Year 6 Term 2 Overview 2022
Term overview
Welcome to Term 2!
This year the students are seniors and the leaders of the school and there will be many opportunities for them to step up and be positive role models for the younger students.
The gates to the Senior Learning Centre will open every morning at 8:50am for students to get themselves organised for the day.
Being organised and ready to start the day is essential to your child’s education. Students should have all their equipment ready to start each day. Please check with your child regularly that they have everything they need for school, particularly consumables and easily misplaced items such as pencils, erasers, glue, rulers etc.
We look forward to a positive and productive term. If you have any concerns or queries, please do not hesitate to make an appointment to see us. The best way to get in touch is either via email, a note or a quick phone call before or after school.
Reef Trip Dates – 22nd and the 23rd of August
Information and forms for the reef trip will be going home towards the end of term 2.
To assist families in meeting the cost of the excursion, the Queensland Government, through the Great Barrier Reef Education Experience Program, will provide a subsidy to the school of $40.00 per student who attends the excursion.
Homework
Year 6 students are expected to compete at least 25 minutes reading every night. Additional online mathematics and reading comprehension tasks will be set each week. Students are encouraged to complete set online tasks as they will complement the knowledge, understanding, and skills required to reach success for up-coming assessment tasks.
Year 6 Camp Paterson
School Camp – Camp 25th – 29nd July
The camp will be an action packed 4 days of team building, excitement, and adventure. Camp activities rely on group cooperation while fostering a sense of independence as students explore their attitude towards themselves and their peers. The activities provide students with the opportunity to develop teamwork. Information and forms will go out to families at the end of Term 2.
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%
Reading / Spelling
Our school is implementing 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 will be working with decodable texts instead of predictable texts in the teaching of reading.
English
Short Stories
In this unit students, listen to and read short stories by different authors. They investigate the ways authors use text structure, language features and strategies to create humorous effects. Students will write a short story about a character who faces a conflict. They also reflect on the writing process when making and explaining editorial choices.
Maths
Sport Performance and Game
This term, students will investigate Australia Olympian, Cate Campbell. They will record and graph her performances over time. Students will work out her travel schedule and the probability of Cate winning the Gold Medal at the next Olympic games. After an Olympic Closing Ceremony, there will be some celebrations for the Australian Olympic Team. Students will need to record frequencies, outcomes and probabilities of games played by the Australian cycling team to construct appropriate tables and graphs.
Science
Electricity and Energy
In this unit, students will investigate electrical circuits. They will create a multimodal poster which describes the transformation of energy from one form to another, involving renewable and non-renewable energy sources. They will also create an open and closed circuit and then analyse the transfer of electricity on their posters as annotated scientific diagrams.
HASS
Global Citizens
Students will investigate the rights and responsibilities of Australian citizens today and the experiences of Australian democracy and citizenship for different groups in the past. They will identify and describe continuity and change to the rights and responsibilities of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples and Women during the 20th century.
Students will explain the significance of important people towards creating change in the Australian democratic system as well as compare the experiences of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islanders with Women.
Finally, they will describe the rights and responsibilities of children as global citizens post Federation.
HPE
In this term, students in year 6 will focus on developing their technical understanding of athletic activity. They learn how to set targets and improve their performance in a range of running, jumping and throwing activities. As in all athletic activities, children think about how to achieve the greatest speed, height, distance and accuracy. In Health, students will continue to describe the key features of health-related fitness and the significance of physical activity participation to health and wellbeing.
Music
In this unit, students will learn about brass instruments and dotted notes. They will consolidate their theoretical knowledge of musical forms, rhythmical elements, dynamics, major/minor modes and scales.
Technology
The Stephanie Alexander Kitchen Garden Program is a fun, hands-on learning program delivering pleasurable food education. With strong curriculum integration and a focus on student wellbeing, collaboration and leadership, students learn to grow, harvest, prepare and share fresh, seasonal, delicious food – forming positive food habits for life.
All classes this term will take part in the creation of the garden and basic cooking/food production. The students will learn skills involved with garden and kitchen tools, kitchen and garden safety and hygiene practices. Each year level will also complete an assessment based in design and technologies curriculum as outlined in their assessment schedule.
Drama
Theatre Sports
Students participate in improvisation games in a theatre sports competition in front of a Yr. 5 audience. They reflect on their own and others’ improvisational skills, develop basic improvisational skills and review improvisation terms.
Lote
In this unit, students will explore the concept of play and learn about the games played by children in Chinese-speaking cultures. They will discuss the games they play, explore the language they use in games, and to teach other students to play a game in Chinese. Throughout the unit, students will also explore and reflect on the importance of tone marks.
Assessment schedule
| LEARNING AREA | UNIT | TASK | DUE DATE |
| ENGLISH | Short ‘Humorous’ Stories Students listen to and read short stories by different authors. They investigate the ways authors use text structure, language features and strategies to create humorous effects. They write a short story about a character who faces a conflict. Students also reflect on the writing process when making and explaining editorial choices. | Processed assignment Write a short story about a character who faces a conflict. The purpose of their short story is to entertain children or young adults | Week 8 |
| MATHS | Inquiry Research Task Students will investigate Australia Olympian, Cate Campbell. They will record and graph her performances over time. Students will then need to work out her travel schedule and the probability of Cate winning the Gold Medal at the next Olympic games. After an Olympic Closing Ceremony, there will be some celebrations for the Australian Olympic Team. Students will need to record frequencies, outcomes and probabilities of games played by the Australian cycling team to construct appropriate tables and graphs. | Written investigation | Week 7 |
| SCIENCE | Folio of Challenges Students will create a poster which describes the transformation of energy from one form to another, involving renewable and non-renewable energy sources. You will also create an open and closed circuit then analyse the transfer of electricity on your poster as labelled and annotated scientific diagrams. | Written task | Week 8 |
| HASS | Web Quest - Individual Assignment To investigate the rights and responsibilities of Australian citizens today, and the experiences of Australian democracy and citizenship for different groups in the past. | Written | Week 5 |
| HPE | Athletics Health | Written | Week 3 |
| LOTE | Students will produce a short informative text about a game. They will explain the rules and give instructions for a game in Chinese. They will also reflect on their pronunciation of tones in Chinese. | Written | Week 7 |
| TECHNOLOGY | Minecraft garden design – students use Minecraft to map the TBSS garden area. Students map the area using mapping skills and produce a paper map – they then take this map and use this information to create a virtual world - the TBSS Stephanie Alexander Garden in Minecraft. | Collected work folio/testing and online project | Week 7 |
| DRAMA | Theatre Sports | Performing Responding | Week 8 |
| MUSIC | Part A: Making — Composing Create an 8 beat melody in common time, using known rhythmical elements and dynamics. Part B: Making —Performing Perform your 8 beat melody, using keyboard or glockenspiel. Part C: Responding Responding through a written test analysing and comparing 2 pieces of music – Beethoven ‘Fur Elise’ and Remix. | Composing, responding and performing | Week 6 Weeks 7-8 Week 9 |
Contact information
Contact your childs teacher via email:
Jay Dumbleton 6A – jdumb2@eq.edu.au
Kaylene Collins 6B – klair0@eq.edu.au
Chris Clair 6C – cocla0@eq.edu.au
Duncan Seden 6D – dSede3@eq.edu.au
Kirsten Apelgren 6E - kapel6@eq.edu.au