Learning News 5/6

Years 5/6

The past couple of weeks have been busy for students in Year 5 with Naplan. This week we had Ruby Mae Day, St Joseph's Day Mass, family barbecue and Cross Country.

All students participated in our St Joseph's Day Mass in the open. This has been a long tradition at St Joseph's, going back to the days of Father Shanahan. 

We have completed narrative writing this week and will be moving on to Informative texts. I hope to link this with Geography so we can research more about the various countries in Asia and their indigenous peoples.

In Maths, we have a short unit on position learning about coordinates on the cartesian plane. Amazingly, this linked with the Latitude and Longitiude coordinates looked at in Geography.

NAPLAN

The NAPLAN testing period gave our Years 4 and 6 students the opportunity to participate in some cross-stage collaborative learning in both Literacy and Mathematics. They were all very engaged in their learning with some very rich conversations around place value and problem solving.

Science

This term our focus has been on developing and fine tuning our observational skills and the process of recording these observations. Here is some sticky fun exploring the viscosity of different matter in liquid forms. It turns out the real challenge was following the rule of no eating in the science lesson (lots of honey involved!).

STEM

Monday afternoons have been busy with our young engineers designing cars for the future. We are currently building models of our cars and working on our resilience when things don't quite go to plan in the building phase! If anyone has any spare plastic drink bottle lids (all sizes) we would really appreciate them!