2 Feb 2018

Year 5 Update Wk 20

Tuesday 6th February – PTA Bake Sale…please send in a small amount of cash to buy some treats to support our PTA.

Wednesday 7th February – Year 5 & 6 Minecraft Competition….more details from Mr. Lowe.

Monday 12th February – China Day activities and CNY Assembly for the school. Can the children please wear CNY clothing to school on this day?

Tuesday 13th February – Chinese New Year Performance (6-7.30 pm)

Thursday 15th February – last day of school before CNY break.

Monday 26th February – first day back to school after CNY break

Friday 2nd March – Student Led Conferences…..children will only come to school with you at their appointed time. Please sign up via The Gateway soon, more details to come out in the next few weeks.

Tuesday 13th March – Years 1 & 2 Sports Day

Friday 16th March – Year 5 Sharing Day and Year 5 Big Business Market to the school.

Big Business – All children now have the $200 dollars in for Big Business so thank you for that. We are encouraging children to take control of sourcing and buying the products they need throughout this unit. We would appreciate any support you can offer to the children with this, but we would like to ask that if you do buy things that you keep the receipts to allow the children to reimburse you from the budget they are working from. This will help them to gain a good understanding about managing a budget, costings and profit. If children are making food items it may be helpful to freeze some part made items in advance.

Parent Volunteers

The children are currently in the middle of creating businesses for their Market Day to help raise funds for the Immanuel Kindergarten in Sudan. As part of this unit the children will be presenting to a panel of experts on Tuesday 6th and Wednesday 7th March. If you have any experience in selling, or are interested in seeing what the children have created and are able to give up some time on either of the above dates, please email Mr. Pheasant – chad.pheasant@bhs.edu.hk stating the dates and preferred times of your availability.

Book Drive

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.

Portfolios – please can the children remember to bring back their student portfolios that were sent home recently. They will need to add to them throughout the remainder of the year.

Student Led Conferences – our SLCs are coming up on Friday 2nd March, 2018. Just a reminder that the children do not attend school on this day during the normal school hours but rather they come in with you at the appointed time for a 50 minute session where they will share their learning at various stations set up in the classroom. You will need to sign up for a session on The Gateway in the next few weeks so there will be more info to follow.

Student Council Fruity Friday

The last term we surveyed our students to find out how we can make BHS even better. A lot of students wanted Fruity Friday back. This is an opportunity for you to help your child have delicious and healthy snacks at least once a week. Can you please support and encourage your child to bring in a fruity snack each Friday. We do not want processed snacks with fruit in them as they contain preservatives and man-made sugar. Thank you in advance for your support. Fruity Friday starts on Friday 19th January, 2018.

BHS 50th Anniversary Art Auction

Our very first Art Auction will take place on the day of our Student Led Conferences! You will be able to bid on some amazing art pieces produced by each class and these will be on display in the hall for the day. More info to follow soon, so watch this space! (Or the newsletter).

BHS Dance Off 2018

On Monday, in our assembly, the Student Council launched our BHS Dance Off. This is a fun event for children who enjoy dancing. We will hold heats after CNY during lunchtime where participants will have the opportunity to perform their dance. If they are successful then they will perform their dance at the International Food fair. If your child is interested here is some useful information

have fun
you can perform in groups or solo
the dance should be around 1 minute
heats for the competition will take place at lunchtime after CNY
sign up sheets are in every classroom
there will be a lower school and upper competition

You can support your child by helping them create and rehearse their dance.

This week in year 5 the children have started their new PE unit ‘Playground Games’. The final aim of this unit is to design a game for our year 1 buddies. We have been looking at a variety of playground games to see which qualities and hazards we need to be planning for. 5C took their PE indoors due to the weather this week!

Year 5 also contributed players towards the 5/6 basketball team who played a friendly at RCHK this week. Although they didn’t win they had a great time. Well done to all involved.

UOI

Central Idea : There are many factors at work within a marketplace.

An inquiry into…

functioning effectively as a team
components in a marketplace
research and marketing

Concepts : function, causation, reflection

Related Concepts : business systems, costings

Learner Profile : courageous, communicator

Attitudes : cooperation, confidence

Children have continued their sharing unit work with Mr. Gibson in music. This week they were getting themselves into groups and experimenting with different instruments that they may use in their jingles.

They have also continued to work with Ms Heather to prepare for their adverts and scriptwriting. They were learning this week about dramatic, moderate and minimal acting and how each type can be used.

In the classroom, the children have been analysing the market research that they have gathered, developing final plans for the products they are making and deciding which resources they will need to create them. They have also started to divide up different responsibilities within the team.

Number Maths

Central Idea – Fractions, decimals and percentages are ways of representing whole-part relationships.

An inquiry into…

the relationship between decimal fractions and common fractions
the relationships between fractions decimals and percentages
problems involving ratios and proportion

In Maths the children have continued to develop their understanding and confidence when working with fractions, decimals and percentages. A focus this week has been placed on finding common denominators so that fractions can be compared. Here are 5F playing a fraction sorting game.

Strand Maths

Central Idea – Data can be presented effectively for valid communication

An inquiry into….

how data can be collected
using different scales on graphs and charts
how data can be interpreted.

In strand Maths we have been using the information we gathered from our Big Business surveys to investigate the different uses for bar graphs and line graphs. We talked about how graphs can be interpreted, the relationships between different values and the importance of representing them fairly.

Writing

Now that children have their products and brands more secure in their minds, they have been beginning to think about their adverts. They filled out some graphic organisers to help them create ideas, before starting to develop storyboards for their adverts.

Reading Comprehension Strategy – Questioning

The students have been developing their questioning skills and developing thin questions (where the answers are factual and written in the text) and thick questions (where the answers are inferred and can rely on outside knowledge or opinion).

Well done to all our Golden Book winners this week in Year 5…

5C Brody Roesell

5D Yvaine Wong

5F Alex Siu and Gabbie Patience

5F Sophie Huang – Music

5D Zoie Chan – Information Literacy

homelearning

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 – Over this coming week, children should have a good idea of the product they are going to be making. In their teams they should have organised any items they need to buy to make a prototype and should have discussed who is going to buy it. We would also like the children to be on the lookout for advertising campaigns and commercials and would encourage them to discuss this with you.\
Music – Write 5 words in your group of threes of how your product feels, looks, tastes or sounds.