In Year 6, students will be working hard to understand how the use of text structures can achieve particular effects by analysing and explaining how language features, images and vocabulary are used by different authors to represent ideas, characters, and events. Students will be involved in the following activities in reading:

• Making connections between the text and own experience or other texts
• Making connections between information in print and images
• Finding specific literal information
• Using prior knowledge and textual information to make inferences and predictions
• Asking and answering questions
• Reader's theatre - performing scripts
• Finding the main idea of a text
• Summarising a text or part of a text
• Self-monitoring and self-correcting strategies
• Improving researching skills 
• Comparing and contrasting author's style
• Identifying analytical images
• Selecting, evaluating, and using texts for their pertinence

In Year 6, students continue to build their knowledge of writing by planning, drafting and publishing imaginative, informative and persuasive texts and will be involved in the following activities:

• Poetry
• News reports
• Procedures
• Transactional texts – e.g. letters and emails
• Recounts
• Narratives
• Expositions – arguing for and against a particular topic
• Information reports
• Grammar
• Spelling
• Vocabulary
• Editing for coherence, sequence, effective choice of vocabulary, opening devices, dialogue, and description
• Creating advertisements with figurative language
• Punctuation – capital letters, full stops, question marks, commas, exclamation marks, quotation marks, ellipses, question marks, dashes, hyphens, and brackets

In Year 6, students will be working on the following Mathematics topics to develop their numeracy and fluency skills:

• Place Value
• Fractions
• Decimals
• Percentages
• Four Operations
• Integers
• Financial discounts
• Powers of ten
• Rational numbers
• Cartesian plane
• Units of measurement – time, area, length, capacity, and volume
• Timetables
• Angles
• Transformations
• Pyramids
• Prisms
• Data collection
• Graphs
• Categorical variables
• Frequencies
• Probabilities
• Ratios

In Year 6, students will also participate in the following programs:

• Year 6 Sport
• Year 6 Graduation
• History
• Health and Wellbeing
• Geography
• Design and Technology
• Civics and Citizenship
• Genius Hour
• Digital Technology (Robotics)
• Library
• Respectful Relationships
• Information Communication Technology