Year 6 Update WK 18
- Friday 20th January – KGV Taster Day…KGV children only
- Thursday 26th January – China Day at BHS and last day before Chinese New Year
- Wednesday 25th January – 2nd I-Time project due....make sure it’s at school and ready to go!
- Friday 27th Jan – Mon 6th February – Chinese New Year Break
- Tuesday 14th February – Year 2 Bake Sale
- Thursday 16th February – Sports Day (Years 3-6)
- Friday 24th February – Year 6 Arts Taster Day
- Friday 3rd March – Student Led Conferences….normal timetable suspended and children to come to school with you at your allocated time
- Thursday 5th March – Year 5 Big Business Market Day
- Friday 10th March – HKG Flower Show.….invited children only
- 7th -10th March – Year 6 Mandarin Benchmark Tests…please try to ensure that you child is not off school during this time, if they will be – please can you email their Mandarin teacher and let them know.
- Monday 13th March – Book Week
- Friday 24th March – International Food Fair
- Thursday 30th March – Spring Concert
- Friday 31st March – end of Term 2, 12pm finish
- Tuesday 18th April – back to school for Term 3
- Tuesday 18th April – Year 6 Pizza Lunch
- Friday 21st April – Year 1 and Year 6 Immunisations
- Tuesday 25th April – Year 4 Bake Sale
- Wednesday 26th April – Year 6 Theatre Trip….Melodia
- Saturday 29th April – Wednesday 3rd May – Labour Day Long Weekend
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se can you make sure your child returns their permission slips for the upcoming KGV visit. The children will have a meeting with Mr Hubbard and Mr Hoskins to remind them what to bring and all the other children will stay at school with Miss Fearn.
Portfolios – please return all portfolios back to school as soon as possible so that we can keep adding to it over the year.
Year 6 Arts Taster Day – this year the Year 6s will take part in an Arts Taster Day coming up in February or early March. We will be offering various ‘arts’ lessons for the children to choose from. If you have a particular skill in the arts or know someone who could volunteer we would love to have you in to take a couple of lessons with a small group. It could be anything….dance, origami, collage, musical instrument, photography, sewing, puppetry etc absolutely anything! Just let us know and we can give you a little more info.
Weather and Clothing – With the recent change in weather can we make sure that children are dressed appropriately for school. Layers are a good way of allowing the children to be comfortable, giving them the option to adjust their clothing when necessary. But please, not too many layers!
Layering your child with too much outerwear can actually make them colder. That’s because excess layers can cause your child to sweat, which makes their clothes wet, which allows the cold and wind to bring their temperature down.
- characteristics of past civilisations and societies (form)
- the ways in which our society has been influenced by past societies (function)
- connections between past discoveries and modern day advances (connection)
Concepts : form, function, connection
Learner Profile : knowledgeable, thinker, reflective
Attitudes : enthusiasm, appreciation
Please take the time to talk to your children about our new unit. If you, any family members or friends have lived through any significant events in history then please share them with the children, it will really help bring this unit to life.
Strand Maths
Central Idea – Consolidating what we know of geometric concepts allow us to make sense of and interact with our world.
The children have been inquiring into how they can change the size of a shape or drawing. They have concluded that it is necessary to use a scale. The amount that an original image has been enlarged or reduced is called a scale factor, or an enlargement/reduction factor.
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
Our current 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.
- 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
- Goodnight Mister Tom – Michelle Margoiran
- Break of Dark – Robert Westall
- Chinese Cinderella – Adeline Yen Mah
Some children are getting 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 in the coming weeks and deconstructing good examples. We will also be focusing 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.
- The children are starting to make decisions on their second I-TIme inquiry. They should be getting their thinking caps on and deciding what they would like to inquire into. Once they have chosen an area of passion, curiosity, interest or wondering, they need to do some background reading, research and note taking.
- Children should be continuing with their weekly spelling and reading commitments at home.
- Don’t forget to continue on with Mathletics and Reading Eggs
Thought of the Week….
Environmental Tip –
