IB Achievers of the Week

Unit of Inquiry

This week, students learned about media sensitivity and how we can be respectful and responsible when sharing and receiving information. They used their communication and thinking skills to reflect on how media can influence people in different ways. Later, students collaboratively created a Media Essential Agreement, discussing important guidelines to keep in mind when creating, viewing, and sharing media. 

Next week: students will delve deeper into our lines of inquiry by exploring how different audiences interpret media in different ways. They will examine how personal experiences, culture, and perspective can influence the way messages are understood and responded to. 

Central idea: Media is a tool that can influence thinking and behavior.

Specified Concepts: Causation, Change and Perspective

Lines of inquiry: 

• How media provides insight and information

• How culture influences media 

• How audiences interpret and react to media differently

Learner Profile: Open-minded, Communicator, Risk taker

Literacy 

This week, students explored the question “What’s the message?” by responding to powerful images and discussing the feelings and ideas they inspire. Through Think–Pair–Share, they identified key message words such as hope, belonging, and fairness, and began planning their own poems by first focusing on topic, message, and emotions. Students worked collaboratively to organise their ideas into stanzas and reflected on whether their message came through clearly, showing strong thinking and communication skills. 

Next week: students will learn how to organise poems into stanzas for meaning.

Science

This week, in Science, students explored how sound is created and travels through vibrations. They began by feeling the vibrations in their throats while humming, then investigated further by creating paper string telephones to observe how sound moves through tight and loose strings. Through hands-on experimentation and class discussions, students discovered how vibrations carry sound from one cup to another and compared how different materials affect the clarity of sound . 

Next week: students will explore how patterns can send information using simple solutions like drum codes, 1’s and 0’s for pictures, and Morse code. 

Mathematics

This week in Moths, students continued practicing mixed and improper fractions and solved related word problems. They also learned about fractions on line plots, exploring how to read the graphs, analyse the data, and answer questions based on their observations. 

Next week: students will learn about data handling through hands-on activities, exploring how to collect, organise, and interpret information. 

Home Learning

Each Friday, activities will be shared via SeeSaw, including weekly spelling words. Students are expected to return their completed home learning by the following Friday. This can be submitted in one of three ways: directly on SeeSaw, as a physical copy, or in a home learning journal (which we can provide if preferred).

In addition, we highly recommend that students read every day at home. Daily reading builds fluency, strengthens comprehension, and nurtures a lifelong love of books.

Thank you for supporting your child in developing positive and consistent learning habits.

Spelling: Practice your words, we will have a spelling test on Friday.
Maths: Choose your spice level and complete the fraction questions, the levels increase from adding/subtracting fractions, to multiplying by a whole number, to a fraction of a whole.
Literacy: Practice grammar. We learned about repositional phrases, verb phrases and practised our capitalization. Can you apply your understanding to the sentences?
Unit of Inquiry (UOI): Our new UOI is all about How We Express Ourselves. Our home learning this week links to our writing, where we express ourselves through free verse poetry. Can you write your free verse poem using the guidelines?
Arabic/ Islamic:
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Important Announcements / Upcoming Events

Term 2 Termly Overview

At our school, we believe it is important for children to understand personal boundaries, know that their body belongs to them, and feel confident speaking up if something makes them uncomfortable. We also encourage children to talk to trusted adults whenever they have a worry or concern.

Over the next two weeks, Homeroom Teachers will deliver a short, age-appropriate safeguarding session using adapted NSPCC PANTS resources. These sessions use child-friendly language and do not include explicit vocabulary.

If you have any questions, please contact your child’s Homeroom Teacher. Thank you for your continued support.

Ramadan (tentative) Thursday 19th February, 2025 - We will start the day at 8.30am and finish at 1.30pm. Our Friday schedule will remain the same: 7.50am start and 11.30am finish.