What’s Happening in Grade 6 in Term 3, 2025
In Literacy students will be:
- Identifying the meaning of morphemes in words (e.g. pel = to drive/push, pro = forward. Therefore, propel means push/drive forward).
- Applying spelling rules to a range of vocabulary (eg; the 211 rule).Â
- Demonstrating their comprehension skills through literal and inferential text responses to our Reading unit, British Colonisation in Australia.
- Developing note taking skills utilising abbreviations and symbols.
- Recognising and editing run-on sentences.
- Using a range of editing and revising techniques to publish a piece of writing of varying text types.
- Illustrating a writing piece with consideration of audience, mood and tone of the text.
- Using a range of persuasive devices to create advertisements for a range of purposes and audiences.
In Mathematics students will be:
- Adding and subtracting fractions with unrelated denominators and mixed numbers.
- Finding complementary and supplementary angles and angles at an opposite point.
- Calculating unknown angles.
- Multiplying and dividing decimals by powers of 10.
- Converting between units of measurement for length, mass and capacity.
- Placing negative numbers on a number line and comparing and ordering numbers.
- Reading and plotting coordinates on a Cartesian plane.
- Transforming shapes on a Cartesian plane.
- Creating geometric patterns with transformations, designing algorithms to transform shapes.
- Creating tessellations.
In Inquiry students will be:
- Unpacking goods, services, needs and wants in relation to business and economics.
- Identifying the different types of resources and how they are important for the effective running of businesses.
- Exploring opportunity cost and consumer choices.
- Budgeting for a profitable business that meets the needs and wants of consumers.
Wellbeing
In Term 2, we will continue using the Respectful Relationships program to focus on positive coping strategies, problem solvStudents will be learning about positive coping, problem solving and gender norms and stereotypes through the Respectful Relationships program. We will continue to begin each day positively with a Morning Meeting designed to develop a sense of togetherness withing the classroom as well as provide announcements of key dates and notes.
During our weekly Wellbeing sessions, students will be:
- Identifying a range of coping strategies to help cope with intense emotions.
- Exploring the impact of self-talk on their actions and emotions.
- Devising strategies and plans to assist in completing challenging tasks, making decisions or resolving problems.
- Investigating causes and effects of conflict and practise different strategies to resolve problems.
- Developing respect for rights culture and heritage.
- Understanding what personal and cultural strengths.
- Analysing the impact of peer and adult actions in maintaining or changing contemporary gender norms.
- Developing an awareness of the impact of gender norms on the attitudes and behaviours of those entering adolescence.
- Identifying the standards and associated actions that underpin respectful gender relations.
There will be a continued focus on our SWPBS Expectations as outlined in our whole school matrix.