Al Yasmina School Primary Newsletter

31st May 2012

Issue 34 - 2011/12

Dear Parents,

Al Yasmina School Summer Music Concert Al Yasmina School will be presenting its summer

music concert on Monday 25th June, at 6pm.

The concert will feature performances from the

Senior Orchestra, Al Yasmina Singers, the Senior,

Junior and Intermediate Choirs, the Junior String

Orchestra, Senior and Junior Brass Ensembles,

the Senior and Junior Flute Choirs and solo

pianists.

This will be a very special celebration of another

year’s hugely successful music-making at Al

Yasmina School – so please come along and

support our hard-working and talented

musicians!!

SAVE THE DATE!!

From the School Nurses

Reminder to parents:

If your child has been diagnosed, by a doctor, with a contagious illness please inform the school

clinic. The school nurses will then be able to notify parents of children with whom your child has

come into contact with, so that parents may observe their child for similar symptoms

Sore throats

A sore throat can be the result of an infection by a virus or

bacteria. It may occur as a single symptom, or be one of a

number of symptoms relating to a wider illness, such as flu.

Signs of a sore throat:

• Pain in the throat and difficulty in swallowing.

• Pain may spread to the ears.

• The throat is red and the tonsils are swollen and may be

coated.

• Possibly a high temperature.

• Swollen lymph nodes under the jaw and in the neck may occur.

Treatment:

• Allow your child to rest.

• Warm drinks and soft food may ease swallowing problems.

• Drink plenty of fluids (no sodas).

• Give Calpol (paracetamol) 4 to 6 hourly OR Nurofen (ibuprofen) 6 to 8 hourly for pain and / or

fever.

• Use salt water gargles, or over-the-counter preparations from a pharmacy, such as sprays

containing antiseptics and anaesthetics to numb the sore area, or antiseptic gargles.

Advice:

• Viral infections of the throat usually improve in two to three days without treatment.

• If signs of a sore throat persist for more than a few days or are severe with marked difficulty in

swallowing, high fever, a rash or vomiting, then your doctor should be consulted.

• Antibiotics may need to be prescribed by the doctor. Your child will no longer be contagious

after being on an antibiotic for twenty four hours.

• It is important to take a complete course of antibiotics, even if your child is feeling better.

For more information on sore throats check out the website:

http://www.nhs.uk/conditions/Sore-throat/Pages/Introduction.aspx

There is good advice regarding the usage of antibiotics on the Health Authority Abu Dhabi website:

http://www.haad.ae/HAAD/Portals/0/Health%20Authority%20Parents%20Guide%20Eng.indd.pdf

Message from Friends of Al Yasmina (FOY)

FOYveg

Orders are now being taken for June. The deadline for orders and payment is Monday 4th June and

first delivery is Wednesday 6th June. There are 4 weeks of delivery in June. The price is 30Dhs per

week for the 2.5kg box and 55Dhs per week for the 5kg box. Please put your money in an envelope

with your name and phone number clearly printed on the front, and put it into the FOYveg box which

is now located opposite the nurses room.

Primary End of Year Discos - Sunday 17th June

It's that time again for the end of term Disco, boys get your hair gel and girls get your dancing shoes

ready!!! Venue - Primary sports hall

Years 1,2,3 : 4.00-5.00pm

Years 4,5,6 : 5.30-7.00pm

Entrance 15dhs to be paid at the door (includes drinks and a snack).

Last year’s event was a huge success, however we need helpers to make this event possible.

For more information or to volunteer to help on the day, please contact Gaynor Ball or Beverley

Stanley at alyasminafoy@gmail.com

Next FOY Meeting - Monday 18th June at 8am in Meeting Room 2

This will be the last of the academic year - everyone is welcome.

Lost Property

As an initiative, Reception at Al Yasmina School are endeavoring to email parents regarding named

lost/found property to be collected after 1.30pm weekdays.

There will be a plastic box with unnamed items which parents are welcome to rummage through.

Foundation Stage 1 (FS1)

FS1 have had an exciting week learning all about Amazing Aeroplanes! In Green class, Joseph

brought in his aeroplanes from home and told us all about all the different parts. We talked about

where we have been on an aeroplane and we pretended to be cabin crew! We sorted lost luggage

and made boarding passes for our friends and we practiced writing numbers and letters when we

made Arrival and Departure boards. We looked at pictures of Abu Dhabi taken from the sky and we

could recognise many by noticing features of the buildings!

Well done to our Stars of the Week!

Luca Aveta – White class

Cambell Sellar- Yellow Class

Aditya Raj Duggal- Blue Class

Zayed Al Hammadi- Red Class

Zeina Badawy- Green Class

Foundation Stage 2 (FS2)

‘The wheels on the Abu Dhabi Tour Bus go round and round....all day long.’ FS2 found this out when

we started off our week with an exciting visit from the Abu Dhabi Big Bus Company. Each class had a

turn to explore the bus and go on a tour of Khalifa city. The children loved spotting familiar

landmarks from the top deck. The visit from the tour bus helped us to write some fantastic stories

about going on a journey and we have also designed some new tour maps for the company.

What is your favourite 3D shape to eat? In Jade Class we found out that spheres were the tastiest.

We also quite liked cones, however cylinders were the least favourite!

FS2 have loved learning all about 3D shapes this week and we have been trying hard to remember

all of their names and properties. Tasting food that was actually the same as a 3D shape helped us

to do this!

Congratulations to last week’s stars of the week!

Year 1

WOW! What a week we have had in Year 1. In literacy we have continued to look at a variety of

poems, we even had a go at writing our own acrostic poems. We have used rhyming words and

followed the structure provided to share our own ideas. Our toys topic is now well under way with the

children learning about toys from other countries and toys from the past. We have looked at toys that

used to be played in the UAE during our Social Studies this week, and had a go at playing them

ourselves. In science we have been thinking about how toys move and what forces we use to make

the movement along with how to make them stop again!

The Year 1 teachers would like to remind parents that the deadline for returning consent forms and

contributions for our visits to the Build-a-Bear factory in Dubai later in June is SUNDAY 3rd JUNE 2012.

We have to confirm transport for the visits. Please make sure you have returned the required

documents by the above date. We are still looking for parent helpers for some of the visits, if you are

able to help us please indicate this on your reply slip. Thank you.

Year 1 Sparrows class will be saying goodbye to one of their class members this

week. Alexa will be heading off to live in New York next week. Alexa has been a

cheerful class member always making us smile and laugh. We will miss you in

Sparrows class but we would like to wish you good luck for the future, we hope

you will keep in touch.

Our superstar learners in Year 1

this week are: Wilma Sundt in Robins, Alex Vliegen in

Sparrows, Breeana Duruba in Doves, Jad Haddad in

Larks and Zoya Sameer in Cuckoos. Well done.

Year 2

Let us begin by saying a big thank you and well done to all the children

for making our Princes and Princesses day last week so memorable! We

enjoyed sharing our wonderful castles with the other children in the

school, and sharing our magical kingdoms and puppet shows to our

friends in the classroom. The highlight of the day was when all the noble

knights, princes, princesses and fairytale characters gathered for a

mighty feast! Well done and many thanks for all parental support!

This week we have learning about our new topic: The World Around Us. The children have been

learning where different foods come from, while also looking at different countries and continents

around the world. Throughout the topic each class will be focusing on a particular country ready for

our end of year production which will be shown in the Year 2 classrooms and shared area on Tuesday

26th June.

The children have been solving some tricky 2 step real life problems in class for maths. In science we

have been continuing with our Electricity unit of work and the children have enjoyed making their

own circuits!

Well done to last week’s Stars of the Week!

Flamingos- Neil Galea

Herons- Anya Jansen van Vuuren

Sandpipers- Matthew Hile

Storks- Mackenzie Kenyon

Spoonbills- Ryana Hanafieh

Year 3

This week we have been having a ‘blast’ in Year 3. The

children have been launching their rockets high into the

Earth’s atmosphere using a bicycle pump and our own

special rocket launcher!

In Literacy we have been working primarily on Speaking

and Listening, taking part in Hot Seating to get to know

character’s thoughts and feelings and putting on a sketch

of the well-known fairytale Goldilocks and the Three Bears.

In Maths the children have been learning

coordinates and angles. We have had a lot of fun

mapping out coordinates and giving our partners

directions. Why don’t you have a practice at home

by giving your child directions to find some ‘hidden

treasure’?

This week’s science has had us investigating the

effect light/the sun has on shadows and how

different materials cast different shadows.

Congratulations to our Stars of the Week – McKenzie

Venus, Fred Atkins, Taylor Pharoah, Niamh Hickey and

Fatma Al Mazrouei.

Year 3 Notices:

We have begun our new topic, All the Worlds a Stage.

During this topic, the children will be building a stage with

a MOVING PART. Please can you discuss this with your

child so they can begin to gather ideas on how it would

work, such as, a turn table, moving curtains, moving

scenes etc.

Year 4

Wow, how fast are these weeks going? Well done to

another amazing week Year 4.

The teachers have been so impressed with how much

extra work you are putting into the Rainforest topic! So

many children are completing additional PowerPoint

presentations and quizzes at home, well done! The

teachers and Classroom Assistants are really enjoying the

challenge of the quizzes!

The children have been really inspired by how animals use

camouflage in the Rainforest to create some fabulous art

work. We are running out of wall space to display all of

them!

In Literacy we are beginning to studying adverts so please bring in an advert from a magazine or

newspaper.

Stars of the Week!

Well done to our new Stars of the Week! You amazed your

teachers with your outstanding effort and behavior.

Miss Gaywood (on behalf of Sand Grouse!) Sacha Pujol

Warblers, Halle Evans Pipits, James Raisbeck Sand Grouse,

Obad Al Jaberi Wheatears and Haziq Mohamed Rasidin

Wagtails.

Big big big congratulations to Super Sandgrouse who won

the first ever class award from the Classroom Assistants!

Sandgrouse always have super behavior around the

school, fabulous manners and shirts tucked in! Which class

will win next week????

Year 5

Year 5 have nearly finished their topic on Native Americans and we have had some fantastic posters

and information displays about all the different tribes. It is wonderful to see such a high standard of

work from the children. In school, we have also been looking at creating adverts and using

persuasive elements to make our adverts stand out. The children have created some interesting

adverts for drinks, thinking carefully about their audience and who they are targeting the drink at. This

will build into our new topic next term all about the

Olympics.

Congratulations again to our Stars of the Week!!

Year 6

This week in Year 6 the children have been slogging through their SATs.

However all of the pupils have risen to the challenge and they have tackled

each test with their usual effervescent aplomb. The staff of Year 6 would like to

say just how proud we are of each one of the children, who have come into

school with their usual hard working and happy attitude, all of this despite the

stresses of the SATs.

The teachers are already busy marking and checking the papers, because as

from next week our attentions turn to our production Petra Pen – The Girl Who Couldn’t Grow Up.

We would like to remind parents of the Year 6 Pool Party on the 14th June. This celebration of the

children’s hard work and forth-coming graduation into Year 7 is being organized by the parent reps,

who have asked for a donation of 30AED to cover the cost of refreshments. We ask that this money is

brought into school as soon as possible in order for the reps to calculate the numbers.

Well done to Last Week’s Award Winners (The Final Week of the Weekly Awards)

Behaviour Award Progress Award Volcano Of Victory Award

Jordan Youlten (Kestrels)

Mehek Mathur (Eagles)

Haysam Shakeel (Ospreys)

Jad Nasser (Owls)

Alanood Al Ameri (Falcons)

Abdulla Al Junaibi (Kestrels)

Ali Al Haddad (Eagles)

Dana Said (Ospreys)

Genna Al Zaabi (Owls)

Max Gutierrez (Falcons)

Will Smith (Kestrels)

Katy McVicar (Eagles)

Declan Ball (Ospreys)

Adel Audhali (Owls)

All the Pupils of Year 6, for all their

hard work building up for the

SATs. (Falcons)

Year 6 End of Year Pool Party

On Thursday 14th June the Year 6 Teachers and Class Reps will hold the 2012 Year 6

Leavers’ Party which will be Lunch and a Pool Party. It will run from 12:00 until 2.15pm.

It will be a supervised event with a chance to swim, play games and enjoy some

time with Year 6 friends before moving onto the delights of the Secondary school.

There is a charge of 30dhs to cover food, snacks, drinks, and activities.

All the children will need to bring is their swimming costumes, some Caribbean themed clothes to

change into, a water bottle and their best limbo moves!

We would be delighted to receive any help from parents (please see invites).

Please check schoolbags for invites/return slips and send monies in a named envelope to class teacher by Sun 3rd June. We look forward to seeing you and the children there.

Dates for your Diary

Thursday 14th June - Year 6 Leavers’ Party – 12pm – 2.15pm

Sunday 17th June - Primary End of Year Disco (Year 1/2/3 & Year 4/5/6)

Monday 18th June - FOY Meeting at 8am

Thursday 21st June - FS1 Performance at 1pm

Monday 25th June - Summer Music Concert at 6pm

Tuesday 26th June - Year 2 Year end Production

Al Yasmina School

Tel: 02 5014888

email: primarypa@alyasmina.sch.ae