Year 6 Update WK 23
Friday 26th February – UOI 3 Report Comments go live on The Gateway…please don’t forget to check up on how your child is doing and to see what targets they may have for future learning.
Monday 29th February – Mandarin Benchmarking is due to take place today, can you please try and ensure that your child is present at school. 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
Wednesday 2nd March – Mandarin Benchmarking is due to take today, can you please try and ensure that your child is present at school. If your child needs to be absent please can you let their Mandarin teacher know?
Thursday 3rd March – Mandarin Benchmarking is due to take today, can you please try and ensure that your child is present at school. If your child needs to be absent please can you let their Mandarin teacher know?
Friday 4th March – Student Led Conferences….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 – more info on the BHS Newsletter.
Is your message getting across like you would like to? Why isn’t your pre-teen listening? How can you talk and listen to your pre-teen so they will listen and talk to you? This workshop will describe the different stages of adolescence, clarify the reasons why messages are not clear and will give you ‘tools’ to make communication between you and your pre-teen more positive.
If you would like to attend this event, please reply to http://goo.gl/forms/UpGzFdJBc8
Friday 11th March – Chamber Choir to Sha Tin College
Monday 14th March – KGV, Island School and Sha Tin College teachers in to school.
Monday 14th March – Exhibition begins….WEEK 1 – please keep up to date with how your child is going with this and see if you can support them in any way.
Monday 14th March – BHS Green Week
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)
Thursday 24th March – last day of Spring Term, finish at 12pm.
Monday 11th April – first day back to school for Summer Term
Thursday 14th April – Year 5 Big Business Market Day….bring in some cash to support the Year 5s.
Exhibition Information Morning – 9:00-9:30am, Tuesday 1st March, 2016| 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
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, reflective
Attitudes : confidence, empathy, respect
Number Maths – Pattern and Function
Central Idea : Patterns can be represented, analysed and generalized using algebraic expressions, equations or functions.
We’ve all been getting on with our Pattern and Function work in our Number Maths groups…..we have had a very busy time with trips and guest speakers this week and will be continuing to be busy so we will just continue with this maths UOI when we can. Different patterns and rules, functions and rules, pattern investigations and rich tasks and working with algebra will all be topics that we will work on over the next few weeks.
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
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 continued to introduce 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.
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 : THIS WEEK – Using your info that your collected last week during you interview you need to put it all on a timeline on Lucid Chart. You can access Lucid Chart via The Beacon and make sure you save your work so you can access it here at school when needed. This needs to be completed by 11th March, 2016.
LAST WEEK (for those of us that have not started!) – 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 learned. 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.
DON’T FORGET!!! 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 -please continue with your Mathleitcs and also FDP revision work on ‘Soiled Goods’ and problem solving using logical reasoning.
- Miss Fisher – Patterns and Function sheet and, of course, your Mathletics!
- Mr Hoskins – please can you hand in your homework from last week as some are still outstanding and stay up to date with your Mathletics.
- Mrs Davis – Patterns and Functions sheet- and the Age of Aunt Lil! Extension – Can you make up your own word problem like this?
Thought of the Week : You have only failed it if you have given up. #growthmindset
