Year 5/6
Year 5/6 Cluster News
SACSA events:
We have begun training for SACSA Football, followed by SACSA Basketball in Term 4. If your child is interested in trying out for SACSA Football or Basketball, please encourage them to practise their fitness, ball skills and teamwork skills at home.
Year 6 Graduation:We would like to share a photo gallery of the graduating class on graduation night. We need 2 photos of your child to show how they have grown up into the students we know today. Please include a baby photo and first day of school photo. These photos can be emailed to Jade Fielke (fielke.jade@goldengrove.sa.edu.au) by the end of Term 3. This will allow us to get them into a variety of formats to celebrate our wonderful Year 6s. We are finalising details for the Graduation Dinner at Dimples, Tea Tree Gully Golf Course on Wednesday, November 25th. This is a wonderful night to honour and share with our Year 6 families! More information will be available early next term.
HOME INQUIRY:
Reading: Aim for 20 minutes minimum reading per night. We encourage students to read aloud, either to themselves or a parent.
Mathematics: Continuing to develop their recall of multiplication facts, with the goal of building automatic recall of multiplication facts up to 10 × 10.
At home, please continue to encourage your child to read the time at different points throughout the day. The more opportunities they have to practise this skill in real-life situations, the more confidently and independently they will be able to apply their learning.
Reader’s Workshop:
We are continuing our novel study of Hatchet, which connects closely with our Unit of Inquiry, Sharing the Planet.
Mathematics:
Students have begun inquiring into angles. They are developing their ability to identify and classify acute, right, obtuse, straight and reflex angles, and will learn to estimate, construct and measure angles in degrees using a protractor. As their understanding develops, students will investigate relationships between angles on a straight line, angles at a point and vertically opposite angles, using these properties to determine unknown angles and explain their mathematical reasoning.
Inquiry:
Students have begun our ‘How We Express Ourselves’ unit. This unit will be an Exhibition/Celebration of learning unit. We are currently looking at what makes the students passionate and how they can take action. We will be attending an exciting excursion next Tuesday, please keep an eye out on TASS for the permission form.
Books week- book swap
Instead of having a book fair we have decided to participate in the Great Book Swap in support of the Indigenous Literacy Foundation (ILF). Students/families will be invited to donate pre-loved books in good condition and on a day of the swap, bring a gold coin donation to exchange for a book to take home. All funds raised will go directly to the Indigenous Literacy Foundation, this money helps to provide books and literacy resources to children in remote indigenous communities across Australia. More information will be coming soon.
Dates of upcoming events
- Year 5/6 Action Excursion – Week 5 - Tuesday 18 August
- Book Week Parade and Community Breakfast – Week 6 – Tuesday 25 August
- Student Free Day – Week 7 – 4 September
- Year 5 Celebration of Learning – Week 9 - Thursday 17 September – 6:00pm – 7:00pm
- Year 6 Exhibition Evening – Week 10 - Tuesday 22 September – 6:00 – 7:30pm
More information about these dates and events will be shared in the weeks prior.
School Calendar:
https://www.goldengrove.sa.edu.au/calendar/
Blessings for the week ahead,
The 5/6 Team
Luke Napier napier.luke@goldengrove.sa.edu.au
Jade Fielke
fielke.jade@goldengrove.sa.edu.au
Rachel Saunders saunders.rachel@goldengrove.sa.edu.au