sovereign Hill. This has already been a source of great excitement, and we are looking forward to immersing students in our History unit.
Once camp is behind us, we will start the preparation for NAPLAN, which starts in Week 7 of Term 1.
A reminder that there are the You Tell Us interviews on the 9th and 10th of February. This is a highly valuable time, and we strongly encourage parents to meet with us to share pertinent information.
Interschool sport starts in Week 4. Students are required to be at school by 8:45 AM if they are representing the school in a team. Training will happen at school this week.
This year, we are encouraging students to transport their library and take-home books in a Beaumaris Primary School Reading satchel. If you already have one at home, please send it to school as soon as possible. If not, they are available for purchase from the office ($12).
Wellbeing
- Explore the links between their emotions and their behaviour
- Reflect on how personal strengths have assisted in achieving success at home, at school or in the community
Literacy
- Understand how noun groups/phrases and adjective groups/phrases can be expanded in a variety of ways to provide a fuller description of the person, place, thing or idea
- Understand the use of vocabulary to express greater precision of meaning, and know that words can have different meanings in different contexts
- Plan, draft and publish imaginative, informative and persuasive print and multimodal texts, choosing text structures, language features, images and sound appropriate to purpose and audience
- Reread and edit own and others’ work using agreed criteria for text structures and language features
- Develop a handwriting style that is becoming legible, fluent and automatic
- Understand how to use banks of known words, syllabification, spelling patterns, word origins, base words, prefixes and suffixes, to spell new words, including some uncommon plurals
Maths
- Identify and interpret different data displays including dot plots.
- Explain the difference between nominal and ordinal data
- Identify discrete numerical data
- Differentiate between nominal, ordinal and discrete numerical data
Knowledge Unit
- How did the Gold Rush affect Australia’s population and migration to Australia?
- What were the experiences of different cultural groups and classes of people on the goldfields?
- How did the migration impact the development of Australian colonies and shape Australia as a nation?
- What were the significant events and who were the significant people that shaped Australia as a democratic society?
Year 6
What’s Happening in Year 6 in February
The Year 6 students have kicked off the year with energy and enthusiasm, showing they are ready to make the most of their final year of primary school.
During the first few days in their new classroom, students have begun building strong connections within their classes, getting to know one another’s interests and discovering what they have in common. Together, they have also established their own classroom norms, thoughtfully discussing what they would like their year to look like, feel like and sound like through the lens of the 4 R’s: Respect, Responsibility, Relationships and Resilience. To demonstrate their commitment, each student created a unique puzzle piece as a personal signature, symbolising their promise to uphold these shared expectations.
A highlight of the opening week was meeting their Prep Buddies for lunch on the Preps’ very first day of school. This special moment was enjoyed by both year levels, as our Year 6 students proudly stepped into their roles as school leaders. Leading by example through their behaviour and attitude, they have already shown maturity, responsibility and care, qualities that inspire our youngest learners.
Wearing their Year 6 t-shirts with pride, students have embraced their leadership role and demonstrated a strong sense of school spirit. With such a positive start to the year, the Year 6 cohort is well prepared and excited to begin their final year of learning at BPS.
It’s important to be mindful that students are still adjusting to new routines and also that students will be attending camp in Week 3.
Wellbeing
- Students will continue to explore the 4R’s, building connections within their new classes. They will gain valuables skills to identify stressors and lift their moods through mindful and mindset strategies.
Literacy
- Students will unpack the new novel Us Mob, delving into its themes, characters, narratives that explore Indigenous voices and perspectives.
Maths
- Over the coming weeks, students will actively review forms of data representation. They will revise and learn how to analyse patterns, interpret data and choose the most effective formats to present data accurately. Students will also explore prime, composite, square & triangular numbers.
Knowledge Unit
- Students will be introduced to the Year 6 Knowledge Unit on Australian History. They will unpack the big overarching question ‘How have significant people and events of the twentieth century shaped Australia’s national identity and way of life?’
Reminders
- URGENT- Peninsula Outdoors Camp directly emailed you DIGITAL forms to complete. Please ensure these are done as soon as possible.
- BYOD forms have been sent home and need to be returned before students can use their laptops. Please read through this policy with your child and discuss appropriate use of their laptops.
- Interschool sport- Matches will begin on Friday 20th February. Please make sure appropriate sportswear, hats and drink bottles are all organised for this day. Students have begun training in their teams.
- Camp information will be sent via Compass on Tuesday.
