Year 5 Term 2 2024 Curriculum Overview

Term overview

We would like to welcome you and your child back to school to what will be an exciting and successful partnership in Year 5 at Trinity Beach State School in term 2 2024.

Our Math, Science, English and HASS programs will continue to follow the Australian Curriculum for Grade 5. Term 2 is a 10 week term, finishing on the 21^st of June.

Our specialist classes include 3 specialist lessons per week. Classes vary across the year level, but consist of a mixture of Health and Physical Education, LOTE, Music, Drama, Visual Arts and Technology.

The assessment schedule for Term 2 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.

Report Cards for Semester 1

Report cards will be sent out in week 10 via email. Please ensure if your details have changed, that you update your details

Attendance

Before School

We encourage parents to drop students off to school after 8:30am. If students arrive before this time, they are to sit in the COLA until the 8:30am bell.

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

We are continuing our work with our Structured Synthetic Phonics approach implemented last year. This programs includes:

Reading: Students work in guided reading groups 4 days per week, at similar levels to develop skills of comprehension, fluency and vocabulary. Students are tested at the beginning of each term/end of the term to determine their progress and new guided reading groups.

Spelling: Students work in ability groups with different goals, 4 days per week, developing their spelling skills.  Students are tested at the end of each term to determine their progress and new spelling words/groups.

English

This term, students listen to, read, view and interpret a range of persuasive texts (including advertisements, news articles from newspapers and reports from journals and newspapers) to respond to viewpoints portrayed in these texts. Students will apply comprehension strategies, focusing on particular viewpoints portrayed in a range of texts. They will create a persuasive presentation persuading an audience to change a rule or law. 

Maths

Geometry

In unit 1, students will learn the geometrical concepts of connecting 3D objects with 2D representations and describe transformations of shapes and identify line and rotational symmetry as they complete a folio of tasks that will demonstrate their learning.

Probability and statistics

In the second unit, students will explore Chance and Data as they make spinners, pose questions, predict outcomes and record data in tables and graphs. They also compare data with other students and interpret these data sets.

Science

‘Earth’s Place in Space’ unit provides opportunities for students to explore how the patterns in the sky relate to days, months and years. Students also investigate the elements of our Solar System and Earth’s position within it.

HASS

Students investigate democratic values and processes by investigating the inquiry question:

‘How have people enacted their values and perceptions about their community, environments and other people in the past and present?’

HPE

In this term, students in year 5 will focus on developing their technical understanding of athletic activity. They learn how to set targets and improve their performance in a range of running, jumping and throwing activities. As in all athletic activities, children think about how to achieve the greatest speed, height, distance and accuracy. In Health, students will continue to 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

In this unit, students will learn about C major scale. They will practice singing and playing this scale using instruments. They will be introduced to the Note Value chart and correct terminology for each note. They will learn about woodwind instruments and major and minor modes. They will consolidate their knowledge of known rhythmical elements, known musical forms, anacrusis and dynamics.

Technology

Students will manipulate different components of a simple circuit to explore how electricity can be transferred and transformed. They will create pressure plates and switches to demonstrate ‘open’ and ‘closed’ circuits and how these principles are applied to security systems. Students will also explore complex algorithms involving user input, iteration, comparison operators

Visual Arts

This term in Visual Arts, year 5 students will continue to explore the seven elements of art.  They will then use this knowledge to complete their very own art piece from different materials and mediums. This will communicate their ideas as an artist and make up part of their assessment task for Visual Arts this reporting period.   Following this we will venture into the world of wire sculpting to put in practise the element of form. Then it’s a wrap, our semester of art for 2024 will be complete for those students participating in the first half of the year.

LOTE - Chinese

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.

IEC

What a great start we have had in the year 5 IEC class for Term 2.  

This term we are focussing on our computer skills and being able to independently log on, access the set class work and having a go completing tasks on our own.  

Year 5 students accessing the IEC have been focussing on our school rules - Be Safe, Be Respectful, Be a Learner and what that looks like in the classroom and playground environments. These students are demonstrating that they are responsible and respectful senior students at TBSS and are working hard each day in their classrooms and in the IEC.  

An invitation from Smithfield State High School for their Year 7 Information Session was emailed to parents of children in Years 5 and 6 and is also located in our school newsletter.

I can be contacted on lcroa4@eq.edu.au or in my office in the Inclusive Education Centre (IEC) should you have any further questions or concerns.

Assessment schedule

Contact information