Week 14 Update

Dear Parents,

The children have been learning about the concept of Perspective this week. We have now selected three possible ideas for what the school should build on the land behind the tennis courts. We then used our Maths lessons to do some surveying and data handling to find out what other children thought would be a good idea for the land. We surveyed all the children in Year 6 and Year 3 and some teachers. We then learnt how to represent the information from the frequency table into a bar chart.

As part of our topic we have been learning how to read maps and use grid references. The children really enjoyed the Phuket quiz, where they had to guess the grid reference of famous Phuket landmarks.  Well done to Artem and Katerina for winning with 5 points.

In Literacy, we have been practicing writing expositions. We all worked in groups to complete one part of an exposition then put it all together to make a wonderful whole class piece of writing. 

The children have been doing fabulous work in Art. Their screen printing, mixed media pieces are nearly done!

Thank you to all the parents who have signed up to help at Santa's Grotto next week. There are still some slots available, so if you have time, sign up with the link below.

https://docs.google.com/document/d/1c29lIF0ddpXGsvBg-0R541Q71Rjht6xWxyj3_yUGipU/edit?usp=sharing

Have a wonderful weekend everyone!



Notices

National Holiday Observed
On Tuesday 5th December, the school will be closed for a national holiday commemorating the birthday of the late King Bhumibol Adulyadej. School will resume again on Wednesday 6th December.

6-8th December, Book Fair, Primary Foyer.
8th December, Santa's Grotto.
9th December, 'Here Comes Christmas', the BISP band and choir, 6-8pm.
11th- 15th December, no primary school activities. Check with your paid activity provider.
11th-13th December, Upper Primary Production, 1-2.30pm.

Message from the Library

Santa's Grotto Volunteers.

Dear Year 3 Parents

The children need your help to support the Santa's Grotto. 

The Year 3 activity will be decorating a Christmas Cookie, we would appreciate volunteers from 8.00 am  - 2.30 pm (time slots will be 45 min) to support children with decorating their Christmas cookie.

Please click the link below to sign up for a time slot.

https://docs.google.com/document/d/1c29lIF0ddpXGsvBg-0R541Q71Rjht6xWxyj3_yUGipU/edit

Many thanks for your kind support.

And a special thanks to Andrea and Jane for coordinating this.

Best wishes,

From the Year 3 Team

Week 13 Update

Friday 24th November

Dear Parents,

A busy week for all culminating in a fantastic Soccer 7's tournament!

In Topic this week, we had an exciting expert guest, Mr Richards. He came to talk to the children about the spare land behind the tennis courts, that the children measured the perimeter of last week. The children had to prepare probing questions to find out as much information about the land as possible. Mr Richards told us about the old plans to build an ice rink and what the positives and negatives of it had been. He then told the children his criteria of what should be built there. After hearing all of this information, the children set about writing up their proposal for the land. Each child has come up with 3 different ideas for what could be built on the land and thought about the positives and negatives of each.

In Literacy, we have begun looking in more details at exposition writing. The children now know the structure of this text type and the features that should be included in order to write a good exposition.

In Maths, we have continued our work on measuring perimeter. The children needed to think hard to draw shapes with different sized perimeters. Furthermore, the children have continued to practise their mental arithmetic, as well as playing new activities on shape on Mathletics.

On Friday, a huge number of the children at BISP were involved in the Soccer 7's. We should congratulate all of the children involved and a special mention to those children from Year 3 who will also be at school showing off their talents on Saturday as well. Year 3 enjoyed watching their friends and supporting them in their matches. Congratulation BISP!

Notices

28th November - Lance King, Parent Workshop, 3.15-4.15pm, Primary Hall.
30th November - Lance King Parent Workshop 2, 3.15-4.15pm, Primary Hall.
National Holiday Observed
On Tuesday 5th December, the school will be closed for a national holiday commemorating the birthday of the late King Bhumibol Adulyadej. School will resume again on Wednesday 6th December.
6-8th December, Book Fayre, Primary Foyer.
8th December, Santa's Grotto.
9th December, 'Here Comes Christmas', the BISP band and choir, 6-8pm.
11th- 15th December, no primary school activities. Check with your paid activity provider.
11th-13th December, Upper Primary Production, 1-2.30pm.

Have a great weekend.

Week 12 update

Hi there,

It has been another busy week in which we have been very proud of our students achievements both in and out of school. From football tournaments to piano assessments, from silk screening a painting to finally telling the time, multiple achievements are continuously happening here each week. It is important from time to time to sit back and think about just how much our students accomplish each week.

This week the school had some special visitors, observing the quality of learning happening around the school. Each class was visited on a couple of occasions through the week and the Year 3 children were excellent ambassadors for the school.

It was an exciting week using the MacBooks to explore the world around us. The children had a great time exploring Google Earth, using it as a tool to visit far away places without even leaving their chair. Our topic, 'Humans Change Their Environments For Different Reasons' has started a lot of discussion about how we are changing our environment in Phuket. We used the timeline feature to travel back in time to examine some of the changes that have been made on the island. There were some very eye-opening changes for sure!

In Maths this week, the children continued learning about time, specifically how to read and represent time on digital and analogue clocks. This is a skill which takes a lot of practise to master and it would be very helpful for all of the children to have some support on this from home. It is obviously an important life skill which needs nurturing. All of Year 3 had some fun with a giant 'Time BINGO' game on Tuesday afternoon.  

Time Bingo

Time Bingo

In Literacy, we began to look at a new text type - expositions. Over the next few weeks the children will be learning to form stronger arguments by providing a number of reasons that support a given position. It will be just in time for Christmas so be prepared, they may try to convince you to buy them a very expensive gift! Learning to write expositions will support our topic in which the children will make a proposal to Mr. Richards about what should be done with the empty school land adjacent to the tennis center.  In order to gather evidence for our proposal, on Friday we all went on an in-school field trip to survey the land. It was a hot day but the children used their measuring skills and understanding of perimeter to calculate how much space there is for a new development. On their way to the survey site the children looked at a lot of changes that have happened, or are happening, around the school.

Notices

PE: 

Our curriculum rotation will change next week. Please note that your child may need to bring in a swim kit each Monday and Thursday depending on their class.

3JM - Basketball (regular PE Kit)

3PJ -  Yoga (regular PE Kit)

3KG - Swimming (swim kit required)

BISP Soccer 7's

On Friday 24th and Saturday 25th of November, BISP will host a massive football tournament in which some of our students will be involved. If you have time, come along and support our teams, it is always a fantastic event.

National Holiday Observed

On Tuesday 5th December, the school will be closed for a national holiday commemorating the birthday of the late King Bhumibol Adulyadej. School will resume again on Wednesday 6th December.

Have a great weekend everyone!

Week 11 Update

Dear Parents,

This week has been very exciting because we have started our new topic. The big idea for the new topic is 'Humans change their environment for different reasons'. This is a geography and history focused topic and we will be using the conceptual lenses of change, responsibility and perspective to understand how and why we change our environments.

All our classrooms had been mysteriously pilled up on Monday morning. The challenge for the children was to redesign the classroom layout in the best possible way for learning. After discussing the positives and negatives of each design we took a vote and rearranged the classrooms accordingly. Maybe we will have some interior designers and architects in Year 3 by the end of the Topic.





We have also started to use Google Earth to find places on a map. We explored using the timeline tool to see how places have changed over time.



In Maths we have been learning how to tell the time in both digital and analogue form. This is something that can be reinforced at home by asking your child what time is it, as often as possible. Next week we will be doing word problems about the passage of time.

In Literacy we have had a week of writing for enjoyment. We wanted to give the children the freedom for write and create stories from their own imaginations.  The children have loved using their imaginations and we will keep their special story books in class so that they can write creative stories whenever they feel like it. Next week we will be moving on to the writing genre of 'Expositions'.

In PSHCE next week we will be focusing on kindness to acknowledge 'World Kindness Day'. There will be activities throughout the week across the whole school to increase the random acts of kindness at BISP.

Have a wonderful weekend everyone.

Week 10 Update

Friday 3rd November 2017

Weekly update, Term 1b week 1

Welcome back,

We hope you had a great holiday. The children seem refreshed and keen to carry on with their learning.

In Art, the children got to have their first try at using the potter's wheel. They had a lot of fun playing with the clay and trying to keep the clay in a shape!

As we have finished our Topic on 'Living Things Need Light', the children showed us what they have learnt. The children were given four different activities to complete in class. The activities focused on how light helps us to see, how light is reflected, how it makes shadows and how light is connected to humans. You may have noticed some of their great work on Seesaw, where the children were asked to talk about how light is connected to humans and communicate their ideas clearly.

In Maths we focused on the days of the week, months of the year and being able to use a calendar. We discussed seasons and how Phuket has 2 seasons, the dry and the wet season. The children found out which months fall into which season.

In Literacy last half term the children were learning how to write a good procedure. With it being Halloween last Tuesday, the children watched Mr Jackson make a Halloween pumpkin and then wrote a procedure on 'How to make a Halloween pumpkin'. It was good to see that so many of the children have improved with their procedure writing and included many more specific features. The children have reflected on their procedure writing and posted these reflections onto Seesaw.

To end the week we had the spectacular celebration of Loy Krathong. It was great to see so many of you in the class helping to make the krathongs with your children. The children looked fantastic in their Loy Krathong outfits and they performed brilliantly in the assembly.

Notices

From next week we will be working on writing for enjoyment.  The children will be able to use their imagination and creativity to write a fun story. In order for the children to keep these stories, we would like to ask for your help. Could you please, along with your child, buy them a notebook that they can write their stories in. It can be any kind at all. However, it must have lines which are not too narrow for them to write on. Here is an example.

Have a happy Loy Krathong evening and a great weekend.