Year Levels - Year 5
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Year 5 Newsletter – Term 1
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Welcome to another great year of learning at Craigieburn South Primary School. We hope you all enjoyed your holidays and are ready for a busy term. This year there are five grades that make up the year 5 unit:
5C – Miss Aleasha Chris (Room 22)
5T – Mrs Tirath Kaur (Room 25)
5F– Mr Alex Firth (Room 23)
5U – Mrs Cinthea Uili (Room 26)
5K – Mrs Merita Kaptan (Room 24)
We are pleased to see that the year 5 students have settled into their classes well. They have all been working hard on the whole school Quality Beginning Program and have maintained a positive attitude towards the assessments undertaken at the start of the year. As we are in summer, please ensure your child comes to school each day with a refillable water bottle and school hat.
TL21 Classrooms
The year 5 unit will continue to benefit from the Teaching and Learning in the 21st Century one-to-one notebook program in 2020. This program combines traditional teaching and learning with digital literacy skills to help prepare children for a digital future. This term the children will be familiarising themselves with some basic software programs such as Microsoft Word and PowerPoint and explore the responsible and safe use of their notebooks, including privacy, cyber-safety and netiquette.
Important Dates / Upcoming Events
Thursday 25 February - Three Way Conferences (student free day)
Friday 26 February - Curriculum Day (student free day)
Monday 8 March - Labour Day Public Holiday
Friday 5 March - Year 5/6 Interschool sports day (depending on sport playing)
Friday 12 March - Year 5/6 Interschool sports day (depending on sport playing)
Tuesday 16 March - School photo day
Wednesday 17 March - Twilight Sports (TBC)
Thursday 1 April - End of Term 1 – students dismissed at 2.30pm
Homework
Year 5 homework expectations include:
- Nightly home reading – to be recorded in their school diaries
- Spelling word practise in preparation for their weekly spelling tests
- Multiplication practise – students are expected to be able to recall all multiplication facts up to 10 × 10 and the corresponding division facts
Please ensure your child brings their school diary to school each day. Homework will be sent home each Thursday and is due back every Tesday.
Uniform
Term 1 is ‘No hat, play under shade’. Students without hats have to sit under shade in the lunch breaks. Please make sure your child has a hat for sun protection. All students need to wear their full summer uniform, including plain BLACK school shoes/runners every day. Please note: students cannot wear leggings or tights with their summer dresses. Polo shirts and jumpers must have the school logo. Hats do not need to have a school logo – however, they must be navy, sun smart hats. Please remember to clearly label all your child’s jumpers and other belongings.
Absences
It is important that students arrive on time and come to school every day to help them achieve their full potential. If your child is away, please ensure a note is sent to the teacher explaining their absence when they return to school.Book packs
Most students in Year 5 have purchased a book pack from the school. If you are yet to pay for a book pack, please do so at the office. For those parents who have purchased requisites outside of school, it is imperative that all necessary resources are purchased.
Year 5 and 6 Camp 2021
The Year 5/6 camp will be held during Term 4, on Monday 4 October to Friday 8 October 2021 at Phillip Island Adventure Resort. More information can be found on the website piar.cyc.org.au. A parent information night will be held at school in the coming months.
Specilaist Timetable
5C: Tuesday - P.E. & Italian / Thursday - STEM & Library
5F: Tuesday - P.E. & Arts / Wednesday - Italian / Thursday - STEM & Library
5K: Monday - Italian / Tuesday - STEM & P.E. / Thursday - Library
5T: Tuesday - P.E. & Italian / Thursday - STEM & Library
5U: Monday - P.E. / Tuesday - STEM & Art / Thursday - Library & Italian
English
Reading and Viewing:
- Read, view and respond to a variety of texts
- View various media and respond to these using note-taking and detailed answers to questions
- Independently read and respond to a text
- Develop and record student thinking while reading independently
- Conference with students to establish goals to improve their reading
Writing:
- Explore elements of the seven steps of writing through the construction of narratives and persuasive texts.
- Selects specific words to suit the intended audience and text type
- Study correct grammar and punctuation and develop new spelling strategies
Speaking and Listening:
- Use digital resources to communicate effectively
- Students will be encouraged to respond and ask questions during whole class reflection and share time.
Mathematics
Number and Algebra:
- Revise addition and subtraction
- Develop place value knowledge of whole numbers
- Use estimation and rounding to check the reasonableness of answers to calculations
- Use mental and written strategies and appropriate digital technologies to solve word problems
Measurement and Geometry:
- Describe translations, reflections and rotations of two dimensional shapes
- Connect three-dimensional objects and their nets.
- Identify line and rotational symmetriess.
Integrated Curriculum – Sustainable Design
This term’s unit on ‘Global Connections’ explores the differences and similarities between Australia and selected countries. Students will be learning about the local environments over time, languages, incomes, health, foreign aid and life expectancies. They will use data and statistics to interpret information. At the end of the unit, students will be required to complete a research project on an incident in the Asian region where Australia has provided foreign aid and support.
The students will use the following questions to guide their learning:
- How do places, people and cultures differ across the world?
- How do people’s connections to places affect their perception of them?
- How do people and environments influence one another?
- What factors influence people’s awareness and opinions of places?