NEWSLETTER 5S

In This Issue

Curricular happen-

ings

Student reflection

Glimpses of the week

Time to Recap

Capt. Bajaj in a session with Grade 5helping pupils gain the right perspective on MYP!

Re-viewing Learning! With the success, rigour and demands of the PYP Exhibition behind us, we now look forward to closing the year strong; by re-viewing some key concepts and topics in an attempt to help our precious ones be on a stronger footing stepping into Middle School. The MYP transition continued with a session with none other than the School DirectorCapt. Bajaj; who helped the children in gain-ing the right perspective about life in the Middle School. Student-led inquiry, understanding the concept of time, weighing Modern For-eign Language options; gearing up for Graduation, and more Read on! Warm regards, Praveen Bhatt Monisha Babbar

PATHWAYS SCHOOL GURGAON Week of 2nd May 16

Unit of Inquiry

Pupils:

inquired into the transdisciplinary theme: Where we are in

place and time

decided to take the inquiry forward by looking at Greek and Ro-

man civilizations

researched into, and made key connections with the Greek way

of life and modern culture and civilization

collaborated with each other in collating key facts

presented research work to their peers

Finding out about the Greek Civilization...

GLIMPSES OFINQUIRY

Finding Out!

Presentation

Time!

Language The students: Enhanced their creative writing skills by learning and using new sen-

tence beginnings to make their writing interesting Were tuned into the elements of paragraph writing Continued the reader and were tuned into paraphrasing

Numeracy The students: Comprehended the concept of time zones and solved application

based problems related to the topic Were tuned into the concept of line, line segment and ray (geometry) Went further in exploring different types of angles and constructed

angles with a protractor and compass

PYP Exhibition Reflection

By Rayna Gogoi With great anticipation, I had looked forward to the PYP Exhibition. The topic I had chosen was the Plight of Stray Animals and Animal Poaching because I felt strongly about it. I did a lot of re-search; but what gave me great satisfaction was the field trip to Umeed - an NGO that helps stray animals. We found out that these animals were very well looked after by the care takers. Though they seemed well fed, like all animals, they loved the food treat we gave them and toys. They jumped all over us with great joy and enjoyed themselves. This was the action I took for these strays who touch my heart whenever I see them on the streets of Delhi. My heart breaks to see these animals suffer during extreme cold and hot weather. I promise to help stray animals forever!

ICT In continuation with the les-sons on digital camera, stu-dents developed an under-standing of the functions of different parts of a digital camera and the basic tech-niques of digital photog-raphy. PE Students practiced: front crawl and back-

stroke kicking, arm ac-tion and floating during swimming classes

freestyle relay races dismounting and walking

the horse forehand and backhand

stroke during tennis classes

passing and kicking while playing a football match

indoor games like bad-minton and basketball

Hindi Core, Intermediate, Ab initio level Revisited grammar concepts through discussions and writ-ten exercise

Reading the Reader...

Glimpses of the week!

Happy Birthday

Dhruv!

Spanish, French

or Hindi?

Language * Write a paragraph on My journey as a Primary School Student (Word count 150 words). * Rewrite the paragraph pasted in the Language register using varied sentence beginnings. Dear Parents, Please note that we will be conducting Word Search twice a week from next week to reinforce the spellings. The word-search next week will be based on the following lists. Monday List 1 and List 2 Friday List 3 and List 4

Numeracy Task-sheets on time

Hindi Core level

; : , , (Present your views on any global issue and write about it in around 100 words. Example: population, girl education, child labour) Intermediate Level

- ; : , , (Present your views on any global issue and write about it in 10-15 sentences. Example: population, girl education, child labour) Ab initio Level Complete the homework given in the notebook

TIME TO RECAP