Year 5/6A - Term 3 Curriculum Overview 2023
Term 3
Welcome to Term 3 and the 2nd Semester! The students have launched straight back in to learning and come back re-energised and ready to have a go at everything! Attendance is crucial to students being able to create momentum with their learning, please reach out if you need support in relation to engagement at school. Having the correct tools is also crucial, over half our class have ‘lost’ their rulers! Please talk to your child about what resources they need to re-stock. 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.
Year 6’s have their Reef trip on Thursday August 24th. Information and forms for the reef trip have been sent home, it is also available on the QParent app. To assist families in meeting the cost of the excursion, the Queensland Government, through the Great Barrier Reef Education Experience Program, will provide a subsidy to the school of $40.00 per student who attends the excursion.
The assessment schedule for Term 3 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 task. If you have any questions regarding this, please contact me via email sadev0@eq.edu.au .
English
Students will read, view and listen to a variety of non-fiction, informative texts and digital news segments. They will understand how language and text features can be combined to share information clearly and with purpose. They demonstrate their understanding of informative texts’ features through the creation of their own digital news segment where they will report on a natural disaster (year 6s) or a space phenomenon (Year 5s) using knowledge and research gained in their respective science unit. Students’ news report videos will be played to the class and students will answer questions about their report.
Maths
This term, students will cover two separate units. The Number and Algebra focus is on finding unknown quantities and creating patterns with decimals and fractions (Year 5) & order of operations and creating patterns with decimals and fractions (Year 6). This unit provides multiple opportunities for students to perform calculations with whole numbers, decimals, fractions and the 4 operations, revising their skills using inverse operations and powers of 10. They will solve problems using the order of operations, including multiplication and division problems with both mental and written methods. Our second unit will focus on Measurement; with particular focus on measuring and converting between the units of measurement for length, perimeter, area, mass, volume, and capacity
Science
Term 3 has a split unit for our 5s and 6s. The Curriculum area is ‘Earth and Space Sciences’, with each year level focusing on a separate area. The year 5s are exploring space and what is in our solar system. The year 6’s are exploring natural disasters and the impact these events have on the Earth’s surface. Both Year 5 and 6 students will consider human impacts and how scientific knowledge can be used to inform personal and community decisions.
HASS
Students will demonstrate an understanding of the diversity of places by representing and interpreting data and information in a variety of forms. They will compare the similarities and differences between Australia and Asia (Year 6) or two different locations in Australia (Year 5). They will plot on a map the absolute location of capital cities and will describe and compare human and natural characteristics of Australia and Asia. They will create maps to show the interconnections between places countries and describe these relationships. Students will compare and contrast trends in migration over time.
HPE
In PE, students in year 5/6 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 recognise that emotions and behaviours influence how people interact. They will understand that relationships are established and maintained by applying skills.
Visual Arts
This term in Visual Arts, students in 5/6A 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
Assessment Schedule
Learning Area | Assessment Task | Due Date |
English | Task 1: Create an informative report (using research conducted in science) and record a digital news segment. Videos to be shared in class with a panel discussion, question and answer session. Task 2: Read a non-fiction information text and answer comprehension questions targeting knowledge of language structure and features. | Week 8 Week 9 |
Maths | Task 1: Task 2: Measurement: Length, Area, Perimeter Mass, Volume and Capacity. | Week 5 Week 9 |
Science | Students will investigate the Solar System (Year 5) or a Natural Disaster (Year 6) and complete a research journal across the unit where they document their expanding knowledge. | Week 5 |
HASS | Create a new double page spread for an Atlas comparing 2 different locations. Year 5- comparing two Australian locations Year 6 – comparing Australia and Asia | Week 10 |
HPE | HEALTH – Emotional Interactions | Weeks 7-8 |
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
Compulsory:
- 4 pages each week of Targeting Math book (submitted on odd week Fridays)
- Literacy Circle reading and completion of roles.
Optional:
- typing www.typingclub.com
- reading: audio books, family books, comics, www.kidsnews.com, cereal boxes!
- spelling, ask your child to teach you about the rule they are leaning this week.
- math facts (timetables).
Highly Recommended:
- Board games, cooking meals, helping with family chores, looking after pets, sports, crafts, hobbies and practicing instruments.
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
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
LOTE - Isabel Ip - ilip0@eq.edu.au