Year 5/6 News 

Market Day

The Year 5/6 Market opened for business last Tuesday with visitors and students enjoying the fruits of their labour.  Delicious food items, footy cards, lazer fingers fingerboarding, bookmarks, laser tag, coloured hair spray and slime were on offer. The buzz remained well into the day from enjoying ice creams, milkshakes, slices, pies and sausage rolls, nachos, rocky road, rumballs choc mousse, pizza, cakes, lollies, brownies, hot chocolate, tea and coffee.  Wow!  What a fabulous effort by all of our students.

Transition  by Claire Crawford

When children participate in transitions it helps the child understand what happens within high school and they are able to make friends that will be there with them as they journey through the wonders of high school. On the first day of transition it can be daunting and tiring for a student because it’s a big leap from being a big fish in a little pond to being a little fish in a big pond. Year 6’s can be intimidated by the older year tens and eleven’s because

1. They are a lot bigger and

2. Some of them are awfully LOUD.

I found that the really the only time that you will be intimidated by them is when you are in tight spaces with lots of them (like the queue in the canteen/fete for food).

With the second day it is a little easier because you have an idea of routines, you know most of the year 6s and you know the best places to go to hang out (or buy food/eat/read). You usually make a friend or two and you realise people you know go there (like used-to-be grade sixes).

Transitions fly by, as I can tell you from experience, and you find that transitions disappear as quickly as they began and you find that the last day is one of the most enjoyable. It’s a bit rushed because there are a lot of things you want to do and not enough time to do it. Overall you really enjoy transitions and you don’t want to come back to primary school after because you feel ready to start secondary school!