5/6 News 

The Grade 5/6 students and team have made a wonderful start to our school year settling in to routines and making each classroom a vibrant happy place to come to learn. We have had a focus on a number of wellbeing lessons to start the year, which helps us to get to know each other and expectations of being in the senior school. Our overall focus for the senior school this year is going to be 'This is ME', using inspiration from the movie the Greatest Showman and encouraging students to be themselves and bring their strengths each and every day while inspiring others. The students watched this clip to start the conversation https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XLFEvHWD_NE&t=162s

 

Mathematics 

We have also started our Maths assessments to have the students start working in their Maths ‘Catch’ groups next week where we will focus the students learning needs in place value over the whole cohort. We will start by looking at place value which will support the students before we start our order of operations. 

 

Related Vocabulary: 

  • Equal to;                                           
  • Triangular 
  • Square 
  • Least;
  • Multiples;
  • Before;
  • Lesser;
  • Partitioning 
  • Compare;
  • More than;
  • Hundreds;
  • Hundreds;
  • Tens 
  • Thousands
  • Tens of thousands
  • Millions
  • Billions

Literacy 

Students have been using their Writers Notebooks to write stories using prompts. The students have written stories about unlikely friends using the prompt underneath. Writing was engaging and entertaining with the students working on their descriptive writing. We will be starting reading rotations next week with the students completing 4 different reading activities a week after a whole class focus lesson on a Monday. Next week we are looking at the different reading strategies. Please ensure your child is reading at home each night.

Inquiry Closing the Gap

This term we will be focussing on ‘What role do we play in closing the gap for Indigenous peoples and Torres Strait Islanders Australians? ’. The students will learn about our Australian History and the role Aboriginal People play in our country and having a better understanding so we can move forward to make our country a better place.

Respectful Relationships 

Research shows that students who participate in rigorously designed and well-taught social and emotional learning programs demonstrate more positive social behaviour, are less likely to engage in risky and disruptive behaviour, and show improved academic outcomes. Our first topic for this year is Emotional Literacy and being able to identify what emotions we are feeling. The students looked at the journey of Ash Barty and used a comic photo prompt to discuss the different emotions she would of felt on her journey to becoming an Australian Open champion from a young girl. 

School Leaders 

'On Wednesday the 5/6’s did a fun experiment where we had to mix toothpaste and shaving cream on the concrete to make a "mess" and then we had to try put all the toothpaste and shaving cream back in to the can and tube, we found out there was no possible way to get it back in to its original state. The teachers told us the point of the whole experiment was an important lesson, if you say something to someone then you can't take back what you said or did to hurt their feelings and we should think before we speak and act.'

 

Ella Bled

School Captain 

 

 

We look forward to working closely with all students, parents the whole school community this year.

 

Jayne McKay, Alice Healey, Simon Brown, Dara Blake, Trent Thiessens, Lisa Biffin