21 Apr 2017

Year 6 Update WK 27

NEXT WEEK IS GREEN WEEK….WATCH OUT FOR EXCITING ACTIVITIES THAT ARE ADVERTISED AROUND THE SCHOOL!!!

Tuesday 25th April – Year 4 Bake Sale….please bring in some cash to support our PTA
Wednesday 26th April – Year 6 Theatre Trip….Melodia – please bring back permission slips as soon as possible
Wednesday 26th April – Sha Tin College Taster Day…for STC students only
Friday 28th April – Trash’n Fash’n Dress Up Day…..dress in your favorite outfit make from recyclable materials to win some great prizes!!!! Don’t forget to bring $10 or more for charity.
Friday 28th April – GREEN WEEK dress green day
Friday 28th April – ESF Celebration of Dance
Saturday 29th April to Wednesday 3rd May – long weekend, have fun!

Thursday 4th May – Year 6 InCAS testing
Thursday 4th May – Battle of the Books final
Friday 5th May – Year 6 InCAS testing
Monday 8th May – Year 6 make-up InCAS testing
Friday 12th May – Kellet School Aquathon…invited students only
Thursday 18th May – Jump Jam Student Leadership Workshop...more info to follow
Tuesday 23rd May – PYPX Presentation to parents 6pm, please meet in the playground to begin at 6pm

Wednesday 24th May – PYPX Presentation to school and community
Thursday 25th May – Summer Concert
Friday 26th May – Auditions for the Year 6 Production

Immunisations – today we had our immunisations all the kids were really brave and it went off pretty much without a hitch. All your immunisation records will come back to your next week so please look out for those in the children’s book bags.

Deodorant – please can you purchase some deodorant for the children to pop in their school bags? Lots of boys and girls are coming back from break and lunch and are very smelly. It’s good hygiene practice for secondary school to keep applying deodorant throughout the day.

PYPX Workshops – We started our series of PYPX Workshops this week. Each Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday mornings and Monday and Tuesday afternoons we will be splitting up to work with our PYPX group and our Workshop teacher. This is where we can really focus ourselves and our groups and really work toward getting ready for the Exhibition.

PYPX Arts Afternoons – On the first day back after the Easter break we got into PYP Exhibition mode and begun our series of three PYPX Arts Afternoons. All the children picked what kind of ‘arts’ lesson that they would like to participate in and went along to our resident ‘experts’ to learn more…..they now can hopefully use these skills and knowledge to present their PYPX work in and interesting way. Can’t wait to see the finished product in a few weeks time!

Some of the lessons included animation, visual arts, photography and many more. Here are some snaps from this week….

House Points Winner –

Congratulations to Diversity for winning the most house points!

Transdisciplinary Theme : How the world works.

Central Idea : Scientific investigations can help people make sense of the world

Lines of Inquiry

what the scientific inquiry is
how the scientific process is used
the application of the scientific process

Concepts : form, function

Learner Profile : inquirer and reflective

Attitudes : curiosity and independence

This week we finished up our scientific investigations UOI by conducting our own gummi bears experiment. It was an interesting summative task that certainly taught the children so much about the importance of planning, organising and collaborating. It will be an interesting to read their reflections on how they think their group went?

For the remainder of the year, all maths lessons will be held in the children’s usual class homerooms. Most of the maths that will be taking place will all be related to our PYP Exhibition eg. devising questionnaires, surveying out in the field, collating results, formulating tables and graphs, making generalisations etc. Some stand-alone units will be taking place outside of Exhibition time and these topics include finishing off our fractions and decimals unit, probability, location and angles.

All of our English from now on is based on the children’s own personal choices. They might be writing a play script to go with their animation, they might be drafting a TED style talk, they might be designing a persuasive poster to be put up around the school to promote their issue or cause. Please check in with your child to see what creative English work they are pursuing.

We spent some time in class this week finalising what we all will be doing for this….

homelearning Please, continue on with all of your Exhibition work over the next few weeks. Don’t forget to do a little bit each night, communicate with your team, check your emails and Communication Logs regularly and don’t send out any important emails without checking with your class teacher or workshop teacher first. Remember….be a good digital citizen!