26 Aug 2019

Year 5 Update Week 3

THURSDAY 5TH SEPTEMBER- YEAR 5 TO WEAR PE KIT TO SCHOOL

Monday 9th September – CPD Day – School Closed

Friday 13th September – Diversity House Day

Friday 13th September – Mid-Autumn Festival

Wednesday 18th September – Year 5 Camp Information Evening (6pm – Hall)

Monday 23rd and Thursday 26th September – Year 5 ISA Assessments

Thursday 26th September – Parent Teacher Consultations

Friday 27th September – 5W Class Assembly

Monday 30th September – School closed (CPD)

Tuesday 1st October – National Day (School closed)

Wednesday 2nd October – Parent Teacher Consultations

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.

It has been another busy week in Year 5 and we have enjoyed making a great start to our first Unit of Inquiry. The children have been getting to know themselves better using a personality compass. This has helped them to identify and celebrate their strengths as well as get to know one another better when working collaboratively in groups.

Each class has been using a variety of reading material to help us define and understand visualising as a reader. We have recommended books to one another and talked about the language authors use to help us create a mental image when we are reading.

It has been an active week as the children complete circuits in PE and strive to improve their skill and times in different exercises. We have also been busy in the drama room during Circle Time with Ms Mak talking about calming strategies for times when we might feel nervous or stressed. The children have also been working together in paired or group games such as ‘Pizza Massage’ & ‘Keeper of the bells’ to build their teamwork skills.

Year 5 were also invited to be a part of the house captain speeches this week. We were an attentive audience and listened carefully to the brave candidates. We had time to ask interesting and relevant questions to help us with the voting process.

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 affect their well-being (change)

We will continue to explore our strengths as part of our self exploration journey as well as begin to talk about areas that we would like to make improvements in. Year 5 will get the opportunity to take part in some activities next week which have been created to enhance their well being and allow them the opportunity to try something new.

Number Maths – Place Value

Central Idea –

An inquiry into…

patterns and relationships of tenths and hundredths
the patterns of 6+ digit numbers and how they are represented

Strand Maths – Shape and Space

Central Idea –

An inquiry into…

creating, describing and visualising 2D and 3D shapes
transforming shapes
locating points on a grid

In Maths we will continue to explore the place value system and how it extends in two directions. This will involve decimals and rounding in the form of number problems, games and investigation. In strand math next week we will expand our language and vocabulary when describing the properties of 2D shapes.

Writing Focus – our writing focus for this unit of inquiry will be a genre of the children’s own choice. Here at school, we will be working on adding more description to our sentences and the children will be given a chance to utilise these skills in their own writing. They may choose to write a traditional tale, an adventure story, some science fiction just to name a few.

Reading Focus – Self-Monitoring and Visualising

For the duration of this UOI, our Reading comprehension strategies will be Visualising and Self-Monitoring. We will introduce these strategies to the children in the upcoming weeks and the demonstrate way they can use them to help them better understand what they are reading. It would be fantastic if you could chat with your child about these and encourage them to use these whilst reading at home.

The classes will be applying their knowledge and learning of visualisation to their own readers in school. They might be using their book stacks or example texts to explore the language used by the author that helps create a mental image. We are encouraging the children to use their senses when visualising.

Well done to our Golden Book achievers this week:

5H- Julian Park

5W- Emma Shan

5Y- Takumi Stemp

homelearning

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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.