Curiculum Overview
In Year 6, students develop an ability to take positive actions for their wellbeing; they relate to others and communicate well with others. They ask challenging questions and seek answers. Students make informed decisions and act responsibly.
Year 6 students explore the following subjects/topics:
- English: Students will communicate with peers and teachers from other classes, community members, and individuals and groups, in a range of face-to-face and online/virtual environments. They will engage with a variety of texts for enjoyment. Students will listen to, read, view, interpret and evaluate spoken, written and multimodal texts in which the primary purpose is aesthetic, as well as texts designed to inform and persuade. These include various types of media texts including newspapers, film and digital texts, junior and early adolescent novels, poetry, non-fiction and dramatic performances. Students will develop their understanding of how texts, including media texts, are influenced by context, purpose and audience.
- Mathematics: Students will describe properties of different sets of numbers, use fractions and decimals to describe probabilities, represent fractions and decimals in various ways and describe connections between them and make reasonable estimations. They will represent integers on a number line, calculate simple percentages, use brackets appropriately, convert between factions and decimals. They use operations with fractions, decimals and percentages. Students will measure using metric units and interpret timetables. They will formulate and solve authentic problems using fractions, decimals, percentages and measurements. Students will interpret secondary data displays and find the size of unknown angles. They will explain mental strategies for performing calculations, describe results for continuing number sequences, explain the transformation of one shape into another and explain why the results of a chance experiment may differ from those expected.
- Science: Students will explore how changes can be classified in different ways. They will learn about transfer and transformations of electricity, and continue to develop an understanding of how energy flows through systems. Students will link their experiences of electric circuits as a system at one scale to generation of electricity from a variety of sources at another scale and begin to see links between these systems. They will develop a view of Earth as a dynamic system, in which changes in one aspect of the system impact on other aspects; similarly, they will see that the growth and survival of living things are dependent on matter and energy flows within a larger system. Students will begin to see the role of variables in measuring changes and the value of accuracy in these measurements. They will learn how to look for patterns and to use these to identify and explain relationships by drawing on evidence.
- HASS: Students will focus on the social, economic and political development of Australia as a nation, particularly after 1900, and Australia's role within a diverse and interconnected world today. They will explore the events and developments that shaped Australia as a democratic nation and stable economy, and the experiences of the diverse groups who have contributed to and are/were affected by these events and developments, past and present. Students will investigate the importance of rights and responsibilities and informed decision-making, at the personal level of consumption and civic participation, and at the national level through studies of economic, ecological and government processes and systems. In particular, they will examine Asia's natural, demographic and cultural diversity, with opportunities to understand their connections to Asian environments. These studies will enable students to understand how they are interconnected with diverse people and places across the globe.
- Technologies: Students will engage with ideas beyond the familiar, exploring how design and technologies and the people working in a range of technologies contexts contribute to society. They will seek to explore innovation and establish their own design capabilities. Students will be given new opportunities for clarifying their thinking, creativity, analysis, problem-solving and decision-making. They will explore trends and data to imagine what the future will be like and suggest design decisions that contribute positively to preferred futures. Students will develop an understanding of the role individual components of digital systems play in the processing and representation of data. They will acquire, validate, interpret, track and manage various types of data and are introduced to the concept of data states in digital systems and how data are transferred between systems. Students will learn to further develop abstractions by identifying common elements across similar problems and systems and develop an understanding of the relationship between models and the real-world systems they represent.
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