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

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.

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: Multiplicative Relations, Area, Representing Numbers, 2D Shapes, Length and Angles. 

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

This term in sport, students are provided opportunities to develop their skills and build their confidence in Athletics activities by using their fundamental movement skills. This will assist students in preparation for the upcoming Athletics Carnival. Students will practise and apply these skills through athletics activities and games. Students will also be exploring various indigenous games, to build upon their knowledge and understanding of various cultures. Throughout the unit each activity will assist in the development of their sportsmanship,  teamwork, communication, strategy and resilience. 

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

Our Visual Arts program for Term 2 will be integrated with our literature study. Students will be focusing on the elements of design, exploring ideas and practices of Indigenous artists, to represent different views, beliefs and opinions. Visual Arts will be taught in class and closely link to our recurring themes of sustainability, species survival and stewardship across Science, Literacy, Religion and Geography. 

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.

Mandarin

Our students continue to enjoy participating in the Chinese language program called the Meg Language Program. The Meg Curriculum is written by the co-author of the Australian Curriculum. All students and teachers will participate in the digital learning platform via Zoom weekly sessions with educators in China.

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 (mentals) 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).

We look forward to continuing to work with you and your child this year. If you have any concerns, please do not hesitate to contact your child’s teacher via a note or by appointment at the office. 

Miss Taylar Puskaric (5Blue)

Miss Chloe Tozer (5Gold)

Miss Mikayla Duffy (5White)

Important Dates for Year 5

Sports Days:

5B: Mondays and Thursdays

5G: Mondays and Thursdays

5W: Mondays and Thursdays

Library Days:

5B: Mondays

5G: Mondays

5W: Mondays

Interschool School Sport Football (Soccer) 

Round 1 - Wednesday May 1, 2024 - Term 2, Week 1 - 

                    Level 1 Players only due to weather impacting the schedule

Round 2 - Wednesday May 29, 2024 - Term 2, Week 5

Interschool School Sport Shark Tag

Wednesday June 19, 2024 - Term 2, Week 8

2024 - School Term 2

Parent calendar available at this link