Year 5 Term 4

Learning Overviews

Religion

Unit Title: We Celebrate the Sacraments
This unit is one of two units exploring sacraments in years 5 and 6. In this unit students will deepen their understanding of sacraments and sacramentality. The unit will explore the sacraments of Penance and Holy Orders.

Unit Title: Advent to Christmas - A Time to Prepare and Celebrate

This unit explores the liturgical season of Advent. It focuses on the message of John the Baptist who prepared the way for the coming of Jesus. His call is one of challenge and commitment in preparation for the coming of the Messiah. Students will examine Advent and Christmas customs and practices that help us prepare for the celebration of Christ’s first coming and the promise of his second coming at the end of time. The unit develops the concept that the promised Saviour, Jesus, is the Son of God, become human; an event that we prepare for and celebrate, and to which we continue to respond in living our faith.

English

Unit Title: Nature’s narratives

Unit overview: In this unit, students explore the topic of environmental stewardship and how places change over time. Students will also develop their visual literacy skills and understanding of film techniques to explore how composers convey messages around human impact on the environment. Students will be asked to be both critical and creative in responding to the texts. When composing their own texts they will learn to create meaning by structuring their language according to audience, purpose and context.

Mathematics

Unit Title: Collecting, Representing & Interpreting Data, Chance and Mass

Unit Overview: Students will use appropriate methods to collect data and construct, interpret and evaluate data displays. They will assign probabilities and engage in hands-on and interactive simple chance experiments. Lastly, students will select and use the appropriate unit and device to measure the masses of objects, and convert between units of mass.

Interdisciplinary Unit of Learning, Science and Technology and PDHPE

Unit Title: The Bradfield City Project

This is an Interdisciplinary unit of learning with Science, PDHPE and Numeracy. Students will use the Engineering Design Model to come up with a solution for the New Bradfield City. Students will present their solutions in the form of an exhibition to parents and members of the Bradfield City Project.

The Science component will be investigating the use of sustainable materials for the design.

In PDHPE students will examine the factors that contribute to maintaining an active and healthy lifestyle including physical activity, food and nutrition. Within the practical component of the course students participate in invasion, field and territory games.

Course requirements:

Hat and drink bottle for all PE Lessons

HSIE

Unit Title: Factors that Shape Places

Unit Overview: Students will investigate how people influence places, they will describe who organises and manages places such as local and state governments, and students will identify the ways people contribute to sustainability. Further, students will investigate the impact of contemporary bushfire hazards in Australia. They will explore the bushfire’s location and extent of disaster, its impact, and the prevention measures required to minimise the effects of a bushfire in the future.

Creative Arts- Music

Unit Title: Rhythms and Melodies (Continued)

Unit Overview: In this unit, students extend their musical skills through continued exploration of percussion, glockenspiel, ukulele, and voice. They build on their understanding of duration and pitch by reading and performing more complex rhythmic patterns and melodic phrases, including semibreves, minims, crotchets, and quavers in varied combinations. Students refine their ability to read treble clef notation and apply this knowledge in performance, particularly on the glockenspiel. They also deepen their understanding of harmony, playing more challenging chord progressions and developing rhythmic strumming patterns on the ukulele while singing. This unit fosters greater musical fluency and expressive confidence through both individual and ensemble performance opportunities.

Pastoral (Social and Emotional Wellbeing) Learning Time

Inclusive Community Project

Students will continue to work on the Solar Buddy Projects that commenced in term 3.

They will develop their understanding of Energy Poverty and construct Solar Lights for those who are impacted by energy poverty.

Interdisciplinary Time

Students will use time to work on their interdisciplinary project. This is the Bradfield City Project that will be worked on during Mathematics, Science and PDHPE. Students will also be given additional planning time throughout the term to work on the project with their groups.

Team Building

Students will engage in personalised team building activities to support the development of interpersonal skills in being a part of a team, conflict resolution, sportsmanship and building connections with peers.

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