18 Aug 2017

Year 4 Update – Wk 1

Tuesday 22nd August – Island School Information Evening: 6pm at Island School

Tuesday 29th August – New Parents Cheese and Wine Evening: 5pm – 6pm

Tuesday 29th August – Meet the Teacher Evening: 6:40pm in Hall

Friday 8th September – BHS CPD Day – School Closed

Friday 15th September – PTA Bowling Night

Friday 22nd September – Y4 Sharing Day: 9:00am (see below)

Tuesday 26th September – Parent Teacher Consultations

Thursday 28th September – Parent Teacher Consultations

Friday 29th September – BHS Colours Day

Friday 29th September – Half Term begins

Y4 Teacher Contact Information

4F – Mrs Fennelly – charlotte.fennelly@bhs.edu.hk

4L – Miss Fisher – laura.fisher@bhs.edu.hk

4W – Miss Wu – jane.wu@bhs.edu.hk

Year 4 Learning Support Teacher – Ms Mak – haymen.mak@bhs.edu.hk

Vice Principal – Mr Thompson – andy.thompson@bhs.edu.hk

Year 4 Sharing Day

This is an opportunity for the children to share their learning from our first unit of inquiry with you all. We kindly request that every child has at least one parent in attendance.

The event will take place on Friday 22nd of September and will begin at 9:00am in the school hall. More information to follow.

Welcome to Year 4!

The children have made a fantastic start to Year 4 and it has been a pleasure getting to know them.

We have enjoyed participating in a range of activities to get to know each other and explore our new learning environments!

They have also been introduced to Heather Cooper, the specialist drama teacher who will be working with us throughout this unit of inquiry.

Take a look at what we’ve been up to!

Who We Are: Our beliefs and values can influence our attitudes and behaviour

Lines of Inquiry
An inquiry into:

Our beliefs (FORM)
Where our values come from (CONNECTION)
Differing behaviours and attitudes (PERSPECTIVE)

Next week the children will be exploring their own values and beliefs and creating a Mood Board to represent themselves. In addition to this, the children will have the opportunity to learn more about the beliefs and values of the adults at Beacon Hill School.

Place Value

Central Idea

The base 10 place value system can be extended to represent size.

Lines of Inquiry

An inquiry into:

The patterns of 5 digit numbers and how they are represented

Representing number patterns using words, symbols, numbers and tables

Next week the children will be participating in games, problem solving activities and pre-assessment to revise and extend their knowledge of place value.

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Text Type: Poetry

Purpose: Writing to entertain

Next week the children will have the opportunity to read and enjoy a range of poetry and will begin to make choices about poetry that they particularly enjoy.

Comprehension Strategy

Visualising: Readers create pictures in their heads.

Self Monitoring: Readers know it is their job to make sense of texts.