Year 5 Update Wk 6
Tuesday 26th and Thursday 28th September – Parent Consultations 3pm-8pm…please sign up via The Gateway. N.B. We encourage year 5 children to attend so that they can take ownership of their learning.
Thursday 28th September – Mid-autumn Festival market day…can the children please bring a small amount of money to buy items from the market stalls?
Friday 29th September – Colours Day…wear your house colours again today. Lots more important info about Colours Day is on the bottom of this Update.
Friday 29th September – last day before half term
Friday 29th September – Camp paperwork to be completed and submitted and please complete the eNotice
Monday 9th October – first day back after half term break
Friday 20th October – staff training day, no school
Monday 23rd October – school photos
Tuesday 24th October – school photos
Friday 27th October – 5F Class Assembly….in the hall at 9am
Friday 27th October – school photos (make-up day for absentees and sibling photos)
Monday 6th Nov – Thursday 9th Nov – Year 5 Camp
The Year 5 have been completing the I.S.A. examinations this week. Through these assessments, we have been teaching them all about exam procedure, rules, etiquette and strategies for success.
The ISA is designed specifically for students in Grades 3–10 in international schools and schools with an international focus, whose language of instruction is English.
Schools use the ISA because:
- it is not specific to a single curriculum;
- it tests core skills in mathematical literacy, reading, writing and scientific literacy;
- the test material is eclectic, drawing on many cultural and national sources;
- the assessments are designed with the knowledge that more than half of the test takers have first languages other than English;
- it includes writing tasks and open-ended questions to better illuminate students’ thinking processes;
- it provides diagnostic information that can be used at the school, class, or individual level;
- performance on the ISA can be related to international benchmarks;
- they can evaluate the reliability of their internal assessments and confirm that they are aligned with international expectations of performance;
- scaled ISA scores enable monitoring of student performance over time; and
- it enables comparison of the results of their Grade 8 ,9 and 10 students with the PISA results for each country that participated in the latest PISA administration.
The ISA improves learning by:
- measuring individual students’ achievement in order to reflect on and address strengths and weaknesses;
- monitoring an individual’s or group’s progress over time;
- evaluating instructional programs against objective evidence of student performance, to diagnose gaps, and to measure growth in learning between grade levels and from year to year within one grade level;
- comparing subgroup performance (for example, girls and boys; students from different language backgrounds) to see where there may be unexpected results and try to understand them; and
- providing normative data in relation to selected populations to ‘see how we are doing’.
Our Monday Assembly was all about our Colours Day and fundraising week next week. Below is the information regarding this week.
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Dear Parents and Carers, Our House Captains have done a wonderful job raising awareness around the important work Sunshine Action are doing to support members of our community who struggle with the affects of poverty. From Monday 25th September there will a range of fundraising events to help us meet our target of 1500 food packets for our Action Day on December 8th.
Below is information regarding all the fundraising events. All donations are voluntary and gratefully received. We have given suggested amounts as a guide only. If a child forgets to bring in money on the day to join an event they are still welcome to participate and can donate later.
 We have one other event where we have a group of teachers who have volunteered to be ‘dunked‘ with ice cold water. Students can make a donation of their choice to select ateacher to be dunked. The collection boxes are in the school foyer. The ‘Dunk a Teacher‘ event will happen at break time on Friday 29th September.
Sponsored Events
Your child was given a sponsor form and I have attached a form to this email as well. They will select to take part in either a sponsored read or run. Please help your child to collect different sponsors from family and friends to help raise the target of $250.
I would like to thank you all in advance for your support towards this event. It is a a special opportunity to support the less fortunate in our community and we feel it is particularly relevant with this year being our 50th Year Anniversary.
If you have any queries please contact me, andy.thompson@bhs.edu.hk
Andy Thompson Vice Principal
Beacon Hill School
23, Ede Road,
Kowloon Tong
Tel: 2336 5221 Fax: 2338 7895 ‘Be the best you can be, now and in the future’.
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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. |
- efficient mental strategies that can be used to solve addition and subtraction of decimal fractions
- efficient written strategies that can be used to solve addition and subtraction decimal fractions
- How tools and procedures can be used to measure accurately
- How tools and procedures can be used to solve measurement problems
- The connection between measurements and other units of maths (conversion)
This week our Golden Book certificates were awarded to…
5F – Nora Yuen, Sera Yang, Sophie Huang
5D – Natalie Man
5C – Chloe Chung
Mandarin – Clarice Yang 5D
Congratulations to the blue house who won the most house points last week.
- Read the Weekly Update
- Reading Eggs – continue on with your chosen tasks
- Mathletics – continue with the set tasks
- Reading – we have all been introduced to Reading Journals so the children can go ahead and 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. Of course, you don’t need to do all these on all nights but it’s just a few ideas to help you along. Buddy tests are held here at school each Friday and the children will then choose their next set of words.
- UOI – please make the cover for your portfolio, your class teacher will have spoke to you about his DUE in to be printed or brought in to school by 29th September, 2017
- Mandarin (All children are encouraged to take a reading book home on the days when they have Mandarin lessons.)
- Ms Lynn (Home learning #3) – Please check your google classroom for details.
- 熟读第十五课“学华语”
Big Business Crafts – soon enough our Big Business UOI will be upon us and in preparation for this Miss Fearn will be running some lunch time activities on Big Business crafts. This year we are having a push for the children to make and sell handmade items at their stall or provide a service….rather than just buying bit and pieces from Shan Shui Po and re-selling these on the day. Children can volunteer to join Miss Fearn at some lunchtimes throughout the weeks to learn to make some items that they then might make and sell on their stall. If you have a simple craft idea and would like to come into school and teach a small group (15 children) how to do it please contact your class teacher and we will arrange for you to take a group.
Below are some CAMP TIPS to help you get your child ready for our upcoming week away on camp and please let your helper/guardian know these too so they can let them try out these things…..
- please make sure they can make their own bed – including putting their own sheets on…it’s one of the first things they’ll be doing when we arrive at the camp site
- ensure they can pack and unpack their own bag – this should be practiced each day when preparing for school
- let them choose their own clothes to wear – get them to assess the weather and dress appropriately
- make sure they know how to hang up their towel so that is dry for the next shower
- make sure they can fill their own water bottle – especially if you decide to go for the Camelback type of water system with the hose…they need to have the dexterity and fine motor skills to be able to unseal and seal up the water bag themselves
Giving Back to our Community : Colours Day – Friday 29th September, 2017
As part of our 50th celebrations, we are aiming to give back to our community by holding an Action Day on the 8th December in partnership with Bethune House, Sunshine Action, Sai Kung Stray Dogs and Soap Cycling. On the 8th December, each year group will have the opportunity to help make food parcels to help those who are in need in Hong Kong. More details will follow about that day as we get closer to it. We are aiming high and the amount of money we need to raise equates to $250 per child.
To kick-start our fundraising, we are going to have 4 days of lunchtime activities where children can make a minimum donation of HK$20 to join in fun events such as karaoke. This will build up to a very special day on Friday 29th September we are calling ‘Colours Day’ where all children will take part in one of two sponsored events – either a sponsored walk/run or a sponsored readathon depending on their interest. Each year group will have half an hour for the events. Sponsor forms can be downloaded and printed off from today’s Newsletter. We encourage all our students and their families to support this day of action to help in our drive to support those in our community who are in need. And of course, on Friday 29th all students should come dressed in their house colours.
Start of School Arrangements – 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. We have water fountains and taps where students can refill their (BHS) water bottles throughout the day.
Some other points for your info:
- Please avoid giving out sweets or lollies to students for rewards etc. If some are sent in for birthday treats, the children should put them away in their bags and take them home. We want to avoid students running around or going on buses home whilst eating lollies etc. I will remind the bus mums of this too.
- The outside stairs can be slippery when wet. Please remind the children who use this staircase to take extra care.
- We need one more volunteer to be on the PTA this year. Please let me know if you are interested. The first meeting is this Thursday at 3.30pm.
School Book Bags – Your child needs a named book bag in school to carry their reading books to and from school for both home readers and library books. This means that the younger children will need to remember their book bag every day. It should contain their reading book, reading journal and on library days, library books. The reading journal is an important part of the communication between you and your child’s teacher, therefore, please remember to add a positive comment when you have read with your child.
