Year 6 Term 1 Learning Overviews

Religious Education

Unit Title: 6.2 Lent - A Time for Building a Just World

Unit Overview: This unit explores how Jesus broke down barriers that prevented right relationships. It looks at concepts such as personal and social sin, and how our behaviour and relationships can advance or hinder the reign of God. Students will explore the issues of prejudice, discrimination rejection and acceptance, exclusion and inclusion.

Unit Title: 6.3 Easter: A Time to Celebrate Hope in the Risen Lord

Unit Overview: This unit explores the disciples’ experience of the Resurrection and Ascension of Jesus. As we die with Jesus, we rise with Jesus also. The unit teaches about our hope in everlasting life. It explores the feast days, scripture and prayers that express and celebrate our belief in everlasting life

English

Unit Title: Personal Identity

Unit Overview: This unit of work will explore the theme of personal identity and how culture influences your personal character and perspective. Students engage emotionally and intellectually with the events, characters, ideas and values presented in the imaginative text, ‘Thai-Riffic’ by Oliver Phommavanh. In addition, students will analyse concepts such as narrative, character, point of view and theme in order to plan and compose an effective narrative.

Mathematics

Unit Title: Operating with numbers and length

Unit Overview: Throughout the term students will be focusing on developing their confidence with number. More specifically, representing integers on the number line as well as applying additive and multiplicative relations. Students will also select and use the appropriate unit to measure lengths and distances, calculate perimeters, compare perimeters and convert between units of length.

Science and Technology

Unit Title: Engineered for Rhythm

Unit Overview: Students will begin this unit by exploring the design process, and how this can be used to develop solutions to problems. Students will then build and develop their understanding of electricity, energy transformations and algorithms to create and design a musical instrument using programming language and Makey-Makey boards.

HSIE

Unit Title: Australia as a Nation

Unit Overview: The Stage 3 History curriculum moves from colonial Australia to the development of Australia as a nation, particularly after 1901. Students explore the key figures and factors that led to Federation, and the experiences of democracy and citizenship over time. Students will understand the significance of Australia’s British heritage, the Westminster system, and other models that influenced the development of Australia’s system of government. Further, students will explore the experiences of Australian democracy and citizenship, including the status and rights of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islanders peoples, migrants, women and children.

PDHPE

Unit Title: Mental Health and Wellbeing , Cricket and Athletics

Unit Overview: Students focus on mental health, wellbeing and the factors that influence their health and safety. They identify controllable and uncontrollable factors within their lives and investigate support networks and organisations that can support their overall health. Within the practical component of the course students will focus on the Fundamental Movement Skills of striking and catching within the game context of Cricket. They will also develop and practice skills in the athletic events of running (including standing starts and crouch starts), long jump, shot put and discus.

Course requirements:

Hat and drink bottle for all PE Lessons

Creative Arts: Visual Arts

Term 1 | Visual Arts

Unit Title: The Art of our Environment
Unit Overview: Building on their appreciation of nature, students in The Art of Our Environment link to themes of environmental awareness through creative exploration. They examine how artists, including Rosalind Monks and Robin Brooks, use their work to reflect and honour the environment. Students create artworks that explore the diversity of the environment, using drawing, collage and graffito techniques. They experiment with materials and techniques to explore to embrace this theme, fostering skills in making, appreciating, and interpreting art, empowering students to creatively respond to the world around them.

Pastoral (Social and Emotional Wellbeing) Learning Time

Self Management Skills and Executive Functioning

Executive function and self-regulation skills are the mental processes that enable us to plan, focus attention, remember instructions, and juggle multiple tasks successfully.

Self-management is our ability to manage our behaviours, thoughts, and emotions in a conscious and productive way. Self-management means you understand your personal responsibility in different aspects of your life, and you do what you need to fulfil that responsibility.

Students will learn how to better organise their daily schedules with the use of diaries, term planners and ongoing management of their emails and Google Drive.

Digital Citizenship

Is about learning the acceptance and upholding of the norms of appropriate, responsible behaviour with regard to the use of digital technologies. This involves using digital technologies effectively and not misusing them to disadvantage others. Students will learn about appropriate online etiquette, literacy in how digital technologies work and how to use them and knowing how to stay safe online.

Resilience - Focus on Emotional Literacy and Maturity

Emotional literacy can be defined as the ability to understand ourselves and other people. It includes the ability to understand, express and manage our own emotions, build empathy, and to respond appropriately to the emotions of others.

Students build their resilience in situations that occur in the playground and classroom by developing their coping and problem solving skills.

Maturity is developed through a sense of independence and how they behave. Students will develop their maturity through a series of lessons that strengthen their emotions and decision making.

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