2 Dec 2016

Year 6 Update WK 15

Monday 5th December – start of UOI 3
Tuesday – Year 6 parent helpers in to help pack Christmas party bags 12pm in 1st Floor Conference Room ….thanks so much for your help
Thursday 8th December – BHS Christmas Concert 7pm
Thursday 8th December – Sarah Roe JC Christmas Concert and KGV Christmas Party….invited students only
Thursday 8th December – Year 6 Party and Movie day….wear your Christmas or party clothes
Friday 9th December – wear your HOUSE COLOURS today!
Tuesday 13th December – UOI 2 Reports on The Gateway
Tuesday 13th December – end of term 12pm finish…..MERRY CHRISTMAS TO ALL!!!
Tuesday 3rd January – start of Term 2
Friday 6th January – Island School Taster Day….Island School children only, info to be sent home shortly
Friday 13th January – Year 6 NGO Agents of Change Conference at KJS….info and permission slip to be sent home shortly
Friday 20th January – KGV Taster Day…KGV children only, info to be sent home shortly
Thursday 26th January – China Day at BHS and last day before Chinese New Year
Friday 27th Jan – Mon 6th Feb – Chinese New Year Break
Friday 31st March – end of Term 2, 12pm finish

Empire of the Sun (PG)

1987, Directed by Steven Spielberg

Over the next two weeks we will be watching ‘Empire of the Sun’ as part of our introduction to Historical Fiction.

Story Overview – An aristocratic British youth is separated from his family at the start of World War II after the Japanese Army invades British controlled areas of China. Reduced to living on the street and fighting for food, the youth is eventually interned in a Japanese POW camp for British civilians. Here, admiration quickly develops both for captured American pilots and the Japanese themselves. When the war ends, the boy, torn from everything he knew, attempts to again find his parents.

Please let your class teacher know if there are any issues with your son or daughter watching this movie.

Year 6 Movie and Party Day – Thursday 8th December….wear your party clothes and bring Secret Friend presents to share. Party Bags to be given out – don’t worry if you’re not in, we’ll save you one!

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House Colour Day – to show our house spirit we are wearing our house colours on Friday 9th December.

Gentle Reminder.……please don’t let the kids forget our wonderful EAs Mrs Chand and Mrs J when the children are picking out Christmas pressies and cards this year – they work so hard with us and all the children, it would be lovely for the children to show their appreciation.

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This week we saw the end to our very first I-Time projects for this year. On Thursday we had a little gallery walk around to see how all the classes went and today the Year 4s have been into see our projects whilst we’ve been on our trip.

UOI 2 Summative Assessment : Team Challenge – For their final assessment of this unit the Year 6s had to design, create and lead a problem-solving station. The Year 3s were invited to try and solve these challenges under the watchful eyes of our Year 6 leaders. Here are some snaps from 6F’s team challenge last Friday afternoon….

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Congratulations to these children for their hard work…

6F – Avina Chan, Chantal Chan

6H – Samantha Thompson, Razeen Khan

6D – Matthew McCoy

SLT – Natalee Evans

Praise and Ginny had the honour of giving out the certificates this week as they were the House Captains of last week’s winning teams.

Last Week’s House Points Winners

And the winning house is……..

HAPPINESS

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 – Shape and Space

Central Idea – Consolidating what we know of geometric concepts allow us to make sense of and interact with our world.

We are currently inquiring into the properties of 2D and 3D shapes (diagonals, angles etc) and properties of circles. We’ve been doing lots of technical drawing in class and it really gives the ‘artists’ in the class a chance to show off their skills!

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Number Maths

Central Idea – Fractions, decimal fractions and percentages are ways of representing whole-part relationships

An inquiry into…

– decimal fractions and the number system
– how ratio is used to make comparisons
– sequences involving whole numbers, fractions and decimals

Historical Fiction – Our next unit text type is Historical Fiction. Historical Fiction is defined as movies and novels in which a story is made up but is set in the past and sometimes borrows true characteristics of the time period in which it is set. Please try and encourage your child to find a story that excites or interests them to read at home.

Our prescribed texts are…

Music on the Bamboo Radio – Martin Booth
The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas – John Boyne
Kensuke’s Kingdom – Michael Morpurgo
The Wreck of Zanzibar – Michael Morpurgo
Chinese Cinderella – Adeline Yen Mah
Goodnight Mister Tom – Michelle Margoiran
Break of Dark – Robert Westall

Some children are really ripping through these texts and are up to reading their third book! And…some need a little more encouragement – could you please ask your child about their Historical Fiction text and how they are going with it?

We will be looking at the Historical Fiction Success Criteria next week and deconstructing good examples of HF. We will also be focussing on poignant scenes from ‘Empire of the Sun’ and trying to write our own moments. This is a particularly tricky writing genre but it gives the children a chance to shine and really showcase their writing skills.

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We have our Year 6 Agents of Change NGO Conference at KJS coming up on 13th January, 2017 and the children will make some choices about which NGOs they would like to go and see on the day. It would be great if they found a local issue that they were passionate about and signed up to visit them on the day. Hopefully, these visits and information gathering sessions will help the children decide on what they would like to focus on for our Exhibition.

Soooooooooooo.…for homework, can the children browse these NGOs on the web and hopefully it will give them some inspiration. We have shared the children into the Google Slide with more info – but here’s the list!