Year 5 Term 1 Overview 2024

Term overview

Welcome families to Year 5 and your child’s next step in their education journey: Senior School. We are looking forward to an exciting year and the opportunities that exist in the upper years for students to engage deeply in their learning and with the wider school community through leadership and extra-curricular programs.

Our Year 5 Teaching Team consists of Mrs Ebonee Dryden (5A), Miss Kirsten Apelgren (5B), Miss Shannon Hanley (5C), Miss Tamara Goldsworthy (5D), Ms Lana Swayn (5E) and Ms. Chloe Rutledge (5F) and Amanda Harvey (IEC). The best way to contact the teachers is via email.

Our learning programs continue to follow the Australian Curriculum for Mathematics, Science, English and HASS and our Specialist classes which this year includes Health and Physical Education, LOTE, Music, Visual Arts and Digital Technology. Students have the opportunity to attend 4 specialist sessions a week, these subjects vary between the classes and rotate through the semesters.

In Year 5, our students will be gaining awareness and knowledge of Cyber Safety and Digital Citizenship and learning about the digital footprint they create when working online. Students will begin to develop their core digital literacy skills including: typing, creating, saving and retrieving files, email etiquette and how to attach documents to emails. Our BYOx classes will be completing some of their class tasks as digital work pieces and learning to navigate the Q-learn portal.

The assessment schedule for Term 1 is included in this outline (see table below), this provides a good insight into what your child is working on in class and their assessment tasks. If you have any questions regarding this, please contact your child’s classroom teacher.

NAPLAN occurs this Term from 12/04/25 to 24/04/25. BYOx classes will complete NAPLAAN on on devices. A timetable will be sent out in the coming weeks. Students will also have the access to practice test to familiarise themselves with the testing platform.

Term 1 is a 10-week term, finishing on Friday the 4^th of April.

QParents

QParents is here

Great news: Trinity Beach SS provides our parent community with the opportunity to register for QParents.

We will be sending out invitations for parents to register for QParents next week.  

QParents won’t replace the traditional ways you communicate with our school, but it will provide another way to communicate with us.

More information about QParents can be found at https://qparents.qld.edu.au/#/about

Attendance

How to report an absence: 

• Email attendance@trinitybeachss.eq.edu.au or
• Call the school's absence line on 4057 1444, then press #1 and don't forget to leave a reason why your child/children are away, or
• Send a note to the classroom teacher on their return

Our schools attendance target is 95% 

Reading / Spelling

Our school uses a systematic synthetic phonics approach that has a teaching sequence for reading and spelling which goes across the entire school. Promoting Literacy Development or PLD for short, provides teachers with an innovative, evidence-based approach to literacy and advocates that children’s literacy and learning outcomes are maximized when the areas of literacy, oral language and movement & motor skills are simultaneously targeted.  With this change, we will be working with decodable texts instead of predictable texts in the teaching of reading.

Due to this change, home reading will look different as well. Students may come home with games with high frequency words or sounds instead of home readers. This is reading practice. Please be assured that students will be getting a much higher level of reading mileage at school every day.

English

This term in English, students will be focusing on persuasive texts. They will read and evaluate persuasive texts to determine how the development of ideas, text structure and language features impact the audience. 

They will also plan and take part in a debate. Students will be able to choose the affirmative OR negative side of the topic. Students will work in teams to argue their point of view with each student presenting at least 1 discussion points and respond to one point from the opposing team. 

Maths

This term in Maths, students will further develop proficiency and positive dispositions towards mathematics and its use as they: 

• use a range of physical and virtual materials and apply understanding of relationships to convert between forms of numbers, units and spatial representations especially with fractions and decimals 
• use materials, diagrams or arrays to become efficient with multiplication facts
• locate and move positions within a grid coordinate system to pinpoint specific locations
• recognise what stays the same and what changes when shapes undergo transformations 
• use physical materials and dynamic geometric software to perform transformations
• plan and conduct a statistical investigation that involves a range of data sets including nominal and ordinal categorical and discrete numerical data; report findings and interpret and compare data representations to make informed decisions.

Science

The ‘Light Shows’ unit provides opportunities for students to explore the properties of light. Students challenge their thinking about light and its role in our lives and our community. Through a combination of hands-on and digital investigations, students explain how objects reflect, absorb & refract light, and how we can use light to meet our needs.

HASS

In this unit students will learn a range of skills to help them answer the key inquiry of “What is the relationship between environments and my role as a consumer?” They will need to explain how people in communities make decisions about the use of resources to meet their needs and want.

HPE

In PE, students in year five will develop the fundamental movement skills to play the sport of soccer. They will learn how to dribble, trap a ball, pass, score and improve their positioning on the field. In Health, students will describe their own and others’ contributions to health and wellbeing. They access and interpret health information and apply problem-solving skills to enhance their own and others’ health and wellbeing.

Music

During Term one, students will extend their knowledge about major and minor modes, pentatonic scale, rhythmic elements and woodwind instruments. They will learn a large number of songs and games, listen to them then analysed a range of musical pieces.

Technology

Students design a fundraising event. They explain how people design products, services and environments to meet the needs of communities, including sustainability. Students select and justify and design ideas and solutions against design criteria that include sustainability. They communicate design ideas to an audience using technical terms and graphical representation techniques. Students develop project plans, including production processes, and select technologies and techniques to safely produce designed solutions.

Visual Arts

Our theme this year in Visual Arts is ‘The Splendiferous World of Roald Dahl’.  Each year level will have a different book to use as a creative focus. This term, year 5 students will be creating an art pieces based on the book ‘The Witches!’  Students will be learning about the seven basic elements of art. Elements of art are stylistic features that are included in artwork to help the artist communicate their ideas. These elements are line, shape, colour, texture, value space and form. Students will use and experiment with different materials, techniques, technologies and processes to make various artworks which they will critic and display.

Drama

Fractured Fairy Tales

Students will work in small groups to create, present and respond to a Fractured Fairy Tale. They will investigate what elements make up a Fractured Fairy tale (parody) and then present a targeted script to junior school students.

LOTE (Chinese)

“What’s in a name?”

In this unit, students will engage with a range of texts about personal identity. They will learn to introduce personal and family names, and to identify the meaning in names. They will also learn to summarise key points and produce short informative texts that include names and details of themselves. Moreover, they will demonstrate fundamental Chinese reading and writing skills throughout the term.

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Assessment schedule

IEC

Welcome to a wonderful year of learning in 2025 at Trinity Beach State School.  My name is Amanda Harvey and my role as an Inclusive Education Teacher (IET) is to work with and support students with additional needs across the year 5 cohort.

My role is to make the curriculum accessible by supporting students and teachers within their classrooms and through the targeted intervention sessions I run in the Inclusive Education Centre. My focus is on supporting the student’s engagement and skill development through curriculum modifications and accommodations

Should you have any further questions or concerns, please do not hesitate to contact me on my email or drop into the IEC to see me directly 😊

Contact information

5A - Mrs. Rhonda Zeylmans   rzeyl1@eq.edu.au
5B - Mrs. Sonya Ezzy sgezz0@eq.edu.au
5C - Miss Shannon Devlin sadev0@eq.edu.au
5D - Mrs. Jessica O’Kane jtilt6@eq.edu.au
5E - Mrs. Chey-Lee Barber-Sokolowski cxbar18@eq.edu.au & Ms. Sofia Rabica as3dr0@eq.edu.au

5F – Chloe Rutledge crutl13@eq.edu.au
IEC – Amanda Harvey akhar4@eq.edu.au

HPE - Jodie Donovan jdono63@eq.edu.au
HPE - Steve Kotzikas sskot0@eq.edu.au
Visual Arts - Vanessa Graham vgrah5@eq.edu.au
Music - Svetlana Walker swalk146@eq.edu.au
Technology - Alex Einerman aeine0@eq.edu.au