Specialist

F-2

This term in STEM, the Foundation and Grade 1/2 students have been delving deeper in to Physics. The students have continued to learn that energy can be caused by forces, such as push or pulls. Students have learnt about the force of friction. That friction is a force between two surfaces that are sliding, or trying to slide, across each other. The students rotated around different ‘push’ and ‘pull’ activities such as dominoes, block bridges, kinetic sand and marble runs. The 1/2s learnt about gravity, friction and air resistance. They made paper straw rockets and had races outside to see who’s could fly the furthest. 

Year 3-6

This term in STEM, the Grade 5/6s have been exposed to a deeper understanding of potential and kinetic energy. The students learnt about gravity and friction and how this will affect a marble move. They began to plan and develop a model of a marble run. They then had to gather the materials they would need to engineer it. They worked in a small groups to solve how to get the marble to move from the top of the run to the bottom of the run successfully. It was great to see students working together and critically thinking about the physics behind their runs. The 3/4 students created friction ramps. They used shoe boxes to create different ramps using different materials. This altered the friction and then the students timed the monster trucks going down their ramps to see how friction affected the time it took to travel down a ramp. 

School Values Certificates/Whole School Assembly

This week, these two students will receive a STEM award; 

PA- Mohammed Al Rahman from Prep for showing kindness and enthusiasm 

5/6B- Adeel W from grade 5 for working well with others and showing great determination to complete his marble run. 

FOUNDATION:

In our Foundation sessions, we have been joining with STEM to create STEAM rotations. These rotations have focused on building both STEM and ART skills and allowing students to explore these through play and exploration. 

GRADE 1/2:

In grade 1/2, we have worked on different methods of applying watercolour paint. We looked at the 'wet on wet' watercolour technique and blended colours. We are also focusing on creating faces depicting different emotions and also the colours that represent our feelings.

GRADE 3/4:

In grade 3/4, we are learning about Japanese artist, Yayoi Kusama. We are getting very excited for our upcoming excursion to the National Art Gallery on the 25th March. Students drew their own pictures of Yayoi Kusama and are creating some 'dancing pumpkins'.

GRADE 5/6:

In grade 5/6, we have started to paint pieces of paper using different colours for an upcoming collage. Students will be constructing an art piece using small pieces of paper cut into shapes.

School Values Certificates/Whole School Assembly

This week the two students chosen for an award were:

5/6B Nicholas G  

1/2A Shehryar A 

Physical Education [PE] is a tremendous way to get students active while also teaching them important life skills, improve their physical health, and develop a love for being active. 

During PE, students will:

• focus on fundamental skills [e.g. running, catching, balance]
• play games to reinforce the skills
• foster social skills
• celebrate their efforts, building confidence and a love for sport.

Each session will have a:

• warm-up activity to get their muscles ready
• skill development activity 
• fun game - teamwork and cooperation.

We have started PE this term by playing students’ favourite games, teaching the skill of running, and for the 5/6s playing Interschool Sports.

Foundation A/B students have been working on sound and letter recognition. They have practised hand-writing different letters of the Spanish alphabet. We enjoyed watching different words that are very similar to the English language, but with slight differences in pronunciation. As an example, we had the word DOCTOR (In English "dok" + "tuh") and in Spanish DOCTOR ("dog" + " tor").

Grade 1/2 students have engaged in learning different colours in Spanish. They’ve worked on understanding the question: ¿De qué color es? (What colour is it?) to associate colours and objects. Spelling colours names and word association played an essential role during this week as students were able to identify word patterns like rojo is (red), naranja is (orange), amarillo es (yellow)... 

Grade 3/4s have been working on telling the time in Spanish. We've been working on understanding the language used for time-telling and clock-reading. We’ve completed activities and online games that have helped us understand ways to read the clock and appropriately choose words depending on the time of the day. By the way, ¿Qué hora es?⌚

Grade 5/6s have continued to work on the ‘activity booklet’. This has been done in groups. Each group has been allowed to interact with different puzzles and games contributing to their knowledge of the Spanish language. Students have then completed activities like correcting the sentence, filling in the missing letters, and choosing suitable words based on the context. These activities have challenged them to appropriately address language chunks within specific real-life scenarios.

School Values Certificates/Whole School Assembly

This week, we are very excited to award:

Laiga F- learning together certificate