Year 5 Term 2 2025 Curriculum Overview

Welcome & General Information

English

Students create and information report on animal adaptations. This report will inform the audience about their chosen animal, its adaptations and how these developments have assisted this animal to survive in the chosen environment.

Maths

Students will:

• express natural numbers as products of factors and identify multiples
• check the reasonableness of their calculations using estimation
• use mathematical modelling to solve financial and other practical problems, formulating and solving problems, choosing arithmetic operations and interpreting results in terms of the situation
• convert between 12- and 24-hour time

Science

Students analyse how living things function in their environments through their adaptations. Students use their knowledge of structural and behavioural adaptations to create a creature that thrives in an environment.

Humanities & Social Sciences (HASS)

Geographical research report 

To investigate the characteristics of places and use evidence to draw conclusions about a preferred place to live. 

Health & Physical Education (HPE)

In PE, students in year five will continue to develop the fundamental movement skills to play the sport of soccer. They will also develop their technical understanding of athletic activities. They will learn how to set targets and improve their performance in a range of running, jumping and throwing activities in athletics.

Music

During this Term, 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 explore the impact an increasing world population has on food and fibre production. They design sustainable solutions for individuals and communities in highly populated environments to grow their own food. 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

This term year 5 students will continue to learn about the 7 elements of art and creating art pieces that incorporate these elements. We will also continue to use the book ‘The Witches’ by Roald Dahl as our creative focus and our culminating activity will be making a lolly jar with label.

Drama

Students will devise a scene from a natural disaster by using images from books, photos and videos. They will rehearse and perform the scene for a formal audience, using narration, sound, props, music and costumes. Students will explain how the elements of drama and production elements contribute to the dramatic meaning in the documentary drama. They will also focus on the drama element of tension – how to create and perform a tense scene.

LOTE (Chinese)

‘What is family?’ – Students will produce a short description of their family in Chinese. Students will identify and reflect upon the communication practices used in describing family.

Assessment Schedule

Homework

Developed at a point of need for your child and your family, homework may look different in each classroom. Through the welcome letter and “open afternoon”, your child’s teacher should have already discussed this with you. Please contact individual teachers with any further questions.  

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

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