Thank you parents for making sure that everyone looked super smart for the school photographs on Tuesday. As we were having our photos taken straight after snack time, we struck a deal that playtime would be AFTER the photos, so we got to enjoy the outside area all to ourselves. We are making the most of the beautiful Oman weather at this time of year. See us having fun in Week 18 photos.
Everyone is getting really excited about the Muscat Trip. Thank you to those who have made the payment and a reminder that if you have not yet, this is now due, so please make payment as soon as possible.
Reports have been issued today. If you have any concerns or anything you would like to discuss, please sign up for the Parent Teacher conferences next week.
Before the winter holidays, our Grade 10 Arabic students spoke at an assembly and asked for primary students to make donations of stationary items to give to Dar Al Wafa Centre to help support students with additional su[port needs who can’t easily access these supplies. Please consider donating some items such as:
- pencils/coloured pencils
- Pens
- Educational games or toys
- Plastic rulers
- Notebooks
- Packs of A4 paper
- Highlighters
- Crayons
- Playdough
Please make sure they are in good condition and these can be brought to school anytime during NEXT WEEK please. Thank you in advance for your support with this great initiative.
Upcoming Dates:
Monday 27 January – Parent Teacher Conferences 3:30 – 6:30pm. Sign up HERE
Tuesday 28 January – Parent Teacher Conferences 3:30 – 6:30pm. Sign up HERE
Thursday 30 January – Public Holiday
Monday 10th – Wednesday 12th February – Grade 5 Muscat Trip
This week in UOI we looked at space inventions that we use in our everyday lives, such as camera phones and water filters. Without space exploration, these may never have been invented! In Literacy, it was write, write, write as students drafted out their plan for their science fiction stories using a story mountain planner, they then wrote their first drafts of their stories by hand, before typing them up on Google docs to make the revise and edit process easier. They then focused on adding extra details such as a story hook, dialogue, character and setting descriptions, and reread the story to themselves before sharing it with peers for feedback. In maths we did some multiplication and division practice to refresh our memories after the break, and students learned about numbers squared and square roots, which they discovered wasn’t as scary as they thought.
Looking forward to next week, students will be focusing on their research and working on their personal Space inquiries. We will be looking at ways to organise our understanding of our inquiry using a range of graphic organisers and making sure we can answer the inquiry questions that were created. Science fiction stories’ final drafts will be getting published and ready to share, and in maths we will be looking at the difference between prime and composite numbers and working on some multiplication and division word problems.
Wishing you a wonderful weekend! Best Regards, Grade 5 Team!
