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Newsletter-Term-1.Pdf Pakistan Community Welfare School NEWSLETTER FIRST TERM 2018-2019 Highlights of this newsletter A warm welcome to our new and promoted students into the new Arabic Week 2 academic session 2018-2019 at PCWS. It is a privilege for us to welcome 6 our new admissions from KG– 8 this year. As promised we are steadily Culture Week moving towards our destination with small but significant milestones being OSH Week 9 achieved along the way. With each coming child we enter into a new bond of trust that helps us work throughout the year to uphold this relationship. Literacy Week 11 Celebration Assemblies 14 Congrats to the embassy teachers team and our beaming youngsters for putting up a heart warming performance on Pakistan Day at the Pakistan Classroom Activities 17 Embassy. Mothers Day 22 Have a look at some of our other first time ever events in this terms issue Competition like the Student Council Elections that aims to build leadership and Student Council 24 Elections confidence in students. Educational Trips 26 Take note of the Key Dates at the end of the issue to stay on schedule with New ICT Lab 28 us. Arabic Week First Term 2018-2019 Arabic is the historical language of our region and of our Holy Book the Quran. With hundred percent of the schools population being second language speakers, Arabic Week was held with great respect and excitement through out the school. We celebrated the script, poetry and grammar of this amazing language with fun activities and games through the weeklong event. Kudos to Ms Killie and Ms Hadia for organizing this enlightening week with effective planning and research. The first day was dedicated to guided reading with Arabic teacher and Book Fair. Not only the students but staff and management got the opportunity to correct their reading skills with the help of Arabic staff. 2 Arabic Week أنا الشيخة فاطمة بنت راشد بن سعيد اّل مكتوم شاعرة اماراتية مواليد مدينة دبي أخت الشيخ محمد بن راشد اّل مكتوم حاكم دبي , حصلت على لقب شاعرة الخليج اﻷولى . Day two was Arabic story reading in morning assembly aiming to model effective fluency and eloquence of speech. Not only did this read aloud helps students in Famous personality Speeches in their speaking skills but Arabic by grade 5 and 6 students. also increased their knowledge of how the UAE leaders excel in the أنا الشيخ خليفة بن زايد آل نهيان :رئيس دولة field of literature along .with their other qualities اﻷمارات العربية المتحدة ووالدي الشيخ زايد بن نهيان مؤسس الدولة ووالدتي الشيخة حصة بنت محمد آل نهيان حفظت القرآن الكريم إلى جانب حبي للغة العربية وتعلمت اﻷنجليزية أيضاً 3 Arabic Week First Term 2018-2019 Day three was dedicated to the awareness of grammar. Grades 1 to 4 enjoyed playing Alphabet sorting in class and later they performed on colorful song and dance on Arabic poems. Day four focused on writing skills as students enjoyed decorating their cards and poems written in Arabic. Fifth Day was tougher as senior girls competed in writing competition that tested various skills like grammar, sentence making and comprehension. This weeklong event helped improving many students speaking and writing skills as special focus was given each day on the language. Along with raising cultural awareness it has broadened students understanding and self learning skills. Encourage your child to converse in simple sentences in Arabic at home as well. Translate to them simple everyday objects in Arabic so they retain maximum knowledge after coming from school. 4 Arabic Week First Term 2018-2019 5 UAE Culture Week– Traditional Games First Term 2018 6 UAE Culture Week– Traditional Games First Term 2018 UAE is a multicultural community and we as expatriates are immensely obliged by the respect and friendly environment provided to us by the UAE government and the Emirati people. In return it is our duty to understand and appreciate its bright and colorful culture that yields love and acceptance throughout all communities. Hence Culture Week was celebrated throughout all levels with quizzes, dress shows, food, competitions, presentations ,dances and visits. Khosa bosa, Salwa and Tooh games are some of the widely played traditional games of UAE children. These were celebrated and played by all grades with great pleasure and excitement. 7 Cultural dress and traditional Food First Term 2018-2019 Grade 6, 7 and 8 girls presented history and culture presentations to other students that helped build students understanding of the rich culture and history of the region. It was an interactive session were students were prompted to think critically and derive similarities and differences between today and yesteryears. Food and dress day helped promote national identity by creating awareness on national dress code that is closely tied by Islamic values. Students realized how to cover up the parts sensitive to national identity. Grade 2 visited Sheikh Zayed Grand Mosque as part of the Culture Week. The objective was designed to acquaint students with the mosque, which constitutes a prestigious religious, cultural and touristic landmark in the UAE and the region. They were also acquainted with the different Islamic illustrations engraved on the mosque’s walls, and the historical architectural periods, which reflect the cultural diversity of the local community and its ancient heritage. Students expressed their happiness to visit the Sheikh Zayed Grand Mosque, which represents one of the world’s most important cultural and religious destinations. 8 OSH Week First Term 2018-2019 Students were greatly engaged during the health and safety week as they were familiarized with healthy food and its benefits for the body. They greatly enjoyed preparing refreshing fruit salads that contains essential vitamins and fibers that keeps them fit and active through out the day 9 OSH Week First Term 2018-2019 Safety awareness is one of the primary knowledge that an individual should possess regardless of his location. Living in a world around technological gadgets and electrical environment it is imperative to equip our self and our children with safety measures. With this aim our students engrossed themselves in safety precautions, measures and hazards knowledge throughout the OSH Week. From Bus Safety rules, safety and hazard signs, fire precautions, online safety to disciplined walking on stairs all these important pointers were shared with students to help them learn in a safe and protected environment. 10 Assembly Programs First Term 2018-2019 Assembly themes are set in line with the My identity Curriculum as well as the MEP Values. Apart from that on going school events and celebrations also influence assembly topics. Health and Safety Week Assembly was conducted by grade 6,7 and 8 girls where they elaborated the purpose of safety signs. How to understand and recognize them when we see them and what precautionary measures we should advice to others in event of seeing one. The other OSH Week assembly elaborated the contents of a First Aid kid, when the materials are to be used and the location of a First Aid Box when in need Isra wal Mairaj is an unprecedented historical event of our religion. Hence it is celebrated with respect and passion. Special Isra wal Mairaj Assembly was conducted by students of grade 3 to 5 where they performed nasheed and elaborated the miracle followed by interactive questions . 11 Celebration Assemblies – Student Council Oath Taking Technology Solutions for Non-Profits President Members Mahnoor Yahya Grade 8 Bisma Tariq Grade 8 Vice President Zeba Grade 8 Anqa Shafiq Grade 7 Ayesha Iftikar Grade 8 Aimen Rukhsar Grade 7 Rana Zargham Grade 5 Ahmed Tariq Grade 5 Ahsan Grade 5 Wafa Habib Grade 5 12 Celebration Assemblies – Winner Certificates Falcon House Winner Term 1 Best Student Term 1 Good Behavior Certificates Term 1 13 Mathwhizz– Achievement Certificates First Term 2018-2019 14 Classroom Activities– Urdu First Term 2018-2019 Learning about seasons in Urdu Students built upon their creative writing skills by writing about their visit to Sheikh Zayed Mosque. Senior girls visited Interschool Bait Bazi Competition where they attended and mingled with different participants from around the country. 15 Classroom Activities– Islamic Studies First Term 2018-2019 Learning how to offer prayers for solar eclipse Differentiated lesson on care Making a story map integrated with English and My identity history and Values Designing a project for Battle of Uhud Group discussion on how to show brotherhood Active Learning on Prayer Positions and Ablution integrated with respect and Community 16 Classroom Activities– Math First Term 2018-2019 Math being a fun and interesting subject often overwhelms many. Therefore teachers try to adopt exciting new strate- gies to make math lessons more interesting and attractive. They have many handheld resources to support the ob- jective but nevertheless the most notable remain time, teacher and students willingness to engage. The essence of a good math lesson can be achieved by scoring high on this trio. Teachers have also integrated math with ICT through Purple Mash. Peer Teaching strategies were a major hit with boys and they loved being on the top with their younger fellows. 17 Classroom Activities– ICT First Term 2018-2019 We have subscribed to Purple Mash. This is an online creative program that integrated majority of subjects with fun filled and curriculum based activities. Students study their curriculum objectives while linking it with their respective subjects. Story writing in English and Designing Survey results Charts in Excel. 18 Classroom Activities– English First Term 2018-2019 As our priority is to improve reading therefore we have The objective of reading buddies program is to started Literacy Club to help and support students with help the less able students in developing better low literacy skills.
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