Year 6 Update Week 10
Saturday 3rd and Sunday 4th November – Arts in the park
Monday 5th November – School Photos
Tuesday 6th November – School Photos
Tuesday 6th November 6 pm Raising Kids Who Love To Read An information session for parents
Thursday 8th November 2 pm Helping With Home Reading A workshop for helpers
Friday 9th November – Sibling Photos
Monday 12th November – Mandarin Parent Consultations
Wednesday 14th November – Mandarin Parent Consultations
Monday 19th November to Friday 23rd November – Outward Bound Camp
Tuesday 27th November – Mandarin Consultations
Friday 30th November – Y6 School Trip, please keep a lookout on the gateway for an e-notice
Friday 7th December – Well-being day and PTA Christmas Disco
Wednesday 12th December – Christmas Concert
Friday 14th December – Last day of term and the Christmas holidays begin!
News from the English Team
Please visit the Gateway bhs.tg.esf.edu.hk to sign up for our reading information sessions next week. The first on Tuesday 6th November at 6 pm is for parents who want ideas about how to read with their children to boost vocabulary, comprehension, develop critical thinking and importantly nurture their child’s love of reading. The second, on Thursday 8th at 2 pm, is for helpers only and will give ideas of how to support children with their home reading.
We look forward to meeting you there next week.
Mrs Dale, Mrs Fennelly and Ms Jeves
Our latest Scholastic Book Club is up and running! Go to http://world-schools.
Please place your order online by November 23rd, 2018.
Many thanks,
BHS English team
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?
Eco Squad update
Our Eco Squad members spoke in assembly this week to tell everyone what they have been up to, From up-cycling to gardening, they are doing a great job of setting a good example and reminding people to be mindful about how they treat the world.
Conflict Role Play
Working with Mr Lowe to create facial animations – such fun!
Drawing the perfect circle without using a compass.
Recording our thinking and developing questions to guide independent inquiries.
Well done to all the Year 6 students who represented BHS at different events this week.
Music: Kana Takayama
Transdisciplinary Theme: Sharing the Planet
Central Idea- Reaching a resolution during periods of conflict is influenced by the actions and reactions of all involved.
Lines of Inquiry – We will inquire into…
- Causes of conflict (causation, perspective)
- Conflict resolution and management (responsibility)
- Our responsibility as a member of a community. (Responsibility)
We have been exploring conflict resolutions and how people go about attempting to solve conflict on a daily and global scale. We will be looking at different types of conflict in more depth and will be talking about the actions and reactions of all involved.
Number Maths – Operations
Central Idea –We use the same rules for the computation of decimal fractions as for whole numbers
How are the four rules related to each other?
In what ways can we record the rules for a pattern in addition and subtraction?
Now that we are focusing on mental and written strategies when solving addition and subtraction problems we are encouraging the children to trial new strategies to solve multi-step problems and share their thinking and working out to find the answer.
Central Idea – Conversion of units and measurements allows us to make sense of the world we live in.
In strand math, we will explore the area and perimeter of a triangle and identify the properties which will help us to calculate the measurements.
We are also inquiring into angles
Why do we need knowledge of angles?
What are the different types of angles?
How do we measure angles?
How do we draw an angle?
We will continue to draw inferences when we read by looking at a variety of passages from texts. Year 6 will be focusing on the story ‘Half A Man’ by Michael Morpurgo using the illustrations and descriptions to apply their learning of inference.
The children will identify topics or issues relevant for writing a balanced argument. They will use exemplars from class discussion and joint construction to write up their success criteria to write an exposition including two sides.
Number Maths
- Miss Younie – Mathletics
- Ms. Mak – Mathletics
- Mr Hoskins – Mathletics / Prodigy
- Mr Hubbard – Mathletics / Prodigy
Mandarin
All children are encouraged to take a reading book home on the days when they have Mandarin lessons.
This week’s quote…