Year 6 News

Year 6 Camp

The week everyone had been looking forward to finally arrived, CAMP!

The teachers were extremely proud of every one of our students and the way they conducted themselves over the three days we were away.

On behalf of the Year 6 team and students, we would like to express our sincere gratitude to the volunteer teachers and parents who gave up time from their own classes and families to support us and help make our camp such a success. Once again, thank you to Mrs Hall, Mrs Hayes, Jen Baird Jason Moore and Kerin McMahon. Without your time and support, this camp would not have been possible.

We hope you enjoy the recounts from our students!

The most funny moments happened when we were kayaking it started of great when me and Amelia both nearly fell in just getting into the kayak then it was smooth sails until we went straight through the fountain and got soaked and then you probably thought we learned our lesson, wrong we did it again 🫠. We played some fun game, and everything was great until in one of the games we had to get out of the kayak and do 5 star jumps and amelia fell luckily, she held on to the wood and only her foot went in the water 😀.

Alice 6C

My favourite activity was the twin flying fox because I got to go with a friend in my group which was Alice because I am scared of heights it was a relief to go with Alice. The flying fox was 250m long and 15m from the ground and was very fun and fact we had to wear a harness and a helmet and clime up 2 ladders to get of the zip line and get clipped on it was so much fun. And when you get to the end you get helped down and then we wait for the next people on the zip so we can take the rope up for the next people to have a turn.

Ella 6C

My favourite meal was the bacon and egg with toast breakfast on the final day it was really good because the toast was crunchy the bacon was salty and the eggs were fluffy. And it was my favourite because the let us have other food like yogurt and cereal Aswell and 2 big jugs of apple juice delicious.

Harry 6C

My favourite nongroup activity was when me and my friends were in are cabin and we were talking to each other and having a great time. I also liked the beach because the teaches made up some really fun games that I enjoyed a lot like the fox hole game where you had to dig a hole then when the game began you had a certain time to find a hole around you. If you didn’t you would be out and the last one standing wins. Overall the camp was pretty good, and it was fun for the last camp of my primary school years.

Hunter 6C

From Monday the 16th to Wednesday 18th of March the year 6s went to Phillip Island Adventure Camp. I was on bus 1 and after we stopped at San Remo for lunch, we found out our activity and cabin groups. I was in activity group 1 with Mrs Levine as the teacher.

Abby L 6B

The giant swing and my Dad went on this, when you are clipped in onto the giant rope that is attached to the swing the other people have to pull a rope that lifts you off the ground and when you get to the top you have to pull a green rope and then you go flying and it was really scary.

Aiden M 6B

My favorite activity was definitely the giant swing at first it looked really scary the group had to pull a rope, and it lifted you into the air vertical. I went to the top it was 18 meters high once you were at the height you. Wanted you had to pull a rope and it dropped you my soul came out of my body.

Eddie S 6B

Cowes was so fun! I had twenty dollars and bought a TON of Lollie's, a drink and yummy pie for lunch! It was so fun walking around with my friends and going into shops and I managed to keep $5.00 that I didn’t spend which surprised myself!

Izzy M 6B

Mathematics Focus

To begin Term 2, the Year 6 students will estimate, measure and compare distances using metric units (millimetre, centimetre, metres, kilometres). They will learn to choose appropriate units and tools, and practice measuring accurately via various experiments.

Moving forward, the students will develop a conceptual understanding of area as the amount of surface space a shape covers. They count square units and apply multiplication to calculate area, then apply their understanding to solve practical problems involving real objects.

Literacy

As we near the completion of our text study of Skellig, by David Almond, the students learnt to identify and map out the development of the main and supporting characters to events that happened in the story. Students have been adding details from the text to expand the character descriptions started in the previous lesson.

Looking into the future, the Year 6 will view the teachers model a narrative piece of writing drafted by using the mind map created in the previous lesson and the assessment rubric. The students read the draft, compare it to the expectations of the rubric. With the support of their mind maps, rubrics and the original scene in Skellig, students draft their own narrative writing as part of the summative assessment task.

Mathematics Focus

Literacy

Shrine of Remembrance

On Monday the 30th of March year 6 went to the Shrine, at 8:45 we hoped on the bus and headed into the city ready for the day. Once we got off the bus we headed to the botanical garden, we ate recess there and did a scavenger hunt, for the scavenger hunt, we were in groups, I was with Lilly and Ella and we needed to search for items you would find on the floor, like multicoloured leaves, an acorn, some bumpy bark and a couple of flowers.

Izzy 6C

When we got in the shrine, we put our bags away and then split into our classes, our class went into the crypt first. The crypt is like an inside grave we learnt about the war in Gallipoli, what all the flags represent and we asked some questions. I found the war in Gallipoli the most interesting and how they prepared and what life was like in the trenches and what they ate. There was also a statue of a father and son, we got told that the father fought in World War 1 so that his son did not have to but it turns out, that his son ended up fighting in World War 2, 21 years later.

Orlando 6C

Then we went to the balcony and on the way we saw a famous piece of writing "greater love hath no man". Finally we arrived at the balcony which was a really cool view of the city in four directions, my grandad lives in the Docklands and I saw his building there.

To wrap it up the Shrine Of Remembrance was quite an adventure and Im pretty sure that our class would do the excursion again. 

Zac 6C

When we stopped we stopped in front of a boat. Another volunteer who worked their greeted us. We all pilled around the glass case surrounding the bout and we were told allot of information. The volunteer told us about how the boat we were looking at was boat number five and it was one of the boats that sailed to Gallipoli in world war one. We also found out about the youngest person in the Australian army. This person was only 14 years old. Sadly he died of a dieses he got from the trenches they had to walk through during the war. We got asked few questions and then we walked to another section.

Lilly 6C