Year 5/6

Welcome back.

We are excited to welcome our students and families to Year 5/6 and look forward to a great year.

The Year 5/6 team consists of Candice Walton (5/6W) and Emily Harris (5/6H) with the support of our incredible Education Support Staff; Mariam, Suzette and Sophie.

This year, our goal is to support our students to participate confidently in creating a calm, orderly and safe environment for themselves and others. Through meticulous practise of our school values, procedures and routines, we aim to support all of our senior students to gain the necessary skills and confidence to be active leaders in our school community. With the appointment of our Year 6 captains and Student Representatives, we give our students a voice in sharing what matters to them and aim to prepare them for various roles in the future.

This term, we will be covering the following topics:

Literacy:

This term, Year 5/6 students will begin a Text Study where they will be reading the novel “Blueback”. This will allow our students to explore how writers use voice to convey different points of view, understand the author’s message through the characters’ perspectives and write a persuasive text using evaluative and figurative language, technical vocabulary and complex sentences.

Numeracy:

In Numeracy, students will explore data representation, properties of number, the four operations (addition, subtraction, multiplication and division) and perimeter and area.

Core Knowledge:

Formerly known as Inquiry, our Core Knowledge topic this term is History, focusing on Australian History between the years of 1800 to 1900 including learning about British Colonies. We look forward to starting our unit with a History Box incursion in Week 3.

Wellbeing:

Through the Resilience, Rights and Respectful Relationships program, students will be learning about emotional literacy as well as cultural and personal strengths.

Other:

Students will be participating in Interschool Sports again this year where they will have an opportunity to participate in a particular sport against other teams in home or away games. This program provides students with the opportunity to develop their resilience and to display our school values inside and outside our school. We are fortunate to have a range of incursions and activities available to us and look forward to sharing these experiences with our students.

Please refer to Sentral, Seesaw or the School Newsletter for any important dates. If you have any further questions, please contact your student’s classroom teacher via Seesaw.

Thank you,

Mrs Walton and Mrs Harris