Al Sedra Newsletter 2019/20 Issue 20

6th February 2020

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YOUR WEEKLY UPDATE ON ALL THAT’S GOING ON AT THE GULF ENGLISH SCHOOL

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INFANTS Al Sedra article. Leaning Support Infants GES.

In reading and phonics, students attend 30 minute small group sessions engaging in the ‘Read, Write Inc’ phonics, reading and writing programme. The programme enables the children to read accurately and fluently with good comprehension.

It has been a busy start to the new term in Learning Support in the Infant School.

The students are busy working on a numeracy and a phonics and reading programme. The students are actively engaged in the learning and enjoy using a variety of resources and playing The phonics readers are closely matched to their games to enhance their learning. increasing knowledge of sounds and common exception words. The children are developing The ‘Catch Up Numeracy’ programme enables their knowledge of sounds and are more students to develop their mathematical confident at attempting to read unfamiliar vocabulary, skills and understanding of words. The children really enjoy engaging in the number concepts. It involves 15-minute programme and are becoming more confident individual sessions and addresses 10 key and competent readers. components of numeracy.

The programme has proven to have a positive impact on the students’ learning in numeracy.

The children are more self-confident and motivated in class, have more control in their learning, have more confidence to work independently and display a more positive attitude towards numeracy. The students enjoy mathematical activities and games during the session which are fun and help reinforce their knowledge in the 10 components of their learning in class.

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JUNIORS Maths Skills In Learning Support we focus on the basic Maths skills to help the children understand the lessons taught in class.

We use Visual Maths to help the children learn their times tables, division facts, place value and other topics.

Here the children are using Numicon to get a better understanding of what a multiplication question means.

Here the children are using buttons and small cubes to help them answer the division fact questions.

There are many ways that you can help your child with Maths at home too.

• Counting with pasta, beads, cutlery and candies.

• You could speak with them when cooking/ The children are using place value cards to help them baking. For example ‘we have 6 eggs and to make see the value of each digit in a number. a pancake we need 2 eggs. How many eggs will be left?’

• When cooking/baking, you could discuss how to make the recipe for more or for less people.

• When you are out shopping and you see some discounts in the shops, speak with your child and discuss what the discounts mean.

Some useful websites for fun and interactive games: https://primarygames.co.uk/pg2/splat/splatsq100. html https://www.topmarks.co.uk/

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SECONDARY The study of Textiles at Gulf English School is both exciting and challenging. Students work with a range of different materials, and technologies, to produce original and innovative designs. They are encouraged to look at fashion designs and illustrations, and also costume designs from different fashion eras, to interpret those designs using a repertoire of different techniques and processes; these include: Lino printing, applique, pattern cutting, embroidery, knitting, draping, fabric dye and fabric manipulation.

At the end of last term, students produced skirts as their final response to the project. This term, they will continue working on skirts using different techniques to complete their projects. We are looking forward to seeing the final outcome.

Well done to all the students for producing some amazing work last term.

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CONTACT The Gulf English School PO Box 2440, Doha, Qatar Main School: Tel: +974 44578777 Main School: Fax: +974 44861256 Infant Unit: Tel: +974 44886791/90 +974 44886201/93 Infant Unit: Fax: +974 44876821

Email: info@gulfenglishschool.com

Website: www.gulfenglishschool.com