Year 5/6 News

We Built this City!!!

For inquiry, this term, the students are working on creating a liveable city. This is an extension from our last Inquiry unit, “You want it, we got it!!!”. Students created their own countries and looked at needs and wants, supply and demand, natural, human and capital resources, and trading resources between countries. 

The “We Built this City” unit connects to the Central Idea, ‘There are many different parts of a city that are needed to make it liveable’. Students will be researching and investigating cities to answer the big questions:

• What are the important factors of a functioning city?  
• What makes a city liveable? 
• What structures, organisations and rules need to be in place to build and run a city?  
• How can a city be sustained into the future? 

By the end of the unit, students will create a model of a liveable city. 

Hourig

Maths

For the last 2 weeks the Year 5/6 students have been learning about measurement. The topics we have been covering are mass, length, volume, and capacity. Throughout the first week, we learned about these topics and the metric system. We then started doing experiments, like trying to find a certain mass in the classroom and trying to work out how much different measuring cups could hold. 

During the last week, we did a profile on a mandarin where we had to find out its shape, volume, mass, capacity, circumference, surface area, and diameter.

Owen Buxey

Resilience

Resilience is one of our school values and it is really important. Resilience is when you have a difficult task, or when something doesn't go your way, but you push through it and don't give up. For example, if your team is losing in basketball, don't give up, keep on playing because when you give up, it doesn't only affect you, but your opponents and the entire team as well! If a maths question is hard, ask for help or keep on trying. Resilience is a very important skill to have in our lives because we go through challenges a lot, and if we can learn to cope with our challenges, it will help us.

Panav Singla

Grade 5 Visit to Westall Secondary College

All the amazing Year 5s arrived at Westall S.C., ready to learn the Westall Way! In Global Literacy, we learned about compost, worm bins and our green, yellow and red bins with Ms. Chiry. We used whiteboards to write down our answers and take some notes. Then we moved on to our iCreate subjects. iCreate at Westall includes Taekwondo, Boxing, Sport, Outdoor Ed, Aviation, and many more! After recess, we had Taekwondo. In our first session, we learned to do stretches and warm-ups.

After that, the Year 5s ate lunch, laughing and chatting. Westall S.C. gave us oranges and packets of Messy Monkeys, which we were all happy to accept. The teachers at Westall told us all about their education. Then someone asked, “What kind of subjects do you have?” Their reply was Global Literacy, Maths, Chinese, Sport and more. Finally, we all had iCreate again. We got to choose if we wanted to do the same thing or try a different subject. Some students chose to move. We returned to our school at the end of the day and told our friends about our experience at secondary school. 

We all had a lot of fun.

Bisma and Megan