English

This term Year 6 students will engage with a wide variety of informative texts such as reports, reviews, procedures, expositions, explanations, discussions, biographies and autobiographies by Australian and world authors including Aboriginal people and Torres Strait Islander people, and texts from and about Asia.

Students will explore a variety of print, digital, and film texts with a wide range of technical information and topics which may include topics of interest to students and topics being studied in other curriculum subjects.

Students create a written and multimodal informative text.

Mathematics with Mr France and Mrs McNamara

• Order of operations
• Problem solving
• Prime and composite numbers
• Budgeting
• Timetables and planning an itinerary

HASS (Humanities and Social Sciences) with Mirs Jarvis and Mrs McNamara

This term Year 6 students will explore the following inquiry questions:

What does it mean to be an Australian citizen?

 How have experiences of democracy and citizenship differed between groups over time and place, including those from and in Asia?

Students will be assessed on a portfolio that investigates the rights and responsibilities of Australian citizens today and the experiences of Australian democracy and citizenship for different groups in the past.

Science with Mrs Jarvis and Mrs McNamara

This term students will investigate electrical circuits as a means of transferring and transforming electricity.

Students will be assessed on practical experiments.

The Arts with Mr France and Mrs McNamara

This term students will explore Pop Art.

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
• Explore cities and what they are famous for.
• Extended hiragana learning

Students will be assessed on:

1. Notebook work (being assessed during Term2)
2. 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

Year 6: Students will spend the term focusing on each of the field events they will be undertaking as part of the Senior School Athletics Carnival.  These include, long jump, shot put, javelin, discus and high jump.  There will also be a focus on sprinting technique as part of their running lessons. 

Assessment: will determine how each student applies the correct technique application of the field event disciplines.