Year Six News

Term 3 in Grade 6  

This term continues to be a bustling and productive one for the Grade 6 Department. 

Term Topic

Our term topic will focus on Business and Economics. Students will develop an understanding of why people work, budgets, what a consumer is, goods and services and the difference between needs and wants. Later this term, Grade 6 students will participate in a free workshop from Talk Money with Ecstra Foundation that is designed to help students learn money lessons for life, to be confident talking about money and to make informed financial decisions.

Literacy

Our literacy focus will be on the 6 + 1 Traits of Writing and the development and strengthening of various reading comprehension strategies. During Term 3, students will explore the traits Word Choice and Sentence Fluency through a variety of writing genres. During reading, students will continue to develop and apply their comprehension strategies and reading for knowledge. Reading activities will also be linked to the term’s unit focus of economics. Students will also analyse the novel ‘Hatchet’ and compare and contrast it to the film adaptation. Individual conferences and goal setting will continue to be part of the reading and writing process.

Numeracy

The main areas that will be covered this term include multiplication and division, measurement, chance, and financial literacy. Essential Assessment numeracy tasks will be set for your child which cater to individual areas of need.

Homework

Homework has commenced this week. Students are expected to read for a daily minimum of 40 minutes and to record one weekly reading task from the grid provided to them on Google Classroom. Students are also to complete one set Essential Assessment numeracy task. Please set aside some quiet time for your child to complete the homework.

Interschool Sport 

Trials for summer interschool sports for our Grade 6s will commence this term in basketball, newcomb, cricket and bat tennis with interschool sport commencing for these sports during the fourth term. Athletics is also a focus this term, with the Grade 4-6 FWPS Athletics Carnival taking place on August 9th, with the Interschool Carnival to be held two weeks later on August 24th.

Camp

In the next few weeks, we encourage payment for those students attending the Grade 6 Camp. The date of camp is October 16th until October 18th (Term 4). The camp this year will be held in Kangaroobie, Princetown. 

We also ask for students to please bring in a box of tissues for use in the classroom this term.

Marco, Lauren, Marshal

Grade 6 Team