Year 6 Update WK 14
Monday 28th November – Year 6 Immunisations…eligible children only
Wednesday 30th November – Mandarin Parent Consultations
Friday 2nd December – PTA Disco
Friday 2nd December – Field trip to History Museum and Maritime Museum
Wednesday 8th December – BHS Christmas Concert 7pm
Tuesday 13th December – last day of term, 12pm finish
Empire of the Sun (PG)
1987, Directed by Steven Spielberg
Over the next two weeks we will be watching ‘Empire of the Sun’ as part of our introduction to Historical Fiction.
Story overview
An aristocratic British youth is separated from his family at the start of World War II after the Japanese Army invades British controlled areas of China. Reduced to living on the street and fighting for food, the youth is eventually interned in a Japanese POW camp for British civilians. Here, admiration quickly develops both for captured American pilots and the Japanese themselves. When the war ends, the boy torn from everything he knew attempts to again find his parents.
Please let your class teacher know if there are any issues with your son or daughter watching this movie.
Congratulations to our Girl’s Football team who won the Cup at Discovery College last Wednesday.
The final was against Hong Kong International school and it went all the way to penalties!
School photo orders need to be in as soon as possible so that we can submit the necessary forms to TechniPhoto. The orders need to be in before 30.11.16.
Reading – The children are responsible for borrowing books and making sure they are changed frequently. Each week your child is required to write a reflection about their reading or about the book they have borrowed.
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
Strand Maths – Shape and space
Central Idea – Consolidating what we know of geometric concepts allow us to make sense of and interact with our world.
We be inquiring into the properties of 2D and 3D shapes (diagonals, angles etc) and properties of circles.
Number Maths
Central Idea – Fractions, decimal fractions and percentages are ways of representing whole-part relationships
An inquiry into…
– decimal fractions and the number system
– how ratio is used to make comparisons
– sequences involving whole numbers, fractions and decimals
6H – iTime : Final touches to your presentation. Ready for our Gallery walk next week.
6D – iTime : Final touches to your presentation. Ready for our Gallery walk next week.
6F – iTime : Final touches to your presentation. Ready for our Gallery walk next week.
Spelling : Please keep up with the home spelling tests. 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 back the Spelling Journals each day during the week.
Reading : Each child should be reading for at least 20 mins each night. Don’t forget to complete your weekly reflection in your Reading Diaries – due each Friday!
Maths : Please continue with Mathletics.
Thought of the Week
