Year 5 Update Week 21
Thursday 21st February – Sports Day for Year 3-6.….please wear full PE kit. Please read the info below about sports day.
Tuesday 26th February – Year 2 Bake Sale.….please bring in some money to buy some baked goods to support our PTA.
Thursday 7th March – World Maths Day…..watch this space to see what exciting activities we’ll be up to!
Friday 8th March – Student-Led Conferences : these will be held in sessions throughout the day and the children will only come to school with you at your chosen time…..please book your preferred time on the Gateway which will be open soon.
Friday 15th March – Big Business Market and Sharing Morning to parents at 9 am
Friday 29th March – PTA International Food Fair
Thursday 4th April – ESF Choral Concert
Friday 5th April – Ching Ming Festival.….no school
Wednesday 10th April – Easter Concert
Friday 12 April – last day of school before Easter holidays, 12 pm finish
Sports Day – next Thursday 21st February we are looking forward to our annual Year 3-6 Sports Day at Kings Park.
All children will be taken to Kings Park on school buses. Please ensure that your child comes to school on this day in their P.E. kit and that they bring a snack and plenty of water. We would not recommend the students wear their long tracksuit pants. The children are also encouraged to wear sunscreen and they must wear a hat.
As usual, the children will rotate around a variety of sports in their house teams and then there will be some class races. We aim for a 10 am start on Pitch 1 and sports rotations should be finished by 11:45 am and we will return back to school in time for lunch.
Children can be taken home after their race as long as you please see the class teacher and let them know beforehand. Fingers crossed for good weather!
5D – Monday
5F – Tuesday
5C – Thursday
PE – please note that some PE lessons might have changed days. Can you please take a look at when your child’s PE days will be for this new UOI? Full PE kit must be worn on these days…..thank you.
5D – Monday and Thursday
5F – Wednesday and Thursday
5C – Wednesday and Friday
Book Drive – Brody, Ryan and Muchan in Year 6 are organising a Book Drive to help spread our love of reading. The Sony Corporation will collect books to create mobile libraries in South Africa for schools that do not have enough books for children to read. If you have books that are:
- written in the English language
- suitable for 6-12-year-olds
- pages should be not yellow or brown (due to ageing)
- no missing or torn pages
- no scribble on the pages
- no textbooks
- no encyclopedias
- no magazines
Please send them to school. There will be a collection box in the school foyer from Monday 21st January. Any books you can donate will help spread the enjoyment of reading.
No rest this week as we started back in for our long, hard slog until Easter. The next 9 weeks plan to be very busy and this first week didn’t disappoint. We had our Pizza Lunch on Tuesday, Road Race Trials on Wednesday, drama and music lessons with Miss Cooper and Mr Gibson and Inclusivity House Day today where we hosted some children from Lok Sin Tong Lau Tak Primary School.
English – This week 5F learned how to ‘close read’ to help with our comprehension and understanding whilst reading. We do this to understand the text, to track changes or progression and to identify areas of interest or concerns.
Storyboards – this week we paired up with one of our Big Business teammates to hash out our ideas for an advertising concept for our products and business stall. Those ideas for a beginning, middle and end we then drew up on to our own storyboards. We will either then merge the best ideas into one fantastic advertising campaign or choose the best ad to then act out to show the school.
Drama with Miss Cooper and Music Jingles with Mr Gibson – we continued our workshops with Miss Cooper and Mr Gibson who work with us each week to help us get our television advertisements ready for filming coming up soon.
Maths – Mr Thompson paid a visit to us this week to help us with our Google Sheets and worked with us to use formulae to help us with our calculations for our groups’ cashbook.
Mr Pheasant came in recently and worked with the bankers to make some change of our team’s investment funds.
Big Business – some of us have begun making our products! We will be getting those sweat-shops up and running fully next week.
Transdisiplinary Theme – How We Organise Ourselves
Central Idea – There are many factors at work within a workplace
- functioning effectively as a team (function)
- how the components in a marketplace operate – (price, budget, profit, loss, supply and demand) (causation)
- research and marketing (reflection)
An inquiry into.
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- efficient mental strategies that can be used to solve multiplication and division
- efficient written strategies that can be used to solve multiplication and division
- The relationships between these strategies and their use across a variety of problems.
Questions we are exploring in this unit:
How can we show multiplication and division of whole numbers?
How can we multiply and divide decimal numbers using a written format?
What are the different ways to multiply and divide?
What mental strategies help us to multiply?
What mental strategies help us to divide?
What is the difference between short and long division?
How many ways can you represent remainders?
When is it best to use short division or multiplication?
When is it best to use long division or multiplication?
How can we add and subtract decimal numbers mentally?
Why do I need to know my multiplication facts?
An inquiry into…
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- How data can be collected
- Using different scales on graphs and charts
- How data can be interpreted
Questions we are exploring in this unit:
What questions can be posed to give rise to the collection of data?
How are different graphs and charts constructed?
How (and why) are different scales used on graphs?
What is the purpose of mode and mean?
What have we learned that will help us read and interpret the data?
Can the data be interpreted in a different way by someone else?
Writing Focus – Playscripts : For the first few weeks of this UOI we will be looking at Play scripts and will spend some time to write our own/groups scripts ready for our advertisements.
A play script is a piece of writing written for the stage.
- A play script will include a list of characters (at the very beginning).
- It may be divided into acts which are then divided into scenes.
- Each scene will have a description of the setting at the start and then the characters’ dialogue.
- Dialogue is set out with the character’s name on the left, then a colon, then the dialogue.
- Stage directions for the actors are written every now and again in italics and brackets.
Reading Focus – For this unit, our reading comprehension strategies are Synthesising and Questioning.
Synthesising – It’s best to think of synthesising as an ongoing, multi-step process. We want students to stop multiple times to evaluate what they know or think they know about some element of the text. Elements like the topic, the characters, the problem, etc. Each time students stop reading, they reflect, they combine their previous thoughts with new information and they form new ideas.
Questioning – To aid comprehension, skilful readers ask themselves questions before, during, and after they read. We can help the children become more proficient by modelling this and encouraging them to use it when they read independently.
Successful reading is not simply the mechanical process of “decoding” text. Rather, it is a process of active inquiry. Good readers approach a text with questions and develop new questions as they read, for example:
“What is this story about?”
“What does the main character want?”
“Will she get it?” “If so, how?”
Even after reading, engaged readers still ask questions:
“What is the meaning of what I have read?”
“Why did the author end the paragraph (or chapter, or book) in this way?”
“What was the author’s purpose in writing this?”
5C – Cadence Wong
- Read the Weekly Update
- Mathletics – continue with the set tasks or feel free to try any others that you feel you want to practice.
- Prodigy – please continue on with your Prodigy online games.
- 5F & 5C – please continue to use Quizlet to help you learn your spelling words and meanings.
- Spelling – The children are sent home their 10 personal words that they need to learn for the week. The will happen on a Monday for 5F, Wednesday for 5D and Friday for 5C. 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.
- Reading – The children will be choosing leveled readers based on their own ability and are expected to read each night for at least 20mins at home with a parent. The children need to record their reading in their Reading Journals and parents can you please sign your child’s journal each night? Journals need to be returned to school each morning to be checked and will come home each evening (except Friday). Children may use Big Universe twice a week (only) as their choice of home reading
- Mandarin Home Learning –
