Year 6 Term 1 Overview 2023
Term overview
Welcome to the first term of Year 6. Our Year 6 Teaching Team consists of Mr. Jay Dumbleton (6A), Ms. Kaylene Collins (6B), Miss Kirsten Apelgren (6C), Miss Jocelyn Brown (6D), Mr. Brent Dornauf (6E), Ms. Melanie Wilton (6F) and Ms. Shannon Devlin (5/6A).
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.
Qparents
QParents is here!
Great news: Trinity Beach SS provides our parent community with the opportunity to register for QParents.
We will be sending out invitations for parents to register for QParents next week.
QParents won’t replace the traditional ways you communicate with our school, but it will provide another way to communicate with us.
More information about QParents can be found at https://qparents.qld.edu.au/#/about
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 2023 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 years 5 and 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
Comparative Analysis
In this unit students, read and comprehend a letter from a different historical context and analyse and explain the language features They will listen to, read and view extracts from literary texts set in earlier times. They will demonstrate their understanding of how the events and characters are created within historical contexts. Students will then write a letter to a student in the future to evoke a sense of time and place.
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.
BYOx
This term in our BYOx classrooms, students will be building their proficiency with typing to increase their typing speed. They will be developing digital skills such as creating documents, emailing digital work to teachers, managing files through a planned organisation system and saving and recalling files. Students will develop their awareness of Cyber Safety and Digital Citizenship and recognise they create a digital footprint when working online.
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
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. .
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
Threatre sports - Students participate in improvisation games in a theatre sports competition. 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 | Task 1: Short answer comprehension questions in response to literary texts evoking a sense of time and place. Task 2: Futuristic letter evoking a sense of time & place. | Written Written | Week 5 Week 9 |
Mathematics | Task 1: Describe use of integers in real life context and locate integers on number lines. Plot co-ordinates on a Cartesian plane and describe transformations. Task 2: Identify and describe properties of numbers. Solve simple problems involving whole numbers using a range of strategies. | Written Written | Week 5 Week 9 |
Science | Explain changes to the surface of Earth caused by geological changes and extreme weather events. | Written | Week 5 |
HASS | Explain the significance of key people, events, institutions and processes to the development of the Australian nation. | Written | Week 9 |
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Contact information
Contact your childs teacher via email:
Mr. Jay Dumbleton (6A) jdumb2@eq.edu.au
Ms. Kaylene Collins (6B) kxlai0@eq.edu.au
Miss Kirsten Apelgren (6C) kapel6@eq.edu.au
Miss Jocelyn Brown (6D) jebro1@eq.edu.au
Mr. Brent Dornauf (6E) bdorn8@eq.edu.au
Ms. Melanie Wilton (6F) mlwil5@eq.edu.au
Ms. Shannon Devlin (5/6A) sadev0@eq.edu.au
Specialist Teachers
HPE Jodie Donovan jdono63@eq.edu.au
HPE Rochelle Powell rapow1@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
HPE/Technology/drama Karen Arthur kaart0@eq.edu.au
Technology Jacqui Kidney jkidn6@eq.edu.au
LOTE Isabel Ip ilip0@eq.edu.au