Year 6 Term 2, 2023 Curriculum Overview
Term overview
Welcome to Term 2! We finished last term with an amazing experience on camp and it’s great to see everyone back ready for the term.
Term 2 is a very busy term with lots of events on so it is important that students are at school every 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. These often need replacing each term.
The assessment schedule for Term 2 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.
Important dates:
Swimming – This term Year 6 students are participating in 8 swimming lessons over a 2 week block. Please ensure your child remembers to bring their togs, towels and change of underwear to school on the appropriate days so that they are able to participate in these lessons.
Weeks 3 & 4: 6A, 6B, 6C & 6D
Weeks 5 & 6: 6E, 6F & 5/6A
Reef Trip Dates – 24th and the 25th of August
Information and forms for the reef trip will be going home towards the end of Term 2. We will share further details as it becomes available.
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.
Attendance
Before School
We encourage parents to drop students off to school after 8:30am. If students arrive before this time, they are to sit in the COLA until the 8:30am bell.
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
We are continuing our work with our Structured Synthetic Phonics approach implemented last year. This programs includes:
Reading: Students work in guided reading groups 4 days per week, at similar levels to develop skills of comprehension, fluency and vocabulary. Students are tested at the beginning of each term/end of the term to determine their progress and new guided reading groups.
Spelling: Students work in ability groups with different goals, 4 days per week, developing their spelling skills. Students are tested at the end of each term to determine their progress and new spelling words/groups.
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 HPE, students in year six will continue to perform and combine specialised tennis skills to open up space on the court to win or gain the upper hand within gameplay. They will also develop their technical understanding of athletic activities. They will learn how to set targets and improve their performance in a range of running, jumping and throwing activities in athletics.
Technology
Students are stepping into space in term 2 to explore Life on the Moon and will look at the following aspects:-
- Design a garden for the moon environment.
- Code walkie talkies for astronauts to communicate using a Micro:bit.
- Design a Rocket in Minecraft and also complete Moon Coding Challenges in Minecraft.
- Design and code a Moon Rover using a Sphero.
Visual Art
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.
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.
LOTE - Chinese
In this unit students will use the Chinese language to explore the school experience in Chinese-speaking cultures and make connections with their own school experiences. They will engage in different texts and discuss about school experiences in Chinese. They will also explore and analyse the formation of Chinese characters and sentence structure.
IEC
What a great start we have had in the year 6 IEC class for Term 2.
This term we are focussing on our computer skills and being able to independently log on, access the set class work and having a go completing tasks on our own.
Year 6 students accessing the IEC have been focussing on our school rules - Be Safe, Be Respectful, Be a Learner and what that looks like in the classroom and playground environments. These students are demonstrating that they are responsible and respectful senior students at TBSS and are working hard each day in their classrooms and in the IEC.
The year 6 students have begun Block one swimming and Block 2 will commence from the 15th May. An invitation from Smithfield State High School for their Year 7 Information Session was emailed to parents of children in Years 5 and 6 and is also located in our school newsletter.
I can be contacted on lcroa4@eq.edu.au or in my office in the Inclusive Education Centre (IEC) should you have any further questions or concerns.
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 7 |
| 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 8 |
| SCIENCE | Multi Modal | Week 9 | |
| 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 | Over the Net (Tennis) | Practical Assessment | Ongoing throughout the term |
| 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 | Moon Mission–
Design and code a Moon Rover using a sphero. . | Collected work folio/testing and online project | Week 7 |
| 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. | Performing Responding | Week 8 |
| Visual Art | 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 | Making and responding | Week 8 |
Contact information
Contact your childs teacher via email:
Contact information
Mr. Jay Dumbleton (6A) jdumb2@eq.edu.au
Ms. Kaylene Collins (6B) kxlai0@eq.edu.au
Miss Kirsten Apelgren (6C) kapel6@eq.edu.au
Mrs Cara Humphries (6D) cjhum0@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