Date: November 2023

Level 5/6 Curriculum Communication

Dear Parents/ Guardians,

It’s hard to believe there is only a little over 6 weeks left in the term. There are a lot of things
happening for the students so please make sure you read the below information carefully and
double check Compass for any permissions/ payments.

Interschool sports - Our summer sports are Cricket, Basketball, Lawn Bowls, Volleyball and Kickball.
We will continue to play against schools in our network until Friday 24th November. After this time,
students will be participating in a range of different activities on Fridays. We will endeavour to get the
students outside and active where possible.

Upcoming Events for Term 4 (we have a busy term ahead!)

Date Event

16th November, 23rd Cross-school transition sessions (this will occur at school)
November, 30th November
and 7th of December

21st November Year 5 Patterson River Secondary College Visit

24th November CHPS Bi-Annual Art Show 4:00 - 6:30 pm

1st December 2024 Student Leadership Speeches

7th December Christmas Concert @3:30 - 5pm

8th December Year 5 Mordialloc Secondary College Visit

11th December Awards Day and Announcement of 2024 Student Leaders

(at school - assembly from 9:30am)
Parents and families are invited and welcome to attend.

G6 Activity Day - bike ride/scooter/walk to Bicentennial

Park in the afternoon

12th December Statewide transition

(G6 students will go to their High Schools on this day)

13th and 14th December ⅚ Beach Program

(A light lunch will be provided to students on Thursday the
14th of December)
15th December Year 6 Gumbuya World

18th December Year 6 Graduation from 6:30 pm at Patterson River SC

19th December Last day of school/First assembly with 2024 leaders/G6

students to sign T-shirts

Literacy:
As we finish the section on Ancient Greece and move towards Ancient Rome, some of the
topics we’ll cover includes;

- The Roman Republic

- Builds upon Greek and classical ideals
- Art: Apollo Belvedere (Roman copy of original Greek statue)
- Architecture: The Pantheon
- Literature: retelling of myths by the Roman writer Ovid (70–19 BCE),
including Pygmalion and Galatea myths
- Class and status: patricians and plebeians, enslaved workers
- Roman government: consuls, tribunes, and senators
- The Punic Wars: Rome vs. Carthage
- Julius Caesar
- Caesar Augustus
- Pax Romana
- Roman law and the administration of a vast, diverse empire
- Virgil’s Aeneid: epic on the legendary origins of Rome
- Constantine
- The “decline and fall” of the Roman Empire - Causes debated by historians for many
hundreds of years (outer forces, such as shrinking trade, attacks and invasions, vs. inner
forces, such as disease, jobless masses, taxes, corruption and violence, rival religions
and ethnic groups, weak emperors)

Building endurance and comprehension

The ultimate goal for each student is to be capable of reading an entire chapter
independently with complete comprehension of the subject matter. We have a balanced
approach of scaffolding our instruction and also providing opportunities for students to
practise reading longer passages entirely on their own. Students are expected to provide
their written responses using full sentences and quoting evidence in the text to justify their
thinking.
Spelling:
For the remainder of the year, we will be focusing on morphology and etymology. This will
heavily include prefixes and suffixes, and how they can adjust the meaning of a Latin root
or base word. Understanding the structure of words supports students in building on
vocabulary, the spelling of words, meaning, and the history of words.

When making meaning of words, we read from right to left.

For example:
In the present, to carry something out of.

Maths:

The following topics have been/will be covered in maths this term:

- Number patterns; including patterns of fractions and decimals

- Expressing improper fractions to mixed numbers and vice versa
- Finding and measuring unknown angles
- Multiplying and Dividing fractions and decimals
- Converting time between 12R and 24HR time, as well as calculating duration of
time
- Transformations of 2D shapes, including translations, reflections, rotations, symmetry
and enlargement
- Using a cartesian plane to locate and plot points on a map
- Converting units of volume and capacity
- Money and finance (budgeting)

To best support your child this term in Math, we recommend practising and reciting their
timetables every day at home. You might like to practise in the car on the way to
school/sport training etc.

Level Activities

Year 5: The Year 5 students will be focusing on a Shark Tank Project, in which students will
investigate marketing, design, budgeting, and profit building. Students will work within
groups to design a need/want for the school community and present their project to the
cohort.
 The Year 5 students are also beginning to develop their 2024 leadership speeches. The
following are the leadership positions for 2024. School captains, Student Voice and Agency
Leaders, Sustainability Leaders, Cultural Leaders, Sport Leaders and Inclusivity leaders.

The students will be writing one speech addressing the following prompts:

1. In previous years, how have you demonstrated the CHPS school values of respect,
responsibility and cooperation?
2. In your role as school captain, how will you encourage and support students at
CHPS to build on the school values?
3. Why do you want to be a school leader at CHPS, and what will it mean to you if you
are successful?
4. In the roles that you have nominated, what impact would you have in this role.

Year 6: The Year 6 students have been working on their Graduation scrapbooks. They will
be writing their graduation speech in the coming weeks and filming it as a voice recording
to play on the night of graduation. Thank-you for your support in purchasing items for the
Scrapbooks and sending us photos of your child’s journey at CHPS.

The Year 6 students are starting to get excited about the end-of-year celebration activities,
which include Gumbuya World, a bike/scooter ride and Graduation.

Thank you for your continued support.

5/6A 5/6B 5/6C 5/6D 5/6E

Mr. James Ireson Mrs. Rochelle Soligo Mrs. Eliza Wilson Mr. Sam Stirling Ms. Linh Loi
Level Facilitator