YEAR 5

Our Lady of Fatima Catholic Primary School provides a range of holistic learning experiences to enable students to:

• Participate in the life and mission of the school.
• Deepen their knowledge and engagement with the Catholic faith and tradition.
• Build capacity to continuously reason, reflectively, logically and critically.
• Embrace interdependence of human existence as global citizens, who are responsible to and for themselves and others.
• Engage in learning in a multitude of ways, through personalised and self-paced learning.

Religious Education

5.7 We Celebrate the Sacraments:

This unit explores the sacraments of Penance and Holy Orders in the Church. The students will deepen their understanding of sacraments and sacramentality. 

5.8 Advent to Christmas: 

A time to prepare and celebrate. This unit explores the liturgical season of Advent. It focuses on the message of John the Baptist who prepared the way for the coming of Jesus. Students will examine Advent and Christmas customs and practices that help us prepare to celebrate Christ’s first coming.

English

Literature will be used to teach reading, writing, listening, speaking & critical thinking. The students will discover the world of Australian author and illustrator Shaun Tan. Some of the texts that will be used include The Arrival, Flight & How To Make a Bird. The unit will provide students with the opportunity to develop their literal and inferential comprehension skills with the use of fictional texts. The students will be immersed in complex writing activities to explore and explain the combinations of language and visual choices that authors make to present information, opinions and perspectives in different texts. Year 5 Soundwaves spelling program focusing on weekly phonemes and graphemes.

Mathematics

Flexible learning groups will take place four days a week. The activities are differentiated and the children are grouped in order to cater to their needs and ability. During these groups, the students are explicitly taught concepts from the NSW Mathematics K-10 Syllabus with a focus on problem solving, communication, reasoning and understanding.

The topics taught in Term 4 are: 

Position, Chance, Addition and Subtraction, Patterns and Algebra, Fractions, Length, Area and Mass. The students will be engaged in tasks designed with increasing complexity and challenge, open-ended high ceilings, differentiated success criteria and enabling and extending prompts.

Science and Technology

In Science and Technology, this semester Year 5 will explore the Material World strand. It focuses on how the properties of a range of materials as well as the way in which they are combined, determine their use and inform design solutions. Students will be given the opportunity to investigate the different properties of solids, liquids and gases, and consider combining and separating mixtures. 

Mandarin

This term students in Kindergarten to Year 6 will continue their participation in a Chinese language program called the Meg Language Program. The Meg Curriculum is written by the co-author of the Australian Curriculum. All students and teachers will participate in the digital learning platform via Zoom weekly sessions.

History

Through inquiry-based learning, students will focus on the unit ‘Australian Colonisation’. This study explores colonial Australia in the 1800s. Students investigate the founding of British colonies and the development of a colony. They learn about what life was like for different groups in the colonial period. Students will examine significant events and people, political and economic developments, social structures and settlement patterns. Students will be visiting the historical sites, buildings and laneways of The Rocks while when on an excursion taking place on the 23rd of November. This experience will allow the students to walk in the footsteps of real colonial settlers and learn their tales. 

Creative Arts

In Visual Arts, students will be making artwork for different audiences and assembling materials in a variety of ways. They will discuss and write about the meaning of artworks recognising how artworks can be valued in different ways by themselves as audience members, and by others. Students will learn to identify and describe the properties of different forms, materials and techniques in artworks and be able to create a bird design to reflect their understanding. 

Personal Development, Health and Physical Education

In Term 4, students will perform and refine movement skills in a variety of situations. Students will transfer sequences of locomotor and non-locomotor movements within a gymnastics floor routine incorporating specific skills, stability, balance and flexibility. Students will manipulate and modify elements of body movements and sequences and work collaboratively in a group to create, support, teach and perform routines. 

The unit in Personal Development and Health this term will focus on factors that influence personal identity and examine the physical, social and emotional changes that occur during puberty. Students learn to accept themselves as they grow and change and appreciate that their physical, social and emotional own worth and dignity development is unique. This term students will participate in the swimming program at Caringbah Leisure Centre. This will commence in Week 2. 

Homework 

"Great teachers set great homework", is our theme for the year. 

This term our students may choose activities from the Homework Activities Grid that align with their Smart Goals (Learning & Personal). Reading at night is the only compulsory activity. It is expected that the children will read for at least 20 minutes each night as part of their 40 minutes of nightly homework. 

We look forward to a happy and successful term with you and your children. 

Mrs Jo Ford and Miss Hayley Wilson (5Blue)

Miss Sophie-Louise Sprod (5Gold)

Miss Chonteau Poot (5White)

Important Dates for Year 5

Sport Days:

5B: Monday and Thursday

5G: Monday and  Thursday

5W: Wednesday and Thursday

Library Days:

5B: Tuesday (Even Weeks)

5G: Monday (Even Weeks)

5W: Wednesday (Even Weeks)

Year 5 History Excursion

Wednesday the 23rd November 2022 (Week 7)

Swimming Program 

Year 5 (Week 2)

School Term - Tuesday 11 October 2022 - Wednesday 14 December 2022

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