3 Nov 2017

Year 6 Update WK 11

upcomingdates

Monday 6th November – Friday 10th November – Year 6 Outward Bound Camp

Monday 6th, 8th, 13th, 15th and 21st November – Mandarin Consultations

Thursday 16th November – DC girls football tournament

Monday 20th November – ICHK boys football tournament

Tuesday 22nd November – Peter Sullivan for parents at 6:30pm

Wednesday 23rd November – Kowloon netball tournament

Monday 22nd November – Invitational U11 netball tournament

Thursday 30th November – Kellet U11 girls football tournament

Facebook Updates at Camp

During Year 3 – 6 camp BHS will be sharing photos and videos through Facebook pages for parents to see the exciting things going on.

These Facebook pages can be found linked on the BHS website and are available directly at the following links:

Year 3: https://www.facebook.com/BHSYear3Camp/

Year 4: https://www.facebook.com/BHSYear4Camp/

Year 5: https://www.facebook.com/BHSYear5Camp/

Year 6: https://www.facebook.com/BHSYear6Camp/

We hope you enjoy seeing the photos. Please do like and comment respectfully. Please also note that children will not be able to see any comments that are posted and staff on camp will not be able to reply to them.

The teachers and staff attending the camps will do their best to post photos of all of the children at some point, although this cannot be guaranteed. The main responsibility of the adults is the care and safety of the children.

Wednesday 22nd November – 6:30pm in the school hall

Professor Peter Sullivan

Peter Sullivan is Professor of Science, Mathematics and Technology Education, at Monash University in Australia. He is the immediate past President of the Australian Association of Mathematics Teachers and was the lead writer of the Australian Mathematics curriculum.

Professor Sullivan is one of the world’s leading authorities in Mathematics and he will be making a visit to Beacon Hill School this November. During his visit, Professor Sullivan will work alongside the teachers to challenge all our students to reach their full potential in Mathematics through the use of open-ended, rich learning tasks and problems.

We are thrilled to announce that Professor Sullivan will run a workshop for parents in order to enhance your understanding of how you may help your children in the development of Mathematical thinking. This is for parents only, there is no need for children to attend.

An e-notice will be sent to all parents, please let us know if you are attending.

We look forward to seeing you at the workshop.

Stationery

It has been noted that many children are without the correct equipment and therefore certain lessons are challenging for them. In Year 6 we ask students to bring their own stationary kits to school. As leaners they are expected to be organised, prepared, responsible and Independent, this is good practice for when they go to Secondary School. From discussions with the children many of them are missing, calculators (not scientific), geometry sets, 30cm rulers, scissors and headphones (a cheap set can be purchased for around 15HKD). Please talk to your child about their stationery needs.

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Healthy Living at BHS

We promote healthy living at BHS and therefore children should only bring water to school. Please do not send milk drinks, sugary drinks or any other kind of drink. We have water fountains and taps where students can refill their (BHS) water bottles throughout the day.

We still have children bringing in large packets of crisps for snack – this is not setting a good example to the younger children. Please support us in trying to keep the school a healthy place!

Christmas E-card

Christmas is fast approaching! ESF wish to prepare an e-card for Christmas and are inviting ESF students to come up with a design. The Christmas artwork could be a painting or drawing on A4 or A3 paper with any media such as water colour, pastel, photography or digital. Please send the original artwork to Ms Yu by 13, November if you would like to enter this exciting competition. Please refer to this link if you wish to see the cards in previous years: https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/0B1e1HGWSZqL0clF3MlF2aWk3OEE?usp=shar

As we prepare to inquire into our chosen area of conflict we have started to draw up some juicy questions to help guide our research. Ms. Jeves has been helping us to form our questions using questions webs as we move from define to investigate on the inquiry cycle.

We have been continuing to look at the language features of an exposition text to help us write a strong introduction to a balanced argument.

We have also been thinking about our new unit so we can think about exciting learning engagements for the new unit linked to artifacts, countries and their origin.

The children’s artwork based around social media is wonderful, such a variety of original ideas around the impact that social media has had on our community.

Year 6 Action Board – Global Goals

In September 2015, 193 world leaders agreed to 17 Global Goals for Sustainable Development. If these Goals are completed, it would mean an end to extreme poverty, inequality and climate change by 2030.

Our governments have a plan to save our planet…it’s our job to make sure they stick to it.

The Global Goals are only going to work if we fight for them and you can’t fight for your rights if you don’t know what they are. We believe the Goals are only going to be completed if we can make them famous.

In Year 6 we are keeping track of all the amazing Action happening at school and at home.

Golden Book Certificates

6Y- Nikita Dawes

6D- Tina Nishikiori

6H- Andrea Ho & Amanda Hockerberg

Transdisciplinary Theme: Sharing the Planet

Central Idea- Reaching a resolution during periods of conflict is influenced by the actions and reactions of all involved.

Lines of Inquiry – We will inquire into…

Causes of conflict (causation, perspective)
Conflict resolution and management (responsibility)
Our responsibility as a member of a community. (Responsibility)

After a busy week at camp we will reflect on our new experiences and challenges overcome throughout the week. When we return we will be half way through our second unit and therefore beginning to investigate our chosen personal inquiry. It is important that we choose the most effective method for gathering research as well as sticking to the deadline. We look forward to exploring the different areas of conflict you have chosen to inquire into.

Number Maths – We will be investigating different strategies used to solve decimal multiplication problems as well as identifying the important link multiplication and division have in maths.

We will continue to use our book stacks to practice inferring from our chosen texts. Using a range of sentence openers to support our thinking when making sense of the sense using context clues. We will also incorporate our camp experience to write a balanced argument using the features of an exposition.

Camp Preparation : Please spend this weekend getting ready for camp. Make sure you are part of the packing process at home in preparation for camp. Ensure you have everything you need, check that all items are clearly labelled and have a go at making your bed to get ready for the week ahead!

Spend some time on the OB website to give you a taste of what you will be experiencing.

http://www.outwardbound.org.hk/

Spelling : The children should be tested on their words at home 3 times per week ready for our buddy test on Friday. Any words that the children spell incorrectly during the buddy test on Friday will get carried over to next week’s ‘Words I need to learn…’ All children need to remember to bring in their Spelling Journals each day.

Reading : Each child should be reading throughout the week. Don’t forget to think about your weekly reflection for your Reading Journals!

Number Maths