Year 5 Term 3 Newsletter 

The Teaching Team

5A - Emma Harper (PLC Leader)

5B - Julian Gordon

Welcome to Term 3

Dear Families,

The Year 5 students have made a fantastic start to Term 3! It’s been lovely hearing about their holiday adventures and reconnecting with each of them.

This term is filled with exciting opportunities for learning and growth. Students thoroughly enjoyed their first DanceSport lesson and are eagerly looking forward to the ones ahead. We’re also excited for the upcoming Book Week celebrations, especially Grandparents and Special Friends’ Day — a highlight the students are already talking about!

We’re looking forward to a fabulous term ahead.

Warm regards,

The Year 5 Team

 Specialist Timetable

Important Dates

7/08: 3-6 Assembly

17/08: 3-6 House Athletics Carnival

18/08: Special Food Day

21/08: 3-6 Assembly

24/08 - 27/08:  Book Week - 'Symphony of Stories'

25/08: Book Week Parade

4/09: Father's Day Stall

4/09: 3-6 Assembly

10/09: Special Food Day

14/09: District Athletics

18/09: Last Day of Term

18/09: Whole School Assembly

Electronic Rolls

Our electronic rolls are legal documents; therefore, we must be accountable for any absences. Please assist with this by informing the school by replying to the text message sent by Compass in the event of your child being away.

Teaching and Learning

Reading and Viewing 

This term, students will be extending their comprehension skills with a focus on summarising and synthesising. The Year 5s will be reading a class novel: “Because of Mr Terupt”. Students will learn how text structure and language features help them understand stories. They will learn to find deeper meanings in what they read and to think about their own reading strategies.

Writing

The key foci in writing this term will be recounts and script writing. Using quality literature as a model, students will be working with and producing texts that include:

• Texts featuring interesting and engaging introductions, including a strong title.

• Using a range of sentence structures for variety and impact, including simple, compound and complex sentences.

• Including the development of complex language conventions which focus on the importance of using specific detail and having these presented in order of occurrence.

• Writing within specific frameworks and structures to ensure that their writing adequately meets its purpose.

• Accurately editing work to ensure that spelling, punctuation and grammar are accurate.  

English Orthography

Students will investigate different words of their own choosing and interest, whilst also revising the different Spelling Laws and Suffixing Conventions that apply to words.

Mathematics

This term, our students will develop essential skills across five key mathematical areas. In fractions, they will learn to add and subtract fractions with the same and related denominators while solving real-world problems. The measurement unit will focus on selecting appropriate units and accurately measuring length, mass, and capacity. Students will extend their number understanding through decimals, learning to round, express numbers in expanded form, and work with precise measurements. Our angles unit will cover measuring and drawing all angle types, exploring polygon properties, and creating tessellations, while the location unit will introduce coordinate geometry in the first quadrant. Students will apply these skills through engaging rich tasks, including planning fundraisers with fractions, designing playgrounds using angle measurements, conducting scientific investigations with decimal precision, and solving coordinate treasure hunts. These experiences will strengthen both computational skills and real-world problem-solving abilities.

Humanities

This term, our focus follows on from Semester One and investigates the history of the gold rush, the Eureka Stockade, and how it changed Australia. We learn how this affected First Nations People and what the immigrants brought to Australia. Throughout this unit, we will be focusing on:

• What life was like for the miners in the early days of the Gold Rush?

• What led to the Eureka Stockade?

• How did the Eureka Stockade affect and change Australia?

• How did the miners from different nationalities affect Victoria and Australia?

• Why were Chinese people treated differently?

• Why were First Nations People treated differently?

Wellbeing

CEPS VALUES

COURTESY    RESPECT    CO-OPERATION    RESPONSIBILITY 

This term, we will continue exploring Resilience, Rights and Respectful Relationships, with a focus on problem-solving and developing strategies that can be used to reduce stress. We will also support students in strengthening their growth mindset, helping them understand that challenges are opportunities to learn and grow.

To further support the school values, CEPS follows a SWPBS framework, which we refer to as CEPS Positive Behaviours Support. This framework encourages acknowledging positive behaviours displayed by students within the school. 

Friday afternoon assembly awards will be given to children who have shown personal growth specific to the school's values. Parents will be informed if their child is receiving an award. Your child may receive a CEPS raffle ticket for displaying the expected positive behaviours! Award winners will be drawn and announced during assembly on Friday afternoons. 

Supporting Learning from Home

Homework

Homework is important for establishing routines in preparation for secondary school. Students are expected to read daily, record this in their diaries and have a parent sign this off. They should also practise their number fluency (e.g. times tables).  In addition, they have a choice of projects they can work on over the month.

Communication

If you have any queries along the way, please feel free to contact us via email through Compass. If any more urgent concerns arise, please organise a time to meet with your child’s teacher.

We use Compass to communicate School and Year 5 Information and Class Dojo to celebrate the children’s daily learning. 

Whilst we endeavour to get back to you promptly, please understand that we are often unable to check these messages until after 3:30pm. If you need an important message to be passed on to your child, we ask that you communicate this via the office (e.g. to advise that your child will be collected early or by another family member). The office will then pass the message on to your child's classroom teacher.

Compass: Compass is the formal tool for communication regarding attendance, payments, excursions, camps, permission forms, school reports, etc.

Please use Compass to advise the school in a timely manner of all student absences.

Early Pick Up: If you need to pick up your child early, please collect them from the office area and be sure to sign them out. You will require an Early Leaver's Pass, provided by the office staff, before we are able to dismiss students. 

You can also keep up-to-date by using the school website and weekly newsletters:  http://www.cheltenhameast.vic.edu.au