Classroom News
Grade 5 & 6

Term 1, Week 8

Can you believe how fast this term has been? We have managed to squeeze in many learning opportunities and events with still more to come in the final two weeks of this term.

Our Curriculum This Term

Our Reader’s and Writer’s Workshops this term have centred around narrative and persuasive writing pieces We have been working hard to write deep, thoughtful sticky notes and expand these in detail, as well as continue to show our understanding of our iPick books through activities, mini lessons and one on one fortnightly conferences. Although we like to think of our Year 5 and 6 students as ‘big kids’, reading together regularly at home and having discussions about a variety of texts (novels, articles, media etc) is strongly encouraged.

In mathematics, we have been working on our number fact fluency weekly to ensure our knowledge of times tables, decimals and powers of 10 is quick and ready to access in our minds when we need it. We have also had fun measuring liquids in our capacity and volume mini unit, enlarged our footprints by multiples of ten and consolidated our knowledge of whole number and decimal place value.

In our Inquiry Space Base Project unit we have researched and discussed how space exploration can benefit humankind. We are now at the final designing stage where groups of students create their final Space Base designs on Minecraft.

What else has been happening?

A big congratulations to our Year 5 students who have made it through NAPLAN this year! They worked hard to feel comfortable and confident with the online format, learn strategies for using their time wisely and unpacked just what those questions really were all about.

Our Year 6 student leaders have been busily presenting at our Friday Assemblies and sharing videos on our school Facebook page. Please follow our BPS Facebook page if you haven’t already!

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 (including hats), lunchboxes and drink bottles are clearly labelled so they can be returned if misplaced.

Important Dates

Friday 24th March Chinese Day

Thursday 28th March Last Day of Term 1

Monday 15th April First Day of Term 2

Wednesday 17th April Living and Growing Sessions start

Thursday 25th April ANZAC Day

Friday 26th April Student free day

Monday 8th May Grade 6 Swimming begins

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

We hope that everyone is able to have an amazing, restful break and we look forward to seeing you all for a jam packed Term 2!

Thank you,