Year 5 Update Wk 3
Tuesday 5th September – Year 5 Camp Meeting 6:30pm in the hall…this will be run by the camp provider Asia Pacific so if you have any questions it is important that you try and come along. Children are welcome too!
Thursday 7th September – Year 5 Trip to Hong Kong Park…please email your class teacher if you would like to volunteer to help supervise a group on this excursion
Friday 8th September – staff training, no school
Friday 15th September – PTA Bowling night
Monday 18th September – this week will be our ISA (International Schools Assessment) testing week, it would be helpful if all children could try and ensure they are at school throughout this week
Tuesday 26th and Thursday 28th September – Parent Consultations 3pm-8pm
Thursday 28th September – Mid-autumn Festival market day
Friday 29th September – Colours Day…more info to follow
Friday 29th September – last day before half term
Monday 9th October – first day back after half term break
Meet the Teacher – Thank you to all those who attended the Meet the Teacher evening this week. It was fantastic to see so many parents attending and excited for a new year. The slides are available on our website under ‘presentations’ in the ‘communication’ tab. Below are some photos of the evening but if you have any further questions please do email us.
Central Idea:
Artists can use a process to express messages and ideas
Lines of Inquiry:
- The tools and techniques artists use (form)
- How messages are interpreted and conveyed (perspective)
- How art influences others (reflection)
| Perspective | Reflection | Form |
| We will understand that artists draw on different experiences and thoughts when creating their work. | We will understand that artists use a range and mix of artistic elements to express their ideas. | We will understand that there are different elements of art which work together to create a work of art. |
- patterns and relationships of tenths and hundredths
- the patterns of 6+ digit numbers and how they are represented
We continued with our Number Maths lessons this week. Each Monday, Tuesday and Friday our Number Maths lessons take place in the classroom and class teachers work with the mainstream children whilst Mr Pheasant takes a small group of children that we have identified need support for this unit of inquiry. Mrs J, Ms Priya and Mrs Sanghvi also work very closely with the children in all classrooms to help support. We focused on maths expectations and routines and begun teaching our place value concepts.
Number Maths Challenge
If you make a 4 digit number and one of them is always a 3, how many possible numbers can be made? The other digits can repeat, but they cannot be a 3.
e.g. 4,344 is ok, but 4,334 is not.
- creating, describing and visualising 2D & 3D shapes
- transforming shapes
- locating points on a grid
Strand Maths
Central Idea – manipulation of shape and space takes place for a particular purpose.
An inqury into….
- creating, describing and visualising 2D & 3D shapes
- transforming shapes
- locating points on a grid
In our Strand Maths lessons we used straws and blu-tack to investigate the properties of triangles.
We continued to work on our layout and pace this week. Some children have shown some fantastic independence so good work!
We continued our work studying excellent examples this week, with more focus on the language features that we could use in our own writing. We noticed how authors use the senses to add detail as well as more technical skills like similies and metaphors. Some of us worked on the laptops to create some fantastic sentences using a picture for inspiration.
- Draft – The wind blew on the beach.
- Craft – The cold wind blew on the shivering, windy beach with the skeleton bringing darkness to the world.
- Draft – The skeleton is holding up a girls chin.
- Craft – The lifeless skeleton is forcing the horrified girl to look at him while holding up her chin.
By Hena Yang, 5D
This week our Golden Book certificates were awarded to…
5F – Koji Lam and Timothy Chan
5D – Rachel Shin
5C – Karen Tam
SLT – Lara Symmonds
PE – Sophie Huang
House Points winning team were….BLUE TEAM! Congratulations again!
- Read the Weekly Update
- Reading Eggs.
- Mathletics – ‘Are You Ready’ tasks will be set soon.
- Reading – some children have been introduced to their Reading Journals so they can go ahead and get started but for the rest, Reading Journals will come home soon…..don’t forget to keep reading every night regardless.
- Spelling – Spelling homework will commence wb 11th September.
Mandarin (All children are encouraged to take a reading book home on the days when they have Mandarin lessons.)
Ms Lynn (Home learning #1) – Please check your google classroom for details.
Ms Yu – 复习小学华文2B （小鸟和大树）
Ms Xu – Practise to tell food items (egg, vegetables, meat, rice, etc) in Mandarin. Try to talk about your 3 meals of a day in Mandarin.
As the weather is extremely hot, please ensure your child has their cap in school everyday for outside play and PE.
The Year 5 camp meeting will be held on Tuesday 5th September at 6:30pm. Please try to ensure that you attend.
As part of our unit ‘How we Express Ourselves’ we will be going to Hong Kong Park on Thursday the 7th September, weather permitting. The children will be exploring the park, gardens and museums for different examples of artwork and artistic techniques. We will be looking for parent volunteers to support this trip and if you are able to help please email your child’s teacher and let them know. The permission letter and all the info regarding this trip have been sent out as an eNotice on Gateway. If you have not already completed the eNotice please do so as soon as possible. If you are having problems accessing Gateway please contact Mr. Pheasant.
Part of our unit of inquiry involves conducting artist studies. As part of one of these studies, we will be doing some sculpting out of soap. In order to do these, we would like to request your child brings in their own bar of soap.
