Wendy’s Group Term 2 Week 10

Middle of winter, end of term and half way through the school year! Some of our Year 6s are beginning to feel both excitement and sadness about the prospect of leaving Currambena in another six months. On 7th August, there’s going to be a Philosophy Evening for all parents and we’re hoping to hear from some of our ex-students about the impact Currambena has had for them in their lives. I hope you all have this date in your diaries.

We have completed our PIP presentations now and they have all been so interesting and well presented. I have learned about Sol de Janeiro products and lots about Sweden, that snails can swim, that Olivia Rodrigo is only 21 and that there are over 40 million games on Roblox! It is such a wonderful learning process for the children, researching a topic of interest and putting together a presentation about it. Congratulations to all the children for their efforts this term.

In class this week, we held a parliamentary debate on the topic “That pineapple belongs on pizza”. It was fun to hear the persuasive uses of language in operation as well as the parliamentary processes… speaker calling upon members to speak, Prime Minister and Leader of the Opposition summing up the arguments… and then the vote! The motion was not passed and a great deal of fun was had! Next term, we’ll hold a formal debate with only six speakers and a chairperson.

I will add more of the children’s writing to the Google document … hope you are enjoying this! PLEASE ADD THE LINK AGAIN THANK YOU!!

In Maths, fractions are going well. We’ve learnt about equivalent fractions, mixed numbers and proper and improper fractions as well as adding and subtracting when denominators are related. There’ll be a little to finish off on this topic next term.

We have been practising spelling and placing the states, territories and capital cities of Australia on a map and some of the children can accurately spell and label all of these already. There’ll be more Geography next term along with History as we prepare for Canberra! Much discussion about this in the past week and I hope to be able to send final details in an email soon.

Huge thanks to everyone who has helped our group (or the school!) over the past term.

I hope you all have a wonderful holiday and stay warm and well.

Love,
Wendy