Curriculum News

English

Reading and Viewing

This term we will be integrating our Inquiry Unit “Our Country, Our History” through our reading content. Explored texts will expose students to information related to this topic,  aspects and  significant events of our Australian history. 

Texts formats will be  multimodal or written. Explored texts will be investigated in a variety of ways.  We will provide experiences to promote discussion and use higher order thinking skills to infer about the author's intent to support a deeper understanding.  Analysis, critical thinking, and constructive feedback shall be included as part of our reading skills.

Guided reading groups sessions will focus on instructional reading strategies at students’ point of need. The students will also be supported through their Individual Reading Conference goals that they set.

Writing

The focus for writing this term will be writing to entertain and persuade. Writing to entertain will allow students to present information through historical narratives and biographies about significant historical happenings of the earlier settlement of Australia. They will present their writing in the form of newspaper articles using relevant structure  and language  features including grammar.  Students will continue to develop their skills in debating and learn how to rebut an argument, whilst strengthening their persuasive language. 

Speaking and Listening

The aim is to support students in developing their capacity to speak confidently and with expression. They will investigate and compose a spoken text. They will engage and record sustained conversations and discussions using content integrated from the curriculum. Students will be given the opportunity to present through their inquiry unit, Genius Hour investigations and debate

Maths

Number and Algebra

This area of mathematics provides an opportunity to focus

• Fractions, decimals & percentages
• Financial Maths
• Four operations

Measurement and Geometry

We will focus on extending our understanding of:

• Location and Transformation
• Tessellation and Symmetry
• Time

This term we will use a grid reference system to describe locations. We will also focus on tessellation transformation & Symmetry

Statistics and Probability

This area of mathematics provides an opportunity to describe and interpret different data sets in context and in digital media and elsewhere. Students will also be encouraged to transfer relevant factual content to use in their writing.

Inquiry and Religion

This is linked through RE & Wellbeing 

We will be encouraging students to be curious about their learning. The focus  topic is “Our Country, Our History”. Students will learn about the history of our country from the colonisation period of the 1800’s (including an Indigenous perspective). 

Inquiry shall include a religious perspective of our history (Church history and Catholic faith development in Australia).  

They shall look at the history of God’s family from the Old Testament through the Jesse Tree until the birth of Christ using scripture and prayer.

There will be a continued focus on the Holy Spirit through the Sacrament of Confirmation.

During the term students will make regular time to pray daily.

Social & Emotional Wellbeing

This is paramount as we continue Remote Learning and upon return to onsite learning.

We will continue to work with students on their social and emotional wellbeing. Students are supported to build collaborative and social relationships within a learning environment through respectful relationships. 

Building these relationships allows students to be more confident with their peers both within the classroom and school yard. There will be a focus on building teamwork skills across the level with a variety of activities. 

Later in the term Year 5‘s will commence formation and mentoring to support them in their leadership roles next year. This term we shall also be supporting our Year 6 students as they prepare to transition into Year 7 in 2022.

Homework

Homework will begin upon full time return to onsite learning:

• Reading - at least 4 times a week (documented in school diary).
• Weekly spelling words.
• Tasks - related to aspects of classroom learning such as RE, Literacy, Mathematics and Inquiry.

If for some reason all tasks have not been completed we request that parents/carers put a note in their child’s diary.