Year 5/6

Welcome back to Term 2!

We hope that everyone enjoyed a restful break and spent some quality time with their loved ones.

This term, we will maintain our high expectations for our students and continue working together to achieve strong progress in their learning. Our Year 6 leaders will continue to develop their leadership skills by taking responsibility for various aspects of their role throughout the term. We are excited to provide increased opportunities for our Year 5 students to facilitate their development as emergent leaders in our school community.

This term we will be covering the following subject areas:

Literacy:

Year 5/6 students will begin a new text study titled “The Last Bear” by Hannah Gold. We will explore core knowledge about the Arctic Circle before diving into the novel to explore themes about environmentalism, resilience, overcoming grief, friendship and the connection between humans and nature. Students will cover the following learning:

• Understand and apply new vocabulary during speaking, reading and writing
• Sentence level writing focusing on adverbial phrases and clauses
• Use their knowledge of known words to spell new words, including technical words
• Identify language features and their purpose
• Writing an information report

Numeracy:

Year 5/6 students will continue to build strong number understanding and problem-solving skills. The topics we will cover this term include:

• Fractions
• 3D Objects
• Decimals
• Probability
• Location and Transformation

Core Knowledge:

Our Core Knowledge topic this term is Humanities - Changing Communities. We will look at how communities change over time, levels of government in Australia and First Nations futures. Students will design a community for the future as part of their final assessment.

Wellbeing:

Through the Resilience, Rights and Respectful Relationships program, students will be learning about positive self talk, problem solving strategies and stress management.

Other:

We are looking forward to participating in Winter Interschool Sports again this term.

We are fortunate to have a range of incursions and activities planned this term, including camp 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