YEAR FIVE

Our Lady of Fatima Catholic Primary School provides a range of holistic learning experiences to enable students to:

• Participate in the life and mission of the school.
• Deepen their knowledge and engagement with the Catholic faith and tradition.
• Build capacity to continuously reason, reflectively, logically and critically.
• Embrace interdependence of human existence as global citizens, who are responsible to and for themselves and others.
• Engage in learning in a multitude of ways, through personalised and self-paced learning.

Religious Education

Morality & Justice: Social Justice

Students will explore how social justice calls Christians to respect the dignity of the human person. Students will explore Scripture and Church Tradition to inform our understanding of social justice and the Church’s mission to build a just world. In their exploration, students will study the principles of Catholic Social Teaching and the model of See, Judge, Act, to enable them to review situations of injustice. Students will look at ways the Catholic Church in Australia reaches out to people who struggle to live with injustice.

Prayer, Liturgy and Sacraments - 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. 

This term Year 5 will explore the units of:

• 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.

English

This term, students will compose both imaginative and persuasive texts using ‘Seven Steps of Writing’ technique. Students will be taught explicit skills in relation to grammar, punctuation, vocabulary and specific concepts about print.

Students read and view a variety of texts representing First Nations perspectives, culture and identity and understand how they contribute to Australia's national identity. Students make connections between their own experiences and those of real and fictitious characters and events represented in texts. They explore how context shapes the structure of texts as well as the meaning being communicated by the composer. Students also create texts and express different viewpoints through careful attention to language and grammar.

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 1 are: Whole Number, Addition and Subtraction, Fractions and Chance. 

Science and Technology

This Semester in Science and Technology, students will be exploring the Living World strand. Students investigate how and why food and fibre are produced in sustainable, managed environments that enable people to grow and be healthy. This strand further develops students’ knowledge and understanding of the environmental and biological sciences. 

Geography

Our Geography Unit of work is ‘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

In sport lessons students will focus on refining fundamental movement skills through fun games and challenges that enhance coordination, decision-making, and tactical strategies. The unit also incorporates cultural games, such as Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander activities, promoting inclusivity and respect. Students will develop sportsmanship and fair play in a supportive environment, with a focus on soccer skills such as, dribbling, passing, shooting, and teamwork, to prepare for the Interschools Sports Soccer Gala Day in Term 2 Week 1. Students will also be participating in games and activities to prepare them for the OLF Cross Country which is on Friday the 14th of March in week 6. 

Students will participate in the 6-week Fit Futures Active Gymnastics Program, starting in Week 4 and finishing in Week 9. This program will focus on developing their fundamental movement skills (FMS) while applying decision-making and problem-solving strategies to perform movement sequences. Throughout the program, students will build self-awareness and communication skills. They will have the opportunity to use various equipment, including mats, beams, bars, and mini trampolines, to enhance their gymnastics skills.

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

In music lessons, students will begin to understand music as an important medium of expression that can be shared both in groups and individually. They will develop an understanding of the roles of performer and composer and how these roles can be both separated and combined. Students will recognise that their work in class as both performers and composers can also be combined.

Creative Arts

Music

In Music with Mr Parlato, students will develop their musical skills and understanding by exploring the ukulele. They will learn to identify and describe the parts of the instrument, develop technical proficiency in playing fundamental chords, and apply various strumming patterns to perform songs. Through this, students will engage in performing, organizing sound, and listening.

Visual Art

In Visual Arts this term students will be focusing on the 'Elements of Art'. They will be applying and engaging these elements in response to  a range of themes within Units of work. Students will be having Mrs Brown on a fortnightly basis over the term. 

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 record their reading in their diaries. Your child will need to bring their diary to school when their homework is due. 

Homework will be sent home Week 2 Thursday. It will be due fortnightly on a Thursday (even weeks - Wk 4, 6, 8 & 10). Please sign and check your child's homework and make sure it has been completed to the best of their ability and presented neatly.

A homework grid will be sent home in their homework book clearly outlining the tasks. Each fortnight there will be spelling, reading, religion/wellbeing/science and maths tasks (mentals) to complete. There are also some optional tasks for the term.

As a part of maths homework, a Maths Plus mentals and homework book will be provided to all students. A weekly task will be set and we ask that this be returned Thursday fortnightly (even weeks). Maths Plus follows a graded and spiralling approach, allowing for revision of concepts throughout the year. It will provide students with opportunities to sequentially develop, practise and master their skills and knowledge. 

Mrs Taylar Stewart and Miss Belle Reid (5Blue)

Miss Chloe Tozer (5Gold)

Miss Mikayla Duffy (5White)

Important Dates for Year 5

NAPLAN

NAPLAN will take place in Term 1. More information will be provided at a later date. Year 5 students will complete a Writing, Reading, Spelling, Language Conventions and Numeracy test. Your child will need a working pair of headphones for the assessments. Naplan online tests commencing on Wednesday 12th March. The online testing period will conclude on Friday 24th March

Sport Days:

5B: Tuesday & Friday

5G: Tuesday & Friday

5W: Tuesday & Friday

Library Days:

5B: Friday

5G: Friday

5W: Friday

2025 - School Term 1

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