Year Five
Dear Year Five Families,
It has been a busy and engaging fortnight in Year Five, with students continuing to build confidence, curiosity, and creativity across Literacy, Mathematics and Inquiry.
Literacy
In Literacy, students have been exploring prediction, perspective, questioning and foreshadowing through folktales, Dreaming Stories, poetry, and songs. They used titles and clues to predict what stories might be about and read and discussed texts such as How the Sun Was Made, The Crane and the Crow, and Stone Soup. Students also learned how authors use foreshadowing to hint at what may happen next.
Students explored the significance of Bunurong Dreaming Stories and their connection to Country, culture, and identity. They compared Dreaming Stories with poems, investigated rhyme schemes and structured poetry forms such as haiku, limericks, and cinquains, and then created their own poems using imagery, line breaks, and language choices.
Students then worked creatively to compose their own storytelling songs. They wrote original song lyrics, focusing on how to structure and express a narrative through music and then applying this to music.
Mathematics
In Mathematics, students have been working with place value and decimals. They represented numbers on place value charts, renamed decimals in different ways, and used number lines to compare and order decimals. Students also explored the relationship between decimals and fractions.
As creative thinkers, they created “number line beads” and used them to place decimals accurately on a number line. They also applied this learning to tasks involving decimals less than and greater than one, number line reasoning, and additive thinking, while solving problems that involved making multiple possible decimal numbers.
Inquiry
In Inquiry, Students have been exploring our Central Idea Cultural stories have different purposes and can take many forms. They have been learning about Dreaming Stories and their importance in First Nations cultures, as well as how stories preserve knowledge, teach values, and strengthen identity and connection to place.
These lessons have encouraged students to think about the messages in stories and how they continue to shape the way people think and act today. It has prompted them to reflect on their own cultures and the stories their families have shared across generations.
We were also lucky to have four educators, including two teachers from our Year Five team, share their cultural stories with the Year Five cohort. Their presentations gave students a valuable opportunity to listen, connect, and learn more about the diverse identities within our school community.
Buddy Session
Our Year Five Students recently enjoyed their first session with their Prep Buddy classes, and it was a wonderful success. There were plenty of smiles as students got to know one another through a range of engaging activities, and it was lovely to see connections beginning to form. This Buddy Program will continue throughout the year, giving our Year Five students the chance to develop their leadership skills and act as positive role models for their Prep buddies.
Reminders
Students are required to wear Academic uniform to school. On PE days and Fridays, students are permitted to wear their PE uniform.
Please ensure that devices are brought to school fully charged.
School starts at 8:30am. If a student arrives after this time, they must sign in at the office and receive a late pass.
Kind Regards, Year Five Team.