Year Five News
Year Five Team: Shannon (leader), Towela (Learning Specialist), Helena, Lee & Mikala
Year Five News
Year Five Team: Shannon (leader), Towela (Learning Specialist), Helena, Lee & Mikala
Welcome to Term 2! The Grade 5 team are excited to be back for a somewhat shorter but still busy term. We have some fun and exciting things happening, including the opportunity to visit your child’s classroom in our Kids Sharing Open Afternoon on Wednesday, 10th May.
Throughout the term, we will continue to provide opportunities to build on your child’s collaborative learning skills and work on incorporating our Agreements, along with focusing on effort, having a growth mindset and building positive relationships with our peers.
In writing, students will continue to review and further their development of the ‘6 + 1 Traits of Writing’ and use a range of comprehension strategies to sharpen their reading skills through fiction and non fiction texts related to our Immigration and Science units. During term 2, students will:
The areas of mathematics that will be covered this term are:
Students will also begin to work in Scaffolding groups this term for the chance to extend and apply their multiplicative thinking skills and apply this to real-life problem-solving situations.
This term, our units of work will focus on the History of Immigration to Australia and adaptations of plants and animals in Biological Science. Students have the chance to develop an understanding of the following concepts:
In our Respectful Relationships and Body Safety lessons, students will be looking at:
Homework commenced in week one. We will continue to encourage student voice in choosing a country to read about and complete a reading task on each week. Please allocate some quiet time at home for your child to complete the homework. For students who find it challenging to get work completed at home, some time in the library at lunchtime is designated for homework completion.
Students are expected to:
In order to accommodate for space in our school grounds, the Grade Five students will be participating separately from the Grade Six students in a weekly intra-school sports program developing skills for netball, tee-ball, football and soccer during the first two sessions each Friday.
For the next two weeks, we managed to secure a spot with an AFL clinic for our students on our school oval during our sport lessons!
We had our first incursion for the year this week. The students were excited to meet and had wonderful questions to ask the honourable Cuc Lam about her journey to Australia as a refugee from Vietnam and the incredible impact she’s had on the community since arriving to Australia and becoming the current Deputy Mayor of Maribyrnong Council.
Please refer to Compass and the newsletter for information about any other upcoming events.
We would like to offer you the opportunity to help out in our classrooms. In order to offer your support in the classroom, you will have to complete the online modules for our FWPS Volunteer's induction. This can be accessed via your Compass Newsfeed. This is also a requirement for any parents wanting to attend excursions or camps. Completing these modules allows you to volunteer for a range of activities.
If you would like to help out in your child's classroom, please contact your child's class teacher via Compass. To avoid disruptions to the learning process, we kindly ask that younger siblings do not attend when you assist in the classroom.
We would greatly appreciate donations of tissue boxes for your child’s classroom.
If you have any questions or would like to contact your child’s teacher, you can do this via Compass.
Kind regards,
The Grade 5 team,
Shannon, Towela, Helena, Mikala and Lee