Year 5 Report

Well done on another successful term! We have had a busy term with fun events such as Book Week, Writers Festival and Science Day and our upcoming Sovereign Hill excursion. The students have worked hard and shown great growth both academically and socially. 

Literacy

This term in Writing, students created information reports on topics that interested while we were learning about Australia's colonial history. They developed their own research questions, conducted their own research and included non-fiction features such as glossaries, images and captions. Students were able to publish their finished reports in a variety of different ways including Microsoft Word, PowerPoint and as a Poster.

Students have supported their work on Australia's Colonial History by reading a variety of non-fiction texts about each big event in our history including the Gold Rush, First Fleet and Indigenous Australian's.

Maths

We began term 3 looking at 3D shape, angles and capacity. We have ended our term looking at Multiplication and Division. We had a big focus on connecting multiplication facts to their arrays and also learning our times tables and the students hard work is starting to pay off as more and more of them are achieving the goal of knowing all their facts up to 10X10. 

Inquiry

This term in Inquiry, students have used the knowledge they have gained in our reading sessions about Australia's colonial history to create historical timelines.  Students were required to create a summary about each key event in Australia's colonial history and add it to the correct time place on their timeline. 

Park It - Incursion 

Grade 5 Students participated in a new government initiative to encourage students to walk to school. During this activity students discussed why it was important to do exercise and how they could encourage students to walk to school. Students designed footpath art to be placed on the pathways. 

Science Week Foosball Table challenge

Reminders

• School starts at 8.50: We have a high number of students arriving to school late each day. Ten minutes late each day is 50 minutes of missed learning a week. That's an entire session of learning!
• Homework: The expectation is that all students read for half an hour each night and record this in their diaries for the teacher to monitor. Students who have been reading have shown great growth in all areas of their learning. Half an hour each night really does make a difference!
• Sovereign HIll Excursion: Week 10 Tuesday17th September 2024 - Students need to be at school to depart at 8am and will return at 4.30pm
• KABOOM: We are having an Olympic themed KABOOM Day on the last day of Term 3. The day will be packed full of fun activities with students working in teams with students from all other year levels. Don't miss the fun!
• Last Day of Term 3.:Last day of term 3 will be Friday 20th September.
• First Day of Term 4: First day of term 4 will be Monday 7th October.