Parent Teacher Meeting 2019

1. Parent Teacher Meeting 2019 Room 6: Miss Elyce Kenevin

2. School PowerPoint Slides https://burrendahps.wa.edu.au/parent-teacher-meeting Individual Classroom’s PowerPoint Slides https://burrendahps.wa.edu.au/events-calendar • Briefly refer to school website

3. Curriculum Links-School Website https://burrendahps.wa.edu.au/western-australian-curriculum-summary On this page you will find: -SCSA – Scope & Sequence summary -EAL/D content descriptors -Mrs Horoch’s summary documents for English, Mathematics and HASS for each year level

4. Teaching Philosophy • Student development as a whole person; the social, emotional and academic • Importance of having a go • Encourage students to have a love for learning through a positive classroom environment and challenging learning activities • For students to become responsible, confident, self motivated learners with the ability to work both individually and collaboratively Miss Elyce

5. Year 5 Expectations • Organisation - be organised for the day and have necessary belongings e.g. Homework folder, Diary, Library Books, Recorder etc. • Take responsibility for their learning – ask when unsure • Adhere to school and classroom rules • Use of student diary (check at home) – homework, school events • Preparation for leadership roles – demonstrating independence and maturity. Being a role model for others • Mobile phones: Students are not permitted to have mobile phones in school or the playground. Mobile phones brought to school must be switched off and left at the office during the school day. This is also the policy for all excursions. For further information please refer to the website.

6. Miss Kenevin’s Timetable

7. Miss Kenevin’s DOTT Days • Monday: Physical Education (Mr Crouch) (Please ensure that your child is wearing the appropriate footwear and has a hat and a drink bottle) Italian (Mrs Suehrcke) • Tuesday Science (Mrs Crouch) • Wednesday Music(Ms Coleman) • Thursday Art (Ms McGuirk) • Friday Library (Book Borrowing) (Please ensure that your child brings their Library Bag to school and please remind your child to bring their Library book/s to school each week)

8. Miss Kenevin’s AND Ms Whitcher’s Class Assembly • Room 6 and 7 Assembly • Term Three, Week 6, 30th August

9. Special Days Please check school website and term planner for dates http://www.burrendahps.wa.edu.au/ Senior Sport- All students in Years 5 and 6 participate in sports on a Friday afternoon. This term the sports are cricket, volleyball, basketball and T-ball. In Term 2 the winter sports are AFL football, soccer, netball and flag-belt.

10. NAPLAN • NAPLAN will be in weeks 3 & 4 of Term Two • Students will complete NAPLAN on the Notebooks, in Room 6 • Students will be typing their writing • Students will practice their typing in class • It would be beneficial if they could also practice this at home as well

11. Before School Routine • Come to class at 8:30am with school bag • Chair behind desk and organise workspace (stationery) • Morning work on Smart Board to complete/ Finishing off work • School begins at 8:45am

12. Election Process • Term Four • Information meeting held with all Year 5 students outlining the expectations of a leader • Nomination form and note outlining the expectations of a leader will go home • Students need to ask teachers to sign their nomination form in support of their decision to become a leader • Elections will be held for School Councillors, Faction Captains and School Captains • Votes counted

13. Homework • Home Reading – written into diary each day and signed by a parent/adult *please listen to your child read aloud each week (once/twice) and ask them questions about what they have read* • Spelling - Look Say Cover Write Check (LSCWC) • If necessary, completion of tasks • Reading Eggspress and Mathletics tasks will be set to help students build their fluency (Passwords glued into diary) • School website for suggested extra activities (Homework Policy) • Connect

14. Term Outlines Term Two -English: Review and Procedure texts -pronouns -homophones -sentence work -HASS: needs and wants -scarcity -Gold Rush -Design Technologies: Designing a shelter -Health: Living a Healthy Lifestyle and Nutritious Foods to Eat -ICT Skills: Cyber Safety, emails, Connect -Maths: Recap over time -2D and 3D shapes (reflections, rotations etc.) -factors and multiples -fractions -percentages (touch on) -chance experiments and outcomes Term One -English: Narrative and Persuasive texts -recap Recount texts -punctuation (exclamation marks, commas etc.) -apostrophes -recap over nouns, verbs, adverbs, adjectives etc. -HASS: Swan River Colony -Design Technologies: Designing a shelter -Health: Friendships, relationships and managing emotions -ICT Skills: Computer skills (typing, keyboard functions and shortcuts, maximising and minimising etc.) -Maths: Recap place value, addition, subtraction, reading and writing numbers into the hundreds of thousands and millions -estimation and rounding -perimeter, area, length -factors and multiples mass, volume, capacity -multiplication -angles -division -data representation -word problems (questioning, column graphs etc.)

15. Term Outlines Term Four English: Report, Discussion and Poetry texts -recap Narrative and Persuasive texts -figurative language -vocabulary associated with text types -HASS: Democracy, voting, elections and decision making -Digital Technologies: Coding including using Spheroes -Health:Revisiting friendships, relationships and bullying -ICT Skills: Skills involved when researching -skills involved when using Microsoft Excel -Maths: Money -creating budgets -recap concepts from Terms One-Four -scales -grids references and coordinates -mapping -direction -survey questions Term Three -English: Explanation, Performance, Discussion and Report texts -recap over homophones -vocabulary associated with text types -HASS: scarcity -Geography (North and South America) -natural disasters (bushfires, floods etc.) -Digital Technologies: Create an advertisement about a modified product using the iPad -Health: Summer safety, safety and puberty (Health Nurse) -ICT Skills: Connect -skills when using the iPad -skills involved when researching -Maths: fractions -decimals -patterns in numbers -time -chance experiments -dependent and independent events

16. Maths 2019 • There will be no streaming in Maths this year • All students will stay in their classroom for all Math strands • I will differentiate each lesson to suit the ability levels of students • The lesson will begin with a warm up (use of whiteboards) • Students will all be taught the same concept, however, different levelled activities will follow • Small groups within the classroom

17. Room 6’s Behaviour Management Behaviour Management • Warm Fuzzy Jar (whole class) • Students created their ‘Classroom Rules’ • The whole class will receive a ‘Warm Fuzzy’ for following/demonstrating the classroom rules • Once certain levels are reached (elastic bands) the students and I have created rewards to be received as a class

18. New Family's to Burrendah Primary • Please fill out the Parent Contact List permission slip if you are new to our school • Each Year 5 class is looking for a Parent Class Representative. For information on this role, parents can refer to the school web page: https://burrendahps.wa.edu.au/parent-class-representative Parent Representative

19. Communication • Please feel free to contact mevia email.Iwill reply to emails during school hours elyce.kenevin@education.wa.edu.au • Student diaries • Read the newsletter • Make an appointment for before or after school Thank you for your attendance 