An exciting and busy week has been had by us all. Finishing off on Friday with us celebrating Chinese New Year and meeting an explorer!
In Literacy, the children have been busy thinking about emotions and writing poetry. They connected a certain emotion to a colour, taste, smell, sound, feeling and look. Then they wrote this up as a simile poem. We carried on with performance poetry and the children put actions to and performed a selection of poetry. To link the poetry writing with our topic, the children then expressed the emotion from their poem in either a piece of artwork or by finding an appropriate image using Google.
In Maths, to start the week off we had a lot of fun making playdough. I know some of the children went home and had a go at making some more! The children had to read the instructions, including amounts as fractions, to make the playdough. We continued to use the playdough throughout the week to learn fractions of discreet numbers and how to count in tenths .
On Friday, we celebrated Chinese New Year and watched the Chinese Lion Dance. It was wonderful to see all of the children dressed up in Chinese costume or red clothes. A sea of red around BISP! The Lion dance was loud, exhilarating and colourful. All of us enjoyed it immensely.
After this, we were lucky to go to meet Mr Henry Evans, an explorer from the U.K. He gave us a wonderful talk about global warming, climate change and his solo trip when he skied to the South Pole. We watched a wonderful video of him on his adventure, battling minus 30 degrees temperatures and snow blizzards to reach the South Pole. The children dressed up in the clothes that he wore on his trip, including a penguin outfit! Lots of the children asked interesting questions to find out more information. It's definitely given us all something to think about.
Reminder to you all that the Year 3 Sleepover is near. We are looking forwards to seeing you at the 'question and answer' session next Tuesday morning, the 27th of February, at 8.10am in the 3PJ classroom.
Important message from the P.E. department
We are making a big emphasis on hats and water bottles in PE as many students are coming to lessons without both. It is extremely hot at the moment, particularly after lunch, and this can potentially be very dangerous for the health of our students. As well as emphasising the importance of staying hydrated, we are also highlighting the environmental impact we have on using paper cups rather than bringing water bottles. Please remind your child of these points and support them in bringing water bottles and hats to all lessons. Many thanks.
Message from the library
Wednesday, February 28, the Primary Library will close at 2.00pm in order to prepare for the Pirate Party. We apologise for the inconvenience.
Message from Mr. Greene (Head of Modern Languages)
uTalk Junior Language Challenge 2018
This year primary children at BISP have a unique opportunity to enter a prestigious language-learning competition based in the UK. The Junior Language Challenge starts with Round 1 in February 2018 and ends with Round 3, which takes place in London, UK in September 2018. The competition is open to primary children in years 3, 4 and 5 who are aged under 10 years old on September 1st 2018. The competition consists of learning a new language in each of the three rounds using the unique uTalk app which can easily be downloaded onto a desktop, MacBook, phone or tablet (downloading instructions and passwords will be sent when you apply to enter).
The JLC website says:
“The Junior Language Challenge is the only language competition in the UK open to primary school age children.We make learning fun and introduce children to some exciting new languages. By using our FREE app children are given their own user account and encouraged to learn independently. There are some great prizes to be won and all money raised from registration fees goes the charity one billion who work to help educate children in developing countries.”
In order to enter your child, please send an email stating their First Name, Family Name and date of birth. Please also send the parental contact name and email address to:
cgreene@bisphuket.ac.th
An application to enter the competition means that you and your child are making a 100% commitment to take an active part in the competition for as long as your child is still involved.
I look forward to receiving all your entries very soon.
Chris Greene (Head of Modern Languages)
Important dates for the diary:
Year 3 Sleepover question and answer meeting, Tuesday 27th February, 8.10am.
Year 3 Sleepover, Thursday 8th March - 9th March.
International Day, Friday 16th March, 8am.
3PJ Assembly, Friday 23rd March.
Book Character Day, Tuesday 27th March.
Have a great weekend.
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