Year 6 Term Overview

WOMINJEKA 

A warm welcome to all our Grade 6 families! Our students have settled into school routines very quickly and we are delighted to have them back. 

Term 1 Learning: 

In Reading, students will develop an understanding of how fiction and non fiction texts vary in their purpose, structure, and topic. The students will be learning how author’s use sentence structure, vocabulary and figurative language to convey different ideas. The students will continue to develop and consolidate their comprehension strategies skills to analyse text features, language features and text content. In Writing, the students will be exploring Narratives and Poetry. Students will learn how to innovate on mentor texts to convey their own ideas in writing. They will use 6+1 traits such as ideas, organisation, voice, word choice and sentence fluency to further enhance their writing. In Numeracy, students will continue exploring our big idea ‘Fractional Thinking- Operating with Decimal Numbers where they will represent, order, compare and rename decimals. They will also consolidate their fluency of decimals to solve addition and subtraction problems. In addition, students will investigate Time, Properties Of Numbers including composite/prime numbers, Length, Area and Transformation of 2D Shape and Financial Mathematics. 

This term our Social and Emotional Learning will focus on SWPBS (School Wide Positive Behaviour Support) 

● Yarning circles, caves, billabongs etc 

● School values and expectations PATHS (Promoting Alternative Thinking Strategies) 

● Identifying complements Daily and building relationships. RRRR (The Resilience, Rights and Respectful Relationships) 

● Understanding emotions and consequences of emotions.

● Identifying personal strengths and challenges to further develop skills. 

● Positive relationships with peers, teachers and the community. 

● Conflict resolution strategies and positive outcomes to problems. 

Within Inquiry, we will be exploring Geography. Students will be comparing maps, geographical features, social and cultural information between Australia and North America/Europe. 

General Reminders: Please also ensure your child wears a face mask at school. - Wear runners on PE days and 5/6 sport (Friday). - Please ensure that you check and log into Compass and Seesaw regularly, as these will be the main portals that we (the teachers) will communicate information with you on. Compass is also the place where you will be able to access your child’s goals and achievements, these will be released every three weeks and will tell you what your child has achieved in Reading, Writing, Numeracy and Inquiry/Social, as well as their next steps (goals). 

Homework: - Reading: Every night for a minimum of 30-60 mins, with follow up questions relating to the book. - Practising Ongoing Reporting Goals.