Year 5 Term 4 2024 Curriculum Overview
Welcome & General Information
Welcome back after what we hope was a great break for all. We would also like to welcome our new families into the Trinity Beach community. The purpose of this overview is to share the topics our students will be covering over the duration of this term across all of the learning areas, as well as share when students will be assessed on their learning. There are no Year 5 excursions in Term 4, however there are a number of events occurring (such as Encore on Thursday October 10th). For information about specific events please keep a look out on the Trinity Beach State School Facebook page https://www.facebook.com/trinitybeachss/ To ensure a smooth start to the term, please check-in with your child and ensure they have all necessary items and all items are in a functional state: stationary (rulers, whiteboard markers, red-pens), hat, uniform. Please remember to label (and re-label faded) items with your child’s name to help with the return of misplaced belongings. We hope that Term 4 is the best one yet! Term 4 is an 11-week term, the final day of the 2024 school year is Friday December 13th. To assist your child’s classroom, please let them know in advance if you have any scheduled absences or departures, it’s greatly appreciated. As always, if you have any questions about your child’s progress, or if you have any concerns your first point of contact is your child’s teacher. Please refer to the “Contact Information” section at the end of this document. |
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English
This term students are exploring Narratives through the lens of both author and reader. We will be reading and writing a variety of narratives examining different genres, writing styles and the literary devices that are crucial to a narrative with emphasis on continuity of plot, dialogue, descriptive and figurative language. Students will read and develop their comprehension skills by identifying key aspects and elements of narratives including characters, plot, themes, morals and messages. Whilst students are exposed to these skills through reading they will practice the creation of narrative elements in their writing sessions, implementing the skills of storytelling in a variety of ways. This unit will culminate in each student creating a narrative, written in a genre of choice and performing a comprehension-based analysis of their own writing, identifying where they have used literacy devices to engage the reader. Things to practice at home: |
Maths
In Term 4, year 5 students are continuing to work with the 4-operations, this term we are focusing our application of these skills on problems linked to money and measurement. We are also building on our decimals knowledge from last term and linking decimals with fractions. Students will learn to add and subtract fractions (with the same denominator) and place fractions and decimals on number lines in sequential order. Students will be exploring simple financial budgets and connecting this work to their HASS unit on Business & Economics. Things to practice at home: |
Science
n our Chemical Sciences Unit, students are exploring states of matter (solid, liquids, gases). Throughout the unit students will complete a number of whole class and small group investigations to support them to build knowledge of the scientific definitions of matter, learning to categorise various materials based on observable properties and behaviours. Students will also explore how changes to environmental variables can cause matter to shift between states.
For example:
Ice >Water >Steam
is Solid > Liquid >Gas
through Melting >Evaporation
caused by exposure to heat.
The assessment for this unit involves students writing up a Science Investigation Report based on an evaporation experiment that students will plan, conduct and evaluate. The experiment allows students to create a fair investigation, applying their unit knowledge through their careful selection and documentation of materials, variables, methods and data collection. Students will collate their data, draw conclusions and present the findings as a written report with supporting diagrams and annotations.
Humanities & Social Sciences (HASS)
Business & Economics: ‘Spring Fete’ Stall Proposal.
In this unit students will learn about the wants and needs of communities. They will explore how environmental factors as well as demographics and advertising can impact businesses.
Students will be given the fictional scenario of a P&C ‘Spring Fete’ where students are creating and running the stalls. In small groups, students will work to brainstorm and plan a ‘business proposal’ for a possible stall that they believe they could successfully run. Student’s will need to show how they are accommodating the community’s wants and needs, and what considerations and trade-offs they had to make due to constraints such as budget, population, weather, etc. Each small group will complete an oral presentation to share their stall idea and explain the planning process and considerations that their group worked through.
**The budgeting aspect of the stall will be completed in parallel and is explained in the Money Math Assessment section.
Health & Physical education (HPE)
Students in year five will focus on applying strategies for working cooperatively and apply rules fairly during cricket-based activities and games. They will learn how to bat, field and bowl a ball.
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.
LOTE (Chinese)
“What’s in a name?” = speaking Chinese, reading characters, writing characters, Chinese culture customs & habits.
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.
Assessment Schedule
Learning Area | Assessment Task | Due Date |
English | Students present a news report on animal adaptations for a chosen animal either electronically or manually. This news report will entertain and inform the audience about their chosen animal, its adaptations and how these developments have assisted this animal to survive. | Week 10 |
Maths | Assessment 1 Assessment 2 | Week 5 Week 10 |
Science | Students will design a creature with the adaptations that will allow it to survive in the environment chosen | Week 9 |
HASS | Students will investigate the characteristics of places and use evidence to draw conclusions about a preferred place to live. | Week 10 |
LOTE | Students will summarise key points from an informative text about personal identity. They will also explain how Chinese names are communicated. Lastly, they will produce a written self-introduction in Chinese. | Week 9 |
Music | Sing the song ‘Fly seagull, fly’ with lyrics, solfa and hand signs, and rhythm names. Play the song on glockenspiel. | Weeks 7-8 |
Technology | •Students answer questions to show their understanding of binary numbers and their digital footprint. •Through graphical representation of the Little Bits creation, students show their understanding of the transformation of energy to movement, sound or light. | Week 10 |
Reading & Spelling
Our school continues to embed a whole school approach to reading and spelling across Prep to Year 6. This involves teaching the reading and spelling demands of the Australian Curriculum, providing students with a systematic synthetic phonics approach and unpacking the Big 6/Science of Reading through engaging and meaningful lessons. Students engage with decodable texts when learning to read and rich authentic texts when reading to learn and continue to use the PLD approach for their spelling and sound focus.
Homework
Homework programs are created at the discretion of the teacher in line with department of Education guidelines and policies. Please speak to your child’s teacher if you are unsure of the class expectations. Generally, this is sent home for completion via a paper or electronic means.
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 school’s attendance target is 95%
QParents
QP is an online portal helping the school move toward a cashless and paper friendly school.
- The QP portal allows Parents and Carers to grant participation consent online for activities such as swimming and excursions which reduces our need to print out paper consent forms
- Also, the QP portal enables Parents and Carers to make payment online for school activities and viewing unpaid invoices payment history.
Thank you to all those parents who have registered for QParents. This means every registered parent now has the opportunity to access to their children’s student records at their fingertips, anytime, anywhere. Haven’t received an invitation from us yet? There’s still time! Please let us know immediately. Or if you are simply looking for further information, videos and FAQs on QParents, visit https://qparents.qld.edu.au
Contact information
Classroom Teachers
5A Rhonda Zeylmans rzeyl1@eq.edu.au and Tamara Goldsworthy tgold88@eq.edu.au
5B Sonya Ezzy sgezz0@eq.edu.au
5C Shannon Devlin sadev0@eq.edu.au
5D Jessica O‘Kane jtilt6@eq.edu.au
5E Chey-Lee Barber-Sokolowski cxbar18@eq.edu.au and Richelle Mailman rmail4@eq.edu.au
5F Chloe Rutledge crutl13@eq.edu.au
IEC Teacher
Amanda Harvey akhar4@eq.edu.au
Specialist Teachers
HPE -Jodie Donovan jdono63@eq.edu.au
HPE -Damien Theodore dxthe0@eq.edu.au
Music -Svetlana Walker swalk146@eq.edu.au
Technology -Alex Einerman aeine0@eq.edu.au
Visual Arts -Vanessa Graham vgrah5@eq.edu.au
LOTE -Stefan Poropat sporo2@eq.edu.au