Year 5/6
Year 5/6 Cluster News
HOME INQUIRY:
Reading: Aim for 20 minutes minimum reading per night. We encourage students to read aloud, either to themselves or a parent. Don’t forget to record your book for the Premier’s Reading Challenge.
Mathematics: Students are to work on the recall of any facts that they are not automatic in recalling. You may like to create flash cards or skip count aloud with your child to help support their learning with this.
Remembering we are aiming to have learnt all our multiplication facts up to x12 by the end of the year. If your child can recall all of them, they can switch over to their division facts.
Inquiry: Talk with your child about how they see themselves as a leader. This discussion could include how they display communication skills, research skills, thinking skills, social skills and social skills.
EXHIBITION: Students will complete their second journal this week. It is due to be uploaded in Toddle by 5pm Sunday. Students are creating a display to share their leadership with the Year 5s. Students, please share with people at home, the information you will be presenting.
Current and Upcoming Learning
Reader’s Workshop: Students will be focusing on stamina reading and reading with expression to support their oral presentation skills.
Writer’s Workshop: Students have been focused writing simple, compound and complex sentences. This has included recognising different types of clauses and analysing texts according to author’s use of these to add interest to writing.
Mathematics: We are finishing off our work on fractions, decimals and percentages for now. The students will move onto focusing on the properties of 2D shapes and 3D objects next week.
Inquiry: Earlier this year we began this unit of inquiry with a focus on leadership. This week, the Year 5s have been looking at the Approaches to Learning (ATLs) in the PYP. The ATLs include the skills each student has gained skills to use in their learning. These include communication skills, research skills, thinking skills, social skills and social skills. Students have identified the skills they use confidently and the skills that offer opportunity for growth. The Year 5s will be visiting a mini exhibition presented by the Year 6s. This will display the many
EXHIBITION: The Parent Information Session is available in Toddle announcements. Please ensure that you contact Jayne if you have any queries or concerns. The Year 6s have spent this week thinking about their leadership roles in the school. They have recorded What, where, when, who, why and how related to their role. Students considered the blockers/issues and opportunities within their roles and the leadership qualities that have assisted them in their roles. This work is preparation for them to create a mini exhibition about their leadership roles. The Year 5s will view this display next Wednesday, so they can be better informed as they apply for 2026 leadership positions. The Exhibition Presentation Night will be in Term 3, Week 8, on Wednesday, September 10th.
School Photo Day – Tuesday 5th August (Term 3, Week 3)
Students need to wear their formal uniform. Year 6 students need to bring their Year 6 shirt and sports uniform to change into for the special Year 6 graduation photo.
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May God bless your week
Yours sincerely,
Luke Napier napier.luke@goldengrove.sa.edu.au
Jade Fielke
fielke.jade@goldengrove.sa.edu.au
Jayne Zadow zadow.jayne@goldengrove.sa.edu.au