Grade 6
Year 6 at Maiden Gully has recently been described by parents as a rite of passage, where traditions are maintained and there are diverse leadership opportunities for all seniors.
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Term 2, 2018
This term our students are exploring what it means to be healthy, both physically and emotionally. Throughout the term, students will be learning about the different systems in their body and how they work. Students will be encouraged to consider how they make healthy and unhealthy choices and investigate the impact of how these behaviours affect their body, mind and overall health. In reading, students will continue to expand our ability to draw inferences, synthesise information and justify our ideas with information texts. Students are being encouraged to cite evidence and examples to support their ideas as they connect more deeply to the texts they read. Reading assessments and conferences will be occurring and student learning goals will continue to be communicated. In writing, we begin with a short, fun look at poetry and then extend into information reports. Research, the ability to paraphrase and cite resources are an integral component of our writing this term. Weekly spelling continues to follow the parts of speech and explore the role (and rules) around words in sentences, e.g. adding -ly to create an adverb. Mathematics begins with operating with decimal numbers across the four processes of addition, subtraction, multiplication and division. Students will be encouraged to continue to use their number sense to round and estimate their answers first and consider what a reasonable answer might look like. We branch off into using decimal numbers and converting between units of measure. Students will explore prisms, pyramids and angles. Finally, we will explore the many ways we can represent and interpret data sets. It will be an exciting term as Year 6 begin work on our school production and the secondary transition process begins. |
Sharing our Rap Battles as part of our exploration of poetry.
Our 2018 student leaders are:
School Captains: Alastar L and Charli P School Vice Captains: Kai A and Charlotte W Student Government Representatives: Sasha S, Connor E, Willow S, Harrison P, Isabel B, Tyler R, Catelyn G and Jesse O. House Captains: Fraser Captain – Kep T and Jorja C Vice – Patty D and Madi B Bradman Captain – Lachie S and Aasha E Vice – Max R and Vada-Rose B Norman Captain – Natalie W and Charlie C Vice- Sophie L and Nick B Laver Captain – Lahni C and Jorden D Vice – Madi V and Jye C |
At Maiden Gully Primary School, our learning space employs David Thornburg’s three main learning spaces— the campfire, cave, and watering hole.
Team Teaching- we use a Team Teaching model in Year 6. Our students will share the same space, moving between different learning areas in our Year 6 Den, as their individualised tasks require. At Maiden Gully we aim to modify the curriculum and activities to suit individuals, and the movement and choice in learning spaces is an extension of this.
The campfire is a space where people gather to learn from an expert. In the past, wise elders passed down insights through storytelling, and in doing so replicated culture for the next generation. Today, the experts are not only teachers and guest speakers, but also students empowered to share their learning.
The watering hole is an informal space where peers can share information and discoveries, acting as both learner and teacher. This shared space can serve as an incubator for ideas and can promote a sense of shared culture.
The cave is a private working space where an individual can think, reflect, and transform learning from external knowledge to internal belief.
Personalising Instruction- This construct of learning spaces allows teachers to adapt learning to meet the needs of students with personalized and structured instruction, whilst enabling students to explore different modes of learning with guidance.
Team Teaching- we use a Team Teaching model in Year 6. Our students will share the same space, moving between different learning areas in our Year 6 Den, as their individualised tasks require. At Maiden Gully we aim to modify the curriculum and activities to suit individuals, and the movement and choice in learning spaces is an extension of this.
The campfire is a space where people gather to learn from an expert. In the past, wise elders passed down insights through storytelling, and in doing so replicated culture for the next generation. Today, the experts are not only teachers and guest speakers, but also students empowered to share their learning.
The watering hole is an informal space where peers can share information and discoveries, acting as both learner and teacher. This shared space can serve as an incubator for ideas and can promote a sense of shared culture.
The cave is a private working space where an individual can think, reflect, and transform learning from external knowledge to internal belief.
Personalising Instruction- This construct of learning spaces allows teachers to adapt learning to meet the needs of students with personalized and structured instruction, whilst enabling students to explore different modes of learning with guidance.