Wow! Who can believe we are about to begin the final term of 2025. We are so excited to make amazing memories with the Graduating Class of 2025. This term will be very busy with our sports day, Grandparents Day and of course Graduation in the final week of school. It is such a great time where we get to remember and celebrate our wonderful students.
Transition Information
Currently the Grade 6 Teachers are completing handover forms for our students. This information is provided to their Secondary School to support transition. Some of the students may have a visit from a member of staff from their school as a way of connecting and having a familiar face on Transition Day. All Government Schools will have their transition day on Tuesday 9th of December. Students will spend the entire day at their school for 2025. Non-Government Schools may have different dates. If this impacts your child, could you please communicate with your child’s teacher information about the date they will be attending.
We will be building on our Term 3 transition (PTV incursion and City excursion) activities and students will participate in rotating activities. Areas of focus will include reading a timetable, taking correct items to classes and working with different teachers and students.
Graduation
Information about Graduation was sent home at the end of Term 3. Please keep your eyes out on Compass for costing information in relation to our Ceremony and Excursions that will take place in the final week of school. We can’t wait to celebrate our amazing students.
Reading and Viewing
This term students will be making links with Writing and STEAM in Reading and Viewing sessions through the exploration of memoirs and descriptive texts. We also will be studying point of view and how different authors present ideas in writing. Students will continue to use independent material to practice skills during the Reader’s Workshop. We also are looking forward to completing our current texts in Book Clubs.
Writing
Students will continue to utilise the Writer's Workshop for the first part of Term 4, focussing on text types that will include forming arguments and presenting them in debating context and creating written descriptions that will assist their STEAM projects. Consolidating their understanding of sentence types and how commas are used to make complex sentences will lead into creating personal recounts for the Yearbook and recording their memories over their Primary School journey. Students will use digital technologies to develop editing, proof reading and spelling skills in preparation for future learning.
Mathematics
In Term 4, our students will take part in practical and engaging maths lessons designed to build key skills for high school and beyond.
They will add and subtract fractions, solve problems involving decimals, fractions, and percentages, and tackle real-world financial challenges. They will apply the properties of angles to solve problems, identify parallel cross-sections of prisms, and work out missing numbers in equations by following the correct order of operations. Students will also explore rules used to create growing patterns and learn to make sense of information in the news, discussing what it means and showing how likely things are to happen using fractions, decimals, or percentages. All of these topics will be taught in rich, real-world contexts to prepare your child for success in school and life.
Integrated Our Grade 6 students are exploring an exciting science unit all about change in the kitchen! Through fun, hands-on experiments like making honeycomb and testing mixtures, they will be investigating how everyday ingredients transform when mixed, heated or frozen. Working in small groups, students are making predictions, observing changes, and reflecting on their discoveries.
STEAM
One of the highlights for our Grade 6 students is the STEAM project, where they tackle a real-world problem in teams. They’ll research, design a solution, build a prototype, and present their ideas. It’s always inspiring to see their creativity and teamwork shine! Parents will be able to view the students' work on the afternoon of Thursday 5th of December from 3:30- 4:15pm and Friday 6th of December from 8:30- 9:00pm. Make sure to save the dates in the diary.
Looking forward to a wonderful term. Our doors are always open, and we can be contacted via email or Dojo. We appreciate all the support we get from our families.
Many thanks, Lisa, Nick, Claire and Deb.
Term 4 Newsletter
