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Grade 5 News

Learning in Action

Literacy

 

The Grade 5’s have been looking at beginning their passion projects this fortnight. Passion projects are a series of writing pieces written about a topic students are passionate about. Students have begun researching topics that interest them and a leader associated with that topic. For example, some students are passionate about sports, in particular AFL. Students will then begin researching key players and captains from a particular AFL club. 

 

At the moment students are working on using this information to create a biography on their chosen person. As the term continues, students will continue to write different writing pieces about their passion, these writing pieces could be in a variety of different genres that we have covered this year, such as narratives, persuasive, letters or poetry. 

 

Maths

Over the past fortnight, students have been working on creating their own financial plan. Students were given the challenge to choose their own budget and task to create a plan for, one of the options below: 

  1. $500 - To create a party for 30 people (must include, food, drinks, decorations etc)
  2. $5,000- To plan a family holiday for two weeks (must include travel costs, accommodation, activities, food etc.)
  3. $50,000- To renovate a room in your home (must include decor, building materials, cost of labour etc.) 

The third option being the most popular with plenty of games rooms and backyards with pools designed! It was great to see the students so engaged with their learning and understand the real world costs of different items.  

 

Inquiry

Market Day is fast approaching and the students are busy pre-planning for our market Day stalls. All Senior students have been allocated classes around the school from Prep- Grade 4 and surveying them about their likes and preferences. Some questions the students have been asked are:

  1. What stalls would you like to see at market day?
  2. Would you rather buy food or items (e.g toys/bracelets)?
  3. Would you rather have a lucky dip or be able to see what you can buy?
  4. Would you prefer to go to a games stall or a food stall?

 

The data collected will then support our students in planning their market Day stalls ready for week 10.

 

 

Sport

This term we have many sporting events taking place. Below you can find the list of all the events coming up.

Wednesday 1st November - Knox Rugby League Gala Day

Thursday 9th November - Boys Netball

 

Please ensure you keep checking compass for any details about the events. 

We want to wish all of our teams and individual students competing at these events the very best of luck. Again, a big THANK YOU to Mr. Thomas who has done a wonderful job with organising all of these events for our students.

 

NRL Rugby Day

 

 

Last Wednesday, some Grade 5 and 6 students attended a day of rugby run by the NRL. 

 

It was an absolutely cracking day, where the students got access to expert coaching, games against other schools, a relay race and even a dance competition. 

 

 

The students who attended gave everything a red hot go, especially when it was time to dance to Justin Bieber.

 

Wellbeing 

The last fortnight the Senior School have been focusing on the positives and how we have been supporting each other at school. Some of the highlights we have seen are:

  • Supporting each other in the playground and including others
  • Demonstrating resilience in sport days
  • Being an upstander and standing up for friends
  • Showing kindness to others both in the classroom and outside

 

To recognise this we have started a Senior School “sticker chart”. Our aim is to have 3 A4 pages filled up and reward all students with a fun day towards the end of term. 

 

This week the students have also put in preferences for classmates in 2024. Students have been thinking about who they work well with, who supports them in their learning and who are kind to them inside and outside the classroom.