Year 5 Newsletter 2.10.2020

We are:  collaborative communicators

Events

Well Being

New option to drop off children at Gate 3/4 - between FS and Year 3/4 building

After dropping off your child/ren, please keep driving in the same direction.

You will exit through the back of the school, passing the Sports Hall and exiting on Bangna Trat Soi 16.

There is no option to U-Turn or to park.

Any vehicle using this route must have a BPS car sticker, available from Reception.

Please observe the 20 km hour speed limit.

Tiger's Dance Teams Try-Outs

Tiger’s Dance Academy is hosting try outs for dance teams (new and existing teams) between Oct 5^th – Oct 9^th in the dance studios (Y5/6 building 3^rd floor) between 12:00 PM-1:00 PM. These are walk in try outs so student don’t need to register and can simply walk in. Please refer to the schedule on the blog post here and check out all the various options - Dance try outs. Parents and students are requested to read the entire blog post carefully as it contains all the information they need to know, before trying out

Dance

Global Citizenship

Digital Citizenship - We are respected contributors to digital and local communities

This week, we had a visit from Mr Brian Taylor. He reminded us of the importance of one of our Patana Values - being a 'respectful contributor to digital and local communities'. A key message was that we should all be using social media and our communication platforms responsibly. 

This includes the following: 

• not sharing our passwords or allowing other people to use our accounts to send messages to other people
• reporting things that make us feel uncomfortable to a trusted adult
• not using MS Teams late at night
• changing settings to 'do not disturb'
• being aware that we can see all activity that takes place online on MS Teams
• if you have nothing good to say, better to say nothing at all

We ask that our parent body support us by talking to your children about being a respectful contributor. 

Global Citizenship Mindcraft Competition

Copy and paste this link to find out more: https://www.minecraft.net/en-us/live

Tiger Spirit Day

Student Council Representatives

Along with being elected, comes responsibility: giving up your own time, remembering meetings and being punctual. Our elected Student Council representatives are all off to a good start. 

This week, the Student Council have been preparing for an assembly. In our first couple of meetings, the students spent time getting to know each other. Another big part of the meeting was discussing the upcoming charity events and how these would be introduced and organised. On Wednesday, all of the representatives addressed a Year 5 audience to tell them about Tiger Spirit Day. What a fantastic job they did! They collaborated and communicated their message effectively. We all feel so lucky to have this wonderful body of students advocating for Year 5. Well done everyone. 

Events in the World

If you would like your child to be aware of world news and events but find it too overwhelming, have a look at Newsround for a more age appropriate version of current events.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/newsround

Learning

Parent - Teacher meetings

Thank you to all of our parents who we met with this week. It was great discussing how your child has settled back into life at school. We are looking forward to seeing the rest of our parents next week. 

If you haven't managed to arrange an appointment, please contact your child's class teacher. 

Home Learning and Class Blogs

Remember that your child's home learning has been shared via their class blog.

Here is the link directly to the Year 5 blogs. 

Birthdays

Happy Birthday to the following students who are celebrating their birthday this week:

We are now able to celebrate the children’s birthdays with them, as long as we follow these requirements:

• Individualised treats (cupcakes, donuts, etc) can be brought in either at the start of the day or the end of the day
• No Nuts! Please ensure that any food items sent in do not contain nuts, or any traces of nuts. Please check the ingredients.

· No candles

· The birthday treats must be individual portions – teachers will not be able to cut pieces of cake to be given out.

Please liaise directly with your child’s class teacher to inform them if you will be bringing in treats for your child’s birthday.

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