Year Five/ Six

 Communicating with the Year Five/Six Team

We look forward to partnering with you in 2024, and welcome your input:

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

Melissa Woollard (Class 56B) Melissa.Woollard@education.vic.gov.au

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

What will you find in this issue:

Welcome Back/SWPBL/Buddies & Chess/5-6 Timetables

Welcome back to all our amazing 5/6 families! Mrs Carpenter, Mrs Woollard and Miss Bowles are looking forward to an amazing year with these wonderful students. We have started our year setting up our classroom expectations, making our classroom behaviour matrixes and getting to know each other as classmates. All students have settled back into the routine of school with ease and we can all look forward to a great year!  

For some students this may be their last year at Upwey South Primary School, while others have just entered into the senior years. Whichever path you are on we would like to say a very warm hello, we look forward to working with you and your child. 

If you have any questions throughout the year please email your classroom teacher. We will do our best to give you clear and concise communications. 

SWPBL - School Wide Positive Behaviours for Learning

School-wide positive behaviour for learning (SWPBL) is a framework that brings together school communities to develop positive, safe, supportive learning cultures.

SWPBL assists schools to improve social, emotional, behavioural and academic outcomes for children and young people.

At USPS we have been implementing SWPBL for a number of years is all areas of our school which sees ours students benefit from:

• increased respectful and positive behaviour
• increased time focused on instruction
• improved social-emotional wellbeing
• positive and respectful relationships among students and staff
• increased adoption of evidence-based instructional practices

Behaviour Matrix

Building trustworthy relationships in our senior classes is an important base for developing Respect, Responsibility and Resilience among our students. Part of this process is identifying how we all want to be treated and how we will behaviour while working in our classroom environments. 

While students move around the school and spend time in specialist classes, transitioning through and between buildings and playing during recess time in our beautiful outdoor areas, each space requires clear expectations. 

Development of our SWPBL Behaviour Matrix takes time, with all students being given a voice and a space to share their thoughts, feelings and ideas.

In the three attachments below, you will be able to read the classroom expectations of the 5/6 classes. They may be similar in ways and different in others. This is what makes our classes unique. 

5/6A

5/6B

5/6C

Ready to Learn Placements

In week one, all year 5/6 students made their own Ready to Learn Placemats. These placement are all designed and made by the students. The purpose of the placemat is for students to have a visual representation of their current mindset and therefor where they sit on the ready to learn scale. The placemats all also used for students to record weekly goals (academic or personal) for themselves. 

Buddies & Chess

Earlier this term, our Year 5 students began having buddy orientation sessions with our 2024 Foundation students. They have been have been going outside for a play, eating lunch together and have been spending some recesses together. It has been wonderful to see our Year 5 students take on this role of being a buddy. 

Meanwhile our Year 6 students have been spending time playing and practicing the game of chess. Some students have been utilising online Chess tutorials to learn more about the game whilst some have been enjoying playing practice matches against each other. We look forward to our upcoming Chess tournament starting in the middle of term one. 

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) *