TERM FOUR SENIORS 2024

Welcome to Term 4 … another term full of exciting events. We have the St John’s First Aid incursion, softball clinics, our annual Open Water Beach Safety program at Mt Martha Life Saving Club in Week 8 and some lucky students attending Somers Camp.

Some important reminders:

Year 5

Year 5 students need to start thinking about writing their Leadership applications for 2025. This process will be discussed with them in the first weeks of Term 4.

Year 6

Preparations for our annual Market Day will begin during Term 4 to raise funds to purchase a legacy item for future Kingsley Kids to enjoy. There will also be a special Year 6 Activity Day at the end of term. More information will be coming early Term 4.

Classrooms will continue to open at 8:35am each morning for students to organise themselves for the day so learning time can start promptly at 8:45am. 

Mobile Phones and iPads

Students, please continue to store mobile phones safely in classroom cabinets during the school day.  It is very important to remember to bring your iPads fully charged, so you can participate in all tasks.

ENGLISH

Each Senior class will be immersed in a class novel ‘How To Bee’ during the term. Whilst reading this novel we will have a focus on developing and improving our reading comprehension strategies such as inference, summarising and predicting. Students will also analyse the text to understand the effects of ideas and language features on audiences. 

Senior students will also learn and revise their persuasive and discussion text writing. They will be building on their written and verbal argumentative skills and investigating specific text features to persuade. All senior students will be involved in learning the process for debating and arguing for a side.

MATHS

In Mathematics, Seniors will be revising work across all three mathematical strands. We will begin the term with Geometric Reasoning (different types of angles and measuring angles with a protractor) and BIDMAS. We encourage every student to continue working on all four of the mathematical operations at home; addition, subtraction, multiplication and division. These can be practised using 99 Maths and My Numeracy. Seniors will also complete a Financial Literacy Unit this term, working on budgeting skills, investigating needs vs wants, identify influences on consumer choices and investigate the ways people work and explore factors affecting work now and into the future.

SENIOR SPORT

Our students will have the opportunity to participate in a variety of games, activities and sports this term.

ASSEMBLIES

Module and whole school assemblies take place on alternate Friday mornings from 8:55 am to 9:40 am.                     

SPECIAL DATES

SENIOR TEACHING TEAM

Ms Danae Maini and Mrs Kate Cox (Year 5) S1

Mrs Elle Sullivan (Year 5) S2

Ms Trish Papettas (Year 6) S3

Mr Kieron Quick (Year 6) S4