Year 6 Update WK 30
Monday 18th April – Week 4 Year 6 Exhibition UOI
Tuesday 19th April – Year 6 Pizza Lunch
Monday 25th April – ACTION WEEK starts!
Tuesday 17th May – EXHIBITION FOR PARENTS! From 6:30p.m.
Wednesday 18th May – EXHIBITION FOR SCHOOLS! From 9:30a.m.
| Before school | After school | |
| Monday | 2.45-3.30pm | |
| Tuesday | 8.15- 9.00am | |
| Wednesday | 2.45-3.30pm | |
| Friday | 8.30-9.15am |
To register for a family borrowing card please complete the form found on the school website’s communications page. For any questions please contact Emily Jeves jevese2@beaconhill.edu.hk
Year 6 Unit of Inquiry 5
Transdisciplinary Theme : How We Organise Ourselves
Central Idea : Individual and group action makes a difference to how societies uphold human rights.
Lines of Inquiry – We will inquire into…
- action that can be taken to uphold people’s rights
- 2nd LoI written with the help of our special advisers and it will pertain to the issue chosen by the group
- 3rd LoI written with the help of our special advisers and it will pertain to the issue chosen by the group
Concepts : the children will review all concepts
Learner Profile : the children will try and focus on all LPs
Attitudes : the children will try and focus on all the attitudes
The last two weeks of school, before the holidays and this week, the students have been Tuning In and Finding Out about their issue. Before the holidays the students worked closely with each other, their teachers and other advisers, to create and refine Lines of Inquiry. These determine the areas that the groups will be inquiring into. This week, a great deal of their time has been spent formulating questions which the students can use to research more specific matters within their overarching issue.
Ms Jeves’ Info Lit Workshops – Ms Jeves has been supporting the students and teachers in their application of information literacy skills, using the M.I.S.O. framework. More than just a delicious Japanese soup, M.I.S.O. has been invaluable in helping the students define their knowledge, what they want to know and how to go about finding out. This is because it is a framework for sorting their questions into groups relating to the source of information; for example M relates to the Media, I to interviews, S to surveys and O to the students who observations and experiences. From this, the groups have been able to begin their Finding Out, focusing on media research, but also thinking ahead to questions they could ask an expert in an interview or questions they can use in a survey.
Number Maths – Ratio and Exponential Numbers
Central Idea :
Ratios are a comparison of two numbers or quantities
Repeated products of the same number can be expressed as exponential notation.
Strand Maths –Data Handling
Central Idea : Data can be presented effectively for valid interpretation and communication.
Some classes in Year 6 have began to plan and create autobiographies. These autobiographies will be worked on throughout the coming exhibition and during the production. As the exhibition is so cross curricular, English is continually being worked on throughout the research, reflections and presentations that the children are constantly working on.
Please continue to keep your spelling journals in school unless your class teacher tells you otherwise.
UOI : continue work for your Exhibition. Each class teacher will give more specific instructions about what you might need to do eg. continuing your research at home, formulating interview questions, planning survey questions (but please don’t email any surveys out!), thinking of ideas for action week (which is just a week away!) and thinking about your agenda for your next the mentor meeting on Monday morning (during Golden Book Assembly).
DON’T FORGET!!! Can all the children continue to learn the words to Brave and Hall of Fame? If any children are playing instruments please keep up the rehearsing at home.
Spelling : Spelling Journal homework – 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 :
- All Number Maths Groups : Mathletics
Thought of the Week : If parents want to give their children a gift, the best thing they can do is to teach their children to loves challenges, be intrigued by mistakes, enjoy effort, and keep on learning. That way .. they will have a lifelong way to build and repair their own confidence. (Carol Dweck)
