To commenorate the 45th UAE National Day, the Year 6 children worked together to produce this beautiful jigsaw collage of the Spirit of the Union. Their patience was rewarded with this fabulous picture which is now on display in the Primary Reception.
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Kanwal from Year 6 Royal received a Head Teacher's award for winning the Scholastic reading competition. You can find out about more competitions on their website. http://www.thenational.ae/uaereadschallenge. Well done Kanwal.
Salut! From Sunday 15th January, the French reading corner will be open at breaktimes. This gives you the opportunity to come and read about Berthe, Asterix, Tintin and many other wonderful stories. There is a rota, in order to give you all a chance to spend time relaxing on the beanbags with a book in your hand.
French Quiz! Every month, there will be a French quiz posted on the wall in the classroom. This month, the quiz is all about Sport in France. Answers need to be on a named piece of paper and handed to Madame Singleton by January 31st. A housepoint goes to each entrant but the winning student gets 3 House points!!! Dear Parents
As part of our guided reading last term we introduced the children to the fabulous reading resource read theory. All children have indivdual logins and this is a resource we would love them to get into the habbit of using at home. The children who have been using this regularly over term 1 have made phenomenal progress, so if you are finding getting your child to read at home is like getting a cat to have a bath - this could be your answer. Each of the passages is fairly short and sweet and gives immediate feedback. It is specifically aimed at the precise level that your child is working at and gets increasingly harder as they get more and more answers correct. It helps not only develop vocabulary and expand their knowledge but also tackles those key skills of inference and deduction. The Year 6 Team We have well and truly started our new topic of Electricity in Science this week with the children showcasing their knowledge of how to make a circuit. The children then used a circuit diagram and the correct circuit symbols to record their ideas. During the coming weeks we will be looking at Parallel and Series Circuits and using our investigative skills to set up our own exciting, electrifying experiments! Dear Parents Please find attached the Termly Overview for all subjects and the Termly Maths Overview for your purusal. All the best Mrs W. ![]()
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A very warm welcome back to all of you! We hope you have had fabulous holidays and are returning full of energy for round 2! We look forward to hearing all about your exciting escapades over the coming week.
Remember that, as with the start of every term you need to refill your pencil case, with pencils, pens, rubbers, rulers, colour pencils, scissors, glue etc. If you have got new uniform make sure that it is named and this term, we are looking for everyone to make a more concerted effort to look after their things - the Box of Shame became far too big last term! Have a great last afternoon of freedom. See you tomorrow! Mrs W. We say it at the end of every term, but where has the time gone? It only seems like yesterday that we were welcoming in lots of new small people into Year 6. 15 weeks on, those small people aren’t so small anymore, lots are shooting up and most have grown up in other ways too.
It has been an action packed term, as always, with numerous sporting fixtures and events, house matches, music concerts and exams and of course our fabulous Remembrance Assembly in November. When I asked my team for their favourite moments, there were so many we couldn’t list them all here but the highlights include: children drinking tea and eating cakes until their eyes bulged at the tea party, witnessing all the children’s relatives who have been part of military forces that have kept us safe over the years, the singing and the songs in our assembly with Mrs Czerpak’s favourite tear jerker being the finale piece of I will Wait with the Senior musicians accompanying us. The children make us proud on a daily basis. They are kind, considerate and thoughtful beings with a clear sense of right and wrong. They are welcoming to the many new children who have joined the year group and are the reason that we get up each day and get to do what we love to do, which is teach. World War I and II have been interesting to learn about and we have finished off with rationing and some fabulous authentic recipes which the children have made and tried. In Oxford our favourite was definitely the carrot cake and potato scones. I think we all decided that we are glad to be living now and not having to find out what nettle soup tastes like. We had a fabulous evacuation day, followed by a traditional English tea party to celebrate VE day. Much of the children’s learning about the war came through our Remembrance Assembly, another moving and poignant performance by our talented pupils. Sapphire class all enjoyed watching or taking part in the shadow dance and learning the new songs which they sang with enthusiasm. The assembly also helped them appreciate the many sacrifices that are made during conflicts today and in the past. In the classroom, they developed their debating skills when they considered the role of General Haig during WWI and were amazed at the conditions that soldiers had to endure whilst living in trenches on the front line. We have had lots of fun classifying animals earlier on in the term and investigating Microorganisms more recently in Science. Children have designed experiments to see what happens to yeast under different conditions, what happens to yeast and why it is useful in bread making, and what different conditions promote the growth of mould. The children’s English work has been impressive this term, with their anti-recruitment speeches being truly persuasive and their war poems full of fabulous figurative language, which has on occasion sent shivers up our spines and brought tears to our eyes! In Royal we really enjoyed making freeze frames for the poem Dulce De Corum Est and making these into a graphic novel. We’ve enjoyed our Science lessons and particularly enjoyed making bread and enjoyed eating it even more! The highlight for our class was the mannequin challenge, the children loved staying still and silent for a full 4 minutes- I know the teachers liked it too! Computing has been fun and games with the children learning to make a personal appearance in a dramatic monologue. We learned how to download sound effects and images, put these together into an iMovie and then record ourselves in front of a green screen, just like in the movies! We felt famous when our finished pieces showed us starring in the iMovie we created! It has been really fantastic to see what a big impact the whole school’s initiative of Growth Mindset has had on our children, particularly in Maths in Year 6. Maths is a subject that some children love and others are considerably less keen on. It is all down to experiences and confidence and an appreciation of not being able to do something is fine, making mistakes is good and if they can’t do it, it doesn’t mean it will be forever, it just means they can’t do it YET! I am very pleased with the introduction of Class Dojo app as it is working brilliantly as a tool to share with you what we are up to on a regular basis in our individual classes and is a way to improve our communication with you about one of the core subjects. The majority of children have worked particularly hard on their take away homework, producing imaginative, interesting and educational pieces that have been a real pleasure to share. Seeing the children’s confidence grow in their ability to stand up and present to a whole class has been magic, as too has the children’s ability to feedback both honestly and critically, thus developing crucial life skills of giving and responding to feedback. Peer teaching has also been a key skill that has developed over the course of the term. I would like to take this opportunity to say thank you to you, as our lovely children’s parents. Your continued and ongoing support is very much appreciated and really does make a difference. I would also like to wish you all a fabulous winter break, hoping you all have a great time and come back with adventures a plenty. The only homework being set is – times tables, if they haven’t been learnt yet – there needs to be a big push over the holidays so we start 2017 with 100% of the children 100% confident with all times tables up to 12x12 and corresponding division facts. If you could encourage some reading on a daily basis, that would be great and don’t forget the Extreme Reading Competition – we look forward to seeing those entries in January. Below is a website for a list of books by 'The Guardian' for recommended reading.
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