Yr 6 Newsletter 

As part of our Yr 6 Leadership journey, each student is part of a Committee. We had to decide on a Call To Action task that would benefit others in our school or in the community.  

Stewardship Committee   Our committee includes Liam, Luke and Jess. Our Mission is educating the school and younger grades how to recycle.  The students have been shown how to put their poppers, yakults, water bottles and any other recyclable bottles into a bin called MR BIN. On Friday we count up the bottles and poppers and then we check for any rubbish. Then we pull out of a hat which class will win the icypoles for the week. So far we have counted $20.20 that we have raised for a charity like CAPS or RFDS.  The teachers won last week as they have one in their staff room.   

Keep up the great recycling everyone!   This is only after 2 weeks.   We will keep you updated. 

Mission Committee     On Friday 6th November we are promoting awareness of people in need all over the world for Mission Day.  Jake, Charlie, Jaiden, Angus and Thomas are all running this wonderful day where all the students are free to wear any silly socks or shoes they want?  You still have to wear your uniform but you can make these socks as silly and weird as you want!   Each class will be participating in a Mission day activity, and we as the school leaders will be helping the teachers. We can’t wait to see your silly socks and shoes on Friday!!! 

Charity Committee   We are the charity committee: Sienna, Sophie, Kai, Ramona, Jasmine and Kyan. Our goal is to organise each class to collect hampers each week from Week 7. We will then donate these hampers to a charity.  Our CALL TO ACTION is to show the younger grades how important it is to give to the underprivileged in communities and to always see a need to do things without asking.  Each class will be given a specific item to collect in their hamper, we will check in each day and encourage them to bring in items.  In the last week of school we will collect each hamper and prepare them for giving to charity.   We will be around each class next week explaining this.  

WCC visits:  

We have enjoyed our Transition days, today being our last. We have been going to a core class each week with a different teacher and experiencing some of the class routines they do every day. The last 2 weeks we have had our lunch over there as well which gave us the opportunity to see where things are, where to sit and how to get lunch at the tuckshop if we needed too.  I was exceptionally proud of how our St Joseph’s students handled the change, the excitement, the nerves, the change of pace and were respectful.  I think they are all feeling so much more confident about Yr 7 now. 

In class, for English we have been exploring different songs and deconstructing their lyrics.  This has helped us understand what many songs mean and how bias can influence what and how we think when we listen to music.  We have spent the last few weeks discussing different language features and how they influence music, lyrics, poetry and what the message of songs portrays. 

We looked at a few songs of protest, like “From Little Things, Big things Grow” and “Gadigal Land.”  Each student then chose a song of their own to analyse and examine the language features. This has been pretty challenging, but we have learnt lots about songs and the hidden message behind many. We have now started writing our own lyrics for a song, following a format and using different language features like rhyme, repetition, emphasis, metaphors etc.  Next week we will add music to our lyrics. 

In Maths we have been looking at graphs, data, timetables and statistics. We have learnt how these are used in everyday living and our job has been learning how to interpret and read these different types of maths examples. 

In Geography we are looking at different indigenous groups around the world, locating them on the world map and also discussing different cultures.  Our focus is to compare similarities and differences between them. 

Always learning and being respectful! 

Year 6 Students and Miss Libby