26 Oct 2018

Year 6 Update Week 9

upcomingdates

Tuesday 30th October – Y6 Bake Sale

Saturday 3rd and Sunday 4th November – Arts in the park

Monday 5th November – School Photos

Tuesday 6th November – School Photos

Friday 9th November – Sibling Photos

Monday 12th November – Mandarin Parent Consultations

Wednesday 14th November – Mandarin Parent Consultations

Monday 19th November to Friday 23rd November – Outward Bound Camp

Our latest Scholastic Book Club is up and running! Go to http://world-schools.scholastic.co.uk/beacon-hill-1 to browse the latest books and order online. For every $1 you spend in BHS’ Book Club, our school will earn 20c in Scholastic Rewards.

Please place your order online by November 23rd, 2018.

Many thanks,

BHS English team

The children need to keep themselves clean to remain healthy and to feel good about themselves. Good personal hygiene will help boost their self-esteem and confidence. You may have to help your child practice good personal hygiene habits. These will become even more important as they grow older and approach puberty. Being able to talk openly and honestly about keeping clean will help them to manage the more difficult personal hygiene issues that are likely to come up when they are teenagers.

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 know the first few weeks back at school can be tiring, so please make sure your children are all getting enough sleep. If your child is not getting at least 10 hours of sleep a night then they will not be able to reach their potential the next day. Please get plenty of rest.

Fruity Friday

Every Friday your child should bring a healthy and fruity snack. The Eco Squad needs the peel to create compost. Year 6 should be setting the example, so please, please, please bring in fruit to eat on Friday and pop the peel in the green bucket outside the butterfly garden.

The Year 6’s were very lucky to have a private viewing of the movie, ”A Plastic Ocean”. It was a hard-hitting documentary that left us all speechless and provoked much conversation. The question now is what do we do about it. The movie is currently on Netflix and lasts for 100 minutes. I strongly recommend that you find the time to watch it.

Plastic Ocean begins when journalist Craig Leeson, searching for the elusive blue whale, discovers plastic waste in what should be pristine ocean. In this adventure documentary, Craig teams up with free diver Tanya Streeter and an international team of scientists and researchers, and they travel to twenty locations around the world over the next four years to explore the fragile state of our oceans, uncover alarming truths about plastic pollution, and reveal working solutions that can be put into immediate effect.

Role Play – conflict

Art – Zentangles and Portraits

ICT – Animation with Mr. Lowe

Year 6 Vaccinations

Student-Led P.E. lessons

Golden Book Certificates

6Y: Sasha Fung

6D: Jonathan Chan

6H: Timothy Chan

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)

We have been exploring conflict resolutions and how people go about attempting to solve conflict on a daily and global scale. We will be looking at different types of conflict in more depth and will be talking about the actions and reactions of all involved.

Number Maths – Operations

Central Idea –We use the same rules for the computation of decimal fractions as for whole numbers

How are the four rules related to each other?

In what ways can we record the rules for a pattern in addition and subtraction?

Now that we are focusing on mental and written strategies when solving addition and subtraction problems we are encouraging the children to trial new strategies to solve multi-step problems and share their thinking and working out to find the answer.

Strand Maths – Measurement

Central Idea – Conversion of units and measurements allows us to make sense of the world we live in.

In strand math, we will explore the area and perimeter of a triangle and identify the properties which will help us to calculate the measurements.

We are also inquiring into angles

Why do we need knowledge of angles?

What are the different types of angles?

How do we measure angles?

How do we draw an angle?

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We will continue to draw inferences when we read by looking at a variety of passages from texts. Year 6 will be focusing on the story ‘Half A Man’ by Michael Morpurgo using the illustrations and descriptions to apply their learning of inference.

The children will identify topics or issues relevant for writing a balanced argument. They will use exemplars from class discussion and joint construction to write up their success criteria to write an exposition including two sides.