Year 5/6 News
Learning Centre Four
What a fantastic couple of weeks the students have had in LC4! We have been busy learning and keeping to routines, along with Buddies and Leadership hour. We all hope the Mothers, Grandmothers and other loved women in our community were spoilt for Mother's Day last week. We had an excellent turn out for the Mother's Day Breakfast.
Please find below this term's parent overviews:
Year 5
Literacy: In Literacy, students have been exploring the “The Fantastic Books of Mr. Morris Lessmore”. We have used the “SLICK” strategy to analyse the text as well as Venn Diagrams to compare the similarities between the book and the film version of the story.
Numeracy: In Numeracy, students have been learning about Fractions, they have also been given the opportunity to work with peers in other learning groups. In Week 4, we have begun learning about the topic of Shape where we have tried to understand how a shape can be transformed, translated and reflected.
Inquiry: In Inquiry, students have explored different types of Media. We first began by looking deeper into the Newspaper. We researched the evolution of a newspaper and compared it to how newspapers are presented to us today. We have just begun learning about Radio - students have been creating their own Radio script about significant events that have taken place at school.
Religion: In Religion, students have been exploring and researching about other faiths around the world. We have used a “World Religion Grid” to help us gather our information. Students have looked at different prayers, symbols, significant events and many other things regarding these world Religions. In Week 4, students have selected a Religion of their choice in which they will create an information poster about their chosen Religion.
Wellbeing: In Wellbeing, students focused on “Positive Self-Talk”, we learnt about different strategies which we can use to turn negative thoughts into positive ones. Students engaged in group discussions to talk about different scenarios which were presented to them. They used the Positive Self-Talk strategies learnt and applied them to the scenarios.
Special Events:
Winter Gala Practice: We are well underway into Winter Gala practice. Students have been practicing their assigned sports ready to tackle the Winter Gala Day in Week 7.
Mothers Day: On Wednesday the 7th of May, we welcomed our Mothers and other significant women in our lives to the OLSC Mothers Day breakfast. After the breakfast, we acknowledged our mothers and special women with a Liturgy. On Friday, students had the opportunity to spoil their Mothers at the Mother’s day stall, there were some great items up for purchase!
Buddies:
Year 5 students were lucky enough to spend time with the Prep buddies. Together they read a variety of “How to Catch….” stories. From there, students began to design their own trap to try and catch anything of their choice.
Year 6
Literacy: Students have been analysing and contextualising poems. They identified the purpose and intended audience as well as explained the structure and poetic devices used in poems.
Numeracy: Students complete a table describing the edges, faces (surfaces for cones, cylinders and spheres) and vertices for cylinders, spheres, prisms, pyramids and platonic solids. Students learned to identify and sort right prisms based on their cross-sections.
Inquiry: Students are learning about the processes for producing media artworks and identifying the variety of audiences for which media artworks are made. They are creating storyboards to reflect the plan for their media art
Religion: Students discussed the significance of Pentecost as the descent of the Holy Spirit and considered the ongoing presence and action of the Holy Spirit in the Church and believers' lives.
They recognised the influence of the gifts and fruits of the Holy Spirit in empowering individuals for mission and service.
Wellbeing: Students identified the influence of self-talk on their actions and emotions.
They practised using positive self-talk as a coping strategy to help them deal with intense emotions.
Special Events:
Inform & Empower- This Term, we are encouraging Healthy Digital Habits, with a focus on addictive design features of games and apps, as well as thinking critically about how tech makes us feel.
Some friendly reminders:
- Sunday 18th May - Community Mass (1st Eucharist)
- Monday 19th May - Whole School Assembly
- Wednesday 21st May - National Simultaneous Story Time
- Monday 26th May - National Sorry Day
- Monday 9th June - King’s Birthday - School Closed
- Tuesday 10th June - School Closure Day
- Friday 13th June - AFL Day
- Friday 13th June - Whole School Mass at 9am Hall
- Monday is Subway Day
- Friday is Baker's Son Day
- Please ensure you have signed the ICT user agreement
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Blessings from the Year 5/6 Team: Alison, Ann, Ben, Beth, Cheryl, Danielle, Elizabeth, Janeen, Jordan, Krystin, Milla, Rita, Scott and Tian.