AL MAMOURA ACADEMY NEWSLETTER · 2019-03-24 · Dear Amber Snowflakes danced as they swayed onto...

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ISSUE NO.23 MARCH 21st

AL MAMOURA ACADEMYNEWSLETTER

2019

HAPPY MOTHER’S DAY!

Boys Swimming for Year 1, 2 and 3 next week

Photo by Reem Al Ameri

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Dear Parents,

Happy Mothers’ Day to all our Mamoura’s mums. I hope you have a wonderful day and enjoy being looked after by your fami-lies on this very special day.

Yesterday brought us Interna-tional Day of Happiness. Thank you to our Friends of Al Mamou-ra for spreading happiness around the school.

MESSAGE FROM THE PRINCIPAL

AL MAMOURA ACADEMY NEWSLETTERISSUE NO.23 | MARCH 2019

Our students did us proud dur-ing their visits to the Special Olympics this week. I’m sure a number of them were inspired by the Determined.

Have a lovely weekend

Kind Regards

Ms Christine WoodsPrincipal

MRS WELLER’SMATHS MIND MELTER!

WHAT TIME IS IT?

Exactly how many minutes is it before six o’ clock if 50 minutes ago it was four times as many minutes past three o’ clock?

Send your answers via email to Mrs Weller ([email protected])Deadline for entries is 9am Sun-day. Good luck!!

We had a wonderful time celebrating World Happiness Day on Wednesday. Big thanks must go to Fatima Nasser for providing us

with so much and making this possible!

ECAs

There are no ECAs next week from 24th March, other than one extra session of Boys Bas-ketball (Sunday) and Jiu-Jit-su (Monday) to make up for missed sessions.

ECAs and clubs will resume next term from 14th April until 1st May. After this, ECAs will finish for Ramadan. As there are only 3 weeks of clubs before Ramadan in Term 3, the ECAs will remain the same as this term. Please note that Computer Explorers and SEAL Diving ECA have now finished, and sports club ECAs will change.

If you have any questions or if your child will no longer at-tend their ECA, please email [email protected]

Y6 PHOTOGRAPHERS

Thank you to AlReem, Reem and Shaikha from Y6 for spending their hard-earned Dojo points and taking many of the photos in this week’s newsletter.

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HAPPY MOTHER’S DAY!

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VISITING THE SPECIAL OLYMPICSWe were lucky enough this week to have the opportunity to visit the Special Olympics and see all the amazing events taking place. On Sunday Year 6 watched some fast paced bas-ketball games, and a very close fought handball game which they didn’t want to leave!

Year 4 visited ADNEC on Mon-day,the busiest day but were loving getting into a dancing competition before the games started, winning prizes for their efforts. They were then treated to being able to support a UAE player in his game which he won. Year 4 also had the oppor-tunity to participate in a bas-ketball coaching session which allowed them to practise their skills on one of the main game courts!

Secondary girls had their visit on Wednesday and it was won-derful to see 81 of them taking up this opportunity. They had the chance to see even more sports taking place including Bocce to start with which was

a new sport for most of them. Some groups saw different activities for the rest of the day including volleyball, powerlift-ing and badminton.

They also met HH Sheikh Man-sour Bin Zayed Al Nahyan and HH Sheikh Nahyan Bin Mubarak Al Nahyan!

Throughout the week it has been inspiring to see the stu-dents’ reactions to the athletes and the whole ethos behind

the Special Olympics. We were lucky enough to meet and speak to Chairman of the Spe-cial Olympics Timothy Shriver on Wednesday, he is the son of Eunice Shriver who founded the Special Olympics 50 years ago. Some of the students recog-nised him immediately which is credit to the organisers here in Abu Dhabi over the last 2 years for raising the profile of this event enormously in the UAE. Long may this legacy last.

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A Mother’s Surprise

Two hundred years ago in the city of London there lived a girl called Fiona. Her father was a very wealthy man by the name of Mr. John Spade. They lived in a colossal mansion called Spade Castle. It had a beau-tiful garden and a pool. Fio-na’s mother had died shortly after Fiona’s birth. Fiona had everything a child could ever have. Among all of the things Fiona owned was a mysterious box that her mother had left behind for her. Little did Fiona know that what was inside this box was about to change her life forever…

By: Ruqaiya AhamedYear 3 Pipits

Dear Amber

Snowflakes danced as they swayed onto the cobbled, nar-row pathway. Snow carpeted the rooftops of houses. The roads were as quiet as a mouse and people were nowhere to be seen , except for one cheeky little girl named Topaz. Her small, wondering eyes peered at the lifeless, deserted town. As she ambled across the snowy path she discovered a door, the only door in town. Topaz approached the door curiously as she peered inside from the frosted window. There lay a dusty bear with black beady eyes. On the bear, lay a tag with only 2 words “Dear Amber”..

Parthivi AnugondaYear 6 Saadiyat

Soul Swap

Have you ever dreamed of living in someone else’s body? Or even have the thoughts of just closing your heavy eyelids and escaping from reality? You wouldn’t believe me when I tell you that this has happened to me. Dad used to tell me to stay away from the big, black woodeb door but I am going to admit this, I disobeyed my dad straight after he left for his boring work and soon as I opened the door, I found an old box, as soon as I opened the boxI was swapped

Saphiya AlYafeiYear 8B

THE WINNERS!

Category 1: Yrs 1 – 3 = Ruqaiya Ahamed (Yr 3 Pipits) for her imaginative and engaging opening en-titled ‘A Mother’s Surprise’. Our 3 Yr 9 judges felt Ruqaiya used sophisticated vocabulary and had a well-developed storyline. Further comments include excellent use of detail and punctuation. The judges felt it really encouraged the reader to want to know more through her use of a secret ‘box’ which sounded mysterious.

Category 2: Yrs 4 – 6 = Parthivi Ramanujam Anugonda (Yr 6 Saadiyat) for her wonderful opening enti-tled ‘Dear Amber’. The Yr 9 judges agreed it contained excellent imagery and imaginative vocabulary. They were very impressed with the techniques used to build suspense such as ellipsis and rhetorical questions. It is a perfect example of an opening as it ended with a cliff-hanger to maintain the read-er’s interest.

Secondary: Saphiya Al Yafei, the English department were very impressed with Saphiya’s opening sentence which had a rhetorical question to hook the reader. Furthermore, Saphiya used direct ad-dress. We would love to see what the rest of the chapter might be about should Saphiya choose to continue her story!

100 WORDS WRITING COMPETITION

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ACCELERATED READER

In the race up the Ancient Egyp-tian Pyramid for reading and quizzing, we are happy to an-nounce the TOP 74 students to have reached their targets this term at over 100%. These chil-dren are invited to our AR Movie and Pizza Party on Sunday the 24th of March in school, full details are in the invitations sent out to parents. Get ready for Term 3 because the AR race will start all over again.

Well done to:

Y3Ruqaiya AhamedNaila Al Shamsi Maheka BhatnagarMohamed ElasfouriDalmooch Al Falasi Fakhra Al Ghaith Hessa Al Qubaisi Fahad Al Teneiji Sara Al Qubaisi Mohamed Al Ghafli Hamad Al Hosani Ariana Ghori Joud Mansour Ammar Al Ryalat Abdaan Ashhad Hamza Afaneh Lya Ahmed Rameen Ali

Year 4Latifa Mansour Al Dhaheri Hamda Al Khemeiri Sama Nakhleh Yazan Oughli Mohamed HabibFatema O. Al Zaabi Aysha Al Kaabi Salamah Al Shamsi Selena Al Srouri Mohamed Al Suwaidi Maryam Afaneh Fatma Mansour Al Dhaheri Qais Abu Hantsh Abdul Rafay Shahazad

Year 5Arsal AbbasAyman Aboushhewa Zeina Abushakra Alya Al Zaabi Thomas Park Mohannad Rajab Ghaya Al Muhairi Molham Abdelnafie Aysha Al Dhaheri Hamel Al MararTamya Waikhom Omran Al Ryalat Haya Al Mazrooei Hamda Al Qubaisi Alia Al Shamsi Sarah Mgariaf Dana NajiAlJadel Salem Omar Yassin Rodha Alameri

Year 6Sama Alazazi Mariah Alyafei Heidi Cheah Jay Magiya Sarp Turkoglu Abdulaziz YaserMuneerah Al Qubaisi Alyazya Al Nuaimi Mohamed Al Saifi Abdulla Mohamed Evelyn Tramunto Sara Al Hashmi Shahad Al Khemeiri Reem Alameri Shaikha Al Hajeri Cathal Boyle AlReem Al Nahdi Abdulla Al Qubaisi Shamma Ahmed Mazroeui Salama Al Ghafli Malak El Asheri Ahmed Belhoula

Word Millionaires Club

Congratulations to Heidi Cheah in Year 6 Dalma on becoming an Accelerated Reader Double Word Millionaire!

Words Read: 2,060,350

LIBRARY NEWS

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Spring Break Holiday Library Loans On Thursday the 28th of March 2019, pupils can borrow library books over the holidays to read with their families!

FS 1 &2 : Two books

Years 1 & 2: Three books

Years 3—6: up to Four books

Note: Your child needs to have cleared their Term 2 library account and an adult must be present. Happy Reading!

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NEWS IN YEAR GROUPS FOUNDATION STAGE 1

FS1 have had such a busy week preparing for our Mother’s Day assembly and we were all so happy to perform for you on stage on Thursday morning.

We hope you enjoyed it and continue to celebrate Mother’s Day over the weekend. We are all especially proud of our cards and photo frames we created for all our mothers and hope that you find a nice place to hang them up at home!

Next week is our final week be-fore our Spring break and so we will be revising all what we have learned about ‘Under the Sea’.

The children have really enjoyed learning all about the different sea creatures and are excited about starting our new topic ‘People Who Help Us’ in Term 3


Photo byReem Al Ameri

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NEWS IN YEAR GROUPS FOUNDATION STAGE 2


We have been very busy in FS2 this week and in preparation for our visit to the zoo next week we have been reading the story ‘Dear Zoo’ and having a go at putting the animals in order and retelling the story.

We have also continued our learning about number sentenc-es, and this week we looked at adding two numbers together and putting them into a num-ber sentence. We hoped you all enjoyed our wonderful Mother’s Day assembly on Thursday, the children sang beautifully, and the special gifts the children worked so hard to make.

Don’t forgot we will be visit-ing the zoo next Tuesday 26th, children must come to school on this day wearing their sports kit. Have a lovely weekend


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NEWS IN YEAR GROUPS YEAR 1


We have had another fun week in Year 1!

In English we have continued our work on recounts. We wrote a recount about International Day and enjoyed remember-ing all of the fun things we did including dressing up, having a parade, singing in assembly and visiting all of the stalls. We remembered to use time con-nectives and some adjectives and our teachers were very impressed.

In Maths we have really enjoyed investigating the capacity of different containers. We pre-dicted how many cups of water and sand it would take to fill the containers and enjoyed seeing if we were right. We also com-pared the capacity of different containers.

In Topic we really enjoyed shar-ing our favourite toy from home with our friends. We talked about why it was our favourite toy, what it was made from and showed everyone how to play with them.

Well done to Hares on a super assembly! You all did such a wonderful job speaking and singing.

Next week we will be using egg cartons to make 3D flowers for our topic next term. If you have any empty egg cartons at home please bring them in and give them to your child’s class teach-er. Thank you

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Year 2 have had a very busy week and have enjoyed learning about their new topic of Poet-ry. We have been exploring the different types of poetry and identifying different features. We looked at rhyming poems, acrostic poems, Haiku Poems and riddle poems We then went on to write acrostic poems about ourselves. We even included Similes! Next week we will be continuing to look at Poetry and how we would perform poems. The children will be focusing on tone, expression and rhythm.

In Maths this week we have been continuing with money. We have been finding the differ-ence between different amount and we started practicing giving change. If you are at the shops over the weekend, it would be great if you could let your chil-dren put into practice what we have been learning.

This week we also spent some time creating Mother’s Day activities and the children have made some fantastic cards. The Year 2 team wanted to wish all the mothers in year 2 a very happy Mother’s Day. We thank you for all your support. We hope you have a lovely weekend.


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We have had another great week in Year 3! In English we have continued gathering vocabulary for our stories and planning how we could use them in our work. In addition, we learnt how to use speech marks properly and we wrote a fun conversation be-tween the greedy monster and the frightened boy. Next week, we will be writing our own ver-sions of the story applying what we have learnt.

In Mathematics we have con-tinued learning about different units of length and how to con-vert between them. Further-more, we used mental addition and subtraction to help Mr. Booth order new furniture for the school. We also solved a problem for our friend Jack who wanted to find the quickest way to his friend’s house.

In Topic, we finished reading the ‘Pearl Diver’ and we wrote a job advert for it. Wow, that looks like a tough job! In Science, we learnt all about our muscles, how they work and how to keep them healthy. It was great to see so many homework projects.

The children have clearly put in a lot of effort.

Reminders: AR has now finished for this term and all books need to be returned to the library and children must wear the Al Mamoura hats at break and lunch times. No hat, no play!We are looking forward to our final week of Spring term.And finally to all our wonder-ful mothers, have a wonderful Mother’s Day and ensure your children spoil you rotten.

Photo byAlReem Al Nahdi

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Happy Mother’s Day to all our lovely Year 4 Mummies, we hope you have a wonderful weekend with your children and families.What a week of celebrations this week with our trip to the World Games on Monday, Happiness Day on Wednesday and Mother’s Day today.

The children had a fabulous time at watching the athletes com-pete in various activities at the arena on Monday. A highlight for the children was watching the UAE representative win his badminton match and celebrate with the UAE team who were watching from the stands right in front of us!

In English this week we have continued to work on the fea-tures of a persuasive advert. The children have been creating their own Slogans including alliteration, persuasive vocab-ulary and exaggeration. Next week they will plan and create their ‘Hot Write’ to show just how much they have learnt and demonstrate the progress they have made.

In Maths this week the children have divided whole numbers by ten and used a ‘Gattegno Chart’ for problem solving and to help with the reasoning. Next week we will continue with decimals. In Science, the children have

been investigating which mate-rials have the best properties for absorbing sounds by designing ear defenders. Next week they will design and create their own musical instrument with the ability to change pitch. Please see reminders below for equip-ment needed.

Reminders: Please bring equipment that would be useful for making a musical instrument in Science next week. E.g: cereal boxes, cardboard, elastic bands, kitch-en roll tubes, rice, bottle tops, plastic bottles, plastic cups, lol-lipop sticks, straws, tin foil, cello tape and any other recyclable materials that might be handy.

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Term 2 is drawing to a close and so is our study of the novel Holes. Things are tense in class as we await to hear the fate of Stanley. We have really enjoyed reading the novel and have learned a lot whilst studying the different parts of the book. We look forward to watching the movie next week and being able to compare the book with it. It will be interesting to see if they have changed details from the book and to have a vote on who prefers the original book or the film.

In Maths we are still working with decimals. It is satisfying to see maths that we have previ-ously learnt coming to our aid as we work through problems. A last push at our tables challenge before the end of will take place next week so keep practicing. In Art we studied Van Gogh’s starry night. The children looked at how different artists have in-terpreted the painting. We then merged our theme of space with our interpretation of the painting and completed a pastel study of the moon combining the style of Van Gogh with our own take on the painting.

In Moral Education this week we have looked at the very impor-tant issue of responsibilities. Responsibility both of ourselves and of others was examined.

Science this week had us com-plete a fun experiment in which we examined the different strengths of teas. We worked in groups and then had good prac-tice at writing up experiment reports.

*Please return the written con-sent form in order to watch our movie Holes next week.


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Year 6 have had a very busy week, as we have been out on two very fun trips and also worked very hard in lessons. We had a great time at the Spe-cial Olympics and managed to see an array of different sports, such as, basketball, handball, volley ball, judo and even skat-ing! The children thoroughly enjoyed the atmosphere of watching all the sports, learn-ing new sports they had never been seen played before and of course supporting the athletes.

We also had another great day at Bounce. As well as lots of jumping and exercise, we learnt all about the physics behind jumping and how this can help us to perform different skills on the trampoline!

In English, the children have been learning about different ways to use colons in their writ-ing and have begun to write a guided non-chronological report about Earthquakes.

Next week the children will be using all the skills we have learnt during this topic to write their own non chronological re-port about a natural disaster.

In Maths, we have been learning about perimeter and area of dif-ferent shapes. The children also had great fun making Mother’s Day cards and discussing all the things their lovely mums do for them every day!

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ARABIC AND ISLAMIC NEWSالصف العارش- اللغة العربية:

أبدعت طالبات الصف العارش يف تطبيق فن )املناظرة( األدبية، من حيث ترتيب األفكار وذكر محاسن ومساوئ ”مواقع التواصل االجتامعي“

يف حياتنا الواقعية، كام تعلمن من خالل هذا الفن احرتام الرأي اآلخر، ومناقشته يف حدود العقل واملنطق؛ ليتسنى لنا معرفة الصواب دامئا،

ضمن معايري حددت يف منهاجهم الدراسية.

الصف الثامن - الرتبية اإلسالمية: مع الفضائل والقيم النبيلة وبتوجيهات سامية من رسولنا األعظم وتحت

ظالل األوامر الربانية املباركة، عاشت طالباتنا يف درس ” فضائل املؤمن ” لحظات تأمل وتفكر يف أثر الفضائل النبيلة وانعكاساتها عىل الفرد

واملجتمع، والدور الحساس الذي تلعبه فضائل املؤمن عىل متاسك املجتمع وتالحمه ورفعة شأنه، فأظهرت طالباتنا فخرهن بفضائلهن اإلسالمية،

وأدركن أهمية التكافل االجتامعي يف تقدم الوطن.

الصف السابع - الدراسات االجتامعية :من منطلق ما ألهمية حل املشكالت يف حياتهن التعليمية، فتشت وبحثت

طالباتنا هذا األسبوع عن االسلوب العلمي يف مهارة ”حل املشكالت“ وقمن بربط هذه املهارة بالواقع من خالل اسرتاتيجية ” عظمة السمكة“

مظهرات إعجابا شديدا وتفاعال بناء يف تنفيذ هذه االسرتاتيجية.

الصف التاسع -الرتبية اإلسالمية:عند قيمة النفس البرشية، ورفيع درجتها ومكانتها يف اإلسالم؛ قلبت طالباتنا صفحات درس ” ال لالنتحار ” حيث قرأن الحديث الرشيف،

متلمسات رفيع وعظيم شأن هذه األمانة التي حبانا الله إياها، ومتوقفات مليا عند خطر إزهاق هذه النفس بإرادة اإلنسان وما لذلك

من أثر خطري عىل املجتمع وعقوبة شديدة عند الله تعاىل، بل عىل العكس رأين كيف يثاب من يحافظ عليها، وال يزهقها هباء، بل يطورها ويجعلها تحيا عىل الخري واإلميان، وهذا من شكر النعم، فكيف والنعمة

عظيمة لهذا الحد؟!.

الروضة األوىل: اللغة العربية:استمرت رحلة الغوص العجيبة يف عوامل البحار املذهلة، وال تزال ترتك بصمتها

املؤثرة يف وعي وتفكري أحبائنا الصغار، حيث تعرف صغارنا يف هذه املرة إىل ”السمكة الالدغة“ التي بذلت كل مايف وسعها ملطاردة األسامك الغريبة التي

هاجمت أصدقاء البحر، ومتكنت بالحيلة الذكية، واستخدام ذيلها من مطاردة األسامك ونجحت يف إبعادهم بعدما استخدمت ذيلها ملطاردتهم، فأخافهم ذلك

الذيل العجيب وتسبب يف إبعادهم عن أصدقاء البحر.

الروضة الثانية: اللغة العربية:يف مدينة الحروف العربية، وبأصواتها املتنوعة وأشكالها املتعددة ، ال يزال صغارنا

األحباء يتجولون بني أزقتها وحدائقها الغناء، واملحطة هذا األسبوع كانت مع حرف ” القاف ” بأشكاله وحركاته الطويلة والقصرية، وكان لصديقهم ”قمر“ يف قصته أثر رائع لتعرف هذا الحرف، وقد متكنوا من خالل ما جرى بني صديقهم قمر وصاحبه

البطريق، من ذكر أهم عنارص القصة املمتعة، وخطت أناملهم الطرية الناعمة حرف القاف بأشكاله فكانت لوحة رائعة للناظرين.

الصف األول: اللغة العربية:بأصواتهم العذبة، وحركاتهم العفوية ، وضحكاتهم الطفولية؛ قلد أعزاؤنا حركات

السمكة ” طيبة ” وتعرفوا إىل عنارص هذه القصة الرئيسة، كام استنتجوا بأنفسهم مواضع وأشكال حرف الطاء، ليكون حرفهم الجديد الذي ينضم إىل عائلة حروفهم

العربية، فكتبوا، وحاكوا، وأنشؤوا ما استطاعوا من كلامت مستخدمني حرفهم الجديد.

الصف الرابع : اللغة العربية:بهمة عالية، وروح ميلؤها حب االكتشاف؛ قلب طالبنا األعزاء صفحات أسلوب

االستفهام، متعرفني إىل أهم أدواته ، وطرق استخدامها، منشئني جملهم االستفهامية اإلبداعية، وبتلك الروح املرحة والحامسة الكبرية، طرح الطالب عىل زمالئهم

مجموعة من األسئلة بصياغات متعددة وأدوات متنوعة.

الصف الخامس: الرتبية اإلسالمية:مع نبيهم الرحيم صاحب القلب العطوف، واألخالق التي ما فاقه مخلوق مبثلها،

عاش طالبنا األعزاء لحظات رائعة مؤثرة عند معاين درس ” القلب الرحيم“ حيث تعرفوا إىل الجانب األعظم الذي اشتهر به نبينا، نبي الرحمة ، فذكروا ما مر معهم من مواقف متثلوا بها هذه القيمة العالية املكانة، مهتدين بنبيهم ومتقيدين برب الرحمة -الله تعاىل- كام تسابق طلبتنا يف حفظهم لحديث الرحمة، و استمتعوا يف

نهاية الدرس باالستامع اىل نشيد عن الرحمة .

الدراسات االجتامعية: االصف الثاين تعلم تالميذ الصف ال تزال رحلة الهوية الوطنية مبعالمها وتفاصيلها مستمرة مع طالبنا األعزاء، فقد

حان دور املالبس املعبة عن هويتهم الوطنية، فاستكشفوا أهم خصائص الزي الوطني، مضيفني إىل معارفهم أسامء هذه املالبس، ومظهرين فخرا بلباسهم الوطني

اإلمارايت.


Yr3 Islamic for Non-Native:Students of Year 3 this week have learned a new Qur’anic Surah (Surat Ad-Duha). They enjoyed practicing the recitation with Zakarya the Lit-tle reader, then they recognized the meaning of Ad-Duha and the importance of the time in our lives.

MUSICSTARS OF THE WEEK

FS2 - Fatima AlBlooki - WhalesY1 - Mahnoor Usama - FoxesY2 - Sara Bannoub - LeopardsY3 - Rameen Ali - SparrowsY4 - Laila Di Laus - OspreysY5 - Zeina Abushakra - ButinahY6 - Salma Kalidy - Yas

Special OlympicsOpening Ceremony

Members of our Al Mamoura Choirs worked exceptionally hard over the last two weeks preparing for the opening cer-emony on Thursday last week. They put in over 30 hours of extra rehearsal time in evenings and weekends to prepare for the performance. Students from Year 2 to Year 7 took part and they were FANTASTIC!

They were super professional at all times, with a lot of different things to remember. Singing to a click track (where you hear the song you’re singing to through headphones in your ears) that sounds out of time when you take them out your ears, at the same time as hearing the con-ductor and producer talking to you through those headphones and reminding you to smile and face forwards is really difficult but they handled it like true professionals! There were a few sleepy heads when the show finished around 10.30pm but the memories will last a lifetime. Well done to all the students that performed and thank you to all the staff who helped to sup-port the children at these re-hearsals, and, of course, to the families for being so supportive of the event.


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NETBALL

The U9 Netball team played in their end of season tournament at Zayed Cricket Stadium last Wednesday. The girls played well as a team and had some great games. We played our first game against West Yas. During this game the girls made some great passes down court and scored one goal, winning 1-0. Our next game was against GEMS Cambridge. The girls defended extremely well during this game making some great interceptions, and won again 1-0. After this we played against Yasmina. The girls really fought hard in this game sticking to their players and mak-ing space when needed and the final score was a 1-1 draw. Our final game was against Cranleigh. They were a really good team and our girls played so well but un-fortunately, we lost 3-0. The girls finished 3rd overall in their group. Miss Latham and Miss Love are super proud of how much the girls have improved this year and how well they competed in the tourna-ment. Well done to all the girls who have worked hard and played well all season.Team for the tournament: Aisha Al Mehairbi, Fatema Al Zaabi, Amna Al Ali, Selena Al Srouri, Fatima Al Ghafri, Fakhrah Al Saifi, Maryam Al Zaabi, Salamah Al Shamsi, Mari-am Al Mansoori and Laila Di Laus. Reem Al Kindi

The U11B Netball team travelled to Cranleigh School on Monday for their end of season tournament. After a nervous start the team set-tled into their game, remembering to take their time to look for and make the best pass available. This led to some great shooting oppor-tunities which Ghaya and Lara took advantage of. Sara worked tire-lessly in defence to make several interceptions to stop the opposition scoring on many occasions. The team put everything into their last game of the day, playing a very controlled game to beat a strong Brighton team. The girls should

feel extremely proud of the season they have had and the improve-ments they have made on the Netball court.SWIMMING

AL MAMOURA FINISHES SECOND!Al Mamoura swim squad took part in their second swimming gala of this term having being victorious in the last gala, on Sunday 17th March. Having spent the first few weeks of term practicing on a Sunday after school and very early Tuesday morning’s, the students were eager to continue their win-ning ways. The gala consisted of 5 schools; Al Mamoura Academy, West Yas Academy, Amity School, GEMS Cambridge and AISA. Al Mamoura students competed fantastically and battled with Amity for first place from the beginning, as both schools finished first and second in the team events. When the individ-ual events began, however Amity began to claim more points and take an early lead. By the time the gala reached the fi-nal team races, Amity had a quite a lead over other schools at the gala and all Al Mamoura could do was maintain earning points to ensure they finished second. The effort and attitude of all Al Mamoura swimmers was excellent and their continued progress will ensure they continue winning trophies in future galas! Amity: 335 points, Al Mamoura: 308, AISA: 231, West Yas: 230 and GEMS Cambridge: 197. Congratulations to all of our swim squad; Year 2/3: Nebojsa Milakovic (Year 2), Kanz Ajjaoui (Year 3), Yousef Habib (Year 2), Ali El-Asheri (Year 3), Zena Shoushe (Year 3), Naila Al Shamsi (Year 3) and Talya Kalidy (Year 3). Year 4: Mohamed Abdo, Yousef Bamadhaf, Mohamed Habib, Qais Abu-Hantash, Sultan Al Dha-heri, Laila Di Laus and Sama Orabi. Year 5: Arslane Zeraghi, Thomas Park, Mohamed Al Faheem, Rodha Al Ameri and Alia Al Shamsi. Year 6: Abdulla Rashed, Amhed Bama-

dhaf, Ahmed Lari, Abdulla Nasser, Heidi Yeun, Salma Kalidy and Mari-ah Alyafei.

FOOTBALL

The U11 Football A-Team played in the end of season tournament on Monday at Zayed Cricket Stadium. After finishing 3rd in the league Al Mamoura were full of confi-dence before the tournament. A comfortable win against West Yas and a narrow defeat to the overall winners, BSAK, meant Al Mamou-ra progressed to the quarter-final against British International School Abu Dhabi (BISAD). The game was a fantastic contest and even extra time couldn’t split the teams. The game went to penalties and unfor-tunately Al Mamoura lost. The boys were absolutely devastated but still showed the sportsmanship to shake hands and congratulate their opponents. Many coaches from other teams commented on how well the Al Mamoura team had pro-gressed throughout the year and on the quality of the attacking football played. Mr Hughes could not be more proud of the boys and looks forward to a very promising football season in the next academic year.

The Under 11B team travelled to Amity International School to compete in the ADISSA football tournament. The team were placed in a tough group with BSAK, Raha and CIS. After battling well against BSAK for the first half, we unfortunately conceded 2 goals late on. The next game against Raha saw us create more chances, but Raha scored two unstoppable goals to take all the points. The team dusted themselves off ready for their third game and they came out fighting. They played excellently, and put in %100. Thanks to a goal from Abdulla Dosari, the team won 0-1 leaving them third in the group. The team played with plenty of character and enthusiasm, and were a credit to the school!

SPORTS NEWS

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PHYSICAL EDUCATION

This week Year 7 have con-tinued with their Fitness topic in PE. They took their resting pulse rate and then continued to take it throughout the lesson to maintain a working pulse rate when completing the circuit. In Swimming some groups have been assessed on their back-stroke time and have all im-proved their time by improving their technique. Lots of them were able to meet the Year 7 assessment criteria of swim-ming backstroke faster than 36 seconds. Other groups have improved their breaststroke technique.

This week in PE Year 8 and 9 students have been learning how to organise a circuit train-ing session effectively. They have used their new knowledge of muscle names and com-ponents of fitness to ensure a safe arrangements of exercises to make an effective general fitness circuit. They have re-capped how to record their own pulse and learnt how recovery heart rate relates to their own level of fitness.

COMPUTER SCIENCE

Y7This week students have been reviewing their assessment results by identifying their strengths and weaknesses in spreadsheets. Students re-sponded to teacher feedback and identified how they could improve for term 3.

Students have also been learn-ing about the digital divide and the impact no technology has on society.

Y8This week in computing, stu-dents have been reviewing their photo editing assessment feed-back. They have been improv-ing their assessment work to identify areas of improvement. Students have also been re-sponding to teacher comments and discussing how they plan to make further progress in term 3.

KS4 IGCSE ICTThis week students have been receiving their end of term 2 assessment results. They have been analysing their own an-swers and comparing them against the mark scheme. Stu-dents have made improvements to their answers to ensure progress is made in weak areas of their theory knowledge and practical skills. Students have also been working together to identify problems of the tech-nology world, investigating the impact of having no technology in different industries.

Y11 IGCSE BusinessThe business class have been analysing financial documents and learning about why they are used to inform business deci-sions. They have also been re-vising finance formulas, such as cash flow forecasting and ratio analysis. Homework: Complete the past paper.

SECONDARY NEWSBUSINESS STUDIES

Year 9 IGCSE In Year 9 we had a very produc-tive week. Students worked on a research based task where they investigated the different mo-tivation theories, starting from Taylor’s scientific management to Maslow’s hierarchy of needs. They produced some excellent PowerPoints and presented them to the rest of the class. The students also found out about their results for the End of Term 2 Tests and they discussed the feedback writing their own self-assessment. The students’ hard work has paid off with excellent results. Well done Year 9s!

Year 10 IGCSE An excellent week in year 10. This week students researched globalisation and gave a SWOT analysis of the different is-sues involved. Their discussed strengths, weaknesses, oppor-tunities and threats and they challenged themselves by cre-ating their own case study with exam style questions. This was particularly impressive to see. Good work Year 10!


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SCIENCE

IGCSE Biology Support Club runs after school on Monday and Wednesday. Students can sign up on the portal. These sessions provide girls with the opportunity to reviews the work covered so far and develop examination skills through practising past papers.

IGCSE Physics and Chemistry Club runs after school on Wednesday. Students can sign up on the portal. These sessions provide girls with the opportunity to review the work covered so far and develop their examination skills through practising past papers. There is also an opportunity to look at ‘A’ level Sciences for those students that like to be challenged and also to give an insight into the subjects at a higher level.

Year 7 Science: Group A: This week, students focused on the adaptations of animals within the ecosystem. We looked at how special features allowed certain animals to live in very extreme conditions and be able to survive. Homework is to choose an animal and create a poster on their unique adaptations that allows then to survive in the wildGroup B: The girls are currently learning about Electricity. They have been shocking each other using the Van der Graaf generator and they are now able to explain what static electricity is in terms of electrons. Well done to Lillian Jallad for being a Lab Coat Legend and Scientist of the Week!

Year 8 Science:Group A: Students have started to learn all about metals and how rust forms as part of a chemical reaction with oxygen. Homework – Complete Metals crossword.Group B: The students have now started the Plants topic and they are formulating discussions on the importance of maintaining biodiversity.Group C: Students have completed the end of topic test on unicellular organisms and feedback was given. Students were able to highlight strengths and weaknesses as well as look at how to improve on their overall performance. The next topic we will be focusing on is Reactivity of metals.

Year 9 and 10 Biology:. Students have been learning about the excretory system. They maturely carried out kidney dissections and are now able to describe the structure of a kidney, including nephron structure. They are also able to explain how the kidneys excrete waste and control water levels. Homework – To complete the exam skills booklet which is due Sunday 24th March

Year 9 and 10 Physics: Have been revising and have now sat their Physics end of term exam. A massive well done to Aayh who scored a perfect 100% in the exam. A first for me as a teacher – well done.Homework – Continue working through and completing your Science Practical workbook.

SECONDARY NEWS


Chemistry;Year 9: Have been revising and have now sat their Chemistry end of term exam which was a difficult paper. A massive well done to Raghad who seems to have revised and studied really hard for the exam and this has paid off with an outstanding mark. Homework – Continue working through and completing your Science Practical workbook.

Year 10: This week students have been focusing on Electrolysis, extraction and uses of metals and chemical tests. Homework is to complete all exam practise.

Year 11 Biology: Are still on Mock exam review, highlighting areas to work on for their next mock.Homework – Past paper questions.

Year 11 Physics and Chemistry: Have also been on Mock exam revision highlighting areas to work on for their upcoming exams. With only around 50 days to go until their first IGCSE exam, revision timetables should be completed by now and study for the exams in full flow.Homework – IGCSE past paper questions.

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MODERN FOREIGN LANGUAGES

Year 7Bonjour tout le monde! This week in our French lessons we have been gaining feedback on the recent assessments we completed for Term 2. Students reflected on their achievements and looked at the progress they have made since the start of the academic year. We look forward to starting a new module next week all about where we live.

Year 8Bonjour à tous! Students had an amusing week in Year 8 where they worked on some funny sto-ries using the past tense. This was a fun way to consolidate the use of the perfect tense and practising their pronunciation which is now very good. Students also had played Kahoot and they familiarised them-selves with new expressions in the past tense using all subject pronouns.

Year 9 IGCSE FrenchThis week in our French lessons, we completed our Speaking and Listening Assessments for Term 2This was a valuable exercise to help students prepare for the real IGCSE examinations since we followed the same protocol as we would in the real exami-nations. Students will complete a Read-ing and Writing Paper in their lessons next week.

Year 10 IGCSE French An excellent week in Year 10. Students received detailed feed-back on their assessments and did a detailed analysis of each task. They worked through the most challenging questions and examined the inferred meaning in both the reading and the lis-tening papers. Students also de-veloped exam skills in analysing the grammar task and worked on verb endings, irregular verbs and adjective agreements. The homework for this week is com-pleting the grammar tasks from the grammar booklet.

Linguist of the Week

The Linguist of the week is Nura Al Mehairi from 7A. Nura has made excellent progress this term and achieved 100% in her recent Listening Assessment. Nura always tries her best in the lesson and enjoys learning languages. Félicitations Nura!

Year 11 IGCSE FrenchThis week, Year 11 students fo-cused on developing their skills in writing and grammar. We also did some revision of the topics completed up to Module 7. Next week students will be given work to complete over the Spring Break.

Students have written and learning homework for next week.

SECONDARY NEWS


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ENGLISH

KS3Year 7 students have been busy comparing two key scenes which present the character of Caliban for their English end of unit as-sessment. Students had to write in PEE form and explore how he had been presented by Shake-speare. They had to decide if he was a villain, a victim, or both? At the end of the week pupils completed valuable reflection and improvement activities.

Year 8 pupils have spent this week writing a response to a question exploring how conflict is presented in Romeo and Juli-et. Two key scenes were exam-ined. Next week we will review assessments.

KS4Year 9 – Mrs Kirk’s class wrote a response to a question based on Benjamin Zephaniah’s text ‘Young and Dyslexic’. Students had to retrieve information and comment on the language he uses to demonstrate his tri-umphs and successes surround-ing dyslexia.

Year 10 English students hit a milestone this week by complet-ing their first draft of course-work. I have been impressed with the focus applied by some students and hope they will fur-ther improve though addressing my comments in their second and final draft. This piece of work is worth 20% of the final IGCSE English language grade. Year 11 students complet-ed a baseline assessment for the second language course. I was very impressed with some extremely high performances which is very promising for the June examinations. The baseline is very helpful in highlighting key areas which will need atten-tion following our return from spring break.

Homework: Year 11 girls should actively be involved in revision activities based on their non-fic-tion texts from the anthology.

Please be reminded there is a weekly intervention session for Year 11 students every Wednes-day from 2.50 pm – 3.30 pm to offer additional support for the upcoming exams. All students should attend.

Year 11 Literature: This week we focused on a sample ques-tion for the character known as ‘the prince of the ranch’: Slim.

SECONDARY NEWSDRAMA

Year 7 – Shakespeare’s drama End of unit assessment will take place next week. The focus will be a scene from William Shake-speare’s The Tempest

Year 8 – Monologues Students will perform their monologues next week for their assessment. They have written them in les-sons this week so should take time to rehearse and practice in preparation, paying close at-tention during delivery to tone, facial expression and communi-cation of thoughts and feelings


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MATHEMATICS

Miss Frimpong

Year 7 – This week Year 7 have been working Multiplicative rea-soning - Unit 8. They have been working on converting imperial and metric units. This week’s independent study task is on converting metric units. Please find the link to video explana-tion and worksheet for practice here: https://corbettmaths.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/02/metric-units-pdf1.pdf

Year 8This week year 8 been working on straight line graphs- Unit 9. They have worked on how to solve direct proportion prob-lems on a graph. This week’s independent study task is on proportions. Please find the link to video explanation and work-sheet for practice here: https://corbettmaths.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/11/Unitary-Meth-od-pdf.pdf

Year 9This week year 9 began work on Unit 3 –Number. Pupils have been working on finding the Highest Common Factor and the Lowest Common multiple using prime factorisation. This week’s independent study task is on solving inequalities. Please find the link to video explana-tion and worksheet for practice here: https://corbettmaths.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/12/Solving-Inequalities.pdf

Year 10This week year 10 have been working on unit 4- Graphs. We looked at how to how to plot quadratic graphs and solve quadratic equations graphically. This week’s independent study task is on solving quadratic equations graphically. Please find the link to video explana-tion and worksheet for practice here: https://corbettmaths.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/01/Solving-Quadratics-Graphical-ly-pdf-1.pdf

Miss Richards

Year 7Naming measuring angles.Homework worksheet on above

Year 8Writing and comparing proba-bilityHomework worksheet on above

Year 9Prime Factor decomposition LCM HCF. Sharing in a RatioHomework mixed exercise on above.

Year 10Multiplying two and three linear brackets to form quadratic and cubic expressionsHomework mixed exercise on above

Year 11Examination question practiseHomework passed paper

SECONDARY NEWSMiss Mohamed

Year 7: Students have com-pleted the end of term test and feedback will be given next week. Students will now focus on improving their areas of weaknesses ready for Term 3. Homework is to complete the remainder questions on Pearson Active Learn. The next topic we will be studying is Unit 8: Meas-uring and shapes.

Year 8: Students have com-pleted the end of term test and feedback will be given next week. Students will now focus on improving their areas of weaknesses ready for Term 3. Homework is to complete the remainder questions on Pearson Active Learn. The next topic we will be studying is Unit 8: Se-quences.

Year 9: Students have com-pleted the end of term test and feedback has been given. Stu-dents will now continue with Circle Theorem in order to com-plete Unit 2. By term 3, students will be moving on to the next unit.


Mathematicians of the weekY7 Fatima AlKaabi Y8 Shamsa Al Qubaisi

Y9 Shamsa Al Dhaheri Y10 Mariam Al Dhaheri

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ART

Year 7 – Developing their own Optical Art designs and attempting more challenging and complex illusions. Homelearning – Ensure all Op Art booklet work is up to date.

Year 8 – Exploring colour and practising their brushwork for their canvas paintings.Home learning – Annotate design ideas explaining composition and colour theory ideas.

Year 9 – Developing a colour scheme for their clay masks. Homelearning – Stick completed colour wheel in sketchbook and annotate accordingly.

Year 10 – Investigating David Hockney and photo montage techniques. Home learning – Finish their own photo montages considering how it will reflect aspects of their personality

Year 11 – Component 2 externally set exam; “ Reflections”. Using their primary sources to develop their own ideas for their final piece.Home learning – Composing initial design ideas.

Artists of the Week: Rowdha Al Hashmi (7C) – Attempting the Optical Art challenge bookletSara Al Qubaisi (8C) – Microscopic canvas painting.KS4 - Mahra Al Nuaimi (10A) – David Hockney inspired Artwork.

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