Doha British School
Primary Weekly Brief
w/c 24th January 2016
Stars of the Week
Writers of the Week
1A: Sree Surabhi
1B: Joud Balasy
1C: Shahad Hashem
1D: Eva Swan
1E: Moustafa Hallani
1A: Sarah Radwan
1B: Thomas Griffin
1C: Laylah Cooke
1D: Mikaeel Qizilbash
1E: Michaela Punt
2A: Zaynab Bilal
2B: Mohammed Abdeljaleel
2C: Mohannad El Shafei
2D: Fahd Kisswani
2E: Sarah Badran
2A: Taylor Kirrane
2B: Laura Marcano
2C: Ryan El Assaad
2D: Talal Niazi
2E: Elissa Hinawi
3A: Pablo Vera
3B: Camila Castedo
3C: Filip Stangeland
3D: Aya Malhas
3E: Christopher Bartlett
3A: Alvaro Calvete
3B: Samaira Kazmi
3C: Reemaz Osman
3D: Syed Hassan
3E: Annie Webb
4A: Alessia Castellanos
4B: Danya Ali
4C: Abdulaziz Al Marri
4D: Shreyansh Jain
4E: Paula Ortega
4E: Hana Mandour,
Dates to Remember
Year 5 Science Made Fun: Weds 27th Jan
Science Day – ‘Just a Minute’: 28th Jan
Grace Holmes
Spring Half Term: 31st Jan – 4th Feb
Year 4 Trips to Aspire Park: w/c 7th Feb
DBS Sports Week: Sun 7th - Thur 11th Feb
(No Sporting ECAs during Sports Week)
National Sports Day holiday: Tues 9th Feb
Parent Consultations: Mon 15th & Weds
17th Feb – note change of date
(No ECAs on these days)
Parent Feedback Eve: Mon 22nd Feb, 6pm
MPH
World Book Day: Thurs 3rd Mar
Spring Term ECAs finish: Thur 10th March
5A: Minnah
5B: Ibrahim
5C: Haron
5D: Whole Class
5E: Sebastian
6A: Reshial Khan
6B: Nadah Ouri
6C: Samuel Salazar
6D: Hazizat Sulu
6E: Ahmad Takriti
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5A: Ismaeel
5B: Hakam
5C: Zach
5D: Elijah Miller
5E: Yashfa
6A: Nada Ahmed
6B: Delaram Vatankhater
6C: Drishika Girdhar
6D: Stefanos Pierrakos
6E: Walid Ayass
Spring Term finishes: Thurs 24th March
Summer Term starts: Sun 10th April
Summer Half Term: 19th, 22nd & 23rd May
Summer Term ends: Thur 30th June
Learning This Week
Literacy
Y1 – Exploring poetry that uses the five senses. Sorting adjectives into the five senses and learning how to
write a simple simile.
Y2 – We continue looking at the features of non-chronological reports using reports about dinosaurs. We’ll
be looking in detail at features such as titles, headings, sub-headings, labels, captions, opening paragraphs,
diagrams and pictures.
Y3 - In Literacy we will be planning and writing a non-chronological report. Children will be again be
focusing on constructing paragraphs and using connectives.
Y4 – This is our last week of narrative writing, which will end with the students completing a ‘best write’
about a pirate. Hopefully the students will be applying their knowledge of complex sentences and
incorporating speech marks within this piece of work.
Y5 – Our theme this term is African Adventure. We will be reading traditional stories and looking at the
features. We will compare written stories and write a traditional story.
Y6 – This week, we will continue to read ‘The Odyssey’ and to develop diary writing skills. The children will
also be proof-reading and correcting texts that have had punctuation removed and deliberate grammatical
mistakes added.
Maths
Y1 - Counting objects in 2s. Sorting odd and even numbers using a venn diagram. Doubling and halving
numbers.
Y2 - We will look at simple multiplication, starting with the language of multiplication (groups of, lots of,
repeated addition) and moving on to using manipulatives to perform simple multiplications.
Y3 – In Maths pupils will be learning to plot coordinates on an x and y axis and giving directions. They will
be looking at a variety of grids including maps. By the end of the week they will create their own map.
Y4 - For Maths this week, students are looking at decimals. They will learn about the place value of a
decimal to 3 places, look at how to add decimals and how to round a number with one decimal to the
nearest whole number.
Y5 – Mr. Givens - multiplying and dividing decimals, ratio and proportion. Ms. Berg - division of 4 digit
numbers by 1 digit. Mrs. Potgieter, Mr.Manley, Mr. Ross - subtracting and adding fractions.
Y6 – This week, the children will be finding fractions of amounts e.g. two thirds of 33. The children will also
be converting fractions, decimals and percentages.
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PE News
Rounders Tournament
On Tuesday 19th January children from Year 5 and 6 took part
in the QPPSSA Rounders Competition held at Doha Rugby
Football Club.
All pupils from DBS showed great sportsmanship and their
attitude during the games was really positive. We are really
proud to announce that the DBS A team came 4th, and the B
team were Bronze medal winners. An amazing performance
from everyone!!
After School Clubs and Activities
Some ECAs, squads and the Spectrum Football
Academy have been cancelled in the next few
weeks due to other events (such as Sports Week
and Parent Consultations) taking precedence.
The details are as follows:
Mon 25th, Thurs 28th, Sat 30th Jan:
No Spectrum Football Academy
Mon 1st, Thurs 4th, Sat 6th Feb:
No Spectrum Football Academy
Sun 7th – Thurs 11th Feb:
No Sporting ECAs / Squads (in any year group)
Non-sporting ECAs will run as normal
Spectrum Football will run as normal
Mon 15th and Weds 17th Feb only:
No ECAs
Upcoming Fixtures
Outdoor Athletics
15th Feb – Years 3 & 4, Mixed teams, at ASD
16th Feb – Years 5 & 6, Mixed teams, at ASD
Please check with your Class Teacher, Class Mum or
the PE Department if you are unclear.
Parent Consultations and Parent
Feedback Session
The trials for Outdoor Athletics will be during PE lesson time;
children selected for the teams will receive a letter from the
PE dept. There will be a practice after school during w/c 7th
Feb – details tbc.
Parent consultations will be on Monday 15th and
Wednesday 17th February. The times will be
Monday 2pm – 4pm and Weds 3pm – 6pm. Please
note change of date.
Football
28th Feb – Year 3 & 4 Boys, at MIS
2nd March – Year 3 & 4 Girls, at MIS
Signup sheets will be in the covered area for Year 3 6 and in the KS1 area for Year 1-2. Reception and Pre
School classes can sign up outside their individual
classrooms. Your children will again be telling you
about their learning, so it is important that they
attend with you.
Final teams for the Football tournaments will be reviewed
during squad/ECA sessions.
Reminders
Many pupils are not remembering to bring their full PE kit.
Please ensure your child has the following:
Swimming kit: swimming costume, goggles, hat, flip flops and
towel.
PE kit: blue shorts, DBS polo shirts, white sports socks,
trainers, water bottle, hat.
After school pick up: please ensure that you pick up your
children promptly at the specified times at the end of ECAs,
squads and fixtures. Thank you.
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Please note that there will be no ECAs running on the
days of the parent consultations (as above).
There was a date error on Mrs Cliffe’s last newsletter
regarding the Parent Feedback Evening. The date
should have read Monday 22nd February, 6pm, MPH
(not Tuesday). We apologise for any inconvenience
caused.
This open evening is to provide you with an
opportunity to ask Mrs Cliffe and Mr McGuire any
question you would like about the school, but is not
a forum to discuss issues about individual children.
Year Group News, Requests & Reminders
Science Day – Just A Minute!
Year 4
Trips to Aspire Park, w/c 7th February. Letters have now
been sent out to all pupils regarding their trip to Aspire
Park. Please ensure you return the permission form and
QR15 by Thurs 28th Jan, to your child’s class teacher.
Year 4 students are completing a challenge on Thursday
to create a marble run that will last 60 seconds and need
resources to build it. If you have any spare cardboard
tubes, fabrics, plastic tubes or general craft materials,
please send these into school with your child this week.
Year 5
Spelling: a reminder that spelling homework needs to
handed in on Thursday, the day of the spelling test.
Science Made Fun: Weds 27th Jan. Please remember to
return the form and QR45 asap if you have not already
done so.
African Adventure: our theme this term is African
Adventure and we will be making African masks. Students
will be working in groups of 4 and between them need to
bring in large cardboard cartons, kitchen / toilet roll
tubes, egg cartons, plastic bottle tops and string. Thank
you.
On Thursday 28th January everyone in the school
will become scientists for the day when we hold
our annual Science Day.
This year the day is called ‘Just a Minute’ and
teachers are busy planning investigations which
take just 60 seconds! The aim of the day is to give
children as many opportunities as possible during
the day to go through the scientific process (ask
questions, generate hypotheses, perform tests,
analyse results and draw conclusions).
To help us with the measuring of time and to help
emphasise the theme we would like you to try
and make sure your child brings a watch or
stopwatch to school that day. It will be a ‘wear a
watch to school’ day.
Our amazing Dabkeh dancers, from last week’s
International Week Parade
‫رقصة الدبكة‬
Reminders
Arabic Spelling Competitions
The Arabic department is running a series of oral spelling
competitions for Arabic speakers in Years 3 and 4, which
started on 17th January.
No Hat No Play Policy - children who do not have
their cap are not allowed to play on the field during
lunch time. Please ensure your child brings their
hat to school every day, or they will miss out on the
opportunity to participate in valuable ball skills
play, such as basketball and football, during their
break times.
The competitions will end with a final between the two
year groups on 25th February.
For further details, please contact Lamia Jelassi on:
[email protected]
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Mobile Phones: Pupils are NOT allowed to have
mobile phones in school.