Connect Year 6

have Important Dates

Friday June 27th

Wintersport Lightning Premiership

Thursday July 3rd

12pm- 03:15am House Gymnastics Challenge - Grade 3 to 6.

Friday July 11th

1.30pm  Break up for holidays

It's been a long term and we have finally turned the corner from the Winter Solstice's shortest day of the year.  It's been cold and miserable of late and there has been plenty of sickness about, but it seems to be that we are over the owrst of it and we have full classes of happy (albit tired) students.  Despite all of this, the students have been amazing and we have been able to cover so much content in the curriculum.  They display excellent stamina during the lessons where they hang in, keep concentrating and complete the tasks that colsolodate their learning.

5/6 Hoop-time

Any students wishing to participate in this years 5/6 Hoop-time competition can register by completing the permission form sent out last week via the QKR app. 

This year our Hoop-time competition will be held on Friday the 1st of August at Jubilee Park Stadium. 

We are hoping to take as many teams as possible and encourage anyone to get involved no matter how much basketball experience you have previously. 

Literacy

We have completed our biographies of famous Australians and are coming to the end of our study of Ancient Rome.  The students have found Julius Caesar and Caesar Augustus interesting characters and I can say that we were able to whet their appetite for the subject by suggesting that Julius Caesar suffered a most unfortunate death to say the least!  Pretty ordinary effort by all of his mates, but in their defence, they thought that something must be done.  Was a bit drastic though!

Maths

As we come to the ned of our second fractions unit, on the whole, the students need to be congratulated of sticking with it and succeeding.  We began as a cohort with very modest skills where most found it difficult to add simple fractions with common denomintors to being able to add and subtract mixed numbers with unrelated denominators where they had to find the Lowest Common Multiple, convert the fractions, add or subtract them and make sure that they had a simplified answer with a mixed number.  Pretty impressive.  The last week will see us review the unit and complete a few fun problem solving activities so they have happy recent memories of maths going into the holidays and not that of those brutal fractions that at times, made their heads hurt!

Inquiry

We will be wrapping up the unit of Museums in Motion.  We have successfully shared our knowledge of major events from colonial history and the students have a much better idea of the things that shaped the 19th Century in Australia.

Next term sees us move to a science based unit and we will be looking at electricity: where it comes from and how it is generated, how circuits work and how we can use it to our advantage.  I find this unit facinating, as the students literally take it for granted that they flick a switch and the room lights up!  Which reminds me of my favourite Muhammad Ali quote of, "I'm so fast that last night I turned of the light switch in my hotel room and was in bed before the room was dark."

Wellbeing

In our Respectful Relationships hour, we are finished our problem solving unit and worked through strategies we can employ to work through difficult scenarios.  We need to have the skills to deal with serious problems.  We will acted our various scenarios and discussed what worked and how things could have been done differently.  The students really enjoy acting!

Thanks for all of your support throughout the term, and we really appreciate those who have had to work extra hard to look after sick children over the last few weeks.  We hope that you all have a relaxing time with your children over the break, and if you have to work, make sure that they help out around the house and don't take what you do for them for granted.