Year 5 News 

Reading

To finish off Term 3, Year 5 students continued their author study on Gus Gordon. They studied and researched important information about Gus Gordon, such as his background, some of the books he has written and illustrated, whether he has been successful in winning awards and also spoke about their favourite book and character. 

To begin Term 4, Year 5 students have been learning all about explanation text features to assist them with writing their own explanation texts. They have learnt about the structure of this text type, highlighting key features such as the title, opening statement, connectives, technical vocabulary and conclusion. 

“My favourite Gus Gordon book was The Last Peach because I like bugs.” - Ronan 5C

“My favourite character that Gus Gordon made was Wendy the Flying Chicken.” - Emmerson 5C

“It was fun and easy to research about Gus Gordon.” - Zach 5D

Writing

In Writing, Year 5 students ended Term 3 by continuing to explore procedural texts by working with a partner to create their own board game. As a team, students brainstormed ideas, drafted instructions using sequencing words and imperative verbs and drafted, revised and edited their game instructions, ensuring they had included all of the features of a procedural text before publishing their final games. On the last day of term 3, Year 5 students had the opportunity to share and play their board games with their peers. Take a look at some of their board games below!

To begin Term 4, Year 5 students have been learning how to write explanation texts. Students looked closely at a variety of mentor texts to see how explanations work, brainstormed ‘how’ and ‘why’ questions, researched their chosen topics and practised paraphrasing so that information was written in their own words. They used cause and effect structures and planned and drafted their own explanation texts. 

Writing

In Writing, Year 5 students ended Term 3 by continuing to explore procedural texts by working with a partner to create their own board game. As a team, students brainstormed ideas, drafted instructions using sequencing words and imperative verbs and drafted, revised and edited their game instructions, ensuring they had included all of the features of a procedural text before publishing their final games. On the last day of term 3, Year 5 students had the opportunity to share and play their board games with their peers. Take a look at some of their board games below!

To begin Term 4, Year 5 students have been learning how to write explanation texts. Students looked closely at a variety of mentor texts to see how explanations work, brainstormed ‘how’ and ‘why’ questions, researched their chosen topics and practised paraphrasing so that information was written in their own words. They used cause and effect structures and planned and drafted their own explanation texts. 

“I really enjoyed being able to create our own board games.” - Aleisha 5C

“I really liked making a board game with Aaron” - Zander 5A

“I really enjoyed being able to create our own board games.” - Aleisha 5C

“I really liked making a board game with Aaron” - Zander 5A

Maths 

To finish off Term 3, Year 5 students learnt how to read and interpret a variety of graphs, such as pie graphs, line plots and double bar graphs. Students practised answering questions based on the data and predicting trends.

To begin Term 4, Year 5 students started their new unit on Location and Transformation. Students learnt how to locate points on coordinate grids using the x- and y-axis and how to write coordinates correctly. They also learnt about the differences between coordinates and grid references. To apply their skills, they participated in fun and engaging activities, such as classroom Battleships and mystery picture grids.

“I liked collecting data by asking my peers.” - Mohamed 5C

“It was fun asking people about their opinions.” - Devrim 5D

“I loved playing Battleships. It was fun to win.” - Haider 5D

“I think it is really important to label your grids with the x and y axis!” - Losipeli 5B

“ I loved playing Battleships this week, because it involved us saying coordinates”. - Yousif 5B

Inquiry

In Inquiry, Year 5 students ended Term 3 by finalising and presenting their Canva Biome projects to their peers. Students practised their presentation skills by making eye contact with their audience, speaking clearly and showing confidence. They shared their presentations and gave their peers an insight into the biome they researched, by including information such as the temperature and climate, the location, the different plants and animals and some interesting facts. 

To begin Term 4, Year 5 students were introduced to their new Inquiry unit, Demokratika! They explored what makes up the values of Australia and why democracy is important. Students began by sharing what they already knew and what they wondered through a KWL chart. 

“I really liked working with my partner to create our Polar and Tundra biome on Canva.” - Artaaz 5C

“I liked playing around with the animals and making them look realistic in our biome.” - Chelsy 5C

“I like using Canva to create a Biome and now I know how to use Canva” - Marcus 5A

“I was really fun to learn about the Southern Ocean and I saw animals that I didn’t know existed” - Mara 5A

Social and Emotional Learning

To finish off Term 3, Year 5 students explored the concept of respect. They discussed what respect means, who we show it to and where it can be seen. To build on this learning, students were introduced to the schoolwide respect poster competition, where they created persuasive and creative posters promoting respect. Year 5 students worked extremely hard to include catchy phrases, creative pictures and strong visual messages to show the importance of respect. 

To begin Term 4, Year 5 students have revisited classroom expectations and reflected on the CPS school values of Responsibility, Resilience and Kindness. As there is only one more term left of 2025, students have discussed what makes a good leader, discussing the qualities and behaviours that will help them be positive role models for younger students and successful leaders in their last year of primary school. 

“I enjoyed making our respect posters because we got to create and show other people how to show respect.” - Holly 5C

“We learnt how to show respect by when you have a question, put your hand up” - Silina 5A

Auslan

In Auslan, Year 5 students finished off Term 3 by revisiting and practising the signs for numbers. Students were excited and intrigued as they were introduced to numbers beyond 100, even 1000!

To begin Term 4, students learnt how to sign different types of weather. They learnt the signs weather, rain, wind, snow, wet, warm, cold, hot, storm, sun, lightning, thunder, clouds, dry, hail and temperature. 

Special Event

CPS Market Night: On Thursday the 18th of September, CPS families were invited to enjoy an afternoon filled with stalls, games, entertainment, tasty food and plenty of fun for everyone at the CPS Market Night. They worked hard on their creative artwork and designs to encourage everyone to come along and join in on the fun! Take a look below at some photos from the event and the fantastic posters created by Year 5 students. 

“I loved writing it and having it displayed.” - Zach 5D