Year 5 Update Week 1
Monday 16th August – Year 5 and 6 Comedy Workshops
Wednesday 28th August – Meet the Teacher Evening and PTA Cheese and Wine
Friday 30th August – Risk Assessment Workshop for parents
Friday 13th September – Diversity House Day
Friday 13th September – Mid-Autumn Festival
Wednesday 18th September – Year 5 Camp Information Evening
Monday 23rd and Thursday 26th September – Year 5 ISA Assessments
Thursday 26th September – Parent Teacher Consultations
Monday 30th September – School closed (CPD)
Tuesday 1st October – National Day (School closed)
Friday 4th October – Half Term Break – School finishes at 3pm
5Y – Ms. Younie in room 401 (younit1@beaconhill.edu.hk)
5W – Ms. Wu in room 402 (wuj2@beaconhill.edu.hk)
5H – Mr Hubbard in room 403 (hubbardd3@beaconhill.edu.hk)
Uniforms – The children all look fantastic in their school uniforms! Just a few reminders…purple socks on uniform days, white socks on PE days, please try and have the children wear summer uniforms rather than winter (it’s still incredibly hot!) and obviously wear PE kit on their designated days and can you please make sure they have their own school hat for playtimes and PE activities.
Hair – can the girls (and boys if necessary) please try and wear their hair tied or back at school. It’s still really hot out there and it is always good practice to keep our hair out of eyes and off their work. And, let’s face it…nobody likes anyone’s else’s hair on them! Hair tied back for PE lessons is particularly important too.
Stationery – thanks for helping to sort out the children with all the required stationery items. Can you please check in with them to see what bits and pieces they still need to purchase? Many children don’t have a whiteboard eraser, this is very important. A piece of felt, an unused kitchen sponge or even an old (clean) sock will suffice.
Healthy snack and water – Please make sure that your child has a healthy snack for break time and a water bottle.
Hygiene – Due to the high-temperatures many children arrive back after break and lunch play sweating, this can make lessons very messy and the children uncomfortable. Bringing in a small towel will help them to wipe away the sweat and therefore allow learning to continue without much fuss.
Start of Year Assessments – The children have worked really well this week through all the assessments that have been thrown at them! Number Maths pre-assessments – these will help us decide who needs support with their Place Value work and will get extra support from Mr Pheasant during our Number Maths sessions.
Spelling Testing – this is to find out which personal spelling words the children will start to learn for their home learning task each week.
Summer Recounts and independent writing – we are assessing the children’s writing ability with these unaided writing tasks.
All the while the children have been getting used to the routines and procedures in each individual classroom.
Central Idea
Self-exploration leads to a greater capability to enhance well-being
Lines of Inquiry
The importance of self exploration and a range of appropriate strategies to achieve this (form)
Strategies for making informed choices (responsibility)
Through deeper reflection, the causes and consequences that can effect their well-being (change)
patterns and relationships of tenths and hundredths
the patterns of 6+ digit numbers and how they are represented
Place Value Games : Nice or Nasty / Skunk – this week we had loads of fun playing new number place value games called ‘Nice or Nasty’ and Skunk…maybe you could all play together at home! The Year 5 team truly believe that games are essential to help the children reinforce the skills taught in guided lessons and are fun to boot! Ask your child how they went and who won!
- creating, describing and visualising 2D and 3D shapes
- transforming shapes
- locating points on a grid
Our first Golden Book will take place on Monday 26th August!
- Read the Weekly Update
THE FOLLOWING HOME LEARNING TASKS WILL BE STARTING GRADUALLY AT THE DISCRETION OF EACH YEAR 5 TEACHER….please check in with your own child
- Mathletics – continue with the set tasks
- Spelling – each week 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.
- Reading – levelled home readers will be starting to come home soon. The children will be choosing levelled 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.
5Y – Mindfulness front cover
Thought of the week
