Year 6 Update WK 28
- Thursday 18th May – Jump Jam Student Leadership Workshop
- Tuesday 23rd May – PYPX Presentation to parents 6pm, please meet in the playground to begin at 6pm
- Wednesday 24th May – PYPX Presentation to school and community
- Thursday 25th May – Summer Concert
- Friday 26th May – Auditions for the Year 6 Production
- Monday 29th May – BHS CPD – School closed
- Tuesday 30th May – Public Holiday – School closed
- Thursday 1st June – PTA Quiz
- Friday 2nd June – ESF Yr 6 Transition Day
- Wednesday 28th June – Year 6 Production
- Thursday 29th June – Year 6 Graduation
- Friday 30th June – End of School Year – 12 Midday
This week has seen us franti-cally prepare ourselves for our very first PYPX Action Week which will be held next week at BHS. All the clas-ses have organised their own action and the events include… lessons, activities, puppet shown, information sessions, sign-ups, bake sales, protests and raising awareness activities hosted by Year 6 for the rest of the school body and teachers. The teachers have been proud of their self-management skills and organi-sational skills for most groups so we all look for-ward to see how it goes next week.
Jasmin Spoke to the whole school in golden book assembly and reminded them about the fantastic event that would take place on Friday – Trash’n Fash’n. We had some amazing entries, from bow ties to hats and even dresses. Thank you to all who donated 10HKD and for those children who made an effort to re-use! Our earth is suffering from the excessive use of throw away items, so thank you for helping to raise awareness.
Our Changing Earth also spoke at the beginning of the week. Matthew is selling Plant Starter Kits so that you can give back to nature and grow your very own sunflowers. See Matthew for details.
On Wednesday Year 6 were treated to a theatre experience at the Queen Elizabeth Stadium in Wan Chai. Mr Gibson was the musical director for this original show, with performances from some of ESF’s very own students. It was a fantastic show and enjoyed by all.
Austin, Alyssa and Tiffany informed everyone of the food drive that they are holding to donate to Food Angels. Please send any of the following: canned food, cooking oils, snow fungus, black fungus, dried shrimp, red date, vermicelli and cookies. If you can not spare any food then please send a small donation so that the children can purchase food items to donate to Food Angels. Donations are being taken from the 4th May to the 10th of May.
A Message from Year 3.
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. The children have organised and will run a series of different activities and stalls to help raise awareness and funds for the below charities.
IndoChina Starfish foundation is an organisation commited to changing the lives of disadvantaged children in Cambodia.
OneSky aims to unlock the vast potential hidden in our world’s most vulnerable young children.
Crossroads Foundation is a Hong Kong based non-profit organisation. Their goal is to connect people in a broken world.
The Christina Noble Foundation is an international partnership of people dedicated to helping underprivileged children. Christina Noble strives to raise funds to support those in need in neighbouring countries, Vietnam and Mongolia.
The stalls will include a toy, book and juice stall at snack time. The lunchtime activities will include a Y1-3 football tournament, The movie Sing and popcorn, a danceathon in the drama room and Maths and book making activities in the Art Room. All items and entry fees will be between $5-$15.
Golden Book Certificates
- our passions and interests
- how my interest in animals links to the Global Goal of Life Below Water.
- how my action through providing recycling bins to every class and holding a bake sale to raise money links to Global Goal of Life Below Water
- actions inspired by passion
Learner Profile : The children will develop all areas of the learner profile throughout the process
Attitudes : All attitudes will be developed throughout the process.
Here are some photos of the children sinking their teeth in to the exhibition.
Paper Patrol are holding a competition open to all classes. The children need to design and create paper baskets made entirely of paper. Here are some photos of 6H working in their house teams and making their entries.
For the remainder of the year, all maths lessons will be held in the children’s usual class homerooms. Most of the maths that will be taking place will all be related to our PYP Exhibition eg. devising questionnaires, surveying out in the field, collating results, formulating tables and graphs, making generalisations etc. Some stand-alone units will be taking place outside of Exhibition time and these topics include finishing off our fractions and decimals unit, probability, location and angles.
All of our English from now on is based on the children’s own personal choices. They might be writing a play script to go with their animation, they might be drafting a TED style talk, they might be designing a persuasive poster to be put up around the school to promote their issue or cause. Please check in with your child to see what creative English work they are pursuing.
Please, continue on with all of your Exhibition work over the next few weeks. Don’t forget to do a little bit each night, communicate with your team, check your emails and Communication Logs regularly and don’t send out any important emails without checking with your class teacher or workshop teacher first. Remember….be a good digital citizen!
Here’s some ideas of what your could continue on with homework….
Finishing preparations for Action Week
Reflecting on this week
Preparing their presentations for the Exhibition Evening
Working on their research questions…they should be up to writing their reports or explanations etc about their lines of inquiry. Record all sources used.
Transferring their survey information on graphs…and making conclusions
And also…
Reading and reading response
Mathletics
Reading Eggspress
Thought of the Week….
Environmental Tip….
