Year 6 News – Week 3

May 15, 2020
Tahni Green
· Uncategorized · Year 6 · Year 6 Blue · Year 6 Gold

EXTRA EXTRA – Year 6 Update

Please click the link below for our weekly update. Here you will find out all about our exciting new class novel and the great discussions and creative tasks that our study has lead to so far.

CLICK HERE – Year 6 News – Week 3

We would also like to take this opportunity to say a very big THANK YOU to all of the wonderful parents who have supported their children while working from home. Whether this term or last, we know that while your wonderful children are very capable and independent learners, it is another job to add to your never ending list.

Year 6 – Week 2 – We are Wonders

Please click the link below to see our ‘WONDER’ ful Week 2 – You’ll find photos, messages and links to our own precepts or favourite quotes!

CLICK HERE – Week 2 – We are Wonders

HAPPY MOTHER’S DAY TO OUR WONDERFUL MUMS

Year 6 – Term 2 Update 2020

Literacy – Novel Study

Continuing with our novel study Wonder by R.J. Palacio we have been exploring the many themes the book portrays. The book shares the themes of friendship, family, tolerance and appearance and many more. However the main theme that stands out against the others is the theme of KINDNESS. Kindness features prominently in this novel, as many of Auggie’s struggles in life are linked to the unkind responses of others. The students along with Auggie and his fellow students have learned important lessons about how essential kindness truly is. There are quite a few different book covers for the book on the shelf already but take a look at the new and improved covers made by some of us in class.

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Numeracy – Multiplication strategies

In numeracy the we are learning about the inverse relationship between multiplication and division. We have been practising our multiplication skills by playing card games and completing mental maths activities in the hope to improve our speed and accuracy of our times tables and other maths facts. Working out sums and equations mentally is much faster! Here our some examples on the 3 strategies we are focusing on: doubling and halving, the split and compensation.

Religion – Choices and Consequences

In Religion we have been looking at all the choices we make every single day and how these choices can have consequences. Some of our choices have positive consequences and some have some negative consequences. Hear some of the choices students could make and the consequences that might follow.

Choose to sleep in – be late for school.

Choose to have a pet – feed and take care of it.

Choose to ride a bike/scooter with no helmet – injure ourselves.

Choose to play a game that has been banned at school – miss out on recess and lunch altogether.

We have learnt that the older we get the harder our choices become. Some of the challenging choices we might have to make in the future are…

Daisy – ‘Deciding what job to do and deciding how to spend your money.’

Nina – ‘What to study and which university to go to.’

Taylah – ‘Where I’d like to travel.’

Mya – ‘Who to marry and when to start a family.’

Ethan – ‘Where to live and what house buy.’

Nicholas – ‘To be your own boss and have your own business or work for someone else.’

ANZAC DAY – Story reflection

During World War I in France, a young Kiwi soldier who misses his family strikes up a friendship with a little bantam hen (Bertha), a friendship which brings comfort to him and his fellow soldiers. We read the story of The Bantam and the Soldier and responded to some questions based on the story. Afterwards we wrote a ‘feel good’ news article story about this story of hope in times of war.

Similar to what we are going through now… one day soon we will all be back together we just have to have HOPE! Until then look after yourselves, have a go at the learning opportunities and give your best effort to all that you do!

Wherever you are, keep working hard and doing your best work! We miss the faces of our friends who are working from home and we hope to see you soon. In the meantime make the most of this opportunity to take responsibility for your learning and look forward to the day when we can be working back together as a complete Year Six team.

Year 6 PP Grid – Weeks 7 & 8

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Target Number

One of our favourite ‘open ended’ mental maths tasks in Six Blue is Target Number! Each day we are given a target number on the board and we then have five minutes to come up with as many ways of making this target number as possible. We are encouraged to try using all the operations, indices, brackets, square numbers and anything we know really.

After a few days we calculate the average number of sums we create in the time limit and give our sums a difficulty rating out of ten. One being very simple sums and ten being very difficult. With our average and degree of difficulty, we then set ourselves a goal. This goal may be writing more sums than our average in the set time, without decreasing the level of difficulty. Or, it may be increasing the level of difficulty, but still aiming for our average number of sums. All of our goals vary, but these two are common examples.

We always share lots of examples on the board, to check each others working as well as applaud each others clever ideas. Here is an example of some of our work.

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Working Together in 6B

What a busy first three weeks we have had! It’s hard to believe we are in week four already!

To start the year we spent some time working as a team to develop our ‘Class Code of Conduct’ which we have aligned with the ‘Four Core Values’ of our school.

We will RESPECT each other

We will build WELL-BEING

We will create a SAFE ENVIRONMENT

We will strive for EXCELLENCE

Together we have come up with an extensive list of what it will look like in our classes if we are striving to uphold these values.

We need to work together to be the best leaders that we can be.

We’ve also had fun working on some team challenges. We’ve learned that we need to be good communicators, compromise, take on different roles and encourage each other to tackle problems effectively as a team.

Year 6 PP Grid – Weeks 4 & 5

February 25, 2020
Tahni Green
· Uncategorized · Year 6 · Year 6 Blue · Year 6 Gold

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Yr 6 PP Grid Week 2&3

Dear Families,

Please find the PP Grid for Week 2 & 3 below:

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Students have been given a printed copy of the grid for their homework folders.

Students will also have a printed copy of , but it can also be found here

100 things every kid should do before they leave St Emilie’s.

Have a great week!

Learning About St. Emilie’s History

This week we started to talk about what St. Emilie’s Primary School might have been like in the past. We made some predictions and shared some things that we already knew.

We thought our school was somewhere between 17 & 30 years old.
We know there were different teachers
We know there were different house colours
We know that the school has changed a lot

Next, we invited some special guests from Year Four to share the research that they have been doing and to share the interviews they conducted with significant members of the St. Emilie’s community.

Wow! We discovered SO many things that we didn’t know and even found it hard to imagine about the St. Emilie’s of the past.

We are looking forward to sharing our findings with you on Open Night!

St Emilie’s Dance Troupe

As you know our amazing St Emilie’s Dance Troupe performed last Friday, at the Perth Convention Centre, in the Catholic Schools Performing Arts Festival Creative Dance section.

We have been awarded a certificate of merit for the outstanding performance. The students should all be so proud, as we are, of their hard work for the many weeks rehearsing after school as well as their brilliant performance.

And here it is…enjoy!

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