YEAR SIX 2026

Literacy:  Literacy: In Term 1, students develop their fluency and comprehension skills in the daily literacy block. We use the Explicit Direct Instruction approach to build strong reading, writing, and speaking and listening skills. Lessons are clear, structured, and designed to actively engage students while developing confidence and mastery across all areas of literacy. They will experience a range of text types, focusing on various reading strategies and oral reading skills. 

This term, there will be a focus on informative and persuasive writing as well as poetry. Through direct instruction, students will develop their skills at each stage of the writing process. They will explore sentence structure, vocabulary, text organisation and editing. In spelling, students will work through the extended Spelling Mastery program. They will also engage in activities that develop phonological knowledge (sounds), morphemic patterns (meaning), orthographic knowledge (letters), and etymological strategies (word origin studies). Students will participate in various activities to develop their word knowledge and vocabulary, including language origins and structured word inquiries.

Mathematics: In Mathematics, students will take part in explicit teaching lessons that are differentiated as well as open-ended activities. Term 1 topics include: place value, the four processes (addition, subtraction, multiplication and division), order of operations, units of measurement and many more. Students will also explore open-ended questioning and some assessment tasks.

Science: 'Change Detectives'
In the term one, chemical sciences unit ‘Change Detectives’, students will develop their understanding of the behaviour and properties of the three common states of matter: solids, liquids and gases. They will experiment with a range of changes to materials including reversible and irreversible changes, and physical and chemical changes.

Humanities: Year 6: Civics & Citizenship: The Path to Australian Democracy

Students will be introduced to the key institutions of Australia’s democratic government, including state/territory and federal parliaments, and the court system. They learn about representative democracy and voting processes in Australia. Students expand on their knowledge of the law by studying how laws affect the lives of citizens as well as how state/territory and federal laws are made in a parliamentary system.  They investigate the role of groups in our community and examine the rights and responsibilities of Australian citizens. They examine the responsibilities that individuals may have as global citizens.

YEAR 7 TRANSITION: Year Six students will receive documentation regarding secondary school placements for 2027 in Term 2. 

 If you have any questions regarding this process please direct these questions to Julie Carlson (6A teacher) at julie.gledhill@education.vic.gov.au.

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