Al Sedra Newsletter 12

29th November 2018

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

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INFANTS Pre School have been focusing on ‘Artic Animals’.

There have been many different activities that the children participated in, either as a group or individuals. The children enjoyed some sensory activities with foam and ice and talking about what animals they could see that lived there. They also made some crafts of animals. Through their fine motor and hand eye co-ordination, they were able to make penguins and polar bears. Then they looked at what the weather is like there and, incorporating science, the children looked at how ice was made, how it felt, and what would happen when we took it out of the freezer. After that, the children made an igloo as a group and talked about the colour and how it would feel to live inside.

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JUNIORS Student Council The Student Council has really taken off this term!

Our representatives from all Junior classes have created a mission statement and set straight to work on making the school a better place. It has been a busy few weeks with the launch of our ‘Healthy Challenge’. Students and their teachers have been making healthy food choices and counting up their exercise bursts, in a competition to see which class can collect the most points and claim the Fruity Fiesta prize! We are already looking forward to our next task which will be to review and improve homework.

Keep up the good work, Student Council!

Year 6 This term has been incredibly busy for the Year 6 students (and teachers!). Balanced arguments have been written, word problems have been solved, towns have been lit up and volcanoes have erupted! All students should be proud of their work this term and look to continue this as they progress throughout the year. Some of the incredible volcanoes that have been created as part of the Natural Disasters Project are currently on display in the Junior reception; please take some time to enjoy the amazing work that the students have created, who knows when they might erupt!

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SECONDARY It has been an exciting term and positive start for teachers Mr. Andre Battah & Miss Heidi Goodall in the Modern Foreign Languages Department.

The Mock Exams are coming up next month and deadlines are looming for the IB2 students. At this time of year, the pressure of exams becomes only too real, so can we take this opportunity to say “Bonne chance, buena suerte, buona fortuna, viel glück, allah yewvfikim, and good luck” Miss Heidi and I are encouraged by the progress of our Y11 linguists. Moza in French and Abdullah, Aji, Radwan, Euan, Fahad, Samira, Myunghyun, & and Eraj in Spanish have put in a great deal of effort this term and are reaping the benefits in their speaking preparation. Languages can help people to mature, opening minds to new ways of thinking and it has been a pleasure to watch them blossom.

We are confident of seeing their hard work pay off when the GCSE results come out in August next year.

In KS3, our Spanish classes have been preparing and performing conversations in front of their peers and have been taking advantage of our learning platform ‘Firefly’ to complete their homework and project tasks. It is exciting to see the range of language and grammatical structures that they are routinely using with increasing confidence. These students are fortunate enough to have three hours a week, which gives them the time to learn vocabulary thoroughly and iron out the tricky grammatical constructions.

Our French learners are also doing their best to keep on top of the workload by following their learning on ‘Firefly’, ‘Linguascope’, ‘Memrise’ &

‘Kahoot’ and by completing exercises to consolidate their learning. This can be tricky with just one hour per week but we have seen some promising results from the recent Term 1 tests.

Remember that when learning a language, repetition is all. Experts suggests that most people need to repeat a word at least seven times to fix it in their long-term memory, so remember, lots of practice!

Don’t forget to encourage your children to make use of Linguascope. It is a language learning app that can be accessed via the Internet on iPads, laptops or home computers. There is no cost to parents - your only job is to encourage your children to use it. The username is gesq and the password is gesdoha123. Once these details have been entered, a whole array of resources in a variety of languages are instantly at your disposal. We are now in the process or adding a new learning platform called ‘activelearn’ where students will be able to access resources with their username and password.

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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