5W Class News Term 3 – 2020 Aim High Teacher: Melissa Walker Email: [email protected]Specialist Lessons to remember P.E is Monday day at 10:00 am. Music is Monday at 9:30 am. Library is Monday at 9:15 am. Please bring a library bag to take home a book. Whole School Assembly – alternating Mondays – 1:30pm – Please check newsletter for details Senior Assembly – alternating Mondays – 1:30pm – Please check newsletter for details Japanese is Wednesday at 2:00am and Thursday at 11:15 pm. Homework is due back on Friday. Students are required to complete two items from the matrix, 15 minutes reading per night and write out their spelling words four times. Points of interest The first bell rings at 8:20am. School begins at 8:30am. Please ensure students are on time. If your child is away please contact the office on 3711 8360 or email Miss Walker. Points of interest Wed & Thurs 5 and 6 August – School Photos Mon 10 August 1:30 - 2:30 - Year 3-6 Athletics Trials Fri 14 August – EKKA Public Holiday Thurs 20 August 8:30 - 2:30 - Year 3-6 Athletics Trials Mon 31 August - 11:00 - 11:45 Discus Finals (only students in the final attend) Tues 1 September - 1:30 - 2:30 - Discus Finals (only students in the final attend) Thurs 3 September - 8:30 - 2:30 - SENIOR SPORTS DAY Fri 4 September – Student Free Day Curriculum focus – what we will be working on in class this term Content Assessment English This term, students listen to, read and view a range of poetry, including, anthems, odes narrative poems and other lyric poems from different contexts. They will interpret and evaluate poems, analysing how text structures and language features have been constructed by the poet, for specific purposes and effects. Students will create a transformation of narrative poem to a digital multimodal narrative. Students will write a poetry analysis, explaining the topic, purpose and audience of the poem; the tone and mood of the poem; and a personal response to the poem. Students create a digital multimodal transformation of a narrative poem. Maths Students will round and estimate to check answers are reasonable, use written strategies to add, subtract, multiply and divide; and solve problems involving computation. Students will create, continue and identify the rule for patterns involving the addition and subtraction of fractions and decimals; and problem-solve and reason when applying measurement to answer a question. Students will investigate income and expenditure, calculate costs, investigate savings and spending plans, develop and explain simple financial plans. Students will complete two short answer assessments. The first assessment will include converting between 12-hour and 24-hour time. It will also involve identifying and describing factors and multiples of whole numbers. In the second assessment, students will use mathematical language to describe chance experiments involving equally likely outcomes and will represent the outcomes.
Library is Monday at 9:15 am. Please bring a library
bag to take home a book.
Whole School Assembly – alternating Mondays –
1:30pm – Please check newsletter for details
Senior Assembly – alternating Mondays – 1:30pm
– Please check newsletter for details
Japanese is Wednesday at 2:00am and Thursday at
11:15 pm.
Homework is due back on Friday.
Students are required to complete two items from
the matrix, 15 minutes reading per night and write
out their spelling words four times.
Points of interest The first bell rings at 8:20am.
School begins at 8:30am. Please ensure students are
on time.
If your child is away please contact the office on
3711 8360 or email Miss Walker.
Points of interest
Wed & Thurs 5 and 6 August – School Photos Mon 10 August 1:30 - 2:30 - Year 3-6 Athletics
Trials Fri 14 August – EKKA Public Holiday Thurs 20 August 8:30 - 2:30 - Year 3-6 Athletics
Trials Mon 31 August - 11:00 - 11:45 Discus Finals
(only students in the final attend) Tues 1 September - 1:30 - 2:30 - Discus Finals
(only students in the final attend) Thurs 3 September - 8:30 - 2:30 - SENIOR
SPORTS DAY Fri 4 September – Student Free Day
Curriculum focus – what we will be working on in class this term
Content Assessment
English This term, students listen to, read and view a range
of poetry, including, anthems, odes narrative poems and other lyric poems from different contexts. They will interpret and evaluate poems, analysing how text structures and language features have been
constructed by the poet, for specific purposes and effects. Students will create a transformation of narrative poem to a digital multimodal narrative.
Students will write a poetry analysis, explaining
the topic, purpose and audience of the poem; the tone and mood of the poem; and a personal response to the poem. Students create a digital multimodal transformation of a narrative poem.
Maths Students will round and estimate to check answers are reasonable, use written strategies to add,
subtract, multiply and divide; and solve problems involving computation. Students will create, continue and identify the rule for patterns involving the addition and subtraction of fractions and decimals; and problem-solve and reason when applying measurement to answer a question.
Students will investigate income and expenditure, calculate costs, investigate savings and spending plans, develop and explain simple financial plans.
Students will complete two short answer assessments.
The first assessment will include converting between 12-hour and 24-hour time. It will also involve identifying and describing factors and multiples of whole numbers. In the second assessment, students will use mathematical language to describe chance
experiments involving equally likely outcomes and will represent the outcomes.
Content Assessment
Science In this unit, students will describe the key features of
our solar system, including planets and stars. They will discuss scientific developments that have affected people's lives and describe details of
contributions to our knowledge of the solar system from a range of people. With guidance, students will pose questions, and plan and conduct investigations to answer questions and solve problems. They will
decide on variables to change and measure to conduct fair tests. Students will communicate their ideas in a variety of multimodal texts including recording in data sheets and as a report for popular media.
Poster/multimodal presentation
Students describe key features of the solar system. They describe how science knowledge develops from many people’s
contributions and explain how scientific developments have affected people's lives and solved problems. Students communicate ideas using multimodal
texts.
HASS
(Humanities and Social
Sciences)
In this unit, students will explore the following key
inquiry question: • How have people enacted their values and perceptions about their community, other people and places, past and present? Learning opportunities support students to: • investigate the key values of Australia's liberal
democratic system of government, particularly the values of freedom, equality, fairness and justice • identify significant past developments, events, individuals and groups that impacted on the development of law and democracy in Australia, particularly the Eureka Stockade and Peter Lalor
• explore representative democracy and voting processes in Australia • investigate how students enact democratic values and processes through participating in school elections • generate alternative responses to a democratic issue and propose action
Students complete a collection of work that investigates democratic values and processes in the school community.
The Arts Drama Students will learn a variety of drama techniques such as staging, pausing, tone, emphasis, role playing,
improvisation and presenting scripted work.
Students will learn two consecutive stanzas from a chosen A.B. Paterson poem and present to an audience. Their
presentation must be animated and capture the spirit of the poem. This will be
undertaken in groups, appropriate costumes can be worn and palm cards may be used.
P.E Unit: Athletics Students will participate in a unit on Athletics. They will develop skills in throwing a shot put and discus with correct technique. Students will
develop long and high jump ability by performing various drills to improve run up, take-off and landing. They will learn basic field event rules and procedures, in preparation for sports day trials and competition. Students will participate in drills to develop sprinting technique leading up to
performance of the 100 and 200m sprint during trials and sports day competition. They will also
participate in the 800m.
Students will be assessed on their proficiency when performing the fundamental movement skills of running,
jumping and throwing during their performance of track and field events.
Music In music lessons this term, students will learn how to play the guitar and continue to develop their singing skills, and knowledge of how to read music.
Students will be assessed on how well they sing in tune, play the guitar and read notes on the bass clef.
LOTE During Term 3 students will continue to learn about Japanese family life and how the traditions, culture and values are similar/different to their own family.
They will also learn about pets and begin to write simple descriptions in Japanese. Students will begin to learn to recognise the Japanese script Hiragana, and participate in a variety of cultural activities aligned with the Japanese calendar.
1. Listening comprehension test about a family.
2. Create a real/fictitious family
album using Book Creator (IPad) to present to the class.
