AUSTRALIAN INTERNATIONAL SCHOOL

Leading to a Bright Future

Year 5 Thao Dien Unit of Inquiry 4 Overview

Conflict Resolution
Transdisciplinary Theme
Sharing the Planet
Central Idea
Finding solutions to conflict leads to better quality of life
Concepts
Causation, Perspective, Responsibility
Related concepts
Change, Conflict, Resolution
Lines of Inquiry
Causes of conflict
Effects of conflict resolution
Responsibilities for living and working together peacefully

Language
Speaking & Listening

Make connections between English and different methods of communication, including home language and body
language

Understand that successful cooperation with others depends on shared use of social conventions, including turntaking patterns, and forms of address that vary according to the degree of formality in social situations

Understand and adopt the different roles in a debate

Identify organisational patterns and language features of spoken texts appropriate to a range of purposes

Interact effectively in groups or pairs, adopting a range of roles

Use information to support and elaborate on a point of view

Demonstrate understanding of ideas and issues in texts through dramatic representation, role-play and
simulations
Reading & Viewing

Identify characteristic features used in imaginative, informative and persuasive texts to meet the purpose of the
text

Use comprehension strategies to build literal and inferred meaning to expand content knowledge, integrating and
linking ideas and analysing and evaluating texts
Writing & Representing

Use a range of software including word processing programs to construct, edit and publish written text, and
select, edit and place visual, print and audio elements

Compose a range of effective imaginative, informative and persuasive texts using language appropriate to
purpose and audience

Experiment with spell check applications and develop an awareness of the limitations of their features in digital
technology

Mathematics
Number & Algebra
Multiplication and Division

Count by fours, sixes, sevens, eights and nines using skip counting

Recall multiplication facts up to 10 10, including zero facts, with automaticity

Find 'multiples' and factors for a given whole number

Relate multiplication facts to their inverse division facts

Use and record mental and written strategies to multiply a two-digit number by a two-digit number

Use and record mental and written strategies to divide a two-digit number by a one-digit number where there is
no remainder

Use mental strategies to divide a two-digit number by a one-digit number in problems for which answers include
a remainder

Interpret the remainder in the context of a word problem

Statistics & Probability
Chance

Data

Time

Use the terms 'equally likely', 'likely' and 'unlikely' to describe the chance of everyday events occurring
Order events from least likely to most likely to occur
Compare and describe the likelihood of obtaining particular outcomes in a simple chance experiment
Identify and discuss everyday events occurring that cannot occur at the same time
Identify and discuss events where the chance of one event occurring will not be affected by the occurrence of
the other
Create a survey and related recording sheet, considering the appropriate organisation of categories for data
collection
Compare the effectiveness of different methods of collecting and recording data
Represent given or collected categorical data in tables, column graphs and picture graphs, using a scale of
many-to-one correspondence, with and without the use of digital technologies
Interpret and evaluate the effectiveness of various data displays found in media and in factual texts, where
displays represent data using a scale of many-to-one correspondence

Convert between units of time and recall time facts

Record time using the correct notation, including am and pm
Relate analog notation to digital notation for time
Solve simple time problems using appropriate strategies
Read and interpret timetables, timelines and calendars

Chinese
Hobby and daily activity / L910
Learn to talk about ones hobby
- name hobbies in Chinese
- talk about somebodys hobby
- favourite hobby
- write a text about ones hobby in Chinese

French
Students will have a chance to learn new vocabulary,
communicating skills and express themselves in French
with simple sentences.
Topic 5 will include: Wild animals, farm animals and
pets, action verbs and present tense conjugation.
Topic 5b will include: Food, adjectives, descriptive
sentences.

Vietnamese National Curriculum

In unit 4, year 5 VNC will start with the 2 new topics:
People is the flower on land (Ngi ta l hoa t)/
The colourful beatie(V p mun mu).
Through these, students will have chances to learn new
vocabulary, new grammatical points, how to write a
longer paragraph as well as review the phonic.

Julian Knight
Year 5 Teacher
Thao Dien Campus

Physical Education
For PE this unit we will look at the game of football. We
will look at basic skills such as dribbling, passing and
shooting. We will also explore basic rules as well as
game tactics.