28 Apr 2017

Year 3 Update Wk 28

Monday 1st- Wednesday 3rd May – BHS Closed due to public holidays and CPD
Friday 5th May- Year 3 Action Day
Thursday 18th May – Professor Peter Sullivan maths seminar for parents.
Thursday 25th May- Summer concert @7pm
Monday 29th May and Tuesday 30th May- CPD and Public holiday

Year 3 will be having an Action day on Friday 5th May to support the following charities; Indochina Starfish Foundation, Christina Noble Children’s Foundation, OneSky and Crossroads. Year 3 have organised and will run a series of different activities and stalls to help raise awareness and funds for mentioned charities.

Please encourage your child to donate any unused toys and books that are in a saleable condition.

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 will be making his first visit to Beacon Hill School from May 18th-19th. 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.

If you would like to attend, click here to register.

If your child has Deli Fresh for lunch, please talk to them about their food choices as we have noticed a lot of children are reluctant to finish their lunch.

Please remember that we have a no nut policy at BHS due to some children having severe allergies. This includes peanut butter sandwiches and nuts in cookies or cakes.

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This week the children began planning for their action day. It was lovely to see so many eager children wanting to make a difference for their chosen charity. As a year group, they will work together to raise money by having a toy and book sale, a juice stall, football tournament and a movie in the hall. Some children have also opted to create maths board games and story books for schools in Cambodia.

Well done to Year 3, just from listening to your ideas and plans, you all have made us very proud!

The children had lots of fun during our Green Week and enjoyed taking part in the activities planned by Mrs Farago and the Green Team.

Year 3 made their own environment protection puzzles.

Take a look at some of the amazing fashion creations the children came up with using junk!

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Homes have been influenced by a variety of factors over time

Lines of Inquiry

1. What is a home? (Form)

2. How and why homes in (the local environment) Hong Kong have changed over time. (Change)

3. The influence of social factors in the development of homes (Causation)

This week the children have continued inquiring into different types of homes in Hong Kong. Next week the children will use their knowledge to write a report based on homes in Hong Kong.

Ask your child to tell you all about the different homes they have explored.

Understanding time allows us to make accurate measurements in order to identify, compare, order and sequence events.

We are continuing to explore time, reading and writing the time to the quarter hour and 5 minute intervals (past, to).We are also looking at estimating and comparing lengths of time: second, minute, hour, day, week, months and years.

This week children continued to play a variety of games which involved adding times, as well as reading and matching the time on digital and analogue clocks.

Next week the children will explore word problems based on time and revise time facts.

New tasks have been set in relation to time. Please encourage your child to log on and complete tasks as part of their home learning.

We were treated to such an aware of creative reports about missing creatures. Ask your child to tell you about their missing creature.

Next week the children will write a report about Hong Kong homes using the features of an information report.

Children will be borrowing books from school on Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday. On Monday and Friday the children will read an online book from Reading Eggspress at home.

Reading Eggspress login details and passwords can be found in your child’s diary.