Welcome to Year 5

Mrs Mee & Mr. West

5M

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5W

Mr. West and Ms. Neha

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Mrs Mee and Mrs. Tin

Peak School Mission

At Peak School we aim to become effective communicators, confident critical thinkers and enthusiastic life-long learners. In partnership with our community, we strive to have integrity and be socially responsible global citizens.

Y5 Program of inquiry

Parent experts are always welcome to help support our inquiries.

Keep an eye out for upcoming parent workshops run by the school.

Who We ARe- Year long unit

All year levels have the same central idea:

Respecting ourselves, others and our environment helps us be the best we can be

A great way for us to:

• Build identity and belonging within the school and the wider community
• Speak the same language around expected behaviours
• Integrate the RSE Curriculum into our learning and teaching without it being an added extra
• Ensures well being is a focus after all we have been through and continue to go through

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Building Our Community Series:

A way of building community by mixing year levels and coming together over similar interests, learning more about our community members (grown ups and students) and a way for us to model what an interest & passion is.

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5

Curriculum and learning

English

Some English is “stand-alone” and some is taught within the units of inquiry, where there are valid connections:

• Speaking and listening
• Reading and Writing
• Word inquiry
• Viewing and presenting

The Timetable

Curriculum and learning

Mathematics

Some Maths is taught within the units of inquiry where there are valid connections. Some units are “stand-alone”.

• Flexible grouping
• Mental Maths strategies
• Learning through games
• Real world connections through problem solving

Specialist lessons

Home Learning

Reading at home: Students are expected to read every night for 30 minutes

Maths: Practise as needed (on Mathletics or additional sites)

UOI: Flexible tasks related to the unit of inquiry

Digital Citizenship

• Home supervision while using devices
• No paper copies - all on Planet Peak/ Google Classroom

Maths links for at home practise

reading

Online portal

How can i help my child?

Organisation

Responsibility

Resilience

Parent Communication

Regular updates: Newsletter, Principal Blog, Weekly Class Teacher Email

Meetings/ Reporting:

• You tell us’ meetings (booking via Gateway) - Sept 16th
• 3 Way Conferences - November (TBC)
• Parent-Teacher consultation - March 2022
• Student-led conferences - TBC
• Written report published on Gateway - January/ June 2022

Respectful communication: respond within 24 hours

Camp

Tentative camp dates: November 2021

Day trips: scout camp/ sailing

*Depending on health restrictions

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Things to Note

• Please measure and send in child’s temperature every �morning
• Please label anything brought to school
• 2 “Snacks” - No Nuts, No Cutlery
• Healthy food with minimal packaging; no single-use plastic
• Second snack - 15 minutes, lunch portions
• Update medical info - email school nurse
• Birthdays - Book/plant donation, No food sharing (sorry!)
• Growth Mindset - Positive attitude, Not yet, it’s ok to make mistakes

Other Things to Note

• Class parent - pta@peakschool.edu.hk
• PTA - always welcome support
• Uniform (black leather/pleather shoes, no smart watches, small hair accessories - green/white/black)
• Absence - email class teacher and school nurse (indicate symptoms)
• and Debbie if bus user - pta.bus@peakschool.edu.hk )

Thank you and welcome to year 5!

Contacts

steve.west@peakschool.edu.hk

gillian.mee@peakschool.edu.hk

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What’s next?

‘You tell us’ meetings - next week