Year 6 Update

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Upcoming Learning

During the next fortnight, students will be undertaking learning in the following areas:


Reading	I can explore word origins I can comprehend a variety of text types
Writing	I can apply my writing knowledge to recount writing I can publish my writing in my scrapbook
Maths	I can understand decimals I can understand fractions I can understand percentages
Science	I can understand how air and water can generate electricity
Inquiry	I can gain an understanding of prototypes and safe food handling and preparation.
Social & Emotional Learning	I can understand positive and negative coping strategies

News and Reminders

As part of our transition to high school practise, year 6 will be running Hillsmeade High, where students will be learning to follow a timetable and have each lesson conducted by a different year 6 teacher.
Scrapbooking has begun. Please have a scrapbook/plastic pocket folder ready
Completion of payment are now being accepted for our Year 6 Camp in November. Please see Compass for more information.
All Camp forms are due this Friday 28th October
Students can be reading from home using MyOn https://www.myon.com/login/index.html

Celebration of Learning

Year 6’s have been busy reflecting on their time at Hillsmeade Primary School. One of the activities was to reflect on a time that they remember at Hillsmeade and taking the time to say Thank-You.