YEAR FIVE

Religious Education

Easter - 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. 

The Year 5 Liturgical Year unit is broken into the following key ideas:

• Advent - Advent helps us to prepare for the promised Messiah.
• Christmas - The incarnation and birth of Jesus Christ is significant for the people of God.
• 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.
• Easter - Easter celebrates the Resurrection of Jesus and is a time of hope and new life.

Prayer, Liturgy and Sacraments - The Sacraments in the Service of Communion

In this unit students will deepen their understanding of sacramentality and the seven sacraments of the Church. They will examine the Church as a sacrament and study various vocations as a response to our baptismal call. Students will explore the Sacraments of Holy Orders and Matrimony. 

Scripture and Jesus - Our Sacred Scripture

This unit explores the Bible as our Sacred Scripture. Students review the great story of our Tradition: its significant people and events. The unit also introduces the students to the formation and structure of the Bible.

English

Students identify and discuss environmental issues through reading and viewing a variety of texts. They discuss the reliability of sources and analyse how they are presented. Issues may include endangered species, climate change etc. Students develop their own informative and persuasive texts about aspects of sustainability using modality, language text features and structures found in effective texts, including creating infographics using digital tools. Through rich literature, students will explore textual concepts of theme, perspective and context. 

Students will follow the Year 5 Soundwaves spelling program focusing on weekly phonemes and graphemes.

Mathematics

Mathematics lessons will be taught daily with a consistent structure of Daily Review, Mental Arithmetic, Explicit Teaching, Routine Practice activities with Working Mathematically skills embedded throughout the lesson. The topics taught in Term 2 are: Decimals, Length, Angles, Additive Relations and Volume.

Science and Technology

This term, students will continue to engage with the Living World strand, focusing on the growth and survival of living things and how their adaptations over time suit their environment. Students will engage in scientific investigations and produce digital solutions to problems. This strand further develops students’ knowledge and understanding of the environmental and biological sciences. 

Excursion - Living Things Excursion to Symbio Park

Friday 22nd May - Term 2, Week 5

Geography

This term, students will continue to explore ‘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

This sports unit focuses on developing students’ fundamental movement skills, fitness, and game understanding in a fun, active, and team-based environment. Students will participate in a range of health and fitness games and activities that will prepare them for the Athletics Carnival, with exercises that build speed, agility, strength, and coordination. Students will build and refine skills such as running, dodging, passing, kicking, and tagging through engaging activities across AFL, Touch Football, and OzTag. They will apply these skills in modified games that promote teamwork, communication, spatial awareness, and quick decision making. The unit encourages students to develop their overall fitness, resilience, and confidence while learning how to work effectively with others in a range of dynamic game situations.

Important sport dates:

Friday 1st May - Athletics Carnival

Wednesday 6th May - Interschool AFL Gala Day 

Wednesday 20th May - Interschool Soccer Gala Day 

Wednesday 10th June - Interschool Shark Tag Gala Day 

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

Creative Arts

In Creative Arts with Mr Parlato, students explore how AI tools can support and enhance the creative process across Dance, Drama and Music. They investigate how artists and programmers collaborate to develop and refine these technologies, and they experiment with using AI as a tool for innovation in both performing and creative arts.

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 records their reading in their diaries with parental/guardian signature. Your child will need to bring their diary to school when their homework is due. 

Students will complete their homework on a weekly basis. Homework will begin on Thursday Week 2. Completed work is due the following Thursday and will be returned to students that day. 

A homework grid will be sent home in their homework book clearly outlining the tasks. Each week there will be spelling, grammar or comprehension, reading, religion and math tasks to complete. There are also some optional tasks for the term.

Students are required to bring a novel to school each day for daily reading. Please make sure it is suited to their reading ability. If you need assistance, please discuss with your child’s classroom teacher and we are more than happy to select an appropriate book.

We look forward to another productive, happy and successful term with you and your children. 

Kind regards,

Mr Thomas Gair (5B)

Mr CJ Slattery & Mrs Nicole Pyne (5G)

Miss Mikayla Duffy (5W)

Important Dates for Year 5

Sports Days:

5B: Tuesday and Friday 

5G: Tuesday and Friday 

5W: Tuesday and Friday 

Library Days:

5B: Friday (Even Weeks)

5G: Friday (Even Weeks)

5W:  Friday (Even Weeks)

2026 - School Term 2

 Please refer to the Parent Calendar at this link to confirm dates

Dates may have changed after publishing this bulletin.