Year 5 Term 1 Overview 2023
Term overview
We would like to welcome you and your child to what will be an exciting and successful partnership in Year 5 at Trinity Beach State School.
Our Year 5 Teaching Team consist of Mrs. Rhonda Zeylmans (5A), Mrs. Sonya Ezzy (5B), Mrs. Jessica O’Kane (5C), Mrs. Chey-Lee Barber-Sokolowski (5D). We also have Ms. Jennifer Schultz (5E) and Miss Shannon Devlin (5/6A). The best way to contact us is through email.
Our Math, Science, English and HASS programs will continue to follow the Australian Curriculum for Grade 5. Term 1 is a 10 week term, finishing on the 31st of March.
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 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.
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, students will be examining and creating fantasy texts. Students listen to, read and interpret the novel Rowan of Rin from the fantasy genre showing understanding of character development in relation to plot and setting. They create a fantasy short story, depicting contrasting fantasy characters in relation to setting and plot.
Maths
This term, there are two units to complete in Maths. In unit one, students will use their knowledge of factors and multiples to determine group sizes for a scenario, generate sequential multiple chains and solve simple problems involving the four operations. In the second unit, students will complete a folio of tasks that will demonstrate their learning of the following mathematical concepts: working with angles as the degree of turn and mapping as a way of determining locations. They will be given questions to follow as a prompt to help students create their maps and answer set questions.
Science
In the first half of term 1, students will engage in our unit on Adaptations which provides opportunities for students to develop an understanding of how the adaptations of plants and animals enable them to survive in their environments. Students will be tasked with designing a creature with the adaptations that will allow it to survive in the environment chosen. They will create and present to the class, a poster that includes an annotated diagram of their creature explaining the adaptations and how they allow it to survive in the environment.
HASS
In the second half of Term 1, students will produce a Digital Presentation to describe how and why life changed and stayed the same for people in a colonial Australian community and describe the significance of an early inland explorer in bringing about change to colonial Australia.
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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
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
In Technologies, students in year five will follow the engineering design process to build and test a prototype with a digital component to serve a purpose as an aide for a persons good health and wellbeing.
Visual Arts
This term in Visual Arts, year 5 students will be exposed to each of the seven basic elements of art. Elements of art are stylistic features that are included in artwork to help the artist communicate. These elements are line, shape, colour, texture, value space and form. Students view various famous artworks that have each element depicted in the artwork. Students will use and experiment with different materials, techniques, technologies and processes to make artworks using the basic elements of art.
LOTE
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 .
Assessment schedule
LEARNING AREA | UNIT | TASK | DUE DATE |
ENGLISH | Creating a Fantasy Narrative | Written | Week 9 |
MATHS | 1. Factors and Multiples 2. Four main operations | Written | Week 4 |
Folio of tasks: 1. Angles 2. Mapping | Written | Week 10 | |
SCIENCE | Adaptations | Create and present a poster | Week 5 |
HASS | How and why life changed and stayed the same for people in a colonial Australian community. | Multimodal presentation | Week 10 |
Contact information
Contact your childs teacher via email:
5A Rhonda Zeylmans rzeyl1@eq.edu.au
5B Sonya Ezzy sgezz0@eq.edu.au
5C Jessica O’Kane jtilt6@eq.edu.au
5D Chey-Lee Barber-Sokolowski cxbar18@eq.edu.au
5E Jennifer Schultz jshul0@eq.edu.au
5/6A Shannon Devlin sadev0@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
HPE/Technology/drama Karen Arthur kaart0@eq.edu.au
Technology Jacqui Kidney jkidn6@eq.edu.au
LOTE Isabel Ip ilip0@eq.edu.au