Year 6 Update Week 2
26th August – Presentation for House Captains to be completed
28th August – Y6 trip to Science Museum
28th August – Cheese and Wine Welcome evening for new parents – 5:00pm
28th August – Stephen Loggie, Principal of Island School, Presenting to Year 6 Parents
28th August – Meet the Teacher Evening
30th August – House Captains Announced
9th September – CPD Day – Students not to attend school
13th September – Diversity House Day & Mid Autumn Festival
18th September – Camp Information Evening
23rd-27th September – ISA Assessment Week
26th September – Parent Consultation Evening
30th September – CPD Day – Students not to attend school
1st October – National Day Bank Holiday – No School
2nd October – Swimming Commences, continues every Wednesday in October.
4th October – Half Term Holiday – 3pm Finish
14th October – Term Starts again
18th October – Parent Teacher Bowling Evening
25th October – CPD Day – Students not to attend school
28th – 30th October – School Photos
4th – 8th November – Camp
29th November – Wellbeing Day
6th December – Y4-6 Disco
13th December – Term Ends – 12pm Finish
Celebrating the Mid Autumn festival at BHS
The Mid-Autumn festival, also known as the Moon festival, is a popular holiday celebrated by many people at BHS. It is held on the 15th day of the eighth month of autumn.
This year, the Mandarin department is working collaboratively with Mr Lowe and the PTA to provide our students with new and exciting opportunities for language acquisition as well as developing understanding and appreciation of Chinese culture.
The students in Year Six kicked off the celebrations with lantern-making this Thursday during double Mandarin sessions. Students were given choices to work with paper, wood or paint brush. Many of them thoroughly enjoyed the experience and are looking forward to carrying on with their work next week.
One of the activities planned for the following two weeks will be making and tasting delicious mooncakes. Students with food allergies will be instructed NOT to participate in the tasting activity to avoid any potential health issues unless parental permission is given in writing in the home school diary before Thursday August 29th.
The ingredients of the mooncakes are listed below for your information.
Flour, syrup, olive oil, salt, baking soda, red bean paste, green bean paste, lotus seed paste
Thank you for your support!
The Mandarin department
Equipment and stationery – most children have made a great start to the year and have brought the correct equipment. However, some students have not and it is essential that they bring all of the items listed on the letter that they received at the end of Year 5.
If your child has lost the letter, they need to ask their class teacher for another copy.
If you have not already done so, please purchase a cheap pair of in-ear earphones for your children to keep in school at all times. We use the Chromebooks to enhance many areas of the curriculum, in order to get the most out of the programs we use, earphones as a must. They are available from Japanese Home Centre (JHC) for 50HKD.
UOI
In UOI this week we have started our science unit where we are exploring the central idea of ‘Scientific investigations can help people to make sense of the world.’ Students kicked this off by taking part in a science afternoon where they were able to observe, make predictions, ask questions and reach conclusions, based on three different experiments. We also discussed the idea of changing variables and developing an understanding of how to ensure experiments are conducted in a controlled manner.
Mr Thompson came into class to help develop students’ questioning skills, whilst developing a better understanding of the Inquiry Cycle for our Y6 exhibition.
We have continued with our week of Inspirational Maths, encouraging students to be flexible in their thinking, share ideas, as well as developing and sharing strategies to justify their thinking.
In number maths we have started work on place value, focusing on ensuring students have a good grasp of larger numbers and decimal numbers and the value of the digits.
EnglishIn reading this week we have been exploring language techniques used by others to express voice.
In writing we have been applying the techniques learned in our reading to continue writing pieces in a similar voice to the author. In addition, we have completed our holiday recount, thinking about how we make ours unique to our classmates.
Central Idea
Scientific investigations can help people to make sense of the world.
Lines of Inquiry
- What scientific inquiry is (Form)
- How the scientific process is used (Function)
- How scientific investigations have impacted the world around us (Connection)
During this unit, the aim will be to develop the children’s understanding of the scientific process, changing variables and the effect of science around the world.
Number Maths
Place Value
Central Idea: We use the same rules for the computation of decimal fractions as for whole numbers
By the end of Year 6 children should be able to:
Apply place value to partition and rename numbers to thousandths
Recognise, and order integers (including negative integers)
Recognise, model and order decimal fractions to thousandths or beyond.
Round decimal fractions to the nearest tenth or whole number
Central Idea: Writers use carefully crafted language to educate and inspire
This unit will involve us using inspiring and educational language to inform people about the effects of scientific investigation around the world.
Please continue with Mathletics/Prodigy at home.
Reading
Students should have brought home their reading journals this week and they should be reading on a daily basis, updating their journal with a comment. Please can we ask parents to sign next to the comment.
Spelling in 6C
Each week I would like students to do the following:
- Choose at least 2 of spelling activities from their grid and have a grown-up initial next to the activity completed.
- Write their spelling words out 3 times in columns. Look, cover, write and check.
- Complete 2 spelling tests at home
