Yr 6 News  

At the moment every student is working hard on their Science task of completing a model with an electrical working circuit in it.  This has been a process of completing their model, fitting the circuit into the model, working out how switches work, working out positions for their bulbs/motors/wires and ensuring there is enough room or too much room for the circuit to be effective. Next week the Yr 6 students will present these to younger classes and will explain how their models work.  It has been great to see teamwork, lots of problem solving and has tested each student on their time management.  It has also made them reflect, to see if their original plan of their model actually worked and what changes they needed to make.  All part of the learning process and such positive feedback about how they could improve things! 

For our English task, everyone is currently on the final draft of editing and conferencing with peers and myself with their persuasive writing piece. The focus has been to add language devices to their writing to persuade about their topic.   

The next step is to look at how to deliver an effective speech to an audience, practice their speech and next week they will deliver it to a selected audience.  

Some of the topics are:   Why Weipa Tackle World should be bigger! 

                                    Fishing should be included in the school curriculum at St Joseph’s. 

                                    How we can help to clean up Pennefather beach. 

Our Maths work has been all about the connection between decimals, fractions and percentages.  It takes lots of repetition and practice to get this concept right and to work out the formula or strategies to use.  Everyone works differently and this has been great to share different problem solving skills and the steps used to work problems out.  Great work everyone.  We are on track! 

Super excited about our camp that is in Term 4.  Lots of planning and discussion this week. 

Busy but happy learning in Yr 6. 

Libby Lange