Level 5 & 6 

CALENDAR DATES

🌱 Monday 17th November - Grade 5 Leadership Speeches

🌱 Thursday 20th November - Billanook College Music Performance at WPPS

🌱 IMPORTANT 

Please assist your child in ensuring that their iPad comes to school every day, fully charged. If your child has headphones at home, can they also please bring these along.

🌱 2026 LEADERS

We were so incredibly proud of the speeches that were prepared and presented by our Grade Five students. As the votes are tallied, successful students will be notified by the end of this week as to who has been successful in moving onto the next round, which is interviews for school captain and ambassador roles. After these roles have been allocated, the process for students who wish to apply for specialist leadership roles will begin.

🌱 ASSESSMENT 

We are super busy with assessments again this week! Students will continue working through their end-of-year assessments in preparation for reporting. These assessments help us gather an accurate picture of each student’s learning, growth and progress across 2025.

Throughout the week, students will be completing their PAT assessments in Reading, Spelling, Vocabulary and Mathematics. They will also take part in Writing moderation tasks. The information gathered supports teachers in celebrating learning successes and planning future teaching focuses for each student.

🌱 LITERACY - READING & WRITING  

This week, our Grade 5 and 6 students are continuing their exploration of advertising and media techniques. After analysing how creators use elements such as music, slogans, emotional appeal, endorsements, colour, imagery and statistics to influence audiences, students are now applying this understanding in a new context.

Building on their podcasting skills, students are moving into recording and producing their own short documentaries. They will be planning storyboards, crafting clear narration, and selecting visuals that best support their ideas. Working as groups, or individually, students will draw on what they’ve learned about audience engagement to incorporate purposeful transitions, voice-over techniques, and effective camera shots. This project also provides an opportunity for students to develop communication, collaboration and digital production skills as they work towards creating a polished and informative final documentary.

What you can do at home: 

To build on what students are learning at school, families can support their child’s understanding of documentaries and media techniques in simple, meaningful ways:

• Watch short documentaries together - Choose age-appropriate documentaries on topics your child enjoys (nature, science, history, sports). Pause occasionally to discuss what the creators are doing to engage the audience.
• Talk about media techniques you notice - Discuss things like narration, camera angles, music, sound effects, transitions, and how these elements help tell the story. Ask questions such as:
  • Why do you think the filmmaker used that music?
  • What camera shot did they use here? How does it make you feel?
  • How did the visuals support the message?

🌱 NUMERACY

This week in Mathematics, our Grade 5 students are extending their skills in algebraic thinking.Students are exploring how patterns work, experimenting with ways to represent unknown numbers using letters and symbols, and practising how to balance and solve simple equations. These concepts are being introduced through hands-on tasks and real-world examples to help students see how algebra connects to everyday problem-solving.

Our Grade 6 students are focusing on strengthening their overall mathematical knowledge as they get ready for their final assessments.They are revisiting key areas of the curriculum through practical activities, applying a range of strategies to different types of problems, and working to refine their accuracy and confidence. This revision supports students in demonstrating the depth of their learning across the year.

What you can do at home:

• Use ‘unknowns’ in daily conversations - Create simple problems like, “If we have 12 apples and I’ve hidden n of them, how many are left?” Let your child solve for the unknown.
• Try short equation challenges such as:
  • “___ + 7 = 20”
  • “5 × n = 30”
  • “24 – n = 13”
• Encourage explaining their thinking -Ask your child to talk through how they solved a maths problem, which strengthens reasoning skills for both Grades 5 and 6.

🌱 CBL

As part of our CBL unit, students have been working to design a digital solution that addresses a need within the Wonga Park Primary School community. They have now moved beyond the brainstorming phase and are developing clear, purposeful app concepts. Students are refining their ideas, mapping out how each feature will work, and creating visual plans that show the layout, user flow, and functionality of their proposed app.

With their designs taking shape, students are now shifting their focus to preparing for our upcoming “Shark Tank for Apps” event. They will be crafting compelling presentations that clearly explain the problem their app solves, who it is designed for, and why it would be valuable to the WPPS community. This next stage will see students practise persuasive language, develop confident speaking skills, and showcase their creativity, innovation, and critical thinking as they pitch their prototypes to a panel.

Essential Question: 

How do we use coding to solve problems and create solutions in our world?

Guiding Questions: 

• Where do we see coding in everyday life?
• What is an algorithm and how do coders use them?
• What problems do we face at school or in our community that coding might help with?
• How can we share our coding project with others to make a positive impact?

Challenge:

Design an app prototype that solves a problem or improves an experience in our school community. 

🌱 HOMEWORK

Students are expected to complete homework on a weekly basis. This consists of

- 100 minutes total of reading a novel/factual text of their choice

- 3 (minimum) Mathletics tasks, which the teachers will assign

- 2 Nessy activities

This homework is to be recorded in the Calendar App on student iPads. Your child's teacher will check this homework on Friday.

🌱 BUDDY BAGS - Grade 5 students should now only have one task left to complete for their Buddy Bags, which are gifted to their 2026 Prep Buddies. This is the 'Nameplate' task that will be completed in school, once we know our buddy's name. Please check in with your child to see which tasks they may still need support in completing.

🌱 MEMORY BOOKS - Grade 6 students will continue to work on their Memory Book to reflect on their experiences at Wonga Park Primary School. This information has been communicated to parents via email, and is available for students on Showbie.