Year 5 Term 1 2025 Curriculum Overview
Welcome & General Information
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. 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 4th of April. For information about specific events please keep a look out on the Trinity Beach State School Facebook page https://www.facebook.com/trinitybeachss/ |
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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.
Humanities & Social Sciences (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 |
Health & Physical education (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.
Assessment Schedule
Learning Area | Assessment Task | Due Date |
English | Reading comprehension task (persuasive texts | Week 5 |
Debate | Week 9 | |
Maths | Space (mapping) Short response test | Week 5 |
Project (Statistics) | Week 10 | |
Science | Light Shows: Light Maze Investigation | Week 5 |
HASS | Proposal to P&C | Week 10 |
HPE | Healthy habits | Week 8/9 |
Music | Sing the song ‘Fly seagull, fly’ with lyrics, solfa and handsigns, and rhythm names. Play the song on glockenspiel | Week 7/8 |
Technology | Portfolio of work | Throughout |
Visual Arts | Making Visual Art | Throughout |
Drama | Making – Group performance | Week 8 |
Responding – Written Test | Week 9 | |
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 |
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 – Ebonee Dryden ldryd10@eq.edu.au
5B – Kirsten Apelgren kapel6@eq.edu.au
5C – Shannon Hanley shanl17@eq.edu.au
5D – Tamara Goldsworthy tgold88@eq.edu.au
5E – Lana Swayn lsway0@eq.edu.au
5F – Chloe Rutledge crutl13@eq.edu.au
IEC Teachers
IEC – Amanda Harvey akhar4@eq.edu.au
Specialist teachers
HPE Jodie Donovan jdono63@eq.edu.au
HPE Rochelle Powell rapow1@eq.edu.au
Visual Arts Vanessa Graham vgrah5@eq.edu.au
Music Svetlana Walker swalk146@eq.edu.au
Drama David Terry dater1@eq.edu.au
Technology Alex Einerman aeine0@eq.edu.au & Jake Neill jhnei0@eq.edu.au
LOTE Stefan Poropat sporo2@eq.edu.au