Year 6 Term 1 Week 14 Blog

In English class this week the students worked on creating a play to perform during the Christmas event that will be held on the evening of December 12th. The students are very excited about this play and will be happy to perform it for parents at the Christmas event. On that evening students should wear clothing that has some green or red in it or clothing that could be worn at a Christmas event.

In Maths class the students have wrapped up their unit on Statistics. The students took an assessment to assess how well they understood how to compute mean, median, mode and range. For the remainder of this term the students will be doing a cumulative review of all of the concepts that they have learned during term 1.

In UOI class the students continue to document their progress and narrow down their ideas for the student exhibition project. Next Monday, the student will be beginning a new UOI unit. They will be focusing on understanding scientific knowledge and how it evolves over time to help impact people's lives. The students will be researching different types of inventions and try to build some type of small invention for their end of the unit assessment.

Year 6 Term 1 Parent Reporting Meeting Schedule

Friday, November 22nd: 7:50-8:10 Parents of Grace

Friday, November 22nd: 2:50-3:10 Parents of Time

Friday, November 29th: 2:50-3:10 Parents of Jennesa

Tuesday, December 3rd:

7:50- 8:10: Parents of Bryony

8:30-8:50: Parents of Ryu (Ms. Snook needed for Translations)

10:00-10:20: Parents of Belty (Ms. Snook needed for Translations)

10:20-10:40: Parents of Plai (Ms. Snook needed for Translations)

10:40-11:00: Open and available if any parents would like this time instead

11:00-11:20: Parents of Katy (Ms. Snook needed for Translations)

11:20-11:40: Parents of Prue

Wednesday, December 4th:

2:00pm-2:20pm: Open and available if any parents would like this time instead

2:20-2:40pm: Parents of Valane

3:00-3:15: Open and available if any parents would like this time instead

Friday, December 6th:

8:00-8:20: Parents of Dyllan

10:00-10:20: Parents of Jeng Jeng (Ms. Snook needed for Translations)

10:20-10:40: Parents of JJ

12:20-12:40: Parents of Ikkyu (Ms. Snook needed for Translations)

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