Year 6 Term 1 Overview 2022
Term overview
Welcome to the first term of Year 6!
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 of our school.
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 also essential to your child’s education. Students should have all their equipment ready to start the 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.
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
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.
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.
Due to this change, home reading will look different as well. Students may come home with games with high frequency words or sounds instead of home readers. This is reading practice. Please be assured that students will be getting a much higher level of reading mileage at school every day.
English
In this unit students, students read and comprehend a letter from a different historical context and analyse and explain language features They will listen to, read and view extracts from literary texts set in earlier times. They demonstrate their understanding of how the events and characters are created within historical contexts. Students will eventually write a letter to a student in the future to evoke a sense of time and place.
Maths
In unit 1, students learning will focus on integers adn geometry through focusing on:
- describe the use of integers in everyday contexts and locate integers on a number line
- locate an ordered pair in any one of the four quadrants on the Cartesian plane
- describe combinations of transformations
- plot coordinates on a Cartesian plane and use logic to determine alternate possibilities
- identify and describe properties of prime, composite, square and triangular numbers
- solve simple problems involving whole numbers using a range of strategies
- demonstrate their thinking and explain their strategy choices
Science
Our Changing World
In this unit, students explore how sudden geological changes and extreme weather events can affect Earth's surface. They consider the effects of earthquakes on Earth's surface
and how communities are affected by these events. They gather, record and interpret data relating to weather and weather events. Students explore the ways in which scientists are assisted by the observations of people from other cultures, including those throughout Asia.
HASS
Students will present arguments for and against federation that explain & relate to the significance of key people, events, institutions, and processes to the development of the Australian nation. They will examine the key figures, events and ideas that led to Australia’s Federation and Constitution. Students will be required to:
- display the abilities to recognise the contribution of individuals and groups to the development of Australian society since Federation
- develop appropriate questions to frame an investigation
- locate, collect and interpret information from primary sources
- sequence information about events and the lives of individuals in chronological order
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.
Technology
Computer Science Fundamentals course blends online and "unplugged" non-computer activities to teach students computational thinking, problem solving, programming concepts and digital citizenship. This unit is designed to extend students learning in the 4 areas of digital technologies:
- digital systems
- data representation
- creating digital solutions
- collaboration and protocols
Using knowledge from previous years to become confident in coding and working with forms of digital technologies within various contexts.
Drama
TheatreSports
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 | Interpreting literacy texts - comprehension response | Written | Week 5 |
Produce letter to the future that evokes a sense of time and place | Written | Week 9 | |
| MATHS | Students describe the use of integers in everyday contexts and locate integers on a number line Students locate an ordered pair in any one of the four quadrants on the Cartesian plane and describe combinations of transformations | Written test | Week 6 |
| Identifying number properties and solving simple problems. They create factor trees They solve simple problems involving whole numbers using a range of strategies. They demonstrate their thinking and explain their strategy choices | Short answer responses | Week 9 | |
| SCIENCE | In this unit, students explore how sudden geological changes and extreme weather events can affect Earth's surface. They consider the effects of earthquakes on Earth's surfaceand how communities are affected by these events. | Written task | Week 5 |
| HASS | Students will present arguments for and against federation that explain & relate to the significance of key people, events, institutions, and processes to the development of the Australian nation. | Written | Week 10 |
| HPE | Over the net (tennis) | Practical | Week 6/7 |
| 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 | Computer Science Fundamentals course blends online and "unplugged" non-computer activities to teach students computational thinking, problem solving, programming concepts and digital citizenship. This unit is designed to extend students learning in the 4 areas of digital technologies:
| Collected work folio/testing and online project | Week 8 of term 1 |
| DRAMA | Theatre Sports | Performing Responding | Week 8/9 |
| MUSIC | 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. | Composing, responding and performing | Week 7-9 |
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