Year 6, Term 4 Curriculum Overview 2023
Term 4
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English
Comparative Analysis
In this unit, students are reading a class novel where they are analyzing characters and identifying and evaluating the language features and vocabulary the author has uses to represent these characters. For their assessment, students will write a comparative analysis explaining how an author portrays the protagonist and antagonist characters using the text structure of an analytical essay.
Maths
Students will need to plan an end of year pizza party. Students will need to identify how many boxes of pizza and bottles of soft drinks are required to satisfy their class size. Students are also required to work out the final cost for their teacher so he/she can budget for the end of year party. Student will be required to solve problems involving decimals, fractions, and percentages.
Science
Change Detectives.
The Change Detectives unit provides opportunities for students to explore melting, evaporating, dissolving, burning and chemical reactions. Students’ understanding of the factors that influence the rate of change will be developed through hands-on activities and student-planned investigations. Students become detectives who identify and explain physical and chemical changes in everyday materials
HASS
Students will explain ways that resources can be used to benefit individuals, the community, and the environment. They will recognise why choices about the allocation of resources involve trade-offs. They explain why it is important to be informed when making consumer and financial decisions. They identify the purpose of business and recognise the different ways that businesses choose to provide goods and services. For their assessment, students will work in pairs to create a multimodal presentation on how to use a vacant block of land in Trinity Beach which appeals to the needs and wants of the local community
HPE
AFL
In this unit, students in year six will develop and perform the specialised movement skills of handballing, kicking and catching in AFL.
Technology
This term students will work through the design process to create a shelter for an animal using recycled and/or sustainable materials. Students will need to justify their design choices that suit the specific requirements of each animal
Drama
Physical Theatre
Students will watch physical theatre performances, analysing and evaluating the use of drama elements. In groups, they then create, perform (in front of an audience), respond and reflect on their physical theatre work. Students make their own creative choices regarding lights, music, sound, costume, choreography and story/themes.
Visual Arts
This term in Visual Arts, year 6 students will continue to explore the seven elements of art. They will then use this knowledge to complete their very own art piece from different materials and mediums. This will communicate their ideas as an artist and make up part of their assessment task for Visual Arts this reporting period. Following this we will venture into the world of clay and make coils bowls to put in practise the Element of Form. Then it’s a wrap, our semester of art for 2023 will be complete.
IEC
Welcome to Term 4, our final term at primary school for our year 6 students. This term brings lots of emotions including excitement, anxiety and uncertainty. All of these emotions are very normal for this time of year as students begin the transition to high school. Some of our IEC students have begun Transition sessions at Smithfield State High School each Tuesday. These Tuesday sessions will continue over the term until Week 9, in Week 10 there will be a Year 7 Transition Day at SSHS from 9am to 2:30pm. Students will spend the entire day at SSHS and parents will be required to drop off and pick up their child like a normal school day at the high school. Our focus for this term will be completing final assessments, transitioning to high school and making connections and lastly, graduation. We are looking forward to a wonderful last term in the IEC 😊
Assessment Schedule
Learning Area | Assessment Task | Due Date |
English | Comparative analysis | Week 8 |
Maths | Pizza Party – Calculating percentages | Week 8 |
Science | Investigation | Week 8 |
HASS | Scientific investigation | Week 8 |
HPE | Transitioning | Week 7-8 |
Technology | Creating birdhouse | Week 8 |
Drama | Physical Theatre | Week 8 |
Visual Arts | Students will use and experiment with different materials, techniques, technologies and processes to make artworks using the basic elements of art. Students will plan the display of artworks to enhance their meaning for an audience | Week 8 |
LOTE |
| Week 8 |
Reading & Spelling
Our school continues to embed a whole school approach to reading and spelling across Prep to Year 6. This involves teaching the reading and spelling demands of the Australian Curriculum, providing students with a systematic synthetic phonics approach and unpacking the Big 6/Science of Reading through engaging and meaningful lessons. Students engage with decodable texts when learning to read and rich authentic texts when reading to learn and continue to use the PLD approach for their spelling and sound focus
Homework
Each class has their own arangements for homework. please speak to your childs teacher if you have any concerns about homework.
Attendance
How to report an absence:
Either:
- Text (SMS)* 0428 621 921 (preferred method) *SMS line does not take calls & no emoji’s please SMS any time, with student name, reason for absence and duration.
- Call the absence Line: 4057 1444 (press #1) only available after 8:30 am Leave student name and reason for absence.
- Email: attendance@trinitybeachss.eq.edu.au before 9:30am.
QParents
QP is an online portal helping the school move toward a cashless and paper friendly school.
- The QP portal allows Parents and Carers to grant participation consent online for activities such as swimming and excursions which reduces our need to print out paper consent forms
- Also, the QP portal enables Parents and Carers to make payment online for school activities and viewing unpaid invoices payment history.
Thank you to all those parents who have registered for QParents. This means every registered parent now has the opportunity to access to their children’s student records at their fingertips, anytime, anywhere. Haven’t received an invitation from us yet? There’s still time! Please let us know immediately. Or if you are simply looking for further information, videos and FAQs on QParents, visit https://qparents.qld.edu.au
Tuckshop
Tuckshop operates daily during the two breaks. Orders can be placed online via FlexiSchools or at the tuckshop on a paper bag. Tuckshop orders are placed in class tuckshop basket before 9am. Miscellaneous items can be purchased over the counter. Please talk to your child about not giving money away or sharing food.
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