Primary Weekly Brief

15th January 2017

Sunday 15th January Spring Term ECAs start (end 16th March) Sunday 15th January Netball fixture at Park House (Y5&6) Tuesday 17th January Rounders fixture at Doha Rugby Club (Y5&6) Wednesday 18th, Thursday 19th & Sunday 22nd January ‘We Will Rock You’ musical

Thursday 19th January Class 6A Assembly in MPH Thursday 19th January Class 1C Swimming Trials Sunday 29th January to Thursday 2nd February Half term break Sunday 5th to Tuesday 7th February Year 4 trips to Aspire Park

1A Adham Gad

1B Qais Maree

1C Barend Reynolds

1D Rosa Fox

1E Jassim Fahkri

2A Helena Derosche

2B Aariz Asaf

2C Dinon Perera

2D Abdulrahman Al Sulaiti

2E William Shelton

3A Ahmed Swify

3B Benjamin Moles

3C Miya Chappell

3D Fahd Kisswani

3E Sami Ahsun

4A Ysabella Sanchez

4B Pablo Vera

4C Palak Sharma

4D Ethan Ong

4E Cleo Robinson-Kaye

5A Neena Muzawazi

5B Lamar Hadi Al Zubaidi

5C Suleyman Jabarov

5D Laila El Suwedy

5E Daniela Silva Moreira

6A Sebastian Turcios

6B Laiba Hassan

6C Rayan Patel

6D Mikayla Pullian

6E Yani Du Toit

1A Leia El Kadi

1B Mohammed Shan

1C Kion Nebabonini

1D Layan Rifai

1E Agnessa Loktyukhova

2A Samuel Jones

2B Naim Hudhud

2C Mahmoud Eissa

2D Brayden Tan

2E Judy Hassan

3A Carlos Ruiz Boix

3B Ece Tutum

3C Rawan Musa

3D Joud Abdelghani

3E Maha Al Jabir

4A Hassan Nassar

4B Enzo Leegwater

4C Najine Elkholy

4D Syed Hassan

4E Camila Castedo

5A Zakaria Abdelaziz & Nour Eldine Elkholy

5B Mohamed Mansour

5C Manuel Correia

5D Nora Karmi & Angus Spencer

5E Ahmed Zaro

6A Mariam Eissa

6B Omar Shargawi

6C Ruby Bamber & Yomna Eltayeb

6D Callum Westall

6E Laila Sawan

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Primary Weekly Brief

15th January 2017

Year 1: Thinking about senses, what would you see, hear, smell or touch on a safari? Can you write a poem? Year 2: Katie Morag Talk for Writing. Rewrite story in own words. Can I change a story ending? Year 3: Children will focus on descriptive vocabulary and sentence construction. This will be in order to describe mythical characters and settings. Year 4: Pupils will be focusing on how to structure an explanation text. Year 5: Historical Narrative – ‘20,000 Leagues Under the Sea’, using the features to start. Year 6: Pupils will be creating a storyboard of their own version of a Greek myth to explain the setting, characters and events and then developing descriptions of these before writing their story.

Year 1: Can you gauge how long a minute is? What can you do in one minute? Can you tell the time to o clock and half past the hour, on both analogue and digital clocks? Year 2: Can I solve arrays? Can I solve multiplication problems? Year 3: Children will continue to focus on fractions. They will learn how to add fractions with the same denominator and change some improper fractions to mixed numbers. Year 4: Pupils will be reviewing rounding to the nearest 10, 100 and 1,000. Some pupils will move on to rounding to the nearest 10,000 and 100,000. Year 5: Measurement - reading scales and converting measures. Year 6: Pupils will learn to convert between fractions, decimals and percentages and to solve problems involving the calculation of fractions, decimals and percentages of whole numbers or measures.

Year 1 Children should bring their blue reading folder every day and return homework on a Thursday. Year 2 Please read your reading book every day at home. Try not to spend more than 20 minutes a day on homework. Let your child be a child. Year 4 Classes will visit Aspire Park on the following days: Sunday 5th February: 4A & 4E Monday 6th February: 4B & 4C Tuesday 7th February: 4D The cost of trip will be QR20 for the bus from DBS to Aspire Park. Letters will go out in due course.

Year 5 Please remember to send in a cereal box and egg carton for the river system. Home readers are changed on: Sundays 5A & 5B Mondays 5C & 5D Tuesdays 5E Students should wear the correct school uniform. Spelling homework should be done every week. Year 6 The deadline for the Dubai trip final payment is January 26th. All money must be paid by this date to secure your child’s place. Visa information will follow. Please see the email sent this week.

Primary Weekly Brief

15th January 2017

STARS & WRITERS

MESSAGES FROM THE P.E. TEAM

The show is suitable for all ages and is a lot of fun. Tickets can be purchased daily in the shaded area after school, or by returning the slip (emailed to parents) to Kristina Cheffins.

Doha British School is proud to present the Secondary production, ‘We Will Rock You’, Queen’s smash hit musical.

Show Times 6pm Wednesday 18th Jan

2pm Thursday 19th Jan 6pm Sunday 22nd Jan

Ticket Prices Adults 50 QR

Students 30 QR

PE Kit All children should have the

correct PE kit - DBS polo shirt, navy blue shorts, white

socks and trainers.

3rd to 5th January

Year 1 Swim Squad The Year 1 swim squad assessment continues

on Thursday 19th January for 1C from 1.30pm to 2.15pm.

Outdoor Athletics The Year 3, 4, 5 & 6 Outdoor

Athletics team will be chosen from their PE

lessons. Selected children will receive a letter.

Only children from 1C who can confidently swim in deep water, swim a length on their front and a length on their back without

any aid should attend.

https://www.facebook.com/DohaBritishSchoolPE/