Year 6 Term 1 Overview 2024
Term overview
Welcome to the first term of Year 6. Our 2024 Year 6 Teaching Team consists of Mr. Jay Dumbelton (6A), Ms. Melanie Wilton (6B), Mr Christopher Clair (6C), Mrs Cara Humphries (6D), Mr. Brent Dornauf (6E). This year the students are seniors and the leaders of the school. There will be many opportunities for them to step up and be positive role models for the younger students of our school. As a leader the students need to ensure they are consistently demonstrating our school expectations and leading by example including wearing the correct uniform. They are expected to arrive to school on time and be ready and organised with the correct equipment at the start of each day. Please check with your child regularly that they have everything they need for school. The assessment schedule for Term 1 is included in this outline (see table below), this provides a good insight into what your child is working on in class and their assessment task. If you have any questions regarding this, please contact your child’s classroom teacher. We look forward to a positive and productive term. Upcoming events that will be occurring for Year 6 students are: Term 2 – Week 2 – Reef Trip excursion Term 3 – Week 3 – Year 6 Camp @ Camp Paterson As more information about these events comes to hand it will be sent out via QParents or letters home. BYOx program This year all classes are part of the TNLA-TBSS BYOx program, after a successful pilot program in 2023, it has been extended to all in Year 6. It is a giant learning curve for students and their teachers to adapt to a new way of learning. This term, classes focus on building digital literacy skills and building routines and processes for the safe and effective use of devices for learning. Students will start to learn how to use our main learning platform Qlearn which replaces the Learning Place/EStudios of previous years. This is then coupled with a selection of curated websites and learning platforms to maximise learning for all students. Students will begin by working on assessments online and will steadily grow with their digital learning as the year progresses. If you have any questions around your student’s digital journey, please contact their classroom teacher for more information. |
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
Attendance
How to report an absence:
- Email attendance@trinitybeachss.eq.edu.au or
- Call the school's absence line on 4057 1444, then press #1 and don't forget to leave a reason why your child/children are away, or
- Send a note to the classroom teacher on their return
Our schools attendance target is 95%
IEC
Welcome to a wonderful year of learning in 2024 at Trinity Beach State School. My name is Lisa Croatto and my role as an Inclusive Education Teacher (IET) is to work with and support students with additional needs at Trinity Beach State School in year 6.
I support students and teachers in their classrooms and run targeted intervention sessions in the Inclusive Education Centre. Our focus is on making daily adjustments to the curriculum and in our classrooms and using assistive technology as a tool for learning.
As an Inclusive Education Teacher for the upper school, I also co-ordinate the year 6 transition program in terms 3 and 4.
My preferred method of communication is via email. My email address is lcroa4@eq.edu.au
Should you have any further questions or concerns, please do not hesitate to contact me on my email or drop into the IEC to see me directly 😊
Reading / Spelling
Our school uses a systematic synthetic phonics approach that has a teaching sequence for reading and spelling which goes across the entire school. Promoting Literacy Development or PLD for short, provides teachers with an innovative, evidence-based approach to literacy and advocates that children’s literacy and learning outcomes are maximized when the areas of literacy, oral language and movement & motor skills are simultaneously targeted. With this change, we have been working with decodable texts instead of predictable texts in the teaching of reading.
English
This term students will be creating a Travel brochure about a destination of their choice and publishing it using digital software. They will need to choose a particular target audience and tailor their choices of structural, language and visual features. Once they published the brochure, they will need to persuade the target audience in a presentation using multimodal elements.
Maths
In unit 1, students will describe the use of integers in everyday contexts and locate integers on a number line. They will locate an ordered pair in any one of the four quadrants on the Cartesian plane and describe combinations of transformations. Students will plot coordinates on a Cartesian plane and use logic to determine alternate possibilities. Students will identify and describe properties of prime, composite, square and triangular numbers. They will solve simple problems involving whole numbers using a range of strategies and demonstrate their thinking to explain their strategy choices.
Science
In this unit, students explore how sudden geological changes and extreme weather events can affect the Earth's surface. They consider the effects of cyclones and earthquakes on the Earth's surface
and how communities are affected by these events. They gather, record and interpret data relating to weather and weather events.
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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
In PE, students in year six will perform and combine specialised tennis skills to open up space on the court to win or gain the upper hand within gameplay. Students will demonstrate skills to work collaboratively and play fairly during tennis related activities and games. In Health, students will describe the key features of health-related fitness and the significance of physical activity participation to health and wellbeing.
Music
During Term One, students will learn about major and minor modes, quaver rest, bouncy rhythm, syncopation, tied notes and brass instruments. They will learn a number of songs and games, listen to and analyse a range of musical pieces.
Visual Arts
This term in Visual Arts, year 6 students will be exposed to each of the seven basic elements of art. Elements of art are stylistic features that are included in artwork to help the artist communicate. These elements are line, shape, colour, texture, value space and form. Students view various famous artworks that have each element depicted in the artwork. Students will use and experiment with different materials, techniques, technologies and processes to make artworks using the basic elements of art.
Technology
In Technologies, students in year six will collaborate to research the natural disasters, flood and bushfire and design a solution to prepare people with information to manage such events in their local environment by creating an App. Students will then create an aide for people and animals using technologies, including digital systems.
Drama
Fractured Fairy Tales
Students will work in small groups to create, present and respond to a Fractured Fairy Tale. They will investigate what elements make up a Fractured Fairy tale (parody) and then present a targeted script to junior school students.
Assessment schedule
Learning Area | Assessment Task | Due Date |
English | Task 1 Brochure – persuasive text – multimodal Task 2 Presentation – informative text – spoken with PPTX prompt | Week 5 Week 10 |
Math | Math integers & Geometry IN CLASS TEST – written | Week 5 |
HASS | Processed assessment – research – written | Week 10 |
Science | Written assessment task in class | Week 5 |
HPE | Fitness run | Week 5 |
Music | Create a 16 beat melody in common time, using known rhythmical elements and dynamics and Perform your 16 beat melody, using keyboard or glockenspiel. | Week 7/8 |
Technology | • Through graphical representation students show their understanding of a school computer network. • Students answer questions to explain how the digital components in a digital system enable data to be transmitted across a network. • Students complete a workbook to show their design and system thinking in the creation of a new, modified or adapted solution to me the needs of a user. • Students write/present a proposal explaining their design solution using a digital | Week 8 Term 2 |
Drama | Making – Group performance | Week 8 |
Responding – Written Test | Week 9 |
Contact information
Classroom Teachers
6A Mr Jay Dumbelton jdumb2@eq.edu.au
6B Ms Melanie Wilton mlwil5@eq.edu.au
6C Mr Christopher Clair cocla0@eq.edu.au
6D Mrs Cara Humphries cjhum0@eq.edu.au
6E Mr Brent Dornauf bdorn8@eq.edu.au
Specialist Teachers
HPE Jodie Donovan jdono63@eq.edu.au
HPE Steve Kotzikas sskot0@eq.edu.au
Visual Arts Vanessa Graham vgrah5@eq.edu.au
Music Svetlana Walker swalk146@eq.edu.au
Drama David Terry dater1@eq.edu.au
Technology Alex Einerman aeine0@eq.edu.au