Year 5

Literacy has been a huge focus in our classroom this term. We have had two major evets that our class has organised and run. The first was the Scholastic Book Fair. As part of this process our students had to apply for jobs. The three jobs available were cashier, shop assistance and covid officer/security. Students filled out a job application as part of this process. As a class, we created a roster and students had to get themselves to work on time and work. This was a great ‘real life’ experience for all, and gave our students a taste of what retail work is like.

Our next event was the Book Week Parade. Our students auditioned for various roles and then worked together to write the script to run the event. I was very impressed by their editing process as once they did a first run through, they decided to add some humor and slight banter into the script which was warmly received by the audience. The publicity for both these events, involved the whole class and was done by an assembly mini performance, posters around the school and writing a letter to our school families. Our photographer was also one of our students and with minimal training, she did a great job (see photos below).

Math’s has had some very successful results this term. We have been teaching in 3 lesson blocks and the continuity is benefitting all. We have had an 100% pass rate for our last 4 assessments on decimals. Well done to all our students.

Events coming up in weeks 8 and 9 are: Sports day and the Amazing Race

This term in Science students have been keen to investigate and learn more about our Solar System. They are able to name each of the planets and name the four terrestrial or Jovian planets. To further develop student’s knowledge and understanding we constructed a 3D solar system in our Technology lessons.

In HASS, the students have been learning about the importance of values and processes to Australia’s democracy and describing the roles of different people in Australia’s legal system. Students were given the opportunity to role play an election.