The Mysteries of Harris Burdick

This week we have been using the mysterious pictures of Harris Burdick to inspire our narrative writing.  We have each chosen one of his pictures to write a mystery story about.  You can see these images at www.themysteriesofharrisburdick.com.  We are currently all at the drafting stage of the writing process, but we hope to publish our stories towards the end of the week.

Primary Swimathon

Please sponsor our swimmers! Year 6 children will be swimming from 9.10 am - 10.10 am.

Star of the Week

Congratulations to Rula and Adam, who both received Star of the Week certificates in Assembly this week.

Rula received her certificate for putting 100% effort into everything she does, and always with a smile.

Adam received his certificate for writing a fantastic narrative story.  You can find a copy of his story in a prior blog.



Ordering Decimals

We have been learning to order decimals in our Math lessons.  We had a competition where we were put into two groups.  We each had a decimal number written on a piece of paper and then without any talking we had to order ourselves from the smallest decimal number to the largest.  The winning group was the one who could do it in the quickest time.  Mrs Michelle then challenged the class to order themselves from the largest decimal number to the smallest in less than 30 seconds, again without talking.  We tried a couple of times but the quickest we could do it in was 45 seconds.

 

Bronze Band

Have you got what it takes to join Mr. Bob's Bronze Band? Try watching this short video to find out more about some of the instruments you can learn in the instrumental tuition programme at KICS.

Story Settings

Y6 explored KICS for different story settings. We went to the garden, the senior library and visited the tortoises for inspiration. We used our senses to help describe different locations.

'I can touch the big leaves.' Abu'

'I could hear the trees eternal whisper'. Adam

'I can touch the smooth petals of the flowers.' Sindhu

'I can hear the birds.' Hania

'I see lots of red plants.' Kareem

'I see the rough tortoise shell.' Mazin

 

Swimming

The KICS swimming programme is now in full swing. All the students in the Infants and Juniors are making serious waves and gaining in confidence at the same time. It’s good to see so many of our new swimmers being risk takers and committing themselves to improving in the pool as they work towards the primary swim-athon (Weds, Sept 25^th) and early years fun splash (Thurs, Sept 26^th).

Thanks,

Mr. Isaac, Mr. Andy and Mr. Yousif

Narrative Writing

Year 6 have been drafting, editing and publishing stories. We used the same sentence starter to begin our stories. The objective was to try and 'hook' the reader in the first paragraph. How do you think we did?

Click here to read some of our stories

Music

In Year 6 Music, students have been working on a percussion ensemble. Students have learned and practiced parts for the cowbells, agogo bells, shakers, and tubano drums. Playing together is a challenge, requiring careful listening to make sure the parts fit together well. As the Year 6 students have learned each part of the ensemble, I’ve challenged them to play it with a variety of different music. Each time, students first have to find the steady beat, played in the ensemble by the cowbells, and then add in the other parts, one by one. In the first clip here, students are playing along to a song called Mashena, a Sudanese song by the group Al Bilabil, as performed by Addis Acoustic Project. In the second clip, students are just playing the ensemble without accompanying music.

 

 

 - Ms Rasha

Emailing Assignments

In Year 6 students are required to email weekly assignments to teachers. This week students have learnt how to save and attach documents correctly. Well done Y6!

Star of the Week

Congratulations to Leila and Estefanos who received Star of the Week certificates this week at assembly.

Leila received her certificate for an excellent attitude to learning.

Estefanos received his certificate for being enthusiastic and motivated for the start of Year 6.

 



 

Congratulations to our new Year 6 Leaders

After a very tight election, with some very well written and thoroughly rehearsed speeches, the primary school selected this year's House Captains.  Well done Filippo (Lions), Marwan (Crocodiles), Eva (Dolphins), and Zoe (Scorpions).

This week we also voted for our student representatives for the Primary Student Council.  Congratulations to Yusr (6A) and Dienyaba (6B).

Reading Buddies

Y6 students welcome their Year 2 reading buddies. Students take it in turns to read books to each other and discuss the stories. 

Frogs

Frogs are everywhere in the primary school this week!

Some optional homework for Y6 students: find out some interesting facts about frogs. We are trying to learn about our amphibious visitors so that we can care for them. We are planning to become the 'Frog specialists' so that we can educate the younger students.

House Team Captain Nominations

Y6 Risk Takers! Congratulations to Yusr, Marwan, Yousif, Dana, Filippo, Rula, Abdullah, Hania, Ali, Eva, Zoe, Mark and Estefanos for nominating themselves for House Team Captains. This week they are all giving a speech to the Junior school outlining why they would make a good Team Captain. All students in Y3-6 will vote and the results will be announced on Sunday morning.