Year 5 Update Wk 26
Monday 23rd – Wed 25th April – PYP Evaluation
Friday 27th April – final date to submit yearbook cover designs to Mr. Pheasant
Tuesday 1st May – Labour Day, no school
Thursday 3rd May -Year 5 Science Trip to Island School – please check the eNotice to give your child permission when it comes through
Monday 7th May – Year 5 Bassistry Arts Day –please check the eNotice to give your child permission when it comes through
Friday 11th May – Year 5 LEAP visits – please check the eNotice to give your child permission when it comes through
Monday 21st May – holiday, no school
Tuesday 22nd May – holiday, no school
Big Business
Thank you again for all the support you gave the children during Big Business. The huge effort made by the children, along with your generosity and support allowed the children to make an amazing total of $40,582. This money will go to the Immanuel School in Sudan to help buy safe playground equipment. Well done!
Stationery
As we start our final term please take time to check your stationery supplies. A number of students are missing whiteboard pens and erasers and we would appreciate if these supplies could be replenished.
A huge thank you to all the people who have donated to our Redress Asia Clothes Drive. This is a great opportunity to donate unwanted clothes to a fantastic cause. We have one more week to go, all clothes must be in by Friday 27th April. We are looking for:
- Good quality clothes, accessories and shoes for women, men and children.
- Clean items.
- No underwear, socks, swimsuits or home textiles.
Donations will be collected and carefully sorted by Redress for distribution to local HK charities. Top quality clothing will be sold to raise funds for Redress in a pop-up shop following the drive, whilst the clothes that cannot be used for the charity beneficiaries will be kept for Redress’ new circular economy initiative and ultimately recycled into new yarns!
Please support Redress’ work to cut waste out of fashion!
For more information please visit the Redress website: https://www.redress.com.hk
PE Days – as we begin a new UOI next week you may find that your child’s PE days have changed. This can be a bother but unfortunately, due to timetable changes, this can’t be helped. Here are the days for PE for UOI 5.
5F – Tuesday and Thursday (Miss Fearn will email you if these days change unexpectedly through the UOI)
5C – Monday and Wednesday
5D – Monday and Tuesday
Can all children please remember to wear their PE kit on these days each week? Thanks.
Library Days
5D – Tuesday
5C – Wednesday
5F – Thursday
Hi, my name is Muchan, a Student Councillor for 5C. I am organising a Book Drive to help spread my love of reading. The Sony Corporation will collect books to create mobile libraries in South Africa for schools that do not have enough books. If you have books that are:
- Written in English
- Suitable for 6-12-year-olds
- Have no yellow or brown pages (due to aging)
- Have no missing pages
- Have no scribbles inside
- Not Textbooks
- Not magazines
- Not encyclopedias
Please send them to school. There will be a collection box in the school foyer. Any books you can donate will be spread our love of reading.
Student Council Fruity Friday
We are delighted to see the children back and we have enjoyed hearing all about their exciting holiday adventures.
Dodgeball
A number of the Year 5 students have enjoyed taking part in the House Dodgeball competition this week. Thank you to the House Captains who helped organise the event and well done to all those students who took part.
Fitness
In P.E the children have been developing different elements of their fitness through a fun circuit.
Central Idea : Energy can be converted and transformed to support every day life.
- Transformation of energy (function)
- Renewable and non-renewable energy (connection)
- Sustainable energy use in everyday life (causation)
In addition, students have begun to think about how their energy usage impacts them and the world. Students have been encouraged to consider the different ways that sustainable energy can be incorporated into everyday life. Additionally, consideration has been given to appliances and their energy ratings.
5C Parina Khiatani
5F Andy Yueng and Garnet Lau
5F Info Lit – Gabbie Patience
5D Chloe Leung
- Read the Weekly Update
- Mathletics – continue with the set tasks
- Reading – keep up with their reading every night. Don’t forget to get Reading Journals signed every night and children should be reading every night.
- Spelling – each Monday the children are sent home their 10 personal words that they need to learn for the week. Please, can a parent (or responsible adult) support the children by...testing them (written or oral), getting them to put their words into interesting sentences (written or oral), discussing the meanings of the words, thinking about synonyms and antonyms of that word, discussing words with a similar meaning etc.
- UOI – In your house or whilst out shopping, pay attention to some of the energy ratings given to appliances. Consider where in your home energy can be used and how.
- Mandarin Home Learning (All children are encouraged to take a reading book home on the days when they have Mandarin lessons.)
- Ms Lynn – Please check your google classroom for details.
- Ms Xu — Please refer to your google classroom for revision and practice.
