Year 6 Newsletter Article 

There has been great excitement over the past week as the Year 6 students formed groups and discussed and researched their Design Technology Projects. They have been tasked to design and construct an arcade game using recyclable materials that can be played by Primary School Students. Their ideas have been inspired by the efforts of a 9 year old boy, Caine, who began making games from scrap material in his Dad’s workshop and who now has a following of thousands of like-minded children. The Year 6 students have selected a project, created a design, determined a list of appropriate materials and have enthusiastically commenced construction. To accompany their project, the groups are also required to produce a google slides presentation showing the steps involved in the process and including photos and an evaluation of their successes and learning. The class hopes to be able to set up their completed projects at the end of the term and invite other students to visit the Year 6 Games Arcade. 

In Maths, we have been working hard to understand equivalent fractions and relating fractions, decimals and percentages to practical situations. 

In English, students have been using connectives to join and convert simple sentences to interesting and more informative complex sentences. We have been examining the structure and purpose of information texts including emails, brochures, catalogues, posters, reports and newspaper articles and writing our own with a provided scaffold as support. 

Students have been conducting simple experiments and investigations to demonstrate or determine  whether various changes in states of matter are reversible or irreversible and on occasions believing their results prove some more recognised scientists than themselves have made huge mistakes??? 

Thank you for your support with the homework routines and it is already evident that some students are completing these tasks because they want to and can see the value of taking some responsibility for their own learning which is going to help them enormously in the future.