Year 6 Newsletter
Term 2 - 24th March 2015
Unit of Inquiry - Sharing the Planet
Central Idea: Distribution of resources affects communities and individuals' access to equal opportunities.
Lines of Inquiry:
- The distribution of resources
- How access to resources affects communities and individuals
- How people respond to scarcity
We are currently wrapping up our latest unit of inquiry and have almost finished our summative tasks, which were aimed to help us raise awareness about the distribution of the world's resources;
- a leaflet about a chosen world resource
- an info-graphic poster highlighting key facts about that world resource
- a group impact board highlighting the chosen issues
SHARING THE PLANET IMPACT BOARDS
Coming up...................
After Easter we will be starting a new unit of inquiry under the Transdisciplinary theme of Who We Are. The central idea is 'Changes people experience at different stages of their lives, affect their developing sense of self.' More details will follow.
English:
Over the past few weeks the children have been reading topical news stories with their parents and have been discussing the following points:
- Layout - does the article have a variety of images, data, facts and font sizes?
- Title - does the title catch your attention?
- Language - can you find any descriptive/informative/persuasive vocabulary?
- Images - do the images add meaning to the article?
- Content - does the opening paragraph hold your interest?
- Opinion - does the article show two sides of the story?
- Understanding - what does the article suggest?
Maths:
The data has helped to form part of their info-graphic leaflets about a chosen resource.
Plastic Free Seas
As part of our ‘Sharing the Planet Unit’ - Distribution of resources affects communities and individuals’ access to equal opportunities, each year 6 class has had the wonderful opportunity to join Plastic Free Seas on their Little Blue Trawler, to conduct activities in their Sea Classroom.
Plastic free Seas is a Hong Kong based environmental charity dedicated to advocating change in the way we all view and use plastics in society today, through education and action campaigns.
The PFS Sea Classroom is onboard the Little Blue Trawler, a 16 m converted ex-fishing trawler. The students were better able to understand and appreciate the need to take care of our oceans.
The power of walking in her shoes.
http://www.womensagenda.com.au/partner-content/item/6754-the-power-of-walking-in-her-shoes
Having no access to clean water is devastating communities throughout Africa. In Ethiopia, for example, only 31 per cent of households have access to safe water, and 18 per cent of households have access to sanitation facilities. The money from our sponsored walk will be used to help dig boreholes and wells to free up the hours spent walking, meaning girls can spend more time in school, women can earn an income, and, together, they can help their communities step out of poverty.
The walk is still in the planning stages, but the children would like to see how far they can walk, whilst carrying buckets of water, over a 60 min period. This will enable them to have empathy for the children in Africa that they have been reading about. We will keep you all updated after the Easter Holiday.
Let's give our children a taste of what life was like for Agnes, before the CARE Australia's aid.
General Notices;
Remember to check the VLE homework page every Wednesday please
School swimming lessons start after Easter. Dates to follow
Important Dates:
- School resumes after the Easter Holiday on Monday 11th April
- WIS taster days for all children going to WIS in May (details to follow)