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The reasoning behind a 4-day week in this course as opposed to a 5-day week is that it allows learners to cover the main core subjects required here, and the 5th school day in the week is available for homework, assignments, experiments, projects, field trips, sports, and to engage in other courses that cover subjects such as Music, Art, Health & Physical Education, Design & Technology, and LOTE, to name just a few. This schedule ensures a balanced week of work, rest, and play in my experience.

Your learners will receive the following 80 hours of live instruction:

- 20 hours of English Language Arts

- 20 hours of Mathematics

- 20 hours of Science
      - 5 hours of Biology
      - 5 hours of Chemistry
      - 5 hours of Physics
      - 5 hours of Earth & Space

- 20 hours of Social Science
      - 5 hours of Geography
      - 5 hours of History
      - 5 hours of Civics & Citizenship
      - 5 hours of Economics & Business
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Week 1:
Day 1:  English Language Arts
Day 2:  Mathematics 
Day 3:  Science - Biology  
Day 4:  Social Science - Geography

Week 2:
Day 1:  English Language Arts
Day 2:  Mathematics 
Day 3:  Science - Chemistry  
Day 4:  Social Science - History

Week 3:
Day 1:  English Language Arts
Day 2:  Mathematics 
Day 3:  Science - Physics 
Day 4:  Social Science - Economics & Business

Week 4:
Day 1:  English Language Arts
Day 2:  Mathematics 
Day 3:  Science - Earth and Space Science 
Day 4:  Social Science - Civics & Citizenship

Week 5:
Day 1:  English Language Arts
Day 2:  Mathematics 
Day 3:  Science - Biology 
Day 4:  Social Science - Geography

Week 6:
Day 1:  English Language Arts
Day 2:  Mathematics 
Day 3:  Science - Chemistry 
Day 4:  Social Science - History

Week 7:
Day 1:  English Language Arts
Day 2:  Mathematics 
Day 3:  Science - Physics 
Day 4:  Social Science - Economics & Business

Week 8:
Day 1:  English Language Arts
Day 2:  Mathematics 
Day 3:  Science - Earth and Space Science 
Day 4:  Social Science - Civics & Citizenship

Week 9:
Day 1:  English Language Arts
Day 2:  Mathematics 
Day 3:  Science - Biology 
Day 4:  Social Science - Geography

Week 10:
Day 1:  English Language Arts
Day 2:  Mathematics
Day 3:  Science - Chemistry 
Day 4:  Social Science - History

Week 11:
Day 1:  English Language Arts
Day 2:  Mathematics 
Day 3:  Science - Physics 
Day 4:  Social Science - Economics & Business

Week 12:
Day 1:  English Language Arts
Day 2:  Mathematics 
Day 3:  Science - Earth and Space Science 
Day 4:  Social Science - Civics & Citizenship

Week 13:
Day 1:  English Language Arts
Day 2:  Mathematics 
Day 3:  Science - Biology 
Day 4:  Social Science - Geography

Week 14:
Day 1:  English Language Arts
Day 2:  Mathematics 
Day 3:  Science - Chemistry 
Day 4:  Social Science - History

Week 15:
Day 1:  English Language Arts
Day 2:  Mathematics 
Day 3:  Science - Physics 
Day 4:  Social Science - Economics & Business

Week 16:
Day 1:  English Language Arts
Day 2:  Mathematics 
Day 3:  Science - Earth and Space Science 
Day 4:  Social Science - Civics & Citizenship

Week 17:
Day 1:  English Language Arts
Day 2:  Mathematics 
Day 3:  Science - Biology 
Day 4:  Social Science - Geography

Week 18:
Day 1:  English Language Arts
Day 2:  Mathematics 
Day 3:  Science - Chemistry 
Day 4:  Social Science - History

Week 19:
Day 1:  English Language Arts
Day 2:  Mathematics 
Day 3:  Science - Physics 
Day 4:  Social Science - Humanities

Week 20:
Day 1:  English Language Arts
Day 2:  Mathematics 
Day 3:  Science - Earth and Space Science
Day 4:  Social Science - Civics & Citizenship

Week 21:
Day 1:  English Language Arts
Day 2:  Mathematics 
Day 3:  Science - Biology 
Day 4:  Social Science - Geography

Week 22:
Day 1:  English Language Arts
Day 2:  Mathematics 
Day 3:  Science - Chemistry 
Day 4:  Social Science - History

Week 23:
Day 1:  English Language Arts
Day 2:  Mathematics 
Day 3:  Science - Physics 
Day 4:  Social Science - Economics & Business

Week 24:
Day 1:  English Language Arts
Day 2:  Mathematics 
Day 3:  Science - Earth and Space Science 
Day 4:  Social Science - Civics & Citizenship

Week 25:
Day 1:  English Language Arts
Day 2:  Mathematics 
Day 3:  Science - Biology 
Day 4:  Social Science - Geography

Week 26:
Day 1:  English Language Arts
Day 2:  Mathematics 
Day 3:  Science - Chemistry 
Day 4:  Social Science - History

Week 27:
Day 1:  English Language Arts
Day 2:  Mathematics 
Day 3:  Science - Physics 
Day 4:  Social Science - Economics & Business

Week 28:
Day 1:  English Language Arts
Day 2:  Mathematics 
Day 3:  Science - Earth and Space Science 
Day 4:  Social Science - Civics & Citizenship

Week 29:
Day 1:  English Language Arts
Day 2:  Mathematics 
Day 3:  Science - Biology 
Day 4:  Social Science - Geography

Week 30:
Day 1:  English Language Arts
Day 2:  Mathematics 
Day 3:  Science - Chemistry 
Day 4:  Social Science - History

Week 31:
Day 1:  English Language Arts
Day 2:  Mathematics 
Day 3:  Science - Physics 
Day 4:  Social Science - Economics & Business

Week 32:
Day 1:  English Language Arts
Day 2:  Mathematics 
Day 3:  Science - Earth and Space Science 
Day 4:  Social Science - Civics & Citizenship

Week 33:
Day 1:  English Language Arts
Day 2:  Mathematics 
Day 3:  Science - Biology 
Day 4:  Social Science - Geography

Week 34:
Day 1:  English Language Arts
Day 2:  Mathematics 
Day 3: Science - Chemistry
Day 4:  Social Science - History

Week 35:
Day 1:  English Language Arts
Day 2:  Mathematics 
Day 3:  Science - Physics 
Day 4:  Social Science - Economics & Business

Week 36:
Day 1:  English Language Arts
Day 2:  Mathematics 
Day 3:  Science - Earth and Space Science
Day 4:  Social Science - Civics & Citizenship

Week 37:
Day 1:  English Language Arts
Day 2:  Mathematics 
Day 3:  Science - Biology 
Day 4:  Social Science - Geography

Week 38:
Day 1:  English Language Arts
Day 2:  Mathematics 
Day 3:  Science - Chemistry 
Day 4:  Social Science - History

Week 39:
Day 1:  English Language Arts
Day 2:  Mathematics 
Day 3:  Science - Physics 
Day 4:  Social Science - Economics & Business

Week 40:
Day 1:  English Language Arts
Day 2:  Mathematics 
Day 3:  Science - Earth and Space Science 
Day 4:  Social Science - Civics & Citizenship

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Year 5 / 5th Grade learners will cover the following:

English Language Arts:

- Understand that the pronunciation, spelling and meanings of words have histories and change over time
- Understand that patterns of language interaction vary across social contexts and types of texts and that they help to signal social roles and relationships
- Understand how to move beyond making bare assertions and take account of differing perspectives and points of view
- Understand how texts vary in purpose, structure and topic as well as the degree of formality
- Understand that the starting point of a sentence gives prominence to the message in the text and allows for prediction of how the text will unfold
- Understand how the grammatical category of possessives is signalled through apostrophes and how to use apostrophes with common and proper nouns
- Understand the difference between main and subordinate clauses and that a complex sentence involves at least one subordinate clause
- Understand how noun groups/phrases and adjective groups/phrases can be expanded in a variety of ways to provide a fuller description of the person, place, thing or idea
- Explain sequences of images in print texts and compare these to the ways hyperlinked digital texts are organised, explaining their effect on viewers’ interpretations
- Understand the use of vocabulary to express greater precision of meaning, and know that words can have different meanings in different contexts
- Understand how to use knowledge of known words, base words, prefixes and suffixes, word origins, letter patterns and spelling generalisations to spell new words
- Understand how to use knowledge of known words, base words, prefixes and suffixes, word origins, letter patterns and spelling generalisations to spell new words
- Explore less common plurals, and understand how a suffix changes the meaning or grammatical form of a word
- Understand how to use phonic knowledge to read and write less familiar words that share common letter patterns but have different pronunciations 
- Identify aspects of literary texts that convey details or information about particular social, cultural and historical contexts
- Present a point of view about particular literary texts using appropriate metalanguage, and reflecting on the viewpoints of others
- Use metalanguage to describe the effects of ideas, text structures and language features on particular audiences
- Recognise that ideas in literary texts can be conveyed from different viewpoints, which can lead to different kinds of interpretations and responses
- Understand, interpret and experiment with sound devices and imagery, including simile, metaphor and personification, in narratives, shape poetry, songs, anthems and odes
- Create literary texts using realistic and fantasy settings and characters that draw on the worlds represented in texts students have experienced
- Create literary texts that experiment with structures, ideas and stylistic features of selected authors
- Show how ideas and points of view in texts are conveyed through the use of vocabulary, including idiomatic expressions, objective and subjective language, and that these can change according to context
- Clarify understanding of content as it unfolds in formal and informal situations, connecting ideas to students’ own experiences and present and justify a point of view
- Use interaction skills, for example paraphrasing, questioning and interpreting non-verbal cues and choose vocabulary and vocal effects appropriate for different audiences and purposes
- Plan, rehearse and deliver presentations for defined audiences and purposes incorporating accurate and sequenced content and multimodal elements
- Identify and explain characteristic text structures and language features used in imaginative, informative and persuasive texts to meet the purpose of the text
- Navigate and read texts for specific purposes applying appropriate text processing strategies, for example predicting and confirming, monitoring meaning, skimming and scanning
- Use comprehension strategies to analyse information, integrating and linking ideas from a variety of print and digital sources
- Plan, draft and publish imaginative, informative and persuasive print and multimodal texts, choosing text structures, language features, images and sound appropriate to purpose and audience
- Re-read and edit student’s own and others’ work using agreed criteria for text structures and language features
- Develop a handwriting style that is becoming legible, fluent and automatic
- Use a range of software including word processing programs with fluency to construct, edit and publish written text, and select, edit and place visual, print and audio elements


Year 5 / 5th Grade learners will cover the following:

Mathematics:

- Identify and describe factors and multiples of whole numbers and use them to solve problems
- Use estimation and rounding to check the reasonableness of answers to calculations
- Solve problems involving multiplication of large numbers by one- or two-digit numbers using efficient mental, written strategies and appropriate digital technologies
- Solve problems involving division by a one-digit number, including those that result in a remainder
- Use efficient mental and written strategies and apply appropriate digital technologies to solve problems
- Compare and order common unit fractions and locate and represent them on a number line
- Investigate strategies to solve problems involving addition and subtraction of fractions with the same denominator
- Recognise that the place value system can be extended beyond hundredths
- Compare, order and represent decimals
- Create simple financial plans
- Describe, continue and create patterns with fractions, decimals and whole numbers resulting from addition and subtraction
- Find unknown quantities in number sentences involving multiplication and division and identify equivalent number sentences involving multiplication and division
- Choose appropriate units of measurement for length, area, volume, capacity and mass
- Calculate perimeter and area of rectangles using familiar metric units
- Compare 12- and 24-hour time systems and convert between  them
- Connect three-dimensional objects with their nets and other two-dimensional representations
- Use a grid reference system to describe locations. Describe routes using landmarks and directional language
- Describe translations, reflections and rotations of two-dimensional shapes. Identify line and rotational symmetries
- Apply the enlargement transformation to familiar two-dimensional shapes and explore the properties of the resulting image compared with the original
- Estimate, measure and compare angles using degrees. Construct angles using a protractor
- List outcomes of chance experiments involving equally likely outcomes and represent probabilities of those outcomes using fractions
- Recognise that probabilities range from 0 to 1
- Pose questions and collect categorical or numerical data by observation or survey
- Construct displays, including column graphs, dot plots and tables,  appropriate for data type, with and without the use of digital technologies
- Describe and interpret different data sets in context


Year 5 / 5th Grade learners will cover the following:

Science:

- Living things have structural features and adaptations that help them to survive in their environment
- Solids, liquids and gases have different observable properties and behave in different ways
- The Earth is part of a system of planets orbiting around a star (the sun)
- Light from a source forms shadows and can be absorbed, reflected and refracted
- Science involves testing predictions by gathering data and using evidence to develop explanations of events and phenomena and reflects historical and cultural contributions
- Scientific knowledge is used to solve problems and inform personal and community decisions
- With guidance, pose clarifying questions and make predictions about scientific investigations
- Identify, plan and apply the elements of scientific investigations to answer questions and solve problems using equipment and materials safely and identifying potential risks
- Decide variables to be changed and measured in fair tests, and observe measure and record data with accuracy using digital technologies as appropriate
- Construct and use a range of representations, including tables and graphs, to represent and describe observations, patterns or relationships in data using digital technologies as appropriate
- Compare data with predictions and use as evidence in developing explanations
- Reflect on and suggest improvements to scientific investigations
- Communicate ideas, explanations and processes using scientific representations in a variety of ways, including multi-modal texts 


Year 5 / 5th Grade learners will cover the following:

Social Science:

- Develop appropriate questions to guide an inquiry about people, events, developments, places, systems and challenges
- Locate and collect relevant information and data from primary sources and secondary sources
- Organise and represent data in a range of formats including tables, graphs and large- and small-scale maps, using discipline-appropriate conventions
- Sequence information about people’s lives, events, developments and phenomena using a variety of methods including timelines
- Examine primary sources and secondary sources to determine their origin and purpose
- Examine different viewpoints on actions, events, issues and phenomena in the past and present
- Interpret data and information displayed in a range of formats to identify, describe and compare distributions, patterns and trends, and to infer relationships
- Evaluate evidence to draw conclusions
- Work in groups to generate responses to issues and challenges
- Use criteria to make decisions and judgements and consider advantages and disadvantages of preferring one decision over others
- Reflect on learning to propose personal and/or collective action in response to an issue or challenge, and predict the probable effects
- Present ideas, findings, viewpoints and conclusions in a range of texts and modes that incorporate source materials, digital and non-digital representations and discipline-specific terms and conventions
- Reasons (economic, political and social) for the establishment of British colonies around the world
- The nature of colonial presence, including the factors that influenced patterns of development, aspects of the daily life of the inhabitants (including the Indigenous Peoples whose land it was that was invaded) and how the environment changed
- The impact of a significant development or event on a colony
- The reasons people migrated and the experiences and contributions of a particular migrant group within a colony
- The role that a significant individual or group played in shaping a colony
- The influence of people on the environmental characteristics of places in Europe and North America and the location of their major countries
- The influence of people, including Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Peoples, on the environmental characteristics of places
- The environmental and human influences on the location and characteristics of a place and the management of spaces within them
- The impact of extreme weather events on environments and communities, and how people can respond
- The key values that underpin democracy
- The key features of the electoral process 
- Why regulations and laws are enforced and the personnel involved
- How people with shared beliefs and values work together to achieve a civic goal
- The difference between needs and wants and why choices need to be made about how limited resources are used
- Types of resources (natural, human, capital) and the ways societies use them to satisfy the needs and wants of present and future generations
- Influences on consumer choices and methods that can be used to help make informed personal consumer and financial choices


Year 6 / 6th Grade learners will cover the following:

English Language Arts:

- Understand that different social and geographical dialects or accents are used in Australia in addition to Standard Australian English
- Understand that strategies for interaction become more complex and demanding as levels of formality and social distance increase
- Understand the uses of objective and subjective language and bias
- Understand how authors often innovate on text structures and play with language features to achieve particular aesthetic, humorous and persuasive purposes and effects
- Understand that cohesive links can be made in texts by omitting or replacing words
- Understand the uses of commas to separate clauses
- Investigate how complex sentences can be used in a variety of ways to elaborate, extend and explain ideas
- Understand how ideas can be expanded and sharpened through careful choice of verbs, elaborated tenses and a range of adverb groups/phrases
- Identify and explain how analytical images like figures, tables, diagrams, maps and graphs contribute to our understanding of verbal information in factual and persuasive texts
- Investigate how vocabulary choices, including evaluative language can express shades of meaning, feeling and opinion
- Understand how to use knowledge of known words, word origins including some Latin and Greek roots, base words, prefixes, suffixes, letter patterns and spelling generalisations to spell new words including technical words
- Understand how to use phonic knowledge and accumulated understandings about blending, letter-sound relationships, common and uncommon letter patterns and phonic generalisations to read and write increasingly complex words
- Make connections between students’ own experiences and those of characters and events represented in texts drawn from different historical, social and cultural contexts
- Analyse and evaluate similarities and differences in texts on similar topics, themes or plots
- Identify and explain how choices in language, for example modality, emphasis, repetition and metaphor, influence personal response to different texts
- Identify, describe, and discuss similarities and differences between texts, including those by the same author or illustrator, and evaluate characteristics that define an author’s individual style
- Identify the relationship between words, sounds, imagery and language patterns in narratives and poetry such as ballads, limericks and free verse
- Create literary texts that adapt or combine aspects of texts students have experienced in innovative ways
- Experiment with text structures and language features and their effects in creating literary texts, for example, using imagery, sentence variation, metaphor and word choice
- Compare texts including media texts that represent ideas and events in different ways, explaining the effects of the different approaches
- Participate in and contribute to discussions, clarifying and interrogating ideas, developing and supporting arguments, sharing and evaluating information, experiences and opinions
- Use interaction skills, varying conventions of spoken interactions such as voice volume, tone, pitch and pace, according to group size, formality of interaction and needs and expertise of the audience
- Plan, rehearse and deliver presentations, selecting and sequencing appropriate content and multimodal elements for defined audiences and purposes, making appropriate choices for modality and emphasis
- Analyse how text structures and language features work together to meet the purpose of a text
- Select, navigate and read texts for a range of purposes, applying appropriate text processing strategies and interpreting structural features, for example table of contents, glossary, chapters, headings and subheadings
- Use comprehension strategies to interpret and analyse information and ideas, comparing content from a variety of textual sources including media and digital texts
- Analyse strategies authors use to influence readers
- Plan, draft and publish imaginative, informative and persuasive texts, choosing and experimenting with text structures, language features, images and digital resources appropriate to purpose and audience
- Re-read and edit students’ own and others’ work using agreed criteria and explaining editing choices
- Develop a handwriting style that is legible, fluent and automatic and varies according to audience and purpose
- Use a range of software, including word processing programs, learning new functions as required to create texts


Year 6 / 6th Grade learners will cover the following:

Mathematics:

- Identify and describe properties of prime, composite, square and triangular numbers
- Select and apply efficient mental and written strategies and appropriate digital technologies to solve problems involving all four operations with whole numbers
- Investigate everyday situations that use integers. Locate and represent these numbers on a number line
- Compare fractions with related denominators and locate and represent them on a number line
- Solve problems involving addition and subtraction of fractions with the same or related denominators
- Find a simple fraction of a quantity where the result is a whole number, with and without digital technologies
- Add and subtract decimals, with and without digital technologies, and use estimation and rounding to check the reasonableness of answers
- Multiply decimals by whole numbers and perform divisions by non-zero whole numbers where the results are terminating decimals, with and without digital technologies
- Multiply and divide decimals by powers of 10
- Make connections between equivalent fractions, decimals and percentages
- Investigate and calculate percentage discounts of 10%, 25% and 50% on sale items, with and without digital technologies
- Continue and create sequences involving whole numbers, fractions and decimals.  Describe the rule used to create the sequence
- Explore the use of brackets and order of operations to write number sentences
- Connect decimal representations to the metric system
- Convert between common metric units of length, mass and capacity
- Solve problems involving the comparison of lengths and areas using appropriate units
- Connect volume and capacity and their units of measurement
- Interpret and use timetables
- Construct simple prisms and pyramids
- Investigate combinations of translations, reflections and rotations, with and without the use of digital technologies
- Introduce the Cartesian coordinate system using all four quadrants
- Investigate, with and without digital technologies, angles on a straight line, angles at a point and vertically opposite angles.
- Use results to find unknown angles
- Describe probabilities using fractions, decimals and percentages
- Conduct chance experiments with both small and large numbers of trials using appropriate digital technologies
- Compare observed frequencies across experiments with expected frequencies
- Interpret and compare a range of data displays, including side-by-side column graphs for two categorical variables
- Interpret secondary data presented in digital media and elsewhere


Year 6 / 6th Grade learners will cover the following:

Science:

- The growth and survival of living things are affected by physical conditions of their environment
- Changes to materials can be reversible or irreversible
- Sudden geological changes and extreme weather events can affect Earth’s surface
- Electrical energy can be transferred and transformed in electrical circuits and can be generated from a range of sources
- Science involves testing predictions by gathering data and using evidence to develop explanations of events and phenomena and reflects historical and cultural contributions
- Scientific knowledge is used to solve problems and inform personal and community decisions
- With guidance, pose clarifying questions and make predictions about scientific investigations
- Identify, plan and apply the elements of scientific investigations to answer questions and solve problems using equipment and materials safely and identifying potential risks
- Decide variables to be changed and measured in fair tests, and observe measure and record data with accuracy using digital technologies as appropriate
- Communicate ideas, explanations and processes using scientific representations in a variety of ways, including multi-modal texts
- Reflect on and suggest improvements to scientific investigations
- Compare data with predictions and use as evidence in developing explanations
- Construct and use a range of representations, including tables and graphs, to represent and describe observations, patterns or relationships in data using digital technologies as appropriate


Year 6 / 6th Grade learners will cover the following:

Social Science:

- Develop appropriate questions to guide an inquiry about people, events, developments, places, systems and challenges
- Locate and collect relevant information and data from primary sources and secondary sources
- Organise and represent data in a range of formats including tables, graphs and large- and small-scale maps, using discipline-appropriate conventions
- Sequence information about people’s lives, events, developments and phenomena using a variety of methods including timelines
- Examine primary sources and secondary sources to determine their origin and purpose
- Examine different viewpoints on actions, events, issues and phenomena in the past and present
- Interpret data and information displayed in a range of formats to identify, describe and compare distributions, patterns and trends, and to infer relationships
- Evaluate evidence to draw conclusions
- Work in groups to generate responses to issues and challenges
- Use criteria to make decisions and judgements and consider advantages and disadvantages of preferring one decision over others
- Reflect on learning to propose personal and/or collective action in response to an issue or challenge, and predict the probable effects
- Present ideas, findings, viewpoints and conclusions in a range of texts and modes that incorporate source materials, digital and non-digital representations and discipline-specific terms and conventions
- Key figures, events and ideas that lead to Federation, Independence, and Constitutions
- Experiences of democracy and citizenship, including the status and rights of Indigenous Peoples, migrants, women and children
- Stories of groups of people who have migrated to and the reasons they migrated
- The contribution of individuals and groups to the development of any society
- The geographical diversity of the Asia region and the location of its major countries 
- Differences in the economic, demographic and social characteristics of countries across the world
- The world’s cultural diversity, including that of its indigenous peoples
-Connections with other countries and how these change people and places
- The key institutions of any Commonwealth democratic system of government and how it is based on the Westminster system
- The roles and responsibilities of the three levels of government
- The responsibilities of electors and representatives in Australia’s democracy
- Where ideas for new laws can come from and how they become law
- The shared values of citizenship and the formal rights and responsibilities of citizens
- The obligations citizens may consider they have beyond their own national borders as active and informed global citizens
- How the concept of opportunity cost involves choices about the alternative use of resources and the need to consider trade-offs
- The effect that consumer and financial decisions can have on the individual, the broader community and the environment
- The reasons businesses exist and the different ways they provide goods and services