20 Sep 2018

Year 6 Update Week 5

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Monday 1st October – Public Holiday – School Closed

Tuesday 2nd of October – Year 6 ISA (Assessment)

Wednesday 3rd October – ISA

Thursday 4th October – ISA, LEAP visit

Friday 5th October – ISA

Tuesday 9th October – Parent Teacher Consultations

Thursday 11th October – Parent Teacher Consultations

Friday 12th October – Dress Casual Day for Hong Kong Community Chest

HALF TERM HOLIDAYS

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?

We know the first few weeks back at school can be tiring, so please make sure your children are all getting enough sleep. If your child is not getting at least 10 hours of sleep a night then they will not be able to reach their potential the next day. Please get plenty of rest.

Fruity Friday

Every Friday your child should bring a healthy and fruity snack. The Eco Squad needs the peel to create compost. Year 6 should be setting the example, so please, please, please bring in fruit to eat on Friday and pop the peel in the green bucket outside the butterfly garden.

Parent Teacher Consultations

Our first Parent Teacher Consultations this year will be on Tuesday 9^th and Thursday 11^thOctober. This is a valuable opportunity for you to find out more about your child’s learning in Inquiry, English and Mathematics through conversation with their class teacher. Bookings for appointments are made through the Gateway and this is available for families with more than one child at school from 3pm Monday 17^th September and for all our families from 3pm Friday 21^st September. This means that families with more than one child in school can get appointments on the same day. For more details please see this week’s school newsletter. https://www.beaconhill.edu.hk/bhs-news/#newsletter-2018-19

E C O S Q U A D

The children are working hard to upcycle and rescue items that would usually be thrown away. We will then give the finished product to people at school to improve their well being.

Camp Information Meeting

It is great to see you all back to school safe and well after the typhoon and we do hope that your families, homes and surrounding areas are ok too.

Year 6 enjoyed an inspirational and educational presentation from the author David Greenberg whose father represented Martin Luther King. It was incredible to hear his stories as well as extracts from his own novel ‘A Tugging String.’

Everyone managed to apply their focus back to the inquiry cycle as we continued with the create project as part of our leadership questions. We look forward to seeing all of your ideas and sharing feedback with you next week.

6H wrote some descriptive poems based on typhoon Mangkhut, using the senses, images and surroundings to draw on their experiences and the damage caused around Hong Kong.

Year 6 also enjoyed the opportunity to visit the Mid Autumn Festival Market on Thursday where they tried different flavoured moon cakes, bought lanterns and other gifts for their family and friends.

6Y enjoyed the chance to practise different relaxation techniques in Circle Time this week, these tips will come in useful during busy schedules, in times of stress or maybe just a time to find a quiet space.

Golden Book Certificates

No Golden book this week due to school closure.

House points will roll over to next week due to school closure.

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)

The children will be thinking about different types of conflict which they may have encountered or read about. In class, we will be working together to identify different strategies to help resolve different conflict whether it is at home, in school or thinking about the wider world on a global scale.

Number Maths – Operations

Central Idea – The base 10 place value system extends infinitely in two directions.

We continue to focus on place value within two of the four operations, looking at addition and subtraction of decimal numbers. We will explore effective strategies for mental and written problems.

Strand Maths – Measurement

Central Idea – Conversion of units and measurements allows us to make sense of the world we live in.

In strand math, we will explore area and perimeter of a triangle and identify the properties which will help us to calculate the measurements.

Throughout our inquiry we are continuing to synthesise our learning as well as identifying important information will will help to answer our personalised questions based on our chosen leaders.