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What’s Happening in Grade 5 in Term 3 2025

In Literacy students will be:

• Answering literal and inferred comprehension questions about our Core Knowledge units.
• Identifying key vocabulary and the meaning of these words.
• Learning about Greek etymology focusing on Greek numbers.
• Exploring Latin etymology focusing on Latin numbers and the base word struct.
• Generating complex sentences containing relative clauses.
• Further exploring the use of first and third person.
• Combining 3-4 sentences using their knowledge of conjunctions, pronouns, relative clauses and appositives.
• Creating sentences containing interjections (adding meaning to a sentence or context by expressing a feeling, making a demand, or emphasising a thought).
• Note taking to develop a Single Paragraph Outline (SPO) or Multiple Paragraph Outline.
• Converting SPO into paragraphs.
• Editing their writing checking for capital letters, spelling, full stops, commas, apostrophes, quotation marks, question marks, exclamation marks and brackets.
• Editing and uplevelling their work to ensure the correct structure and format as well as checking for meaning.
• Presenting key understandings through class discussions and group work.
• Revising the structure when writing a range of genres including information reports, narratives, letter writing, poems and comics.
• Creating a text of choice that will be included in our class book for Celebration Week.

In Mathematics students will be:

• Solving problems involving addition and subtraction of fractions with the same or related denominators, using different strategies.
• Representing and solving addition and subtraction problems involving fractions by using jumps on a number line, or bar models, or making diagrams of fractions as parts of shapes.
• Learning that fraction number sentences can be rewritten in equivalent forms without changing the quantity.
• Multipling and dividing decimals by multiples of powers of 10 without a calculator, applying knowledge of place value and proficiency with multiplication facts.
• Using estimation and rounding to check the reasonableness of answers.
• Constructing a grid coordinate system that uses coordinates to locate positions within a space; use coordinates and directional language to describe position and movement.
• Estimating, constructing and measuring angles in degrees, using appropriate tools, including a protractor, and relate these measures to angle names.
• Choosing appropriate metric units when measuring the length, mass and capacity of objects; use smaller units or a combination of units to obtain a more accurate measure.
• Listing the possible outcomes of chance experiments involving equally likely outcomes and comparing to those that are not equally likely.

In Inquiry students will be:

Discovering and learning about Human Health and Growth. Students will build on their understanding from previous grades about human body structures and their functions. They will study how the human body changes from birth and through childhood. Students will learn about the different ways in which hormones are released; the different body structures, such as glands, that release hormones; and the effects of hormones on the body. They will explore how the release of hormones are necessary both for day-to-day body functions and for the growth and development of the human body through the exploration of the endocrine system the students will produce work samples that outline their understanding of how the human body functions.

Wellbeing

We will be using the Respectful Relationships program to focus on positive coping strategies, problem solving tools, positive gender relations and stress management.

Students will engage in lessons looking at:

• Incorporating weekly morning circles to begin each day with positivity and develop as sense of togetherness and safety withing the classroom.
• Exploring the relationship between negative gender norms and acceptance of gender-based violence.
• Identifying and practice behaviours that demonstrate respect and recognition of the rights of others within interpersonal relationships.
• Active respect in peer relations.
• Stressors that impact day to day living.
• Lifting the mood – developing an understanding of improving their own mental health
• Understanding positive and negative uses of power in a relationship.
• Incorporating Smiling Mind lessons that include meditation.
• Analysing the impact of peer and adult actions in maintaining or changing contemporary gender norms.
• Developing an awareness of the impact of gender norms on the attitudes and behaviours of those entering adolescence.
• Identifying the standards and associated actions that underpin respectful gender relations.

There will be a continued focus on our SWPBS Expectations as outlined in our whole school matrix as well as a visit from the Life-Ed van mid-way through Term 3.