Category: Year 6
2020 Athletics Carnival Results
Recycling services resume
Just a reminder to all families, that our Year 6 Environmental Committee offer the following recycling services to our school community.
Greenbatch
Greenbatch Foundation partners with schools allowing students to collect their old PET plastic bottles through recycling, providing PET which is used in research and development for 3D printer filament. By recycling through Greenbatch we can save plastic from entering landfills, oceans and waste incinerators.
As from Term 3, our green and purple Greenbatch bins will return to the undercover area on Wednesday mornings. You are very welcome and encouraged to bring in your HDPE 2 and PET 1 plastics. PET plastic is the type found in drink bottles and food packaging such as strawberry punnets or peanut butter jars, and has the number 1 inside the recycling symbol.
Battery Recycling
We will also continue to offer our battery collection. The yellow battery bin will be placed out in the undercover area on Wednesday morning along with the Greenbatch bins. Please bring along your unwanted batteries and place them in the bin. Once the bin is 3/4 full we contact the City of Gosnells and the batteries are taken away for recycling.
If you bring your batteries or plastics to school on any other day you will find yellow battery bin in the undercover area and the purple Greenbatch bins parked up by Learning Hub.
Thank you for your continuing support and to our students for their efforts at contributing towards the health of the planet by conducting these recycling projects.
Some research with Miss Schultz
In Geography this term we have been studying the Earth, it’s continents and now we are taking a closer look at some countries.
Throughout the last two weeks in 6B students were given a continent in which they needed to choose a country they wanted to learn more about. In pairs they were given a research task to compose investigation questions and use the internet to find answers to those questions.
As part of this task students were taught about plagiarism and how to correctly reference someone else’s work and turn it into their own words.
Once the research was complete students were then asked to plan, draft and edit an individual information report on their country. Below you can see some snippets of the research process and students composing their drafts.
Parents, you can look forward to seeing some very professional final copies in our Virtual Open Night!
Last chance to vote for St Emilie’s
Just a reminder – if you haven’t entered your vote for St Emilie’s Bush Forever Journey, please get your vote in soon as voting closes this Sunday.
St Emilie’s Catholic Primary School has submitted an entry in this year’s Quality Catholic Education Awards. Many other schools throughout WA have also submitted entries – approximately 80 in total.
Our schools entry is called the St Emilie’s Bush Forever Journey. It documents some of the learning opportunities that have taken place in our bushland setting over a long period of time 2013 – to the present. In our submission we have included two statements (100 words and 500 words) as well as supporting documents (web posts, learning plans and Open Night displays) about our journey.
This year there is a People’s Choice Award so we are encouraging all our families to vote for St Emilie’s. Please click on this link and you will be taken to the nomination page.
Part of our submission includes a video which you can view by following this link.
St Emilie’s Bush Forever Journey
Thank you for entering your vote.
Voting closes 20 September 2020.
House Athletics Carnival Year 3 to 6 2020
House Field Events Timetable Friday 11th September 2020
Friday 11th September 2020
House Field Events Timetable
Can all children in Years 4 to 6 please wear their House Tops for the day.
Year 4: 9am to 10.20am
Year 5: 11am to 12.20pm
Year 6: 1.20pm to 2.40pm
Families are welcome to attend but are reminded to please observe the State Government Phase 4 COVID guidelines and physical distancing, good hygiene and the 2 square metre rule.
Disco Arrangements for this afternoon / evening
Dear Families,
Below are the options you have in regards to the K-2 and the Yr 3-6 disco this afternoon/evening.
Please note that we are striving to have the least number of parents on site as possible at any one time. If you are dropping/collecting your child from the classroom, there should only need to be one parent per family and you are asked to please be mindful of social distancing. Yr 3-6 parents are encouraged to use drive through.
Thanks everyone – we are sure that it will be a lovely night for the children. Kirsten Devereux and her team have done a really wonderful job organising this event and on your behalf I sincerely thank them for all their hard work!
We are crossing fingers and toes that rain won’t be a factor tonight 🙂
PP GRID Term 3 Week 4 & 5
Geometry: ANGLES
In Maths we have been learning about angles. We first revised the different types of angles: actute, right, obtuse, straight, reflex and revolution and how to identify them using their specific characteristics and measurements in degrees.
We then moved onto learning about parallel and perpendicular lines and complementary and supplementary angles.
The activity to show our understanding has been to make a creative angles poster using a variety of images and even our smiling flexible bodies!
Learning Outcomes:
As a result of studying this topic, students are now able to:
• recognise angles in terms of rotation
• classify and describe angles
• describe the various angle types in terms of degrees
• relate angles to shape
• name an angle
• identify and name parallel and perpendicular lines, vertical and horizontal lines