What's Happening in the Senior School

Year 5

What’s Happening in Year 5 in November

Hi Year 5 community, we hope everyone is enjoying the beginning of term 4. 

Year 5 will be completing Bike Ed, with forms due by Friday the 30th of October. Please return them to the classroom teachers when possible. This will be an educational but fun program for all students. 

We are continuing to explore the Respectful Relationships curriculum. In the month of November, students will participate in Resilience, Rights and Respectful Relationships lessons. The focus will be on Topics 5, 6 and 7. 

Topic 5: Stress Management supports students to consider the causes of stress and develop a range of self-regulation and coping strategies they can draw on to manage stressful situations.  

Topic 6: Help-seeking helps students to develop skills and knowledge for peer support, peer referral and help-seeking.  

Topic 7: Gender norms and stereotypes helps students consider the influence of gender norms on attitudes, opportunities and behaviour, and to learn about gender equality, inclusion, human rights and the importance of relationships that respect people of all genders. 

You can view the activities from this link below.   

Respectful Relationships resources | Teach Respectful Relationships | Arc  

Further information can be found on the Victorian Government’s Respectful Relationships page: https://www.vic.gov.au/respectful-relationships    

Wellbeing 

• Explore the links between their emotions and their behaviour 
• Reflect on how personal strengths have assisted in achieving success at home, at school or in the community  

Literacy 

• Understand how noun groups/phrases and adjective groups/phrases can be expanded in a variety of ways to provide a fuller description of the person, place, thing or idea  
• Understand the use of vocabulary to express greater precision of meaning, and know that words can have different meanings in different contexts  
• Plan, draft and publish imaginative, informative and persuasive print and multimodal texts, choosing text structures, language features, images and sound appropriate to purpose and audience  
• Reread and edit own and others’ work using agreed criteria for text structures and language features  
• Develop a handwriting style that is becoming legible, fluent and automatic  
• Understand how to use banks of known words, syllabification, spelling patterns, word origins, base words, prefixes and suffixes, to spell new words, including some uncommon plurals 
• Read and complete associated activities with our class novel The Grandest Bookshop. 

Maths 

Students are completing Operations. This will include: 

In this unit, students will learn how to confidently use addition, subtraction, multiplication, and division to solve real-life and math problems. We will start by reviewing key ideas and mental strategies (like regrouping and breaking numbers apart), then move into more formal methods and number patterns. Students will practice word problem solving using each operation, learn how to choose the correct operation, and build speed and accuracy with targeted practice. Throughout the unit, students will also be encouraged to show clear working, check answers, and explain their thinking. 

Knowledge Unit - Health  

 Identities 

• explain how identities can be influenced by people and places, and how we can create positive self-identities  
• investigate resources and strategies to manage changes and transitions, including changes associated with puberty  

Interacting with Others 

• describe and demonstrate how respect and empathy can be expressed to positively influence relationships  
• apply strategies to manage emotions and analyse how emotional responses influence interactions  

Contributing to healthy Communities 

• explain and apply protective behaviours and help-seeking strategies that can be used in a range of online and offline situations at home, school and in the community  
• analyse how various strategies influence the health, safety, relationships and wellbeing of individuals and communities 
• investigate different sources, quality and types of health information and how these apply to their own and others’ health choices 

 Year 6

What’s Happening in Year 6 in November

It is hard to believe we are already well into our final term of Grade 6! Term 4 has certainly started with a bang, with our students enjoying a range of special experiences alongside plenty of learning in the classroom. Our recent excursion to the South Melbourne Market was a particular highlight, giving students the opportunity to see Economics and Business concepts in action as they explored how stallholders advertise, compete, attract customers and make their businesses successful.

What are we learning?

Economics

Our South Melbourne Market excursion has provided the perfect springboard into one of the most anticipated Grade 6 projects of the year – the Grade 6 Market Stall Day! Students are now busy developing their own business ideas and learning what it takes to plan and run a successful market stall. They are considering their target market, budgeting, pricing, advertising, competition and financial decision-making as they work towards Market Day on Friday 4 December.

Maths

In Maths, we will be focusing on fractions, decimals and percentages, developing students’ understanding of the connections between them and applying these skills to real-world problems. There will also be plenty of opportunities to put these mathematical skills into practice as students budget and make financial decisions for their Market Stall businesses

English

We will continue reading Holes by Louis Sachar and exploring the many themes, characters and connections woven throughout the novel. Students will then draw inspiration from their reading as they plan and write their own narrative response.

Wellbeing

Our Wellbeing learning will continue through the RRRR program. As students approach the end of primary school, we will also continue supporting them as they prepare for the changes, opportunities and challenges that come with transitioning to secondary school.

An exciting finish to Grade 6!

There is so much to look forward to as we head towards the end of our students’ primary school journey!

• Friday 20 November – Prep Concert: Year 6 students will join their Prep buddies to sing and celebrate together.
• Friday 4 December – BPS Market Day (9.00am–11.00am): Students will put their Economics learning into action as they run their own market stalls.
• Tuesday 8 December – Statewide Transition Day: Students will visit their secondary schools in preparation for Year 7.

• Friday 11 December – Lifesaving Day: A day of swimming, beach awareness and water safety activities.

   

Our Final Week at BPS

• Monday 14 December – Beach Fun Day: A final celebration together at Beaumaris Beach. (please note change of date)
• Tuesday 15 December – Year 6 Graduation: Student dinner at approximately 5.00pm, followed by the Graduation Ceremony at approximately 6.30pm at Beaumaris Secondary College.
• Wednesday 16 December – Year 6 Fun Day: A special day of activities, challenges and plenty of fun! (please note change of date)
• Thursday 17 December – Final Year 6 Assembly (9.10am): A special opportunity for our school community to farewell our graduating Year 6 students.

There is still plenty of learning ahead, but also so much to celebrate! We are looking forward to making these final weeks at BPS incredibly special and creating plenty of lasting memories together.