Year 6 Scrapbook

Term 4 is Scrapbooking Time for Year 6

During Term 4 Year 6 will create a Primary Years Scrapbook.  This is a much loved tradition at Sacred Heart and is a wonderful activity to help you reflect on your primary school years before you move into high school next year.

You will need to buy a scrapbooking (K-Mart, Spotlight, Riot Art & Craft) or photo album or use one from home to create your Primary Years Scrapbook of memories.  Alternatively, you might like to use a book with blank pages like an art book or a display folder.  The choice is yours. 

This scrapbook is going to be about your journey and time at Sacred Heart Primary School (or other primary schools if you have attended more than one school).  Throughout the process you can use photos, drawings, pieces of work, certificates, poems or anything that describes your time at this school.  You will then need to write a reflection about each year in your primary school journey to include on the page for that year.

During the school holidays   Purchase/source book and browse through photos at home to find some you would like to use in your scrapbook.  This will save lots of time during term and is a fun holiday activity as well!  We will also scour our school drive for any photos of our year group and saved those into our Student Work folder, so you can print those at school, email them to yourself to print at home or save onto a USB to print at a photo outlet.

Homework Schedule
The scrapbook will be constructed as a homework task throughout Term 4 and will continue until Week 8.

You will need to complete one page (usually a double page spread) for each school year per week during Term 4 as part of your weekly homework.  The schedule is as follows:

Wk 1        Complete cover and title page
Wk 2        Kindergarten
Wk 3        Year 1
Wk 4        Year 2
Wk 5        Year 3
Wk 6        Year 4
Wk 7        Year 5
Wk 8        Year 6

You are to bring your scrapbook to school each Friday so your teacher can check your progress.  We will share our scrapbooks at the Spirituality Day coming up later in the term.  It is important not to fall behind as it is very difficult to catch up.

Display each year in a neat and interesting way, creating a wonderful reflection of yourself and your years at primary school.  Be as imaginative or creative as you like and enjoy reflecting on your Primary School Years.

Mrs D, Ms Rudd & Mrs Williams

School Life Survey

This week we will think about all the positives and negatives of school life.

Please complete the School Life survey by clicking on this link.

Make sure you consider each question deeply and provide as much information in your answer as possible.

Make sure your answers are your own.

Honest and detailed answers help us to improve life at school for everyone.

Thank you.

Space!

Science - Two Week Assignment - Due Week 10 

Read the fact sheet about Galileo Galilei. Think about the contributions of past astronomers. Compare one astronomer from the past, and their findings, research, contributions and understandings of the Solar System to that of a modern day astronomer/scientist. Please refer to some great links/sites on the home page of the Blog to assist you in your research.   

This research can be presented anyway you choose. For instance, as a children’s book, as an online information book, a Website, a 'Prezi' or an 'iMovie'.  All assignments will be presented in Week 10.

     Marking Criteria for Science Astronomer Assignment Term 3

Criteria	Possible Marks	Mark
Title	/2
Use of labelled diagrams/pictures	/4
Use of descriptive language/words	/5
Inclusion of many interesting facts	/5
Presentation	/5
Bibliography	/3
Research	/5
Spelling, grammar & punctuation	/3
Effort	/8
Total	/40

To assist with your research project on space exploration please see links to some wonderful sites below:

Space.Com - Famous Astronomers

Famous Astronomers

Modern Astronomers

Schools AtoZ

Celebrating Space Exploration

Space Discovery for Kids

ESA Kids

Planet Quest Historical Timeline of Space Discovery

Spacekids Timeline 

Discoveries of Space Timeline

Space Exploration Timeline

50 Years of Spaceflight

Exploration Timelines

Space Exploration and Astronomy

There are many more resources on the Internet, but these might be a good start!

Homelessness Brochure

Use the sites below to research statistics about homelessness in Australia:

Homelessness Australia

Homelessness Fact Sheets

Kids Under Cover

Salvation Army

Hutt Street Centre (SA)

Organisations that offer support to the homeless:

St Vincent de Paul

Exodus Foundation

Red Cross

The Salvation Army

StreetSmart Australia

Mission Australia

Mini Vinnies Mini Winter Sleepout

This year all Sacred Heart year groups are supplementing our Mini Vinnies program by organising their own social justice initiatives to reach out to those in need, just as Jesus did.  Mini Vinnies is a student-based program of the Saint Vincent de Paul Society, which promotes the values of social justice and introduces children to the spirituality of the Society and the many good works that the St Vincent de Paul Society does. It encourages us to live our faith through action. 

The major social justice initiative in Year 6 will be a “Mini Winter Sleep Out” to be held on Friday 2^nd September (Week 7) in the school Hall. We feel this is a particularly good way of reaching out to others, especially in this Jubilee Year of Mercy when the works of mercy are more important than ever.

The agenda for the event is as follows:

• 6:30 pm: Students to arrive at school. Dinner served (Soup and bread rolls)
• 7:00 pm Adrian Calleia from St Vincent de Paul to give a background talk on the history of St Vincent de Paul and the aim of the Winter Appeal which our donations will contribute towards. He will also discuss the meaning of the Vinnies’ logo and motto.
• 7:30 pm: Liturgy run by Year Six liturgy team
• 8:00 pm Children to break up into small groups and complete “Cardboard Box” shelter activity- children to construct shelters out of cardboard boxes
• 9:00 pm Recap and announcements regarding money raised so far from the sleep out.
• 9:15 pm Pick up time – Thank you

If you are able to help by making and serving the soup on the night or approaching local bakeries (Coles, Woolworths, Bakers Delight etc) to seek a donation of bread rolls to accompany the soup please contact our Class Parents or Year 6 Teachers.

The children are seeking sponsorship for their participation in the mini sleep-out. All donations will be collected through the SMHV Year 6 2016 Vinnies Fundraising Page.  Please click here if you would like to donate and support this worthy cause:

https://nswvinniesschoolsleepout.gofundraise.com.au/page/Year62016SHMV

Donations made online will be directly transferred to the St. Vincent de Paul Society NSW and each donor will be sent a tax-deductible receipt via email. For those unable to access the fundraising page, students each have a sponsorship form to enable them to list all sponsors and the amounts collected. All donations over $2 are tax deductible. 

See more about Vinnies Winter Sleepout see here.

Year 6 are proud to be involved in this work of mercy and we thank you for your support. 

Challenged Based Learning - Semester 2

This semester, Year 6 will be exploring the new Geography Syllabus through the Challenge Based Learning (CBL) framework.  CBL is an engaging multidisciplinary approach to teaching and learning that encourages learners to leverage the technology they use in their daily lives to solve real-world problems. Challenge Based Learning is collaborative and hands-on, asking students to work with peers, teachers, and experts in their communities and around the world to ask good questions, develop deep subject area knowledge, identify and solve challenges, take action, and share their experience.  You can read more about CBL here.

Year 6 will be focusing on the Big Idea of INTERCONNECTEDNESS.

Our Essential Question is: How is Australia connected to other parts of the world?

Our Challenge is: Use our INTERCONNECTEDNESS to help others in our global community.

Together we have viewed a proposal movie, which you can view here, around the big idea of Interconnectedness to use as a springboard into our inquires.

Year 6 have been thinking hard about the big idea and have brainstormed meaningful questions about Australia's connections with the world.  We look forward to a rich and rewarding final semester of primary school, where Year 6 students are able to work together to enact real change for the better in our world.

Wordmania Word Building Competition

Wordmania

Participate in 'the most fun and awesome word building competition in Australia.'  Build as many words as you can from a given selection of letters.  How many words can you make in 3 minutes?  

• Click on the link above to practise your word building skills. 
• Click on Log In (top right corner) to access the practise area. 
• Use the username and password that your teacher has provided (kept in your homework book and school tub).  
• Click on WORDMANIA 
• Click on PLAY
• You can access the site from home or school, so practise as much as you can!

The competition starts on 1st August, so be ready then to participate with more than $100,000 in prizes to be won!

See the Literacy Planet website for more details.

Good Luck!

PS You can also access the Literacy Planet website from the right hand menu, Our Favourite Websites.