Grade 5/6 News

Reminders and Upcoming Events for the 5/6's:

• TERM 3 Begins- Monday 21st July
• BSE Production excursion- Wednesday  23rd July

Maths Challenge

Well done to 5/6 Greer for being awarded the Maths Challenge trophy this fortnight!

The next Maths challenge will be realised in the first newsletter of Term 3!

Communication

There is always a lot going on in Grade 5/6. We will do our best to communicate through our Newsletter and Compass. Please keep an eye on these two spaces for upcoming events and permissions. If at any stage you need to contact one of our team, our emails are below;

Corey Greer - Corey.Greer@education.vic.gov.au 

Kelly Byron - Kelly.Byron@education.vic.gov.au 

Emma Clohesy - Emma.Clohesy@education.vic.gov.au 

Siobhan Garmey - Siobhan.Garmey@education.vic.gov.au 

Luke Staley - Luke.Staley@education.vic.gov.au 

Luke Crawford - Luke.Crawford@education.vic.gov.au 

This fortnight...

In the Classroom

It’s been a creative couple of weeks in our Grade 5/6 classrooms, as we edge closer to the end of term.

Our focus in English this fortnight has been poetry, and it’s been such a joy to see students engaging with the beauty and power of words. We’ve been reading and analysing a range of poems, discussing the meaning and exploring language choices. The kids have also been writing their own free verse poems – full of emotion, creativity and imagination. 

We’ve been sharpening our skills with multiplication and division in Mathematics, exploring different strategies and solving real-world problems. It’s been great to see students growing more confident and efficient with their number work. We’ve also ventured into location and mapping, learning how to read and plot grid coordinates. Some students have shown impressive map-reading skills – maybe we’ve got a few future cartographers among us!

As always, we’re so impressed by the effort and enthusiasm our students bring to the classroom. Keep up the great work, everyone!

Regards,

Grade 5/6 Team

Photos from the past fortnight...