Dear families,
The resources needed for the Year Five PP Grid for Weeks 4&5 for Term 3 2020 are below.
The Reading Journal will be explained and sent home tomorrow (Tuesday) with your child.
Have a great week!
Posts By Louise Corkhill
Silent Reading in Year Five
Each day we do silent reading after lunch to help calm us down after a busy lunch time. – Natalia and Ahnya
Silent reading helps to improve our reading skills, our vocabulary for speaking and writing and it gives us time to get through as many books as we can. Mikelah and Lachlan
Each Monday we go to the Library and borrow two books. – Teyla
We borrow one reading book of our choice and one Lexile book which is a book that is specifically targeted to our current reading abilities. – Ryder, Aiyana and Isaiah
After we finish our Lexile book, we complete a quiz which tests our comprehension and understanding of the text. – Charlotte and Abbey
We usually sit outside to get some fresh air while we read our books and find a nice spot near no one else. – Louis and Julien
We love reading books and hope to read many more in Semester Two! – Maria, Elijah
Mr Naden, Miss Corkhill & The Year Fives
Year 5 PP Grid Weeks 2&3 Term 3 2020
Dear families,
Please click below to view the Year Five PP Grid for weeks 2&3 term 3 2020.
Have a lovely week!
Louise Corkhill & Dan Naden
Cross Country – What fun!
Today we had inter-house cross country and Years Three to Six participated out on the school ovals. – Abbey
The Year Threes and Fours ran 1km and the Year Fives and Sixes ran 1.1kms. – Jack
We had a great time running our hearts out with our friends. We all had to persevere to get to the finish line! – Nathanael
Meanwhile, everyone else in the faction bays cheered the runners on. – Tyson
We are really proud of ourselves for finishing the race with a smile. – Sienna
Whenever someone needed some extra encouragement, we made sure to cheer for them, even if they were in a different faction. It was great to hear the house chants! We can’t wait for the athletics carnival in Week 9!
Check out some photos that Mrs Cogger took of us having the best time.
Year Five Term Three Newsletter
Welcome back!
Click below to view the Year Five Term Three Newsletter.
Click here to view a letter from the Leadership Team about faith formation.
See you soon!
Louise Corkhill & Dan Naden
Year Five PP Grid Week 9 Term 2
Dear families,
Please see the link to view the Year Five PP Grid for week 9 term 2 2020.
Have a lovely week!
Louise Corkhill & Dan Naden
St Emilie KAHOOT!
As part of our St Emilie’s Feast Day celebration, we created KAHOOT quizzes based on St Emilie’s life and mission.
In teams, we researched about our school’s patron saint and then we created some tricky and thought-provoking questions.
After formulating our questions we logged into our class KAHOOT page and created our quizzes using a variety of questions – multiple choice, short answer and true or false.
This task was a great opportunity to develop our tech skills and create online games for each other. It was also a good opportunity to practise higher order thinking skills and develop questions from the answer, rather than answer a question! Best of all, it was a great chance for us to learn more about the amazing St Emilie de Vialar.
Finding the Joy
Our current Fruit of the Holy Spirit is Joy and in Year Five this week we have spent some time ‘finding the joy’ in our days.
To do this takes only a minute of pausing, breathing and reflecting, and all of us are trying our best to do just this every day.
We came up with our own definitions of joy and thought about how we already show joy in our lives. Here are some of our responses.
In our Community Circle time we posed the question ‘what brings us joy?’ Check out some of our thoughts.
We hope that today you too can find the joy in your life!
Miss Corkhill, Mr Naden & the Year Fives
Year 5 PP Grid Weeks 7&8 Term 2 2020
Welcome to Week Seven!
Please click the link to view the PP Grid for Year 5 Weeks 7&8.
Students will receive a Japanese task today to bring home.
Year 5 PP Grid Weeks 7&8 Term 2 2020
Have a great week everyone!
Miss Corkhill, Mr Naden & the Year Fives
Sorry Day Reflection
Last week was National Reconciliation Week. Sorry Day forms a special part of this week and it falls on Tuesday the 26th of May. On Tuesday in Year Five, we explored a few websites including a BTN (Behind the News) episode which explained some background information about the Stolen Generations, Sorry Day and why this is such a large part of our history here in Australia. After viewing the episode we discussed our learnings. Then, working teams, we responded to some thought-provoking questions.
- What was the main point of this story? The main point was about how the Aboriginal people were stolen from their homes. The white people thought that stealing Aboriginals and teaching them the ‘right’ way was an ok thing to do. The Prime Minister at the time Kevin Rudd said ‘sorry’.
- Why do you think the Indigenous children taken from their families are known as the “stolen” generations? At the time they thought it was a good thing to do but it actually wasn’t. They thought they would get a better education and better healthcare, so they literally stole children from families and put them with white people, which is very sad and hard to imagine.
- It was Government policy that Indigenous children be removed. Why do you think they thought this was necessary? Back then white people thought that it wasn’t right to let Indigenous children stay with their families so they took them away to live with white families. This was wrong but at the time they thought it was right.
- “They thought they were doing the right thing.” How has social policy changed? They thought that it was the right thing at the time, which is hard for us to imagine now. Now the policy has changed so that the Aboriginal kids or any kids cannot be taken from families. This is the right thing to do, which we know now.
- Imagine being taken away from your family. How does it make you feel? We would feel sad, worried, terrible and devastated because we love our families so much we could not imagine getting taken away.
- Why do you think the government has chosen to apologise? The government chose to apologise in 2008 because the existing government at the time was no longer around to do it themselves. The government now understands (like we all do) that it is rude and selfish and not ok to take children from families.
- Describe how Indigenous people may have felt when the Prime Minister was apologising. They would’ve felt mixed emotions like pride, joy and they would’ve felt pleased. We think that they felt more happy emotions rather than sad. All of the Indigenous people seem to respect Kevin Rudd’s speech. They are grateful that this speech was made and that people actually do care.
- Why is it considered one of the most important speeches in Australian history? It is one of the most important speeches because Aboriginal people have been waiting for the Government to say sorry to them for what they have done (being so rude) for a very long time. It changes our history for the good.
- It’s been described as an important part of the healing process. Discuss. It is an important part of the healing process because saying sorry helps us heal. Then Aboriginal people can move on and get on with their lives, knowing white people are sorry about the things they did.
- Do you think it’ll help the reconciliation process? Why or why not? We think it will help because it will never happen again and people will feel much better about it even people who were not in the Stolen Generation. It helps because the white people really hurt the Aboriginals who were worried and sad when their kids were taken away.
- Should the Stolen Generations receive compensation? Our group believes that the Stolen Generations should be able to receive compensation because most of their childhood was spent without their family.
- Is it ever too late to say sorry? It is sometimes too late if it is a small thing that gets forgotten but if it is a massive deal that will impact society forever, it is not too late to say sorry.
Here are the links we explored together, if you’d like to check them out:
https://www.abc.net.au/btn/classroom/government-apology/10542168
Miss Corkhill, Mr Naden & The Year Fives