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 On
Friday 15th February, 2008 the students in Year 5 participated in a
Leadership Course organised through the Scout Outdoor Education
Program. This program provided a shared experience involving students working
together to build trust and rapport. The activities they participated
in developed listening and communication skills, highlighted skills
needed for leadership, how to work co-operatively with others and to
build confidence. Click the photo for some more photos. |
 On
Tuesday, 17 July, 2007, Years 5 children from Rochedale State School once
again went on their excursion to learn about Australia's Gold Rush Days.
Set up in bush at Bahr's Scrub Rd, behind Beenleigh, just south of Brisbane
and run by ex -teachers, the day is a wonderful opportunity for the children
to experience first hand the gold rush days and conditions experienced by
our early settlers. everyone learnt heaps and had a great day.
Click here
for some photos. |
 On
Tuesday, 29 August, 2006, Years 5C, 5F, 5I Year 5 children from the
composite class Year 5/6K from Rochedale State School went on an excursion to
learn about Australia's Gold Rush Days.
Click
here for our photos. |
 Ahoy
all me hearties, throughout Term 2, 5F and 5I have investigated various
fearsome pirates. They also read a range of children’s pirate books to
prepare themselves for writing and illustrating their own pirate story
suitable to read to Grade 2 and 3 students. Click the fearsome pirate
to look at their photos. |
 Year
5C children take part in a Morning Session every Wednesday morning on various
topics. Their Wednesday teacher, Mrs Barraclough has prepared a form to show how
the children should prepare their presentations.
Click here
for the sheet (.doc) |
 Children
from Year 5in 2005, corresponded with a boy named Andrew in Hammond
LA, in the United States. Andrew is a student who is home schooled
because of illness and he sent us a likeness of himself called "Flat
Andrew" after a book he read called "Flat Stanley". Our children are
showing Flat Andrew around Brisbane on the weekends. Click the photo for
some pictures. |
 As
part of our Studies of Society and Environment (SOSE),
in third term, all Year 5
classes once again in 2005 visited a gold mining town just outside of Beenleigh, run by Berrinbah
East State School. Click
here for our photos. |
 As
part of our Spider Theme in 2004, the children, for technology, had to
design some spider homes, taking into consideration the type of spider that
would live in it and its needs. Here's
some photos of our spider homes. |
 As
part of our Studies of Society and Environment (SOSE),
in third term, 2004, all Year 5
classes once again visited a gold mining town just outside of Beenleigh, run by Berrinbah
East State School. Click
here for our photos. |
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 In 2004, Year 5 children at Rochedale State School were again
privileged to have a visit from Wayne Larsen, a Red Cross First Aid
Instructor, who kindly comes to our school to talk to the children in Year
5, each year. Click the First Aid sign for some photos of his lesson about
basic first aid and controlling bleeding. |
 As
part of our Studies of Society and Environment (SOSE), in third term, all Year 5
classes visited a gold mining town just outside of Beenleigh, run by Berrinbah
East State School. It was the best excursion we have been on, with the kids
having a great time and learning invaluable lessons about our early history. Click
here for our photos. |
 As
part of our weather theme, in second term, a group of children went to the Brisbane Airport to experience a real weather station and
see how it all worked. They had a great time and learnt so much from the
first hand experience.
Click
here for our photos. |
 As
part of our cartoon theme, in first term, and as a follow up to Joffa's
Toonschool, the children were required to create a cartoon
using "Paint" on the computers. They used cartooning concepts such as line,
shape, numbers and letters. To view our cartoons,
click here. |
 Every
Wednesday, Year 5 has a Morning Session where the children take turns in
presenting an item. Our topics are - News, Book Review, Demonstration, Song,
Science Experiment and General Knowledge.
Click here
for some photos of our Morning Session on Wednesday, 5 March, 2003, which
had some interesting Science Experiments and a yummy Demonstration |
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Two girls, Emma and Rachel, have written some great poems. They are entered in the
Write 4 Fun Poetry Competition and we wish them all the best of luck.
Click here
for their poems. |
Once again in 2002, we started off with some
Australian Acrostics. This year's poems are dedicated to the brave firemen
who battled the terrible bushfires around Canberra in January this year,
often at the expense of their own homes.
Click
here for our poems. |
 Year 5 in
2002, were
delighted to receive a huge parcel all the way from Macpherson Elementary
school in St John's, Newfoundland. The parcel took 2 months to arrive and
contained letters, lollies, pins, flags, posters, maps, books and many other
interesting items all the way from Newfoundland, which is an island off the east
coast of Canada for those who don't know where it is!! Thanks to teacher Daniel
Rideout and all the kids in Grade 4 for the wonderful parcel. We will send back
our own letters and some uniquely Australian gifts!!
Click here
for some photos of Year 5G with their goodies. |
Year 5G wrote some Australian Acrostics again this year.
Click here to read them. |
 This
year all Year 5 classes went to the Planetarium and Mt Cootha Botanical
Gardens, on Thursday, 2 August, 2001. As usual we had a
great day out and learnt lots of things about the planets and our solar
system as well as looking at all the different types of plants represented
in the Gardens
Click here
for our pictures. |
Brisbane Extra came to Year 5 on Wednesday, 23 May to
film the class taking part in a First Aid lesson on the Expired Air
Resuscitation method, by Wayne Larsen, our friendly First Aid Officer!! The
show was on air on Friday, 25 May, 2001 and the kids had great fun being
filmed.
Click here for our pictures. |
 Year
5 Reading group have been reading about the origins of our written
language. As part of their research, they composed a "Symposium" on Ancient
times and researched several topics on the Internet and in encyclopaedia, to
create their symposium. Click on the scarab to read all about it! |
In 2001, Year 5 children went on an excursion to Redland Shire
Council to learn about Local Government and then on to historic Ormiston House, home of Captain Louis
Hope, who grew the first commercial sugar cane in Queensland.
Click here for a report by Travis on our trip. |
 Year
5 children have done some projects on animals. They used the Internet to
research and find photos for their projects which they presented on sheets
of cardboard. Click on the picture to have a look at their work. |
 Melissa
from Year 5 has had one of her stories published on the Language Arts for
Kids site, a great US site all about writing and Language Arts.
Congratulations, Melissa.
Click here to read Melissa's story. If you have a terrific story, this
is a great way to have it published! |
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Year
5 children at Rochedale State School were again privileged to have a visit
from Wayne Larsen, a Red Cross First Aid Instructor, who kindly comes to our
school to talk to the children in Year 5, each year. Here's
some photos
of his lesson in 2001. |
 Third
term Science on Space will be in the form of a Space Quest that we will be doing
in teams of three students. Hopefully we will have fun and learn a lot while we
are doing it. Click on the alien to go to the Space Quest pages. |
 Our
first excursion for 2000 was rather late this year with both Redlands Shire Council and Ormiston House to coordinate for bookings. However, we finally got there on
18 May, 2000 and once again had a very informative talk from Francis, the
Education Officer for Redlands Shire and a very interesting tour through
Ormiston House , one of the oldest historical houses in the area. Volunteers
only, the ladies who show the children around are great sources of knowledge
about Ormiston House and its history and the House is open to the public on
the weekends as well. Well worth a visit for a tour and tea and scones!!
Click on the flower for our pictures. |
 Our
first theme for the year was on Australia. We wrote some great Acrostic
Poems about Australia this year. Acrostic poetry is where you take each letter of a word and use
that letter to begin each line of a poem. The poem doesn't have to rhyme but
it must convey the meaning of the word in the poem. Click on the
picture of the galahs to read these and our previous years Acrostic poems. |
On
Wednesday, 7 June, 2000, Years 5 classes went on their annual excursion
to Mt Cootha's Botanical Gardens and the Sir Thomas Brisbane Planetarium.
It's a trip well worth making and the Gardens are just beautiful, full of
wild life and all types of plants.
Click here to
have a look at our photos. |
 On
Tuesday, 16 November, 1999, Year 5 had a visit from Jim Sullivan from Oceanfriends. Jim is sailing around the world visiting schools and sick
children with a positive message of hope and friendship. Jim talked to the
children about how he had overcome difficulties as a child with stuttering
and being afraid of the water. The children really enjoyed his talk. Click
on the picture of Jim and the class to see some more pictures.
Click here
for the Oceanfriend's
page. |
 On
Tuesday, 7 December, 1999, all the Year 5's went on their annual end of year trip
to Movieworld.
We all had a great day and the kids learnt a lot about movie making as
well as enjoying the exciting rides and Studio Tour.
Click on the picture to have a look at the rest of our
pictures. |
 We
also went to the Exhibition and followed the 'Food and Fibre" Trail around
the Show. We saw some great animals and learnt a lot about Queensland
Primary Industries.
Click on the sheep to have a look at the photos we took there. |
 Year
5 did a very interesting theme on Space. As part of this theme, they
wrote a description of an Alien and then used "Cray Pas" crayons to create
some very colourful pictures of their alien. Click on the picture to have a
look at their pictures and read their descriptions.
Don't forget our other pages on the
Solar System
if you are looking for some information about the planets. |
 On
Tuesday, 20 April, 1999, Year 5 were privileged to have well known cartoonist,
Jeff Taylor, (Joffa) visit our class to give a lesson on cartoon drawing.
The children really enjoyed the lesson and produced some great cartoons.
Click on the cartoon to have a look at our pictures and drawings.
Joffa also talked to all the other classes in the school and is available
for lessons in other schools as well.
Click here to
go to Joffa's own page. |
 On
Monday, 9 February, 1 March, 10 May and 19 October, 1999, Year 5 were privileged
to have Wayne Larsen, a Red Cross First Aid Instructor, come to the school
to talk to the children about First Aid. Here's the information from Wayne's
four talks. We are very grateful to him for giving his time to come and talk
to us.
Click
here for Talk 1 about Bleeding and First Aid.
Click
here for Talk 2 about Expired Air Resuscitation.
Click
here for Talk 3 about Bandaging.
Click here for
Talk 4 about Poisons and Bites |
 As
part of their library lessons, Year 5g read the book "Blabber Mouth" by
Morris Gleitzman, then wrote book
reports and typed them up on our library computers. Here's some of their
reports. |
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Throughout the year, we do several themes for our
Language, Science and Social Studies units. Below is the work we produced during
those themes on Australian Animals, Spiders, Banjo Paterson, Pirates, Solar
System and a Class Newspaper as well as some of our excursions. |
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THEMES |
 Our
first theme for 1998 is on Australia. We celebrate Australia Day on 26
January each year as the day the First Fleet with 11 ships and 1030
convicts, marines and soldiers landed at Sydney Cove to establish a new
settlement in "New South Wales". For this theme, we have written some
Acrostic Poems, click on the flag to read our poems.
Click here to read some
Poems. |
One
of our Projects for 1997, was on Australian Primary Industries which we
learnt about in Social Studies.
Click on the picture of the lamb to have a look at our great Projects
about Beef Cattle, Cotton, Sugar Cane, Dairy Cattle, Sugar Cane and Wheat.
We hope to add some more topics to these pages in 1998. |
 One
of our themes each year is on Spiders. These pages are so popular, we keep
them from year to year and add new information from each new class. Click on
the spider to go to our Spider page with lots of information about spiders
as well as some interesting spider poems and stories. |
 Another
theme each year is on Pirates. As with the Spider Pages, these pages are
very popular and will be featured on the Internet Explorer site on 25
February, 1998. Click on the skull to see our new work. You will be able to
read all about pirates and our bloodthirsty pirate stories and limericks.
When you've finished, there will be some questions to test your knowledge. |
 For
our class newspaper, Year 5 kids have contributed some jokes which they
would like to share with you. We also have included some of our favourite
animated gifs (all those neat moving pictures). Click on the smiley face to
read our jokes. |
 In
Science each year, Year 5 also study the Solar System. Each new class adds heaps
of great information to these pages too. Click on the Earth to go to our Solar
System pages with heaps of pictures and information on the Planets. |
 In
1998, we researched the life of another of Australia's great writers, Henry
Lawson. Click on the picture of Henry Lawson to read his life story and read
some of his poetry and stories. |
 For
Science, Year 5A watched David Attenborough's excellent video "Secret Lives
of Plants" and learnt all about Seed Dispersal. The children then wrote a
report from their notes and did an excellent job. Here's a report by Chris. |
 In
1997, Year 5 studied the work of one of Australia's greatest writers, A.B.
Paterson (The Banjo) and learnt much about this famous poet and author.
Click on the picture of Banjo to read about his life and works taken from
the Projects done by children in Year 5B. |
 Here's
another contribution to our page from Year 5. In 1997, they completed some
Projects on Australian Animals which were really great.
Click on the koala to have a look at Year 5's Australian Animals
pages. |
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In
1997, our children also corresponded with children at Gander Academy in
Canada. They sent us some wonderful pictures of their part of the world
which we would like to share with you. Click on the Canadian flag to go to
these pictures. |
