17 Feb 2017

Year 6 Update WK 21

Friday 3rd March – Student Led Conferences….normal timetable suspended and children to come to school with you at your allocated time
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…pls start to get your costume ready for our book character dress up day.
Thursday 16th March – Year 5 Big Business Market Day.….please bring some cash in to spend up big at the Y5 market day
Friday 24th March – International Food Fair...don’t forget to keep selling those raffle tickets!
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

Student Led Conferences – our Student Led Conferences are coming up in a couple of weeks, on Friday 3rd March…please don’t forget to sign up for these appointments via The Gateway. Please remember that the children come with you to these appointments and they will discuss their learning with you visiting 4 stations around the room…it’s a great opportunity to hear what they have been doing in class and to listen to some targets from the class teacher to help each child be successful in our upcoming PYPX. If you are unable to make it to an appointment on the 3rd March can you please just let your class teacher know.

Please make sure you and your child complete and return the ‘Pre Exhibition Reflection’, which was sent home on Tuesday. This will help you to understand your child’s thoughts on the Exhibition, identify areas in which you can support them and allow us to see how we can help each child with this part of their learning journey.

Year 6 Arts Taster Sessions – this year the Year 6s will take part in Arts Taster Sessions 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.

Join in the International Food Fair poster competition…

International Food Fair Poster Competition!

Create a poster using the computer, crayons or felt tips, advertising our International Food Fair. There will be a prize for the winning poster and it will be printed and displayed in ESF schools and other venues! Please write your name and class on the back of the poster and hand it to your teacher by Thursday 2nd March 2017. Please pass on the posters to Miss Mak.

Your Poster MUST include the following information:

Beacon Hill School PTA International Food Fair

Address: 23, Ede Road, Kowloon Tong

Friday 24th March 2017

5:00-8.30pm

Free Entry

Live Entertainment

Talent Show

Children’s games with prizes.

Bouncy Castle

The Grand Raffle Draw

Interesting products from local businesses

Enjoy food from around the world!

PYPX Launch 2 – On Monday we had the second part of our PYPX Launch. This time we came armed with 5 things that made our heart sing about our chosen Global Goal. We had a ‘give one, take one’ starter and then gathered together to watch Mr Thompson’s inspiring videos and pep-talk! The children then got into their groups (based under a general theme) with their lead teacher and had a chat about why this issue was important to them and what facts, issues and reasons jumped out at them and inspired them to choose this topic for their PYPX.

Taking Action – these three wonderful Year 6 children were ‘caught taking action’ down in the playground at lunch time. What a fantastic job…Michelle, Stacey and Justin. Keep up the fabulous work.

More Action – if any of the children are interested in getting started on taking some action for the PYPX outside of school here’s a family walk they could do to support the ISF Foundation…

Golden Book Certificates

Congratulations to our winners for the Golden Book this week…

6F – Omar Prete

6H – Hogan Wong

6D – Dean Schneider

Well done, boys!

House Points Winner – ‘Inclusivity!’

Last week’s winners were Inclusivity so well done to that team…and our Inclusivity house captains of Ria and Ronny got to accept the award again on Golden Book assembly on Monday.

Also, a big thank you to Darryl and Keisha for helping Mr Pheasant hand out the Golden Book certificate on Monday’s assembly.

Gecko Maths – on Wednesday we held our BHS Gecko Maths Competition, ask your child how their team went…some of the questions were pretty tricky! Take a look at some the photos of our teams in action….

Sports Day – what fun we had…but what a scorcher! Check out a few of the photos.

Transdisciplinary Theme : Where We Are in Place and Time

Central Idea : Past civilisations can be used to make connections to present day societies.

Lines of Inquiry – We will inquire into…

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

This week the children have continued to work on their Civilisation website. This is an exciting inquiry into the past and it really allows the children to be able to research an area of interest to them that has had an impact on us today.

Strand Maths

Central Idea – Data Handling

Range, mode, median and mean can be used to analyse statistical data.

Year six have been looking into the mathematical skills needed to determine range, mode, median and mean.

They have been discussing why it is important to find these points of reference in data they have collected.

Number Maths

Central Idea – Operations

We use the same rules for the computation of decimal fractions as for whole numbers.

Year 6 have been looking at efficient mental and written strategies for multiplication and division. Through practical lessons the children have combined their knowledge of measurement, timing and computation to inquire into speed, distance and reaction time.

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.

We have been refining our writing over the last few weeks. We have learned about the importance of making improvements to our original drafts of writing and trying to do just that! Next week we begin our new English unit…Poetry and will start off with performance poetry – that should be interesting!

Can all children finish up reading their Historical Fiction books over the weekend and return them to the boxes in the crush.

homelearning

Here’s some good Home Learning ideas for you to have a go of over the next week or so….

Please watch/rewatch any of the videos that we have shared in class – check to see if they are relevant to you and your Global Goal.
Maybe think about creating a Blendspace about your Global Goal
You could check out Lucid Chart to try and create a mind-map or chart or table or fishbone diagram or any other fantastic pieces that is available to you on there
Be ready to share something that you have found out about your Global Goal with your lead teacher on Monday 27th February
You could make sure you try to scan the newspapers every day and bring in any articles you find about your Global Goal (or any of the GGs…to help others!)
Please work on the spelling activities that your class teacher has outlined with you.
Don’t forget to continue on with Mathletics and Reading Eggs.

Thought of the Week….