Year 6 Curriculum News 

Term 2, 2023 

We had a busy start to the term with a wonderfully moving Anzac Ceremony, with our very special guest, Grant Coultman-Smith in attendance once again. We enjoyed House Cross Country, and our Winter inter-school sports teams are experiencing improvement and success. 

This term, we are continuing ‘Take Action Thursday’ on a weekly basis, with our students enjoying the opportunity to participate in and lead various activities. It is fabulous to see so many Year 6 students demonstrating excellent leadership qualities.

Literacy

Writing

Throughout Term 2, students will produce, in print and electronic forms, a variety of texts for different purposes using structures and features of language appropriate to the purpose, audience and context of the writing. 

We will be focusing on informative and narrative writing over the coming weeks. Students will consolidate their knowledge of structure and will practise a variety of writing techniques to enhance their narrative and informative writing. 

They will employ a variety of strategies for writing, including generating ideas, identifying voice, organisation, word choice, sentence fluency and text structures and conventions.

Reading

Students will continue to read, interpret and respond to a wide range of literary texts and reference material in print and in multimodal formats. They will analyse these texts and support interpretations with evidence drawn from the text. 

Reading comprehension skills are continuing to be developed – finding the main idea, recalling facts and details, understanding sequence, cause and effect, comparing and contrasting and making predictions.

Numeracy

Maths Groups

Within our differentiated Maths Groups and Problem-Solving Groups, we have been able to target specific needs. This term the topics in Maths we will be covering in class and in smaller focus groups include Operations, Fractions, Decimals and Percentages.

5/6 Challenge Group

The Maths Challenge program continues in Term 2 with the inclusion of the Maths Olympiads and Maths Games contests. These provide challenges and extension for students who demonstrate higher order thinking.

Units of Inquiry

This term we have completed the ‘Where We Are In Place and Time’ unit of inquiry, during which the students independently researched a defining moment in Australia’s history. 

They then collaborated with peers to present a play to the Year 3 students with the purpose of sharing their knowledge. The summative task for this unit was a written Information Report. 

The focus of this Learning Task was to draw on prior knowledge through our Trait Writing lessons. The students were required to organise and structure their findings in chronological order, highlighting important dates and the people involved.

We have begun the ‘How The World Works’ unit of inquiry this term which will culminate in our Year 6 Exhibition early in Term 3. 

Throughout this unit, the students will explore the Central Idea of how INNOVATION IN TECHNOLOGY IMPACTS SOCIETY AND THE ENVIRONMENT. They will use critical and creative thinking to pose questions and possibilities, then use their wonderings to design, create and share their ideas.

Whole-school Focus on PYP Learner Profile

May: Reflective

June: Communicators