Year 5 Program

Semester 1

English

Students are learning to critically analyse a variety of texts and use evidence to support inferences and opinions. They are exposed to the reading strategies of thinking within the text, thinking beyond the text and thinking about the text. Students engage in a range of learning activities to develop skills to write persuasive and narrative text utilising key structural and language features.

Mathematics

Students participate in activities to develop skills to read and interpret the size and order of numbers from hundredths to millions. They identify and describe factors and multiples of whole numbers and use them to solve problems. Students revise and consolidate their mental strategies and written skills in the four operations of addition, subtraction, multiplication and division. They continue to develop their understanding of place value and number patterns. Students use real world problem solving tasks to model maths in context. They learn to interpret and make connections between three dimensional and two dimensional shapes. Students also compare 12 and 24-hour time and convert between them. Using various units of length, they calculate the perimeter and area of shapes and real objects. 

Term 1 Inquiry (Civics and Citizenship)

Students identify who can be an Australian citizen and describe the rights, responsibilities and shared values of Australian citizenship. Their ideas are transferred to students being citizens of our school community and what this entails. Students identify different points of view regarding Australian citizenship. They investigate how people with shared beliefs and values work together to achieve their goals and plan for action.

Term 2 Inquiry (Earth and Space Science) 

Students ask questions and make predictions based on their observations to explore properties of the Sun and develop an understanding that the Earth is just one of a system of planets that orbit the Sun (a star). Through a series of investigations students experiment with light (from the Sun and other sources) and observe how light can be absorbed, reflected and refracted. Students explore where light comes from, the various forms it takes, how it is used, how it travels and how it helps us to see. Students investigate the role of light in our life and in our world.

Auslan

Students develop their foundational conversation skills, using simple greetings, signing their emotions, days of the week and months of the years as well as fingerspelling skills. They ask and answer questions in Auslan as well as follow directions given by signing. Students use the answers from these questions to collate data to be presented in graphs and tables.

Health and Physical Education

Students further develop the ability to move their bodies effectively by practising and applying specialised movement skills in game situations. Students focus on sports that the school competes in at inter-school level. They work towards demonstrating their understanding of game specific rules and being a fair and ethical participant. Students focus on developing and understanding social, emotional and physical health. They explore the different life stages that they have been through and will go through.

5/6 Sport Program

Students focus on participating positively in groups and teams by encouraging others and negotiating roles and responsibilities. They work on this through competing in interschool sport or an alternative internal competition run at school. Students take part in discussions surrounding the specific roles that are required for competitive sport which include players, umpires and scorers. They explore what it means to be a productive and positive member of a team.

Performing Arts

Students study the elements of drama, responding to performances and analysing the use of the elements. They begin to understand the process involved in creating a drama performance, including generating ideas, script and rehearsal whilst using a range a stage craft elements to communicate. They work collaboratively in small groups to create and develop a fractured fairy tale to perform to an audience. 

Visual Arts

Students explore how and why artists perceive their ideas through different visual forms, practices and processes. Students make informed choices about using visual arts elements and stimuli from a range of cultures and social contexts to convey an idea or theme. They observe visual art practices and techniques that inspire them to express their own ideas and beliefs when creating their artwork.

Media Arts

Students focus on developing various techniques through the Media Arts elements of representation, languages, technologies, institutions and audiences. They observe techniques and ideas of media artists from a range of historical and social contexts. Students will plan and create their own media artworks using story principles. They create such media artworks as photo stories, still photographs and animations.