NEWSLETTER VOLUME 2
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NEWSL QSI Contact Mr Justin Fischer Director justin-fischer@qsi.org Ms Caroline Sammut Business Manager caroline@qsimalta.org Ms Maria Fenech Marketing Consultant mariafenech@qsimalta.com
In this Issue Director’s Message Ms Kelly’s Classroom News Ms Mora’s Classroom Activities Movie Night School Events
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Out of School Activities Come-Read-to-a-Child
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Email: justin-fischer@qsi.org Website: www.qsimalta.org Front Cover Picture: Richard Photography by Maria L Fenech All materials used in our newsletter and website, including logos, images and articles are property of QSI Malta and are subject to copyright.
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LETTER Director’s Message Dear Parents, Students & Community Members, The first quintile here at QSI International School of Malta has been a huge success. Our students have been busy learning inside our classrooms and even outside of our classrooms! From our 3 and 4 year old Students to our Secondary IV Students, we know that success is the sum of many individual efforts. We are proud of the progress we have made so far, the community participation we have experienced, and we know that this is just the beginning! QSI Malta Events Curriculum Night at the start of the year had a fantastic turnout of parents and family members! Our teachers had the opportunity to discuss what was in store for students this year as well as preview the mathematics curriculum that was newly adopted. Seeing the partnership between school and home strengthen means great things for our students! After so much hard work in these first months of school we thought that we had to celebrate Mr Justin with a well deserved break and so we had our first Movie Night! It was great fun to stay Director after school and enjoy “Despicable Me” while munching on popcorn and sipping drinks! Our students and parents were packed in front of the big screen for a hilarious and entertaining show.
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In our continued effort to remind our students that reading can happen anywhere with anyone, our Come-Read-To-A-Child event kicked-off with a bang. Parents and community members joined us on a sunny morning to sit and enjoy a book anywhere on the school campus. From picnic blankets and pillows to camping chairs and benches our students got ‘cozy’ with a good book and a great reader. Huge thanks go to the Student Council, Parent Support Group, Volunteers and Staff that made such a great success possible! Thanks again to all who helped and participated! After-School Activities Afterschool activities have been an enormous hit with both students and teachers alike! From strategising in Chess Club to improvising in Drama Club (and even discovering the art within Fret Work), our students are discovering new ways of interacting with their teachers and peers! Stay tuned for additional offerings at the start of Term 2! Finally, our Secondary Students have been prepping and planning for their futures in fantastic ways. This quintile the push has been on college applications, SAT testing, and IELTS exams. Without fail, our students have shown their skills in prior planning, dedication, and perseverance that will surely pay-off in the months proud!
to come—Keep up the good work you make us all
All in all, we have started off on the right foot this year. From quality instruction to a school where learning is fun, it has been a pleasure thus far. Know that we will humbly continue to serve our students and the International Community of Malta in the most excellent way. Sincerely
Mr. Justin H. Fischer
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We know that finding success with new mathematical processes has a lot to do with practicing the ones we know already! Our math centers help us to keep our skills sharp while we work with our peers!
We have a great time in our after-scho Crafts club, we are busy making our you could reuse old tin cans to make b
Our student of the month for October is Shahad Alamin. Shahad is a wonderful classmate and student. Although she is neat and careful with all of her class work, she is willing to take chances and not afraid to make mistakes! She is a friend to all students and a joy to have in class!
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“The way we talk to our childre Peggy O Page 4
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ool activity clubs! During our Arts-andown flowerpots. We never knew that beautiful AND functional pieces of art!
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en becomes their inner voice.” O’Mara
We continue to practice our math skills while learning the importance of polite social interaction. Our fun with Quiz-Quiz-Trade might make a lot of noise, but we sure do get practice with questioning and answering appropriately!
We have truly enjoyed our unit on Canada’s people and places. We have learned a LOT about the Inuit people and how they made art, practiced religion, and even hunted and fished. We are now excited to be recreating ‘landforms’ in Canada—from fjords to isthmus’, we know our stuff!
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Ms Mora’s Classr Earth Science
Our Solar System and th
We finished our first EO by studying rocket science. It is based on the action-reaction principle. It does not matter if the action is escaping gases from a combustion, pressured air from a balloon or water in a bottle, the reaction makes our objects fly in the sky!
QSI school yard felt like Cape Can rockets during the competition! In and the Universe” we studied how nicus, Galileo and Kepler develop tem. We are creating a scaled mod
Physical Science Our EO2 “Atomic structure and the periodic table” dives deep into the atom and shows us that it is not indivisible but made of: the protons, neutrons and electrons. We did like Mendeleev and organized all the elements using a periodic table!
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naveral whilst launching our water our new EO2, “Our Solar System w astronomers like Ptolemy, Coperped their models of the Solar sysdel for distances and sizes.
Environmental Studies We finished EO2 by working on the different Earth cycles. We understood that water is never lost on Earth, but we can only drink the 0.5% of it. . We studied the carbon and nitrogen cycle. We created a board game to fully understand all cycles.
Algebra Using the same algebraic concepts we mastered in EO1, we are now learning about inequalities in EO2. If something is smaller than something else, its negative is actually larger! So do not forget to reverse the symbol when multiplying or dividing by a negative number.
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Movie N Movie Night
Our 1st Movie Night was a complete success!! The setup was relaxed and cozy and o movie. So we are inviting all students to come and join in the fun!!
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our students had the possibility to bond with each other after school hours and enjoy the
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School E Curriculum Night Quality Schools International Malta held its annual Curriculum Night for parents and students on Wednesday 12 September. I together with all the teaching staff would like to thank everyone for their attendance and collaboration. I would also like to thank our Student Council members for their time and dedication, a job well done indeed. Our primary reason for holding a ‘Curriculum Night,’ was for parents to get firsthand information regarding the curricula covered in each child’s age level and we did achieve our goal as all the parents were satisfied and happy. Each classroom teacher discussed the curriculum with the parents which enabled them to get a better understanding of what is happening in their children’s school life. Once again we would like to thank you for your participation in this event, we would also like to invite parents to fell free to send us their feedback on the outcome.
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Out of Schoo Cross Country Race Warsaw Poland
We are extremely proud of our QSI International School of Malta’s very own Cross Country Team. Th worked very hard and trained on a daily basis. Our kids were focused, and with great coaching; reache
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he team, led by Coach Ron Snyder took 1st place this weekend in Warsaw, Poland. Our competitors ed their team and individual goals. Coach Snyder and the QSI Malta Knights were outstanding!!
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Come-ReadRead to a Child A great success!!
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