Year 5 Update Week 23

Student Led Conferences- Friday 8th March

Bookings for the upcoming Student Led Conferences will close on Monday 4th March.  Please go to the Gateway bhs.tg.esf.edu.hkto book your appointment if you haven’t already done so. Details were sent out in our newsletter on the 15th February.  Please note that your child only needs to come to school with you for the hour’s appointment as all the teachers will be involved in running the conferences.   If you have any questions please contact Ms Jeves jevese2@beaconhill.edu.hk.

 

Please also note that the booking system on Gateway will close on Monday, 4th March at 5pm.

 

 

Next week is Maths Week at BHS. During the week there will be treasure hunts and lunch time activities happening which all students are invited to take part in during break and lunch times. In addition to this, students can enter our Figure Me Out competition. All those wishing to take part in the competition can come and collect a template from outside 401 or alternatively they can design their own template. We have included an image of what this might look like below. Entries should be returned to school no later than Monday 11th March.

 

Learning Centre – On days where the children visit the Learning Centre with their class, they will need to bring their book bags if they wish to borrow books. These days are as follows.  The children also have access to our Learning Centre before school – so if they happen to forget their LC book on their specific day they can always pop up there and exchange it in the mornings after they unpack their school bag.

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

Unit of Inquiry   

The big event this week in our UOI has been our Big Business pitches. The students battled with their nerves but overcame them to deliver terrific pitches, impressing the panel with their business acumen. We were proud of the teamwork the students displayed as well as the confident way they presented themselves and their business plan.

Students have continued to develop their abilities to collaborate in the most efficient manner by focusing on time management skills and personal responsibility. They had the opportunity to develop these skills  while working on their products, games and pitches, where they had to allocate roles and be accountable for their part.

English

Our writing focus this week has been on writing to entertain and inform. We have been working hard in our groups to write and deliver entertaining, engaging and informative pitches. The students have worked hard to use a range of writing tools to ‘hook the audience’ and hold their attention throughout the presentation, whilst using persuasive language techniques to promote their products.

The students have also worked hard to consider the 3 ‘v’s’ (verbal, vocal and visual) when presenting. As a class we have been giving constructive feedback on pitches using success criteria that the students have developed in class.

In reading this week the students continue to develop their ability to synthesise information. They are improving their skills of activating existing knowledge, making connections, gaining new information and combining these to potentially change their thinking.

Maths

In maths this week, the Big Business groups have been working on their pricing systems for their products, making predictions about their expected profit. Additionally, they have been working on identifying the appropriate strategies to use when facing an open ended problem connected to money. Students have also worked on their ability to apply their problem solving strategies.

In strand maths we have continued to develop our interpreting skills, using data from graphs with a focus on line graphs. Students are also developing their understanding of reading and developing appropriate scales.

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)

5C  & Music Cass Lam

 

 

 

5D – Evelyn Tung

• 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 – All children are encouraged to take a reading book home on the days when they have Mandarin lessons.
  • Ms Lynn – Please complete home learning assigned in Mandarin Matrix.