Year 5 Curriculum Guide

Throughout the year, students will be guided through six Units of Inquiry of global significance, providing opportunities to broaden their learning by developing their conceptual understandings, strengthening their knowledge and skills across, between and beyond subject areas.

The following six Units of Inquiry will be explored throughout the year. Each unit is developed around a concept, a Central Idea and Lines of Inquiry.

An inquiry into:

• inspiration, imagination and creativity
• personal, social and cultural modes and practices of communication
• intentions, perceptions, interpretations and responses

Unit timing: All year

An inquiry into:

• Earth's structure 地球的結構
• How Earth's structure has changed over time 地球的結構如何隨著時間變化
• Evidence of changes to Earth's structure 地球結構變化的證據

Unit timing: Term One

An inquiry into:

• Myself: My health and wellbeing
• Interactions: My relationships with others and my sense of belonging
• Growth: The impact on my learning and development

Unit timing: All year

An inquiry into:

• Reversible and irreversible changes to materials 材料的可逆和不可逆變化
  
• How materials are changed for different purposes 材料如何根據不同的目的而轉化
• Challenges and benefits of changing materials 改變材料的挑戰和好處
  

Unit timing: Term Three

An inquiry into:

• Privilege and power
• Different models of economic exchange
• Equitable decision making

Unit Timing: Term Two

An inquiry into:

• The causes and impact of extreme weather events (Case study)極端天氣事件的成因與衝擊（案例研究）
• The connection between access to wealth and the impacts of climate change 財富取得與氣候變遷衝擊之間的連結
• How human rights principles guide climate action 人權原則如何引導氣候行動

The development of language is fundamental to all areas of our learning programs. Language helps us communicate our thinking and understanding.

Language is socially constructed - it is dependent on social interactions and relationships. It permeates all subject areas. As such, we view all of our teachers and assistants to be language teachers.

English is our main language of instruction, with Chinese (Mandarin) taught as an additional language.

In Year 5, our reading program focuses on developing strategies needed to be an independent reader. Students are taught different comprehension strategies to understand what is written beyond the literal text. These are developed through a mixture of guiding reading, shared reading, read aloud and independent reading sessions.

Students will explore a range of text types: to entertain, to inform and to persuade. Specific writing skills will be developed around how to create a range of informative texts.

Chinese Foundation focuses on speaking, listening and social Chinese. Students read texts and environmental print and learn to write the most commonly occurring characters.

Chinese Language focuses on Chinese speaking, listening and the reading of longer texts. Students write their own longer pieces of writing.

Chinese Language and Literature focuses on extended reading and writing tasks, using more complex language.

Mathematics is a global language of concepts and symbols through which we make sense of the world around us.

Mathematics is taught through three main stages:

1. Constructing meaning and ideas about a mathematical concept through interactions with objects, discussions, experimentation and play;
2. Transferring these ideas and understandings into symbols;
3. Applying these ideas and understanding in real-life and hands-on problem solving activities.

Mathematics is taught through the strands of number, data, shape and space, measure and problem solving.

In Year 5 students will explore numbers to 1,000,000 and decimals to hundredths. They will explore factors and multiples and learn division facts. They will apply the column method as well as, learn how to apply doubling, halving, rounding, compensating and reversibility to solve multiplication problems. They will learn short division. They will explore the connection between fractions and decimals.

Students will explore the concept of space by using grid systems and manipulating 2D shapes. They will measure perimeter and area, as well as angles. They will explore the use of 24-hour time.

In Year 5, students will explore a range of land-based, freshwater and coastal environments. They will learn how to identify a range of native insects and invertebrates. Students will also create and maintain a garden which encourages pollinators to visit the school.

Wellbeing is a central pillar of our school and is taught on a weekly basis. Students learn through Relationships and Sexuality Education, Social and Emotional Learning, PE & Health and Digital Wellbeing. There is a focus on self-management, relationship skills and fundamental movement skills.

In Year 5, students will learn how to use a visual programming language to implement solutions to a problem. They will learn how to use advanced search techniques when acquiring information from online sources. They will experiment with animation and sound recording. Students will conduct tests to understand the properties of materials. They will be provided opportunities to experiment with and manipulate materials with appropriate tools, equipment and techniques.

• Display self awareness and take responsibility for own actions.
• Begin to develop strategies to engage with challenges, support concentration and overcome distractions.

• Meet deadlines.
• Set personalised learning goals.
• Engage constructively with feedback.

• Show respect, care and empathy for others.
• Begin to take on a variety of roles during group learning.
• Know how and where to get support if needed.

• Comprehend information, which is presented by teachers, peers and guest speakers.
• Express views and questions.
• Appreciate the opinions of others.

• Use standard grammatical structures competently in appropriate situations.

• Read and comprehend narrative and information texts with a reading age that corresponds to chronological age or higher.
• Answer various types of comprehension questions, including literal, reorganisation, inferential, evaluative, and reaction questions.
• Read a wide range of texts independently.
• Use a range of resources to find information and support inquiry.

• Adapt writing to inform, entertain or persuade.
• Use academic language when writing to inform or persuade.
• Use figurative language when writing to entertain.
• Use planners and graphic organisers to help to structure ideas.
• Edit writing, making improvements when necessary.
• Use most basic punctuation correctly, starting to use commas to demarcate phrases.
• Write legibly, fluently and with increasing speed.

• Recognise, write and compare numbers up to and beyond 1,000,000.
• Begin to recognise and use negative numbers to -100.
• Efficiently use multiplication and division facts for times tables up to 12 x 12.
• Make choices about when to use mental or written methods for calculations, selecting appropriate methods and using them mostly accurately and fluently.
• Compare fractions and decimals
• Investigate, describe and represent patterns using numbers, symbols, tables and graphs.
• Find and interpret information from tables, charts and graphs.

• Distinguish between regular and irregular polygons based on reasoning about equal sides and angles.
• Calculate and compare the area of rectangles and squares ( including using standard units) and estimate the area of irregular shapes.
• Use the properties of rectangles to deduce related facts and find missing lengths and angles.
• Know angles are measured in degrees: estimate and compare acute, obtuse and reflex angles.

• Use problem-solving skills, such as visualising and trial and improvement, when solving problems relating to real-life situations.

• Identify rules for patterns to predict future terms.

To see the Subject Guidance for all subjects from Nursery to Year 6 please click on this link

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