Years 5 & 6 Term 3 Overview
Welcome to Term 3. We hope everyone had a lovely term break and are feeling recharged and ready for learning. We welcome new families to our 5/6 team.
Literacy:
During reading sessions this term, students will be focusing on revising their summary skills and strategies using various texts. We will revise identifying the theme and explore the underlying author’s message within the texts. We will be delving into texts using our background knowledge or experience and adding new information or perspectives to develop new understandings. Within writing students will be focusing on informational reports and explanation texts. An information report will require students to research, summarise or paraphrase the factual information into their own words. With explanation texts students will explore cause and effect, they will research and gather information to answer their questions and describe how things work or happen.
Numeracy:
In Term 3, students will enhance their understanding of the place value system by exploring decimal numbers, connecting decimals with money through budgeting, and learning about percentages and GST. They will also delve into the Location and Transformation units, using grid coordinates to locate positions and describe the movement, investigating translations, reflections, and rotations of shapes, and identifying symmetries. The Cartesian coordinate system will be introduced, focusing on points in all four quadrants.
Inquiry:
In Term 3, our theme is “Get Moving”, which will focus on the Geography and Health units. Our aim is to explore the Olympics, countries, nutrition and mental health. Students will participate in various fitness and mental health activities of their choosing on a weekly basis. These activities will be designed to promote student engagement and their own health and well-being.
Camp:
We are looking forward to our first Year 5/6 camp to Weekaway located in Benloch. This will take place from 2nd Sept to 4th Sept. Please ensure your payments are up to date.
Mayor Visit:
Last term the students were encouraged to investigate and write persuasive letters. At the end of last term some of our students wrote and presented their persuasive letter to the Major of Melton, Cr Kathy Majdlik, regarding their personal opinions as to how to improve their suburb of Thornhill Park. Our major spoke of her role within the Melton Council. She was impressed by the questions our students had asked and their overall behaviour. This term some students received a reply letter from the mayor informing them that their letters will be read in Parliament. We look forward to hearing about this experience and hopefully making an impact in our wonderful community.
