Year 5 News

Room 2

On the last day of Term Three, 25th September, we will be having an 'Open Classroom' from 8:30am - 9:15am. 

From 8:30am - 8:50am, parents are invited to view their child's work in the classroom. There will be student workbooks on the desks to look through.  Students are very excited to show you their favourite pieces of work!

From 8:50am - 9:15am students will present a project that they have worked on this year.

We look forward to seeing you then. 

Room 6

In Digital Technologies this semester, the students in Room 6 have been busily working on their advertisement projects.

In pairs, students needed to redesign an original product (phone, T.V or skateboard) using one of the Thinker’s Key - B.A.R (Bigger, Add, Replace). 

Now that each pair has completed their new design, they are using the App ‘Keynote’ to create an advertisement. These advertisements will hopefully inspire the audience (students in Room 6) to ‘buy’ the redesigned product.

Students are looking forward to presenting their projects to the class later in the term! 

Room 7 

In Year 5 Room 7 during Digital Technology we have been using a Thinker’s Key to make changes to an original product (skateboard, t.v or iPhone).

Students focussed on The Bar section of the Thinker’s Key, discussing how they could reinvent or redesign an everyday object. They had to discuss if they were going to make the original product bigger, if they were going to add anything to the original product or if they were going to replace something on the original product. 

In partners, students have begun designing their new products and have learned about how to use Keynote on the iPads. They will then use Keynote to create three pages, with information about the original product, the new product, and an advertisement selling the new product. There have been lots of interesting discussions and changes to original products with students working well to develop their creative thinking.