20 Mar 2016

Year 6 Update WK 26

Thursday 24th March – last day of Spring Term, finish at 12pm.

Monday 21st March – Week 2 Year 6 Exhibition UOI big-300x2171

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.

Tuesday 19th April – Year 6 Pizza Lunch day….get your orders in to the PTA office!

Monday 25th April – ACTION WEEK starts!

GLUE! GLUE! GLUE! – We all need to stick together and keep our journals neat and tidy, so please keep your children’s glue supply topped up.

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

Golden Book Awards…another positive week in Year 6 with plenty of certificates handed out. We had a “GREEN” theme for our golden book certificates this week. Great job for all these ‘greenies’!

Mr Hoskins 6H – Emma Hui

Miss Fisher 6L – Chelsea Tse

Miss Fearn 6F – Maadhav Chand

SLT – James Johnson 6L

Talent Show – This week we held class-wide auditions for our talent show which and the winners from each class will be performing tonight at our International Food Fair. It was great to see so many children volunteer to perform and it was a difficult decision to choose the best from each class. Congratulations to….

6F – Nicole, Audrea, Candice, Chelsea and Miyuki…..who will be performing ‘Brave’

6L – Aayesha Mahbubani….dancing on a Segway

6H – Janice Wan….signing ‘Flashlight’

Island School Art Exhibition – On Thursday half of us volunteered to go along to Island School to see their Art Exhibition – it was a fantastic experience and we viewed some amazing pieces of art work at Secondary level and it was great for us to see some ex-BHS students’ compositions also. Well done to all the children who enthusiastically volunteered to go along to this it really shows your commitment to your learning and we hope you got some great ideas for how you might present your own work for our upcoming PYPX. Great action already!

Sweatshop Provocation – On Tuesday we introduced our human rights unit of inquiry by setting up our own BHS Year 6 Sweatshop. The children were broken up into groups and helped to construct paper bags from newspapers in an effort to highlight the issues connected to child labour. If you were slightly concerned with this thought provoking provocation please be assured that the actually bag making experience went for no longer than 20 mins and it was an exercise in demonstrating to the children what their life might be like if they were not so privileged and their human rights were not denied….as with so many children around the world. None of their human rights were actually infringed upon. After their bag making experience we held a lengthy wrap-up session discussing this provocation – we discussed what it was like for them, their experiences, their thoughts and feelings, what rights were bordering of being denied and worked on a personal reflection of this experience. We do hope that this provocation sparked some interest in our PYPX issues.

Year 6 Unit of Inquiry 5

Transdisciplinary Theme : How We Organise Ourselves

Central Idea : Individual and group action makes a difference to how societies uphold human rights.

Lines of Inquiry – We will inquire into…

action that can be taken to uphold people’s rights
2nd LoI written with the help of our special advisers and it will pertain to the issue chosen by the group
3rd LoI written with the help of our special advisers and it will pertain to the issue chosen by the group

Concepts : the children will review all concepts

Learner Profile : the children will try and focus on all LPs

Attitudes : the children will try and focus on all the attitudes

This week as well as our sweatshop we have been continuing to get our journal ready…all our PYPX work will go into this journal and they are looking fantastic. We finalized our choices for what issue we will inquiry into and found out our groups. Our mentors also signed up to the groups and are looking forward to meeting the teams on Monday morning. We are very grateful for all these extra teachers at BHS for giving up their own time to assist the Year 6s for the PYPX. Well done to all those children who got their ‘Getting Ready for Week 1’ homework assignment back to school and in their journals on time.

Ms Jeves’ Info Lit Workshops – Ms Jeves has been in to all classes this week to run workshops on a variety on Information Literacy topics. We have looked into the Dewey Decimal System, finding specific information from a non-fiction book and how to check the validity and authentic of a website. Why not get your child to show you the Christopher Columbus site we checked out…..can you see any problems? We look forward to continuing these workshops over the coming weeks and will go ahead and use these skills when doing our finding out stage of our personal and collaborative inquiries for the PYPX.

Number Maths – Pattern and Function

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

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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 in Year 6 have began to plan and create autobiographies. These autobiographies will be worked on throughout the coming exhibition and during the production. As the exhibition is so cross curricular, English is continually being worked on throughout the research, reflections and presentations that the children are constantly working on.

Please continue to keep your spelling journals in school unless your class teacher tells you otherwise.

UOI : start to work on your Exhibition topic. Each class teacher will give more specific instructions about what you might need to begin on eg. writing questions for your lines of inquiry and matching them to concepts, finding websites that are useful to your issue, finding organizations that might help you in finding out more and really researching what they do, designing you group logo for your PYPX t-shirts, working on a shared first brainstorm with your group members so you can all see each others ideas and have your say, think about who and what you might survey for some more finding out….but please don’t email any surveys out!, think about your agenda for Monday’s meeting with your mentor during Golden Book Assembly.

ALL CLASSES….please complete 3 (in a row) activities from the Tuning-in worksheet. Due in by next Thursday 24th March.

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.

6F are continuing their spelling investigations in their Spelling Journal this week you need to complete any that you have not done from previous weeks and this week the pages are p.37 Verb Voice and p. 39 Plural Verbs….please return to school by each Friday.

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 :