12 May 2017

Year 6 Update WK 29

Thursday 18th May – Jump Jam Student Leadership Workshop
Tuesday 23rd May – PYPX Presentation to parents 6pm, please meet in the playground to begin at 5:30pm

Wednesday 24th May – PYPX Presentation to school and community
Thursday 25th May – Summer Concert
Friday 26th May – Auditions for the Year 6 Production
Monday 29th May – BHS CPD – School closed
Tuesday 30th May – Public Holiday – School closed
Thursday 1st June – PTA Quiz
Friday 2nd June – ESF Yr 6 Transition Day
Wednesday 28th June – Year 6 Production
Thursday 29th June – Year 6 Graduation
Friday 30th June – End of School Year – 12 Midday

Our Year 6 Graduation will be held on Thursday 29th June, more details will be sent to you in the next few weeks, but in the meantime please be thinking about what your child might wear for this very special event. It is an important event in the children’s school life and therefore we expect them to wear smart/semi-formal event clothing for the ceremony.

Boys – Suits, Shirt and tie, dress shoes

Girls – Party dresses or traditional clothing

A Message from The Fate of Food Waste

Fruity Friday is starting again! To help a Year 6 Exhibition group to create compost, we would like to ask you to bring a fruit to school on Friday! If you bring in apples, mangoes or grapes, you get 1 house point, and if you bring in a banana or an orange, you get 2 house points! At registration, the teacher will check what fruit you have brought in. Thank you!

Home Support

Please ensure that you are keeping up to date with the progress that your children are making in taking action for the PYPX 2017. We have some fantastic students that are really striving to make a difference and the more adult help they receive the better.

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.

This week has been a very busy PYPX Action Week! Exhibition groups have organised their own action and events including… lessons, sports competitions, information sessions, sign-ups, bake sales, guest speakers, food drives, recycled fashion parades and raising awareness activities hosted by Year 6 for the rest of the school body and teachers. The teachers have been very proud of their self-management skills and organisational skills and we look forward to sharing all this hard work with parents in a couple of weeks.

Golden Book Certificates

6H – Natalee Evans, Maisy Morgan, Samantha Thompson

6F – Nashita Khan, Cheryl Chan

6D – Jovan Choi

House Points Winner

Congratulations to Happiness

Transdisciplinary Theme :

Central Idea : Personal growth influences our interests and passions and can inspire action

Lines of Inquiry: The children have written their own. Below is an example from a student in 6H.

our passions and interests

how my interest in animals links to the Global Goal of Life Below Water.

how my action through providing recycling bins to every class and holding a bake sale to raise money links to Global Goal of Life Below Water

actions inspired by passion

Concepts : The children will cover various concepts throughout the process.

Learner Profile : The children will develop all areas of the learner profile throughout the process

Attitudes : All attitudes will be developed throughout the process.

Here are some photos of the children preparing for the exhibition.

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, angles and time.

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.

homelearning

Please continue 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!

Here’s some ideas of what your could continue on with homework….
 Reflecting on this week
 Preparing their presentations for the Exhibition Evening
 Working on their research questions…they should be up to writing their reports or explanations etc about their lines of inquiry. Record all sources used.
 Transferring their survey information on to graphs…and making conclusions
And also…
 Reading
 Mathletics
 Reading Eggspress

Thought of the Week….

Environmental Tip….

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