Leadership Centre

Curriculum

Halo semuanya - hello everyone!

Welcome back! We hope all Leadership Centre families enjoyed a restful two weeks away with family and friends! We are well into the swing of things for Term 2 already and we are excited to get straight back into a range of different learning tasks. It has been impressive seeing students settle back into daily routines and classroom expectations.

In Writing, students have began the term experimenting with a range of different prompts for a Lightning Write. A Lightning Write is a 10 minute writing session where students write any type of paragraph - generally one of the Seven Steps to Writing Success in order to practice thinking and writing on the spot. We have been very impressed with the work that they have produced, particularly extending on from our work in Term One! Students also explored the nature of patterned writing where we looked at the context of nouns, adjectives, verbs and prepositions within a sentence. The students learned that they can use various patterns to ensure they have each of those four elements of a sentence and that they can create additional sentences by adapting the words involved in these four elements. 

A focus this term for our students will be to build their engagement and passion in Writing, so this week, during Leadership Hour, we had students work in groups to explore how we could create better engagement, inspiration and enjoyment in our writing across the school. It was great to provide students the opportunity to explore their own student voice and continue to build their knowledge around the agency that they can have over their own learning.

In Maths, we are beginning our focus on Addition and Subtraction for the term. As we have just come back from our ANZAC Day public holiday students investigated the nature of being a soldier at war and calculating costs of items and materials they would have taken with them. Students practised using estimation and rounding and a range of number strategies to demonstrate their mathematical thinking clearly. In all our maths sessions, we are also aiming to incorporate digital technologies to assist with calculations where possible. 

Have a great week!

The Leadership Centre Teachers

Reminders

• Please ensure that Year 5 students have the NAPLAN browser and that it is updated
• We are accepting tissue box donations

Pupil of the Week

5/6B: Shashank G -

For showing a strong dedication and zest during our patterned writing sessions this week. Well done on using your humour and creativity when adapting your sentences with up-levelled adjectives and verbs. Sensational Shashank. 

5/6C: Emma O -

For showing efficient problem solving skills when balancing different equations. Well done for working collaboratively and supporting others as well as challenging yourself to complete the whole task. Excellent work, Emma 

5/6D: Grace H -

Well done on using your growth mindset to challenge and extend yourself in Maths when investigating algebra. Keep up the great work Grace! 

5/6EB: Mia C -

For demonstrating a positive attitude to learning and using a growth mindset to challenge yourself and stay on task. It is great to see an improvement in your perspective and work habits. Magnificent, Mia! 

5/6W: Velouria N -

For working hard to complete your narrative cold write where you included interesting vocabulary and descriptive phrases! Very impressive, Velouria!