Level 6: Connect

Please note - Term 4 is a sun smart term, please help your child to stay safe by bringing a hat every day.

Important Dates:

Monday 18th November - 6A Assembly

Monday 25th November - 6B Assembly

Friday 29th November - Curriculum Day

Monday 2nd December - 6C Assembly

Tuesday 10th December - State School Transition Day

Wednesday 11th December - Graduation Fun Morning, Graduation Night

Friday 13th December - Beach Swimming

Monday 16th December - Level 6 Final Assembly + Level 1 party

Wednesday 18th December - Walking excursion with Wilko

Thursday 19th December - iMax excursion

Friday 20th December - Final Day and early finish

Dear parents and guardians,

We are now over half-way through the children's final term of primary school.  They are a wonderful cohort of awesome young people and we are looking forward to working with them as they prepare to celebrate their primary school years.

Scrapbooking

Starting next week, the students will embark on creating their Primary Years Scrapbook. They will write a short piece about each year of their schooling and include school photographs from each year. Students can create an album, a scrapbook or a digital album. Please sort through your albums with your child and print photos that they can bring to school. Albums and scrapbooks can be purchased at Officeworks, Big W and other department stores. 

Graduation & Graduation PowerPoint

Graduation is Wednesday 11th of December. Students will come to school for activities in the morning, then go home to get changed. Everyone is invited to come back to school at 5pm for Red Carpet photos and the ceremony will follow. On the night, a PowerPoint will play with photos of each student in Foundation and Grade 6, as they are awarded their medal. An email was sent via Compass on Wednesday 13th November with details of what is required. Please upload your photos to the Dropbox link that was shared in the email.

Literacy 

During weeks 5 and 6 we have been learning to use the skills of re-reading, inferring and reading for specific information. We have read a range of short exerts to learn these skills. In writing, we have now completed our two main Cold Writes. The students are working to complete a series of Big Writes to further showcase their skills as an author.

Maths

The last fortnight, our Year 6 students have been revising key topics from the semester. We’ve focused on area and perimeter, fractions, and even explored π. Students enjoyed hands-on activities to analyse the relationships between circumference, diameter, and radius by measuring various circles.

To support learning at home, here are some example activities to try with your child:

• Area and Perimeter: Measure household objects to calculate their area and perimeter.
• Circles: Find a circular item, measure its diameter, and calculate the circumference using π.

Here are some examples to work through with your child at home.  

Determine the area and perimeter for the following:

Have a go at: 

Additionally, mastering times tables is essential for improving automaticity in mathematics. There are many online resources to support practice, such as TopMarks, Mathletics, and Times Tables Games. Professor Di Siemon also offers excellent strategies for learning multiplication facts, which you can find here: Multiplication Strategies.

Happy learning!

Virtual Maths Games 

Another congratulations goes to the following students for their achievements in the Virtual Maths Games competition. 

Inquiry

The past fortnight, students have been campaigning for a cause to consolidate their understanding of democracy. We have commenced speeches to vote on how students will spend a portion of their profits from Market Day. We are excited to learn which campaign will receive the greatest support from a preferential vote. 

Buddies

Our awesome Buddy Captains have planned some exciting activities for our fortnightly catch ups. This week we are interviewing our Buddies to learn a little more about them.

I sea, I care

On Wednesday, 6 of our Environment Captains when to the I sea, I care annual celebration at Ricketts Point. They participated in a series of workshops, including fossicking in the rockpools and learning tips on being more sustainable. Congratulations to the students involved. You were wonderful ambassadors for SEPS.

Homework 

If you would like your child to complete work at home, you can complete the following: 

Reading - it is important that students read for 20 minutes, most nights. 

Maths - Students are encouraged to complete the Problem of the Weekin this newsletter or go to the Problem-Solving folder on Teams. Additionally, students can complete Mathletics learning tasks. There are also a range of other amazing maths websites, such as Topmarks, K5 learning and Mathsframes. 

Cheers

Kristy, Kym, Richelle & Anthony