Year 5/6

Welcome back to Term 4!

We hope everyone enjoyed a restful break and quality time spent with family and friends. 

We are excited to continue embedding tight routines, positive learning habits and calm and orderly classroom environments. 

We hope everyone enjoyed a restful break and quality time spent with family and friends. 

We are excited to continue embedding tight routines, positive learning habits and calm and orderly classroom environments.

We will be consolidating the learning that we have conducted over the past three terms and look forward to celebrating a fantastic year with all of our students, especially the Year 6’s.

With the support of our wonderful Education Support staff, we will continue to support our students and their individual learning needs.

This term we will be covering the following subject areas:

Literacy:

This term, students will explore Indigenous Perspectives as part of our text study unit. The novel is titled, Us Mob Wallawurru, a historical fiction novel written by David Spillman and Lisa Wilyuka. Set in Central Australia in the 1960's, it follows the life of Ruby, a funny and straight-talking Luritja girl who lives on a cattle station. We will then explore the structure of poetry using existing poems and creating our own.

Numeracy:

Students are exploring data using digital technologies, revisiting a combined fractions, decimals and percentages unit, a deeper dive into operations and will be finishing the year off with area and perimeter.

Core Knowledge:

Our Core Knowledge topics this term include Managing the Environment which explores natural disasters, shared environmental responsibilities and exploring Medieval Europe (476AD -1352AD).

Wellbeing:

Through the Resilience, Rights and Respectful Relationships program, students will be learning about positive relations and will discuss topics of respect, positive and negative uses of power and help seeking.

Specialists:

Each week, students will continue to participate in specialist classes including Art, Physical Education, STEM and Auslan. These programs provide valuable opportunities to develop creativity, teamwork, communication and problem-solving skills while enriching students' learning across the curriculum.

Take Home Tasks and Home Reading:

Students are expected to read for at least 80 minutes each week. Reading should be recorded in their diary, signed by a parent or guardian, and brought to school each Monday. We encourage students to keep their diary in their school bag each day.

Termly News:

For school news and key dates please refer to the school newsletter and the Year 5/6 newsletter on Seesaw. 

As always, if you have any questions please don't hesitate to get in touch with your classroom teacher.

Thank you,

Mrs Walton and Mrs Harris