28 Apr 2017

Yr5 Weekly Update – 04/28/17

Central Idea: Humans continue to migrate for many reasons

Students in Year 5 have been super-busy this week!

Unit of Inquiry

The five classes have started working on their summative assessments They have been asked to design a leaflet, poster or come up with a speech to persuade people to migrate to their imaginary country. As part of the assessment, students need to show evidence that they understand the reasons why people migrate, the effects of migration on their country and show that people have different viewpoints on this issue. They have begun to construct the success-criteria they will use to complete their task.

5M have also spent five lessons this week developing skills during their ‘Maker’ workshops. The hope is that students will use what they have learnt, in their business unit of Inquiry, ‘How We Organise Ourselves,’ which we will begin in a few weeks -time. 5W, 5R and 5S have already completed their sessions and 5K will be doing theirs the week beginning May 8^th 2017.

English

This week, students have written ‘Thankyou’ letters to our visitors from Christian Action who last week, gave interesting and informative talks on the plight of asylum seekers/ refugees, here in Hong Kong. Some students would like to take action to support Christian Action and are speaking with Mrs Doucette and Christian Action to find out exactly what help would be most useful. They will be sharing how the year group can help shortly.

As part of our Narrative unit, students have been working on their story-writing skills. This week, they have been studying different story openings that engage the reader and writing their own. In addition to this, students have been encouraged to develop a ‘writer’s voice,’ for example, showing their personality through their writing and, being able to show different emotions through the actions of their characters without stating the actual emotion (‘show, don’t tell’).

Maths

Students have been looking at the differences between repeating and growing patterns and have created examples of their own, using numbers, shapes and colours. Some have even managed to work out rules for their patterns. They have also investigated patterns on the nrich website and tried to solve pattern problems set by Peter Sullivan, who visited our school a few months ago.

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