19 Oct 2017

Year 2 Update Wk 9

Friday 20th October – School closed, Staff CPD & UOI 1 Reports available on the Beacon

Monday 23rd – School photos, class and individual photos. Whole school photo at 8:45. Please ensure your child is in school at that time. School uniform must be worn.

Tuesday 24th & Thursday 26th October – Parent Consultations for 2A Parents

Thursday 26th October – Growth Mindset Parent Workshop 6.30pm

Friday 27th October – school photos (make-up day for absentees and sibling photos)

Tuesday 31st October – Year 6 Bake Sale….bring in some money to buy treats to support our PTA

Tuesday 8th November – Mandarin Parent Consultations…make sure you book your appointment soon via The Gateway

Monday 13th November – Mandarin Parent Consultations…make sure you book your appointment soon via The Gateway

Wednesday 15th November – Mandarin Parent Consultations…make sure you book your appointment soon via The Gateway

Tuesday 21st November – Mandarin Parent Consultations…make sure you book your appointment soon via The Gateway

Wednesday 22nd – Professor Peter Sullivan parent workshop (6:30pm, please see BHS newsletter).

Friday 24th November – 2Ds class assembly

Thursday 14th December – Christmas Concert

Friday 15th December – last day of Term 1, 12pm finish

Please see the ‘Home Learning’ section below for important information about your child’s new spelling book.

Mother Tongue Story Telling

Last year a group of parents told stories to our students in their mother tongue during lunchtimes. As you can imagine this was very popular with our students and a great way to share the range of languages we speak within our community. If you are interested please click here to add your details. Any time you can give and to any year group is really appreciated. For those interested we can meet to discuss logistics in more details. If you have any questions please email me at andy.thompson@bhs.edu.hk.

School Photographs 23rd – 24th October 2017

Our school photographer will be in Beacon Hill on Monday 23rd and Tuesday 24th October. All children should come to school in their school uniform on these days. If your child has PE on Monday or Tuesday then please make sure that they bring their PE kit to school and they will be able to change at school.

Siblings Photographs

For those of you who have more than one child at Beacon Hill the siblings photographs will be taken on Friday 27th October. If you would like a sibling photograph then please click on the link below and fill in the online form to book a space.

https://goo.gl/forms/bdCfnkhWNvy46ank2

If you have any questions then please email Mr. Pheasant:

chad.pheasant@bhs.edu.hk

The children were very lucky to have a visiting speaker from Plastic Free Seas this morning. They found out how plastic gets into our oceans and the effect it has on sea life and ours. During the talk they also found out ways in which they can reduce the amount of plastic waste they produce.

Central idea: People’s choices can impact the environment

Lines of inquiry:

Types of waste
What happens to waste
Choices people make to sustain the environment

The children will start inquiring into how we can reduce the amount of waste we create. We will be looking into how our food waste decomposes by conducting a series of scientific investigations. The children will need to plan, carry out and then very carefully observe any changes.

CENTRAL IDEA: The operations of addition and subtraction are related to each other

LINES OF INQUIRY:

How we solve problems using addition and subtraction
Mental and written strategies for addition and subtraction
The language and symbols of addition and subtraction
Patterns in addition and subtraction

The children will be solving mathematical problems related to addition facts. They will continue to use counting on as a strategy to solve a calculation and will learn how to use the split strategy.

To use the split strategy, the children will be using their knowledge of place value to split numbers into hundreds, tens and ones and regrouping the numbers as necessary.

In their writing, your child will learn about the features of persuasive letter writing.

The children will be looking at using a range of connectives to extend their sentences such as because, so, if, but.

The children have done very well with using the ‘Five Finger’ rule to find a ‘just right’ book to read. The children have looked at the different types of thinking that they do whilst reading and are now making connections between what they are reading and their own experiences.

In phonics we are looking at the long o sound: o, oa, ow, o-e (bow, boat, show, hope).

Please continue to read with your child at home and ask them to retell the story.

Well done to:

2K – Jake Webster

2D – Olivia Bi

2A- Amira Mahtani & Ching Yee Ng

Info Lit Award – Lucas Wong & Martin Wong (2K)

Spelling

Your child has been given a new spelling book for their home learning. Inside is one spelling card and a list of activities in white and yellow boxes.

Your child will need to learn the 2nd list of words dated for this Thursday 19th October. They will be tested on these 8 words next Friday in school.

Your child will need to choose two activities to complete – one from a yellow box and one from a white box. They are not completing these activities in the spelling book. These activities are designed to help your child to learn their 8 words. It is up to you where your child completes these activities (they could buy a notebook or use scrap paper). When the activities are completed, please sign your child’s spelling card to let us know that they have been done.

Your child will also be doing some handwriting practise to help them learn the words. This is done in the spelling book.

Your child is only learning 8 spelling words this week, not all 32 words.

Reading

Please be reminded that in Year 2, your child will not bring home a reading book on Tuesday or Thursday they will need to read on Big Universe. Children login and select ‘My Library’ from the top of the page. At the right hand side in the ‘Filters’ section they can select the ‘Grade Level’ of books. If the children select kindergarten,grade 1 and 2 this is the most appropriate reading age for them (5-8 years).

Mandarin – All children are encouraged to take a reading book home on the days when they have Mandarin lessons.

Reading Eggs

We would like to inform you that we will no longer be subscribing to this online reading programme. The costs associated with this subscription are high and data shows that less than 25% of BHS students are accessing the website regularly. The money saved will be used to purchase additional books for the school.

Please remember that the children may still access Big Universe, which has a far more comprehensive selection of books available, to supplement their home reading and for research purposes.

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