Year 6 Curriculum News
Term 4, 2024

Welcome to Term 4

Term 4 is always a busy and fun-filled time of year for Year 6. Amongst many other important Year 6 events we have Camp in Week 6 of the term and Graduation activities at the end of term. We also have our Remembrance Day Ceremony and an excursion to Scienceworks to look forward to.

We eagerly anticipate celebrating the end of the Year 6 students’ BNPS journey with you!

Literacy

Reading

Students will continue to read, interpret and respond to a wide range of rich literature. They analyse these texts and support interpretations with evidence drawn from the text.

We continue to incorporate SMART Spelling words into our Spelling lists, as well as vocabulary that is specific and relevant to our Units of Inquiry.

The Year 6 students employ a variety of strategies for writing, including note-taking, using models, planning, editing and proofreading. The students will continue working on the six key traits that make up quality writing. The six traits are Ideas, Organisation, Voice, Word choice, Sentence fluency, and Conventions. They will also complete their primary school Memoirs and Harris Burdick short stories.

Numeracy

We will continue to work on Number and Algebra in Term 4. The Year 6 students will also focus on the Measurement, Space and Statistics and Probability strands. During the term the students will have opportunities to work on more investigative and hands on activities related to these strands, such as data collection and representation (surveys, graphs). It is important that the students keep working on their automatic response of all times tables and measurement facts at home. The students will continue to work on Problem solving strategies in class.

Units of Inquiry

How we organise ourselves

Our needs and wants influence economic activity

Concepts

responsibility

function

Lines of Inquiry

The role of supply and demand
The distribution of goods and services
Our responsibility as consumers

Sharing the planet

Earth is a unique planet in our solar system

Concepts

function

form

Lines of Inquiry

The features of the universe
Earth’s place in the universe
Implications of space exploration
The way advancements in technology and space travel have affected society and the planet

Speaking & Listening

This term we are focusing on:

Listening carefully and with respect when teachers and other students are speaking.
Oral presentation skills during our Sharing the Planet Unit of Inquiry

Rights, Resilience & Respectful Relationships

As part of our Wellbeing Program in Year 6 we will begin the government mandated Resilience Rights & Respectful Relationships lessons in Week 1, Term 4. We will focus only on Topic 8. We will also continue to work through the Resilience Project Program.