Student Learning

Year 5 Class News 

Each newsletter, we ask a different teacher to share what their class has been learning. This week, our Year 5 reporters inform us of some of their learning in Year 5.

English and Art

By Christian

Our novel study in Term 2 was The Lion, The Witch and The Wardrobe by C S Lewis. We enjoyed reading the book and getting to know the characters. There was so much to learn, including lots and lots of new vocabulary, sentence and paragraph structure. 

In Art, we each created a really fun Aslan portrait using oil pastels, chalk pastels and art liners to make a really cool picture. 

We made some amazing wardrobes (also known as lapbooks) using a large piece of cardboard. Inside our wardrobes was where we glued and decorated cool paper flaps of paper that highlighted the story's main events, where we answered questions, reflected on the story and included some scripture references. We are looking forward to sharing these with our parents at our Student Led Conferences. 

Christian Education

By Isaac

The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe is full of links to Scripture. These are some of our favourites: 

Lucy was drawn towards the light in the wardrobe. In John 8:12, who does the Bible say is the light of the world? Jesus is the light of the world.

In the story, Edmund’s greed gets the better of him when he finds out about the power he can have when he brings his siblings to Narnia. What does the Bible say about being cautious? Proverbs 23:1-3 says, 

"Notice what is in front of you, don't be greedy, control yourself". 

Dioramas 

By Aliyah 

In Novel Study, we read The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe. After we finished the book, Mrs Sarre asked us to choose our favourite scene and make a diorama of it. We worked every day, or most days, during our novel study time to make our dioramas. Once we finished our dioramas we wrote a little bit about our chosen scene. For our dioramas, we used all sorts of things such as clay, paint, pipe cleaners, popsicle sticks, cellophane, the hot glue gun, cotton buds, cardboard boxes and so much more.

Turkish Delight 

By Emilie 

We ate some Turkish Delight in one of the sessions of Novel Study because one of the characters, Edmond, had eaten some. In the story, the Turkish Delight was enchanted, to tempt Edmund to do things for the White Witch. Our Turkish Delight was of course, not enchanted. It was pink and had icing sugar on it and it looked like jelly. Its texture was squishy and powdery. We tried the original flavour, rosewater. Most of us thought it was delicious!

Pre-Service Teachers

Three of our classes are fortunate to have some amazing pre-service teachers in their classrooms for the first 8 weeks of this term. These pre-service teachers are doing their last placement in their final year of teaching studies before qualifying as teachers. Here is what our Year 5 students discovered about each of them.

We interviewed our Pre-service Teachers from Tabor College 

By Charli, Ashton and Levi

Which class are you Teaching? 

Mrs Loffler’s Foundation class

What made you want to become a teacher? 

I love working with kids.

What is your favourite subject? 

I love Art.

What do you like about Pilgrim School so far? 

I love the beautiful community.

Would you rather teach upper or lower primary? 

I love both.

What is your favourite food? 

I love Italian food.

Would you rather sweet or savoury? 

Sweet.

Would you rather artificial or real flavour? 

Real.

If you could go anywhere in the world, where would it be? 

I want to go to the Whitsunday Islands for a second time.

Which class are you teaching? 

Year 6 with Mrs Carpenter and Mrs Wicks.

What made you want to be a teacher?

I love working with kids, and I had a lot of experience teaching in my teenage years.

What is your favourite subject?

I love PE and Maths.

What do you like about Pilgrim school so far?

Beautiful Christian environment and I also love the community.

Would you rather teach upper or lower primary?

Upper primary because I love interacting with this age group and watching them mature. 

What is your favourite food?

Dark chocolate and a really good ripe banana.

Would you rather eat sweet or savoury?

I would rather eat sweet.

Would you rather artificial flavour or real flavour?

Real flavour.

If you could go anywhere in the world, where would it be?

Iceland or North America.

Which class are you teaching?

Year 5 with Mrs Sarre.

What made you decide to be a teacher?

I enjoy working with younger people to make an impact on their learning and to help in ways that I can.

What is your favourite subject?

History, especially Australian history and culture when the First Fleet came.

What do you like about Pilgrim School so far?

Everybody is so welcoming and it’s a positive environment.

Would you rather teach upper or lower primary?

Both, but I really enjoy upper primary.

What is your favourite food?

Orange flavoured chocolate.

Would you rather eat sweet or savoury?

Sweet.

Would you rather artificial flavour or real favour? 

Real flavour. 

Student Led Conferences 

Our Year 5 and 6 students will be presenting their work to their families during Student Led Conferences on Tuesday 13th and Wednesday 14th August. For those families with a student in Year 5 or 6 this year, please ensure you have booked your timeslot on the following TryBooking sites by next Friday 9th August (you only need one ticket for your family). Questions for your child to discuss need to be submitted by Monday 5th August.

Premier's Reading Challenge 

I hope you all found a nice warm place to snuggle up with a good book, and remembered to add it to your recording sheet.

The Premier's Reading Challenge ends in the middle of this term, so you have about five weeks left to complete your recording sheet and return to either your classroom teacher or Mrs Spencer.

If you have any questions, please speak to your class teacher.

I look forward to receiving many record sheets in the next few weeks.

Keep reading,

Libby Spencer

PRC Challenge Coordinator