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Dear Family,
AS a school we are committed
to helping families support their
children’s learning. It has been
great that so many families have
been coming to our workshops –
there are quite a few more in the
coming weeks – please check
the portal calendar. We look
forward to seeing families who
have made an appointment to
see our teachers next Tuesday
evening. Please remember that
we do not have the facilty to
supervise children while their
parent are with the teachers.
WE are planning our National
Day celebrations. This year we
will focus on learning about
wildlife in the UAE. The Aldar
Academies National Day is at
Ferrari World on 22 Nov and
our school event is on 28th
Nov.
Please also remember that
we are all in the playground
everyday to have a quick
word before or after school if
needed.
THIS week we are pleased to
welcome back Mrs. Ola after
her maternity leave. We also
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welcome to our school Mrs. Jumanah our new Arabic teacher.
OVER the last few weeks we have been working on the Aldar Academies value of ‘excellence’. Later this month we will start considering the
importance of ’creativity’. To start this we are having a themed week about STEM subjects. We have lots of exciting and creative tasks for the
children to complete. If you work in a stem based profession and would be happy be happy to be interviewed by our children please let your
child’s teacher know. We are also collecting cardboard boxes and unwanted electrical equipment for the children to take apart!
LEARNING to read is one of the most important this we do in school – so it was great to see our book fair bring so well supported this week.
We hope the children enjoy their super new books.
SOME FS2 families used our Pink room for an informal coffee morning this week. This is an activity we welcome other years to do too – just
have a work with your child’s teacher to fix a date and time.
WELL done to Hawksbills class who had the best attendance last week. They will enjoy a special treat with their teacher.
WE are so pleased that – following our family consultation that families are using the birthday treats initiative to encourage healthy eating.
We say happy birthday to Hamnah in FS2 who brought in some healthy fruit for her friends to share.
Next week there will be no newsletter – so – please remember these dates – as always full details on the portal.
23rd Oct. – after assembly (approx. 8:15) meet the counsellor – informal coffee morning – all welcome.
27th Oct
– Pink day – children welcome to wear pink.
– 7:15 Fun and Fitness for children and families – start the day with fun and easy circuit session with your child.
After school – our first table top sale of the year – email [email protected]
W. Howsen
ON line safety
In school this week we have been thinking about keeping children safe on-line.
This site has been recommended to us – families may find it helpful in helping to ensure their children are safe on line and on their
phones etc. It also contains helpful advice about age suitability for games and films
https://www.commonsensemedia.org/
- No clubs next week – apart from
sports fixtures, sailing, horse riding,
and swimming on Sunday due to family
conferencing.
- No school hat (old or new style) = no
play!
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Music News:
Year 4 have been studying the topic of Rome. This will and next we will be looking at Opera. Through this the children will be learning
the elements of opera and doing a project on the Sydney Opera House.
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Year 1 have been exploring sounds in music. Here we have been looking at Carnival of the Animals and trying to listen for clues to
help us figure out which animal is which.
FOAM News:
Our newly elected FOAM members for this year are:
Lara AbuAta – Chair
Nadia Mounib – Vice Chair
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Dinarti Paramita – Secretary
Mafalda Hipolito – Treasurer
Please remember all families are welcome to the FOAM meetings to come and share their ideas and become voluntary members.
Our next FOAM meeting is on Sunday 16th October at 8:15am.
Upcoming FOAM events:
–
Pink day 27th October
–
National Day 28th November
–
Winter Souq 14th December
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Swimming News:
On Wednesday 5th October, Cranleigh School hosted a friendly swim meet for the start of League B in the Abu Dhabi Inter-Schools
competition. The Al Muna team showed outstanding enthusiasm, performance & teamwork and I would like to congratulate all
swimmers! A big thank you to all staff and parents who helped out at this event.
ATTENTION ALL SWIMMERS
Please note that the ‘4th Lane Swim Academy’ will be available on Sunday 16th October at 2-3pm for you to register your child for
extra swimming lessons here at Al Muna school pool. The coaches & organizers will be situated on the school’s main playground.
These lessons are for any children or adults of any age and ability! ALL PARENTS MUST HAVE A REGISTRATION FORM FILLED
OUT WITH 4TH LANE ACADEMY BEOFRE THEIR CHILD ATTENDS THE FIRST LESSON – THESE WILL BE AVAILABLE AT THE OPEN
AFTERNOON THIS SUNDAY.
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PE News:
It was a strong week for Al Muna sports teams with the girls football team returning two strong wins against GEMS and Al Yasmina,
after a tough week last week. Well done girls! The mixed touch rugby team also delivered a sparkling result with a second place
finish in a very close final against Brighton College A team. On the road to the final they delivered good results against the strongest
teams in the league. Exceptional performances all round!
In PE the year groups are starting to wind up to the end of the first block of work and classes are working hard. As the weather
begins to cool down we are going to be moving our lessons outside. Please remember the students need water at their lessons
whether we are inside or out – hydration is so important to both participation and performances!
News from the French Department:
NEWS FROM THE FRENCH DEPARTMENT – Al Muna
Message from Madame Martine
First of all, I would like to let you know that I will be in the Music Room next Tuesday for parent’s meeting, feel free to drop in to see
me then. Otherwise you can reach me on my email [email protected].
In year 3 this week we have been revising the numbers 0-20, this leads onto learning higher numbers as have begun to learn the
days of the week and months of the year to be able to ask and respond to someone, telling them how old they are and when their
birthday is.
Quel âge as-tu – J’ai ____ ans
Quelle est la date de ton anniversaire? Mon anniversaire est le ____ (number) ______ (month)
A revision page for this: www.digitaldialects.com/French/Daysmonths.htm
A brief clip talking about birthdays: www.youtube.com/watch?v=6286ssjv3AA
In year 4 have been continuing to describe our lego people/monsters using our knowledge of naming body parts and colours. We
have looked at in particular adjectival position and agreement. The colour as is Arabic comes after the noun e.g. la jambe rouge
then remembering the agreements, if it is feminine/and or plural e.g. les jambes rouges, it was great to see how quickly the classes
picked up on this.
We are now looking at adjectives to describe characteristics. www.agreenmouse.com/french-character-resource-adjectives/
In year 5 I have asked the classes whoever wishes to do so to create information packs about Abu Dhabi, the UAE to exchange with a
Francophone Year 5 class in Spain. We are revising the general place names in a town/city and how to say in French why the classes
like living in the UAE and how to understand/ give general directions.
In year 6 we have continued to talk about sports hobbies, we have also revised previous topics, the weather, higher numbers to 100
and beyond and telling the time, rooms in a house, food and drink items etc. Next week we will go onto asking and talking about our
daily routines.
Please see www.bbc.co.uk/schools/primarylanguages/french/school_day/daily_routines/
Please use the website, as it allows the children to work independently practise everyday vocabulary and phrases, from a variety of
French and Arabic curricula, it can be used to practise topic work that is being covered in class. I am pleased that the children are
using this in both French and Arabic.
If you would like the login details and have any questions please email me [email protected].
[email protected] ‫إذا كانت لديكم أية استفسارات عن املنهاج يرجى التواصل معي عىل بريدي اإللكرتوين‬
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FS1 & FS2
FS1
Who is afraid of big, black spider??- Definitely NOT FS1 children!!!
This week the children enjoyed learning the song ‘Incy Wincy Spider’, moving like spiders on the web in the big playground and making
spider’s webs with glitter and glue – very messy but great fun!! They listened carefully to ‘Aaaaarghh Spider!’ and some of them now
want a spider as a pet!
We were learning some fascinating facts about the spiders and now everyone knows that the spider has four legs on both sides!!! In our
Shared Area we had a real bog and guess what??? We found different insects leaving there! We also used the magnifying glass while
going around the school for the spider hunt. What fun!!
Next week- to finish our Nursery Rhymes topic we are going to check what can we see on the dark, night sky….
FS2
This week in FS2, we have been reading ‘Room on the Broom’. Our favourite part was when the swamp monster scared away the
dragon! We’ve had lots of fun talking about the setting and the characters in the book. Ask us who our favourite character is. We also
loved learning how to take away and talking about what we do every day from waking up to going back to bed again!
Next week we are learning all about the story of ‘UP’ and talking about going on our own adventures.
Gold Cards for
FS1 & FS2
Ahmed K FS2, Fatima FS2,
Naya FS2, Loulwa FS2, Khalifa
FS2, Zarminy FS2, Sumdeh
FS2, Naya FS2, Hannan FS2,
Asya FS2, Uday FS2, Akhsara
FS2, Malek FS2, Arwa FS2,
Yasssin FS2, Hamnah FS2.
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Year 1 and Year 2
Year 1
This week year 1 have been adding using a range of strategies. We have rolled dice to create numbers to add together. We have
also been learning our number bonds to 10. In English we have been looking and recipes and imperative verbs. We have identified
imperative verbs in a piece of writing and are beginning to write our own recipes. We had to tell our partner how to make a jam
sandwich, using full sentences and using the imperative verbs. In topic, we have been continuing to make, edit and improve our
healthy snacks.
6TH FEB
Next week we are going to continue with addition and look at 1 more and 1 less. In English we are going to learn about the story ‘the
hungry caterpillar’ where we will reorder the story and also begin to think about where the butterfly might have gone. In topic we will
be focusing on computing, creating our own videos as TV chefs.
Year 2
This week has been extremely exciting because we had a special visit from The Bookworm book fair. Each class had an opportunity
to visit the book fair and purchase picture books, chapter books and non-fiction books. The children worked hard with their Maths
adding up to total cost of their books. In maths we have been working hard to double numbers, some of us have been using dienes
cubes and counters to help us.
Next week we will be linking our English topic (weather reports) and Science topic (food) together and we will be reading the story
‘Cloudy with a chance of Meatballs’. Children will be creating their own maps and create their own foot weather symbols. In maths
next week we will be looking at money and setting up our own class shops.
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Gold Cards for
Years 1 & 2
Evan Y1, Juwairiyah Y1, Saif
Wasi Y1, Omar Ib Y1, Yaseen Y1,
Juwairiya Y1, Charlize Y1, Aarushi
Y1, Wenxi Y1, Haitham Y1, Kiara
Y1, Mustafa Y2, Fatima Y2, Aleko
Y2, Marym Y2, Youssef Y2, Yousif
Y2, Ban Y2, Ahmed Y2, Lana
Y2, Yusuf Y2, Diya Y2, Maria Y2,
Sameeha Y2, Fatima Y2, Isabel Y2,
Murshed Y2, Fahed Y2, Dheiren
Y2, Veer Y2, Sara Y2, Maitha Y2.
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Year 3 and Year 4
Year 3
This week in Year 3 we have been learning all about the Egyptian Cinderella. Her name was Rhodopis – ask your child to tell you the
story. We used talk for writing to plan out the story about this which used drama and pictures. In science we continued to learn all
about light and shadows.
In non-native Social Studies children were learning all about the life of Sheikh Zayed and his importance to the UAE.
Coming up
Science – Light and Shadow Investigations
English – Continuing our work on the Egyptian Cinderella
ICT – Animations
Maths
Mrs Boyd’s group – Mental calculations
Miss Boland’s group – Column subtraction with borrowing and division with remainders
Mr Maloney’s group – Doubling, halving, odds and evens and rounding
Year 4
This week in year 4 we have been working hard to complete our work around asking Roman characters questions, hot seating, conscious
alley and producing a detailed character description during our literacy classes. Mr. Tormey has been completing one and two step
number story problems around addition and subtraction. Mr. Churm has started work on grid multiplication and Ms. Wright has covered
work on fractions. In science, we have started work on what constitutes a healthy diet and we hope that this information will stay with
them for life! The book fair came to Al Muna this week, we hope you picked out some great new books!
Next week, the author, Chris White, will be visiting Al Muna and we are looking forward to hearing from him, the children are very
excited. In English, we will be focusing on the size of the Roman Empire and the geographical features that can be found throughout the
empire. In maths, Mr. Tormey will be focusing on multiplication, Mr. Churm will be continuing with grid multiplication and Ms. Wright will
be completing maths missions. In science, we will be going into more detail about diets and how to look after our bodies properly.
Gold Cards for
Years 3 & 4
Sara Y3, Mikaela Y3, Daria Y3,
Mariam Y3, Khaled Ak Y3, Faris
Y4, Omar Y4, Alex Y4, Antonia Y4,
Haya Y4, Bevan Y4, Mariam Y4.
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Year 5 and Year 6
Year 5
This week Year 5 students have been putting their journalistic hats on. They have been considering what it must have been like in
1969 when the first men landed on the moon. They have thought of interesting, open ended questions, taken notes whilst listening to
responses from Neil Armstrong and his wife about their experiences and feelings, thought of creative headlines and written a news
article. Next week we will be starting to read the book The Iron Man, we will be specifically looking at character descriptions and
using complex sentences. In maths we will be continuing our work on multiples, division, factors and fractions.
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Year 6
We have seen some fantastic homework projects making their way into school already for this half term! Thank you for supporting
your children in this new approach. A reminder that children have until 3rd November to complete and return their projects to
share with the rest of the year group. This week, we have seen a wonderful approach to work from children in their English work on
balanced arguments; the staff have all been impressed with the confidence they show in sharing their opinions, and we look forward
to using this for some amazing writing next week.
9TH FEB
Since the beginning of the term, we have been using our shared area to explore a variety of curricular task. The children really enjoy
this time and have produced some brilliant independent work as a result. We are also speeding up our transitions between lessons
with some catchy music, creating a happy, positive atmosphere in Year 5/6.
10TH FEB
Gold Cards for
Years 5 & 6
Samarth Y5, Mayada Y5, Saeed
Y5, Latifa Mayada Y5, Saeed Y5,
Latifa Y5, Aliya Y5, Eissa Y5, Sami
Y5, Haythem Y5, Mohamed D Y5,
Yousef Y5, Zayan Y5, Jieuin Y5,
Maram C Y5, Ramaa Y5, Saleh
Y6, Maram Y6, Mohamed Y6,
Hiba Y6, Ateeq Y6, Khalifa Y6,
Mariem A Y6, Yara Y6.
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‫نشاط قسم اللغة العربية هذا األسبوع‬
‫الروضة األوىل ‪:‬‬
‫زار أطفال الروضة األوىل هذا األسبوع حرشة العنكبوت‪ ،‬وتعرفوا إليه من خالل قصة العنكبوت الصغري‪.‬‬
‫كام قام األطفال بالبحث عن العناكب املخبأة داخل الصف ليضعوها يف شبكة العنكبوت الكبرية بعد عد أرجله الثامنية‪،‬‬
‫باإلضافة إىل نشاطات أخرى من طباعة عنكبوت بأصابع اليد وصنع شبكة للعنكبوت الخاص بكل طفل‪.‬‬
‫الروضة الثانية‪:‬‬
‫كان مرسح العرائس ممتعاً ألطفال الروضة الثانية‪ ،‬تعرفوا من خالله إىل قصة الجزرة الكبرية‪ ،‬وإىل أهمية مساعدة اآلخرين‬
‫والعمل الجامعي‪ .‬ومن خالل هذا العرض تعلموا الحرف الجديد لهذا األسبوع وهو حرف الجيم (ج) باإلضافة إىل كلامت‬
‫هذا الحرف‪.‬‬
‫وكانت نشاطات هذا األسبوع مختلفة عن سابقاتها‪ ،‬فكان هناك العمل الجامعي إليصال مفهوم التعاون ومنها النشاط‬
‫الفردي‪.‬‬
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‫الصف الثاين‪:‬‬
‫تعرف طالب الصف الثاين عىل الالم القمرية والشمسية وحروف كل منها ‪ ،‬حيث إنقسم طالب الصف لفريقني فريق الالم‬
‫الشمسية وفريق الالم القمرية وإستمتع كل من الفريقني بالكثري من األنشطة القرائية والكتابية اإلثرائية للدرس ووظفوها يف‬
‫درس القراءة املوجهة والتعبري الكتايب‪.‬‬
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‫الصف الثالث ‪:‬‬
‫تحدث طالب الصف الثالث عن هواياتهم املفضلة وشاركوا بعضهم البعض يف فوائد كل هواية حيث إستلهموا أفكارهم من‬
‫درس (الرياضة هوايتي ) حيث تناول هذا الدرس املمتع العديد من الهوايات وفوائدها لإلنسان‪.‬‬
‫الصف الرابع‪:‬‬
‫تعرف طالب الصف الرابع عىل درس الجملة االسمية و حددوا املبتدأ والخرب من جمل كثرية ‪ ،‬كام استمتع الطالب بحصص‬
‫القراءة املوجهة بحضور عدد من أولياء األمور‪,‬‬
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‫الصف الخامس‪:‬‬
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‫تعرف طالب الصف الخامس هذا األسبوع عىل الضامئر املتصلة و استذكروا الضامئر املنفصلة كام وظفوها يف كتاباتهم‪.‬‬
‫كام تعرفوا عىل أسلوب جديد يف الكتابة و هو كتابة رسالة حيث تعرفوا عىل عنارص الرسالة ثم قاموا بتخطيط رسالة جديدة‬
‫يكتبها الطالب لصديقه‪.‬‬
‫الصف السادس‪:‬‬
‫تعرف الطالب عىل الفعل املعرب والفعل املبني من خالل طريقة االستنتاج والتحليل‪.‬‬
‫‪Y6NN Arabic‬‬
‫‪The children in NN Arabic class created their PowerPoint in Arabic‬‬
‫‪about the jobs‬‬
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‫الرتبية الوطنية ‪:‬‬
‫تعلم طالب الصف الرابع هذا األسبوع درس عن دولة اإلمارات العربية املتحدة وإنجازات الشيخ زايد‬
‫( رحمه الله ) وأهم أعامل الشيخ خليفة ( حفظه الله ) وفد أنجز كل من الطالب نور الرشيف ومريم سالم مرشوع يتعلق‬
‫بالدرس ‪.‬‬