Year 5 Update Wk 9
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)
Tuesday 31st October – Year 6 Bake Sale….bring in some money to buy treats to support our PTA
Monday 6th Nov – Thursday 9th Nov – Year 5 Camp
Tuesday 8th November – Mandarin Parent Consultations…make sure you book your appointment soon via The Gateway
Monday 13th November – Mandarin Parent Consultations…make sure you book your appointment soon via The Gateway
Wednesday 15th November – Mandarin Parent Consultations…make sure you book your appointment soon via The Gateway
Tuesday 21st November – Mandarin Parent Consultations…make sure you book your appointment soon via The Gateway
Thursday 30th November – Year 5 trip to Crossroads (to be confirmed)
Thursday 14th December – Christmas Concert
Friday 15th December – last day of Term 1, 12pm finish
Makeblock Cars
In 5D we have been building and programming our own self driving cars. We had to use a variety of components such as sensors, motors and motherboards to create the robots. We then connected them to our chrome books and programmed them using the makeblock software which is based on Scratch by MIT. They’re not quite finished yet!
Year 4,5 and 6 Football
Some of the year 5 students helped Beacon Hill’s boys and girls football teams in the ESF 50th anniversary inter-school football tournament held at Kings Park last Friday. The girls narrowly lost on penalties in the cup final and the boys made it to the semi final in the plate competition. Well done teams!
Central Idea:
Human migration is a response to challenges, risks and opportunities.
Lines of Inquiry:
- The reasons why people migrate
- The challenges, risks and opportunities of migration
- The impact of migration on individuals and communities
| Perspective | Causation | Change |
| Students will understand that groups of people have different views and opinions about migration | Students will understand that there are causes and consequences of migration for people and society | Students will understand that with change there will be challenges, risks and opportunities. |
- 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
This wee we started to apply our strategies to word problems, we even came up with some of our own and visualised them using different methods!
- 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 we were practicing our skills with scales of measurement and using floor plans to put them into a real world scenario.
This week our Golden Book certificates were awarded to…
5C – Isabel Chan
5F – Gabbie Patience, Leah Yau
5D – Zyrus Luk
P.E. – Gingerlilly Mohammed
Mandarin – Koji Lam
5D won the book worm award for August and September for borrowing the most books from the library! Well done 5D
- 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. 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……These are now overdue so please get them done!
- Personal/Family Migration – please make sure you have completed this (it was due this week!) so please get this in asap
- The Most Shocking Second a Day – please watch this video together with your child/parent and discuss www.youtube.com/watch?v=RBQ-IoHfimQ <– here’s the link but if it doesn’t link you through please just type in The Most Shocking Second a Day to youtube. There is also a Part 2. We would really like for the children to watch this with you at home as it sends an important message but may well be a little upsetting. Can you please take the time to discuss their thoughts and feelings?
- Migrations of Interest – please can you take some time to write/record/put in a table/google drawing (it’s up to you!) some migrations from history (modern times or historical) that interest you. You will use this as the basis for your upcoming personal inquiry into migration.
Mandarin Home Learning (All children are encouraged to take a reading book home on the days when they have Mandarin lessons.)
Ms Lynn (作业#5) – Please check your Google Classroom for details.
Ms Yu 熟读“团圆”
Ms Xu – Try to retell the story learned in class in Mandarin.
Wednesday 22nd November – 6:30p.m. in the school hall
Professor Peter Sullivan
Peter Sullivan is Professor of Science, Mathematics and Technology Education, at Monash University in Australia. He is the immediate past President of the Australian Association of Mathematics Teachers and was the lead writer of the Australian Mathematics curriculum.
Professor Sullivan is one of the world’s leading authorities in Mathematics, and will be making his a visit to Beacon Hill School this November. During his visit, Professor Sullivan will work alongside the teachers to challenge all our students to reach their full potential in Mathematics through the use of open-ended, rich learning tasks and problems.
We are thrilled to announce that Professor Sullivan will run a workshop for parents in order to enhance your understanding of how you may help your children in the development of Mathematical thinking. This is for parents only, there is no need for children to attend.
An e-notice will be sent to all parents, please let us know if you are attending.
We look forward to seeing you at the workshop.
Big Business Crafts – soon enough our Big Business UOI will be upon us and in preparation for this Miss Fearn will be running some lunchtime 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 campsite
- 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
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.
Guest Author – if you wish to order the book from our guest author, the form is below.
