19 May 2017

Year 6 Update WK 30

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Tuesday 23rd May – Year 1 Bake Sale…please bring in your dollars to buy some treats to support our PTA!
Tuesday 23rd May – PYPX Presentation to parents 6pm, please meet in the playground to begin at 5:30pm.…children come straight to the classroom not earlier than 5:30 please.

Wednesday 24th May – PYPX Presentation to school and community….please wear your PYPX t-shirt into school today (no need for school uniform)
Thursday 25th May – Summer Concert
Friday 26th May – auditions for the Year 6 Production….do you know your audition songs?
Monday 29th May – BHS CPD – School closed
Tuesday 30th May – Public Holiday – School closed
Thursday 1st June – PTA Quiz
Thursday 1st June 6pm – Mother Daughter & Father Son evening (Please note if you have attended the session in Year 5, you will not need to attend again).
Friday 2nd June – ESF Yr 6 Transition Day…all ESF secondary children to go to secondary schools for the day, all non-ESF children do not come to school today
Tuesday 27th June – Year 6 Production… dress rehearsal for the school
Wednesday 28th June – Year 6 Production for Parents, 6 or 7pm TBC
Thursday 29th June – Year 6 Graduation…children and parents come in at 11:45am for graduation ceremony, then teachers to take the children to the Metropark for buffet lunch and disco, children to be collected from Metropark at 2pm
Friday 30th June – End of School Year – 12 noon

SUMMER VACATION!

Wednesday 16th August – first day back for the children for the 2017/18 school year

Year 6 Transition Day – on 2nd June all ESF secondary students will head over to their secondary schools for the day. All this information will come home to you via email and you will need to sign up your child for this via The Gateway. Our amazing PYPX group ‘Paper Patrol’ have finally convinced Mr Harrison and Mr Pheasant to have the school letters go home electronically instead of on a piece of paper. Those ‘Paper Patrollers’ have certainly bought about ‘change for the better’ in our community due to their PYPX action!!! But, we still need your help….please ensure you are reading your emails! And don’t forget to respond (via The Gateway) Also, can you please check that the school has you most up-to-date contact details so you are sure that these emails actually get to you.

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 (at the very least) or traditional clothing, dress shoes

Girls – party dresses or traditional clothing, party shoes

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.

PYPX – On Tuesday evening all the children need to come dressing in the clothes that they have decided upon by their exhibition group. Shorts/leggings/jeans/skirts…whatever the team has decided. Then they will head up to the classroom at 5:30 and change into their PYPX group t-shirt ready to go downstairs to warm up with Mr Gibson.

PYPX 2017 Live Feed – When you visit the exhibition on Tuesday you will be able to use our Live feed to post comments about the learning you see from each of the groups. These comments will be displayed in the school hall and shared with the children.

Simply visit http://gg.gg/bhspypx to add your comments on the night. Please add the group name, or number, so that the children know who your comments are addressed to. The feed will be open for some time after the exhibition if you want to add more comments later. We look forward to seeing you on Tuesday.

PYPX – It’s unbelievable but we all just can’t believe we have just finished the last week of the PYPX! Well, pretty much the end…the only things we have to do now are put up the display boards and actually hold the exhibitions. So, by now….what’s done is done. All the children have worked sooooooooooo hard this week to get everything ready and to rehearse. We commend them for all this!

Golden Book Certificates

6F – Tsz Yu Chan

6H – Alvin Chan, Hogan Wong

6D – Tiffany Teh, Fuyumi Tso and Janice Ngai

House Points Winner

Congratulations to CONFIDENCE House last week.

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.

This week in photos….

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.

REHEARSE! REHEARSE! REHEARSE!

The children need to rehearse the song words ready for their performance on Tuesday night and also on Wednesday to the community and school.

All of the children’s chosen independent and group English work should be finished by now and should either be printed and in the journals or filmed and edited and ready to play on the evening. If your children’s’ English component isn’t quite complete…this is what they ned to be working on over the weekend. They also need to get their PYPX journals up to date! This includes….every page needs a title and maybe a blurb too and their contents page needs to be completed. They also need to stick in their sources/bibliography etc so they could be making sure all of the sources they have used are on their doc and ready to print.

See above in the English box!

Thought of the Week….

So many adults have helped your children get where they are at this point in the PYPX…maybe you could discuss with them how they can show their appreciation for all they have done for them (and us!) Lots and lots of teachers, EAs and parents have given up their extra or free time to work tirelessly with us. We all thank them so much but as they probably won’t be reading this it would be great if the children to gather together and think about what they can do.

Environmental Tip….…stop buying fruit that’s been wrapped in plastic!

Year 6 Update WK 30

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