20 May 2019

Year 6 Update Week 34

upcomingdates

Tuesday 28th May – Year 1 Bake Sale….please bring some $$$ to buy some treats to support our PTA

Friday 31st May – Scholastic Book Club orders close

Tuesday 4th June – Year 3 Bake Sale….please bring some $$$ to buy some treats to support our PTA

Friday 7th June – school closed, Dragon Boat Festival holiday

Wednesday 26th June – Production to parents

Thursday 27th June – Graduation

Friday 28th June – last day of school for the summer, 12pm finish

Our Year 6 Graduation will be held on Thursday 27th June, more details will be sent to you in the next few weeks, but in the meantime please be thinking about what your child might wear for this very special event. It is an important event in the children’s school life and therefore we expect them to wear smart/semi-formal event clothing for the ceremony.

Boys – suits, shirt and tie (at the very least) or traditional clothing, dress shoes

Girls – party dresses or traditional clothing, party shoes

Our latest Scholastic Book Club is up and running! Go to http://world-schools.scholastic.co.uk/beacon-hill-1 to browse the latest books and order online.

For every HKD$1, you spend in BHS’ Book Club, our school will earn 20c in Scholastic Rewards.

Please place your order online by June 7th 2019.

For further information, please refer to the email entitled, “Scholastic International Book Club May/June 2019.”

Many thanks,

The BHS English team

Please Support “Enough Plastic”

Dear Parents,

Non-profit organisation EcoDrive has teamed up with The New Youth Energy Think Tank in what promises to be the biggest green campaign Hong Kong has ever seen.

In the lead up to May 30 2019 Hong Kong’s first ever No Single-Use Plastic Awareness Day. EcoDrive and The New Youth Energy Think Tank have launched the “Enough Plastic” campaign in order to tackle the growing issue of single-use plastic, which plays a huge part in polluting our planet.

As EcoDrive co-founder Emily Lam-Ho said: “It takes 20 days to break a habit, so here’s to hoping that by the end of our campaign, you will have cut out some form of plastic.”

Please take 1 minute to watch the Enough Plastic Campaign Video.

We would love if you could support this campaign next Thursday 30th May 2019 and help make sure that your child has a plastic-free snack and lunch.

*Taken from Tatler HK Article by Natasha Tang

Dear Parents,

Following on from our Mother/Daughter and Father/Son evening, our Year 6 students will be having a couple of in-class sessions on ‘Living and Growing’. In these sessions, they will be shown some educational videos which cover the theme of Puberty, followed by class discussions. Please contact me at susan.chung@bhs.edu.hk if you would like to borrow the DVD to view at home beforehand stating your child’s name and class.

Kind regards,

Susan Chung

Rehearsals continue for our production of ‘Cinderella & Rockerfella.’

The children have shared their ideas, knowledge and thoughts about the features of pantomime to help gain a better understanding and make our performance successful. Learning Contracts have been chosen and students have begun to inquire into a variety of areas. These tasks will deepen our understanding of fairy tale stories, theatrical performance as well as the elements of a production. They will allow us the opportunity to look into a variety of new learning and then they’ll decide on how to present it. A lot of the tasks lend themselves towards props, costumes, advertisements and the technical side of putting together our production.

Golden Book Certificates

6D – Owen To

6H – Evans Wong / Kanna Takayama

6Y – Yvaine Wong

Transdisciplinary theme:

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Central Idea

Many elements combine to create a theatrical performance

Lines of Inquiry

The roles and responsibilities involved in a theatrical performance (function)
The time period/context of the play (Causation)
Ways of connecting elements of a performance (connection)

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Number Maths

Pattern & Function

An inquiry into…

Algebraic expressions to record the rules for patterns

The use of brackets and order of operations to write number sentences

Continuing and creating sequences involving whole numbers, fractions and decimals

As part of their learning contracts, Year 6 will cover a range of Language inquiries. Some may choose to write their own fairy tale story, you might compare different characters from similar stories or you might look into the language features of advertising our production! We look forward to seeing what you create.