Year 5
Mr Jones (5A), Ms Miller (5B), Ms Armstrong (5C) & Mr Rowley (5D)
Year 5 March Newsletter 2025
Literacy
In Literacy, the Year 5 students have been learning about the Novel ‘The Wild Robot’. We have recently finished reading the story and all of the children have expressed their excitement about the book. The students analysed different parts of the story by discussing cause and effect, author’s purpose, characterisation as well expanding their vocabulary with interesting words and phrases from the text. Students have also learnt about sentence structure and the different types of sentences we use when writing.
Numeracy
In Numeracy, the Year 5 students have been extending their knowledge of operations. The learning focused around teaching students how to balance equations, strategies they could use to find the missing number in a number sequence, and how to solve problems using vertical addition and subtraction. The students have also been learning about ‘time’ by converting units of time from 12 to 24 hours and calculating elapsed time.
Social and Emotional Learning
In SEL, the Year 5 students have been building on our knowledge about The Resilience Project. We have focused on understanding emotions and recognising positive emotions and how and why they make us feel the way we do. Students also discussed how being kind or an act of kindness can lead to a happy emotion and a sense of love.
Auslan
In Auslan, the Year 5 students have been learning how to sign colours, everyday greetings and how to sign words relating to family. The cohort are really excited to demonstrate their ability to ‘sign’ and communicate with one another without the use of their voices.
NAPLAN
The Year 5 students recently participated in the NAPLAN Assessments. It was a busy few days with the students completing assessments on Reading, Writing, Language Conventions and Numeracy across the 3 days. All of the students tried their very best and demonstrated their resilience by tackling any challenges that were thrown at them. We’re very proud of the Year 5 students who participated in the NAPLAN assessments.