YEAR SIX

Our Lady of Fatima Catholic Primary School provides a range of holistic learning experiences to enable students to:

• Participate in the life and mission of the school.
• Deepen their knowledge and engagement with the Catholic faith and tradition.
• Build the capacity to continuously reason, reflectively, logically and critically.
• Embrace interdependence of human existence as global citizens, who are responsible to and for themselves and others.
• Engage in learning in a multitude of ways, through personalised and self-paced learning.

Religious Education

Scripture and Jesus - The Synoptic Gospels (Continued)

In this unit, students explore the significance of the synoptic Gospels (Matthew, Mark and Luke) and how the writers portray Jesus. Students will come to recognise the Gospels are a record of Christ’s life and teaching. Students will analyse passages that are common across the synoptic Gospels. They will come to recognise and understand that the synoptic Gospels, as sacred texts, help us encounter the person of Jesus Christ and deepen our relationship with God. Students will become confident users of the Bible as they explore a range of passages in the synoptic Gospels.  

God, Religion and Life - The Eastern Catholic Churches

In this unit students will recognise that in Australia, Catholics come from many different ethnic and cultural backgrounds, bringing with them distinctive traditions and celebrations. Students will deepen their understanding that with all its diversity, the Catholic Church in Australia, both Western and Eastern traditions, remains firmly part of the Universal Church.

English

In the Literacy Block each day Year 6 students will participate in daily review, fluency pairs, reading, writing and a spelling program.  

Unit - My Opinion - How do poets persuade and inform 

Through a variety of reading, listening and oral language and communication opportunities, students will investigate effective techniques engaged by poets to engage, inform and persuade readers. By analysing these poetic forms and techniques, students will develop skills to appreciate and apply these various text structures and language forms and features to their own written texts.  Students will explore the effect of context on the meanings of various poetic texts. Students will create and present their own poetry in a Slam Poetry performance.

Understanding Texts: Students will engage in modelled, shared, guided and independent reading opportunities and analyse a wide range of poetry (including Indigenous poems). 

Creating Texts: Students will create texts through modelled, shared and independent experiences creating poems that communicate a point of view/have a purpose. This includes creating a ‘poetry slam.’ 

Spelling: Students will be following the Soundwaves spelling program and will have the opportunity to revise their spelling skills using the online component of the program.

At home, you can assist your child by:

• Assisting them in proofreading their homework;
• Promoting neat and careful presentation of work;
• Correcting their oral language when needed;
• Assisting them to broaden their vocabulary and comprehension skills through discussing current affairs;
• Encouraging reading for enjoyment every day, and
• Encouraging the development of their SMART goals. 

Please ensure your child has suitable reading material to bring to school for silent reading.

Mathematics

Mathematics lessons will be taught daily with a consistent structure of Daily Review, Mental Arithmetic, Explicit Teaching, and Routine Practice activities with Working Mathematically skills embedded throughout the lesson. The topics taught in Term 3 are: 

Week 1 and 2  Chance, Representing Fractions

Week 3 and 4  Representing Quantity Fractions

Weeks 5 and 6  2D Spatial Structure (Area, 2D Spatial Structure) 

Weeks 7 -10  Multiplicative Relations, 3D Spatial Structure (Volume)

Mathematics lessons will be differentiated to meet the learning needs of all students.  

Science and Technology

Students will be learning about the difference between contact and non-contact forces and how energy is transformed from one form to another. Students are provided with an opportunity to investigate how electrical energy can control movement in products and systems. This unit of work will develop students’ abilities to design, test and evaluate a product or system that demonstrates energy transformation, further developing an understanding of the interrelationship between force and energy. 

History

This term we commence the topic ‘Australia as a Nation’. This topic moves from colonial Australia to the development of Australia as a nation, particularly after 1901. Students explore the factors that led to the Federation and experiences of democracy and citizenship over time. They understand the significance of Australia’s British heritage, the Westminster system and other models that influenced the development of Australia's system of government. Students learn about the way of life of people who migrated to Australia and their contributions to Australia's economic and social development. 

Personal Development, Health and Physical Education

In Term 3, Year 6 students will be involved in multiple class tournaments such as the Olympics Games, in which they will be given the opportunity to undertake specific roles, such as being coaches, captains, referees, officials, first aid officers and score keepers. This will allow them to demonstrate their leadership and communication skills, while giving them some creative freedom and independence in the implementation of the tournament. The unit will end with a final game for each sport including soccer, netball, oz tag, volleyball and basketball, to showcase the gameplay strategies that they have developed throughout the term.

Students will also be participating in the Tri Tag Rugby Gala day in Week 9. They will be practicing and learning the game during sport lessons. 

In Personal Development this Term, Year 6 will continue with the program, Open Parachute. The program aims to reduce stigma and generate authentic dialogue in classrooms about the real issues students face. The psychological skills-building exercises aim to increase empathy, self-compassion, self-awareness, mental health literacy and self-efficacy in students. 

Amadeus Music Program

Students will continue with the Amadeus Music Education Program and participate in activities in listening, performing and organising sound within their regular Classroom Music lessons. 

• It is the student’s responsibility to ensure that they:
  • Arrive on time for each lesson
  • Bring their instrument and required accessories to every lesson
  • Bring their Essential Elements* music book
  • Bring a lead pencil and eraser

Mandarin

Our students continue to enjoy participating in the Chinese language program called the Meg Language Program. The Meg Curriculum is written by the co-author of the Australian Curriculum. All students and teachers will participate in the digital learning platform via Zoom weekly sessions with educators in China.

Homework 

The students will receive new homework for Term 3. Homework will be on Google Slides and can be accessed via the Google Classroom Homework page. The slides clearly outline the tasks that students are expected to complete each week. The students have been made aware of the expectations around the presentation and delivery of their homework. Homework is due each Monday. If your child is unable to complete their homework, please communicate this to their classroom teacher. 

It is an expectation that your child is bringing their diary with them to school every day. The diary is a means of communication between home and school, a record of their nightly reading and a useful tool to remind them of important dates. This is good preparation for high school where diaries are mandatory. 

All students need to have plug-in headphones and a charged laptop daily. 

SPBL Positive Behaviour Expectations

In line with the school's SPBL policy, students are encouraged to work towards making positive choices that enable them to be safe, respectful and responsible learners. Students will need to demonstrate consistent appropriate behaviour choices in order to attend and participate in extracurricular opportunities such as school rewards days, off-site activities, gala days, inter-school sports and excursions. The Reflection Centre in the Library will be used at lunchtimes for students who choose to make poor behaviour choices repeatedly.

Important Dates for Year 6

SPORT DAYS

Please wear your sports uniform on these days. 

6B - Tuesday and Friday

6G - Tuesday and Friday

6W - Tuesday and Friday

LIBRARY DAYS

6B - Tuesday

6G - Tuesday

6W - Tuesday

2024 - School Term 3

Parent calendar available at this link 

Mrs Amanda Stewart (6 Blue)

Miss Tayla Ingram and Miss Taylah Wilson (6 Gold)

Mrs Kim Noonan and Mrs Erin Wing (6 White)