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Secondary School - September Newsletter

Reading Chapters 1-6:

We are learning to explore the events, characters and setting of Oliver Twist including language analysis.

Chapters 1-3: Young orphan Oliver faces adversity and exploitation while searching for his identity and belonging in a harsh and unforgiving Victorian England.

Chapter 4-6: Oliver Twist's journey continues as he becomes entangled with a group of juvenile criminals, led by the cunning Fagin, and he encounters a host of morally complex characters while struggling to find his place in a society marked by poverty and injustice.

Writing

Descriptive writing
Newspaper report
PEEL paragraph writing in the reading analysis lessons
SPAG will be incorporated in every lesson.

Number

To test the rules of divisibility of 2,3,4,5,9 and 10.
To understand factors, multiples and prime numbers
To add and subtract positive and negative numbers.
To use index notation for square and cube roots.
To calculate cube and cube roots and solve problems.
To work out calculations using BIDMAS.

Statistics

To find mean, mode, median and range in a set of data.
To draw and interpret a dual bar chart from the two way table

Unit 1: Cells, Tissues, Organs and Organ Systems

To be able to identify and describe the life processes and use them to justify whether something is an organism or is non-living.
To be able to identify and describe the parts and functions of a microscope.
To be able to identify the parts and functions of animal and plant cells.
To be able to locate the structures of a cell using a stain.
To be able to identify the different specialised animal cells and plant cells.
To be able to identify and describe the function of different tissues in plants and animals.
To be able to identify and describe different organs in plants and animals.
To be able to describe the hierarchical organisation of multicellular organisms.

ARABIC A

"خلال هذا الشهر استطاع الطالب أن:

"مراجعة همزة الوصل والقطع " ـ يميز بين همزة الوصل والقطع في كتابته .

"حروف تلفظ ولا تكتب وتكتب ولا تلفظ " ـ يكتب الطالب الكلمات التي بها حروف تلفظ ولا تكتب وتكتب ولا تلفظ كتابة صحيحة .

ــ أداء الاختبار المعياري ــ امتحان ABT

" النّصوص حولنا " - يميِّز بين أنواع النّصوص القرائيّة المختلفة تمييزًا صحيحًا

ـ يفسر معاني المفردات في الآبيات الشعرية مستعينًا بالسياق والشبكة المعلوماتيّة .

ـ يحدد الفكرة الرئيسة والأفكار الفرعية في النص الشعري " المسكية في مدح خير البريّة ". " المسكية في مدح خير البريّة " نص شعري

Arabic B

"Needs and Wishes"

To complete the conversation (Greetings).
To use types of the verbs in a sentences.
To learn about UAE (Reading comprehension).
To differentiate between pronouns.
To classify between nominal and verbal sentences.
To use part of speech in a sentences.
To differenciate between needs and wishes.
To answer the questions of the reading comprehension (Yon need or you want)
To specify main ideas of a listening material.
To describe pictures and events.
To Read the text ( Needs and Wishes).
To identify the general meaning of the text.
To answer the questions of the reading comprehension.
To answer the baseline questions.
To answer the ABT test questions.
To write spelling sentences correctly.

ISLAMIC A

سيتعلم الطلاب خلال هذا الشهر عدة موضوعات وهي :

مراجعة عامة عن دروس السنة الماضية

الكتاب الحق السجدة 12-1 ( قرآن كريم )

ومن خلالها سيتوصل الطالب إلى أن

مراجعة عامة

يفسر سورة الإنفطار وعبس والنبأ .

يشرح حديث المفلس ويسروا ولاتعسروا والطريق إلى الجنة .

يوضح أحداث اليوم الآخر وعمل الملائكة يسرد حادثة الإسراء والمعراج والهجرة .

يوضح حياة عمر بن الخطاب .

يبين صلاة الجماعة وآداب وسائل النقل وصلاة الجمعة والعيدين

الكتاب الحق السجدة 12-1 ( قرآن كريم )

يتلو الآيات المقررة من سورة السجدة تلاوة سليمة.

يوضح سمات القرآن التي تقتضي الإيمان.

يبين مظاهر قدرة الله تعالى في الآيات.

Islamic B

Exemplars from IGCSE papers were provided to the students.

They analysed these answers to evaluate against the assessment descriptors and the marking scheme.
Eventually they co-constructed a writing criteria that will be used for the year.
Students were introduced to tafseer and using it to understand the verses of the Quran.
They learned how to refelct and analyse the tafseer of Surah Sajdah to help understand the meaning of verses 1-5.
They were able to extend this learning into real life sitautions and use this knowledge to solve real life problems.

ART :

Warm up Activity: Use the grid technique to compose a composition using all elements of art and design.

P.E:

For YR - 7's it was a short session on new joruney, new opportunities for for physical and mental growth and learning. This month our PE team worked on students BMI, Fitness components. Test & Assessments were done to check each and every students fitness components like Strength and Endurance, Cardiovascular Fitness, and Flexibility.

COMPUTING

To be able to draft a profile for yourself that reflects the next 15 years (ice breaker activity).
To be able to understand how pseudocodes are written for different tasks.
To be able to understand Looping algorithms.
To be able to understand FOR loop algorithms.

FRENCH:

Students are learning

To introduce themselves in a short paragraph
To read and write numbers to 50.

MSC :

To understand concept of fair distribution and the importance of treating others fairly and justly at a school, family or community level. 1
To understand the criteria for applying distributive justice (equality, authority, need and eligibility) and demonstrate fair distribution in their close community.
To analyse the causes and effects of the fall of the Roman Empire.

Events of the Month