Year 5 Update Week 20

Monday 11th February – back to school after CNY holiday

Tuesday 12th February – Year 5 Pizza Lunch

Tuesday 12th February – Sports Day for Year 1-2....classes as usual for us

Friday 15th February – Inclusivity House Assembly.…can Inclusivity house pleasewear blue today and bring some money for their nominated charity?

Thursday 21st February – Sports Day for Year 3-6.….please wear full PE kit today.

Tuesday 26th February – Year 2 Bake Sale.….please bring in some money to buysome baked goods to support our PTA.

Thursday 7th March – World Maths Day…..watch this space to see what excitingactivities we’ll be up to!

Friday 8th March – Student-Led Conferences : these will be held in sessionsthroughout the day and the children will only come to school with you at yourchosen time…..please book your preferred time on the Gateway which will beopen soon.

Friday 15th March – Big Business Market and Sharing Morning to parents at 9am

Friday 29th March – PTA International Food Fair

Thursday 4th April – ESF Choral Concert

Friday 5th April – Ching Ming Festival.….no school

Wednesday 10th April – Easter Concert

Friday 12 April – last day of school before Easter holidays, 12 pm finish

Parent Volunteers Needed Our Year 5 students are currently working on their big business unit where theyare creating their own businesses and running a market day to raise money. Aspart of the unit the children have been asked to give a presentation to a panel ofbusiness experts. We are looking for volunteer business experts who can offeradvice to the children and give positive feedback to groups of children. Thepresentations are held over two days, on Thursday 28th February and Friday1st March. If you are able to be an expert on either day, or even for part of one of thedays, please email Mr. Pheasant. His email address is: chad.pheasant@bhs.edu.hk

Pizza Lunch

We will be having Pizza lunch on Tuesday 12th February 2019. As part of ourtheme of well-being and responsibility we would like to protect our environmentfrom unnecessary waste. If your child is having pizza, they will need to bring in areusable lunchbox or plate to use. We greatly appreciate your support in this.

致家长：

我们将会在2月12日安排批萨饼午餐。我们今年的主题是身心健康和责任。为保护环境

和减少浪费，如果您的孩子参加这次活动，请自备可循环再用的餐盒。感谢您的支持。

Learning Centre – On days where the children visit the Learning Centre withtheir class, they will need to bring their book bags if they wish to borrow books.These days are as follows. The children also have access to our Learning Centrebefore school – so if they happen to forget their LC book on their specific day theycan always pop up there and exchange it in the mornings after they unpack theirschool bag.

5D – Monday

5F – Tuesday

5C – Thursday

PE – please note that some PE lessonsmight have changed days. Can you please take a look at when your child’s PEdays will be for this new UOI? Full PE kit must be worn on these days…thankyou.

5D – Monday and Thursday

5F – Wednesday and Thursday

5C – Wednesday and Friday

Book Drive – Brody, Ryan and Muchan in Year 6 are organising a Book Drive tohelp spread our love of reading. The Sony Corporation will collect books to createmobile libraries in South Africa for schools that do not have enough books forchildren to read. If you have books that are:

written in the English languagesuitable for 6-12-year-oldspages should be not yellow or brown (due to ageing)no missing or torn pagesno scribble on the pagesno textbooksno encyclopediasno magazines

Please send them to school. There will be a collection box in the school foyerfrom Monday 21st January. Any books you can donate will help spread theenjoyment of reading.

We have had a busy week at school with students enjoying a variety of activitieson offer during our China Cultural Activity Day. This was topped off by the terrificChinese New Year Celebration where we enjoyed seeing all the fantasticperformances.

Big Business

Students have been busy developing their cooperation and communication skillswithin their group. They have been working hard on their group names, logo andslogans, as well as beginning to work on their product designs and a few groupshave even managed to begin making prototypes. With Mr Thompson, somestudents have started to learn about using spreadsheets as a tool for budgetingand this will continue after the CNY holiday.

English

In reading, students have been working on developing their ability to recognisesynthesising techniques as they read. We have had discussions about connectingprior knowledge and the impact this has on our thinking. Students have beenconsidering the inferences they can make and justifying their thinking usingevidence from the text.

In writing students have been working collaboratively in their Big Businessgroups to develop unique, entertaining ideas for their adverts. They have beenconsidering the persuasive techniques used to entice people while exploring waysto include these in their own adverts. Students have been asked to compare ideasin their groups and consider ways to amalgamate all the best ideas into their

advert.

Maths

In maths this week we have been learning how to calculate our bottom price andhave experimented with what happens to profit when we change the price andconsidered scenarios where it would be appropriate to alter prices. We havetalked about why companies make a loss and ways to avoid this happening totheir own business.

In strand maths students have been working on interpreting data from graphs andhave identified the most appropriate graphs to represent specific data.

Transdisiplinary Theme – How We Organise Ourselves

Central Idea – There are many factors at work within a workplace

An inquiry into..

functioning effectively as a team (function)how the components in a marketplace operate – (price, budget, profit,loss, supply and demand) (causation)research and marketing (reflection)

Concepts : function, causation and reflectionRelated Concepts : price, business system, collaborationLearner Profile : courageous, communicatorAttitudes : co-operation, confidence

Number Maths – Four OperationsCentral Idea – Strategies for whole number computation can apply to fractionaland decimal computationAn inquiry into.

efficient mental strategies that can be used to solvemultiplication and divisionefficient written strategies that can be used to solve multiplicationand divisionThe relationships between these strategies and their use across avariety of problems.

Questions we are exploring in this unit:

How can we show multiplication and division of whole numbers?

How can we multiply and divide decimal numbers using a written format?

What are the different ways to multiply and divide?

What mental strategies help us to multiply?

What mental strategies help us to divide?

What is the difference between short and long division?

How many ways can you represent remainders?

When is it best to use short division or multiplication?

When is it best to use long division or multiplication?

How can we add and subtract decimal numbers mentally?

Why do I need to know my multiplication facts?

Strand Maths – MeasurementCentral Idea – Data can be presented effectively for valid interpretation andcommunication.An inquiry into…

How data can be collectedUsing different scales on graphs and chartsHow data can be interpreted

Questions we are exploring in this unit:

What questions can be posed to give rise to the collection of data?

How are different graphs and charts constructed?

How (and why) are different scales used on graphs?

What is the purpose of mode and mean?

What have we learned that will help us read and interpret the data?

Can the data be interpreted in a different way by someone else?

Writing Focus – Playscripts : For the first few weeks of this UOI we will belooking at Play scripts and will spend some time to write our own/groups scriptsready for our advertisements.

A play script is a piece of writing written for the stage.

A play script will include a list of characters (at the very beginning).It may be divided into acts which are then divided into scenes.Each scene will have a description of the setting at the start and then thecharacters’ dialogue.Dialogue is set out with the character’s name on the left, then a colonthen the dialogue.Stage directions for the actors are written every now and again in italicsand brackets.

Reading Focus – For this unit, our readingcomprehension strategies are Synthesising and Questioning.

Synthesising – It’s best to think of synthesising as an ongoing, multi-step process.We want students to stop multiple times to evaluate what they know or think theyknow about some element of the text. Elements like the topic, the characters, theproblem, etc. Each time students stop reading, they reflect, they combine theirprevious thoughts with new information and they form new ideas.

Questioning – To aid comprehension, skilful readers ask themselves questionsbefore, during, and after they read. We can help the children become moreproficient by modelling this and encouraging them to use it when they readindependently.

Successful reading is not simply the mechanical process of “decoding” text.Rather, it is a process of active inquiry. Good readers approach a text withquestions and develop new questions as they read, for example:

“What is this story about?”“What does the main character want?”“Will she get it?” “If so, how?”

Even after reading, engaged readers still ask questions:

“What is the meaning of what I have read?”“Why did the author end the paragraph (or chapter, or book) in this way?”“What was the author’s purpose in writing this?”

5C – Charlie Yu

5D -Gabriel Chan 5F – Liane Thang and Isaac Preslet Congratulations to all our winners!

Read the Weekly UpdateMathletics – continue with the set tasks or feel free to try any others thatyou feel you want to practice.Prodigy – please continue on with your Prodigy online games.5F & 5C – please continue to use Quizlet to help you learn your spellingwords and meanings.UOI – please have a go at home making a prototype of the suggestedproducts. You don’t need to make lots at the moment. Parents pleaseencourage your child to be reflective, considering what worked well andwhat they would do differently next time.Spelling – The children are sent home their 10 personal words that they

need to learn for the week. The will happen on a Monday for 5F,Wednesday for 5D and Friday for 5C. Please, can a parent (or responsibleadult) support the children by...testing them (written or oral), gettingthem to put their words into interesting sentences (written or oral),discussing the meanings of the words, thinking about synonyms andantonyms of that word, discussing words with a similar meaning etc.Reading – The children will be choosing levelled readers based on theirown ability and are expected to read each night for at least 20mins athome with a parent. The children need to record their reading in theirReading Journals and parents can you please sign your child’s journaleach night? Journals need to be returned to school each morning to bechecked and will come home each evening (except Friday). Children mayuse Big Universe twice a week (only) as their choice of home readingMandarin Home Learning – All children are encouraged to take areading book home on the days when they have Mandarin lessons.Ms Lynn – Please complete home learning assigned in Mandarin Matrix.