Year 6 Update WK 2
Tuesday 29th August – New parents cheese and wine 5:00pm. Meet the Teacher Evening 6:30pm in the hall and then moving to the Year 6 classrooms on the fourth floor.
Wednesday 6th September – Swimming starts, make sure the children bring their kit on each Wednesday from now on.
Friday 8th September – School closed for CPD.
Friday 15th September – PTA Bowling event.
Tuesday 26th September – Parent/Teacher Consultations – sign up on the Gateway soon
Thursday 28th September – Parent/Teacher Consultations – sign up on the Gateway soon
Thursday 28th September – Mid Autumn Festival Market Day
House Colours Assembly – Friday 1st September
As I mentioned in last week’s Newsletter, we are aiming to develop the BHS House system this year. The first part of this involves Year 6 students who have a desire to be their House Team Captains presenting to the school in next Friday’s assembly. To make this a special event and to begin to develop a sense of belonging to the four houses, we would like all students to come dressed in their house colour next Friday 1st September. Any T-shirt, shirt etc of their house colour will be suitable – plain coloured shirts preferable, and not football shirts or similar.
Transdisciplinary Theme : How we Organise Ourselves
Central Idea : Leaders influence communities to affect change.
Lines of Inquiry – We will inquire into…
- The traits of leadership
- The responsibilities of leadership
- The impact of decision making
Concepts …
Form – We will understand that leaders have a range of different characteristics.
Responsibility – We will understand that with leadership there comes responsibility
Function – We will understand the purpose and impact that leadership can have on us
Learner Profile : principled, courageous
Attitudes : commitment, integrity
Number Maths – Place Value
Central Idea – The base 10 place value system extends infinitely in two directions.
The children have been using their prior knowledge of place value and applying what they know to a Digit Detective investigation- this was great revision and helped the children to identify helpful strategies for this concept.
Central Idea – Conversion of units and measurements allows us to make sense of the world we live in.
Year 6 have applied the comprehension strategy ‘Synthesising’ while watching various speeches this week to build on their current thinking about what makes a good speech. This week they have used what they have learned to up level their own speeches in preparation for next weeks presentations.
Over the weekend, please ensure you read over your speech and practise, practise, practise! Remember to consider pace, clarity, volume, body language, eye contact and expression. We look forward to hearing your speeches next week.
As the term progresses we will send out more homework that is related to the unit of inquiry.
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