4 Nov 2016

Year 6 Update WK 11

Monday 7th November to Friday 11th November – Year 6 Outward Bound Camp

Tuesday 8th November – Mandarin Parent Consultations

Thursday 10th November – Mandarin Parent Consultations

Tuesday 15th November – 6D to LEAP…please bring back permission slips asap

Wednesday 16th November – 6F and 6H to LEAP...please bring back permission slips asap

Tuesday 22nd November – Mandarin Parent Consultations

Thursday 24th November – Mandarin Parent Consultations

Monday 28th November – Year 6 Immunisations…eligible children only

Wednesday 30th November – Mandarin Parent Consultations

Friday 2nd December – PTA Disco

Wednesday 8th December – BHS Christmas Concert 7pm

Tuesday 13th December – last day of term, 12pm finish

Mandarin Parent Consultations

It is important that you sign up for one of the Mandarin Parent Consultation time-slots that are coming up soon (please see the Dates for the Diary section of this update). The Year 6 children will be sitting their Mandarin Benchmarking tests in January or February and this is your chance to talk to the Mandarin teachers to find out how they are doing and how you can help them. Just be aware that the next Mandarin consultation is after this very important secondary bench-marking test…..so you need to get in now!

How to Help Your Child Get Ready for Camp….

practice making their own bed
show them how to hang their towel (so it will dry for the next shower!)
get them to decorate their wet shoes…so they can be easily distinguished from the 89 other pairs hanging about!
give them a plastic bag to bring home their wet clothes in
ensure they know which clothes belong to them…and make sure they are named clearly
be positive about camp with them and be excited for them

Other Camp Info….

Here’s the link to the camp photo folder……http://beaconhill.edu.hk/y6camp
Please be understanding of the amount or lack of photos of your child. We will try our best to do as many as we can but with 8 very different groups in 8 very different venues it can be tricky. Also, there is no wi-fi service around the camp so we are relying on our own data packages – I completely ran out of data last year because of the camp week so once again we would really love your understanding on this matter.
We have all the info about which children are being collected on Friday when we return. If it changes please email your class teacher during the weekend or next week. I would imagine we will get back for about 2pm as we are due to leave OB at 1:30pm.
Please send in all of your child’s required medicine on Monday – pls give to Mr Pheasant on Monday morning and not Nurse Rosalind.

Arts in the Park

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On the Saturday after camp (12th November) our BHS Chamber Choir is performing at Arts in the Park. Arts in the Park is a fabulous arts festival that takes place each year in Victoria Park, Causeway Bay. If you’d like to pop along you can watch our choir who are performing at 2:40pm….and you can also take part in some fantastic arts and crafts activities. Any choir members need to meet Mr Gibson there at 1:30/1:45pm. Good luck to all our performers!

Reading Workshops – here’s some workshops offered by our fabulous English team here at BHS.

The workshops are an opportunity to learn more about how we explicitly teach comprehension skills at school.

Wednesday 9th November – 2pm for helpers only.

Wednesday 9th November – 6:30pm for parents

Please sign up here…. https://goo.gl/forms/tCOExvSBubJkDCSy2

Box of Hope – thanks to everyone who has made one…..last ones due in by Thursday 10th November, 2016. please.

I-Time continued this week and the children are well and truly into researching their passion or interest. It is important that whilst doing their research they are taking brief notes from a variety of sources and recording their sources utilised ready to present on their final presentations. We have been encouraging all children to try and gather information from more than just MEDIA (web, books etc) but also from INTERVIEWS, SURVEYS, OBSERVATIONS AND PEOPLE. Hence our anagram of MISOP. Some surveys are looking great and the children will be heading out into the field to gather data shortly.

Fire Drill – On Monday we had a first Fire Drill practice of the year. All the Year 6s were really sensible and got out of the building quickly and quietly. We will probably have another practice this year but a non-scheduled one…so we will see how that goes!

Camp Q&A Session – On Monday we spent the last afternoon period asking questions about next weeks exciting camp at Outward Bound. Hopefully we’re now more than prepared for Monday and our week away. If you or your chid has any pressing questions on over the weekend, just let us know and we will do our best to answer them.

Bake Sale – On Tuesday we held our very first PTA Bake Sale fundraiser. Thanks to all the families who sent in baked goods and tasty treats to help the school raise some money. We will let you know soon when the next Bake Sale is so they children can enjoy cakes and cookies that another year band has made. 54ff7b8d12e8b-bake-sale-orig-master-1

Reading – The children are responsible for borrowing books and making sure they are changed frequently. Each week your child is required to write a reflection about their reading or about the book they have borrowed. A special push this week from Ms Jeves on assembly was for the children show their manners up in the Learning Centre we also have reminded our classes to say ‘Good Morning’ upon entering, asking about their wellness and using please and thank-you at school. We all would love it if you could reinforce this at home as well please.
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Playground Conflict Monitors – We are back to Team A and B on duty for playground monitors this week. All the children are getting the hang of this new responsibility and we will be asking for volunteers from the children about who would like to continue this when our roster has run out after Chinese New Year.

Golden Book – Congratulations to these children for their hard work…

6F – Howard Chung and Jolex Yam

6D – Sofie Chau

6H – Devona Chick and Michelle Cheng

LT – Alyssa Ho 6F

PE – Dean Schneider 6D

Mandarin – Marcus Ho and Nain Chow 6D

Art with Ms Yu – Lessons have continued this week, here’s some photos from 6F this week…..

Transdisciplinary Theme : How we Organise Ourselves

Central Idea : Leaders influence communities to affect change.

Lines of Inquiry – We will inquire into…

The traits of leadership
The responsibilities of leadership
The impact of decision making

Concepts …

Form – We will understand that leaders have a range of different characteristics.

Responsibility – We will understand that with leadership there comes responsibility

Function – We will understand the purpose and impact that leadership can have on us

Learner Profile : principled, courageous

Attitudes : commitment, integrity

Strand Maths – Measurement

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

Year 6 will be continuing to inquire into Volume. Through investigation they will develop rules to find the volume of cuboids. They will also identify and describe the relationships between area and volume and between volume and capacity.

Number Maths

Central Idea – Operations

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We have continued with our problem-solving approach to operations this week. In providing these open-ended tasks we can ensure that the children are being challenged and enriched and it gives us the opportunity to work with individuals and groups in our class who may need clarification on certain aspects or the concepts and outcomes. Some of the solutions to these problems that the children are coming up with are really creative and it shows their ‘outside-the-box’ thinking. conducting-internal-investigations_mini

Comprehension Key – Summarising and Synthesising : Our synthesis lessons continued this week….

Synthesising with The Three Pigs! This week in English children have been synthesising. We have been demonstrating how viewing information from a different perspective can change your thinking. The children have been using their prior knowledge and new information to find commonalities from different sources.

Biography Writing – biography writing continued also this week. We have been using checklists to self-assess our own writing and focussing on how we can improve our first drafts. We’ve also started using Google Docs to publish our work and this will also help up to make our writing better in a much easier way that using pencil and paper for this.

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Homework will be suspended next week whilst we are on OB Camp.

Spelling : Please keep up with the home spelling tests. 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 back the Spelling Journals each day during the week.

Reading : Each child should be reading for at least 20 mins each night. Don’t forget to complete your weekly reflection in your Reading Diaries – due each Friday!

Maths : Please continue on with all the Mathletics task that your teachers have set. You may also need to spend some time devising your survey and getting it checked by your teacher before you either email it out or head out into the field to collect your data.

Thought of the Week :

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