Classroom News

Grade 5 & 6

Welcome back to an exciting and jam-packed year for our Year 5 and 6 students in 2026!

Our Curriculum This Term

For Reading and Writing the students have revisited and re-establish the routines and expectations for Reader’s and Writer’s Workshops. In Reading students are encouraged to choose good fit books from our school library or class libraries to read, think deeply about and analyse. We would appreciate your support in encouraging your child to read at home for pleasure each day and borrowing regularly from our school library.

In Writing we will be supporting students to reflect on the types of writing they have been undertaking and its purpose. The students will be guided to challenge themselves to write across a variety of genres. We will also look at the skills of revising and editing writing and the importance of these steps in the writing process. Our writing focuses for this term will be narrative and persuasive underpinned with the language of the six plus 1 traits of writing.

As part of our ‘Setting the Scene’ mathematics unit, students have been learning about fixed and growth mindsets in mathematics and challenging their preconceived ideas towards maths learning. They have been exploring strategies that they can use during maths lessons when problem solving as well as engaging with positive mindset quotes to remind students to persevere when faced with new challenges. Our maths topics for this term are; Place Value, Additive and Multiplicative thinking. Students have begun the term practicing their fluency of number facts through partner games with their class maths buddies.

In Inquiry this term, we will be exploring Future Habitats: Solving Survival Challenges, where students take on the role of design engineers to create innovative habitats for humans in extreme and unfamiliar environments.

Parent Information Evening

On Wednesday 4th February there will be our Parent Information Evening where we outline the year ahead for our students and families. It will be held in 6B. We look forward to seeing many parents in attendance to receive key details for 2026.

Reminders

All students require an art smock (or old shirt) for our weekly Art specialist lessons, as well as a library bag to borrow books each week from our fabulous school library. 

Please also ensure that all uniform items (particularly Grade 6’s with new polos and/or hoodies), lunchboxes and drink bottles are clearly labelled so they can be returned if misplaced. 

Hats are a requirement for Term 1. 

Icy poles will be sold each Friday in terms 1 and 4 at $2 each (cash only and no large notes).

Important Dates

Wednesday 4th February                          5/6 Information Night

9th, 11th and 12th February                     Parent Teacher Exchange Evening

Monday 2nd March                                     Year 6 Peninsula Outdoors Camp

Friday 6th March                                         Curriculum Day

Monday 9th March                                      Labour Day Public Holiday

Wednesday 11th                                           NAPLAN week begins for Year 5 students

Tuesday 17th March                                   Whole School Cross Country

Wednesday 25th March                             Whole School Photos

Thursday 26th March                                 GRIP Leadership Conference - Year 6 students

Tuesday 31st March                                    Chinese Day

Thursday 2nd April                                     Last Day of Term 1

If you have any questions or would like to communicate with your child’s classroom teacher, please reach out via Compass anytime.

Thank you,

5/6 Team 2026