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

Prayer, Liturgy and Sacraments - The Sacraments in the Service of Communion

In this unit, students will deepen their understanding of sacramentality and the seven sacraments of the Church. They will examine the Church as a sacrament and study various vocations as a response to our baptismal call. Students will explore the Sacraments of Holy Orders and Matrimony.

Church and Community - The Story of the Catholic Church in Australia 

This unit explores the story of the Catholic Church in Australia. It focuses on the challenges faced by Catholics in their early years in Australia. Students will investigate key events and people that have shaped the identity and growth of the Catholic Church in Australia. Students will explore the school history and charism that shaped the identity of their school.

English

Students will 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 will 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. 

Our Whole School Public Speaking Competition will be held late this term. Students will plan, rehearse and present a persuasive speech on a given topic using relevant communication skills and language features.

Students will read a wide range of texts in our Daily Reading Groups. A main focus will be reading fluency and developing comprehension strategies including analysing text structures and interpreting Tier 2 and Tier 3 vocabulary

Mathematics

Mathematics lessons will be taught daily with a consistent structure of daily review, mental arithmetic, explicit teaching, and routine practice activities with 'working mathematically' skills embedded throughout the lesson. The topics taught in Term 3 are: Additive Relations, Data, Represents Numbers, 3D Objects and Time. 

Science and Technology

This Semester, the Year 5 students will be studying the Material World strand, which focuses on how the properties of a range of materials and how they are combined, determine their use and inform design solutions. Students investigate the different properties of solids, liquids and gases, and consider combining and separating mixtures. Stage 3 of this strand introduces students to fundamental concepts of chemistry and is an introduction to material technologies.

History

This Semester, the Year 5 students will be engaging in the History program ‘Australian Colonies and Policies’, which provides a study of colonial Australia in the 1800s. Students look at the founding of British colonies and the development of a colony. They learn about what life was like for different groups in the colonial period. They examine significant events and people, political and economic developments, social structures and settlement patterns.

Personal Development, Health and Physical Education

In Term 3, Year 5 students will be involved in multiple class tournaments such as the Olympics Games, in which they will be given the opportunity to undertake specific roles, such as being coaches, captains, referees, officials, first aid officers and scorekeepers. This will allow them to demonstrate their leadership and communication skills while giving them some creative freedom and independence in the implementation of the tournament. The unit will end with a final game for each sport including soccer, netball, oz tag, volleyball and basketball, to showcase the gameplay strategies that they have developed throughout the term. Students will also be participating in the Tri Tag Rugby Gala day in Week 8. They will be practising and learning the game in sports lessons. 

A program titled Open Parachute will be implemented in K-6. 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.

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 your child's 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

Sport Days

5B: Mondays and Thursdays

5G: Mondays and Thursdays

5W: Mondays and Thursdays

Music and Library Days

5B: Monday

5G: Monday

5W: Monday

Interschool School Sport - Tri Tag Rugby

Wednesday 18th September, 2024 - Term 3, Week 9

2024 - School Term 3

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