Grade 5/6 News

Term 1, Week 6 2025
Welcome to the Grade 5/6 News Page

Reminders and Upcoming Events:

URGENT- Confirm permission and medical forms for Camp - Wednesday 26th Feb
Finalise payments for Camp - Wednesday 12th Mar
Grade 5 NAPLAN Starts - Wednesday 12th Mar
School Photos - Wednesday 19th Mar
Athletics Day- Monday 24th Mar
Anglesea Camp - 26-28th Mar

Communication

There is always a lot going on in Grade 5/6. We will do our best to communicate through our Newsletter and Compass. Please keep an eye on these two spaces for upcoming events and permissions. If at any stage you need to contact one of our team, our emails are below;

Corey Greer - Corey.Greer@education.vic.gov.au

Kelly Byron - Kelly.Byron@education.vic.gov.au

Emma Clohesy - Emma.Clohesy@education.vic.gov.au

Siobhan Garmey - Siobhan.Garmey@education.vic.gov.au

Luke Staley - Luke.Staley@education.vic.gov.au

Luke Crawford - Luke.Crawford@education.vic.gov.au

Maths Challenge

Congratulations to 3/4 Lidgett for winning our first Maths Challenge of the year, with 100% of students participating in the challenge! Please find the answer to last fortnight's challenge below:

Our next Maths Challenge is.....

Cut and paste your answer on the back of your answer sheet! You have until the end of Week 9 to submit your answers to the office!

This fortnight...

In Mathematics this fortnight, we have been exploring our Place Value system. Students have been working at their own point of need exploring a range of concepts such as decimals, large numbers, factors and primes. You can support this at home by encouraging your child to calculate money problems and practice their times tables.

Our Literacy work has been focused on creating and improving a narrative. Students have been looking to improve their writing using the VCOP elements; Improving Vocabulary, Connectives, Openers and Punctuation.

Coming up...

Week 7 will see a few disruptions to our regular classroom routines as our Grade 3's and 5's complete the NAPLAN testing. Our NAPLAN tests are scheduled over three days from Wednesday 12th to Friday 14th March. Students will sit tests for Writing, Reading, Conventions of Language and Numeracy.