Year 5 Spotlight

Walking Excursion

As part of our inquiry unit, ‘Our Community’ the Year 5 students ventured down to Alphington Community Centre. We walked there in two groups over two days. It was great to see a real life facility that supports and includes the local community. The purpose of this was for the students to draw inspiration from this to help them plan and design a community centre that is inclusive of all needs in the community.

Students will be working on designing a floor plan, finding a location, designing a logo, name, slogan, scheduling a timetable with a range of activities, creating features that make it inclusive of all needs in the community and a diorama.

Watch this space as the Year 5 teachers will be sending out a communication for families to view our finished products towards the end of term.

Student quotes:

It was nice to walk down to the community centre to help give us inspiration to design our own in the next few weeks. ~ Seb, W

It was nice to have a walking excursion to the community centre, once we were there, it was great to see what they do there and offer to help people in the community, ~Viv, 5B

Wizard of Oz Concert

Well done to all Year 5s who participated in the recent Year 5/6 concert. It was excellent to see the classes engage in the senior school performance. The students’ hard work rehearsing paid off on the night with a fantastic performance! The students also got a taste of the requirements and possible roles they could take on as Year 6 students, including a speaking part, backstage work, or assisting with props.

Student quotes:

I loved the experience and I cannot wait to try out for a bigger role in Year 6. Keri did an amazing job. It was a big highlight of my time at FPS. ~ Penny, 5B

Concert was stunning. It was unbelievable. It was the best night of my life. ~ Sophia, 5C

It was so fun to perform on stage with all my classmates. ~ Ava, 5C

It was so much fun to perform on stage and the energy backstage was bustling with excitement. My favourite item was 'Runaway Baby'. ~ Ella, 5C

The concert was very exciting and fun. I enjoyed it a lot. My favourite dance was 'Runaway Baby'. ~ Trinity, 5C

It was great to perform on stage and show everything we worked on. Keri is an extremely good Performing Arts teacher and we got to do exciting things. ~ Toshi, 5C

The concert was the most fun experience I’ve had in a while and it looked like a lot of people had put hard work into it. ~ Bonnie, 5A

I really liked the concert because ‘The Wizard of Oz’ is a great story. We all danced really well. Also, I really liked Glinda’s dress! ~ Harriet, 5A

Wheelchair Basketball – Alternative Sports

As part of our Year 5 Alternative Sports program, Geoff has helped organise Peter and his travelling car and trailer full of wheelchairs to visit. Peter is in a wheelchair himself and he has been helping the students learn how to play wheelchair basketball. He has also shared his personal experiences and helped the students to see that when unexpected things happen in life there are supports out there for people to access to live their lives to the fullest.

Student Quotes:

Peter and Jeremy are really fun coaches. It was a really forgiving experience and to try movement in a different way was fun. ~ Kit, 5C

I loved it even though Peter kept fouling me. ~ Charlotte, 5C

I think it was really fun to play sports we wouldn’t play day-to-day. ~ Jemima, 5C

It’s so much harder to shoot from a wheelchair than normal basketball and I really enjoyed it. ~ Harper, 5C

I have enjoyed these wheelchair basketball sessions because Peter has shared his experience and life living in a wheelchair. ~ Hamish, 5B

I was really looking forward to this and I didn’t realise how much fun I would have. ~ Alice, 5B

I was a bit scared at first, but Peter and the lessons helped me improve my confidence and skills. He made it really enjoyable. ~ Theda, 5B

I thought it was going to be difficult, but Peter helped us learn in a fun way and now it is so enjoyable. ~ Xander, 5B

I enjoyed how they put the hoop down to make it easier and how everyone smashed into each other like bumper cars.  ~ Raanier, 5A

I thought wheelchair basketball was really great because they brought in actual wheelchairs, you don’t play just one game and basketball is fun in general. ~ Ethan, 5A

Wheelchair basketball is an amazing sport – it’s entertaining, it can help exercise your arms and ride the wheelchairs like bumper cars. ~ Tarki, 5A

Year 5 Teachers (Naomi, Blake, Anne, Jade & Tom) and Students