Our Grade 5/6 students recently attended camp at YMCA Anglesea, where they embraced activities such as mountain biking, canoeing, team building and the high ropes course. They showed resilience, encouragement and teamwork, making camp a memorable experience for all.

We have commenced Bike Education with Mr King. Students are embracing the activities, learning new skills and developing their knowledge of how to be safe on the road. Thanks to the parents for supporting their children to bring along their bikes and helmets.

In English, students completed a study of Jackie French’s Tom Appleby, Convict Boy by developing information reports and have now begun The Grandest Bookshop in the World by Amelia Mellor with a narrative writing focus. We are working on varying sentence openings, exploring prefixes and morphology, and continuing to build literacy fluency through cursive handwriting, paired reading and comprehension strategies.

In Mathematics, students have been learning about perimeter, area, angles and rounding numbers up to 100,000. Through explicit teaching and hands-on problem solving, they are applying formulas, strengthening number sense and developing confidence in reasoning and collaboration.

In Inquiry, students are investigating electricity by experimenting with circuits and completing research tasks to understand how energy is produced, used and managed safely. Hands-on exploration has encouraged problem solving, curiosity and teamwork.
Through Rights, Responsibilities and Respectful Relationships (RRRR), students have explored problem solving, recognising stress and strategies to manage it. These lessons are helping to build resilience, empathy and respectful relationships both in and out of the classroom.

It’s been a fabulous term of learning and engagement with many events and more still to come including Book Week celebrations, camp, PJ Day and the return of Wheelie Wednesday.

- Miss Dillon