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

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.

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. 

English

Students identify and discuss environmental issues such as endangered species and climate change through reading and viewing a variety of texts. Students develop their own informative and persuasive texts about aspects of sustainability using modality, language text features and structures found in effective texts.

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

Students will follow the Year 5 Soundwaves spelling program focusing on weekly phonemes and graphemes. They will read a wide range of texts in our Daily Fluency and 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, Routine Practice activities with Working Mathematically skills embedded throughout the lesson. The topics taught in Term 3 are: 2D Shapes, Area, Addition and Subtraction, Division, Data 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 the way in which 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 materials technologies.

History

This Semester, 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

This term in sport, students will develop their skills in European Handball and Volleyball, with a strong focus on teamwork, coordination, and strategic play. In European Handball, students will refine their techniques in passing, shooting, and defending, with an emphasis on smooth transitions between attack and defense. These skills will support them in the upcoming Inter-School Sports Gala Day. In Volleyball, students will work on serving, setting, and forearm passing, aiming to boost accuracy and control. Through targeted drills, mini-games, and structured match scenarios, students will strengthen their communication, spatial awareness, and decision-making, preparing them for both competitive and cooperative game play.

Additionally, students will learn about road safety, covering essential topics such as safe practices when walking, riding as a passenger, and responsible use of roads.

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.

Creative Arts

In Visual Arts with Mrs Brown, students will be responding creatively to various themes and events including Book Week, Father’s Day and Grandparent’s Day, using an array of techniques and mediums. Visual arts will also be integrated with our literature study, focusing on the theme of metamorphosis.

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 mathematics tasks 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).

Mrs Taylar Stewart and Miss Belle Reid (5Blue)

Miss Chloe Tozer (5Gold)

Miss Mikayla Duffy (5White)

Important Dates for Year 5

Sport Days:

5B: Tuesday and Friday

5G: Tuesday and Friday

5W: Tuesday and Friday

Library Days:

5B:  Friday (even weeks)

5G:  Friday (even weeks)

5W: Friday (even weeks)

Interschool Sport:

• Tuesday 29th July - Term 3, Week 2 (Football - Rescheduled) 
• Wednesday 27th August - Term 3, Week 6 (European Handball)

2025 - School Term 3

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