2 Sep 2019

Year 5 Update Week 4

Monday 9th September – CPD Day – School Closed

Friday 13th September – Diversity House Day

Friday 13th September – Mid-Autumn Festival

Wednesday 18th September – Year 5 Camp Information Evening (6pm – Hall)

Monday 23rd and Thursday 26th September – Year 5 ISA Assessments

Thursday 26th September – Parent Teacher Consultations

Friday 27th September – 5W Class Assembly

Monday 30th September – School closed (CPD)

Tuesday 1st October – National Day (School closed)

Wednesday 2nd October – Parent Teacher Consultations

Friday 4th October – Half Term Break – School finishes at 3pm

Questions you can ask your child instead of ‘How was your day?”

Often when we ask children ”How was your day?”,we are given the answer ”good” or ”fine”. More than just finding out how their day was, we want to help children become problems solvers and independent learners. Good conversations help them see that we care about their lives, we are there to support them, and to help them develop strategies for solving problems themselves.

Here are some questions you could ask your child after school.

What made you smile today?
Can you tell me an example of kindness you saw/showed?
What did you do that was creative?
What is the most popular game at break time?
What was the best thing that happened today?
Did you help anyone today?
Did you tell anyone “thank you?”
Who did you sit with at lunch?
What made you laugh?
Did you learn something you didn’t understand?
Who inspired you today?
What is something you heard that surprised you?
What is something you saw that made you think?
Who did you play with today?
Tell me something you know today that you didn’t know yesterday.
What is something that challenged you?
Did you like your lunch?
Rate your day on a scale from 1-10.
How were you brave today?
What questions did you ask at school today?
Tell us your top two things from the day (before you can be excused from the dinner table!).
What are you looking forward to tomorrow?
What are you reading?
What was the hardest rule to follow today?
Teach me something I don’t know.
If you could change one thing about your day, what would it be?

What made you feel happy?

What made you feel proud?

Did you learn any new words today?

If I called your teacher tonight, what would he/she tell me about you?

We would love to have more parent volunteers for the PTA. If you are interested please email : haymen.mak@bhs.edu.hk.

DIVERSITY House Day – 13th September

All children in Diversity House can come to school in their own casual clothes wearing something GREEN. No donation money is needed.

From Louis and Enoch (Diversity House Captains)

Uniforms – Just a few reminders…purple socks on uniform days, white socks on PE days, please try and have the children wear summer uniforms rather than winter (it’s still incredibly hot!) and obviously wear PE kit on their designated days and can you please make sure they have their own school hat for playtimes and PE activities.

Stationery – Can you please check in with them to see what bits and pieces they still need to purchase? Many children don’t have a whiteboard eraser, this is very important. A piece of felt, an unused kitchen sponge or even an old (clean) sock will suffice.

Healthy snack and water – Please make sure that your child has a healthy snack for break time and a water bottle.

Hygiene – Due to the high-temperatures many children arrive back after break and lunch play sweating, this can make lessons very messy and the children uncomfortable. Bringing in a small towel will help them to wipe away the sweat and therefore allow learning to continue without much fuss.

Well-Being Day

This was an opportunity for students to take part in a variety of experiences linked to the ‘5 ways to well-being’

Central Idea

Self-exploration leads to a greater capability to enhance well-being

Lines of Inquiry

The importance of self exploration and a range of appropriate strategies to achieve this (form)
Strategies for making informed choices (responsibility)
Through deeper reflection, the causes and consequences that can affect their well-being (change)

Students have been inquiring into their own character strengths

Bedtime reflection cubes – a great way to talk about your child’s day!

Number Maths – Place Value

Central Idea –

An inquiry into…

patterns and relationships of tenths and hundredths
the patterns of 6+ digit numbers and how they are represented

Strand Maths – Shape and Space

Central Idea –

An inquiry into…

creating, describing and visualising 2D and 3D shapes
transforming shapes
locating points on a grid

In Maths we will continue to explore the place value system and how it extends in two directions. This will involve decimals and rounding in the form of number problems, games and investigation. In strand math next week we will expand our language and vocabulary when describing the properties of 2D shapes.

Writing Focus – our writing focus for this unit of inquiry will be a genre of the children’s own choice. Here at school, we will be working on adding more description to our sentences and the children will be given a chance to utilise these skills in their own writing. They may choose to write a traditional tale, an adventure story, some science fiction just to name a few.

Reading Focus – Self-Monitoring and Visualising

For the duration of this UOI, our Reading comprehension strategies will be Visualising and Self-Monitoring. We will introduce these strategies to the children in the upcoming weeks and the demonstrate way they can use them to help them better understand what they are reading. It would be fantastic if you could chat with your child about these and encourage them to use these whilst reading at home.

The classes will be applying their knowledge and learning of visualisation to their own readers in school. They might be using their book stacks or example texts to explore the language used by the author that helps create a mental image. We are encouraging the children to use their senses when visualising.

Well done to our Golden Book achievers this week:

5H- Ally Lee

5W- Mark Yuen, Karsten Tsang

5Y- Tsz Kiu Chan

House Winners

homelearning

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Mathletics – continue with the set tasks
Prodigy – Maths (5H)
Reflection cubes (5W)
Spelling – each week 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.
Reading – levelled home readers will be starting to come home soon. The children will be choosing levelled readers based on their own ability and are expected to read each night for at least 20mins at home with a parent. The children need to record their reading in their Reading Journals and parents can you please sign your child’s journal each night. Journals need to be returned to school each morning to be checked and will come home each evening (except Friday). Children may use Big Universe twice a week (only) as their choice of home reading.
Mandarin Home Learning– All children are encouraged to take a reading book home on the days when they have Mandarin lessons.

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