Year 6 - Term 3 Curriculum Overview 2023

Term 3

Welcome back to Term 3! The students have been re-engaging with their learning after a well-deserved break. Hopefully you all had a chance to recharge and are ready for the second half of the year. Term 3 is a very busy term with lots of events on, including our trip to the reef, 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.

Reef trip - 24th and the 25th of August

Information and forms for the reef trip will be going home towards shortly. 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.

The assessment schedule for Term 3 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.

English

Students will read, view and listen to advertisements in print and digital media. They will understand how language and text features can be combined for persuasive effect. They demonstrate their understanding of advertising texts’ persuasive features through the creation of their own digital brochure about a particular destination as well as a multimodal explanation of their creative and editorial choices. They participate in a panel discussion and answer questions.

Maths

This term, students will perform calculations on decimals including multiplying and dividing by powers of 10. They will solve problems using the order of operations, including multiplication and division problems with both mental and written methods. Students will construct the net of a prism and a pyramid and create the shape using paper. They will make connections between capacity and volume and solve problems involving the length and area of their 3D shape. Students will solve problems using the properties of angles. 

Science

In this unit, students explore the environmental conditions that affect the growth and survival of living things on the Great Barrier Reef. They will gather, record, and interpret observations relating to their investigations while on their reef trip. Students will consider human impacts on the environment and how scientific knowledge can be used to inform personal and community decisions. They will recommend actions to develop environments for native plants and animals. Students will produce a report that will explain the health of the Great Barrier Reef and identify historical and cultural contributions.

HASS

Students will demonstrate an understanding of the diversity of places by representing and interpreting data and information in a variety of forms. They will compare the similarities and differences between Australia and Asia and plot on a map the absolute location of capital cities in Australia and selected countries in Asia. Students will describe and compare human and natural characteristics of Australia and Asia. They will create maps to show the interconnections between Australia & Asian countries and describe these relationships. Students will compare and contrast trends in migration over time. 

HPE

In PE, students in Year 6 will learn how to be physically fit through a fitness unit. In Health, students will explore the feelings, challenges and issues associated with making the transition to secondary school. They will devise strategies to assist them in making a smooth transition.

Drama

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.

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 this unit students will investigate characteristics and properties of a range of materials, systems, components, tools and equipment, and evaluate their suitability for use. They will design a product to meet an identified need or opportunity for wildlife in their local area.

They will explore the role of people in a range of technologies occupations and the tools and techniques they use.

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

Social Emotional Learning/Self-Regulation

The Pause Program will commence in week 6 of this term. Why the Pause approach?

• Pause teaches students the importance of recognising the signals in their body that their brain sends them.
• Pause teaches students the three key parts of the brain that are responsible for thinking, emotions and long term memory.
• Pause empowers students to self-regulate their own behaviour by taking notice and acting on the signals they receive from their brain in a positive way.
• Wellbeiing underpins the way children feel about themselves and how they relate to others.
• Pause improves children’s wellbeing by teaching them about Neuroscience and Mindfulness.

Reading & Spelling

Our school continues to embed a whole school approach to reading and spelling across Prep to Year 6. This involves teaching the reading and spelling demands of the Australian Curriculum, providing students with a systematic synthetic phonics approach and unpacking the Big 6/Science of Reading through engaging and meaningful lessons. Students engage with decodable texts when learning to read and rich authentic texts when reading to learn and continue to use the PLD approach for their spelling and sound focus.

Attendance

How to report an absence: 

Either:

• Text (SMS)* 0428 621 921 (preferred method) *SMS line does not take calls & no emoji’s please SMS any time, with student name, reason for absence and duration.

• Call the absence Line: 4057 1444 (press #1) only available after 8:30 am Leave student name and reason for absence.
• Email: attendance@trinitybeachss.eq.edu.au before 9:30am.

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

Tuckshop

Tuckshop operates daily during the two breaks. Orders can be placed online via FlexiSchools or at the tuckshop on a paper bag. Tuckshop orders are placed in class tuckshop basket before 9am. Miscellaneous items can be purchased over the counter.  Please talk to your child about not giving money away or sharing food.

Contact Information

Contact your child's teacher:

6A - Mr. Jay Dumbleton - jdumb2@eq.edu.au

6B - Ms. Kaylene Collins - kxlai0@eq.edu.au

6C - Miss Kirsten Apelgren - kapel6@eq.edu.au

6D - Mrs Cara Humphries - cjhum0@eq.edu.au

6E - Mr Brent Dornauf - bdorn8@eq.edu.au

6F - Ms Melanie Wilton - mlwil5@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

LOTE - Isabel Ip - ilip0@eq.edu.au