Year 5 Term 1

Learning Overviews

Religion

Unit Title: The Reign of God: Reaching out in Justice

Unit Overview: This unit explores the Church’s mission to build a just world. Justice is an important element in bringing about the Reign of God. Students will explore examples of injustice and how the Church continues the mission of Jesus by working for justice. In their exploration, students will need to look at decision-making and conscience.

Unit Title: Lent: A Time for Growth

Unit Overview: This unit explores the season of Lent as a time of conversion and growth. It presents Jesus’ passion as an experience of suffering and rejection. It also looks at Jesus’ response to a person suffering rejection. Students are encouraged to reflect on their experiences of acceptance and rejection and explore how times of difficulty can be times of growth. Prayer, fasting and almsgiving will be linked to Caritas material and raising awareness for Project Compassion. The Church’s celebration of the events of Holy Week will be presented and explored.

English

Unit Title: My Place, My Story

Unit Description: This unit allows students to explore the genre of narrative through the lens of historical context and people's connection with place. Students are able to analyse the deliberate language choices and literary devices used by expert writers to compose engaging imaginative texts. Students will focus on writing using the show-not-tell strategy and creating texts based on characterisation and setting. Students will study a variety of imaginative texts, including short stories and the picture book, My Place by Nadia Wheatley to learn about narrative structure and language devices used in texts. Students will engage deeply with the content to develop their skills of literal, inferential, and evaluative questioning.

Mathematics

Unit Title: Operating with numbers and length

Unit Overview: Throughout the term, students will be focusing on developing their confidence with numbers. More specifically, representing numbers as well as applying additive and multiplicative relations. Students will also select and use the appropriate unit and device to measure lengths and distances, calculate perimeters, and convert between units of length.

Science

Unit Title: The Supercar Challenge

Unit Overview: Students will use a Design Thinking Model to design and build a supercar. Students will explore how contact and non contact forces affect the motion of the car and develop their skills in conducting first hand investigations.

HSIE

Unit Title: The Australian Colonies

Unit Overview: Students look at the economic, political, and social reasons for the founding of British colonies and the development of a colony in 1800s Australia. Students learn about colonial life in Australia and significant people, groups, developments, and events that shaped colonies. Students will learn about what life was like for different groups in the colonial period. They examine significant events and people, political and economic developments, social structures, and settlement patterns.

PDHPE

Unit Title: Relationships - You, Me, Us, T-Ball and Athletics

Unit Overview: In this unit students learn about relationships including rights and responsibilities and the need for effective communication in respectful relationships. They will focus on factors that influence personal and community wellbeing. In the practical component of the course students will focus on developing and practising skills in T-Ball and athletics, including Fundamental Movement Skills.

Course requirements:

Hat and drink bottle for all PE Lessons

Creative Arts: Dance

Unit Title: The Elements of Dance

Unit Overview: In this unit, students explore and apply the Elements of Dance - action, time, space, dynamics, and relationships, to create and perform movement with intention and creativity. They develop their technical and expressive skills through safe dance practices and structured activities. Students will learn a teacher-modelled class dance and, in small groups, adapt it using the elements to guide their choreographic choices. The unit also includes opportunities to reflect on and appreciate dance through both discussion and written response. The unit concludes with a group performance, showcasing students’ understanding of dance as a collaborative and expressive art form.

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