S3 Newsletter

Welcome to Term 4 and the final term of primary school for our Year 6 students! It has been lovely to see students settling back into school routines after the school holidays. Stage 3 teachers can’t believe that we are in the last term of the year. This year has certainly flown by! We look forward to working with students this term to help them achieve their goals.

Reminders

Please replenish all supplies to ensure students are at school each day ready to learn.

English

Students have started a new English unit for the term titled ‘The Big Issues’. They will be learning to:

• identify themes in texts
• use background information and clues in the text and images to make observations and predictions
• make inferences from texts based on prior knowledge
• identify and discuss the different features of visual literacy in texts
• use the 5 senses to add interest to pieces of writing

Mathematics

Students are learning to:

• record masses using the abbreviation for tonnes (t)
• convert between different units of mass
• find locations on a map
• solve problems involving the area of rectangles
• interpret data presented in tables and dot plots
• use estimation to check the reasonableness of answers
• apply the order of operations to perform calculations involving mixed operations and grouping symbols

Learning new skills in Mathematics

Geography

Our Geography unit this term is ‘Connections and Perceptions’. Students will be:

• identifying what they think about different places in the world
• discussing factors that influence people’s perceptions of places eg media, culture, education, travel
• learning to consider how stereotypes and generalisations about places can affect those places and relationships

Using images and videos and the ‘See, Think, Wonder’ routine, students have begun to look at the selected stimulus, write down observations of what they see, use their inferencing skills to decide what they think about their observations and then wonder what else might be happening.