Level 5 & 6 

🗓️ CALENDAR DATES

🌱 Monday 8th December - Luther College Transition for Grade 6 students 

🌱 Tuesday 9th December - State School Year 7 Transition (as well as Aquinas College and Mount Lilydale Mercy College) for Grade 6 students

🌱 Wednesday 10th December - Whole School Silent Disco

🌱 Thursday 11th December - Grade 6 Graduation Rehearsal at Discovery Church

🌱 Friday 12th December - Prep/Grade 6 Buddy Christmas Picnic

🌱 Monday 15th December - Grade 6 Graduation at Discovery Church (5pm arrival for students and 7pm arrival for parents)

🌱 Tuesday 16th December - Grade 6 Fun Day Out at Gumbaya World

🌱 Wednesday 17th December - Final Assembly commencing at 2:15pm

🌱 Thursday 18th December - Alternative program at school

🌱 Friday 19th December - Alternative program at school - 1:30pm dismissal

❗️IMPORTANT – Reminders

- Please ensure students bring their iPads to school fully charged each day to support ongoing learning activities. 

- Our upcoming Whole School Silent Disco will be a free dress event for all students. 

- Grade 6 students are reminded to attend the Graduation Rehearsal in full school uniform. - Grade 6 students should also bring a Christmas picnic and a small gift to swap with their buddies on Friday 12th December.

Our Grade 6 students will have their Graduation Ceremony on Monday 15th December. This is traditionally a smart casual event, and many families may choose to make appointments during the day to prepare for the evening. Often, students elect to go home at recess to get ready. Grade 6 teachers will also need to leave early on this day to help put the finishing touches on the venue. An alternative timetable will run, and any students remaining at school after lunch will join a Grade 5 classroom.

🌱 LITERACY 

After analysing a range of Little Lunch episodes for structure and character, students will work in groups to write scripts for their own episode, centred around a problem that the characters must solve. Their scripts will follow the familiar format, humour and characters of the show. Students will then collaboratively film their episodes, with a year-level viewing planned to celebrate their creativity, teamwork and storytelling skills.

What you can do at home: 

• Watch a Little Lunch episode together and talk about the problem the characters face and how it is resolved. Discuss how the episode begins, what happens in the middle, and how it ends.
• Encourage your child to explain the episode they are creating with their group, including the problem their characters need to solve and how they plan to show this on screen. 

🌱 NUMERACY

In Numeracy, students will continue to develop their problem-solving skills through a range of multi-step challenges that draw on different mathematical concepts and areas of learning. To add a seasonal twist, these problems will be Christmas themed, encouraging students to apply their mathematical thinking in engaging and creative contexts while selecting and explaining the strategies they use.

Students will be encouraged to draw on a range of known and effective problem-solving strategies, including:

• Act it out – modelling or using hands-on materials to represent the problem
• Draw a diagram – sketching visuals to show relationships or quantities
• Make a table or chart – organising information to find patterns
• Look for patterns – identifying repeated structures that help predict or solve
• Work backwards – starting from the end result to find the missing steps
• Guess, check and refine – testing possibilities and adjusting thinking

• Break the problem into smaller parts – simplifying a complex problem into manageable steps

   

These strategies not only support mathematical success but also build confidence and resilience as students learn to tackle unfamiliar challenges with a flexible, thoughtful approach.

What you can do at home:

Look for real-life, Christmas-themed opportunities to involve maths at home, such as planning a shopping budget, calculating total costs, working out time schedules, or adjusting quantities in a recipe.

🌱 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.