Yr6 Curriculum Update – 09/11/18
Working together to achieve success for every child
The Year 6 Team
A very happy Diwali to all our Indian parents and students! 
In each update, you will be able to see glimpses of the learning journey that our students have been involved in over the previous two weeks. Our Learning Journey is written by teachers and students. We have started our new Unit under the Transdisciplinary theme ‘ Where We Are in Place and Time’’. It has been a fantastic week. Year 6 ’s went on a trip to Kowloon Walled City and explored if it should have been considered as a heritage of Hong Kong. It was heartening to see our historians in action, gathering the information from the visitors through surveys and observing the remnants of the city.
Transdisciplinary Learning – It’s all connected!
In Inquiry, The Y6 students are exploring and interacting with other people’s heritage, learning what heritage truly means, what makes heritage important, and why it needs to be preserved. They also went on a field trip to the Kowloon Walled City Park to learn about Hong Kong’s heritage. They had interviewed several residents that had lived in Kowloon Walled City. Some classes used a drama staretgy called Hot Seating to investigate different perspectives connected with Kowloon Walled City. Hot Seating is a strategy in which a character or characters, played by the teacher or a student, are interviewed by the rest of the group.
Update: We are going to watch a movie about plastic in the ocean.You can find more information here. Trailer of the movie
In Writing, Students have been starting a new unit on narrative writing. 6A has made magpie books to magpie some words from a book. Some classes have been learning to paint pictures with strong verbs.
In Maths, the students went to different maths workshops that helped them with working on their skills which they didn’t know. Such as negative numbers, estimating, unit conversion, decimal numbers and renaming.This week we have also started our Shape and Space in Maths.
During Music, the children are using the D Dorian Mode to compose a piece of Renaissance music. We have really enjoyed the experience. Moreover, we have also been learning Diwali songs from Mr. Davenport. In Mandarin, this week children did salt writing. We used salt to write the different characters, and practised our stroke order.
Library news: Our librarians and library monitors are really working hard! So many new scholastic books, such as graphic novels, fiction books have been added to our library recently. Ms. Lau would like to encourage our Year 6 students to read books in different languages and to support this she has starteda website to post videos of kids in K.J.S reading books in different languages.
Special News: The students have had their first camp meeting, it was exciting because we got to know a lot more in detail about what we are going to do on camp. I am very thrilled and eager about the activities, which are: Abseiling, Gorge trekking, kayaking, stand up surfing and lots more. Dhyana Shah 6L
There’s a company called SHREYA’S in Bangalore, India and they are an NGO. Shreyas works with orphans and underprivileged children. They are looking to build a library, and as these children are so innocent and young, the least we can do is help to educate them. So, dear parents please help by donating some simple children books (3-10yrs). You can send them into school starting from 13th November- 30th November. – Sahaana Gulrajani 6G
- Plastic Ocean movie – 7th Nov 6L, 19th Nov 6P, 20th Nov 6G, 26th Nov 6A, and 27th Nov 6E
- Chitty Chitty Bang Bang- 16th and 17th November
- Bingo Night – 23rd November
- Year 6 Camp – Monday 3 December to Friday 7 December
CAMP INFORMATION
Dear Parents,
Here are the links.
- Kit List- click here
- Enrolment form for APA – This must be completed for all children by 17th November
- KJS Medical Authorisation Form
IMPORTANT: If your child is required to take prescribed medication to camp, you must ensure a Medical Authorisation Form has been completed and signed by the parent. If possible the medicine should be handed in to the nurse at least 7 days before the camp by an adult (parent or helper) – not a student.
The medicine should be in the original packaging and clearly labeled with the following:
- a) Student’s name and student’s date of birth
- c) Doctor’s name
- d) Instructions & expiry date of medicine
* Medicine that is out of date or decanted into another bottle will not be accepted
- APA presentation (including equipment discount code on page 23) – Presentation KJS Year 6 Camp
Kind regards,
Year 6 Teachers and Students Editors and Photographers
(Jayden 6E, Audrey 6E, David 6G, Sahaana 6G, Anabelle 6A, Kyla 6A, Oliver 6L, Dhyana 6L, Alyssa 6P, Shrishti 6P)
