Wendy’s Group Term 2 Week 8
Our Year 6/7 night last Friday was a lovely event. Last year’s leavers have gone to a range of different schools, a mix of public schools and private, and all reported settling in well, mostly after only a couple of weeks. They all sound as if they are coping well with the workload and all the different teachers and subjects. Their advice to current Year 6 students ranged from making sure you are organised and prepared for plenty of homework to getting involved in everything and don’t worry about making friends. Of course, it was lovely to see them all.
On Wednesday, we had a visit from Maya and Jana which was also lovely! They are both now in Year 8, Maya at Mosman High and Jana at Lindfield Learning Village. It was interesting to hear their perspectives on high school after 18 months. They are both enjoying their schools very much and spoke to the group about the differences between their two schools in terms of uniform requirements and the use of computers. We are super lucky at Currambena that our leavers feel so connected with us and enjoy returning to visit! Maya and Jana had a gorgeous time playing with children who had been their buddies when they were here!
In other news this week, the group had a fabulous day on Tuesday at an open day hosted by Synergy, the local Lane Cove Youth Centre. Thank you so much to Susan for taking them that day while I was unwell. The photos will show the different activities they enjoyed!
This week we have begun our Geography topic and we’ve started with maps of Australia and the world, naming states and capital cities, continents and oceans. We’re also beginning PIP presentations with accompanying art works. We have made a list of the order of the presentations and if your child is keen for you to watch them, please make sure they speak to me about this and we’ll do our best to predict when theirs will be. This is not always easy but we can give it a try.
In Maths, we’re working on fractions, with some interesting changes to content with the new maths syllabus. I love the historical context for fractions and sharing (division) in general… humans with a concept of ownership, share things and it’s good to be able to share things equally or at least fairly.
In English, we are planning our debates and starting to type out some pieces of writing for you to read. Please see the Google document for four typed versions so far. More to come. Quite a few of the children are keen to share their work so I will add to this document over the next week or so since there is so much to type out!!
This week I received the forms for the final numbers for Canberra. If you haven’t already, please let me know if your child is not coming on this excursion.
Have a great week.
Love,
Wendy