Dear Parents and Students,
Good afternoon and Happy Thursday. To those of you recognising Ramadan, I wish you a wonderful Eid Al Fitr next week and look forward to seeing everyone back on the 8th of May.
For photos of students hard at work learning and having fun this week please see our Grade 6 Picture folder linked below.
Homework
During the G6 Exhibition unit, students will have personalised/ individualised homework where they are required to work on their inquiries daily and to document their learning journey in relation to this. At the same time, students will continue to practise Mathematics basic facts, Reading and Spelling. I am pleased to say that this week we had a mathematics assessment survey and all students have shown growth and progress in this. This must mean they have been practising for their homework. Well done everyone, Please also remember to sign your child’s homework each week. Thank you.
Reading, Writing and Inquiry
This week students have continued to develop their ATL skills. In particular this week the focus has been on self management and research skills.
For this, students were given guidance in creating and scheduling their own timetable, breaks and areas of study. Again, please talk with them about this. I am sure this will be insightful. They have done well and are developing a more in depth understanding of the intricacies of planning and managing one’s time in relation to tasks and projects to complete.
Our Central Idea for the Exhibition unit:
My passion can be connected to local and global issues and the Action I take may lead to positive change.
For this we will inquire into the following;
- Students will come up with their own lines of inquiry for this unit. (Please talk with them about this and help them with guiding questions where you can).
Exhibition Journal: Documenting the learning journey (process and product)…
This week students from Grade 7 visited our class to support our students with their exhibition. They did this by sharing their understanding of the exhibition and sharing the benefit of hindsight as they completed theirs last year. This was a great experience and the first of a number of planned transition activities we will share with Grade 7 as we look towards our current grade 6 team moving up from primary into secondary.
For the Grade 6 exhibition unit, students are creating an electronic journal and keeping a daily log of what they have done, what they have discovered as well as their thoughts and feelings in light of this. Please do look at this and talk with your children about it. This is where you will gain insight into everything your child is doing for their exhibition project.
Mathematics
For mathematics this week students continued to develop their mathematical understandings and their problem solving skills. Students also completed their second last Basic facts assessment for the year. Very pleasingly, all students have shown growth and progress in this area. Well done everyone.
For our Grade 6 schedule please see the link here: Grade 6 Ramadan schedule
Notices/ Worth Repeating
As of the 8th of May we will resume with the pre Ramadan schedule.
After School Activities recommence as of the 8th of May.
Our first G5 and 6 Assembly is scheduled for Thursday the 19th of May from 12:30 – 1:00.
Our G6 Exhibition is scheduled for the 24th of May
Ms Maryam on Maternity leave.
After Eid Al Fitr, Ms. Marayam, our classroom assistant, will begin her Maternity leave as she prepares to welcome a new addition to her family into the world. We wish her all the very best and look forward to seeing her on her return.
In the meantime, Ms Khadija and I will continue to support students in their learning for the remainder of the year.
Regarding Covid 19:
As you will have seen in the news, regarding health and safety protocols around Covid 19, Oman is making moves towards normalcy. We continue to maintain our high standards and our current procedures however and ask that we all remain vigilant in this respect.
As a reminder please see the points below:
- Please do not send your child to school if they are exhibiting any symptoms of Covid. Keep them home until a doctor confirms that they can safely return to school.
- Please inform the school immediately once you are aware of any confirmed covid cases in your family, or of any close contacts with confirmed or suspected cases.
- Please follow the updated Covid Management protocols which our school will be following in the event of positive or close contact cases throughout our unvaccinated primary population.
As always, if you have any questions please do not hesitate to contact me.
Sincere regards,
Your partners in learning.
The Grade 6 Teaching team
Glen Nicholson, Maryam Al Muqbali, Khadija Alornrani