Year 5 Update Wk 22
Tuesday 6th March – Year 5 Pizza Lunch
Tuesday 6th March – Year 5 Big Business presentations to our business leaders….children need to come to school in their business attire on the day of their presentations
Wednesday 7th March – Year 5 Big Business presentations to our business leaders….children need to come to school in their business attire on the day of their presentations.
Tuesday 13th March – Years 1 & 2 Sports Day
Friday 16th March – Year 5 Sharing Day and Year 5 Big Business Market to the school
Thursday 22nd March – Years 3-6 Sports Day
Friday 23rd March – PTA International Food Fair – please make srue your return your sold raffle ticket money and your unsold tickets back to the PTA office
Wednesday 28th March – Spring Concert
Thursday 29th March – last day of school before Easter holidays, 12pm finish
Friday 30th March – Good Friday, no school
Monday 16th April – first day back for Term 3
Big Business
All children now have the $200 dollars in for Big Business so thank you for that. We are encouraging children to take control of sourcing and buying the products they need throughout this unit. We would appreciate any support you can offer to the children with this, but we would like to ask that if you do buy things that you keep the receipts to allow the children to reimburse you from the budget they are working from. This will help them to gain a good understanding about managing a budget, costings and profit. If children are making food items it may be helpful to freeze some part made items in advance.
Winter Clothing 
We are struggling here at school with the children wearing too many layers to school. Layering your child with too many clothing layers can actually make them colder. That’s because excess layers can cause your child to sweat, which makes their clothes wet, which allows the cold and wind to bring their temperature down. A lot of children spend the first 20 minutes of each day de-layering all the clothing that you are sending them to school in. It has been a little chilly of late but please, Hong Kong winters are not really too bad but some of the children are coming in dressed for the artic. Would you mind please passing this message on to your helpers as well so they can help the children dress appropriately for the weather?
Parent Volunteers
Book Drive
Hi, my name is Muchan, a Student Councillor for 5C. I am organising a Book Drive to help spread my love of reading. The Sony Corporation will collect books to create mobile libraries in South Africa for schools that do not have enough books. If you have books that are:
- Written in English
- Suitable for 6-12 year olds
- Have no yellow or brown pages (due to aging)
- Have no missing pages
- Have no scribbles inside
- Not Textbooks
- Not magazines
- Not encyclopedias
Please send them to school. There will be a collection box in the school foyer. Any books you can donate will be spread our love of reading.
Student Council Fruity Friday
- To have fun
- You perform in groups or solo
- Your dance should be around 1 minute
- heats for the competition will take place at various lunchtimes after Easter
- there will be a lower school and upper competition
You can support your child by helping them create and rehearse their dance.
World Maths Day is a free, fun, online competition with up to 4 million students world-wide participating. The competition measures speed in arithmetic and numeracy skills on our Live Mathletics platform and runs for 48 hours and is open to all schools around the world. Students compete online with other students and top scores are displayed on a live ‘Hall of Fame’.
Will BHS be the World Maths Day champion in 2018?
On Wednesday 7th March children will have the opportunity to take part in their Maths Lessons. They will also be able to earn points until Thursday 8th March. Encourage your child to have fun with Maths and take part at home.
As we were without the children for 5 days before the holidays, we have had lots of work to catch up on with our Big Business unit!
We’ve rehearsed our adverts…
and we’ve continued to make products.
It all looks very exciting for the big day!
Central Idea : There are many factors at work within a marketplace.
- functioning effectively as a team
- components in a marketplace
- research and marketing
Well done to all our Golden Book winners this week in Year 5…
5C – Austin Choi
5D – Alicia Wong
5F – Nova Yuen
Music – Garnet Lau
P.E. – Charmaine Mak
- 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 – this week the children need to try and complete tasks started at school for their home learning. Each group gets together daily and has many tasks that need to be completed within deadlines set by the class teachers. They need to try a and make a concerted effort to find out from their team what needs doing and get on and try and do it! These could be a vast array of jobs, for example…..finishing logos, finishing designs, making prototypes, completing storyboards or scripts, shopping for materials (pls keep the receipt) and/or finishing parts of their Business Plan.
- UOI – please check out the website of the school in Sudan that we are raising money for and discuss your parents the needs of the school that we learned about when Mrs. Quinn came to visit. The website address is..www.immanuelkindergarten.org
