Year 6 Update WK 18
Wednesday 13th January – deadline for Scholastic book orders
Saturday 16th January – KGV Fun Run – For those that have shown interest only : a fun cross country run held at KGV.
Thursday 21st January – KGV Taster Day…for all the children who are going to KGV next year – more info to follow.
Tuesday 2nd February – Y2 Bake Sale – Bring some money to school to buy some delicious treats at snack time
Thursday 4th February – Chinese New Year Evening – 6:00pm – 7:15pm
Friday 5th February – last day of school before Chinese New Year break
Monday 15th February – back to school after Chinese New Year break
Thursday 25th February – Immunizations – Please return the necessary forms as soon as possible.
| Before school | After school | |
| Monday | 2.45-3.30pm | |
| Tuesday | 8.15- 9.00am | |
| Wednesday | 2.45-3.30pm | |
| Friday | 8.30-9.15am |
To register for a family borrowing card please complete the form found on the school website’s communications page. For any questions please contact Emily Jeves jevese2@beaconhill.edu.hk
On Tuesday and Friday, groups of students worked with Mr Paul Melsom, getting some hands on experience in the BHS garden. They sowed seeds and helped build a bamboo propagator, which will be used by the school to nurture and grow a range of plants. In the process, they learnt about the life cycle of plants, how to support this and how to create stable and ecologically sound structures.
Golden Book Awards – Congratulations to….
For the final week of Term 1
6F – John Chan, Destiny Wong, Daniel Young : Class certificate
6L – Henry Evers : Class certificate
6H – Bernice Lam : Class certificate
6H – Ady Lam : Senior Leadership Team award
6L – Chris Chan : Senior Leadership Team award
6F – Chelsea Chung : P.E. certificate
For the first week of Term 2
6F – Audrea Lee, Aidan Young : Class certificate
6L – Jake Douglas : Class certificate
6H – Kristy Poon : Class certificate
6H – Andre Chow : Senior Leadership Team award
6F – Destiny Wong : Mandarin certificate
Year 6 Unit of Inquiry 3
Transdisciplinary Theme : How the World Works
Central Idea : Scientific investigations can help people to make sense of the world.
Lines of Inquiry – We will inquire into…
- what scientific inquiry is
- how the scientific process is used
- the application of the scientific process
Concepts : form, function,
Learner Profile : reflective, inquirer
Attitudes : independence, curiosity
We have continued inquiring into the scientific process by conducting different science experiments within the classes. This was also supported in Information Technology lessons, with Mr Lowe sharing a tool for the students to use when conducting a chromatography experiment and this was completed by all classes before the Christmas break.
Number Maths – Fractions, Decimals and Percentages (FDP)
Central Idea : Fractions, decimal fractions and percentages are ways of representing whole-part relationships.
Number Maths classes were back with Miss Fisher and Mrs Davis’ groups working with fractions in a number of different ways, and Mr Hoskins’ and Miss Fearn’s classes have been working on percentages.
Strand Maths – Shape and Space
Central Idea : Consolidating what we know of geometric concepts to allow us to make sense of and interact with our world.
Our inquiry into shape and space has continued by looking at ways to describe and classify 2D and 3D shapes through a range of different learning experiences.
Our explanation writing has continued with students gaining additional note-taking practice to gather information. They then used these notes to plan and write a further explanation.
As always, buddy spelling tests are held every Friday so Spelling Journals are an absolute necessity for Fridays. Spelling Journals need to be back in to school everyday to enable students to work on the spelling investigations in the back of the journal throughout the week and also to add personal spelling words to as they arise during the weekdays.
UOI : Using the A3 “Real World Connections” sheet you have been given, think back to the experiments we have looked at in class and explain how they help us to better understand the world. Deadline: Friday 15th January.
Spelling : Spelling Journal homework – 3 practice spelling tests to be conducted under the supervision of an adult at home, daily spelling practice and any additional journal tasks set by the class teacher.
Reading : Weekly reflections to be completed at least once a week. Children need to ensure they are reading at home each night for at least 20 mins and to write one weekly reflection about their reading in their diaries. Parents are not required to write a comment or to sign the book. However, continued interest and involvement in your child’s reading would be appreciated and will assist in their development.
Number Maths :
- Miss Fearn – ‘Hidden Numbers’ and problem solving
- Miss Fisher – Renaming and ordering fractions by finding the LCD.
- Mr Hoskins – Percentages word problems
- Mrs Davis – Equivalent fractions and Mathletics. Mrs Davis has set you some new Mathletics tasks to do, so make sure you’re up to date with them!
Thought of the Week : The most important thing is a person. A person who incites your curiosity and feeds your curiosity; and machines cannot do that in the same way that people can. – Steve Jobs
