Year 6 Newsletter 9th February

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Note from the Principal

9 Feb 2024

A note from the Principal

As we welcome the Lunar New Year, may your homes be filled with happiness, harmony, and countless blessings. We enjoyed a wonderful assembly and celebration today, and let us embrace the traditions that unite us and create lasting memories.

A heartfelt thank you to the PTG for organizing the eagerly awaited annual Fun Day tomorrow! Your efforts make our school community vibrant and joyful. I look forward to seeing everyone there.

Sarah McCormack

Key Dates

Wellbeing

Just a note to clarify that the children are submitting a painting of a flower pattern for the competition, not designing an actual Songkran shirt. For example, they can submit an A4 watercolour flower pattern painting, or an acrylic canvas flower pattern painting, etc, and the winning flower pattern paintings will be turned into Songkran shirts. We do not want them to draw, design or paint a Songkran shirt and submit that; these won’t be accepted into the competition or dispay.

Fun Day

Learning

Supporting your Child with Reading at Home

Thank you to all the parents who attended the recent parent workshop on Tuesday 6^th February. Please follow this link to access the presentation slides:

Supporting Your Child with Reading at Home

The Young Mathematical Story Writers Competition (YMSA)

Do you enjoy reading stories? Do you enjoy reading stories that include some Maths? Are you confident in a Mathematical skill that you could teach others about? Do you enjoy writing stories and illustrating them? If yes to any of the above, this competition is for you!

The Young Mathematical Story Authors (YMSA) competition is the world's first annual international competition set up to encourage young mathematics learners (8-15 years old) from around the world to embed their mathematics learning in a meaningful and engaging context through creating their own mathematical story picture books.

Key Information:

• You should write and illustrate a mathematical story picture book that focuses on one mathematical topic.
• It MUST be 10 pages of A4 or less including the front and back cover.
• It should be your own drawings and ideas! (No images from the internet)
• It can be hand drawn and written or typed.
• You can look at some examples of picture books in the school library that include Maths to get some ideas.
• This website also has some advice: https://www.mathsthroughstories.org/guideline-for-mathematical-story-authors.html
• Any questions? Please come and talk to Ms Tanya!
  

Maths at Patana

At Patana, we are following White Rose Maths for our curriculum in school. This is new this academic year and forms the basis for our curriculum coverage across the Primary School. Over 80% of schools in the UK and most British International Schools in Bangkok use this. You can explore the site under the Parents & Pupils tab.

1-Minute Maths is a free app from White Rose available on Apple, Google Play and Amazon store. It helps students develop their number fluency (memorised facts; being efficient with numbers). Why not get it on your devices at home for your children to practice?

We subscribe to some websites that could be useful for you to access at home to help your child develop their maths skills. Here are two maths websites you may wish to use with your child(ren).

Times Table Rockstars is a website that helps children to develop their fluency with times tables. Rapid recall is important because it lightens the cognitive load (how much children have to think!) when they are learning written methods for multiplication and division. This means they can concentrate on learning the written method without having to pause and think about a times table fact - they just instantly know it. If you choose to do this at home, practice little and often. Click on the play button at the top (circled) to open this choice of games. We use this website in school.

  MyiMaths is a website that helps students to consolidate all aspects of maths. It also includes lots of games to improve fluency. Teachers can set tasks on this website. Set tasks show as ‘homework’ on the site. It is generally optional, but may be recommended at times.

Each child has a username and password for each of these. It would be useful for them to save them to their own device or memorise them. However, they can always ask their teacher if they need reminding.

If you have any questions about any of these sites, please don’t hesitate to ask.

PE Provision

For all PE sessions, students should wear a full PE kit and bring in a their school uniform and black school shoes to change into. Please help us reinforce this message, as we are seeing an increasing number of students without a full uniform after their PE lessons.

After residential students will begin their new activities in PE, due to health and safety reasons it is highly recommended that students wear football boots for their Tee Ball lesson. Any questions please do not hesitate to contact the PE Team - jaju@patana.ac.th

 For TeeBall, students will need to bring in football boots.

ISAs

Catch up days will be on Tuesday 13th and Wednesday 14th February.

Uniform

We have noticed an increase in non-black shoes. Please could we ensure children are wearing black shoes to school.

Global Citizenship

Events around the world

You can keep up to date with current events around the world by watching Newsround, an age appropriate news show. Being aware of current events will help your child to make connections with a range of themes when reading in class, and it is an ideal opportunity for you to model discussing your opinions and using experiences to draw connections between events and people.

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

General Information

Tiger Shop

Iron Labels (clothes/bags/trainers/swimming suits..):

• 36 pcs per set
• 350 bht

Sticker Label (cups/snack boxes/shoes/musical instruments/goggles..):

• 36 pcs per set
• Waterproof
• 350 bht

Pick up: 7 working days after placing the order.

Birthdays 

Happy birthday to the students below: 

Amy (6L); Bobby & Dalinda (6S); Eshaal (6M) Minahil (6T) William (6B Emily (6P); Olivia (6F)

Birthday Treats

We are a NUT FREE school.  Children may bring in a special treat to share with the class.

Please contact the class teacher to arrange a suitable time.

• Brownies, cupcakes and individual cake slices are easier for your child to give out.
• Please reduce plastic packaging as much as possible - please no bubble teas, fizzy drinks or caffeine drinks.
• We do not allow party bags or other gifts to be given out at school, either for birthdays, or other celebrations.

Temporary Guardianship Form - let us know if both parents are going away and leaving a student with a friend, nanny or a maid.

Important Contacts