Year 6 Curriculum News
Term 2, 2025

Welcome to Term 2

We are looking forward to another action-packed term in Year 6.

We will be starting our term with our wonderfully moving Anzac Ceremony, and will have our very special guest, Grant Coultman-Smith, in attendance once again.

Term 2 highlights also include House Cross Country and a changeover from Summer to Winter inter-school sports teams where students will enjoy learning a different sport and competing against local schools.

Literacy

Reading & Writing

Throughout Term 2, students will produce, in print and electronic forms, a variety of texts for different purposes using structures and features of language appropriate to the purpose, audience and context of the writing.

We will be focusing on informative and narrative writing over the coming weeks. Students will consolidate their knowledge of structure and will practise a variety of writing techniques to enhance their narrative and informative writing.

They will employ a variety of strategies for writing, including generating ideas, identifying voice, organisation, word choice, sentence fluency and text structures and conventions.

Numeracy

Number

Students will consolidate their knowledge of place value using decimal numbers, apply their knowledge of the four processes, operations, fractions, decimals and percentages.

Measurement

Students will continue to explore measurement, focusing on converting between common units of length, mass and capacity using whole and decimal numbers.

Statistics

Following on from our Term 1 investigations with data, students will continue analysing data sets, exploring different ways of representing data visually, and through investigations, communicate their findings with their peers.

Year 6 Maths Challenge Group

The Maths APSMO (Australian Problem-Solving Mathematical Olympiads) contests will be commencing in Term 2.

These provide challenges and extension for students who demonstrate higher order thinking.

The contests will run throughout the term with lessons aimed at how to solve particular questions.

Units of Inquiry

Where we are in place and time

Present day cultures are influenced by cultures of the past

Lines of Inquiry

Events leading to Australia’s involvement in war since Federation
The changing face of Australian society throughout the 20th Century
Migration
The contribution of individuals and groups to the development of Australian society

For the start of Term 2 we will be continuing this unit of inquiry. Students will be independently researching a defining moment in Australia’s history. They will collaborate with peers to present a play to the Year 3 students with the purpose of sharing their knowledge.

How the world works

Exploration of interests and passions inspires learning and innovation.

Our second unit of inquiry this term will culminate in our Year 6 Exhibition early in Term 3.

Students will use critical and creative thinking to pose questions and possibilities, then use their wonderings to design, create and share their ideas. Students will develop their own lines of inquiry for this unit.

Whole-School Focus On PYP Learner Profile Attributes

May: reflective
June: communicators

Inclusive Approaches

Zones of Regulation

Students will continue to use the Zones of Regulation as a tool to understand and manage emotions. We encourage students to apply strategies they have created for their ‘Coping cupboards’ in the classroom, in the playground and in their communities.

Respectful Relationships

We will be completing our last lesson of the Respectful Relationships program Topic 6- Help Seeking. Students have contributed with maturity and modelled clear understandings of our learning intentions throughout these lessons.

Cyber Safety Project

This term students will continue to work through the Cyber Safety Project lessons for Year 6. These lessons aim to empower students to establish skills and self-manage their own digital lives. Students will learn how easy it is to over share online and find ways to protect their privacy and personal data.

Homework

Homework is given out on a Monday and due back on a Friday. Homework tasks each week include SMART Spelling, Reading (min 20 minutes 3 nights per week) and may include a Literacy, Numeracy or unit of inquiry task. The home diary should be signed by a parent, acknowledging that the work is satisfactory and to the best of the child’s ability.