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THE PEARL ACADEMYWEEKLY NEWSLETTER

In the words of Buzz Light-year, “To infinity and be-yond!”

I hope that you have all had a chance to read our latest ADEK report, sent out this week. These wonderful gradings are only achieved with the con-tinuous support of our school community, staff, children and parents.

When we announced the news to our children they were de-lighted.

• Prinicpal’s Message: p1-2• Counsellor’s Corner: p3• Whole School News: p4-7• Nursery News: p8-9• FS2 News - p10-11• Year 1 News: p12-13• Year 2 News: p14-16• Year 3 News: p17-18• Year 4 News: p19-21• Year 5 News: p22-24• Year 6 News: p25-26

Year 5 Parents Coffee Morning

FS2 Jade Royal Stables

Year 4 Manarat trip

No Single Use Plastic Day

After reading the descrip-tion of ‘The Chocolate Room’ in Roald Dahl’s ‘Charlie and the Chocolate Factory’ the year 3 chil-dren took to the school grounds to hunt for ‘Gold-en Tickets’. For every one that they found, their class received a sweet for them to create their very own candy land. The children have now begun to think of some scrumdiddlyump-tious vocabulary to write their own descriptions.

YEAR 3 goLDENTICKET HUNT

A MESSAgE FRoM THE PRINCIPAL, MRS FISHBoURNE

DATES FoR YoUR DIARY

CoNTENTS

IN CASE YoU MISSED IT

Plant a Tree initiative

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To infinity and beyond

Buzz Lightyear

WoRDS oF THE WEEK

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THE PEARL ACADEMY NEWSLETTERISSUE NO.1 | DECEMBER 2018

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ISSUE NO.17 OCTOBER 4TH 2018

• What did you thinkwhen your teachers shared the report with you?

It’s amazing! I’m really im-pressed about our school. I was happy and excited the moment I heard about it.

I was excited and happy. I am pleased the inspectors noticed that we are great and well be-haved.

I love my class

Yes we are!

• What does outstand-ing mean to you?

We must not give up.

We must keep on trying.

We must continue to be really good.

It means our school is the best and we have to continue like this.

Outstanding is the highest. It means lots to me.

Now we need to be more out-standing.

That our school is safe and we have staff who keep us safe.

If you go to our school you will get a good education and guaranteed learning.

We are amazing at what we do. It means ADEK are super proud and we do good work.

We are better than anything.We are phenomenal and splen-diferous. Do you know that I have been learning about Roald Dahl today?

If you would like to comment on the report please do not hesitate to contact me in per-son or via email.

Over the next few weeks, through our newsletters, we will share with you the actions we are taking to address the recommendations as we strive to be beyond outstanding.

Plant a Tree Initiative

as a yogurt, Laban or olive pot.At playtime they can take the pot out to our planting station by the gazebo to fill it with soil and plant a seed of their choice - tomato, aubergine, mint, co-riander or parsley.

Once planted children may take their pots home to see if they can grow their plants.

Art for Australia

We are planning to have a sealed bids auction of artwork to raise money for The Red Crescent #mateshelpmates appeal for Australia.

Do you have any artwork that you would like to contribute to the appeal?

Artworks may be your own, commissions eg a photoshoot, or preloved work that you no longer wish to keep.

These artworks will then be displayed in the reception with a reserve price and parent, families, and the community will be allowed to bid to pur-chase them.

After the closing date, the highest bids will be accepted and paid to The Red Crescent appeal to support Australia. I wish you and your families a peaceful weekend,

Abigail

In assembly this week we tried to find a solution to one of our National Day problems, “How can we protect the air that we breathe?” by planting the first tree for our plant a tree initiative. This initiative aims to plant over 1,500 trees this year.

We were delighted to welcome visitors from the Ministry of Tolerance who, following the Year of Tolerance, are them-selves now working to promote tolerance around the world.

Following our assembly, chil-dren have been asked to bring in a clean, small, old pot such


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PickyEatinginToddlers

During the toddler years, picky eating and mealtime battles are common. Learning how to overcome these power struggles will help your child build healthy eating habits to last a lifetime.

Keep a variety of nutritious foods at home. Your job is to serve healthy food and their job is to choose what they want to eat or if they want to eat at all. It is normal for toddlers to skip meals or to eat more or less from day to day. This allows children to learn when they are hungry and full.

Schedule three meals and two to three healthy snacks each day. A predictable routine prevents nibbling and helps toddlers know when they can expect to eat next. Avoid snacks or milk just before mealtime as this will decrease appetite and willingness to try new foods. Serve them the same meal as everyone else at the table but in smaller portions.

Avoid processed foods, fast foods and avoid sugary drinks, including juice. If your tod-dler refuses to eat, don’t force it and don’t make a different meal. Your child can eat at the next scheduled meal or snack time. Encourage your child to try a bite or two of a new food. Children are naturally slow to accept new tastes and textures, so don’t give up. It can take ten – fifteen tries for children to eat some food they first refused. Try offering it with healthy foods you know your child will eat and don’t promise dessert as a trade-off. This sends a message that treats are more valuable than nutritious foods.

Whenever possible, eat together as a family. Children are more likely to try new foods and make healthy choices when they see siblings and parents showing a good example.With time and patience, most children learn to be more flexible. If you are feeling frus-trated, speak to your child’s doctor or pediatrician for more ideas.

COUNSEllOR’S CORNER

Reference:

KidsHealth.org (2020) Handling Picky Eating in Toddlers. Retrieved from https://kidshealth.org/en/parents/pick-yeatingtoddlers-video.html?WT.ac=ct-g#cattalk on 14 January 2020.

KidsHealth.org

https://kidshealth.org/en/parents/pickyeatingtoddlers-video.html?WT.ac=ctg#cattalk




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ISSUE NO.31 JUNE 13TH 2019BacktoTop

A new edition of Hay Festival will take place at venues in Abu

tre, Manarat al Saadiyat, will host internationally acclaimed authors and thinkers over four days of entertainment and in-spiration.

https://www.hayfestival.com/abu-dhabi/home

Dhabi from 25 to 28 February 2020. The city’s cultural cen-




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Saif recently recieved a medal for his 2KM run at Zayed Sport City. Well done!

The first round of Al Dar Academies Quran Com-petition was held for the Pearl Academy children this week.

The participating children made a clear effort which was greatly appreciated. We encourage them

أقيمت الجولة األوىل من مسابقة أكادمييات الدار للقرآن الكريم لطالب أكادميية اللؤلؤة خالل

هذا األسبوع، وقد بذل الطالب املشاركون مجهودا واضحا

نشكرهم عليه، وندعوهم إىل مواصلة حرصهم عىل حفظ كتاب الله، ونشكر كذلك دعم وتعاون

أولياء األمور معنا.

This week we started planting seeds as part of our Plant a Tree initiative. Pupils will have the opportunity to plant seeds until the end of this week and

PLANT A TREE INITIATIvE

look after the seedlings at home. Children need to bring to school a suitable contain-er to be used as a plant pot. We look forward to seeing the seedlings returning to school to be planted in our new school garden.

ALDAR ACADEMIES QURAN CoMPETITIoN


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On Wednesday we had our first house assembly where all chil-dren in Years 1 to 6 met with their house parents and house members. Pupils enjoyed prac-tising their chants, learning about future house events and focussed on what it means to be part of a team.

We also had our first house event of Term 2 planned and led by the Dolphins. Pupils made their own paper aero-plane (using scrap paper) and earned house points based on the distance their aeroplane flew. Well done to all involved. We are looking forward to the next house event in two weeks’ time.

HoUSE ASSEMBLIES AND EvENT

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639

685

HoUSE PoINTS ovERALL

YEAR 3Alexandrite

YEAR 1TopazYEAR 5ZirconQuartz

Peridot - 100%

Farha - For showing great perseverance in Maths.

PRINCIPAL AWARD


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Thisweekthechildrenhavedisplayedanunderstandingofthedifferenc-es between cultural heritage and shown concern for society.

gARNETgrigorios

Alma

AgATESalama

QUARTZAdam

JETReina

MooNSToNEKiyan

SAPPHIRESara

AZURITESaeedAmel

TURQUoISEErin

ZIRCoNSean

ToURMALINEAnaya

SPHENE Yara

TANZANITE Susana

ToPAZMili

Rayan

EMERALDZina

PERIDoTSimrit

AMETHYSTKareem

CRYSTALCinta

CITRINEShaikha

ALEXANDRITEYara

oNYXSimya

HPL FoCUS: EMPATHETIC

YEAR 1

YEAR 4

YEAR 2

YEAR 5

YEAR 3

YEAR 6


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ISSUE NO.31 JUNE 13TH 2019

NEWS FRoM NURSERY P1 January 16th 2020

This week in Nursery we learned the rhyme ‘Jack and Jill’. The children enjoyed act-ing out the rhyme in the Foun-dation Stage garden and used a class ‘wishing well’ to make their wish. One version of the rhyme can be found at the fol-lowing link:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EFj0K38sPmA

In Mathematics we continued to develop our counting skills and numeric awareness to 10 and beyond.

As part of our inquiry into water we looked at how we use wa-ter to keep ourselves and our homes healthy and clean. We also read ‘Drippy the Raindrop’ which describes a very simple version of the water cycle.

In Phonics we learned a new sound, ‘a’. The children used apples to stamp print on paper and went for a sound hunt in the Foundation Stage garden.

This week in Nursery, we have been learning the letter ‘Thaa’ and linking it with words that begin with the letter. eg. ‘Thu’ban’ ( snake), as well as the name of rectangle shape ‘Muthallath’. We have also learned some conversation sentences, such as, ‘I love my mother/ father/ sister’.

Next week: We will be learn-ing the letter “Ja”.

ARABIC

يف روضتنا األوىل تعلمنا حرف الثاء وربطناه بكلامت تبدأ بالحرف ) ثعبان(، وقمنا بالتعرف عىل شكل املثلث. تناولنا

أيضا بعض جمل املحادثة مثل: ) أنا أحب ماما، بابا، أختي(

األسبوع القادم: سيتم تناول حرف الجيم.




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NEWS FRoM NURSERY P2 January 16th 2020

ARABIC

SunstoneMansoor Hessa

SunstoneAbdulla

opal OmarTalynn

opal Khalifa

Coral Bareera

Firas

Coral Ibrahim

RubyKarma Adam

RubyHassan

SUPERHERoES oF THE WEEK LINKED To oUR HIgH PER-FoRMANCE LEARN-

INg FoCUS:This week we have been fo-cusing on the value ‘Show-ing Concern for Society’.

Within this, we have been looking at the difference

between right and wrong.

REMINDERS

• Please be reminded that the children should come to school in full school uniform. This in-cludes jumpers. If your child is wearing a jack-et on top of this due to cool weather, please can you remove it upon them entering the classroom. Unfortunately the cubby holes are not big enough to contain them.

• Please can you send your child to school with their school hats. Al-though the weather is not hot, it is important to keep the children in a good rou-tine. It also helps them to manage their own belong-ings when they know they have it with them on a consistent basis.

• Learning the rhyme ‘ 1 , 2 , 3 , 4 , 5 ’

• Exploring the new sound ‘t’ is for tennis

NEXT WEEK

األسبوع املقبل

سنتناول القافية •”1,2,3,4,5“

”t“ اكتشاف صوت جديد •. tennis من خالل كلمة


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This week, we continued to complete many fun farm themed activities in our class-es. We matched animals and their babies and used our cre-ative talents to make our own farm animals. We were excited to receive Coding Express and STEAM Park Duplo kits for each classroom. These are being used as a general classroom resource to support coding, computational thinking and STEM. We now have over 500 Duplo bricks per class.

Maths: Concept of Time

Letter Sounds: ng, ee

Letter Formation: b, p

Tricky Words: like, so

NEWS FRoM FS2 P1

NEXT WEEK

January 16th 2020

THIS WEEK’S LEARNINg

Maths: more than/fewer than and number formation

Letter Sounds: f, ff

Letter Formation: ‘robot let-ters’ n,m, h and k

Tricky Words: said, have


يف الرياضيات: سنتناول عن الوقت .

ng ، ee : الحروف واألصوات

b ، p : كتابة الحروف

like ، so : الكلامت الصعبة


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This week in Foundation Stage 2, we have been learning the letter “Thaa” and linking it with the long sounds (tha - tho - thi). We have also enjoyed lis-tening to the story “The tricky fox”.

Next week, we will be learning the letter “Hha”.

NEWS FRoM FS2 P2 January 16th 2020

ARABIC

ARABIC

AmberHaya

Muhammad

AmberTia

DiamondAiza

Mouzah

DiamondMohamed

AquamarineRayahRami

AquamarineSara Y

JadeFatimaNafi

JadeChloe

يف روضتنا الثانية لهذا األسبوع كنا بصحبة حرف )ث( مع حروف املد

املختلفة ) ثا – ثو – يث (، كام استمعنا إىل قصة “الثعلب املكار”.

األسبوع القادم: سيتم تناول حرف الحاء.

STARS oF THE WEEK


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We’ve had a wonderful week of learning in Year 1 this week. We continued with our topic ‘Do all fairytales have a hap-pily ever after?’ The children especially enjoyed meeting the grumpy troll and asking him lots of questions.


In English we have been:

• Learning how to write questions and the use of ques-tions marks

• Reading and sequencing the story

• Creating a wanted post-e r

• Fine motor skills – cut-t i n g

• Handwriting the Rain-bow Words

In Mathematics we have been:

• Learning to count in 2s

• Learning to count in 10s

• Odd and even numbers

In English we will be:

• Learning the differ-ent parts of a letter

• Adding full stops and question marks to s e n t e n c e s

• Writing a note to a fairytale character

• Create a poster of Little Red Riding Hood

In Mathematics we will be:

• Learning to count in 5 s

NEWS FRoM YEAR 1 P1

NEXT WEEK

January 16th 2020

• Identifying a range of numbers from 1 – 100

In Science & Topic we have been:

• Learning about the physical and human features from the story ‘The Three Billy Goats Gruff’

• Revising the parts of a flower, names of plants and t r ee s .

• Saying 10 more and less than a given number

• Completing sequenc-es in steps of 2s and 10s

• Filling in missing numbers in the 100s square

In Science & Topic we will be carrying on from last week:

• Introducing the five senses and exploring the sense of smell

• Completing map work activities


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NEWS FRoM YEAR 1 P2 January 16th 2020

NoN NATIvE ISLAMIC EDUCATIoN

NoN NATIvE ARABIC

اللغة العربية: يف هذا األسبوع قمنا بتجريد حرف

الجيم وتدربنا عىل لفظه مع املد الطويل والقصري) جا جو جي ج ج ج ج

(، وقمنا بقراءة مجموعة من الكلامت التي تم تجريد حروفها )جمل – جبل

– – مسجد – وجد – درج – تاج – جسبرج – جزر(

واجب ) 1 ( التدرب عىل قراءة الجمل التالية:

هذا جبل جيس.أكل ماجد الجزر.

األسبوع القادم سنقوم بتجريد حرف الخاء.

يف هذا األسبوع تناولنا سورة اإلخالص وتعرفنا معانيها.

األسبوع القادم سنتابع حفظ سورة الناس.

واجب بيتي : متابعة حفظ سورة الناس.

This week, we have been learning the topic “Thank you Allah”.

Next week, we will be learning “Surat-ul-Ikhlas”.

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

Next week, we will be learning the topic (Fruits and Vegeta-bles).


يف مادة اللغة اإلنجليزية سنقوم مبا ييل:

تناول أجزاء الرسالة •املختلفة.

إضافة عالمة التوقف •وعالمات االستفهام عىل الجمل.

كتابة مالحظات عن •الشخصيات يف القصص الخيالية.

إنشاء ملصق عن قصة “ •.“ Little Red Riding Hood

يف مادة الرياضيات سنقوم مبا ييل:

عد مضاعفات العدد 5. •عد عدد أقل أو أكرث من •

10 من عدد معني.استكامل تسلسل يف •

خطوات من مضاعفات العدد 2 و . 10

ملء الفراغات الفارغة يف •مربعات العدد 100.

Tpoic يف مادة العلوم و السنقوم مبا ييل:

تناول الحواس الخمس •واكتشاف حاسة الشم.

استكامل أنشطة خريطة •العمل.

اللغة العربية:

الرتبية اإلسالمية:

DATE FoR YoUR DIARY

On Tuesday 28th children may wear the colours of the Australian flag and do-nate a minimum of 10AED to the Red Crescent ap-peal to support Australia.

ARABICSTARS oF THE WEEK

NATIvETopazOmarTuleen

AzuriteAbdulrahman

Adam

garnetKhalifaLamar


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The children have been ex-tremely busy with their new learning enquiry ‘What’s crawl-ing in the garden?’ We have been planting seeds, conduct-ing investigations and continu-ing to create beautiful art work for our shared areas.

On Tuesday, we had house as-semblies. Scorpions, Gazelles, Ospreys and Dolphins got to-gether in their teams to prac-tise chants and discuss what it means to be part of their house.

NEWS FRoM YEAR 2 P1

NEXT WEEK

January 16th 2020


In English we have been:

• Identifying rhyming words in a variety of minibeast p o e t r y.

• Using expanded noun phrases to describe a variety of minibeasts.

• Writing our very own poems about minibeasts using expanded noun phrases and rhyming words.

In Mathematics we have been:

• Learning about the Brit-ish currency – using pounds and pence.

• Combining different coins to solve a variety of prob-lems and challenges.

In Science and Topic we have been:

• Carrying out investiga-tions into ‘How Seeds Grow.’

• Planting broad beans and changing the amount of sunlight, heat, water or soil they are given to find out which conditions plants grow the best in.

• Finding out about where food comes from, and plant-ing cress to find out how food grows.


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In Mathematics we will;

• Exploring multipli-cation and division to find out how they are linked.

In English we will be;

• Beginning our learn-ing journey on ‘Explana-tion Texts.’

• Exploring an expla-nation text about the life cycle of a minibeast and identifying the genre fea-tures.

• Creating story maps and glossary challenges to gain a greater understand-ing of the text.

In Science we will be;

• Continuing our plant investigations into how they grow and stay h e a l t h y.

• Understanding what weather forecasts show and using key words to de-scribe the weather.

NEWS FRoM YEAR 2 P2

NEXT WEEK

January 16th 2020


يف مادة الرياضيات:

سنقوم باكتشاف •عمليتي الرضب و القسمة

إليجاد كيفية ارتباطهام .

يف مادة اللغة االنجليزية :

سنبدأ برحلة تناول •“نصوص التفسري”.

سنقوم باكتشاف النص •التفسريي عن دورة حياة حرشة “Minibeast”وتحديد خصائص

كل نوع.

سنقوم بإنشاء خريطة •للقصة وتحدي املصطلحات

للحصول عىل فهم أكرب للنص.

: Topic يف العلوم وال

• مواصلة التحقيقات عن النبات يف كيفية منوها والحفاظ

عىل صحتها.

• فهم توقعات الطقس واستخدام الكلامت الرئيسية

لوصف الطقس.

REMINDERS

• As we have now moved away from Phon-ics into Guided Reading, we would like to inform you that children will no longer be receiving week-ly word lists. Spellings will be taught as part of writ-ing lessons using spelling patterns and key vocabu-lary throughout the year. There will be no spelling test on a Wednesday.

• Next week, there will be a book fair for the children. Class teachers will send out individual dates and notices shortly.

• In the next few weeks, we will be begin-ning our preparations for our Year 2 Performance. The children will begin to learn lines and lyrics for the show. Please note that this performance will not be until March 17th, and we will send out all neces-sary information shortly.


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NoN NATIvE ARABIC

يف هذا األسبوع: تعلمنا درس )شوشو والشبكة الذهبية( وقمنا بحل تدريباته

وقراءة كلامت وجمل تحتوي عىل حرف الشني، كام قمنا مبراجعة تنوين الضم وتنوين الكس، وتناولنا تنوين الفتح

وتدربنا عىل لفظ التنوين وكتابته عىل الحرف األخري من الكلمة، كام تدربنا عىل

التعبري عن صورة بجمل بسيطة.الواجب: قراءة صفحة 126

كتابة الصفحات 130

يف هذا األسبوع: قمنا مبراجعة درس الوضوء كام تناولنا سورة الناس.

األسبوع القادم: سنتناول درس صاليت نور حيايت.

يف هذا األسبوع أكملنا درس )رموز بالدي(.

ويف األسبوع القادم سنتناول درس ) النقل يف بالدي(.

This week, we have been learn-ing about “Pillars of Islamic Be-lief”.

Next week, we will learn the topic “Islamic Etiquette of Cleanl iness”.

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

Next week, we will be learn-ing letters (Qa – Fa) with their short and long sounds.


الرتبية الوطنية:



AgateFayad

EmeraldAmir

TurquoiseIsmail


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This term we are looking at Roald Dahl’s ‘Charlie and the Chocolate Factory’. The year 3 children took to the school grounds this week to hunt for ‘Golden Tickets’. For every one that they found, their class re-ceived a sweet for them to cre-ate their very own candy land. The children have now begun to think of some scrumdiddly-umptious vocabulary to write their own descriptions. It they can think of any vocabulary at home that might be effective for their writing please encour-age them to bring the words in. In each class we now have a vocabulary wall that we are encouraging the children to fill and use in their writing.


In English we:

• Explored and played with homophones

• Identified the features in descriptive writing and up-lev-elled our vocabulary

In Mathematics we:

• Revised our times tables

• Tried to identify at the


REMINDERS

At home, we strongly recommend reading with your child as much as pos-sible and continue to use the Reading Eggs.

Education City is current-ly having some issues we will let you know as soon as these have been re-solved. Apologies for any inconvenience.

different types of lines(Vertical, horizontal, perpen-dicular, parallel, diagonal)

In Science we:

• We have being looking at animal skeletons, and try-ing to classify them into three groups; endoskeleton, exo-skeleton and hydrostatic skel-etons.

In Topic we:

• We found out how bees make honey and how impor-tant they are to us.

MoonstoneA


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NoN NATIvE ARABIC

يف هذا األسبوع قمنا بكتابة فقرة وصفية عن شخص يحبه الطالب كثريا.

يف األسبوع القادم سنقوم بكتابة قصة قصرية.

الواجب من كتاب النشاط ص 70.

يف هذا األسبوع تم استكامل درس أنا أصيل، حيث تدرب التالميذ عىل التشهد والصالة االبراهيمية والتطبيق العميل يف

مصىل املدرسة .ويف األسبوع القادم سنتناول سورة

الصافات. مالحظة: الرجاء مراجعة حفظ دعاء

االستفتاح والتشهد والصالة االبراهيمية.

يف هذا األسبوع أكملنا درس )مجتمع اإلمارات قبل االتحاد(.

ويف األسبوع القادم سنتناول درس )املياه This week, we were practicingيف بالدي(.

performing Fajr prayer.Next week, we will learn the topic “The Excellence of P rayer ”.

This week, we continued learning the topic (Me and my fr iends). Next week, we will be learning the topic (Me and my family).




In English:

- We will begin to look at our descriptions. We will start by up-levelling our sentences.

- In SPAG we are fo-cusing on adding extra in-formation and making sure we put the commas in the right places.

In Mathematics:

- We are moving onto a n g l e s

- 3D shapes in differ-ent orientations and using nets to build 3d shapes.

NEXT WEEK األسبوع املقبل يف مادة اللغة االنجليزية :

سنبدأ بنظر عىل •األوصاف الخاصة بنا . كام

سنقوم برفع مستوى الجمل لدينا .

سرنكز يف اإلمالء والرتقيم •والنحو عىل إضافة معلومات

إضافية والتأكد من وضع الفواصل يف األماكن الصحيحة.


سنتناول عن الزوايا . •

األشكال ثالثية األبعاد •يف اتجاهات مختلفة واستخدام الشبكات إلنشاء أشكال ثالثية

األبعاد


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Year 4 have enjoyed their trip to the Grand Mosque this week, showing great respect and representing The Pearl Academy so well. As well as this, the children have made great progress in preparing for our Finding Nemo production.


In English this week, we planned our newspaper re-port using a box up grid. We were sure to use the 5 Ws for our introduction, planned for eyewitness accounts by using quotes and included many dif-ferent SPAG features. By the end of the week, we started to write our newspaper re-port. For SPAG, we have learnt about the two different types of apostrophes and when they are used – apostrophes for omission and for possession. Education City activities: Ex-plorer’s Adventure (possessive apostrophes), Winging it (pos-sessive apostrophes), Hunt a Skunk (pronouns and apostro-phes), Treasure Traps (apos-trophes)

In Maths, we have learnt how to calculate the area of shapes, including rectangles and recti-

NEWS FRoM YEAR 4 P1

September 12th 2019

REMINDERS

From Sunday onwards, the children will not be using their scripts when prac-ticing Finding Nemo. The teachers will be there to help to prompt them but this is a way to make sure all children know their lines off by heart. Please bring in your child’s cos-tume for the production. We would like to have all costumes in school by the end of next week please. When paying for trips, please give your class teacher the money, not fi-nance. Thank you.

linear shapes. We also learnt how to distinguish between regular and irregular polygons. Education City activities: Rhythm and Blueprints (area – counting squares), Snip Shape (area of rectangles)

In Topic, we have focused our learning on the reasons for the fall of the Roman Empire and who the Anglo-Saxons were. The children learnt how to place dates on a time line, specifically when referring to different Roman Emperors.

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NEWS FRoM YEAR 4 P2

September 12th 2019

January 16th 2020

In English, we will contin-ue writing our newspaper reports. We will need to make sure we use all rel-evant punctuation when writing eyewitness quotes and the correct punctua-tion when using different SPAG features. The chil-dren will then work on ed-iting and improving their newspaper reports, en-suring they have included all relevant features, in-cluding fronted adverbials, expanded noun phrases and prepositional phras-es. They will also work on editing their spelling and punctuation.

In Maths, we will move onto statistics, where we will focus on presenting and reading data in bar graphs and line graphs, as well as answering ques-tions about them.

In Topic, we will continue learning about Anglo-Sax-ons by developing our un-derstanding of how the Anglo Saxons have influ-enced Britain by explaining some of the place names they established and their meanings.

NEXT WEEK األسبوع املقبل

يف مادة اللغة االنجليزية سنواصل كتابة التقرير الصحفي

الخاص بنا. سنقوم بالتأكد من أننا نستخدم جميع عالمات

الرتقيم عند كتابة اقتباسات من شهود عيان، وعند استخدام

ميزات اإلمالء والرتقيم والنحو املختلفة. كام سيقوم الطالب

بعد ذلك بتحرير وتحسني التقرير الصحفي الخاص بهم،

مع التأكد من أنهم شملوا جميع امليزات، مبا يف ذلك

ظروف الحال، الجمل االسمية و عبارات الجر، وكذلك القيام بالتعديل عىل حروف الهجاء

وعالمات الرتقيم.

يف مادة الرياضيات سننتقل للتعلم عن اإلحصاء، حيث

سرنكز عىل قراءة البيانات يف رشيط الرسوم البيانية والرسوم البيانية الخطية، وحل األسئلة

املتعلقة بها .

يف ال Topic سنواصل التعرف عىل قبائل أنجلوسكسونيون

من خالل تطوير فهمنا لكيفية تأثري األنجلو سكسونيني عىل

بريطانيا من خالل رشح بعض أسامء األماكن التي أسسوها

ومعانيها.


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NoN NATIvE ARABIC

يف هذا األسبوع تناولنا درس االعتذار.يف األسبوع القادم سنقوم بكتابة قصة

قصرية.

تابعنا هذا األسبوع تالوة سورة املزمل مع التدرب عىل حفظها وبيان فضل

عبادة الليل. يف األسبوع املقبل سنتناول حديث صفات املؤمن مع التدرب عىل قراءته وبيان أهم

الصفات التي يجب عىل املؤمن التحيل بها.

واجب الحفظ : مراجعة حفظ سورة املزمل من) 5-6(

موعد التسميع : الخميس 23/1/2020.

يف هذا األسبوع أكملنا درس )الباين املؤسس الشيخ زايد بن سلطان آل نهيان

– رحمه الله -(. ويف األسبوع القادم سنتناول درس

)الجهات األصلية وطرق تحديدها(..

This week, we have been learning the topic “The Morals of Visitation and Hospitality”.

Next week, we will learn the topic “Fasting”.

This week, we continued learn-ing the topic (The teacher).

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




STARS oF THE WEEK ARABICSTARS oF THE WEEK

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Another fantastic week in Y5. The children have really en-joyed creating artwork for our topic – Space. They have helped to paint our shared area and made it look amaz-ing. They also thoroughly en-joyed our trip to the golf.


In English:

• We have been writing our own poem based on ‘The Sea .’

In Mathematics:

• We have been learning about measurement and con-verting between units of meas-ure.

In Science:

• We are looking at our topic of Space and discussing the shape of the Earth.


In English, we will be be-ginning our own story on media writing, advertising a planet from our solar system.

In Maths, we will be con-tinuing our learning about measurement and con-verting between units of measure.


يف مادة اللغة االنجليزية، سنبدأ بكتابة قصة خاصة بنا حول

الكتابة اإلعالمية، بإعالن عن كوكب من نظام املجموعة

الشمسية .

يف مادة الرياضيات سنتناول عن املساحة و املحيط لألشكال

البسيطة واملركبة.


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REMINDERS

Children must be collected from school on time. The end of the school day is 2:20pm. If they have an ECA, children must be col-lected at 3:20pm. If chil-dren are regularly collect-ed late from ECAs, they will not be able to attend. For play dates, children are not able to stay in school until their friend has finished an ECA. Un-fortunately, we do not have the staff to supervise them and ECAs are full. Please ensure arrange-ments are made for them to be collected. Thank you for your support with this!

As part of our Space top-ic, we will be creating some artwork using papi-er-mâché. If you have any old newspapers at home, please can you send them in with the children? It would really help us! Thank you.

Also, Y6 require bottle tops so if you could collect these and send them to Mr Kinkead, that would be great.

Mr Jameson and Miss McGorry have jointly tak-en over the role of Head of Year in Mrs Siddiq’s ab-sence. Please find their email addresses listed be-low.

Mr Jameson: [email protected] Miss McGorry: [email protected]

Have a fantastic weekend and see you all again on Sunday!

mailto:[email protected]





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NoN NATIvE ISLAMIC EDUCATIoN:

NoN NATIvE ARABIC

يف هذا األسبوع بدأ طالبنا بكتابة موضوع عن حدث سعيد.

يف األسبوع القادم سنكمل مع طالبنا األعزاء كتابة املوضوع.

يف هذا األسبوع تم استكامل درس سورة األعىل، حيث تعرف الطالب عىل واجبنا تجاه القرآن الكريم ومن ثم الفرق بني

الشقي والسعيد.ويف األسبوع القادم سنتناول درس السنن

الرواتب. مالحظة: واجب الحفظ : التدرب عىل

حفظ سورة األعىل من) 1-9(موعد التسميع : االثنني20 /1/ 2020.

يف هذا األسبوع تناولنا درس )املناخ يف بالدي(.

ويف األسبوع القادم سنكمل هذه املعلومة )السكان يف دولة اإلمارات

العربية املتحدة(.

This week, we have been learning the topic “Migration to Abyssinia”.

Next week, we will learn the topic “Kind Treatment”.

This week, we continued learn-ing the topic (The colour festi-val).

Next week, we will be learning the topic( The bugs Eid).





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NEWS FRoM YEAR 6 P1

NEXT WEEK

January 16th 2020

It has been fantastic to see the children’s enthusiasm and knowledge of their inspiration-al person this week. We have overheard many conversations where the children have spoken proudly to their peers about why they have chosen their individual. We look forward to reading the biographies that they write for homework this weekend.


In English:

• We have been writing and editing biographies of Nel-son Mandela, Sheikh Zayed or Malala Yousafzai.

• We have been focus-ing on presenting the facts of these inspirational people but more importantly, conveying the story behind and emotion of their lives.

Mathematics

• Calculating perim-eter, area and volume of s h a p e s .

English

• In English we will be exploring, identifying the features of and acting out play scripts.

Science

• We will be conduct-ing an investigation on how different exercises af-fect our pulse rate and the reasons for this.



سنقوم بحساب املحيط •واملساحة وحجم األشكال .

يف مادة اللغة االنجليزية :

سنستكشف ونحدد •ميزات ونصوص سناريو

املسحية .

يف مادة العلوم:

• سنجري تحقيقا حول كيفية تأثري التامرين املختلفة

عىل معدل النبض لدينا وأسبابه.

In Mathematics:

• We have been convert-ing units of measure including length, capacity and mass.

In Science:

• We are looking at the respiratory and circulatory systems, understanding their importance to how our bodies funct ion.


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REMINDERS

For the golf trip on Sun-day 19th January, please ensure your child is wear-ing their PE kit and has their lunch, water bottle and hat. The children are allowed to bring a max-imum of 100 dirhams to the event.

We have noticed a few jumpers being worn which are not part of the school uniform. Children should have an Aldar Academies jumper if they are feeling cold. Should they wish to wear anything over this jumper in the morning then that is acceptable but it must be taken off in class.

Children should complete Task 2 of their English booklet for homework (please ensure your child does not lose this) as well as the Maths task and

Spellings that are on the Pupil Portal.

To celebrate our learn-ing we are holding an inspirational person ex-hibition on Thursday 6th February. You will be in-vited to come and see our exhibition any time between 1:30pm and 2:00pm before collecting your children.

After February, we will be completing an art project as part of our new topic. For this topic, we need as many bottle tops as possible. Please can you start collecting at home and bring these into school.

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NoN NATIvE ARABIC

يف هذا األسبوع بدأنا بكتابة نصا رسديا.يف األسبوع القادم سيكمل طالبنا األعزاء

كتابة النص السدي.

تناولنا هذا األسبوع سورة السجدة مع التدرب عىل تالوتها وفهم معانيها اإلجاملية مع توضيح أهم دالئل قدرة

الله تعاىل. يف األسبوع املقبل سنتابع التدرب عىل

تالوة وحفظ السورة مع بيان حكم اإلدغام.

واجب الحفظ : التدرب عىل حفظ سورة السجدة من) 26-28(

موعد التسميع : Y6T, S .22/1/2020 األربعاء Y6O .23/1/2020 الخميس

يف هذا األسبوع تناولنا درس )قارة آسيا(. ويف األسبوع القادم سنكمل هذه

املعلومة.




This week, we continued prac-ticing reciting verses (23-26) from Surat As –Sajdah, focus-ing on the lessons derived from the verses.

Next week, we will be learning about the importance of show-ing gratitude to Allah in the topic “The believer between gratitude and patience”.

Y6 HW: Learn (25-26) Surat As - Sajdah

This This week, we continued learning the topic (The global village).

Next week, we will be learning the topic (At the toy shop).


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MADELINES (5Pc)

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CHOUQUETTES

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CROISSANT

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