Level Five

We have officially entered our final term of 2026! It has been a fantastic start to Term 4, and we have already enjoyed one of our most exciting events of the term, the Colour Run! Students had a wonderful time making their way around the course, getting covered in colour and enjoying the excitement with their classmates. It was fantastic to see so many smiling faces and students embracing the fun!

Writing

In Writing, students have been working in pairs to create their own scripts. Each script needed to include a problem and solution, two different settings and four characters. The exciting part is that students will get to bring their writing to life by using their scripts in our Performing Arts lessons!

More recently, we have returned to Narrative Writing, revisiting and building on skills learnt earlier in the year, including figurative language, character descriptions, purposeful dialogue and varying sentence lengths to make our writing more engaging.

Reading

In Reading, we have been exploring the novel Wonder. This has provided fantastic opportunities for deeper discussions about empathy, characters and different perspectives. Students have been encouraged to consider how characters feel, why they make certain decisions and how the same situation can be viewed differently by different people.

We have also continued practising all six of our Super Six comprehension strategies, helping students become more confident and thoughtful readers.

Maths

In Maths, we have been learning about percentages, exploring what they represent and how they can be shown in different ways. Students have been developing their understanding of the connections between fractions, decimals and percentages, practising converting between the three representations and applying their knowledge to real-world problems.

We have recently moved into Data Investigation, where students are learning how to develop questions, collect and record information, and interpret data to draw conclusions. This learning will be particularly important for our upcoming Theme Economics project, where students will have the opportunity to put their data investigation skills into practice through real-world market research.