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ISSUE NO.5
AL MUNA
PRIMARY
SCHOOL
CALENDAR OF
EVENTS
5/6 Oct
School Closed - EID Holiday
7 OCT
Everyone back to school
8 OCT
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Our Whole School Newsletter
Dear Family
Eid Mubarak!
THANK YOU to all of the
families who have kindly
made donations to support
our communities at this
special time. Thank you to
the staff and children who
put together an educational
and informative assembly
this morning and to all who
came to watch – and thank
you to all who came and
supported our day in many
says such as providing food,
helping at the sponsored
events, helping with the
Eid activities in class and
simply for coming to our fun
afternoon. Events such as
these are really important for
our school community. We
wish you all a very enjoyable
Eid Break and look forward
to seeing the children back at
school on Tuesday.
9 OCT
ATTENDANCE – every lesson
counts - well done to Sandcats
class who had the very best
attendance last week. They will
enjoy a special treat with their
teacher. Rates of attendance in
our school are improving which
is the staff and children who
put together an educational
and informative assembly this
morning and to all who came
to watch – and thank you to
all who came and supported
our day in many says such as
providing food, helping at the
sponsored events, helping
with the Eid activities in class
and simply for coming to our
fun afternoon. Events such
as these are really important
for our school community. We
wish you all a very enjoyable
Eid Break and look forward
to seeing the children back at
school on Tuesday.
Lost property - you may have
noticed the new lost property
table in the playground - it has
a big parasol! We add anything
lost to it each day and the
system seems to be working
well!
Last day to book for Year 4 Pizza
trip
AL MUNA PRIMARY
SCHOOL
This week we have lost a pair of
glasses and a girls black shiny
leather shoe. Usually these
things come back but on this
occasion they haven’t - please
can you check you child’s bag just in case.
FOAM – The Friends of Al Muna
– have kindly given every family
a very helpful and beautifully
designed wall planner as a gift
for Eid. One was sent home
yesterday for every family –
they were given to the eldest
and only child in every family
– if you missed yours please
have a word with your child’s
teacher. Please keep an eye
out for the FOAM newsletter
that is accompanying this one.
We have lots of new FOAM
members and always welcome
families to FOAM meetings.
HOMEWORK – Please note that
homework today is going home
for the English Curriculum.
There is no Arabic homework
this week – next week it will be
the other way round.
PLEASE make sure you have
a good look though the list of
dates that is being sent out
with our newsletter. We are a
very busy school and there are
lots of events such as trips and
workshops for families.
FINALLY – As we come to the
end of our first half term – I
would like to publically thank
the Al Muna Staff who work so
hard to give the children the
very best education we can.
I often say that working at Al
Muna is very hard work indeed
– as we expect everyone to
always do their very best. It is
exhausting and exhilarating so staff – enjoy your break too!
Lost - Hello Kittly lunch bag Sofia Oryx Class
Hi we are still searching for
this since yesterday – it has
Sofia’s name on it (please
check your children have not
taken it by accident).
Enjoy the break ….
ABU DHABI
OCT 2014
Voice of Al Muna!
Year 5 Amazing
Musicans!!!
News from Mr
Duggan
Congratulations to Sanjay
and Andreas for passing their
ABRSM Violin exams. Sanjay
passed her Grade 2 exam and
Andreas passed his Grade 1
exam with a merit.
Just confirming TAPOFF
academies will not be running
this weekend due to the
Holiday Break -
This week’s top blogger for
explaining what he thought the
most important thing he was
learning at school is:
Ahmed Alqubaisi
I think math is most important
because learning to count
will help me to count money
at work. I will also be able to
count money to give to charity.
We are very lucky to have such
talented pupils at our school.
I’ve asked them to perform
to us at the new Sunday
Showcase - I can’t wait to hear
them play. Well done!!!
ISSUE NO.5
Back again ready to go next
weekend - please pass onto
any parents you know who
might be turning up?
Well done, I like how you
are thinking about giving to
charity. Remember to see Mrs
McFarlane for a prize.
http://almuna.edublogs.org/
This week’s blog question is:
What have you done to help
others? How did it make you
feel?
Sunday Showcase
An exciting new feature for Al
Muna is the Sunday Showcase.
This is a chance for pupils,
staff (and parents!) to perform
in front of the school at the
morning assembly. This
week we had Year 4 Caracals
perform the ABBA song
‘Mamma Mia’. They were
amazing!!! We have some more
brilliant performances coming
up. If there are any talented
pupils or parents who would
like to perform for the pupils,
please contact Mr Picton.
Thanks to Mrs Al
Rumaithi for providing
the drumming
workshop today for
the whole school.
AL MUNA PRIMARY
SCHOOL
ABU DHABI
OCT 2014
ISSUE NO. 5
FOAM NEWS
Friends of Almuna ( FOAM) is a voluntary, non- for-profit association of parents whose children attend AlMuna
school.
The aim of the FOAM is to support Al Muna Primary School, to make the school a better place for our children
by supporting the school in organising fun events for children and families, providing a valuable, supportive link
between families and school, creating and maintaining a social network for new and existing families and to raise
funds for school projects and charities .
Any Parent of Almuna school is welcome to attend our meetings which will be announced in the school’s
newsletter.
We also have a FOAM bulletin board located in the playground providing information regarding current activities.
FOAM NEWS
FOAM would like to thank all parents who attended the Annual General Meeting last Wednesday. The FOAM
members look forward to seeing many more parents in the future coming meetings.
The Steering committee members for the year 2014/2015 are listed below:
Chair: Ms. Afra Al Muharibi
Vice-Chair: Ms. Lara Abu Ata
Treasurers: Ms. Brunella Rizzi & Ms. Alya AlMehairi
Secretaries: Ms. Nicky Mchugh & Ms. Sian Kyffin
Publicity officer: Mr. Rami Hazboun
Volunteer liaison : Ms. Sapna Dasgupta
Principal: Mr. Wayne Howsen
Deputy Principal: Mrs. Alison Priestly
AL MUNA PRIMARY
SCHOOL
ABU DHABI
OCT 2014
ISSUE NO. 5
FOAM had sponsored printing the school’s calendar of events for this year. One copy for each family
was sent home with our children.
As always we welcome and value your suggestions so please if you have any ideas or suggestions for
the Foam or would like to take an active role please come along to our meetings or feel free to contact
us on:
foam@almunaprimary.sch.ae
Volunteering is a great way to share your talents and become an active member of the school
community and meet other parents.
Our goal is to work together with all families to create a better environment for our children.
Our next FOAM meeting will be held on MONDAY the 13th of Oct 2014 at 8:00 a.m. in the Pink Room everyone is very welcome!
Thank you all for your continued support.
AL MUNA PRIMARY
SCHOOL
ABU DHABI
OCT 2014
NEWSMAKERS
News from FS1
News from FS2
We have had a very sparkly
week this week in FS1 singing
‘Twinkle Twinkle Little Star’.
We have been making lots of
stars using glitter and sequins
– look out for them on display!
To start off the week we had a
‘nurseryrhymeathon’ where all
of the children managed to join
in together and sing 4 nursery
rhymes for donations for The
Big Heart Foundation and
the workers here in the UAE.
Well done to the children and
a big thank you for your very
generous donations. We had a
fantastic day today celebrating
Eid, sharing food with our
friends, making special Eid
cards for our families and of
course lots of bouncing on the
bouncy castle!
This week we have had lots
of fun learning about and
celebrating Eid. We really
enjoyed taking part in our
sponsored aerobics, we were
very tired after it! We made
Eid cards and designed our
own henna prints. We really
enjoyed trying all of the foods
during our Eid celebrations,
thank you to everyone who
brought in donations!
We would like to wish you all
Eid Mubarak and we are looking
forward to seeing you all rested
after the long weekend.
We have also enjoyed reading
the story, ‘The Blackest Hole
in Space’, learning the names
of the planets and funny facts
about space. Did you know a
piece of ice as big as a sofa fell
out of the sky and landed in
India! In maths we have learnt
the words ‘add’ and ‘equals’
and have tried to solve different
space addition problems.
News from Year 1
What rhymes with cat? Or
mop? Or play? Ask your child.
We have been learning about
rhymes and rhyming this
week and have even created
group and individual poems.
It was so much fun and often
even quite funny. We played
silly soup and made up silly
rhymes. We have also been
jumping along number lines
to work out our addition sums.
We got better and better as the
week progressed. In science
we have been exploring the
sense of touch and taste and
we enjoyed working with fruit
– some of us had never either
seen or tasted a rambutan
before! We thought of lots of
some great ‘wow words’ to
describe the fruits too. We
enjoyed celebrating Eid with
our classes on Thursday and
everyone is ready for lots more
celebrating over the weekend.
Have a safe and enjoyable Eid.
ISSUE NO. 5
AL MUNA PRIMARY
SCHOOL
ABU DHABI
OCT 2014
News from Year 2
News from Year 3
News from Year 4
In Year 2 this week we have
had a great time planning,
investigating and making our
own healthy snacks. We have
researched what fruit children
like in the school and created
graphs with the data.We have
loved being entrepreneurs,
creating posters to advertise
our products and selling them
to other children. Nurse Emma
has been so pleased with our
healthy choices. We have also
had so much fun taking part in
our swimming for charity. class
teacher know.
As we look back on another
really busy week we would like
to extend a big thank you to
all in Year 3 who participated
in our Eid celebrations and
contributed to our charity
drive. This week in literacy
the children have been writing
suspenseful story problems
and extending the range of
punctuation used in their
writing. In maths the children
have been examining various
addition and subtraction
strategies as well as word
problems. In science, we have
been focusing on shadows and
the children enthusiastically
designed their own sun dials.
We also tested whether
materials were opaque,
transparent or translucent.
The children’s ICT skills were
developed during a filmmaking activity which required
them to share their knowledge
on Ancient Egypt whilst
the art lesson involved the
children sketching a patterned
headdress for Queen Nefertiti,
wife of the Pharaoh Akhenaten.
Finally, on behalf of everyone
in the Year 3 team, we wish you
and your family a peaceful and
restful Eid holiday.
We started off the week with a
pizza tasting session. Using our
senses we evaluated different
pizzas on their appearance,
taste and smell and gave our
overall opinion on them. This
made us think about what we
will include on our pizzas and
how we will present them. It
also give us a great selection
of adjectives to use in our
persuasive adverts in Literacy.
We have started analysing other
persuasive adverts and begun
to create our own. We have
considered the layout features,
slogans, rhetorical questions,
images and language that
is used to persuade us. A
delicious and creative week!
Well done Year 4.
ISSUE NO.5
AL MUNA PRIMARY
SCHOOL
ABU DHABI
OCT 2014
ISSUE NO.5
News from Mrs
Partridge
Please remind your child not
to wear jewelry or watches for
swimming and to take ear-rings
out.
Swim Squad parents – if you
have not yet returned your
signed ‘Code of Conduct’ please
do so as soon as possible, thank
you!
Well done to all the Swim Squad
who raced for their personal
times this week against BSAD.
Thank you to all who helped at
this event.
Kind Regards
News from Year 5
News from Year 6
SWIMMING CHECKLIST
This week has been an exciting
week enjoying the celebration
of Eid. To mark the occasion we
performed a sponsored skip
where we raised money and
received donations for charity.
Our final week before Eid
celebrations has been filled with
Aztec facts and information. The
children have now completed
their Aztec presentations on
aspects of Aztec daily life,
producing some very detailed
and imaginative presentations.
The task definitely highlighted
children that took a positive role
within their group to organise
and present their research.
Al Muna Swimming Costume/
Shorts & Bag with name written
on.
In literacy this week we have
been working hard to tell a
story from a character’s point
of view by writing in the first
person. We had a lot of fun role
playing potential scenes from
our stories.
In science we have been
continuing to look at the
properties of materials and
have worked hard in groups on
experiments.
The year 5 team would like
to wish families a happy and
relaxing Eid break.
Our Science work also
generated some interesting
discussion. We looked at how
blood is made up, functions of
each part and different types.
Don’t be surprised if you get
asked about your blood type at
home!
We are looking forward to the
Eid celebrations in school and
wish you all a good break.
Swimming Cap.
The main purpose of wearing a
swimming cap:
for personal health & hygiene
to keep hair out of the face
to protect the hair from the
brunt of the pool chemicals
to keep body heat in.
•
Goggles (if required)
•
Flip-flops or Sandals
•
Towel with name written on
•
A SMILE!!!!!!!!!!
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‫‪OCT 2014‬‬
‫‪ABU DHABI‬‬
‫‪AL MUNA PRIMARY‬‬
‫‪SCHOOL‬‬
‫نشاط قسم اللغة العربية هذا األسبوع‬
‫الروضة األوىل ‪:‬‬
‫توقف قطار الحروف هذا األسبوع عند صفوف ال ّروضة األوىل عند محطّة حرف ال «ر» و‬
‫قصة جميلة و أكل التالميذ الرمان‪ .‬رسم الطالب حرف ال «ر» بالرمل و باملاء و ت ّم‬
‫أحرض معه ّ‬
‫قصة الحج و اسمتعوا باألنشطة الرتفيه ّية املج ّهزة للعيد‬
‫تزيينه بالريّش‪ .‬كام أنّهم تع ّرفوا إىل ّ‬
‫بتشكيل خروف العيد و أكل معمول العيد املق ّدم من خروف العيد‪.‬‬
‫الروضة الثانية‪:‬‬
‫هذا األسبوع توقّف بنا قطار الحروف عند حرف ال»ر»‪ ,‬حيث وجد التالميذ حرف ال»ر» يف‬
‫قصة حرف ال «ر» (ربيع والعصفورة) حيث ركّزت عىل الرفق‬
‫صندوق الربيد‪ ,‬و استمعوا إىل ّ‬
‫قصة الحج و اسمتعوا باألنشطة الرتفيه ّية املج ّهزة للعيد بتشكيل‬
‫بالحيوان ‪.‬كام أنّهم تع ّرفوا إىل ّ‬
‫للطلب املسلمني ت ّم‬
‫خروف العيد و أكل معمول العيد املق ّدم من خروف العيد‪ .‬بالنسبة ّ‬
‫مجسم‬
‫اصطحابهم إىل صف الرتبية اإلسالم ّية لتعريفهم مبناسك الحج و متثيل طوافهم حول ّ‬
‫كعبة ث ّم أكل التمر و رشب ماء زمزم‪.‬‬
‫الصف االول‪:‬‬
‫تعرف التالميذ عىل الحروف (د ذ ر ز س ش) بأصواتها القصرية والطويلة من خالل تحديدها‬
‫يف الكلمة ثم تجريدها‪،‬كام أنهم استمتعوا بالعمل الجامعي حني صنفوا الكلامت والصور يف‬
‫املجموعات املناسبة‪،‬وأخريا خطوا بأناملهم الصغرية بخطوط جميلة عىل كتبهم ماتعلموه من‬
‫األحرف‪.‬‬
‫الصف الثاين‪:‬‬
‫تعرف التالميذ عىل قصة جديدة بعنوان(صفي)ثم قرؤوا بشكل ثنايئ جمل الدرس وأجابوا عن‬
‫األسئلة املتعلقة به‪ ،‬كام أنهم جردوا أصوات الحرفني(ج‪ .‬ذ)‪،‬حللوا‪،‬وحددوا املقطع الساكن مع‬
‫قراءته‪ ،‬وأخريا عربوا عن صفهم بشكل كتايب مستخدمني املفردات التي وردت يف القصة‪.‬‬
‫الصف الرابع‪:‬‬
‫يف هذا األسبوع تم تعريف الطالب عىل الجملة األسمية باألضافة اىل كثري من الفعاليات الجميلة‬
‫مبناسبة عيد األضحى املبارك أعاده الله علينا وعليكم بالخري وكل عام وأتم بخري‪.‬‬
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‫‪ABU DHABI‬‬
‫‪AL MUNA PRIMARY‬‬
‫‪SCHOOL‬‬
‫الصف الخامس‪:‬‬
‫تعرف التالميذ عىل األفعال الناسخة( كان وأخواتها)من خالل قصة بسيطة وممتعة ساعدتهم يف‬
‫حفظها‪ ،‬كام أنهم تعرفوا عىل عملها يف الجملة االسمية ‪ ،‬أعربوا األفعال الناسخة وركني الجملة‬
‫االسمية بعد دخول األفعال الناسخة عليها‪ ،‬وأخريا لعبوا لعبة ساعدتهم يف ترسيخ املفهوم الجديد يف‬
‫جو ميلء باملتعة واملنافسة‪.‬‬
‫الصف السادس ‪:‬تعرف الطالب عىل الكاتب (الطيب صالح) كام تعلم الطالب مهارة السرية الذاتية‬
‫‪ ،‬وتعرفوا عىل الوصف الشاعري والوصف الواقعي ‪.‬‬
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‫‪ABU DHABI‬‬
‫‪AL MUNA PRIMARY‬‬
‫‪SCHOOL‬‬
‫الرتبية اإلسالمية‪:‬‬
‫احتفال بعيد األضحى املبارك – أعاد ُه الله علينا بالخري والربكات ‪ -‬تم توزيع كتيب (عيد األضحى‬
‫للصغار) عىل جميع الطالب‪ ،‬وسيتم عمل مسابقة أجمل كُتيب‪ ،‬وأجمل ساعة فعىل من يرغب‬
‫املشاركة إحضار الكتيب والساعة بعد إجازة العيد مبارشةً‪.‬‬
‫وكل عام وأنتم بخري‬