19 Feb 2016

Year 6 Update WK 22

Monday 22nd February – ‘KELY’ Group in to talk to Year 6 about bullying.

Tuesday 23rd February – ‘Kids on the Block’ puppet troupe visiting for Year 6….letters were sent home yesterday, please return trip monies and permission slips as soon as possible.

Thursday 25th February – Year 1 and 6 Immunisations – Please return the necessary forms to Nurse Rosalind as soon as possible.

Thursday 25th February – Gecko Maths Competition at Island School – invited students only

Friday 26th February – Year 6 Exhibition NGO Conference at KJS…..letters were sent home yesterday, please return permission slips as soon as possible

Friday 26th February – UOI 3 Report Comments go live on The Gateway

Mon 29th Feb to Fri 18th Mar – Mandarin Benchmarking is due to take place during these 2 weeks, can you please try and ensure that your child is present at school during this time. If your child needs to be absent please can you let their Mandarin teacher know?

Tuesday 1st March – Year 6 PYP Exhibition Information Morning 9:00 – 9:30am IMPORTANT INFO….PLEASE READ BELOW.

Tuesday 1st March – ‘Dialogue in the Dark’ trip for 6L

Wednesday 2nd March – ‘Dialogue in the Dark’ trip for 6F

Friday 4th March – Student Led Conferences…please come to school at your appointed time ready to talk to your teacher and complete your station activities. Please remember that class teachers cannot arrange times for you and you will need to book your time slot via The Gateway. Portfolios will be sent home today as well so can these please be returned to school during the week of 17th March.

Friday 11th March – Hong Kong Flower Show trip to Victoria Park…. invited students only.

Wednesday 9th March – Marie Marchand talk at BHS on dealing with pre-teens 6:30pm in the hall….please come along.

Friday 11th March – Chamber Choir to Sha Tin College

Monday 14th March – KGV, Island School and Sha Tin College teachers in to school.

Thursday 17th March – Mandarin Parent Consultations….more info to follow.

Friday 18th March – International Food Fair…please send in your sold raffle tickets! (You will also need to send in any unsold ones too please)

Exhibition Information Morning – 9:00-9:30am, Tuesday 1st March, 2016

Each year we have a parent information session giving out information about our upcoming PYP Exhibition. As you know this is a very important event in the Year 6 diary and it really does help the children if you are fully aware of what is going on and the expectations of the children and on you as a parent…so you know where you can support your child. Last year we introduced a parent and child information session where the children were able to sit with you and listen and talk about the information given by the teachers in Year 6, Mr Pheasant, Ms Dewhurst and Mr Harrison – and this worked really well. So, can you please pencil it in your diaries and we will see you then!

GLUE! GLUE! GLUE! – Our Exhibition Journals arrived on Monday so we have begin preparing them for our upcoming PYP Exhibition. To do that all the children need to have a good supply of glue sticks. Can you please be sure to purchase a few more sticks for your child as we will be using lots and lots over the next couple of weeks?

Year 1 Photos – As a treat for the children at the end of the year we will be doing something special with your child’s Year 1 photograph. If your child was not at BHS in Year 1 can you to please email us their Year 1 school photograph. We prefer to use the school photograph but if this is not available we can use a personal photo of them (preferably in school uniform) from Year 1. A scan of a photograph is fine but a photo of a photo will just not work – you can always send us in the original and will can scan it here and send it back to you. Please send in in to Miss Kannis, her email address is:

kannis.tsui@bhs.edu.hk.

Family borrowing – A reminder that it is still possible for parents, younger children and other family members to borrow from our library. By registering for a family borrowing card you can borrow two books from any section of the library, including the new Parent Collection which contains books about healthy living, behaviour management, fun art activities and days out for children in Hong Kong. The library is open for family borrowing at these times…

	Before school	After school
Monday		2.45-3.30pm
Tuesday	8.15- 9.00am
Wednesday		2.45-3.30pm
Friday	8.30-9.15am

To register for a family borrowing card please complete the form found on the school website’s communications page. For any questions please contact Emily Jeves jevese2@beaconhill.edu.hk

This week in year 6 we were lucky to get another visit from Mr Melsom. Some Year 6 students were fortunate to be involved in setting up the watering system that is going to help our garden grow some fresh herbs and beautiful plants. Once the weather warms up it will be interesting to see what wildlife the new additions attract.

Mr Judge also paid us a visit. He has helped our minds tune in to various issues surrounding working conditions for adults and children in factories all over the world. Over the coming weeks we will be learning lots about human rights, allowing us to tune in and and prepare for the up coming Year 6 PYP Exhibition.

Lots of children from Year 6 have taken part in a touch rugby tournament at King’s Park. We entered three teams and all of the children played extremely well. It was a learning curve for a lot of the children as they had only been to a limited number of training sessions. In spite of the lack of training, each of the boys teams won a game and the girls team’s defence was only broken twice in four matches, meaning that they finished second in their group and only losing one game. A big thank you to Mr Hoskins and Mr Teahan for working so hard coaching the teams!

On Friday we had a fun and exciting day at King’s Park for BHS Sports Day. Thank you to all the parents who came along to support our little athletes.

Golden Book Awards

Mr Hoskins 6H – Zara Bentall and Jack Cheng

Miss Fisher 6L – Rehmat Sattar

Miss Fearn 6F – Jessica Tapely

Music – Kunal Panjabi

Year 6 Unit of Inquiry 4

Transdisciplinary Theme : Who we are

Central Idea : We face many changes as we go through life

Lines of Inquiry – We will inquire into…

the nature of self
beliefs and values
personal, physical, mental and spiritual health
human relationships including friends, families, communities and cultures
rights and responsibilities
what it means to be human

Concepts : form, change, causation

Learner Profile : balanced, refelective

Attitudes : Confidence, empathy, respect

As this is a short week with Sports Day, a rugby tournament and visits from Mr Judge and Mr Melsom we have just been tuning in to our new unit. Some classes have discussed what changes have happened to them in their lives and also what changes they expect to happen in the coming years.

Number Maths – Pattern and Function

Central Idea : Patterns can be represented, analysed and generalized using algebraic expressions, equations or functions.

We were excited to start a new unit in number maths : Pattern and Function. This unit will look at how patterns occur mathematically and how these patterns can be found in the real world, like Fibonacci’s interesting theory. Our number classes completed pre-assessments so we can tailor the curriculum to the needs of our students.

Strand Maths – Data Handling

Central Idea : Range, mode, median and mean can be used to analyse statistical data. THEN Probability can be represented on a scale between 0-100% and can be predicted theoretically

Some classes have completed pre-assessments in as well as completing work from the previous unit.

Our new Unit of Inquiry in English is autobiographies. In this unit the children will get to focus on their first person writing skills and ultimately produce their very own autobiographies. This week we have introduced the new success criteria and have talked about the ways in which we can learn about what makes a successful autobiography. In the coming weeks we will be excited to learn about the lives of other people and to use various pieces of writing to enable us to produce our own writing.

We have been using our English skills in various forms this week. Drama activities, note taking and discussions have been used to help kick start our new inquiries, it is a very exciting time in Year 6.

As always, buddy spelling tests are held every Friday so Spelling Journals are an absolute necessity for Fridays. Spelling Journals need to be back in to school everyday to enable students to work on the spelling investigations in the back of the journal throughout the week and also to add personal spelling words to as they arise during the weekdays.

UOI : As our new unit is all about changes we would like the children to interview a family member of their choice in order to find out how lives are impacted by change. The children can record this work on paper or using a Google Doc or Google Drawing. They can take notes and/or prepare a graphic organiser to show what they have learnt. We will be using this info for a follow up homework task next week…so please make sure you take the time to get this one done this week.

Can all the children continue to learn the words to Brave and Hall of Fame? If any children are playing instruments please keep up the rehearsing at home.

Spelling : Spelling Journal homework – 3 practice spelling tests to be conducted under the supervision of an adult at home, daily spelling practice and any additional journal tasks set by the class teacher.

Reading : Weekly reflections to be completed at least once a week. Children need to ensure they are reading at home each night for at least 20 mins and to write one weekly reflection about their reading in their diaries. Parents are not required to write a comment or to sign the book. However, continued interest and involvement in your child’s reading would be appreciated and will assist in their development.

Number Maths :

Miss Fearn – Mathletics
Miss Fisher –
Mr Hoskins – Please find some real life examples of Fibonacci. Use this link for ideas if you are struggling to remember what we discussed in class click here —–> Fibonacci’s theory
Mrs Davis – Please try to finish the percentage/ fractions and decimal related tasks on Mathletics this week

Thought of the Week : Mistakes are proof that you are trying #growthmindset

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