24 Aug 2018

Year 4 Update – Week 1

Wednesday 29th August – Meet the Teacher Evening (see timings in the table below)

Friday 14th September – PTA Bowling Evening

Monday 24th September – BHS CPD Day (School closed)

Tuesday 25th September – Public Holiday

Friday 28th September – Year 4 Sharing Morning 9 -11am

Welcome to Year 4!

We would like to start by letting you all know how impressed we have been with the way the children have adapted so readily to life in Year 4. They have demonstrated enthusiasm across the board and we are really looking forward to working with them all during the coming year.

Meet the Teacher Evening

We look forward to meeting with you all on Wednesday 29th August. Please note this information session is for parents only, no students should attend.

All new BHS parents	5:30pm Wine & Cheese Party in the Staffroom
	Introduction in the hall	Meet the teacher in the classroom	Finish
Year 4, 5 & 6 Parents	6.00pm	6.15pm	6.45pm
Year 1, 2 & 3 Parents	6.30pm	6.45pm	7.15pm

Eco Squad!

Please see the poster below if you would like to be a member of Mr. Hodskin’s Eco Squad (the new BHS Green Team).

Chess Champions

Congratulations to Gabriel Chan (4W), Felix Lee, Julien Leung and Marcus Su (4F) who were awarded 1st runners-up at the Chess Academy Hong Kong Inter-School Team Chess Championships 2018!

We have enjoyed getting to know the children over the past week and a half. We have enjoyed some “Getting to know each other” activities, begun thinking about Place Value in Maths, been making early explorations into poetry during English lessons and undertaken a provocation and pre-assessment to prepare the children for our first unit of inquiry.

Please enjoy a selection of photographs from 4A, 4F and 4W and ask your child to tell you about what they have been doing.

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Central Idea

Experiences and beliefs shape a person’s actions

Lines of Inquiry

An inquiry into…

How our actions affect our lives (Causation)
People’s many and varied beliefs (Perspective)
The interconnectedness of beliefs and actions (Connection)

Next week, students will explore the beliefs of other people by spending time with different adults who work in Year 4. They will have opportunities to explore the beliefs that are behind music from different cultures. We will also be thinking about the role of dance and the children will all become choreographers!

Central Idea

Base 10 place value system can be extended to represent size

An inquiry into:

The patterns of 5 digit numbers and how they are represented
Representing number patterns using words, symbols, numbers and tables

Next week the children will be renaming, ordering and comparing 5 digit numbers. They will be undertaking a range of activities, games and open-ended tasks in order to do this.

Writing focus: Writing to entertain

Poetry

Next week the students will continue to develop their vocabulary by selecting the “best words in the best order” by writing Kennings poems relating to beliefs and experiences. We will also begin to explore other forms of poetry to describe important experiences, such as Haiku and Cinquains.

Comprehension Strategies

Visualising and Self-monitoring