30 Oct 2015

Year 6 Update WK 10

Friday 30th October – UOI 1 Reports go live on The Gateway….please log on to The Gateway to review your child’s report from our first Unit of Inquiry.

Tuesday 3rd November – Year 6 Bake Sale … please bring cakes or cookies to sell and money to buy!

Friday 6th November – Diwali Assembly, please wear colourful clothing

Monday 9th November – Friday 13th November – Year 6 Outward Bound Camp

Monday 16th November – Mandarin Parent/Teacher Consultations……please sign up via the Gateway. This is the chance to discuss the progress of your child before they take their Mandarin Benchmarking tests for Secondary School in January!!!!

Monday 16th November – Year 6 Theatre Workshop ‘Blood Brothers’

Wednesday 18th November – Mandarin Parent/Teacher Consultations……please sign up via the Gateway. This is the chance to discuss the progress of your child before they take their Mandarin Benchmarking tests for Secondary School in January!!!!

Thursday 26th November – Year 6 Theatre Trip to see ‘Blood Brothers’

Tuesday 1st December – Year 5 Bake Sale…please bring some money to buy some treats to support our PTA

Monday 7th December – Island School Curriculum Day…for all the children who are going to Island School next year – more info to follow.

Tuesday 8th December – Year 1 & 6 Immunisation Day

Friday 11th December – PTA Christmas Disco

Wednesday 16th December – PTA Christmas Concert

Friday 18th December – last day of term, finish at 12pm

Camp Equipment

We all need to start getting ready for camp, here’s the list of items needed so can you please make sure you have the essentials ready for camp week. I have included a photo of my ‘wet shoes’ for reference. These came from H&M this time last year, but I believe you can get them from most markets. Why don’t you get your child to decorate them so they are easily recognizable from the other 89 pairs that will be lying around the dorms? It could be a good holiday project for you all!

Camp Packing List – your clothes for the 4 days which needs to include (but not limited to)…..hat, long sleeved top, pants/trousers (no jeans!!!) t-shirts, underwear, nightwear, shorts, light rainproof jacket, swimming costume, socks, trainers or suitable footwear (no new shoes), wet shoes – these will be worn for all water activities and will get wet (no Crocs, sandals or flip flops), warm long sleeved shirt, sunscreen, after-sun lotion, insect repellent, toothbrush, toothpaste, soap, shampoo, conditioner, any other toiletries that they need, towel (it’s good to have 2 towels – not too big), small pencil case with some small items of stationery, torch or headlamp, large and small plastic bags, goggles (optional). A full list in the camp information pack.

Please make sure that everything is named.

DO NOT BRING…. jeans, razors, knives, games and toys, food or snacks, expensive items or electronics – mobile phones, MP3 players (a camera not connected to a phone is fine) and you do not need a day bag as you did in Year 5. The children should not bring money – there is a souvenir shop that is only open on the Friday when parents arrive, there will not be opportunity to spend money throughout the week.

Collection from Camp – All children must be collected from Outward Bound Camp on the Friday by an adult. You can either provide your own transport or come/return on the buses provided by BHS – please fill in the relevant forms from the camp information pack and return them to school as soon as possible so the office can book the buses.

If you would like to book a place on the buses provided from Beacon Hill to collect your child please make sure you register on the following link if you have not already done so.

http://goo.gl/forms/AuIyj3QlVX

Medication for Camp – please complete the relevant ESF and Outward Bound forms regarding medication. All medication will be given to your child’s camp leader on arrival to be distributed throughout the week. Medication will not be given out if the correct permission and instruction forms are not completed before leaving for camp. Please do not send the medication in to the school nurse.

3-Way Conferences – Last week we held our 3-Way Conferences here at school on Tuesday and Thursday evenings and some forms were sent home to be completed collaboratively between you and your child. These need to be brought back to school as soon as possible. We will be storing them here as we will need to reflect on the targets and goals when we prepare for our Student Led Conferences later in the year.

Parent Evening with Marie Marchand – coming up here at BHS we are very lucky to have Marie Marchand coming to host a parent workshop for any interested parents. The topic this year is… ‘Bringing a family routine that works to your home’ and it will be focusing on developing routines in the morning, at meal time, for household chores, for homework and for bedtime that work for the whole family. This might be a good workshop for our Year 6 parents to help assist in the transition from primary to secondary school. There is more information in our school newsletter today but if you have any more queries please contact our school office. It will be held on Tuesday November 17th from 6.30 – 8.00pm in the BHS school hall.

Stationery – Most children are equipped with the stationery they need, however some are missing some essentials. Please make sure that your child has all of the stationery that they need and that items such as glue sticks get replenished.

Deodorant – although the weather is slowly cooling down please we still offer a gentle reminder about each child wearing and re-applying deodorant at school. The classrooms get very smelly after the children being out in the playground during breaks and PE times.

Welcome Back!

It’s great to see everyone’s smiling faces again. The students have come back with lots of energy and enthusiasm for learning and we can’t wait to get going with the remainder of the first term.

In Monday’s assembly, the students were reminded of Box of Hope and were invited to begin choosing and packing items to give to those in need this Christmas. We really hope to see our Year 6s take action and get involved in helping children less fortunate than themselves. Why not visit www.boxofhope.org to find out more about this worthy cause? On the website you can also find suggested items to pack, as well as forms to attach to each box. The deadline for bringing in boxes is Wednesday 4th November, so let’s get packing!

Our sporty Y6 children have been very active representing BHS at various sporting events this week. On Tuesday the netball team had fun during their friendly matches against Kellet and Kowloon Junior School. On Wednesday the girls football team took park in a tournament at Hong Lok Yuen International School while the boys’ teams played on Friday, as part of the tournament hosted by Discovery Bay International School, held at King’s Park. Congratulations to all who took part and tried their best. We hope you are proud of your efforts, boys and girls!

Looking ahead to next week, we have the Year 6 Bake Sale on Tuesday. We would be grateful if each student could contribute 8-10 individual cakes or cookies for the event. Baking at home can be lots of fun as well as a great way to bring learning to life as children get hands on experience of measuring, ratios, instructional texts (your cookbook!) and even science – the chemistry of baking!

Congratulations to the students who received Golden Book Certificates and SLT Awards this week.

Fidel Lau, 6F – SLT Award

Aidan Chan, 6L – SLT Award

Sze Ching Fong, 6F – Music Golden Book Certificate

Daniel Yang, 6F – P.E. Golden Book Certificate

Anakin Teahen, 6L – P.E. Golden Book Certificate

Ellie Chung, 6F – Golden Book Certificate

Kunal Panjabi, 6H – Golden Book Certificate

Yannis Lee, 6L – Golden Book Certificate

Anakin Teahen, 6L – Golden Book Certificate

Year 6 Unit of Inquiry 2

Transdisciplinary Theme : Where we are in place in 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
the way present day societies have been influenced by civilisations from the past
connections between past discoveries and modern day advances

Concepts : form, function, connection

Learner Profile : knowledgeable, thinker

Attitudes : enthusiasm, appreciation

Number Maths – Operations

Central Idea : The operations of addition, subtraction, multiplication and division are related to each other and can be modelled in different ways.

Across the year group students have been looking at the operations of multiplication and division, with some exploring ways to use these operations when working with fractions and others practising these operations with whole numbers and decimals.

Strand Maths – Data Handling

Central Idea : Data can be presented effectively for valid interpretation and communication.

This week we continued on with our Data Handling. All classes have been working on an assortment of data tasks and investigations and will continue to do so for the next few weeks.

Our learning around historical fiction has allowed us to explore the history of Hong Kong from a different angle as we have generated ideas and language that can be used to describe different settings and characters from Hong Kong’s past. We are looking forward to seeing what story ideas the children come up with in the coming weeks!

As always, buddy spelling tests are held every Friday so Spelling Journals are an absolute necessity for Fridays. Spelling Journals need to be back in to school everyday to enable students to work on the spelling investigations in the back of the journal throughout the week and also to add personal spelling words to as they arise during the weekdays.

Spelling : Spelling Journal homework – 3 practice spelling tests to be conducted under the supervision of an adult at home, daily spelling practice and any additional journal tasks set by the class teacher.

Reading : Weekly reflections to be completed at least once a week. Children need to ensure they are reading at home each night for at least 20 mins and to write one weekly reflection about their reading in their diaries. Parents are not required to write a comment or to sign the book. However, continued interest and involvement in your child’s reading would be appreciated and will assist in their development.

Number Maths :

Mr Hoskins – Fraction Partitions worksheet and Mathletics, please make sure you are up to date with this so I can set you new tasks. Thanks.
Miss Fearn – ‘Square Secrets’ recalling squares of multiples to 10 corresponding to the squares of numbers to 12, and problem solving activity….’Take the Challenge’ open ended problem solving
Miss Fisher – Compensation Strategy worksheet
Mrs Davis – Subtracting decimals worksheet

UOI : As the children have been using Google so well to show their learning, we have another Google.doc for them to work on. This week, students must consider which civilisations they think are the most important. They will need to justify their choices by doing a little background reading about each one and summarising their thoughts, as well as listing the sources of information they have used, in the table on the class Google.doc. The class teacher will share the doc with the students. This piece of work is due back to school on ….Friday 6th November, 2015.

Thought of the Week : “Live as if you were to die tomorrow. Learn as if you were to live forever.” – Mahatma Gandhi

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