Grade 5 News

Upcoming Dates – Term 4

Monday 8th December: Senior School Trivia Day

Tuesday 9th December: Statewide Transition Day (Meet the Teacher 2026)

Wednesday 10th December: Christmas Concert 5:30-6:30pm

Friday 12th December: Meet the Teacher 2:00pm (2026)

Monday 15th December: Senior School Bike Ride

Wednesday 17th December: Class Parties

Thursday 18th December: Christmas Raffle

Thursday 18th December: Last Day for students (1:30pm Dismissal)

Friday 19th December: Curriculum Day (Pupil free day)

Learning in Action

📖 Literacy

It has been a fabulous year of learning in Grade 5. This year we completed many Literature units, including War Horse, Waves, Wandering Lonely as a Cloud, Hatchet and The Last Bear. Throughout the units, students deeply explored new vocabulary, the structure of sentences and different text types. From each unit, students produced engaging pieces of writing, using what they had learnt during the unit. Students created narratives, poems and persuasives pieces.

➗ Maths

Throughout the year we deepened our understanding of the Grade 5 content. Through explicit lessons and Daily Reviews, students had hundreds and hundreds of opportunities to retrieve learnt information and show their understanding.

Many units were covered, including:

Data representation
Factors and multiples
Multiplication and division
Area and perimeter
Addition and subtraction
24-hour time
Reading timetables
Decimals
Fractions
Percentages
2D shapes
3D objects
Probability
Angles
Measurement
Location

To add to this, students regularly practised their fluency through the Maths Masters program. Congratulations to all students who passed their goal or a coloured belt. An extra big congratulations to these students who passed Black Belt and are now Black Belt Masters:

Blair V
Lyndon C
Aekem K
Elizabeth R
Austin H
Pasha M
Brandon A

Knowledge Rich

Throughout the year, students were engaged and curious with new topics during Knowledge Rich. They delved into the units Natural Disasters and Geographical features, where they learnt about natural disasters that impact Australians and their land. They also explored Understanding Economics and expanded their knowledge about producers, consumers, needs, wants, credit, profits and incentives. This helped prepare them for Market Day and create their own small business.