NBS Muraikh School Newsletter December 2019 Edition 7 An Internaonal community of learners striving for excellence and celebrang success Important Message All students should return to school on Sunday 5th January, 2020. School photographer will be in Monday 13th January, Tuesday 14th January, Wednesday 15th January Upcoming dates for your diary: Reading breakfast Thursday 9th January, 2020 Science week begins Sunday 12th January, 2020 Teacher and Parent meetings Sunday 12th January and Monday 13th January, 2020 School Fair Friday 31st January, 2020 Sports Day Thursday 6th February, 2020 Mid term vacation for pupils begins Thursday 6th February, 2020 Principal’s Message Dear Parents, This term has seen a significant growth of the school. We ae pleased to welcome more pupils from other Newton branches and other schools in Doha. We all come together as one international community that strives for excellence and celebrates success. As the school grows, so does the number of teachers and I have been delighted with the quality of skilled personnel that have joined us from around the world, including the U.S.A., Australia and of course, the United Kingdom. Our vision unites us in a drive for outstanding outcomes and encourages each young person to unite in our core values. We also come together to pay our respects to our beloved Qatar and celebrate this great nation and the values that we hold dear to us. There have been challenges that the school has had to face. The significant disruption that was created by the drainage works outside the school has been a challenge for us all. I am very relieved that everything appears to be getting back to normal. I appreciate that it has been challenging, and I am extremely grateful for your patience and understanding. I am also aware of the frustration that many parents have experienced by the lack of availability of key items of uniform. This has been recognized and concerns have been forwarded to manufacturers and suppliers. As always, the wonderful and talented children that attend this school continue to be my inspiration and passion. Being the Principal at NBS Muraikh is the greatest privilege of my professional life. I am also extremely grateful to all those parents who support the school, offering feedback and encouragement throughout the year. It remains for me to wish you all a very peaceful vacation and I look forward to seeing you all again in 2020. Mr. Wilson.
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NBS Muraikh School Newsletter December 2019 Edition 7
An International community of learners striving for excellence and celebrating success
Important Message All students should return to school on Sunday 5th January, 2020.
School photographer will be in Monday 13th January, Tuesday 14th January, Wednesday 15th January
Upcoming dates for your diary:
Reading breakfast Thursday 9th January, 2020
Science week begins Sunday 12th January, 2020
Teacher and Parent meetings Sunday 12th January and Monday 13th January, 2020
School Fair Friday 31st January, 2020
Sports Day Thursday 6th February, 2020
Mid term vacation for pupils begins Thursday 6th February, 2020
Principal’s Message
Dear Parents,
This term has seen a significant growth of the school. We ae pleased to welcome more pupils from other Newton branches and other schools in Doha. We all come together as one international community that strives for excellence and celebrates success. As the school grows, so does the number of teachers and I have been delighted with the quality of skilled personnel that have joined us from around the world, including the U.S.A., Australia and of course, the United Kingdom. Our vision unites us in a drive for outstanding outcomes and encourages each young person to unite in our core values. We also come together to pay our respects to our beloved Qatar and celebrate this great nation and the values that we hold dear to us.
There have been challenges that the school has had to face. The significant disruption that was created by the drainage works outside the school has been a challenge for us all. I am very relieved that everything appears to be getting back to normal. I appreciate that it has been challenging, and I am extremely grateful for your patience and understanding. I am also aware of the frustration that many parents have experienced by the lack of availability of key items of uniform. This has been recognized and concerns have been forwarded to manufacturers and suppliers.
As always, the wonderful and talented children that attend this school continue to be my inspiration and passion. Being the Principal at NBS Muraikh is the greatest privilege of my professional life. I am also extremely grateful to all those parents who support the school, offering feedback and encouragement throughout the year. It remains for me to wish you all a very peaceful vacation and I look forward to seeing you all again in 2020.
Mr. Wilson.
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Early Years have been settling in to school and getting to know
the school rules and routines. The children are now beginning to understand
the concepts of listening, sharing and sitting nicely on the carpet. They are
making super improvements in their spoken English, learning new words every
day and gaining confidence to use them with their friends and teachers. This
term, they have thoroughly enjoyed the role play room and the fun learning
experience they can have in it.
Foundation Two have been doing ‘My Extraordinary World’ topic. They
went to Snow Dunes on a school visit to learn though play and experience the
snowy weather in the Artic. The children have been reading class stories such as
'Handra's Surprise' and sampling all of the delicious fruit in the story. They are
beginning to segment and blend CVC words and they are working very hard to
remember all of the tricky words. In mathematics, they have been counting,
writing and saying numbers up to 10 and also the 2D shapes; square, rectan-
gle, circle and triangles.
Foundation One have been learning about ‘Animals’ where they have
been looking at farm animals, Artic animals and animals that live in the Jungle.
They thoroughly enjoyed the ‘Teddy Bear’s picnic’ during Book Week and the
loved dressing up as their favorite book character. The children have been
working on counting up to 5 and they are getting very good at it.
This term the children and staff really enjoyed having their parents in for
‘Stay and Play’. This was an excellent opportunity to show their parents all of
the fun learning activities they do at home. The staff are very excited to have
parents connected to Tapestry and they cannot wait to see all of the learning
you do at home.
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Key Stage 1 (Years 1 and 2)
Year One have had a busy first term!
At the beginning of term we celebrated Book Week. We held a reading breakfast
which was a great success, with parents, teachers and pupils reading books to each
other. We ended the week with a character dress-up which was great fun!
We took part in a ‘Big Morning Move’, the pupils dressed up in some of
Pudsey’s favourite colours, completed a guided workout outside and raised money
for BBC ‘Children in Need’ around the world!! Year One went on an educational
visit to see ‘Born to be Wild’ in the cinema, which consolidated our learning on
‘Animals’ and their habitats, in science. In English, our topics were ‘Labels, lists and
captions’, ‘Recounts’, ‘Poetry and Rhyme’ and ‘Stories with Repeated Phrases’. In
mathematics we learned about ‘Place Value and Number Bonds’, ‘Fractions’, ‘Time’,
‘2D and 3D Shapes’, ‘Measurement’. Our humanities included ‘Old and New Toys’
and ‘My Local Area’. The pupils got great enjoyment out of these topics and
engaged in great conversation, sharing ideas and opinions with one another. Year
One have shown great progression throughout this term and we hope that they will
continue to grow and learn as we approach term two.
We have had a lot of fun this term in Year Two. In English we have read
stories about the jungle, safari and Africa. We have learnt to write stories, diaries
and newspapers. Including a newspaper report on the Great Fire of London. We
have improved our writing skills to include more exciting adjectives and
punctuation such as question marks, exclamation mark and speech marks. In
mathematics, we have looked at place value and number lines, addition and
subtraction and multiplication and division. We have touched on topics such as
shape, time and measurement. We have enjoyed completing challenging problem
solving question and using our numeracy skills practically. In Science, we have
covered the topic of habitats as well as plants and other living things. We enjoyed
researching habitats of wild animals and the habitat project at the end of mid-term
showed the children had learnt a lot. We have learnt about plants, we have
planted sunflowers to study their growth; we have conducted experiments with
celery to see how plants absorb water and learnt where our fruit and vegetables
come from. In humanities, we have learnt about Kenya, and how it is different than
us in Qatar. We have learnt to compare to sets of information and pick out the
similarities and differences. We have learnt how to read the temperature on
thermometers and have looked at the different climates in Qatar, Kenya and the
UK. We have learnt the history of the Great Fire of London, being detectives find-
ing out who was to blame. We have used organization skills to sequence the
days and the major events during the Fire. In art, we have created African patterns,
Savanna desert sunset pictures and studied the work of Jackson Pollock. We have
had such a busy first term, but already looking forward to next year!!
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Key Stage 2 (Years 3,4,5,6)
In Year 3, the children participated in various interactive and engaging activities. We
have explored magnets and forces, where the children explored the classroom, searching for
magnetic and non-magnetic materials; they have also enhanced their learning and understanding
of rocks which included creating our own rocks using a variety of materials. Additionally,
the children participated in a Humanities project which involved them creating a volcano or
earthquake presentation which, not only, served as a tool for consolidating their knowledge of
key concepts, but it has been incredibly useful for preparing for the challenges that they will face
during their Term 1 examinations. The children spoke with great confidence and as a result they
are participating more in classroom discussions and enhancing their social skills. Furthermore, to
reward the children for their efforts, Year 3 participated in a visit to the cinema to
watch Abdominal which developed their learning and understanding of living things and the
environment.
During term 1, Year 4 have begun to develop their independence and creative thinking
through various discussions, debates and experiments inside and outside of the classroom. They
have thoroughly enjoyed learning about the Vikings in history and the world around them in
Geography. Similarly, they have been working towards improving their writing skills by writing
various narrative stories and recounts which have linked to their humanities topics. During
mathematics lessons, the children have worked on place value in 4 digit numbers and have begun
to look at equivalent fractions and division. In science they have completed work on animals and
their habitats and they have conducted various experiments on the digestive system which helped
them to develop a better understanding of how the body breaks down the food they eat. At the
end of term, the children enjoyed a trip to the cinema at the Villagio mall to watch a movie which
linked to our school values of respect and diversity. The Year 4 children have worked extremely
hard this term and Mr Morrison and Miss Boyle are very proud of their efforts!
In Year 5 we have had a very busy first term. In mathematics we extended our
understanding of place value, practised adding 3 and 4-digit numbers together and checking our
answers using the inverse function. The children also really enjoyed learning about angles,
measuring and drawing angles using a protractor and constructing circles using a compass. In
English writing this term we produced a variety of works including myths, instructions, poems,
explanation texts and newspaper reports. In particular, the children enjoyed The Moon Landing
of 1969 and wrote fantastic newspaper reports on the event and even had an interview day
pretending to be the NASA astronauts. In science we learned all about Earth and Space which
linked well with our Newspaper report writing and we also studied the human lifecycle. In
humanities we studied the Ancient Greeks, Water Cycle, rivers, mountains and biomes. It has been
a very enjoyable first term and we look forward to Term Two.
Year 6 have had a fantastic start to the year and have been learning about different
emergency services in PSHE. This culminated in a visit from QISC to talk to the children about fire
safety and Saad Al Hajri being dressed up as a firefighter. Children have also been learning
about the rainforest and the destruction happening in the rainforest. To support this topic, we
took the children to see 'Born to be Wild' at Novo Cinema, Mall of Qatar. Children
have spent the term learning about the Mayans and the Mayan civilisation. They have
made Mayan masks and print designs using the Mayan symbols.
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The student council has been a valuable voice within
Secondary. Through them, we have acquired more lockers
and improvements in the quality of canteen provision. It was
very rewarding to see the Year Seven enjoy their visit to
Snow World at the end of the term in recognition of all their
hard work. The examinations have consolidated the great
progress that the students have made. It is a considerable
change from Year Six into Year Seven and the challenges
can be high. However, with cooperation from the teachers
and the parents, there has been real progress.
The Year Eight has grown in confidence and maturity.
There is a focus on academic outcomes and I know that the
teachers are always happy to receive any queries that you
might have. The Year Nine continue to do themselves proud
and the Year Ten have set the example for which everyone
should follow. Their role as prefects has proved to be a signif-
icant support to all the staff.
It is important to the school that Islamic values and
Qatari culture and history are recognized and celebrated.
Ms. Marwa, our Arabic coordinator, is always happy to re-
ceive any queries that you may have about the Arabic and
Islamic syllabus.
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In Arabic Lessons & Arabic activities
Students have undertaken a variety of activities this term in Arabic,
Islamic and Qatar History lessons.
In addition, we visited the Qatari National Convention Center attending the World Innovation Summit for Education in the presence of Sheikha Moza Bint Nasser Al Thani. This was a great success and it illustrated the success of ‘Education
Above All’ to provide 10 million children around the world with access to education.
We also took assemblies for all year groups to encourage the appreciation
of Qatari values. It was clear that students gained much from this participation.
We did (Pray for Rain) Istisqa on Thursday 14th November. We are grateful to all parents who attended this and supported us with this. Our students
worked very hard work for their examinations and we wish them great success.
As always, our Arabic week was hugely successful. We are proud of all our students and their participation. There were many activities. The highlight was Qatar National Day. We appreciate all student and parent support. We are also very grateful to our Principal, Mr. Wilson, who is always enthusiastic of our traditions and culture. He is always striving to ensure that Islamic values and Qatar history is
celebrated and supported within the school community.
At NBS Muraikh we believe passionately in the love of reading throughout all year groups. It has been proven that a child who actively reads, progresses across all subjects. We want our children to strive for excellence and learn to love and value books and stories. Reading can spark a child's imagination and stimulate curiosity. It can also help
develop a child's social skills and communication skills.
We are delighted that our pupil’s reading attainment is progressing tremendously.
We believe this is a result of a number of different things such as, the continued
support from our parents, our fun and very successful ‘Reading Breakfast’, and our
fantastic and hardworking pupils. This term we enjoyed 'Book Week' and a visit
from a famous author, Jonathan Meres. The children gained a lot from these
experiences and were shown how reading can be fun and exciting. We
would like to thank all parents and pupils for their support and efforts
during all reading events this term and inform you all that there
will be another 'Reading Breakfast' on Thursday 9th January.
We hope to see you all there.
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KS3 Girls Basketball Tournament
On Sunday 1st December, 15 secondary girls had the opportunity to take part
in the U15 Inter- Newton basketball tournament, hosted at NIA.
These 15 girls were selected based on their work ethic and ability during PE
lessons. The girls played with heart and commendable sportsmanship. NBS Muraikh finished 3rd place in the
tournament.
Congratulations to Tala Abu Matar, Yasmine Benlakhlef, Jood
