Year 6 -Term 3 Overview

English
Reading and Viewing Focus: Reading of Boy Overboard, Girl Underground and The Hobbit. Poetry forms limericks, ballads and free verse. Comprehending texts and making text to text connections will be an incredibly important focus of this term. Analyse and evaluate similarities and differences in texts on similar topics, themes or plots. Identify and explain how choices in language, including modality, emphasis, repetition and metaphor, influence personal response to different texts. Writing Focus: Persuasive texts on immigration, Narratives, Business Reports and Poetry. We will be focusing on using persuasive devices in all our writing. Plan, draft and publish imaginative, informative and persuasive texts, choosing and experimenting with text structures, language features, images and digital resources appropriate to purpose and audience. Reread and edit own and others’ work using agreed criteria and explaining editing choices Speaking and Listening Focus: Book reviews, Presentations on Immigration and Speed devotions Participate in and contribute to discussions, clarifying and interrogating ideas, developing and supporting arguments, sharing and evaluating information, experiences and opinions, and use interaction skills, varying conventions of spoken interactions according to group size, formality of interaction and needs and expertise of the audience. Participate in formal and informal debates and plan, rehearse and deliver presentations, selecting and sequencing appropriate content and multimodal elements for defined audiences and purposes, making appropriate choices for modality and emphasis.
Mathematics
Number and Algebra Focus: Students written and technology-based computation to solve whole number problems involving all four operations and use brackets and order of operations to write number sentences involving multiple operations. They explore everyday situations involving integers and use a number line to represent them. Students calculate simple percentage discounts, multiply decimals by whole numbers, carry out divisions with terminating decimal remainders, and use simple fraction, decimal and percentage equivalences with and without technology. Measurement and Geometry Focus: Students use decimals for metric measurement, convert between units, recognise the prefixes used in metric measurements, and relate and compare measures and units, including capacity and volume. They develop and use timetables. Students investigate combinations of transformations with and without technology and use the Cartesian coordinate system to describe location in the plane. They investigate the sum of angles at a point on a line and vertically opposite angles. Statistics and probability Focus: Students carry out experiments involving chance with and without technology, compare variation in frequencies across experiments with expected frequencies, and use fractions, decimals, and percentages to describe probabilities. They interpret a range of data displays, including those for two categorical variables, and interpret data presented in the media.
Humanities	Science
Focus: Students will inquire about the stories and perspectives of people who migrated to Australia, including from one country, and the reasons they migrated. Students will also explore the importance of economic and financial decision-making in everyday life. They consider the concept of opportunity cost and examine why decisions about the ways resources are allocated to meet needs and wants in their community involve trade-offs.	Focus: Students will inquire into energy from a variety of sources can be used to generate electricity; electric circuits enable this energy to be transferred to another place and then to be transformed into another form of energy. Students will also investigate sudden geological changes or extreme weather conditions can affect Earth’s surface including investigating major geological events as earthquakes.
Music	Art
Focus: In Music this term we are continuing to explore melody through the use of the Ukuleles. We are learning various chords and progressing towards creating our own compositions.	Focus: Students will continue to explore artworks from different times and cultures. They will be inspired by Indigenous Art using white charcoal focusing on, line drawings. They will explore texture and rubbings to create a collagraph city landscape. In textiles, students will experiment with dye to create a Sidney Nolan inspired fabric dying and weaving art piece.
Physical Education	Health
Focus: In Term 3 students will apply critical and creative thinking processes in order to generate and assess solutions to movement challenges in physical activities. They will also practice specialised movement skills and apply them in different movement situations in indoor and outdoor sports.	Focus: Growth-mindset, neuro plasticity, positive thinking and developing positive relationships.
Christian Life	L.O.T.E
Focus: Students demonstrate and understanding that God’s control of the world is through normal events and sometimes through direct intervention. Identify events which show us that God is full of grace and mercy towards all people, demonstrating and understanding that God is full of grace and mercy to those who turn to him through Jesus.	Focus: Hindi This Term, students are enthralled about exploring ancient Akbar Birbal stories. These stories have an enormous cultural value and are deeply rooted in themes of wisdom and social causes. Students will respond to these stories by identifying and discussing key elements such as storylines, characters, and themes. They will then create adaptations of an Akbar Birbal story and present the same, as a play and bedtime story. Students will continue to work on the sounds and patterns of pronunciation and elements of the Devanagari script. Students will also be perfecting their Hindi writing skills by writing words and sentences in Devanagari. Focus: French In Term 3 students will learn language to support conversations about families. Using ‘Ça, c'est ma famille’ students talk about their families, ages within their families, and expressions of possession. They will discuss types of family in France, French family documents and the origins of French names. Students will also share likes and dislikes in French.
Discovery Learning	Digital Technologies
Focus: Students need to bring a Library bag on Mondays in order to borrow a book.	This term students will look at the design process and use Tinkercad to design, print and test bubble wands. Later in the term we will look at coding using the ingenious micro:bit.
STEAM Teams	Homework Expectations
Focus: Students engage with ideas beyond the familiar, exploring how design and technologies and the people working in a range of technologies contexts contribute to society. They seek to explore innovation and establish their own design capabilities. Students are given new opportunities for clarifying their thinking, creativity, analysis, problem-solving and decision-making. Students will do this through either designing and creating billy carts or planting and growing vegetables to go in a soup they design.	Each weeknight Students will spend a least 15mins reading out loud and to themselves a book in preparation for their book review assessments Students will spend 5-10mins practice their spelling list for a spelling test on Friday each week. Students will complete 20 mins of Mathletics each weeknight Students will spend 20 mins work on a writing task, presentation or assessment as set by the teacher Students will finish any unfinished reading comprehension or grammar work from class.

Proverbs 22:6 (NKJV) - Train up a child in the way he should go, and when he is old,

he will not depart from it.