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Our literacy block is systematic, explicit, and evidence-based. The science of learning refers to a multidisciplinary field of research that incorporates child neuroscience, psychology, sociology, behavioural development, and cognitive learning. 

The Year 5 Literacy Block consists of:

• Daily Review - Review of previous lesson learning objectives or skills and concepts learnt.

• Spelling Mastery - Lessons run for 20 minutes per day and contain weekly reviews to track and monitor student progress. The aim of Spelling Mastery is for students to ‘crack the alphabetic code’ so they can understand how spelling works and can become proficient writers.

• Syntax - Daily structured, explicit lessons on grammar and syntax.

• Fluency Partners - Students build their fluency by reading aloud to each other.

• Text Based Unit - Daily, text-focussed lessons that will target reading strategies, vocabulary, sentence-level writing, and text-level writing. This term's text is Lemony Snicket's A Series of Unfortunate Events: The Bad Beginning.

Mathematics

During the term, students will focus on the following topics: place value, the four operations, orders of operations, and an introduction to fractions. Students will take part in explicit teaching lessons that are differentiated, as well as open-ended activities in the form of Friday Brainiacs sessions.

Science: Seeing the Light 

In term one, our physical science unit 'Seeing the Light' will explore the transfer of light and understand that light from a source forms shadows and can be absorbed, reflected and refracted. 

Humanities - Civics & Citizenship: The Path to Australian Democracy 

Students will be introduced and study the key values of Australia’s liberal democratic system of government and the key institutions of Australia’s democratic government, including state/territory and federal parliaments, and the court system. Students will learn about representative democracy and the voting processes in Australia. Students expand on their knowledge of the law by studying how laws impact the lives of citizens as well as how state/territory and federal laws are made in a parliamentary system. Students investigate the role of groups in our community and examine the rights and responsibilities of Australian citizens. They explore the obligations that people may have as global citizens.