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THE PEARL ACADEMYWEEKLY NEWSLETTER

October is Dyslexia Aware-ness Month and I would like to share with you some informa-tion about dyslexia.

Dyslexia is a specific learning difference. It shows itself in different ways with different people: some people may find reading difficult, others spell-ing. Some people reverse let-ters and numbers and find tell-ing the time on an analogue clock difficult.

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The Year 6 children at-tended Al Bateen on Sun-day. They spent some time in science lessons and had a tour of the school. The tour was led by students of Al Bateen who were a cred-it to their school. There will be further transition events as students make important decisions about where they will continue their secondary education.

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It is often difficult to diagnose dyslexia before the age of sev-en as many of the signs of dys-lexia are very usual in children under seven, for example mir-ror writing or letter reversal. If we, at The Pearl, suspect dys-lexia in a child under seven, we will monitor them carefully and take further action once they reach Year 3.

Here are some indicators for possible dyslexia – again though, if a child displays any of these, it does not necessar-ily mean dyslexia – a compre-hensive assessment would be needed for that:

Children aged 4 – 7

Speaking – Persistently mispronounces words and can find it hard to find the correct word.

Phonological awareness – Misses or changes sounds in words that are heard, spoken, or read.

Reading and Spelling – Difficulty learning to sound out words for reading and spel l ing.– Relies on sight words, read-ing is slow and laborious.

Sequencing– Errors when reading – e.g. says “was” for saw; telling an

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event in order

Auditory memory – Difficulty following directions, learning times tables etc.

Writing – letter or number reversal. Mirror writing.

Focus – Finds concentrating at school difficult.

Children aged 8- 11

Speaking – Persistently mispronounces words and can find it hard to find the correct word.

Phonological awareness– Misses or changes sounds in words that are heard, spoken, or read.

Reading – Slow; avoids reading; relies on sight words; guesses and makes errors.

Spelling– Poor spelling; does not retain words learnt for a spelling test; mixes up letters in words.

Writing– Avoids it; written sentences are short and poorly organised or ordered.

Auditory memory – Difficulty following or remem-bering multiple-step directions– Difficulty remembering mul-tiplication tables, phone num-bers etc.

Focus – Trouble concentrating; gets tired quickly when doing school work; loses place on a page.

Self-esteem – Increasing frustration and poor self-esteem.

Language expression– Difficulty putting ideas in words and sequencing them appropriately.

For me however, one of the biggest signs is a disparity be-tween abilities: for example, a child who is verbally able, yet cannot get ideas down on pa-per; a child who can build the most amazing Lego creations, yet cannot remember how to spell ‘very’.

For dyslexics, school can be a very challenging place. We put [rightly] so much emphasis on reading, writing and num-

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ber work - the very areas dys-lexic children find challenging. However, there is hope! In today’s world, many jobs are now able to be done by ma-chine. Dyslexics possess the very qualities that machines do not have: creativity, out of the box thinking, big picture think-ing. Indeed, NASA actively seeks out dyslexic people as they have the skills that they want!

If you are interested in re-searching this area, you may like to read the following texts:

The Dyslexic Advantage: Un-locking the Potential of the Dyslexic Brain by Brock EideThe Gift of Dyslexia: Why some of the Brightest People Can’t Read by Ronald D Davis

Or watch

Ted Talk – The True Gifts of a Dyslexic Mind https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_dPyzFFcG7A

The Power of Dyslexia - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F7OlxL9iUeI

So what do you do if you think your child may be dyslexic? First of all, speak to someone in The Pearl’s inclusion team. Next steps may involve mon-itoring or an assessment car-ried out by one of the inclu-

sion team. It could be that we recommend an assessment by an educational psychologist as this is the only way to get a definitive diagnosis of dyslexia.

If you have any questions about this, please do not hesitate to speak to Mrs Barr ([email protected].

ae) If your child is dyslexic, we will offer them support to help them succeed at school but also celebrate their very spe-cial, unique talents.

Safer Routes to School

As you are aware, the health and safety of our whole com-munity always guides all of our school policies and procedures.

Thank you to the six parents who attended the meeting on traffic this week. At the meet-ing, it was decided that we would continue to pursue the necessary authorities for sup-porting developing safer routes to school.

As a first step, this week we have met with the traffic po-lice and been advised that the partial one-way system is still in place around the school site. From Sunday, school staff will be outside the school to guide cars around this system.

We have also registered with the #We Are All Police scheme. This scheme allows us to instantly report any driv-ers not abiding by the traffic laws - not something we wish to do but an unfortunate ne-cessity for safety reasons.

What do we need from you?

• Please observe the road traffic laws. It only takes one thoughtless driver to stop the system working.

• Please leave enough time to get to school without being in a rush.

• Talk to your drivers and nannies so they know about the routes around school.

• Finally, please show all of the staff the respect they deserve at all times but espe-cially when they are working so hard to keep our children safe.

Finance and Payments

Please ensure all payments are made with the correct money attached to the correct form. Payments cannot be combined in one bundle.

I wish you all a peaceful week-end,

Abigail

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Mental Health Awareness#pearltalkoutloud

What an enriching week this has been! On Sunday we launched the Mental Health Awareness Week with an assem-bly to raise awareness and to highlight that mental health matters. Most of our children will be able to tell you what

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mental health is and why it is important to look after your mental health. We specifically focused on small and big feelings and what to do when you have big feelings. I had a few video interviews with random teachers and students to demonstration our understanding of this topic in the assembly. When I asked Jana in Year 2 what she does when she has big feelings she said that she takes three deep breaths and think of all the fun things. I think we can learn so much from our little children about being calm.

The Aldar Counsellors parent night at Al Yasmina Academy on Tuesday evening was a posi-tive event. It gave Aldar parents the opportunity to talk about and ask for guidance around meeting the wellbeing and mental health needs of their children. It demonstrates the need to belong to a community who cares and supports and this is what the Aldar Counsellors are aiming for.

Our Year 6 students had the privilege of attending a mental health talk hosted by Darkness into Light, Abu Dhabi. Maria Kelly, Chairperson and Laura Brennan, Director of Therapeutic Services and Vice-Chairperson introduced Sonia Gonzalez, Sound Healer, to our children. The children were introduced to a healing practice that cultivates emotional intelli-gence through relaxation. Ms Gonzalez used different instruments and sounds to encourage a calm and peaceful session. She also hosts week-

ly sessions at Manarat al Saadian and House of Nature for those who may be interested.

Let’s invest in our mental health by talking about our feelings and finding the time to check in with each other. Kate Middleton said that “a child’s mental health is just as important as their physical health and deserves the same quality of support” and I agree wholeheartedly with her. Make sure to talk to your children about how they are doing and spend some time really listening.

Please have a look at the Sunday parent workshop schedule as the ‘Anger’ workshop is post-poned until Term 2. It will be replaced with a workshop by our Arabic staff specifically for our Non-Native community.

Have a wonderful weekend and remember to take time to reflect on your mental health!

Warm regards,Maryke Venter – School Counsellor

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Aazeen - For producing a fantastic piece of writing independently, using her prior knowledge to help her.

Saif -For always work-ing hard trying his best in class to produce the best work he can.

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Well done to Omar who recently completed the Grade 3 Exam in guitar. The best of luck with Grade 4 Omar!

GUITAR ACHIEVEMENT

YEAR 2TurquoiseYEAR 3

Moonstone 100%

Alexandrite

Sphene

YEAR 6Sapphire 100%

YEAR 4

Jet 100%

Tourmaline

Amethyst

YEAR 5Crystal

Congratulations to Anvith for reaching the Emirates Level of Kenken Interna-tional Championship. He will now enter the Nation-al Level which is due to be on November 2nd. Anvith achieved full marks, along with just 37 other children. Well done!

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ISSUE NO.31 JUNE 13TH 2019

This week in Nursery we began our inquiry into ‘Are all bears cuddly?’

We shared the story of ‘Goldi-locks and the Three Bears’, se-quenced the events and acted them out. We enjoyed using Goldilocks props as part of our enhanced provision and used some story themed charac-ter puppets in our small world play. A version of the story can be found at the following link:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KndSVsY5HWM

We competed a range of fine motor activities during Funky Finger lessons. These have in-cluded threading, working with playdough, making puzzles, spooning oats, painting and much more. These activities

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will prepare our arms, hands and fingers for mark making and writing. We have also en-joyed mark making on paper on the walls, floor and under the tables and also tracing, painting and chalking.

In Maths we focused on order-ing objects by size and using the corresponding language.

Every day in Nursery we are observing the children, look-ing at where they are in their learning and using this infor-mation to plan their next steps. We assess the children accord-ing to their progress in each of the seven areas of learning but we also look at how they learn and how we can challenge them further. The UK Statuto-ry Framework for Early Years identifies three ‘Characteristics

of Effective Learning’: Playing and Exploring, Active Learning, Creativity and Thinking Criti-cally. Developing these char-acteristics is vitally important for every child to ensure they meet all of the Early Learning Goals and to prepare them for future learning.

If you wish to develop your knowledge further, please have a look at the following link:

http://www.earlyyearscareers.com/eyc/learning-and-devel-opment/exploring-the-charac-teristics-of-effective-learning/

In addition to this we are contin-uing to develop and embed HPL across the school. This stands for ‘High Performing Learning’ and this approach recognises that all students should have the opportunity to achieve the very highest results, and em-phasises the attitudes and per-formance characteristics need-ed to develop successful, high achieving young people.

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This week we have been learn-ing about the colour green. The children have enjoyed search-ing for green objects outside the classroom and painting dif-ferent shapes of leaves, as well as learning the letter “Da” and linking it with words that be-gin with the letter eg. “Da’irah (circle), Dub (bear).

Next week in Arabic: Children will continue learning letter (Da).

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ARABIC

REMINDERS

Please remember that next week is Nursery’s week for Parent Teacher Conferences. Please sign up outside your teacher’s class and choose a time if you have not already done so. Meetings will be 10 minutes long.

تناولنا هذا األسبوع اللون األخرض، حيث استمتع األطفال بالبحث عن اللون

األخرض خارج الصف، وقام كل منهم بطباعة أوراق الشجر بأشكال مختلفة،

كام تعرفوا عىل حرف الدال وقاموا بربطه بكلمة )دائرة ، دب(.

األسبوع القادم: سيتابع األطفال التعرف عىل حرف الدال،وشكل املربع.

• We will continue with the story ‘Goldilocks and the Three Bears’.• Letters and Sounds – Environmental Discrimi-na t ion . • Making porridge.

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األسبوع املقبل :

سنواصل تناول قصة • Goldilocks and the Three‘

’Bearsالحروف واألصوات – •

التمييز البيئي سنقوم بصنع عصيدة . •NEXT WEEK

ARABIC

SunstoneFarah

Mansoor

SunstoneJudy

Opal Salama and

Krish

Opal Tameem

Coral JumaaMaria

Coral Amin

RubyCiaran Noura

RubyKarma

SUPERHEROES OF THE WEEK LINKED TO OUR HIGH PER-FORMANCE LEARN-

ING FOCUS:This week our Superhe-

roes have shown fantastic creativity in class.

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This week in FS2 we have been continuing our ‘Super-heroes’ enquiry by finding su-perheroes in our community. We found lots of these includ-ing police men, firemen, shop keepers and farmers. We have also been identifying one more than a given number in Maths and managed to do this in a lot of different ways.

THIS WEEK’S LEARNING

Maths: Ordering numbers. Finding more and less than a number. Letter Sound: ‘g’ and ‘o’Letter Formation: ‘c’ and ‘a’

Maths: Ordering numbers. Finding more and less than a number. Letter Sound: ‘c’ and ‘k’Letter Formation: ‘c’ and ‘a’Tricky words: ‘we’ and ‘me’.

NEWS FROM FS2 P1

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يف مادة الرياضيات : ترتيب األعداد . إيجاد عىل أقل أو أكرث

من عدد.’a‘ و’c‘ : كتابة الحروف

‘we’ و ’me‘ : الكلامت الصعبة

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This week in FS2, we have been learning the letter “Ra” with its long sounds and linking it with words that begin with the let-ter.

Next week: We will be learn-ing letter “Ja” and children will be talking about their superhe-roes.

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ARABIC

REMINDERS

No hat no play

Your child should bring their hat every day. No spare hats will be provid-ed for children who do not bring one.

Swimming

Swimming has now start-ed for FS2. Each child will swim every week. Please ensure your child has everything they need for swimming. They can wear their PE kit on their swim-ming day as this makes it easier for them to change.

This week our stars of the week superheroes have

been working on our enter-prising and creative skills.

ARABIC

AmberWaleedAazeen

AmberLeelya

Diamond Ismail

Nai

Diamond Ismail

AquamarineRamiRayah

AquamarineMira

JadeChloeEldrian

JadeLaith

يف روضتنا الثانية كان درسنا لهذا األسبوع “حرف الراء” بأشكاله املختلفة يف

) بداية، وسط، ونهاية الكلمة (، وكذلك مع حروف املد الثالثة )را – رو – ري(. تعرفنا أيضا عىل كلامت تحوي الحرف

“راء”. األسبوع القادم: سيتم تناول حرف الجيم، وسوف يتحدث الطالب عن

أبطالهم الخارقني.

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It has been an incredibly busy week in Year 1 this past week. We’ve been enjoying our learn-ing and exploring the new con-cepts we have looked at in our exciting lessons.

In English we have been:

• Creating our own story map of ‘Oh Swimming is Love-ly’; introducing our own char-acters, actions and setting• Recording retelling the story ‘Oh Swimming is Lovely’. • Preposition Game – in, over, under, in front, behind, bes ide . • Creating stick puppets• Drawing a front cover for our own stories.

In Mathematics we have been:

• Learning about 2D S h a p e s .

In English we will be:

• Writing and record-ing our own story• Practicing cursive h a n d w r i t i n g• Sketching a safari picture for our story• Completing a range of fine motor activities

In Mathematics we will be:

• Identifying 3D shapes and their proper-t i e s

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• Going on a shape hunt around the school. • Identifying the proper-ties of 2D shapes. • Using different shapes to make a picture.• Feely bag – identifying the objects and their shape

In Science and Topic we have been:

• Identifying and naming a variety of common animals, focussing on reptiles and am-phibians.• Looking at the physical and human features in an area of the UK.

• Going on a shape h u n t• Making 3D shape s c u l p t u r e s• Sorting shapes• Investigating the properties of 3D shapes

In Science & Topic we will be:

• Identifying and nam-ing a variety of common animals that are carnivores, herbivores and omnivores.• Looking at the phys-ical and human features in an area of the UAE.

STARS OF THE WEEK

GarnetSophiaLeon

Azurite Ali

Raeka

TopazTayyemQirat

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NEWS FROM YEAR 1 P2 October 10th 2019

NON NATIVE ISLAMIC EDUCATION

NON NATIVE ARABIC:

يف هذا األسبوع تعرفنا عىل حريف ) د – ذ (، وتم تدريب الطالب عىل لفظهام مع املد الطويل والقصري ) دا – دو – دي – د – د - د ( ) ذا – ذ و – ذي – ذ – ذ– ذ(، وتم تدريب الطالب عىل قراءة بعض الكلامت التي تم تجريد حروفها بطريقة التهجئة ) ذباب – دب – ذاب – بدر –

بدور (. وقام الطالب بعمل اليد السحرية

وتثبيت بعض الكلامت عليها وذلك لتعزيز القراءة يف املنزل.

الواجب: سيتم إرسال ورقة عمل عن طريق اإلمييل، الرجاء مساعدة الطالب

عىل حلها وإعادتها للمدرسة األسبوع القادم ) يوم الخميس(.

مالحظة: يرجى العلم أن املهامت املرسلة يف منصة عصافري هي مهامت إثرائية

للطالب وليست إلزامية. األسبوع القادم:

سنتعرف عىل حرف ) س – ش (. وسيتم تدريب الطالب عىل قراءة جملة بسيطة

تتكون من كلامت برصية وكلامت تم تجريد حروفها.

يف هذا األسبوع تم متابعة حفظ سورة الفاتحة.

األسبوع القادم سيتعرف الطالب عىل قصة مولد سيدنا محمد صىل الله عليه

وسلم.واجب بيتي: متابعة الطالب يف حفظ

سورة الفاتحة حيث سيتم تسميعها للطالب يوم الخميس املوافق

.) 2019/10/17 (

This week, we have been learn-ing the topic “ Say Shahadah”’

Next week, we will be learning “Surat al Fatihah”.

This week, we have been learn-ing letter (BA) with its short and long sounds.

Next week, we will be learning the topic (Numbers).


يف مادة اللغة االنجليزية سنتناول:

كتابة وتسجيل القصة •الخاصة بنا .

التدريب عىل الكتابة •بالخط املائل.

رسم صورة سفاري •لقصتنا .

استكامل مجموعة من •األنشطة الحركية الدقيقة.

يف مادة الرياضيات :

تحديد خصائص أشكال •. )3D( الثالثية األبعاد

سنقوم بالبحث عن •األشكال.

سنقوم بعمل أشكال •.)3D( الثالثية األبعاد

سنقوم بتصنيف األشكال . •سنقوم بالتحقيق يف •

خصائص األشكال ثالثية األبعاد .)3D(

: Topicيف مادة العلوم وال

• سنقوم بتحديد وتسمية مجموعة متنوعة من الحيوانات

الشائعة، مع الرتكيز عىل أي الحيوانات آكلة النباتات وآكلة

اللحوم أو آكلة النباتات واللحوم .• سننظر إىل الخصائص الطبيعية والبرشية لدولة االمارات العربية

املتحدة .

اللغة العربية:

الرتبية اإلسالمية:

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We have had another fantas-tic week of learning in Year 2! We have been making our very own Superhero capes by sketching and painting our own designs onto fabric. They are looking extremely colourful and creative!


In English we

• Have been innovating the story of ‘Traction Man.’ • Have added in our own characters to create an excit-ing story.

In Mathematics we

• Have been exploring place value and our knowledge of number.

• Have been using our knowledge of place value to solve a variety of problems.

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In Science and Topic we

• Have started planning our own science investigation. We are trying to find the best material for Traction Man’s new sub-aqua costume.• Have learnt all about the seven continents around the world. We have explored each of the continents’ climates, landscapes and animals.

REMINDERS

Next Tuesday (15th Octo-ber) Year 2 will be taking part in their very own ‘Su-perhero Day.’ On this day, we will be celebrating the end of our exciting topic - ‘What makes a Super-hero?’ and will have a fun day of activities linked to our learning.

The children have been designing and making their own superhero capes, which they will wear on the day, along with their uniform.

On Thursday (17th Octo-ber) children may dress in crazy pink clothing in aid of raising money for Cancer Research. Clothing must be appropriate for school. Please send all donations to reception on this day.

We continue to see some trolley bags or large bags being brought to school – they are not allowed in school as we do not have the space to store them. Thank you to all parents who are currently support-ing us with this.

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In English we will be

• Writing a diary entry as part of a whole school writing task. • Writing our very own adventure story, using our ideas and skills learnt from this term.

In Mathematics we will be

• Exploring 2D and 3D shapes and their prop-e r t i e s .

In Science and Topic we will

• Carry out our sci-ence investigations. • Finish making our Superhero capes, in prepa-ration for our Superhero day.

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يف مادة اللغة االنجليزية :

• سنقوم بكتابة مذكرة كجزء من مهمة الكتابة املدرسية.

• سنقوم بكتابة قصة مغامرة من إنشائنا وذلك من خالل استخدام األفكار واملهارات التي تم تناولها

خالل الفصل.

يف مادة الرياضيات:

•سنقوم باكتشاف خصائص األشكال )2D، 3D( ثنائية وثالثية األبعاد

: Topicيف مادة العلوم وال

• سنواصل إجراء التحقيقات العلمية.

• سننتهي من صنع أقنعة البطل Super- .الخارق، استعدادا ليوم ال

hero

STARS OF THE WEEK

AgateJenna

EmeraldAmir

TurquoiseMalik

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NON NATIVE ARABIC:

يف هذا األسبوع بدأنا بدرس جنجل يبحث عن جوهرته، واستخرجنا كلامت

من القصة تحتوي عىل حرف الجيم، كام قمنا بقراءة كلامت وجمل تحتوي

عىل حرف الجيم، وتدربنا عىل مهارة مد األلف، وقمنا باستخراج كلامت تحتوي

عىل مد األلف. األسبوع املقبل: سنبدأ بدرس )حلزون

يجد له صديقا (، وسنقوم بحل تدريباته وأنشطته.

الواجب: قراءة صفحة 54 من كتاب النشاط، وحل صفحة 56 +58


للطالب وليست إلزامية.

يف هذا األسبوع تناولنا درس )أركان اإلسالم(، وتعرفنا عىل أركان اإلسالم

الخمسة.الواجب: تدريب الطالب عىل أركان

اإلسالم الخمسة.األسبوع املقبل: سنتناول )سورة

اإلخالص(.

يف هذا األسبوع تناولنا درس ) أنا وأقاريب (.

األسبوع القادم سنكمل هذه املعلومة.

This week, we have been learn-ing “Surat Al-Feel”.

Next week, we will be learning “The Birth of Prophet Muham-mad, peace be upon him.”

This week, we have been learn-ing the topic (Feeling).

Next week, we will continue learning the same topic (Feel-ing), as well as focusing on let-ters (Ja – Ha - Kha).

الرتبية الوطنية:اللغة العربية:


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Year 3 have had an engaging and challenging week. We be-gan column subtraction and the children used their analys-ing and meta-thinking skills to solve some word problems and subtraction challenges. We in-troduced our new Science top-ic, Plants, in which the children explored the different parts of a plant and their functions.


In English we:

• Used thesauruses to find synonyms for words.• Began inventing a new adventure story.

In Mathematics we:

• Revised our 2, 5 and 10 times tables and began to learn our 3s.• Introduced column sub-traction and began borrowing.In Science, we began our new topic, Plants. The children dis-sected a plant to find the dif-ferent parts. We discussed the function of these different parts.

In English we will

• Begin to write our adventure story

In Mathematics we will

• Recap column addi-tion and subtraction. Apply our skills to real life prob-lems.

NEWS FROM YEAR 3 P1

NEXT WEEK

October 10th 2019

REMINDERS

Please make sure your child is in the correct school uniform which includes black leather shoes, not trainers.

Please make sure your child has their book bag with them on a Sunday to change home reading books.

As the children are now in KS2, we want to pro-mote independence and responsibility. As a result, children should not come to school in their uniform every day. They will now change into their PE and Swimming kits at the start of their PE and Swimming lesson.

Children must have a hat and a water bottle every day.


يف مادة اللغة االنجليزية :

سوف نبدأ بكتابة قصة •مغامرات .

يف مادة الرياضيات سوف:سنقوم بتلخيص طريقة •الحل باألعمدة لعمليتي الطرح

والجمع. من خالل تطبيق مهاراتنا يف حل املسائل .

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NON NATIVE ARABIC:

يف هذا األسبوع قمنا بكتابة فقرة متضمنة جملة رئيسة وتفاصيل وخامتة.

األسبوع القادم سنقوم بتناول قصة تكشرية.

الواجب: من كتاب النشاط صفحة 21 ويتم تسليمه يوم الثالثاء مع ملف

القصة وواجب القصة.مالحظة: تم إلصاق أنشطة جديدة يف

دفرت واجب القصة.يرجى العلم أن املهامت املرسلة يف منصة

عصافري هي مهامت إثرائية للطالب وليست إلزامية.

يف هذا األسبوع تم استكامل درس أحب الخري ألخي، حيث تعرف التالميذ عىل

بعض األمثلة الدالة عىل حب الخري لآلخرين كام نحبه ألنفسنا.

األسبوع القادم: سنتناول درس آية الكريس.

مالحظة: الرجاء مراجعة حفظ الحديث الرشيف أحب الخري ألخي.

يف هذا األسبوع تناولنا درس ) القارات واملحيطات(.

األسبوع القادم سنكمل هذه املعلومة.

This week, we have been learn-ing the topic “Surt Al-Sharh

Next week, we will start learn-ing “Purity and Nullifiers of Ab-lution”

This week, we have been learning the topic (My healthy food).

Next week, we will continue learning the same topic (My healthy food).

STARS OF THE WEEK


الرتبية الوطنية:


MoonstoneShamma

SpheneGibran

AlexandriteAlan

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We finished the week on a high with an amazing trip to ‘Little World’.


In English this week, we have added to our learning of Fanta-sy World stories. The children have finished their ‘S’ plans and have boxed-up our WAGOLL (What a Good One Looks Like) text: ‘Into the Unknown’. We have continued to develop our knowledge of the text by dis-cussing character descriptions and settings. During SPaG we have been focusing on the pre-fixes’ ‘re-’, ‘inter’ and ‘sub-’ and how they change the meaning of root words. We have also been looking at direct speech with the use of correct punc-tuation.

NEWS FROM YEAR 4 P1

September 12th 2019

In Mathematics, we have learned all about fractions. This includes how to represent equivalent fractions using di-agrams, how to add and sub-tract fractions with the same denominator and how to prob-lem solve by adding and sub-tracting fractions.

STARS OF THE WEEK

October 10th 2019

JetRashed

TourmalineNoureddine

AmethystZydaan

CitrineAya

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English, we will move onto our Innovation stage of Talk for Writing. Using our Fantasy Story, ‘Into the Unknown’, we will focus on innovating the story set-ting and one character de-scription.

In Mathematics we will compare numbers with the same number of decimal places (up to 2 decimals). We will also continue our learning of writing decimal equivalents of any number of tenths or hundredths. Using our knowledge we will recognise that hun-dredths arise when divid-ing an object by a 100 and dividing tenths by 10.

In Science, we will identi-fy the meaning of climate change.

NEXT WEEK األسبوع املقبل :

يف مادة اللغة االنجليزية سننتقل

ملرحلة االبتكار للتحدث من أجل

الكتابة، حيث من خالل استخدام

Into‘ القصة الخيالية الخاصة بنا

the Unknown’ ، سنقوم بالرتكيز

عىل ابتكار إعدادات ووصف

شخصيات للقصة.

يف مادة الرياضيات سنقوم

مبقارنة األرقام من نفس املنازل

العرشية )حتى رقمني عرشيني(.

كام سنواصل تعلم كتابة األرقام

العرشية ألي عدد من منزلة

األعشار أو املئات، وباستخدام

معرفتنا سندرك أنه عند قسمة عدد

ما عىل 100 وقسمة األعشار عىل

10 سينشأ عن ذلك املئات.

يف مادة العلوم سوف نحدد معنى

تغري املناخ.

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NON NATIVE ARABIC:

يف هذا األسبوع قمنا بكتابة فقرة تتضمن ) جملة رئيسة، تفاصيل، وخامتة( عن

املهنة التي يحلم أن يحققها الطالب يف املستقبل.

األسبوع القادم سنتناول مهارة إمالئية )همزة القطع والوصل( مع تعزيز

املهارات السابقة.مالحظة: يرجى العلم أن املهامت املرسلة

يف منصة عصافري هي مهامت إثرائية للطالب وليست إلزامية.

يف هذا األسبوع تناولنا درس آداب التالوة وقمنا بتصنيفها إىل ما قبل التالوة وأثنائها

وبعد االنتهاء من التالوة.األسبوع القادم سنتناول حديث حسن

الخلق مع التدرب عىل القراءة السليمه له، وبيان أهمية التحيل باألخالق

الحسنة.

يف هذا األسبوع أكملنا درس )بيئتي مسؤوليتي(.

يف األسبوع القادم سنتناول درس ) فخر اإلمارات الشيخ محمد بن زايد آل نهيان-

حفظه الله (.

This week, we have been learning the topic “The Reve-lation of the Qur’an to Prophet Muhammad (p.b.u.h)”

Next week, we will learn about “Khadijah Bint Khuwailid-May Allah be pleased with her”.

This week, we continued learn-ing the topic (Every morning).

Next week, we will be learning the topic (I won a prize).




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In English, we will be innovat-ing our non-chorological report based on the features of the text type.

In Mathematics, we focused on rounding up to 100,000 to one decimal place.

In Science, we will be learned about the life cycle of a but-terfly.

As part of our Topic learning we continued to learn about the Mayan culture and learn about different types of maps.

NEWS FROM YEAR 5 P1

NEXT WEEK

October 10th 2019

REMINDERS

Please ensure your child has their PE kit, swim-ming kit and library bag in school on the correct day. For further informa-tion on which day these are for your child, please contact your class teach-er. Also, please make sure that your child is ready for school in the courtyard be-fore the national anthem.

It is important that your child has their hat and wa-ter bottle with them every day, especially in the hot weather.

STARS OF THE WEEK

QuartzHashir

ZirconAyrah

PeridotMohamed

CrystalAnjili

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In English, we will begin to invent our non-choro-logical report based on the features of the model text type. We will also be com-pleting our whole school writing task.

In Mathematics, we will focus on multiples, factors and prime numbers.

In Science, we will be learning about the life cy-cle of a bird.

As part of our Topic learn-ing we will be visiting Umm Al Emarat Park and com-pleting activities based on orienteering and map work.

NEXT WEEK األسبوع املقبل :

يف مادة اللغة االنجليزية سنبدأ باخرتاع تقرير غري زمني استنادا إىل خصائص نوع النص

النموذجي، كام سنواصل الكتابة الخاصة باملهمة املدرسية .

يف مادة الرياضيات سرنكز عىل مضاعفات العدد والعوامل

واألعداد األولية.

يف مادة العلوم سنتناول عن دورة حياة الطيور .

و كجزء من ال Topic سنذهب رحلة إىل حديقة أم اإلمارات

واستكامل األنشطة الخاص بنا .

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NON NATIVE ARABIC:

يف هذا األسبوع تعرف طالبنا عىل مهارة نحوية بعنوان “التمييز بني الجملة

والرتكيب”.األسبوع القادم سنتابع هذه

املهارة باإلضافة إىل مهارة إمالئية بعنوان”الحروف التي تلفظ وال تكتب

،والتي تكتب وال تلفظ”.الواجب :حل كتاب النشاط صفحة )20(



يف هذا األسبوع تم تناول درس آداب دخول املنزل والخروج منه ، حيث تعرف

التالميذ فوائد االلتزام بآداب دخول املنزل والخروج منه.

األسبوع القادم سنتناول درس بدء الدعوة إىل اإلسالم.

يف هذا األسبوع أكملنا درس ) موقع بالدي(.

األسبوع القادم سنتناول درس ) طبيعة بالدي – الجبال والسهول (.

This week, we have been learn-ing the topic “The beginning of the Call to Islam”.

Next week, we will be learn-ing the topic “Believe in Divine books”.

This week, we continued learn-ing the topic (A tour at my school)

Next week, we will be learning the topic (In my hospitality)




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The week kicked off with an exciting trip to Al Bateen Acad-emy as part of the transition work from Year 6 to Year 7. This was the first opportunity for Year 6 as a whole to expe-rience a secondary school set-ting. They took part in a sec-ondary science lesson on ‘fruity batteries’ where they had to conduct an investigation into how different fruits and differ-

NEWS FROM YEAR 6 P1

NEXT WEEK

October 10th 2019

ent metal electrodes can push current around a circuit. The Year 6s also had a tour of Al Bateen Academy. The children thoroughly enjoyed the morn-ing and represented ‘The Pearl Academy’ fantastically.


In our unit of inquiry ‘What did the Ancient Greeks bring to the world?’ we have been explor-ing the concept of democracy.

In English we:

• Did some shared writing of our class non-chronological reports.• Wrote and edited our own non-chronological report.

STARS OF THE WEEK

In English, we will:

• Plan and write our own myths or legends based on The Water Horse.

In Mathematics we will:

• Order fractions.• Add and subtract f r a c t i o n s .• Multiply fractions.

NEXT WEEK

SapphireHaya

OnyxChristiaan

TanzaniteAdeliya


يف مادة اللغة االنجليزية:

سنقوم بتخطيط وكتابة •األساطري الخاصة بنا استنادا إىل

.”The Water Horse“ أسطورة

يف مادة الرياضيات :

سنقوم برتتيب الكسور . •سنقوم بعمليتي جمع •

وطرح الكسور .سنقوم بعملية رضب •

الكسور .

In Mathematics we:

• Explored prime numbers and square numbers.• Completed a pre-learn-ing task on fractions.• Simplified fractions.• Found equivalent frac-t i o n s .

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NON NATIVE ARABIC:

يف هذا األسبوع استكملنا درس “كن أكرث وعيا بغضبك”.

يف األسبوع القادم سيتعرف طالبنا عىل مهارة نحوية بعنوان”املفعول فيه”.

الواجب: حل كتاب الطالب صفحة”65” السؤال )6(.



يف هذا األسبوع تناولنا درس التطوع وبيان صوره وأهميته.

األسبوع القادم : سنتابع درس التطوع مع التمهيد لدرس فرائض الصالة وسننها

ومكروهاتها.الواجب: التدرب عىل حفظ حديث من وصايا الرسول عليه الصالة والسالم إىل

قوله ) فاستعن بالله(موعد التسميع يومي:

)Y6T،Y6S( األربعاء16/10/2019م)Y6O( والخميس 17/10/2019م

يف هذا األسبوع تناولنا درس ) املواطنة االيجابية (.

يف األسبوع القادم سنكمل هذه املعلومة.

الرتبية الوطنية:اللغة العربية:


This week, we have been learn-ing about the benefits of vol-unteer work in the topic “Vol-unteering; an Act of Worship”.Next week, we will be learning about the obligatory, volun-tary and disliked elements of prayer.

Y6 HW: Learn (5-9) Surat As - Sajdah

This week, we have been learn-ing the topic (Different curren-cies).

Next week, we will continue learning the same topic (Dif-ferent currencies).

REMINDERS

On Tuesday 15th of Oc-tober, we will be holding a Greek Day to culminate our line of enquiry, ‘What did the Ancient Greeks bring to this World?’ The children will be required to come to school wearing a Greek-style costume. There will also be a Greek banquet. We ask that each child brings some food items with them to add to our Greek celebrations. Deadline for week 6 homework is Sunday 13th October 2019.

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The Pearl Academy Parent Presentations &

Workshops Term 1 2019

For more information: [email protected]

Date Theme of Workshop Presenter(s) Sunday, 13 October

Information session about Cancer Screening and Checks (Ladies only)

Burjeel Reem Island, Dr. Sivaraman Letchumanan

Sunday, 27 October

Non-Native Arabic – Information and guide-lines session about the new MOE curriculum and what parents may do to assist.

Mrs Majida Hawasheen & Mrs Ranim Su-leiman

Sunday, 3 November

EAL (English as an Additional Language — How to support my child)

Mrs. Turner (EAL specialist)

Sunday, 17 November

Mark making in the early years Mrs. Grehan (FS1 Lead Teacher)

Sunday, 24 November

The benefit of the enriched curriculum Mrs. Fishbourne (Principal)

Sunday, 1 December

The benefits of exercise and healthy eat-ing. Tips and tricks to help our children stay active

Mr. Marcroft, Miss Baillie and Miss Morris (PE Department)

Sunday, 8 December

Online safety, the use of electronic devices and Q&A about The Pearl Parent Portal

Mr. Jameson & Miss Canonizado (IT Systems Engineer )

All welcome! Where: Music Room

Time: 7.45am - 8.30am

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