There are eight key elements to the Process to facilitate Learning that we use in our units. 

Capturing Curiosity: Teachers identify children’s interests to spark curiosity through enjoyable, child-led learning.

Enabling Environment: The learning space adapts to children's needs, promoting well-being and engagement.

Learning Link: Strong home-school communication ensures continuity, with parents actively supporting learning.

Ready, Steady, Go: Prepares for new themes by collaborating with parents and generating excitement.

Journey Through the Theme: Teachers guide curiosity-driven learning, encouraging deep questions and exploration.

Playful Learning Experience: Play helps children master skills and encourages creativity across contexts.

Explore, Express, Extend: Activities support exploration and expression, enhancing learning through engagement.

The Exit Stretch: Reflection activities help children consolidate learning by sharing their experiences.

The IEYC Process to facilitate learning corresponds with the framework for teaching and learning: Engage, Construct, Consolidate. It effectively breaks down learning into component processes. 

In each year group, the children follow different units of learning which are each structured in the same way. 

The Primary Years Wheel

The Entry Point: an exciting introduction to the learning to engage and enthuse the children in their new unit.

The Knowledge Harvest: an opportunity to find out what children already know and also for them to ask questions. This can be revisited and built upon throughout the unit of learning.

Explaining The Theme: an overview of the learning goals and subject areas that will be covered in the unit. This is a chance for children to make connections between past learning and new learning.

The Research, Record, Reflect Cycle: most of the time spent on a unit of learning, is spent on this cycle. As far as possible, activities are experiential and exploratory so that the children are actively engaged. We also look for opportunities to offer children choice in what they find out about, how they record it etc in order to place them at the centre of their learning.

The Exit Point: this is an opportunity to  reflect on and celebrate what the children have learned, often sharing it with others.

Please do come and ask if you have any questions about our curriculum.

It was a great opportunity for us to reflect on what Personal Learning Goals we were following and led to some great discussions on how we can be kind to animals. It was wonderful to see everyone from Early Years through to Year 6 getting involved. 

Thank you so much for the donations they have been gratefully recieved by Maryam and Muscat Dog Adoption.

Miss Nada and Miss Fatima from Muscat Veterinary Center came to visit us and talk about being kind and respectful to animals. They discussed how we should approach cats and dogs to keep them and ourselves safe. The children used their Personal Goals and were very kind and respectful. Some were even lucky enough to have the opportunity to pet a few animals. We were very proud of how enthusiastic and thoughtful all the children were. Hopefully they came home and talked about how they can be kind to animals in our wider community as well as maybe inspire a few to become a vet one day! 

Children worked collaboratively to write a set of instructions for making a jam sandwich. They were then given the ingredients and equipment and followed another groups' instructions. They soon realised that important steps or information had been forgotten! As a class, they came up with their own checklist for how to write instructions which will be used next week. Obviously, the best part of the lesson was eating what they had made!!

The children's abstract art was based on their interpretations of a volcanic eruption. Children used the drip technique to create the volcano and lava. Year 4 had the autonomy to select the most appropriate materials to use. Our classrooms became a gallery show casing our knowledge, skills and understanding. 

As part of their transition to secondary school, Year 6 children attended a taster day at BSM.  They demonstrated adaptability as they navigated the BSM site, engaging in a DT lesson where they made an acrylic key ring; a poetry lesson where they constructed their own poem and a PE session where they learnt strategies to improve their performance in ball games.  The children were excellent ambassadors of PDO School and were described as polite, kind, respectful and collaborative.  We are looking forward to attending the ABA Open Day on Thursday.

The children enjoyed painting dinosaur silhouettes using sponges and showed great imagination whilst making birthday cakes and animals with playdough. There was also plenty of excitement as the children dug for dinosaur fossils and coins in the sand tray. It was an enjoyable morning filled with learning and exploration. 

As our school implements the IPC and IEYC curricula, our units are aligned with the Sustainable Development Goals (UNSDGs). To further embed these principles into our learning, we introduced 3D blocks in the main corridors of both the Primary School building and the Early Years building. These blocks will provide children with the opportunity to explore and reflect on the goals they are working towards, enhancing their understanding of sustainability and their role in creating a better world.

A big thank you to Miss Abeer for bringing this project to life!

As the weather starts to cool down, you may be looking to start running.

RAHRC Fun Run takes place every Thursday at 5:30pm from the car park by the grass football pitch on Ras al Hamra Street (also known as the old school car park).  The distances are 2km, 4km or 6km and adults and supervised children are welcome.  The routes are indicated here.  For more details, see the RAHRC Fun Run Facebook page.

Muscat Road Runners is a club which was formed in 1983.  A range of weekly runs are organised, from social 5kms to long distance runs aimed at completing full or half marathons.  Runners are also able to compete in the Winter and Summer Series of races.  Further details can be found here.