Connect: Year 5

Welcome to the final newsletter for 2024!

To all our wonderful year 5 families, thank you so much for all your support this year.

It has been a terrific year full of so much happiness and growth!

We would like to wish all families a happy holiday and all the best for 2025!

From Mr Jackson & Miss A

Key dates - Year 5

Final Assembly (9:15 am) - Friday 13th December
End of Year Class Party & Kris Kringle - Wednesday 18th December
Last day of School (1:30 pm finish) - Friday 20th December

Class Parties:

To celebrate the end of Year 5 we will be having Class Parties on Wednesday 18 th of December. To make it easier for all, can we please have our girl students bring savoury (hot or cold) and boys sweet (can include fruit). Students also need to bring a plate and fork. We’ll start a list at school of who is bringing what so we don’t over-carter.

Kris Kringle:

Many students have shown an interest in holding a Kris Kringle gift exchange. If your child would like to participate, please bring a wrapped, gender-neutral gift to the value of $5 which will be exchanged at our class party. Please note this is not mandatory.

The Next Fortnight of Learning

Literacy

Below are a few examples of our advertisements we created recently as part of our persuasive writing. Students were asked to design a brand new cereal box and use as many persuasive strategies and techniques as possible to make their product attractive to their target audience!

Maths

The past few weeks have all been about revision of the 4 operations. Students have continued to revise a variety of strategies to solve Multiplication and Division problems including the area model and the lattice method. Students also balanced equations. Over the holidays please encourage your child to practice recalling multiplication and division facts.

Inquiry

In Inquiry sessions students began finishing up our unit on "Solids, Gases and liquids."

A highlight was finally conducting their volcano experiments!

Wellbeing

This term as part of our Wellbeing learning students will be exploring the following topics:

Personal Strengths
Character Traits
Positive and Negative Talk
Personal Coping Strategies

Big Congratulations!

Congratulations to all of our amazing year 5 students who courageously put themselves forward for a Grade 6 leadership role! Your enthusiasm and determination is truly commendable, and although not everyone was successful, this experience will surely shape you into even stronger leaders for the future.