13 Oct 2017

Year 4 Update – Wk 8

Tuesday 17th October – Parent Reading Workshop 6:30pm

Wednesday 18th October – Helper Reading Workshop 1.30pm

Friday 20th October – ESF CPD Day (School Closed)

Sunday 22nd October – ESF 50th Anniversary Marathon

Monday 23rd October – School Photos (see below)

Tuesday 24th October – School Photos (see below)

Friday 27th October – Sibling Photos

Friday 3rd November – 4L Class Assembly

Monday 6th – Wednesday 8th November – Year 4 Camp

School Photographs 23rd – 24th October 2017

Our school photographer will be in Beacon Hill on Monday 23rd and Tuesday 24th October. All children should come to school in their school uniform on these days. If your child has PE on Monday or Tuesday then please make sure that they bring their PE kit to school and they will be able to change at school.

Siblings Photographs

For those of you who have more than one child at Beacon Hill the siblings photographs will be taken on Friday 27th October. If you would like a sibling photograph then please click on the link below and fill in the online form to book a space.

https://goo.gl/forms/bdCfnkhWNvy46ank2

If you have any questions then please email Mr. Pheasant:

chad.pheasant@bhs.edu.hk

Home Learning!

Wow! We have been blown away by the creativity, enthusiasm and collaboration the children have demonstrated with their first Home Learning task around FOOD or MUSIC! We really cannot believe the standard and variety of the things we have seen. Mr. Harrison has had a look, too, and he is incredibly impressed as well. We can’t wait to see what everyone will come up with this time (see Home Learning section below). Thank you for supporting children with this work, we hoped you enjoyed it and also noticed their high levels of motivation and enthusiasm. Please feel free to send us any feedback, positive or negative!

Stream Study Trip – THANK YOU!

Thank you so much to the parents who accompanied us on our fantastic field trip this week. It was so wonderful for the children to have the opportunity to be outside (even in the extreme heat) and get up-close-and-personal with native HK wildlife. This really was an enjoyable and extremely educational trip for all of us.

Start of School Arrangements

A kind reminder about the school start time. Also, please make sure your child understands that they need to stay in the playground until the Year 4 sign has been raised. We are reminding them of this too, but would appreciate the extra support! Please note that students should not arrive at school before 8.30am. Teachers are on duty from 8.30am. Any child who arrives early cannot be supervised.

Healthy Living at BHS

We promote healthy living at BHS and therefore children should only bring water to school. Please do not send milk drinks, sugary drinks or any other kind of drink including soy or milk drinks. We have water fountains and taps where students can refill their (BHS) water bottles throughout the day.

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

What an exciting week it has been in Year 4! Two guest speakers, a field trip, Dress Casual Day, Diwali…

Jan Latta – Author/Wildlife photographer

The first of our guest speakers was Jan Latta, an author and wildlife photographer, who creates books about endangered animals for children. We were so lucky to hear about some of Jan’s amazing experiences in many different countries in pursuit of many different animal species.

*If you have ordered any of her books, we will send the orders and cheques soon and distribute the texts as soon as they arrive at BHS.

Matt Glencross – HK Wildlife expert

Students were also treated to a visit from Matt Glengross who brought some of his animal friends in to meet us! There were turles, tortoises, snakes, geckos and even a tarantula! He taught us about what animals need to survive and how we can classify animals into groups according to their similarities.

Stream Study and Mangrove Visit

Links to photos from this exciting trip can be found below…

4F photos

4L photos

4W photos

Sharing the Planet:

Central Idea

Interdependence of living things can affect their survival.

Lines of Inquiry

An inquiry into…

Different types of livings things (Form)
What living things need to survive (Connection)
Human responsibility to the survival of living things (Responsibility)

Children will be generating questions in order to further enhance their research into a species of their choice. This will also be supported by Ms. Jeves through our Information Literacy sessions, where we will be using the 5 Es inquiry model to support our thinking.

Pattern and Function

Central Idea

Events have attributes that can be measured using appropriate tools.

Lines of Inquiry

An inquiry into:

Rules of patterns and how these predict future terms.
Equivalent number sentences using addition and subtraction
Patterns and relationships in multiplication and division

Children will continue to inquire into number and visual patterns, with a focus on patterns found in multiplication tables. We will be working on addition during our mental starters, too.

Writing to Inform

The children will continue to review sentence construction, features of sentences and parts of speech. They will also be practising their joined handwriting.

Congratulations to this week’s Golden Book certificate winners!

4F – Louis Zhang

4L – Aadit Hirwat

4W – Joseph Chan

homelearning

Year 4 Home Learning 13.10.17

WEATHER HEROES

The new Home Learning choices have been explained to the children and they are already bursting with creative and imaginative ideas! Here are a selection of ideas from 4L to use as a prompt if you are struggling to get started. We are very excited to see what you all come up with!

Due date: Wednesday 25th October

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 #4) – Please check your google classroom for details.