Year 5 - Term 3 Curriculum Overview 2023

Term 3

Welcome to Term 3! We are half way through the year already and all of the teachers in Year 5 are very excited about continuing the learning journey with the year five student cohort. For your convenience, we’ve included the Year 5 assessment schedule for the term, so you can plan around these dates.

English

Students listen to, read and view a range of traditional Australian poetry, including ballads and narrative poems. Students analyse these poems to determine their historical, cultural and social contexts using evidence from the text to support this analysis. Students create a transformation of a narrative poem to a digital multimodal narrative presentation.

Maths

• Using units of measurement
• investigate time concepts and the measurement of time, read and represent 24-hour time
• convert between 12-hour and 24-hour time

• Decimals
• represent, compare and order decimals

• Patterns and algebra
• use number sentences to find unknown quantities involving multiplication and division

• Money
• calculate costs involving money

• Representing Data
• constructing displays and tables, appropriate for data type, with and without the use of digital technologies

• Number and Place Value

Solving multiplication and division problems using mental and written strategies

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 investigations, students explain how objects reflect, absorb and refract light, and how we can use light to meet our needs.

HASS

In this unit, students will generate and answer an inquiry question about the interconnections between people and importance of the environment through the research of an inland sea. They will determine how the requirements of people can be met by the environment and how people impact the environments they use.

HPE

In PE, students in Year 5 will be involved in a unit on Basketball. Through modified games and activities, students will learn the rules of the game, fundamental skills such as passing, dribbling and shooting and game play strategies. In Health, students will examine how sharing traditional foods and physical activities from different cultures can support community wellbeing and cultural understanding.

Music

During Term 3, 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.

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.

Technology

In this unit students will explore how competing factors and technologies influence the design of a sustainable service which provides a plant for the preparation of a healthy food product.

The service will involve the design of the plant’s:

• packaging
• fact sheet.
• Investigating
• Generating and producing designs
• Evaluating design solutions

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

Social Emotional Learning/Self-Regulation

The Pause Program will commence in week 6 of this term. Why the Pause approach?

• Pause teaches students the importance of recognising the signals in their body that their brain sends them.
• Pause teaches students the three key parts of the brain that are responsible for thinking, emotions and long term memory.
• Pause empowers students to self-regulate their own behaviour by taking notice and acting on the signals they receive from their brain in a positive way.
• Wellbeiing underpins the way children feel about themselves and how they relate to others.
• Pause improves children’s wellbeing by teaching them about Neuroscience and Mindfulness.

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.

Attendance

How to report an absence: 

Either:

• Text (SMS)* 0428 621 921 (preferred method) *SMS line does not take calls & no emoji’s please SMS any time, with student name, reason for absence and duration.

• Call the absence Line: 4057 1444 (press #1) only available after 8:30 am Leave student name and reason for absence.
• Email: attendance@trinitybeachss.eq.edu.au before 9:30am.

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

Tuckshop

Tuckshop operates daily during the two breaks. Orders can be placed online via FlexiSchools or at the tuckshop on a paper bag. Tuckshop orders are placed in class tuckshop basket before 9am. Miscellaneous items can be purchased over the counter.  Please talk to your child about not giving money away or sharing food.

Contact Information

Contact your child's teacher:

5A - Mrs Rhonda Zeylmans - rzeyl1@eq.edu.au

5B - Mrs Sonya Ezzy - sgezz0@eq.edu.au

5C - Mrs Jessica O'Kane - jtilt6@eq.edu.au

5D - Mrs Chey-Lee Barber-Sokolowski - cxbar18@eq.edu.au

5E - Mr Damien Theodore - dxthe0@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

LOTE - Isabel Ip - ilip0@eq.edu.au