YEAR 5 NEWS
Year 5 - Leaders in The Making
It has been a busy but productive start to our year. In Year 5, we have been learning, laughing and striving for goodness.
In Mathematics we have been mastering multiples and factors, followed by estimation strategies and multiplication of 3- and 4-digit numbers. In Literacy, we’ve enjoyed writing character and setting descriptions and revised narrative structure in English. We can’t wait to write our own imaginative narratives in the coming weeks. We’ve read all about animal adaptations and extreme environments in Science and researched amazing facts about polar bears. This week we will begin making trading cards in Religion to show the important work of notable early Australians. Some will feature colonialists like Mary Mackillop and Caroline Chisolm. We hope to understand their important work and how their achievements have been able to lay the foundations of our community today.
As our service activity for 2020, the Year 5 cohort decided to regularly visit Salem Nursing Home. Each class will visit the Nursing Home once a term with Year 5C being the first class to visit on Friday 21st February. Students thoroughly enjoyed talking with and interviewing the residents. Many of the residents were happy to laugh and share their memories and the children gained great insight into what school was like before the use of the iPhone, computer and YouTube. The residents were also keen to share other humorous stories and histories, with some of them having enjoyed their childhoods in countries other than Australia. It gave our Year 5 students insight into the many similarities and differences of what life was once like. Year 5K and 5W look forward to their visits in the coming weeks and will no doubt enjoy all the visits have to offer. More details to come on these visits in our weekly Communication Notes.
This year, Year 5 have talked about setting ourselves a goal to become “Leaders in the Making” in 2020. We hope that by focusing on being good learners, role models and members of both St Saviour’s Primary and the wider community, we will be ready for our role of school leaders next year. We look forward to many more activities and challenges this year, that will encourage us to be our best, while we continue to strive for goodness.
