In Grade 5/6 this year we have:
5/6 Teaching Staff
56A: Ashton MacDonald
56B: Joanne Etherton
56C: Emily Hosking
56D: Jake Lucas
56E: Sarah Nixon
56F: Serina Norton
56G: Kirren Whaiapu
Educational Support Staff
56A: Kyle Rondinella
56B: Sarah Fox
56C: Jaime Grosvenor
56D: Jaime Grosvenor
56E: Elke Harris
56F: Laura Russo
56G: Megan Marson
We are all so excited to work with our students to achieve success in their final years of primary school.
Some of the fantastic programs on offer to our senior students this year include:
Our Curriculum for 2026:
This year in Reading we are continuing to focus on establishing our routines and expectations for the reading block. This includes finding good fit books, building our reading stamina and introducing a range of activities that improve fluency, accuracy and comprehension. We will also be focussing on the meanings of words and different variations of them and how they’re related. As students master the expectations, we will be exploring a range of different genres and text types and having students respond to and analyse them to expand their confidence as good readers.
In Writing this year we are continuing to develop our understanding of the writing process, and analysing the structure and language features of a range of text genres, to improve the quality of our writing. The text types we are focussing on include imaginative narratives, an author study of Greg Dreise, information reports, poetry, explanations and persuasive writing. We will be focussing on elaborating our ideas and improving our vocabulary.
Throughout this year in Maths, we will have a major focus on routines and expectations as students become familiar with the new Maths block structure. Students will explore and investigate concepts across the three Numeracy strands of Number, Algebra, Statistics, Probability, Measurement & Geometry. Students will work collaboratively to problem solve and explore new concepts through open-ended tasks. Students will also continue to focus on their independent goals during Maths Masters sessions.
We will explore four Integrated topics this year:
Term 1: Our focus is ‘Ethics’ with students exploring current and philosophical worldly issues and debating the moralities behind them. Students will investigate the question ‘What does it mean to be a self-aware, informed and active Australian citizen?’, and use this to guide their own research into ethical debates when completing their projects.
Term 2: Students will explore the colonisation of Australia, focusing on the way Australia’s identity was shaped through key historical events from the 1900s. Students will look at what constitutes a Federation, and whether Australia could be considered one. Students will then devise their own investigation questions and use these to guide their research into the colonisation of Australia.
The Grade 5/6 team is always available for a chat so please feel free to contact us at school anytime. Thank you
