Celebrating National Day at Al Yasmina Academy - Year 4 Pipits

Awesome Mangroves Trip

This week, Wheatears went to the Mangroves for our Rainforest topic to explore local habitats and the animals that live in them. We enjoyed exploring the Mangroves while kayaking, as you can see from the photos.

Times Tables Wizards

Our focus in Maths this week has been multiplication. Being confident with times tables is an important aspect of written methods when multiplying. We have been singing songs, playing games and learning tricks to become time tables wizards.

Doubling for example, is an effective strategy. If we know our 2 times tables, we can use this knowledge to also know our 4 and 8 times tables.

Can you see the pattern?

Experiential learning. The Pipits crawled through a tunnel and described what it was like!

Yousef El Mardini

Shuffling through the tunnel, it was as black as obsidian, I was as blind as a bat. Apprehensively I continued to shuffle through the tunnel, shaking with fear. My hand shot back when I touched a rotten banana skin. I fell down when I saw string, I thought it was spiders’ webs. It was like the world with no sun, with litterbugs. I felt petrified touching rotten old banana and orange skins, it was the worst sensation of my life. There were pieces of rocks and cinnamon and even a piece of palm tree – why would my lovely, lovely teacher do something so so so so so so very horrible?

Hamzah Yagham

As soon as Mrs Orange said it was my turn, butterflies flew into my tummy. I peered carefully into the dim, gloomy tunnel. I felt frightened. When I tumbled into the tunnel, I felt like it was a dream. "Yuck!" there was something slimy – I thought I was going to puke! In the tunnel I smelt the odour of rotten bananas. I heard muffling sounds outside that startled me.

“Is that sand? It sounds like rice!”

When I came out there was dust padding my knees. While I was washing my hands, I was very relieved that I didn’t die!

Relief!

The spider webs.

Inside the tunnel

Not a happy chappy!

Ms Gale relieved to be out! "I made it!"

Bonjour from the MFL department! 

We are really excited to be able to tell you this year's login details for:

www.linguascope.com

username: alyasmina

password: bravo! 

Students from primary to GCSE level will benefit from the range of interactive content and games! Parents can join in too!

Year 5 students can explore planet Houlala and have fun playing games on the topics we have covered so far this term! 

National Day Fun!

With National Day fast approaching we've got a fantastic competition to complete - get your form below and complete it, handing the answers to your Arabic teacher. 

Good luck!

Native Competition

Non-Native

Thanks to Miss Yasmin Shadeh for organising such a fun competition!

We are the Quizzy Rascals! Al Qasimi House! Once again Pipits are leading the pack! We have had the trophy since the beginning of the term. Well done to all the students! 

Weekly Superstars

Stars of the Week

Take a look at our amazing stars this week:

Grace, Ayaan, Sophia, Farah and Hamzah

Magical Maths Magicians

Our mathematical wonders are:

Grace, Hamzah, Alex, Osha and Ahmed

Lovely Listeners

Always ready to listen to each other:

Zayed, Helena, Mohamed, Zarriah and Mikayla

Congratulations to you all!

Persuasive Perfections!

Come and look at our persuasive posters and give us feedback! Do they include the following?

·                     A bold eye-catching title

·                     Imaginative slogans

·                     Exaggeration

·                     Pictures

·                     Interesting adjectives (comparative & superlative)

·                     Appealing benefits

·                     Memorable alliteration 

·                     Rhetorical Questions

Would you be tempted to buy?? Which poster is the most persuasive? Why do you think so?

Poster 1

Poster 2

Poster 3

Poster 4

Poster 5

Poster 6