16 Mar 2018

Year 4 Update – Wk 24

Saturday 17th March – ESF 50th Carnival (see information below)

Monday 19th March – B.H.S. China Day – WEAR CHINESE CLOTHING

Thursday 22nd March – Sports Day Years 3 – 6 (please see the e-notice)

Friday 23rd March – International Food Fair 5pm – 8pm

Thursday 29th March – School Ends at 12pm for Easter Break

Monday 16th April – First Day Back

Scholastic International Book Club

Don’t forget to visit our unique BHS Scholastic website to browse and order from a great selection of well-known and good quality children’s books!

http://world-schools.scholastic.co.uk/beacon-hill-1

20% of everything you spend is ‘rewarded’ to the school to be spent on new books to support students’ learning.

Order deadline: Monday 23rd April

ESF 50th Anniversary Carnival – TOMORROW!

The Year 5s would like to thank you all for supporting their market day in school today. There are a few items left that will be available, in the foyer, on mornings from next Tuesday, 20th March. The 5s would like to invite all the children to come and buy some wonderful, handmade goods on their way into school in mornings whilst stocks last!

BHS International Food Fair

Thank you for all your help in providing so many useful materials to assist the students as they make their Food Fair games and for completing the Google forms we shared with you last week. We really appreciate your support and look forward to seeing many of you next Friday. Perhaps you may have the opportunity to come to the Hall and see the students’ hard work in action?

Ukuleles!

Please encourage your child to remember to bring their ukuleles and ukulele booklets to school on the appropriate day. At the moment, we still have quite

a few children forgetting their instruments.

4F – Thursday

4L – Tuesday

4W – Tuesday

Ukulele Club – Wednesday lunchtime (this only applies to members of this club and they know who they are).

Y4 Teacher Contact Information

4F – Mrs Fennelly – charlotte.fennelly@bhs.edu.hk

4L – Miss Fisher – laura.fisher@bhs.edu.hk

4W – Miss Wu – jane.wu@bhs.edu.hk

Year 4 Learning Support Teacher – Ms Mak – haymen.mak@bhs.edu.hk

Vice Principal – Mr Thompson – andy.thompson@bhs.edu.hk

Hong Kong Forest Adventures

Wow! What a fabulous time we had. This trip proved to be a great success with students, staff and parent helpers alike. It was a great end to our “Structures” U.O.I. as it gave us all an opportunity to build and create things collaboratively with real purpose. In addition to all the practical skills the children demonstrated, we really enjoyed seeing them collaborate and communicate so effectively and kindly with one another. Here is just a small flavour of our fabulous day…

Raft building

Toy Boat making

Castle building

For more pictures, please click here.

Food Fair Games

The students have worked together to discuss, design and build their games this week. They have had to apply the skills they developed during our “Structures” U.O.I. and it was great to have a real-life purpose for doing so. We hope you can make it the Hall during the Food Fair next Friday to try out some of the games for yourselves.

We have also been applying our literacy skills in order to design and prepare posters to inform others about how the game works and how tokens are earned.

Year 5 Big Business Market

Today, the students had enormous fun admiring all the incredible hand-made products the Year 5 students had created for this year’s Market. This gave our Year 4 students a great opportunity to utilise their communication skills and use money in a real-life context.

How the world works

Central Idea

Changes of the Earth impact the natural world.

Lines of Inquiry

An inquiry into…

How the different components of the Earth are interrelated (connection)
Why the Earth has changed and is continuing to change (change)
How we know the Earth has changed (reflection)

Next week we will be starting our new unit by finding out about the structure of the Earth, tectonic plates, continental drift and Pangea!

Number Maths: Fractions

Central Idea

Fractions and decimals are ways of representing whole part relationships

Lines of Inquiry

An inquiry into:

Constructing and representing equal parts of a whole
Identifying, ordering and describing fractions using mathematical language
Understanding the relationship between fractions and decimals

Next week, students will be having a go at some open-ended Fractions investigations that Ms. Wu has developed, as a result of our work with Peter Sullivan.

Writing to Explain

Next week, students will be deconstructing an explanation text. They will then look for examples of cause and effect sentences in texts about volcanoes to link with our new U.O.I.

Golden Book Certificates 12th March 2018

4F – Savannah So

4L – Mason Chau & Cass Lam

4W – Garrett Cheung & Chloe Scroeder

Mandarin – Marcus Lee 4F

Information Literacy – Hei Hei Cheung 4F

homelearning

Year 4 Home Learning 09.03.18

We are finally going back to the Home Learning routine from the beginning of the school year. Students will be given two themes and they may choose one to respond to. The new Home Learning choices have been explained to the children and they are already buzzing with creative and imaginative ideas! Here are a selection of ideas to use as a prompt if your child is struggling to get started.

Due date: Wednesday 21st March

Spelling

The children have a list of words they need to learn. They should practise these at home in preparation for “buddy spelling tests” (the children testing each other) in class next week.

Reading

The children have been given their Home Reading Journals and are expected to read for 20 minutes per day at their given comprehension age. Children will record the title of their book in their journal. Please discuss your child’s reading and leave a comment in the journal so that they can change their book.
To support their reading development, please make sure of the following:

Home reading should be fun not a chore.
Keep the timing short, find a comfy, quiet space and have a chat about what your child is reading. This really helps to develop their comprehension skills.
There is information about comprehension at the beginning of the journal, which you can use to help guide your discussion with your child. Please also refer to information your class teacher has sent out to you about how to help your child at home.

Mathematics
All children should aim to spend 30 minutes per week completing their assigned Mathletics tasks and/or practising their times tables.

Mandarin (All children are encouraged to take a reading book home on the days when they have Mandarin lessons.)

Ms Lynn (Home learning) – Please check your google classroom for details.

Ms Xu – 记得借书读书，写读书报告，完成课堂未完成的功课。完成google classroom 未完成的功课。