Senior Unit - 5/6

What a fantastic and busy couple of weeks we’ve had! On the 23rd of August, the whole school celebrated Book Week. The costumes were really amazing and the students put a lot of thought and effort into them! We read a shortlisted book called ‘My Strange Shrinking Parents’ and the students completed a reading, writing and craft activity based on the book, in the afternoon. Some students also participated in the colouring-in and poetry competition. Thanks SO much to the parents who attended our open classrooms!

Here are some thoughts of Book Week Day from SU4:

I think that book weekday was terrific. The costumes were awesome. Mine was Frodo from lord of the rings. - Alex
I loved Book Week Day 2023 because everyone was really creative in their costumes. I really loved watching everyone in the parade and doing crafts in the afternoon after the guest reader. - Liv
The netball court was flooded with colourful costumes for book week, it seemed like a lot of people enjoyed the day. - Zaidee
It was very exciting with all the costumes and the guest reader. It was very cool to see everyone's costumes. - Will
On book day it was so much fun, The first thing we did was go to the netball court for the book week parade and I dressed up as Sam Kerr from the Matildas. Then later we made these little flat sculptures that represent our family and it was an amazing day. - Charlie
On book week all the costumes were fantastic. It was so great seeing people’s creative juices come to work! My favourite part was the guest reader coming in and reading us a book of their choice. - Grace
I enjoyed watching little kids walk around in the parade seeing different characters from different books! And I also liked how people complimented my mum's coat that I wore to book week! -Damey
On book week dress-up day, I had loads of fun and I liked hearing what other people dressed up as. Everybody's costumes were very fun and creative. - Martha
The book-week parade was thrilling seeing everyone dressed up in their costumes. There were so many unique outfits. 🙂 - Mia
Book week was very fun with everyone dressing up in costumes and the parade.
The clay work was very fun and so was getting the book read to us. -Rohan
Book week was fun. We made beautiful art sculptures to represent our family and we did a parade around the netball court. We saw amazing costumes. - Zahra
It was all very enjoyable and it was fun seeing what characters the kids liked and how they dressed up. - Rufus
It was all fun. You could look everywhere and there were costumes everywhere and it was so colourful. - Lachlan
My favourite part of book day was the clay stuff we used and dressing up. I loved seeing other people's costumes, they were all really cool. - Emily
Book week was and still is a great way to show your favourite book and character. We had guest readers come in and we made some things to represent our family. - Zoe
Book week was really fun with the story time, the parade, and the magic clay was really fun. I will always look forward to book week. - Jack K
Everyone started off the day by doing a parade in the sun, down on the netball court. Most people dressed up. The costumes were so creative they went from Hermione Granger to Elsa. There were lots of fun activities including making a symbol for your family and more. Overall it was very fun. - Kiara

Over the last couple of Wednesdays, the students have been participating in Mathematics groups based on their needs. The students completed activities that developed their multiplicative thinking skills using manipulatives and problem-solving tasks. We have now begun a new topic on division, where the students are learning various division strategies.

In Writing, the students have continued to develop their hybrid animals. The detail the students are going into is incredible! This week we have started planning and writing about their animals using figurative language. They also had a go at creating a Google website! Stay tuned for some links to these later on!

On Friday some Senior classes worked with their buddies to create a gorgeous card for their dad/special person. We hope all of the special people had a wonderful day on Sunday!

Year 5/6 Teachers

Nathan Spilsted, Andrea Evans, Jad Geer, Kat Richardson, Ashleigh Dodds