Year 5 Update Wk 2
Tuesday 29th August – Meet the Teacher Evening. We will start off in the hall at 6:30pm and then head up to the classrooms by 6:45pm for year specific info about your child’s class this year. If you are unable to attend this year please just send your class teacher a short email to the let them know and the Meet the Teacher slideshow will be available for you to look at on the website soon.
Friday 1st September – House Colours Assembly.…wear your house colour t-shirt to school today!
Tuesday 5th September – Year 5 Camp Meeting 6:30pm in the hall…this will be run by the camp provider Asia Pacific so if you have any questions it is important that you try and come along. Children are welcome too!
Thursday 7th September – Year 5 Trip to Hong Kong Park…please email your class teacher if you would like to volunteer to help supervise a group on this excursion
Friday 8th September – staff training, no school
Friday 15th September – PTA Bowling night
Monday 18th September – this week will be our ISA (International Schools Assessment) testing week, it would be helpful if all children could try and ensure they are at school throughout this week
Tuesday 26th and Thursday 28th September – Parent Consultations 3pm-8pm
Thursday 28th September – Mid-autumn Festival market day
Friday 29th September – Colours Day…more info to follow
Friday 29th September – last day before half term
Monday 9th October – first day back after half term break
Essential Agreements – we finalised our classroom agreements this week. In each class we discussed how we work best and how we can work our best as a class. The classroom contract was agreed upon by each class and we will try and stick to our agreement throughout the year.
PE – This week some of us had such fun learning ‘country’ dancing with Miss Claudia!
Central Idea:
Artists can use a process to express messages and ideas
Lines of Inquiry:
- The tools and techniques artists use (form)
- How messages are interpreted and conveyed (perspective)
- How art influences others (reflection)
| Perspective | Reflection | Form |
| We will understand that artists draw on different experiences and thoughts when creating their work. | We will understand that artists use a range and mix of artistic elements to express their ideas. | We will understand that there are different elements of art which work together to create a work of art. |
- patterns and relationships of tenths and hundredths
- the patterns of 6+ digit numbers and how they are represented
We began our Number Maths lessons this week and Mr Pheasant also started off his series of support Number lessons. Each Monday, Tuesday and Friday our Number Maths lessons take place in the classroom and class teachers work with the mainstream children whilst Mr Pheasant takes a small group of children that we have identified need support for this unit of inquiry. Mrs J, Ms Priya and Mrs Sanghvi also work very closely with the children in all classrooms to help support. We focused on maths expectations and routines and begun teaching our place value concepts.
- creating, describing and visualising 2D & 3D shapes
- transforming shapes
- locating points on a grid
This week our Golden Book certificates were awarded to…
5F – Erick Chow
5D – Alicia Wong
5C – Jannat Jabee
Mandarin – Stella Chen 5F
Music – Nora Yuen 5F
Learning Technology – Natalie Man 5D
Information Literacy – Lara Symmonds 5C
House Points Winning Team –
- Read the Weekly Update
- Familiarise yourself with Reading Eggs again….keep working on it.
- Mathletics – ‘Are You Ready’ tasks will be set soon
- Reading – some children have been introduced to their Reading Journals so they can go ahead and get started but for the rest, Reading Journals will come home soon…..don’t forget to keep reading every night regardless.
House Colours Assembly : Friday 1st September – As Mr Harrison mentioned in last week’s Newsletter, we are aiming to develop the BHS House system this year. The first part of this involves Year 6 students who have a desire to be their House Team Captains presenting to the school in next Friday’s assembly. To make this a special event and to begin to develop a sense of belonging to the four houses, we would like all students to come dressed in their house colour next Friday 1st September. Any T-shirt, shirt etc of their house colour will be suitable – plain coloured shirts preferable, and not football shirts or similar.
Student Council Representative – Year 5 will be conducting Student Council Elections next week. Any interested children need to let their class teacher know and should prepare a short speech/talk to present to the class next week. Good luck all!
As the weather is extremely hot, please ensure your child has their cap in school everyday for outside play and PE.
The camp meeting due to be held on the 11th September has been cancelled for Year 5 and will now take place on the Tuesday 5th September. Please note that that the Year 3 Camp Meeting will go ahead on the 11th September as planned.
As part of our unit ‘How we Express Ourselves’ we will be going to Hong Kong Park on Tuesday the 7th September, weather permitting. The children will be exploring the park, gardens and museums for different examples of artwork and artistic techniques. We will be looking for parent volunteers to support this trip and if you are able to help please email your child’s teacher and let them know. The permission letter and all the info regarding this trip will come home via email….so please watch out for this soon!
Part of our unit of inquiry involves conducting artist studies. As part of one of these studies, we will be doing some sculpting out of soap. In order to do these, we would like to request your child brings in their own bar of soap.
