Year 5/6 Term 2, 2023 Curriculum Overview
Term overview
Welcome to Term 2 in 5/6A!
This term is another busy Term with many events such as swimming and sporting events. Being organised and ready to start the day is essential to your child’s education. Students should have all their equipment ready to start each day. Please check with your child regularly that they have everything they need for school, particularly consumables and easily misplaced items such as pencils, erasers, glue, rulers etc. These often need replacing each term.
Our class has 3 specialist lessons this Term including: HPE, Music and LOTE (Chinese)
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.
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
Year 5 - Persuasive texts
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 text persuading an audience to holiday in Cairns or the Daintree.
Year 6 - Persuasive texts
Students listen to, read, view and interpret a range of persuasive texts (including advertisements, news articles from newspapers and reports from journals and newspapers) in print and digital media. They understand how language and text features can be combined for persuasive effect.
They demonstrate their understanding of advertising texts’ persuasive features through the creation of their own digital brochure and a multimodal explanation of creative and editorial choices. They participate in a panel discussion and answer questions.
Maths
Year 5 - Number and Algebra
Identify and describe factors and multiples, use rounding and estimations to check answers
C&D: Chance/Probability
List Chance experiments and assign probabilities to possible outcomes.
Year 6 - Number and Algebra
Make connections between the powers of 10 and the multiplication and division of decimals. Recognise the properties of numbers (prime, composite, square and triangular).Add, subtract and divide decimals where the result is rational.
Chance and Data
Compare expected and observed frequencies and Describe probabilities using fractions, decimals and percentages.
Science
Year 5 - Light Shows
The Light shows unit provides opportunities for students to explore the properties of light and how it enables us to see. Students’ thinking about light and its role in our lives and our community will be developed using hands-on activities. Through investigations students explain how objects reflect, absorb and refract light, and how we can use light to meet our needs.
Year - Energy
Students investigate electrical circuits as a means of transferring and transforming electricity. They design and construct electrical circuits to make observations, develop explanations and perform specific tasks, using materials and equipment safely. Students explore how energy from a variety of sources can be used to generate electricity and identify energy transformations associated with different methods of electricity production. They identify where scientific understanding and discoveries related to the production and use of electricity have affected people’s lives and evaluate personal and community decisions related to use of different energy sources and their sustainability.
HASS
Year 5 and 6 Experiences of Citizenship
This unit will unpack the following inquiry questions:
What does it mean to be an Australian citizen?
How have experiences of democracy and citizenship differed between groups over time and place, including those from and in Asia?
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.
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 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 6 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.
The year 6 students have begun Block one swimming and Block 2 will commence from the 15th May. 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
| LEARNING AREA | UNIT | DUE DATE |
| ENGLISH | Year 5 Persuasive Speech Multi-modal Presentation Deliver a presentation to a familiar audience to persuade them that they should holiday in Cairns or the Daintree. Purpose: To persuade Audience: Holiday Makers Year 6 Persuasive Speech Multi-modal Presentation Students create a brochure convincing holiday maker to visit a specific destination. Students then give a multimodal presentation explaining the choices made in the brochure. Lead a discussion and answer questions. Purpose: To explain Audience: Peers & Teacher | Week 8 |
| MATHS | Short Answer Multiplication Short Answer | Week 4 Week 8 |
| SCIENCE | Year 5: Supervised assessment Folio of challenges. Students complete a series of challenges related to everyday phenomena associated with the transfer of light. Year 6: Supervised assessment | Week 7 |
| HASS | Year 5: Action plan that responds to an issue To investigate democratic values and processes in the community. Year 6: Web Quest - Individual Assignment To investigate the rights and responsibilities of Australian citizens today, and the experiences of Australian democracy and citizenship for different groups in the past through a series of research inquiry questions. | Week 8 |
| 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 7 |
| HPE | Athletics Health | Throughout |
| MUSIC | Making — Composing Create 4 bars of rhythmical pattern with an anacrusis in a time signature of your choice | Week 7-8 |
Contact information
Contact your childs teacher via email:
5/6A - Shannon Devlin sadev0@eq.edu.au