What's Happening in the Senior School

Year 5

What’s Happening in Year 5 in May

Hi Year 5 community, we hope everyone has had a successful start to the term.

Year 5 students completed the Lead It incursion on Thursday the 30th of April. This was a very hands on day with all students involved exploring themes such as character traits we admire, understanding who you are and how to best work within a group. All students participated with great enthusiasm and should be proud of their efforts.

All year 5’s will be starting their leadership workshops starting with the Year 1’s on Monday in week 4. The leadership workshops include Art, Sport, Digital technology, sustainability and our Upstanders Program.

Interschool sport will begin in Week 4. Students should be excited to be representing Beaumaris PS once again against our neighbouring schools in a variety of different sports, or enjoying some fun games at BPS. Good luck to all teams!

Reminders

Cross Country on Tuesday the 5th of May at Dendy Park
Mother's Day stall will be occurring in Week 4 on the 6th of May
18th to the 22nd is Education Week

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
Read and complete associated activities with our class novels Black Cockatoo and Dirrarn

Maths

using pattern blocks to represent equivalent fractions; selecting one block or a combination of blocks to represent one whole, and making a design with shapes; and recording the fractions to justify the total
creating a fraction wall from paper tape to model and compare a range of different fractions with related denominators, and using the model to play fraction wall games 
connecting a fraction wall model and a number line model of fractions to say how they are the same and how they are different; for example, explaining
on a fraction wall represents the area of one-quarter of the whole, while on the number line
is identified as a point that is one-quarter of the distance between zero and one 
using an understanding of factors and multiples as well as equivalence to recognise efficient methods for the location of fractions with related denominators on parallel number lines; for example, explaining on parallel number lines that
2/10 is located at the same position on a parallel number line as 1/5 because 1/5
is equivalent to 2/10
converting between mixed numerals and improper fractions to assist with locating them on a number line

Knowledge Unit

Use geographical tools to identify the relative location of the major countries of North America and Europe and their environmental characteristics. 
Understand the influence of people on environmental characteristics
Describe Australia’s place in the world using maps, globes and digital tools
Understand the influence of First Nations Australians on the characteristics of a place.
Identify traditional land management practices and their sustainability.

Year 6

What’s Happening in Year 6 in May

What a fantastic first term our Year 6 students had last term! From musical auditions to interschool sport and school tours, students were involved in a wide range of exciting activities. They also enjoyed plenty of playtime with their Prep buddies. We hope everyone had a restful holiday and has returned refreshed and ready for the term ahead. We are looking forward to another fun-filled term, packed with new concepts, extended learning, and exciting opportunities.

Year 6 students have thoroughly enjoyed training for their Winter Interschool Sport. They have been developing their skills across a variety of sports and are looking forward to demonstrating their teamwork and sportsmanship both at school and against other local schools.

Our Year 6s have also embraced their roles as BPS leaders with great enthusiasm. They are taking pride in their responsibilities as Dolphin Researchers, Captains, school tour guides, radio hosts, and positive role models within our school community.

Homework

Please continue to encourage your child to read regularly. Students are expected to read each night and record their reading in their school diary. Diaries should be brought to school each day and taken home each evening. Classroom teachers will be checking diaries to monitor reading habits. Diaries will also be used to communicate important dates and reminders.

Students whose families have purchased a subscription have received their Mathletics login details and have been assigned relevant activities.

Literacy

We have begun reading our class novel, Number the Stars, and are exploring key themes such as courage, friendship, and standing up for others in times of adversity. Students have shown great interest in learning about the historical context of the Danish Resistance.

In writing, students are focusing on descriptive techniques, using a range of senses and varying sentence lengths to “show, not tell” emotions and build tension in their writing.

Mathematics

Over the coming weeks, students are:

Identifying parallel cross-sections in right prisms
Ordering common fractions, justifying their reasoning, and adding and subtracting fractions with related denominators
Using all four operations with decimals and connecting decimal representations to the metric system

Wellbeing

Students will be exploring the characteristics of positive and healthy friendships. They will also develop strategies to manage and resolve conflicts that may arise within friendships.

Knowledge Unit

This term, our Knowledge Unit focus is Civics and Citizenship. Students will explore:

Democracy in Australia
The electoral process
Australia’s system of government
Who holds power and how decisions are made

Reminders

Cross Country – Tuesday 5th MayStudents will travel by bus to Dendy Street, Brighton. Please ensure your child arrives on time. Students may wear their House colours, but outfits must be suitable for running.
ThinkUKnow Cyber Session for students- Thursday 7th May
High School Transition Forms – Due Friday 8th May
Interschool Sport – Fridays Please ensure students arrive early so buses can depart on time. Mouthguards are required for both training and match days (where applicable). Students without a mouthguard will not be able to participate