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

Liturgical Year - Easter

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.

God, Religion & Life: Good Stewards of Creation

This unit explores creation as a gift from God, which we are called to care for and protect. In this unit, students will develop a deeper understanding of God as Creator, and will appreciate more fully that creation is good.  We are called to be one with each other and the earth community.  The unit focuses on developing an understanding of our responsibility to care for God’s creation. It also explores our decisions to respect and care for the environment which will affect our world, both now and in the future. Students will identify issues of misuse and mismanagement in the environment and explore how we, as stewards of creation, can respond appropriately and compassionately. 

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: Data, Representing Number - Decimals, Mass, Length, Angles and Multiplication and Area. 

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. 

Geography

Through inquiry based learning students will focus on ‘Factors that Shape Places’. Students investigate how people change the natural environment in Australia and other places around the world. They also explore how the environment influences the human characteristics of places. Students examine ways people influence the characteristics of places, including the management of spaces. Students explore the impact bushfires have on Australian people, places and environments and propose ways people can reduce the impact of bushfires in the future.

Personal Development, Health and Physical Education

The sport unit focuses on developing athletics and Oz Tag skills in a fun, team-oriented environment. Students will refine running, jumping, and throwing techniques through engaging athletic activities to prepare them for the upcoming Athletics Carnival.They will also build key Oz Tag skills, such as passing, tagging, and spatial awareness, which prepare them for the Shark Tag Interschool sports day. The unit promotes teamwork, resilience, and problem-solving, building confidence, and fostering lifelong engagement in sport and movement.

Important sport dates:

Friday the 2nd of May - Athletics Carnival

Wednesday the 7th of April - Interschool Soccer Gala Day Round 1

Wednesday the 4th of June - Interschool Soccer Gala Day Round 2 

Wednesday the 25th of June - Interschool Shark Tag

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

Drama

In Drama with Mr Parlato, students will learn lines, rehearse dramatic scenes, create character profiles, and costumes  to perform a play. Students will be asked to practically demonstrate their understanding of the elements of drama through their collaborative work and their performance. 

Visual Arts

Students will explore a variety of themes through visual art, integrating their learning across the Religion and Humanities curriculum areas. As part of our Religion KLA, students will create artworks inspired by the Feast Day of Our Lady of Fatima and the Creation Story, reflecting on their spiritual and religious significance.Students will examine artworks that highlight conservation efforts and endangered species, deepening their understanding of environmental responsibility through creative expression. They will also engage in meaningful learning and artistic activities to celebrate NAIDOC Week, developing an appreciation for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander culture, history, and perspectives.Through these units, students will be encouraged to express their ideas creatively while building cultural awareness and respect for our environment and diverse communities.

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. 

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 to complete.

Please sign and check your child's homework and make sure it has been completed to the best of their ability and presented neatly. Homework is due fortnightly on Thursdays (even weeks).

Miss Taylar Stewand Miss Belle Reid (5Blue)

Miss Chloe Tozer (5Gold)

Miss Mikayla Duffy (5White)

Important Dates for Year 5

Sports Days:

5B: Monday and Friday

5G: Monday and Friday

5W: Monday and Friday

Library Days:

5B:  Friday (even weeks)

5G:  Friday (even weeks)

5W: Friday (even weeks)

Year 5 Excursion to Symbio: Friday, 16th of May

Communication

We look forward to working with you and your child this term. A gentle reminder that all emails are to be sent through info@olfcaringbah.catholic.edu.au. If you have any concerns, please do not hesitate to contact your child’s teacher via a note or by making an appointment via the office.

2025 - School Term 2

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