Year Five/ Six

  Communicating with the Year Five/Six Team

We look forward to partnering with you in 2025, and welcome your input:

Krista Carpenter (Class 56A) Krista.Carpenter@education.vic.gov.au  

Andrew McFarlane (Class 56B) Andrew.McFarlane3@education.vic.gov.au 

Stacey Bowles (Class 56C) Stacey.Bowles@education.vic.gov.au 

What will you find in this issue:

Term Four/What's Coming Up/5-6 Timetables    

Term Four

Welcome back to Term Four! The year has gone by so fast and for our Year Six students this is the last term of primary school. We have had a busy start to the term and have so much more to do!

We began our term with our Summer Sports events in which students in 5/6 were able to participate in different summer sports. It was great to see the teamwork, resilience and fun displayed throughout the day. Congratulations to our basketball and cricket teams for making it through to the next level. 

We also had out Life Education sessions in which students engaged in three modules in their year level that built on students' strengths, empowering them with knowledge & skills to make safer and healthier choices.

Our Year Six students have begun getting ready for graduation later this term. They have started to select their ceremony songs, being placed in their speech and have begun brainstorming ideas for their speeches (as well as planning their outfits!). Year Six students have also begun their scrapbooking sessions in Friday 24th October. These sessions are always fun and engaging for all students to reminisce and share stories and memories with each other.  

Our Year Five students have continued to engage in their buddy sessions on Fridays and enjoying doing different activities.

In the classroom, we have been doing some refreshing of learning in Maths included revising how to shop within a budget, create your own mini city, revising multiplication and division strategies as well as recalling the strategies to work out area and perimeter of regular and irregular shapes.  

In Writing, we started the term writing holiday recounts and presenting them in different e.g. standard recount, in pictures, in a comic strip. We have moved onto recount writing for the Year Six students and Narrative writing for the Year Five students. Students in Year Six will continue to write recounts about each year of their primary school to go into their scrapbooks while the Year Five students will be working on a writing booklet which will have a different style of writing in it.  

In Reading we started the term practicing different comprehension strategies. We have now begun Book Club in which students have been placed into a group of their peers and will work with that group 1-2 times a week to read and share thoughts about their novel. 

What is Coming Up

We still have a busy term left to come!

• Year Six graduation practice will continue with students writing and practicing their speeches as well as practicing their ceremony song.

• Year Five students will present speeches to be a 2026 school leader (if they choose).

• Transition Day with Year Six students spending a full day at their high school and Year Five students spending a session in their 2026 classes. 

• Big Day Out (details being finalised) - event will be live on Compass shortly. 

• Year Six Graduation ceremony on Thursday 11th December - event will be live on Compass shortly. 

• 5/6 Boys Netball on Thursday 13th November. 

• Whole School Colour Run on Friday 14th November. 

• Christmas Concert and Art Show on Thursday 4th December.

• Hooptime State Event on Friday 5th December. 

• Plus lots of new learning and in class activities to do.

Specialist Timetable

Please note the following information regarding the days that each grade has specialist classes.  * These times are subject to change during school-wide events (eg: swimming timetables) *