What a fabulous term it has been for our Grade 5/6 students! Throughout Term One, students have embraced a wide range of opportunities with enthusiasm and positivity. Along the way, new friendships have been formed, challenges have been tackled, memories have been created, and many new skills and concepts have been discovered.

We asked some of our students to share their highlights from Term One, and here is what they had to say:

Bosco 5/6GT	On Athletics Day, my discus throw was 17 metres. That is my furthest throw ever. I was so surprised!
Hans and Lucas 5/6GT	Our Term One highlights are the Parliament Day incursion and Athletics Day.
Olivia and Tema 56/MB	Making it into an Interschool Sport team for the first time has been a highlight. 5/6 Sport has helped us make new Grade Six friends and create stronger bonds with our friends from last year. We can’t wait for more fun sport next term!
Zachary and Aiden Y 5/6GT	We like being part of the Keen Green Team (KGT) and enjoyed the Parliament Day incursion.
Julian and Lucas 5/6GT	Our highlights are the Parliament Day incursion, 5/6 sport, getting ready for our Term Expo, the Welcome Back BBQ, free dress day, Ride2school day, Athletics Day, Care Learn and Share and participating in the swimming carnival.
Baron and Colin 5/6CB	We enjoyed being part of the swimming carnival. Another highlight for us was the Parliament Day incursion. We know Grade 6 Camp is going to be great!
Jackson and Daniel 5/6CB	Our highlights are the Parliament Day incursion, our Making Democracy project and the marshmallow challenge
Sharon and Brigitte 5/6MB	Our Term One highlights are getting into the Wellbeing Leadership Pillar, being on the girls volleyball team and getting through to Division, taking care of the younger kids at assembly, Athletics Day, the beep test in P.E, making new friends, the Richmond players meet and greet and photo day.
Bridget 5/6MB	My highlights include making the Interschool Sport tennis team, getting into the Arts Pillar and getting into the Creating Compelling Stories workshop for high ability writers. I have enjoyed writing a speech about gender equality with my Political Party and Leading CLaS for the first time.
Makayla and Dan 5/6CB	Being part of the volleyball team and making it through to Division, and studying the novel Blueback by Tim Winton.
Gabriel Jason 5/6MB	5/6 Sport has been very fun! We are also enjoying helping the younger students during 3/4 Sports and working in the Health Pillar.
Janson and Jamie 5/6CB	Athletics Carnival was a highlight, along with the marshmallow challenge. We are so excited for camp!
Aston and Henry 5/6MB	We have enjoyed meeting the 5/6 teachers. They are so kind. This term we have learnt many different things and are gradually getting better at writing. We have learnt lots of fun things.
Abby and Ariana 5/6CB	Our highlights are winning all the girls volleyball matches and making it to Division in Interschool Sport, doing the government incursion, studying light in STEM, the political speech, being part of our Leadership Pillars, meeting the chickens for the first time, the athletics carnival and the excitement of camp.
Amelia and Lindsey 5/6CB	The Parliament Day political incursion because it was really fun to learn about politics and it was fun acting like we were in an actual room in Parliament.
Matthew K and Matthew R 5/6MB	One of our great memories was getting our leadership badges. We also loved going to the Athletics Carnival and giving it a go. We really enjoyed the opportunity to learn about how the Australian parliament system works
Ross and Casper 5/6CB	We liked the marshmallow challenge and we are also really enjoying doing STEM. The Athletics Carnival was lots of fun.
Sebastian and Aerosh 5/6MB	We loved Team 5/6 Sport because we got to play our favourite sport and win. We have also made lots of new friends that we get along with and have fun with.
Olvin & Andray 5/6MB	We really enjoyed Athletics Day and have had lots of fun participating in Interschool Sport. We are looking forward to camp even though the water will be SUPER cold.
Sofia Eva 5/6CB	Our highlights have been the girls volleyball team getting into division, and when the girls basketball team won their first game! We have Grade 6 Camp next week, and we are really looking forward to surfing and doing all the fun activities.
Athea 5/6CB	I’m excited for camp even though I haven’t gone yet, but I’m sure that it’ll be fun. I’ve really enjoyed doing the speeches for our fake political parties, the incursion about Parliament - it was fun to debate about the fake bills, and Interschool Sport has been amazing!
Alexander and Gavin 5/6GT	The stick insects arriving in our class and playing together.
Azra and Grace 5/6 GT	Term 1 has been such a good start to Grade 6! One of our favourite highlights was definitely working in the Wellbeing Pillar and helping out the Preps and Grade 1/2 students. We got to help them with their athletics training and we also got to help them in the classroom to support them with their learning, which was actually really fun. Another highlight was Interschool Sports. The girls volleyball team won every single game and we made it all the way to division, which we’re so happy about! We spent most of our snack and lunch breaks at the 5/6 playground playing grounders and sitting on the bars. It’s been a great term and we’re loved being leaders so far.
Ada and Isla 5/6GT	Our Term One highlights are getting into the Wellbeing Pillar for leadership. We love taking care of the junior year levels (especially the Preps). We also enjoyed the Parliament Day incursion - it was so much fun doing the role plays as if we were voting and working in parliament (we were the election officials guarding the box!).
Paige and Paris 5/6GT	Our highlight of the term has been learning about Democracy. We have really enjoyed this topic because before hand we didn’t know much about it, but now we know lots. We enjoyed the Parliament Day incursion, where we learned how to vote properly. You have to put your first to last preference.

Here are some snaps of our 5/6 Students from the last few weeks.

It was wonderful to celebrate a fantastic term of learning at our End of Term Expo.

Our Grade 6 students are finishing the term with a bang, heading off to Lorne for their surf camp.

We wish everyone a safe and happy Easter break.

We can’t wait to see what Term 2 brings!

Team 5/6

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