Year 6 Newsletter 6.12.19

Welcome to the Year 6 Newsletter

Living our Values

We are : Motivated and Engaged

Upcoming Events

Well-Being

Christmas Concert

Break in ECA Block

Please note all ECAs including selective and year-long will not run from December 9 – 13 to allow the whole community to enjoy the Christmas festivities and attend the various events both in school and outside of school. 

All school buses will revert to 2:30pm. Block 2 ECAs will resume on the first day of school in Term 2 (January 6^th).

Year 6 Christmas Celebration

On the 12th December, Year 6 will have a Christmas Celebration. Students can bring in baked goods (cookies or cakes) to share with this class. Please remember that we have a 'no nuts' policy at Patana.

Students can also wear Christmas accessories along with their school uniform.

Students can bring in board games to play during the afternoon. No electronics please.

Learning

Library Update

Migration

After the Christmas holiday, we will start our new learning theme on migration. Throughout this unit, we will look at migration throughout the ages. We will explore push and pull factors and how some of these are personal choices whereas some are forced upon people.

To support us with this learning, we often try to involve our parent body in delivering presentations to our students. If your work is related to human migration e.g with refugees, and you are prepared to support our learning, please let me know. mica@patana.ac.th 

PE lessons - 3km Challenge

All Year 6 students will complete their 3KM Challenge – see below for what kit to bring. PE kit, scooters and or swim kit to be brought in if these options have been chosen.

Monday 9^th December

No swimming lesson for 6 Blue, Pink, Black and White groups.

All students to wear PE kit and trainers.

Students will take on a 3KM Challenge, and will have the option to swim, run, and/or scoot to complete a distance of 3 kilometres.

Students may choose one, two or even all 3 options! So please assist them in ensuring that they have everything they need to complete their challenge.

Please note that students choosing the “scoot” option will need to bring in their own scooter.

Helmets are compulsory for the “scoot” option. Elbow/knee pads and additional protection is welcome.

School buses can only accommodate scooters which can FOLD UP, therefore rigid or large scooters will not be accepted if your child comes to School via Patana minivans.

Scooters can be stored in the Sports Hall during the day, but only if they are clearly labelled with your child’s name and class. These must be dropped off before school, and collected at the end of the day. Scooters will not be allowed during playtime or lunchtimes.

Students choosing the “swim” option should bring in a black swimsuit, swim hat, goggles and a towel (rashvest optional).

We look forward to seeing your child have fun and challenge themselves in PE next week!

If you have any questions, please email Miss Zoe on zoed@patana.ac.th.

Global Citizenship

Primary Cookbook

Thank you to everyone who pre-ordered a book!

The books are being print and they will be ready to pick up next week (9th December) at the Primary School Office.

I will also be selling them at the Winter Concert on the 11th of December.

See you there!

Thank You, Jo Vanden Auweele

General Information:

Japanese ECA

ECA日本語のご案内

日本人または日本語を母国語とする親を持つ生徒の為のECA日本語が、新学期も引き続き開講されます。外部からの国語教師が授業を担当します。これを機会に子供達の日本語力を高めませんか。詳細はECA登録画面で確認願います。

A Japanese language ECA will be offered for students who are fluent Japanese speakers or those whose parents are Japanese speakers.Japanese teachers(not Patana staff)will lead the ECA and help your child to improve their Japanese.Please refer to the ECA application site for details.

This Japanese ECA is for new students and parents of Japanese speakers.If they are interested in it,they will check the contents of Japanese ECA and sign up in the application ECA site after Block 3 registration will be open on 6th of January 2020.

I would like to ask you to keep presenting the announcement about Japanese ECA on Year group news letter until 10th of January 2020.

Year 6 Memory Book 

Start collecting photographs

If your child has been at Patana for many years, it's likely that you will have a host of photographs from their earlier years at Patana. These are useful for class teachers when we collate class pages. 

Pass any of these onto class representatives so that they can share them with class teachers after the Christmas holidays. 

6C - Pook Rapeepan.sapayanon@gmail.com

6H - Helen helen.tnk@gmail.com

6P and 6F - Eh pwongswan@yahoo.com

6E - Benz Nubenz@hotmail.com

6G - May maytean@gmail.com

6D Emma Flett - emmavflett@gmail.com

6J Cherrie Lim cherrielim80@gmail.com

Lost Property

Parents and children are encouraged to search lost property before purchasing replacement items.

Please visit https://patana.fireflycloud.asia/community-events/lost-property.

Birthdays:

Nut free Primary School

For some children, any exposure to nuts is potentially very dangerous and can be life threatening.

We do not allow any nuts to be brought into Primary. This includes snacks on school transport, birthday treats and food items brought in for any other special days.

There are no students in Year 6 with a birthday this week. 

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