Oberthur Primary School Year 5/6 Term 3 Parent Overview
During Term 3, your child will be engaging in learning of the following curriculum
Chinese Language: Year 5 / 6
Task basked oral interactions using modelled
descriptive and expressive language to ex-
change information. Continue Chinese Journal
writing and leveled reading program. System-
atic learning of Chinese writing system –
radicals and work on the writing project “My
World”. Integrate Chinese language learning
with Science and Health and Well-being Curric-
ulum.
The Arts: Year 5/6
Surrealist artists- Students will be exposed to
Shaun Tan and other surrealist artist style and
apply these techniques to create their own art-
work using collaging.
Health & Physical Education
Year 5: Goal Setting – student will continue to
develop their ability in becoming a reflective
learner. They will be exposed to the different
types of feedback and how this links to becoming
successful learner.
Healthy diet/ Health lifestyle - Strategies that
promote a safe and healthy lifestyle such as com-
paring food labels., food energy (K Joules) salt, fat
and sugar contents.
Year 6: Drug education- alcohol, passive smoking,
medicines and caffeine.
Technologies Year 5/6
Design Technology & Sustainability
Design, plan, construct & critique a STEM task
linked to food technology.
The Scone Challenge—Students will make and
bake individual scones innovating with flavour to
produce the best tasting scone linked to creating
and understanding the structure of procedure
writing.
Digital Technology
Understanding the different parts of the network
systems such as hardware software, peripheral
systems and website design. Technology Through
The Ages- assembly item Week 2 Term 4.
Iworks software- Coding – Introduction to scratch
and The Hour of Code. Manipulation of Makey
Makey, Sphero, Edison Robots. Simple circuits.
Making electrical circuits, switches and electro-
magnets.
Every student, every classroom, every day, inspiring futures
content. Please note, that the year level teaching team develop curriculum plans
collaboratively, therefore your child will be engaging in learning identified for the
year level as a whole.
English
Reading and Viewing – Applying the viewing codes and conventions to analyse and
interpret multi-model text using the works of author/illustrator: Shaun Tan.
Year 6 students will delve deeper by comparing and analysing Shaun Tan texts.
Writing and Creating – use iMovie to digitally create a movie trailer applying their
knowledge of the viewing codes and conventions. Students will continue to develop
their ability to write in different genres such as, free verse poetry and informational
text linked to Geography and STEM cooking project. Students engaged in individual
spelling programs which involves looking at words through the three lenses.
Speaking and Listening– students participate in three oracy tasks utilising poetry to
developing their fluency and presentation skills.
Vocabulary- understanding the differences of precise language and word origin.
Sentence Stalking (functional grammar)- noticing how author create effective sen-
tences. Language features- similes, metaphors, allusion, alliteration, personification,
idioms, allusion, and hyperbole.
Mathematics
Number elements consolidated from Semester 1 in warm-up sessions also including
all four number operations. Focus on division and multiplication strategies such as
lattice, halving and splitting strategies. Solve fraction, decimal and percentage word
problems and equations. Positioning Fractions, decimals and percentages on a range
of differently scaled number lines.
Data Handling and Representation- surveys, tables and pie charts, column and line
graphs. Using excel and Iworks (number) to classify, analyse and record data. Inter-
pret different data. Understanding average.
Chance and Probability- chance experiments and representing outcomes using frac-
tions.
Measurement and Geometry: three-dimensional objects and their Nets, Transfor-
mation and enlargement of two-dimensional shapes, compare 12- and 24-hour sys-
tem and convert between them, translation, reflection and rotation of two-
dimensional shapes, identify line and rotational symmetry, constructing angles using
a protractor.
Science - Chemical Science: Year 5
Students classify solids, liquids and gases according to their observable properties
and behaviours.
Humanities and Social Sciences— Geography
Y5 Comparison between North America, South America & Australia
How natural disasters such as floods and bushfires affect communities?
Y6 Comparison between Asia and Australia.
How culture diversity affects these continents and their indigenous communities.