16 Mar 2018

Year 6 Update WK 24

upcomingdates

Saturday 17th March (3pm-7pm) – ESF 50th Carnival

Monday 19th March – China Day celebrations (come to school in traditional outfits or colours)

Thursday 22nd March – Year 3-6 Sports Day

Friday 23rd March – International Food Fair

Wednesday 28th March – Spring Concert

Thursday 29th March – End of Term 2 (12:00)

Monday 16th April – Start of Term 3

The Year 5s would like to thank you all for supporting their market day in school today. There are a few items left that will be available, in the foyer, on mornings from next Tuesday, 20th March. The 5s would like to invite all the children to come and buy some wonderful, handmade goods on their way into school in mornings whilst stocks last!

International Food Fair: Friday 23rd March 2018

Don’t forget to bring your own tupperware and cutlery to the food fair next week to help us reduce the amount of plastic used at Beacon Hill School.

Scholastic International Book Club

Don’t forget to visit our unique BHS Scholastic website to browse and order from a great selection of well-known and good quality children’s books!

http://world-schools.scholastic.co.uk/beacon-hill-1

20% of everything you spend is ‘rewarded’ to the school to be spent on new books to support students’ learning.

Order deadline: Monday 23rd April

Questions you can ask your child instead of ‘How was your day?”

Often when we ask children ”How was your day?”, we are given the answer ”good” or ”fine”. More than just finding out how their day was, we want to help children become problems solvers and independent learners. Good conversations help them see that we care about their lives, we are there to support them, and to help them develop strategies for solving problems themselves.

Here are some questions you could ask your child after school.

What made you smile today?
Can you tell me an example of kindness you saw/showed?
What did you do that was creative?
What is the most popular game at break time?
What was the best thing that happened today?
Did you help anyone today?
Did you tell anyone “thank you?”
Who did you sit with at lunch?
What made you laugh?
Did you learn something you didn’t understand?
Who inspired you today?
What is something you heard that surprised you?
What is something you saw that made you think?
Who did you play with today?
Tell me something you know today that you didn’t know yesterday.
What is something that challenged you?
Did you like your lunch?
Rate your day on a scale from 1-10.
How were you brave today?
What questions did you ask at school today?
Tell us your top two things from the day (before you can be excused from the dinner table!).
What are you looking forward to tomorrow?
What are you reading?
What was the hardest rule to follow today?
Teach me something I don’t know.
If you could change one thing about your day, what would it be?

What made you feel happy?

What made you feel proud?

Did you learn any new words today?

If I called your teacher tonight, what would he/she tell me about you?

Exhibition Preparation

The exhibition unit is almost upon us. Please discuss the following with your children. By Monday 12th March, the children need to have decided on the area they wish to focus on.

Below is the link to the PowerPoint from the coffee morning.

www.beaconhill.edu.hk

Communication/Presentations/Year 6 Exhibition information for parents

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.

Year 6 have chosen their Exhibition focus areas, and it is great to have such a variation of interests across the year group. Thank you to parents for having discussions at home and for supporting their choices. This is an important decision for Year 6 to fulfil their enjoyable and busy exhibition experience. The children proved themselves by giving a one minute speech to the class based on their chosen interest. They had little preparation time, applied their experience from house captain speeches and impressed one another with their background knowledge and personal experiences so far.

As we come to the end of unit 4, we have completed a variety of scientific investigations and reflected on our learning engagements. It has been great to hear the children’s new knowledge and understanding around the unit and how these investigations have furthered their understanding of the world around us.

We thoroughly enjoyed supporting Year 5’s Big Business Market Day by buying many of their hand made products, well done to you all!

Our house captains were a great help at Year 1 and 2’s Sports Day and got a special mention from Mr Teahan for all their hard work and efforts to organise and support the day.

Well done to our winners in 6Y of the Trashion Fashion show! Your team put together a fabulous outfit made from recycled materials.

Some Year 6 children enjoyed the opportunity to visit an Art exhibition at Island school. Hopefully this inspired some of you in preparation for creative ideas for Exhibition or broadened your knowledge of the elements or art.

Golden Book Certificates & House Team Winners ……..

6Y & Music- Katie Li

6H- Alexa Wong

6D- Yuzumi Kobayashi

Transdisciplinary theme:

Central Idea

Our interests and well-being can benefit ourselves and others

Lines of Inquiry

My interests and well being
How my interests for ______ influences my well being(Connection)
How my creativity/action through _______ benefits myself and others

Next week will be our first week of Year 6 Exhibition! Children will get the chance to discuss ideas in their groups, identify common interests and share suggestions. We will unscramble the central idea and become familiar with how our interests benefit ourselves as well as people around us.

We are looking forward to China Cultural Day on Monday where the children come to school in traditional dress and will get to take part in a variety of activities linked to the new year of the dog. Year 6 also have sports day coming up on Thursday so don’t forget to wear PE kit to school.

Central Idea

Fractions, decimal fractions and percentages are ways of representing whole-part relationships

Learning Intentions

Understand the relationship between fractions, decimal fraction and percentages.

Find percentages of number or quantities with and without a calculator.
Simplify fractions in written and mental form
Solve problems involving addition and subtraction of common fractions with same or related denominators
Convert improper fractions to mixed number and vice versa
Read, write and solve problems involving ratio

Central Idea

Conversions of units and measurements allow us to make sense of the world we live in. A range of procedures exists to measure different attributes of objects and events.

Lines of Inquiry

Estimate, compare and measure objects using standard units of measurement

Calculate and develop rules for determining the volume of cubes and cuboids.

Identify and describe the relationships between area and volume and between volume and capacity.

In Number Math we will continue to work out percentages of amounts and share different strategies we are confident with to solve different problems. Children can continue to take part in the 50th fortnight activities around school linked to Maths, the number 50 and other mathematical clues and problem solving.

Year 6 will be carrying out plenty of research and gathering new information based on their chosen interest from a variety of sources. It is important they use their note taking skills to identify the important and relevant information by paraphrasing as well as transferring information into their own words and language they understand. We will continue to apply our knowledge of the comprehension strategy determining importance using both fiction and nonfiction books.

Don’t forget to continue with the Reading Challenge between now and 18th June as well as completing the 50:50 Book Challenge in the library! Pupils have been highly engaged in the challenge so far so keep it up and complete the challenge!

Think about contact you can make with businesses, charities, organisations or individual people linked to your interest. Can you organise a visit, interview, conversation, email etc to gain more knowledge and information from another source?

Spelling : The children should be tested on their words at home 3 times per week ready for our buddy test on Friday. Any words that the children spell incorrectly during the buddy test on Friday will get carried over to next week’s ‘Words I need to learn…’ All children need to remember to bring in their Spelling Journals each day.

Reading : Each child should be reading throughout the week. Don’t forget to think about your weekly reflection for your Reading Journals!

Number Maths