19 Jan 2018

Year 5 Update Wk 18

Monday 22nd January – for this UOI we have some timetable changes beginning this week. Can you please check in with your child to see what lessons have been swapped around?

Wednesday 24th January – Road Race trials will be held today so if your child has signed up can they please wear PE kit to school today and be ready to run?!

Wednesday 31st January – Marie Marchand Parent Workshop (6-8pm)

Tuesday 6th February – PTA Bake Sale…please send in a small amount of cash to buy some treats to support our PTA.

Wednesday 7th February – Year 5&6 Minecraft Competition….more details from Mr. Lowe.

Monday 12th February – China Day activities and CNY Assembly for the school. Can the children please wear CNY clothing to school on this day?

Tuesday 13th February – Chinese New Year Performance (6-7.30 pm)

Thursday 15th February – last day of school before CNY break.

Monday 26th February – first day back to school after CNY break

Friday 7th March – Student Led Conferences…..children will only come to school with you at their appointed time. Please sign up via The Gateway soon, more details to come out in the next few weeks.

Tuesday 13th March – Years 1&2 Sports Day

Friday 16th March – Year 5 Sharing Day and Year 5 Big Business Market to the school.

Thanks so much to all the folks who sent in cakes and treats for our Bake Sale this week. We really appreciate it!

Portfolios – please can the children remember to bring back their student portfolios that were sent home recently. They will need to add to them throughout the remainder of the year.

Student Led Conferences – our SLCs are coming up on Friday 7th March, 2018. Just a reminder that the children do not attend school on this day during the normal school hours but rather they come in with you at the appointed time for a 40-50 minute session where they will share their learning at various stations set up in the classroom. You will need to sign up for a session on The Gateway in the next few weeks so there will be more info to follow.

Marie Marchand Workshop

We are delighted to welcome back Marie Marchand to present at Beacon Hill School on January 31st from 6-8pm. This year’s focus will be positive behaviour management strategies for parents – Discipline without Shouting. Please see the details and sign up via the gateway https://tg.esf.edu.hk The cost will be $50 per person.

Marie is an excellent speaker- both entertaining and informative and we thoroughly recommend any parents from year 1-6 to come and enjoy her presentation.

Student Council Fruity Friday

The last term we surveyed our students to find out how we can make BHS even better. A lot of students wanted Fruity Friday back. This is an opportunity for you to help your child have delicious and healthy snacks at least once a week. Can you please support and encourage your child to bring in a fruity snack each Friday. We do not want processed snacks with fruit in them as they contain preservatives and man-made sugar. Thank you in advance for your support. Fruity Friday starts on Friday 19th January, 2018.

BHS 50th Anniversary Art Auction

Our very first Art Auction will take place on the day of our Student Led Conferences! You will be able to bid on some amazing art pieces produced by each class and these will be on display in the hall for the day. More info to follow soon, so watch this space! (Or the newsletter).

Keeping Our Playground Clean – A message from Mrs Farago and the Green Team

This week lots of children bought cakes from the bake sale. Each cake is handed to the children in a tissue. Unfortunately, tissue cannot be recycled in Hong Kong and so will now have to go to the landfills. Also, many children left bits of cake and tissue on the floor as they did not have a container to eat from. It would be great if on bake sale days the children could please bring a reusable container to school to put the cake in while they eat it to stop the rubbish problem. The next bake sale is at the beginning of February. Thank you very much!

This week we had fun tuning in to all our new units….Big Business, Questioning (reading strategy), Playscripts (writing genre), Fractions, Decimals and Percentages, and Data Handling.

Number Maths – intro to fractions…

UOI : Thinking about my personal skills…

UOI – Unscrambling the Central Idea….

UOI – What makes a successful team function effectively?

UOI – Mini-market Provocation – what fun we had marketing, packaging, selling and buying our chocolate coins on Wednesday! Ask your child how their team went and what lessons they learned from this short mini-market experience.

UOI

Central Idea : There are many factors at work within a marketplace.

An inquiry into…

functioning effectively as a team
components in a marketplace
research and marketing

Concepts : function, causation, reflection

Related Concepts : business systems, costings

Learner Profile : courageous, communicator

Attitudes : cooperation, confidence

Number Maths

Central Idea – Fractions, decimals and percentages are ways of representing whole-part relationships.

An inquiry into…

the relationship between decimal fractions and common fractions
the relationships between fractions decimals and percentages
problems involving ratios and proportion

Strand Maths

Central Idea – Data can be presented effectively for valid communication

An inquiry into….

how data can be collected
using different scales on graphs and charts
how data can be interpreted.

Writing – Playscripts

Reading Comprehension Strategy – Questioning

This week we were learning that good readers ask questions before, during and after reading to better understand the author and the meaning of the text. We had our books stacks out and were drafting questions that we would ask of the author, ourselves and of the text to help our comprehension.

Well done to all our Golden Book winners this week in Year 5…

5F – Margherita Guerrato, Leticia Baines

5C – Ryan Schroeder

5D – Maxi Fung

Mandarin – Sophie Leung from 5C

Music – Nora Yuen from 5F

Info Lit/Learning Centre – Clarice Yang from 5D

homelearning

Read the Weekly Update
Mathletics – continue with the set tasks
Reading – keep up with their reading every night. Don’t forget to get Reading Journals signed every night and children should be reading every night.
Spelling – each Monday the children are sent home their 10 personal words that they need to learn for the week. Please, can a parent (or responsible adult) support the children by...testing them (written or oral), getting them to put their words into interesting sentences (written or oral), discussing the meanings of the words, thinking about synonyms and antonyms of that word, discussing words with a similar meaning etc.
UOI – keep adding to your own Pintrest page where you’ve found some good ideas that your group could make for their Big Business stall, we will be discussing these next week.