YEAR FIVE

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

Morality & Justice: Social Justice

Students will explore how social justice calls Christians to respect the dignity of the human person. Students will explore Scripture and Church Tradition to inform our understanding of social justice and the Church’s mission to build a just world. In their exploration, students will study the principles of Catholic Social Teaching and the model of See, Judge, Act, to enable them to review situations of injustice. Students will look at ways the Catholic Church in Australia reaches out to people who struggle to live with injustice.

Prayer, Liturgy and Sacraments - Liturgical Year

The Liturgical Year units enable students to explore the traditions, beliefs, Scripture and events celebrated by the Catholic community throughout the Liturgical Year and especially during the time of Advent to Christmas, Lent to Holy Week and Easter to Pentecost. 

This term Year 5 will explore the units of:

• Lent - Lent is a time of spiritual growth and conversion.
• Holy Week - The Church remembers the rejection, suffering and death of Jesus during Holy Week.

English

This term, students will compose both imaginative and persuasive texts using the ‘Seven Steps of Writing’ technique. Students will be taught explicit skills in relation to grammar, punctuation, vocabulary and specific concepts about print. Students will follow the Year 5 Soundwaves spelling program focusing on weekly phonemes and graphemes. In our literature study, students will read ‘The Arrival’ by Shaun Tan focusing on visual literacy elements and themes of resilience, identity and friendship. 

Mathematics

Mathematics lessons will be taught daily with a consistent structure of Daily Review, Mental Arithmetic, Explicit Teaching and Routine Practice activities. Working Mathematically, skills are embedded throughout the lessons. The topics taught in Term 1 are Chance and Fractions, Representing Numbers, Volume, Additive Relations and Mass. Mathematics lessons are differentiated, Mrs Pisani and Miss Ingram will be supporting students across Year 5. 

Science and Technology

Students will be exploring the Living World strand.  Students investigate how and why food and fibre are produced in sustainable, managed environments that enable people to grow and be healthy. This strand further develops students’ knowledge and understanding of the environmental and biological sciences. 

Geography

Our Geography Unit of work is ‘Factors that Shape Places’. Students will be encouraged to develop their cultural and geographical skills. They will explore how people change the natural environment in Australia and other places around the world. Students will investigate how the environment influences the human characteristics of places. Students will also learn to process geographical information including representing data in different forms such as graphs, tables and maps.

Personal Development, Health and Physical Education

The Stage 3 Physical Education program is aimed at providing opportunities for students to develop their skills and build confidence in Athletics activities using Fundamental Movement Skills. This will assist students in preparation for the upcoming Cross Country and Athletics Carnival. In Stage 3, students should be consolidating and/or proficient in specific athletics Fundamental Movement Skills. Students will apply these skills through activities and team games. Games are encouraged to build teamwork, communication, strategy and game sense and resilience. 

Open Parachute will be implemented in K-6 as part of our PDH unit. Open Parachute aims to provide practical support on mental health to students. The program aims to reduce stigma and generate authentic dialogue in classrooms about the real issues students face. The psychological skills-building exercises aim to increase empathy, self-compassion, self-awareness, mental health literacy, and self-efficacy in students.

Amadeus Music Program

Students will continue with the Amadeus Music Education Program and participate in activities in listening, performing and organising sound within their regular Classroom Music lessons. 

• It is the student’s responsibility to ensure that they:
  • Arrive on time for each lesson
  • Bring their instrument and required accessories to every lesson
  • Bring their Essential Elements* music book
  • Bring a lead pencil and eraser

In music lessons, students will begin to understand music as an important medium of expression that can be shared both in groups and individually. They will develop an understanding of the roles of performer and composer and how these roles can be both separated and combined. Students will recognise that their work in class as both performers and composers can also be combined.

Creative Arts

Visual Arts will be taught in class, integrated with our Literature and Religious Education study. Students will be focusing on the elements of design, exploring ideas and practices of Indigenous artists, to represent different views, beliefs and opinions. 

Mandarin

Our students continue to enjoy participating in the 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 with educators in China.

Homework 

In Year 5, students are expected to complete 40 minutes of homework each night. It is expected that your child reads for 20 minutes nightly as part of their 40 minutes of homework and record their reading in their diaries. Your child will need to bring their diary to school when their homework is due. 

Homework will be sent home Week 2 Thursday. It will be due fortnightly on a Thursday (even weeks- Wk 4, 6, 8 & 10). Please sign and check your child's homework and make sure it has been completed to the best of their ability and presented neatly.

A homework grid will be sent home in their homework book clearly outlining the tasks. Each fortnight there will be spelling, reading, religion/wellbeing/science and maths tasks (mentals) to complete. (There are optional tasks for the term.)

As a part of maths homework, a Maths Plus mentals and homework book will be provided to all students. A weekly task will be set and we ask that this be returned Thursday fortnightly (even weeks). Maths Plus follows a graded and spiralling approach, allowing for revision of concepts throughout the year. It will provide students with opportunities to sequentially develop, practise and master their skills and knowledge. 

We look forward to continuing to work with you and your child this year. If you have any concerns, please do not hesitate to contact your child’s teacher via a note or by appointment at the office. 

Miss Taylar Puskaric and Miss Belle Reid (5Blue)

Miss Chloe Tozer (5Gold)

Miss Mikayla Duffy (5White)

Important Dates for Year 5

NAPLAN

NAPLAN will take place in Term 1. More information will be provided at a later date. Year 5 students will complete a Writing, Reading, Spelling, Language Conventions and Numeracy test. Your child will need a working pair of headphones for the assessments.

Sports Days:

5B: Monday and Friday

5G: Monday and Friday

5W: Monday and Friday

Library Days:

5B:  Monday

5G:  Monday

5W: Monday

2024 - School Term 1

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