Class Newsletters - Term 1, 2025
Prep
Hello and welcome to Term 1 2025! We trust you had an enjoyable break; we are very excited to begin a wonderful learning journey with our new prep students. This newsletter will outline events that will be occurring this term and remind you of the expectations within our classrooms. We encourage you to keep this newsletter handy so that you can refer to it when needed.
Classroom Teachers
Prep D – Madi Delaforce – mjdel0@eq.edu.au
Prep S – Emma Sinnott – esinn4@eq.edu.au
Prep W – Monique Welch – mewel1@eq.edu.au
Important Dates
Important dates to pop in your calendar for Preps in Term One.
Week 1 – Day: Monday 27th January – Public Holiday, Tuesday 28th January – First Day of School
Week 2 – Day: Swimming Starts
Week 3 – Day: Tuesday 11th February – Chin Wag and Snag Parent Information Afternoon 3:15-4:15pm
Week 8 – Day: All Week - Three Way Meetings
Week 9 – Day: Monday 24th March – Cross Country
Week 10 – Day: Friday 4th April – Last day of Term
Specialist Lessons
Prep students will participate in four specialist lessons across the week, including:
Music – Mrs Alison Murray
PE/Fine and Gross Motor – Mr Luke Brady
Health – Mrs Sheridan Sterling
Prep students also attend Parade and Library Borrowing with class teachers.
Monday – Fine and Gross Motor (All Prep Classes), Parade (All Prep Classes), Library Borrowing (PW, PS)
Tuesday – Library Borrowing (PD)
Wednesday – HPE (PW), Health and Music (PS)
Thursday – HPE (PS), Health and Music (PW, PD)
Friday – HPE (PD)
English
The first term of Prep is all about engaging students in the wonderful world of literacy. Students will be focussing on: oral language development, phonemic awareness skills, speech sounds, name writing, rhyming words, memory, blending and segmenting words, exposure to familiar words – reading and writing, decodable reading, handwriting through Casey the Caterpillar, involvement with quality literature and learning the concepts of print (left to right, use of pictures, top to bottom).
Students will be assessed on their ability to identify connections between texts and their personal experience, the ability to use appropriate interaction skills to listen and respond to others in a familiar environment. Students will understand that their texts can reflect their own experiences and they will attempt to identify and describe likes and dislikes about familiar texts, objects, characters, and events.
Mathematics
Throughout term one in Mathematics, students will sort and classify objects according to size, shape and colour. They will connect and sequence numbers and explore repeating patterns.
Students will be assessed on their ability to sort and group shapes by colour, size and shape.
Humanities and Social Sciences (HASS)
Students will examine personal growth and development, families, relationships, rules and how we fit in to the community. Students will explore familiar places and how to care for them.
Students will be assessed on their ability to relate stories about their past. Students will share and compare observations about familiar places.
Science
Students will use their five senses to observe the weather. They will learn that we can record our observations of the weather by using symbols and drawings. Students will explore the daily and seasonal changes in the local environment and understand that weather conditions are not the same for everyone in all places of the world.
Students will be assessed on how the weather affects them and those around them.
The Arts:
Students will participate in visual art and will explore colours, lines, shapes and textures through different mediums.
Technologies:
Students will explore a variety of design and digital technologies through the term.
Music with Mrs Murray: amurr51@eq.edu.au
Students explore rhymes and songs as stimulus for music making and will explore foundational musical skills including music opposites (high/low, fast/slow, loud/soft).
Will be assessed on:
(a) Demonstrating a steady beat.
(b) Demonstrating their ability to match pitch
Health with Mrs Stirling: sstir16@eq.edu.au
Students will learn to identify and describe different emotions by recognising facial expressions and body language. They will explore the connections between feelings, body reactions, and non-verbal cues.
Assessment will focus on students' ability to interpret facial expressions and body language, and explain how feelings, body reactions, and non-verbal cues are connected.
PE with Mr Brady: lbrad101@eq.edu.au
Prep: Different to previous years where Prep students would spend the first month doing water familiarisation lessons through water play, on the oval, this year we will be doing these lessons at the pool. This will help students to familiarise themselves a lot quicker with the processes we have at the pool. Water familiarisation lessons will include how to safely enter and exit shallow water using methods suitable for the water location. Submerge the body completely underwater and breathe out – blow bubbles. Finally, be able to propel their body continuously for 5 metres.
Assessment: Demonstrate safe entry and exit skills and be able to swim for 5 continuous metres.
Year 1
Welcome to Term 1! Please keep an eye out for information regarding the events listed below in your child’s communication folder. We are looking forward to a great term.
Reminders: School begins at 8.45am. Please ensure students arrive at Girrawheen Place prior to the 8.45am bell so they can have an organised and settled start to the day. Swimming is in Term 1 and 4. 1/2C and 1T are swimming every Thursday and 1R every Friday. Please remember to name all items of clothing including swimming gear.
Classroom Teachers
1/2C - Corrina Cox cxcox5@eq.edu.au
1R - Melissa Ridgway mbayl19@eq.edu.au
1T - Sharon Tew stew2@eq.edu.au
Important Dates
Week 1 – 27 Jan: Public Holiday
Week 3 – 11 Feb: Chin Wag and Snag
Week 8 – 17-21 March:Three-way reporting
Week 9 – 24 March Cross Country
Week 10 – 4 April Last day of term 1
Specialist Lessons
Monday – Religious Instruction, Parade
Tuesday – Motor Skills (all classes), 1T Library borrowing
Wednesday – Music, Health (all classes)
Thursday – 1/2C and 1T Swimming
Friday - 1/2C and 1R Library borrowing, 1R Swimming
Curriculum Focus
Please click here for a very handy overview of what Year 1 students typically learn to understand and do by the end of this year, according to the Australian Curriculum which guides all our learning.
English
Students will be sharing ideas and expressing opinions about a familiar character and their traits.They will also be developing their reading strategies and comprehension skills.
Students will be assessed on how they listen, share and interact with others. They will create spoken texts describing the characters and the plot details.
Mathematics
Students will explore numbers to 120 and create repeating patterns. They will count in twos, fives and tens. Students will invesigate 2-digit numbers and how they are made up. They will give and follow directions. Students will be collecting, representing and interpreting data.
Students will be assessed on completing small tasks involving data, location, direction and number.
Humanities and Social Sciences (HASS)
Students recognise that features of a place can be:
- natural
- managed
- constructed.
They can recognise changes to enviroments and how we can care for them.
Students will be assessed on a folio collection of their work.
Science
Student describe objects and events that they encounter in their everyday lives. They will be investigating the difference between day and night.
Students will be assessed on their description of environmental changes overtime: the changes to an environment between day and night: and their ability to explain their reasoning for these changes.
The Arts
Students use the elements of drama to represent different Australian animals.
Students will be assessed on a portfolio of their work.
Music with Mrs Murray: amurr51@eq.edu.au
Students will identify simple rhythms within songs that include the Crotchet rest (Za). They will use chime bars to play simple 3 and 4 note songs
Will be assessed on:
(a) Playing a melody on the chime bars using Do Mi So La and the rest Za
Students will identify simple rhythms within folk songs that include the Crotchet rest (Za). They will use chime bars to play simple 3 note folk songs.
Will be assessed on:
(a) Playing a melody on the chime bars using Do Mi So and the rest Za.
Physical Education with Mr Brady: lbrad101@eq.edu.au
Students will demonstrate aquatic skills and strokes in a variety of movement sequences and situations. They will perform the recognised strokes of freestyle and backstroke in continuous movement sequences that incorporate the elements of movement: body awareness, effort (flow) and space awareness.
Assessment: Demonstrates aquatic skills (entries and exits) and recognised strokes in swimming sequences and situations. Performs swimming skills sequences that incorporate the elements of movement for the recognised strokes of freestyle or backstroke.
Health with Mrs Stirling: sstir16@eq.edu.au
Students will identify and demonstrate protective behaviours and help-seeking strategies to stay safe. They will explore personal qualities and those of others, understanding how these contribute to developing identities.
Students will be assessed on their ability to identify and describe emotions by interpreting facial expressions and body language. They will also explain the connections between feelings, body reactions, and non-verbal cues.
Year 2
Welcome to Year Two at Runcorn State School. Term One is an exciting term where establishing inquiry-based learning will be our focus. Students will engage in using the learning assets in all curriculum areas. This platform will enable opportunities for critical and creative thinking and reflection as the students become more proficient Researchers, Self-Managers, Thinkers, Collaborators and Communicators.
We look forward to working with you in supporting your child’s education. Please contact us via email if you have any queries, and we will endeavour to respond within 24 working hours.
Classroom Teachers
2/3D - Ms Daglish, email address: mdagl3@eq.edu.au
2M - Ms McIntyre, email address: ecmci0@eq.edu.au
2N - Mrs Deaton, email address: nxdea0@eq.edu.au
1/2C - Ms Cox, email address: cxcox5@eq.edu.au
Important Dates
Week 1 – Day: Public Holiday Monday 27th January
Week 3 – Day: Chin Wag and Snag Tuesday 11th February
Week 8 – Day: Three Way Parent Teacher Interviews
Week 9 – Day: Cross Country
Specialists Lessons
Monday – Religious Instruction or alternative activity (all classes) 2:00-2:30, Parade (all classes) 2:30-3:00.
Tuesday – 2/3D Music 2-2:30, 2M Motor Skills 2:00 - 2:30, 2/3D Motor Skills 10:30 - 11:00,
2N Motor Skills 2:30-3:00, 1/2C Motor Skills 1:00 - 1:30, 2/3D and 2M Library Borrowing 2:30 -3:00
Wednesday – 2N Swimming 12:00 -12:30, 1/2C Music 12:30 - 1:00, 1/2C Health 1:00 - 1:30
Thursday – 2/3D Swimming 10:30 -11:00, 1/2C Swimming 2:00-2:30, 2M Music 12:00-12:30,
2M Health 12:30 - 1:30, 2N Health 12:00 -12:30, 2N Library Borrowing 1:00 - 1:30
Friday - 2M Swimming 1:00-1:30, 2/3D Health 12:30-1:00, 1/2C Library Borowwing 2:00- 2:30
Curriculum Focus
Please click here for a very handy overview of what Year 2 students typically learn to understand and do by the end of this year, according to the Australian Curriculum which guides all our learning.
English
Students will share ideas and exoress opinions about familiar character and their traits.
Students will be assessed by: Reading, viewing and comprehending a familiar story and will present a character to a their peers.
Mathematics
We will be focusing on the following concepts: Numbers to 1000, telling time to the quarter-hour, using a calendar to identify the date and the months included in season, ordering shapes and objects using informal units (length, area, volume, capacity).
Year 1/2C will be focusing on the following concepts: Numbers to 1000, investigating location and direction using maps, chance and data.
Students will be assessed by: Reading and telling time to the quarter hour, identifying the order of the months and seasons, investigating different units of measurement.
Students in 1/2C will be assessed by describing outcomes for everyday events, collecting, organising, representing collected data:They will interpret simple maps of familiar locations and identify the positions of key features.
Humanities and Social Sciences (HASS)
Students will be: Exploring significant places, local communities and connection to places.
Science
Students will investigate the properties of different materials and objects.
Students in 1/2C will investigate the question: Is it important to conserve Earth’s resources? What part do we play? They will investigate Earth's resources.
They will describe how Earth's resources are used and the importance of conserving resources for the future of all living things.
Students will be assessed by: Designing and constructing a container to hold a mixture.
Students in 1/2C will be assessed by: To identify different uses of water and describe ways to conserve it.
The Arts
Students will develop a range of skills within Media and Visual Arts.
Students will be assessed by: Creating and presenting a multi-modal procedure.
Music with Mrs Murray: amurr51@eq.edu.au
Students will use melodic and rhythmic percussion in group ensembles exploring melody, ostinato, beat and dynamics.
Students will be assessed on:
Demonstrating a melodic ostinato and beat in time to a sung melody.
Health with Mrs Stirling: sstir16@eq.edu.au
Students apply protective behaviours and help-seeking strategies to keep themselves and others safe. They explain why health information is important for making choices.
Students will be assessed by describing and demonstrating strategies to keep themselves safe.
Physical Education with Mr Brady: lbrad101@eq.edu.au
Students will demonstrate aquatic skills and strokes in a variety of movement sequences and situations. They will perform the recognised strokes of freestyle and backstroke in continuous movement sequences that incorporate the elements of movement: body awareness, effort (flow) and space awareness
Assessment: Demonstrates aquatic skills (entries and exits) and recognised strokes in swimming sequences and situations. Performs swimming skills sequences that incorporate the elements of movement for the recognised strokes of freestyle or backstroke.
Year 3
Welcome to Year 3 2025! Term 1 is going to be filled with plenty of exciting learning experiences. Soon we will begin working hard to become the best independent and organised workers that we can be. In Year 3, there will be new and exciting routines to help us learn. We are looking forward to speaking with many of you at the
Three-Way Sharing Sessions later this term as we appreciate the learning partnership between school and home. If you have questions, concerns or suggestions, please do not hesitate to get in touch.
Classroom Teachers
2/3D - Madie Daglish mdagl3@eq.edu.au
3A - Sue Anglim sangl1@eq.edu.au
3H - Ken Hoey khoey0@eq.edu.au
Important Dates
Week 1 – Monday: Australia Day Public Holiday; Tuesday: Term 1 begins; Friday: Senior Swimming Carnival
Week 2 – P.E. Swimming begins
Week 3 – Tuesday:'Chin-wag and a snag'- Meet the Teacher Afternoon
Week 7 – NAPLAN
Week 8 – NAPLAN; Three-Way Sharing Sessions
Week 9 – Monday: Cross Country
Week 10 – Friday 4th April: Last day of term
Specialist Lessons
Monday – Religious Instruction, Parade
Tuesday – Junior Choir (All), Motor skills (All), Music (2/3D)
Thursday – Music (3A, 3H), Health (3A, 3H), PE Swimming (2/3D)
Friday - PE Swimming (3A, 3H), Health (2/3D)
Curriculum Focus
Please click here for a very handy overview of what Year 3 students typically learn to understand and do by the end of this year, according to the Australian Curriculum which guides all our learning.
English
Students will engage with a variety of imaginative texts. They will interact with others, and will create multimodal texts and spoken presentations. Students will use language features including topic-specific vocabulary, visual features and features of voice.
Students will create and deliver a multimodal presentation to review an imaginative text.
Mathematics
Students will interpret and create two-dimensional representations of familiar and unfamiliar environments. They conduct guided statistical investigations and record, represent and compare data they have collected.
Students will interpret and create a map. They will collect data to create, interpret and compare data displays including bar graphs and pictographs.
Humanities and Social Sciences (HASS)
Students will identify celebrations and commemorations of the past that have significance in the present.
Students will conduct an inquiry into the significance of Harmony Day and how it is commemorated by different groups. They will pose questions, sequence events on a timeline and identify points of view. Students will identify and describe aspects of the Runcorn State School Community that have changed and remained the same over time.
Science
Students will learn how to group living things and identify the differences between living non-living things.
Students will group living things based on observable features and communicate their ideas using scientific language.
The Arts
Students will investigate Media Arts techniques and concepts to create a variety of animations.
Students will collaborate to plan and make artworks that communicate ideas through the creation of digital animations.
Music with Mrs Murray: amurr51@eq.edu.au
Students will sing, read, play and create part work. Students will study music notation (Pentatonic Scale) and learn music in a variety of different time signatures.
Students will perform a Pentatonic melody on melodic percussion (Xylophone and other tuned percussion).
Health with Mrs Stirling: sstir16@eq.edu.au
Students will explore and apply protective behaviours and help-seeking strategies in various online and offline situations, investigate actions that promote health, safety, relationships, and wellbeing, and examine how success, challenges, and setbacks build resilience and identity. They will also analyse how stereotypes influence choices and actions.
Student assessment will focus on their ability to demonstrate protective behaviours, apply help-seeking strategies, assess actions that promote health and wellbeing, reflect on how resilience and identity are shaped by challenges, and critically analyse the impact of stereotypes on choices and actions.
PE with Mr Brady: lbrad101@eq.edu.au
Students will practise and refine fundamental movement skills to perform various aquatic skills and the recognised strokes of freestyle, backstroke and breaststroke in multiple swimming sequences.
Students perform aquatic skills and recognised swimming strokes to complete swimming stroke sequences.
Year 4
Welcome to 2025! We hope it will be a fantastic year of new discoveries, curiosity, friendship and memory-making. We encourage Year 4 students to be lifelong learners using the Learning Assets of Researching, Communicating, Collaborating, Self-Managing and of course Thinking. We will especially encourage students to take "safe risks" with their learning - after all, mistakes are a chance to learn! There are some special Term 1 treats like Swimming lessons in PE to relieve the summer heat and the students’ first Japanese Language classes. These will be great opportunities for students to step outside their comfort zones.
We hope you will join us in Week 3 for an informal "snag and chinwag" (sausage sizzle and chat) to get to know us and learn about the year ahead. We warmly invite you to contact us with any questions or feedback as we begin this new learning partnership between home and school.
Classroom Teachers
4K - Miss Beth Krause (she/her) - bckra0@eq.edu.au
4R - Ms Amber Ryan (she/her) - axrya6@eq.edu.au
4C - Mrs Regan Cunningham (she/her) - rcunn44@eq.edu.au
Important Dates
Week 1 – Monday 27/01/25 Public Holiday; Tuesday 28/01/25 First Day of Term 1;
Friday 31/01 Senior Swimming Carnival
Week 3 – Tuesday 11/02/25 Parent Information Session;
Wednesday 12/02/25 District Swimming Carnival (select students only)
Week 8 – Three-Way Reporting; Friday 21/03/25 Harmony Day
Week 9 – Monday 24/03/25 Cross Country
Week 10 – Friday 04/04/25 Last Day of Term 1
Specialists Lessons
Monday - Japanese with Nagashima Sensei; Religious Instruction 2pm; Parade 2.30pm
Tuesday - Japanese with Nagashima Sensei; Music with Mrs Murray
Wednesday - Library Borrowing (4C, 4K)
Thursday - Physical Education (Swimming) with Mr Brady
Friday - Health with Mrs Stirling; Library Borrowing (4R)
Curriculum Focus
Please click here for a very handy overview of what Year 4 students typically learn to understand and do by the end of this year, according to the Australian Curriculum which guides all our learning.
English
How do texts teach us?
Students will be assessed on their reading comprehension of an information text; and their use of ideas, linking devices and language features when creating their own multimodal informative text.
Mathematics
How does mathematics help us make sense of our world?
Students will be assessed on a range of mathematical achievement standards, namely:
-Using mathematical modelling to solve financial problems; choosing rounding and estimation strategies; and using the properties of odd and even numbers
-Identifying line and rotational symmetry in plane shapes; and creating symmetrical patterns
-Creating and interpreting grid references
-Conducting a statistical investigation to collect data; creating a many-to-one data display; and interpretating and communicating findings.
Humanities and Social Sciences (HASS) with Miss Krause
How are people and the environment interconnected?
Students will be assessed on their ability to research how places across the world have diverse characteristics, and to use questioning and investigation skills to respond to a sustainability issue.
Science with Ms Ryan
Do humans help or harm other living things?
Students will be assessed on their ability to research the life cycles and needs of living things in a certain ecosystem, and to explain the effects of human actions on these species’ lives.
The Arts (Visual Arts) with Mrs Cunningham
What makes a visual artwork unique?
Students will create artworks and be assessed on their ability to compare and discuss the elements and processes in their own visual artworks in comparison to the artworks of others.
Music with Mrs Murray amurr51@eq.edu.au
Students develop skills in reading notation, recorder/ukulele technique and ensemble playing.
Students will sing, read and play a variety of repertoire in different forms.
Students will be assessed on their ability to play a 4-note melody piece on recorder.
Health with Mrs Stirling sstir16@eq.edu.au
Students will explore and apply protective behaviours and help-seeking strategies in various online and offline situations; investigate actions that promote health, safety, relationships, and wellbeing; and examine how success, challenges, and setbacks build resilience and identity. They will also analyse how stereotypes influence choices and actions.
Student assessment will focus on their ability to demonstrate protective behaviours; apply help-seeking strategies; assess actions that promote health and wellbeing; reflect on how resilience and identity are shaped by challenges; and critically analyse the impact of stereotypes on choices and actions.
Physical Education with Mr Brady: lbrad101@eq.edu.au
Students will explore and practice protective behaviours and help-seeking strategies for online and offline situations. They will also analyse how behaviours affect health, safety, relationships, and community wellbeing, and investigate resources to manage changes and transitions.
Students will be assessed on their ability to explore, practice, and apply protective behaviours and help-seeking strategies in various situations, analyse the impact of behaviours on health, safety, relationships, and community wellbeing, and demonstrate understanding of resources to manage changes and transitions.
Year 5
Welcome to Year 5 2025 at Runcorn State School. This is an exciting term where establishing inquiry-based learning will be our focus. Students will engage in the learner assets in all curriculum areas. This platform will enable opportunities for critical and creative thinking and reflection as the students become more proficient Researchers, Self-Managers, Thinkers, Collaborators and Communicators. This helpful website provides a snapshot of the curriculum covered within this inquiry process.
https://www.australiancurriculum.edu.au/parent-information/
We look forward to working with you in supporting your child’s education. Please contact us via email if you have any queries.
Classroom Teachers
5S Alicia Smith asmit1340@eq.edu.au
5C Kylie Cramb klcra2@eq.edu.au
5/6M Jenni McNamara jmcna155@eq.edu.au
Important Dates
Week 1 – Day: Monday 27 Jan: Australia Day Public Holiday, Friday 31 Jan: Swimming Carnival
Week 3 – Day: Tuesday 11 Feb: Chin Wag n' Snag
Week 5 – Day: Monday 24 Feb: You Can Do It Parade
Week 7 – Day: Wednesday 12 March to Friday 14 March: NAPLAN
Week 8 – Day: Monday 17 March to Friday 21 March: NAPLAN,
Monday 17 March to Friday 21 March: Three-Way Interviews
Week 9 – Day: Monday 24 March: Cross Country, Wednesday 26 March to Friday 28 March: Year 5 Camp
Week 10 – Day: Monday 31 March: You Can Do It Parade
Specialists Lessons
Monday – Japanese with Nagashima Sensei (5C and 5/6M), Parade at 2.30pm
Tuesday – Japanese with Nagashima Sensei; Music with Ms Murray
Wednesday – Physical Education (Swimming) with Mr Brady
Thursday – Health with Ms Stirling (5C and 5S)
Friday - Health with Ms Stirling (5/6M)
Curriculum Focus
Please click here for a very handy overview of what Year 5 students typically learn to understand and do by the end of this year, according to the Australian Curriculum which guides all our learning.
English
Students will study a variety of informative texts.
Students will explore choice of language in informative contexts as they read, view and comprehend a chosen informative text. They will explain how and why the author has used language, text and visual features for a purpose.
Students create their own multimodal informative text for an audience. They will use appropriate language features and meaningful text structures that incorporate multimodal elements.
Mathematics
Students will Students will develop a range of mathematical understandings with a focus on multi-digit addition and subtraction as well as single-digit multiplication and division. Space, coordinates, statistics and data will also be investigated.
Students will complete three assessment pieces.
1. Finding unknowns in equations involving multiplication and division, and check the reasonableness of calculations.
2. Planning and conducting statistical investigations to collect, represent and interpret data.
3. Performing and describing transformation of shapes, identify symmetries and use grid coordinates
Science with Miss Smith
Students will analyse the structural features and behavioural adaptations that assist living things to survive in their environment. Students will understand that science involves using evidence and comparing data to develop explanations. Students will investigate the relationships between the factors that influence how plants and animals survive in their environments.
Students will complete the following assessment:
Create a creature that will survive in specific habitats.
Students will create a creature and describe the structural and behavioural adaptations and analyse how they help their creature to survive in its environment. Students will communicate ideas in a variety of ways including multimodal texts.
Humanities and Social Sciences (HASS) with Mrs Cramb
Students will explore how people and the environment influence each other to create a place.
Students will demonstrate their understanding by investigating the characteristics of two distant places and making informed conclusions about their preferred place to live.
Music with Mrs Murray amurr51@eq.edu.au
Students will develop repertoire for the End of Year Concert.
Students will be assessed on:
Students ability to contribute to, rehearse and perform as part of the Year level Cohort for the End of Year Concert will be observed.
Health with Mrs Stirling: sstir16@eq.edu.au
Students will explore and practice protective behaviours and help-seeking strategies for online and offline situations. They will also analyse how behaviours affect health, safety, relationships, and community wellbeing, and investigate resources to manage changes and transitions.
Students will be assessed on their ability to explore, practice, and apply protective behaviours and help-seeking strategies in various situations, analyse the impact of behaviours on health, safety, relationships, and community wellbeing, and demonstrate understanding of resources to manage changes and transitions.
Physical Education with Mr Brady: lbrad101@eq.edu.au
Students will develop swimming strokes and lifesaving skills.
Students will perform freestyle, backstroke, breaststroke and survival backstroke. They will combine lifesaving skills, movement concepts and strategies to complete lifesaving skills.
Japanese with Sensai Nagashima
Students will use language to explore the concept of Japanese writing system.
· Types of Japanese writing-Hiragana/katakana/kanji
· Romaji is used some situations
· Reading and writing hiragana
· Write own name in Katakana
· Japanese zodiac
Students will be assessed on:
a) Notebook work (being assessed during Term2)
b) Reading test-hiragana book
c) Comprehension test-Japanese writing system
Year 6
Welcome to an exciting final year at Runcorn State School for the students in Year 6.
School starts at 8:45 and students will meet in Girraween Place. After lunch breaks, Year 6 students will assemble on the basketball court, 6M next to the sports room side, 6J in the middle and 6F on the Japanese room side. On the first bell get a drink and go to the toilet. On second bell students line up quietly in their class group ready for their teacher to collect them. It is also expected all students, as leaders of the school, will be in correct school uniform every day.
The year will present some great challenges both in the curriculum and personally for all students and we encourage everyone to participate in as many activities as they can. As well as some excursions to support the curriculum, students will be invited to attend the Year 6 Camp to Canberra, perform leadership roles including House Captains and Student Council, actively participate in the Buddy program that supports our Prep students, as well as many sporting opportunities, all culminating in our end of year Graduation Ceremony in December.
If you have any concerns please contact us via email.
Classroom Teachers
5/6M: Jenni McNamara jmcna155@eq.edu.au
6J: Shena Jarvis sjarv3@eq.edu.au
6F: Adam France afran172@eq.edu.au
Important Dates
Week 1 – Monday January 27, Australia Day holiday, Friday January 31, Swimming Carnival
Week 2 – Monday February 3, Student Induction Parade
Week 3 – Tuesday February 11 Chin Wag and Snag, Wednesday February 12 District Swimming
Week 8 – Three Way Meetings
Week 9 – Monday March 24, Cross Country
Week 10 – Monday March 31, Back Up Country
Specialist Lessons
Monday – Japanese 5/6M, 6F, 6J, Religious Instruction, Parade
Tuesday – Japanese 5/6M, 6F, 6J,
Wednesday – Music 6F, 6J, PE 5/6M, Health 6F, 6J
Friday – PE 6F, 6J, Health 5/6M
Curriculum Focus
This year has seen Year 6 students learn all about change and how they can adapt to the changes ahead. Term 4 will focus on supporting students so they are well prepared for their high school journey.
Term 4 Learning
English
This term Year 6 students will study a range of short stories focusing on character development through conflict before writing their own short story.
Students will be assessed on a writing a narrative justifying their editing.
Mathematics with Mr France and Mrs McNamara
Cartesian Plane
Number and place value working in millions
Fractions and decimals
Chance and data representation and interpretation.
Students will be assessed on various assessment tasks based on the topics above.
HASS (Humanities and Social Sciences) with Mirs Jarvis and Mrs McNamara
This term Year 6 students will look at how and why Australia became a Nation 1800s – 1999 and how those changes occurred.
Students will be assessed on a portfolio of work which includes a report on the Significance of Henry Parkes.
Science with Mrs Jarvis and Mrs McNamara
This term students will Learning through inquiry. The changing states of matter and looking at recycling as one of those changes. Is it reversible or irreversible? Exploring, planning and constructing fair tests.
Students will be assessed on practical experiments
The Arts with Mr France and Mrs McNamara
Students will be assessed on their individual yearbook page and Excel Spreadsheet Project.
Health with Mrs Stirling: sstir16@eq.edu.au
Students will explore and practice protective behaviours and help-seeking strategies for online and offline situations. They will also analyse how behaviours affect health, safety, relationships, and community wellbeing, and investigate resources to manage changes, transitions and puberty.
Students will be assessed on their ability to explore, practice, and apply protective behaviours and help-seeking strategies in various situations, analyse the impact of behaviours on health, safety, relationships, and community wellbeing, and demonstrate understanding of resources to manage changes and transitions.
Japanese with Sensai Nagashima
Students use language to explore cities and sightseeing spots in Japan.
They will:
- Learn transports used in Japan, currency and time
- Explore cities and what they are famous for.
Students will be assessed on:
- Notebook work (being assessed during Term2)
- Speaking/writing test- Plan and present a Japan trip
Music Year 5/6 and 6 Term 1 & 2 with Mrs Murray amurr51@eq.edu.au
Students will learn about The Blues and create a whole class arrangement of a Blues Song with opportunity for improvisation.
Students will listen to, play and analyse a variety of music based on the 12 Bar Blues Progression, using voice, instruments and demonstrating an understanding of the musical elements. Year 5 students will develop their skills in reading ukulele tablature and notation.
Will be assessed on (Term 1 continuing into Term 2):
(a) Composing lyrics for a whole class Blues Song (lyrics) and arranging this song for performance
(a) Performing the class blues song demonstrating improvisation and part work
(b) Responding to Music (written task)
Physical Education with Mr Brady: lbrad101@eq.edu.au
Years 6: Students will develop swimming strokes and lifesaving skills
Assessment: Students will perform freestyle, backstroke, breaststroke and survival backstroke. They will combine lifesaving skills, movement concepts and strategies to complete lifesaving scenarios.