Panaga School Biweekly, Issue 127

PanagaSchool Biweekly

Dear Panaga School Community,

Welcome to another edition of Panaga School Biweekly (PSB) that demonstrates how we are embracing the learning available to our students, post pandemic.This week’s edition presents field trips, challenge days and cross campus visits that support engaging learning for our students.As this term comes towards our final weeks, parents are advised of student reporting timelines, student leave procedures and the anticipated calendar events of a school disco and international day.

Term 1 Student Reporting

On Friday 2nd December, families from P2 to M2 will be emailed student reports. These reports are fundamental to conversations that will take place from the 5th December in Parent andTeacher Consultations (PTCs). For our students in Pre Nursery up to P1, PTCs will be conducted only, as deemed most appropriate for this age and stage of learning. Parents can expect to receive an email with information about how to book PTC appointments in the week beginning 28th November.

Student Leave

Parents are reminded to complete our online student leave form if your family is travelling during school time or are on final departure. This form is available using the following links: Final Departure: https://forms.office.com/r/d0iPkg5CMX Short leave - https://forms.office.com/r/dajv1Zd3QJ

School Disco

We can’t wait to host this term’s school disco on Thursday 1st December. Tickets are on sale from either office from next week. For more information take a look at the advertising poster in this edition of PSB.

International Day

Book your calendars for Friday 3rd February for International Day! More information will be sent out via email over the next two weeks, in preparation for this day and to inform our new families of what to expect. Wishing those in our community who are celebrating, a Happy Diwali

Ocea Treasure Entr Poin

What a super start to the unit with Pre-Nursery and Nursery coming together for the first time to make sea creatures and display them on the ocean in the foyer. We also had some sensory experiences, seeing, thinking and wondering about a real fish, crab and shrimps!

Diwal A Mendaram

What a wonderful, colourful Diwali Celebration. We explored rangoli patterns and diya lamps. We danced andwelearnthowourfriendscelebrate Diwali. We even had a dance performancebyDia.Ahugethankyou totheIndiancommunityfromusall.

Rampayoh Challenge Day

On Friday 11th November, Rampayoh held a challenge day to relaunch house teams. It was a wonderful morning with children and staff working together to achieve a shared goal. Personal Qualities were seen in actionthroughoutthemorningandour vision of Together, Improving Learning was evident with everybody helping each other with shared skills andknowledge.

The winning house team on the day wasYELLLOWteam!

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On 3rd November, we started our morning with an outdoor wake-up shake-up, ‘The floor is lava’ was a hit! Followed by an interesting story from a parent who read for us in the outdoor area. Maths adventure began with collectingnaturalresourcesforMathsactivity. Then, off to explore to another exciting outdooradventurewithourNurseryfriends.

What started as a normalTuesday morning turned into a space discovery and an adventure!

We were in class when we heard the sound of emergency siren. We peeked out and that's when we saw the purple footprints!

Just as we began to relax, we got a letter from the Moonbeams, asking for help with fixing their spaceship. Well, we could not say no. Visit us sometime to see the progress…

For the exit of our IPC unit “we are what we eat” we went on an adventure to the Nepali restaurant ‘Just Momos’, where the philosophy is based on eating the healthiest of foods, which are prepared with love. Health and wellbeing is at the heart of this restaurant’s ethos. Rajesh Thapa and his wife Sarita, the restaurant owners, talked to the children about their food, their staff and how the dishes are prepared. This was followed by a hands on experience of making their own momos and Nepali potato dish.

P3 were super excited about all aspects of this trip. From the journey on the bus, to the handling of food and most importantly the eating of the delectable momos and potatoes!

The food is so delicious!

A wonderful learning experience was had by all and the children demonstrated their personal qualities, especially adaptability when trying new foods and showing respect by being impeccable with their manners and behaviour. Well done P3! You really impressed us all!

TBAT: Use a symmetry line (mirror-line) to show reflection and create Mayan masks using natural materials

The P6 children have been learning about PatternsinNatureduringoutdoorlearningweek. The children learnt to observe the natural environment to look at how patterns and shapes can be reflected, rotated and translated or tessellated.WelearntsomanynewMathematical words. We linked the learning with our IPC unit CE 900, re-creating Mayan masks from natural leaves, twigs and flowers, looking at natural geometricalpatternsinleavesandflowers.

I used my resilience to find the line of symmetry - Mikel

To find the leaves that are the same, along with the same line of symmetry, we had to use resilience because some leaves did not fit or had no lines of symmetry -Alex

Putting and adjusting flowers and leaves according to symmetry. I used adaptability for being able to change the decorations. I used reflection on improving my flowers -Asiya

I used resilience and cooperation to work together and used everything I could find and tried my bestAbdullah

I learned nature is not always symmetrical. Symmetrical means two sides are the sameGaori

Our goal was to make a symmetrical death mask -Aarohi

It was fun and I have learned that plants can be symmetricalHarris

It was fun and nice. You can make a hat and lots of things out of nature! - Mariano

Student voice is so important to be at the heart ofwhatwedo,soitwasonlynaturalthatitwas the students who designed, chose and created our logos. The logo competition was incredibly popular with over 100 design entries! Please follow the link to see all designs: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1jqXD7Wv4G8hq hDjHCnrOWJoii2XzNjKz/view?usp=share_link

These were shared with classes and each year group house team voted democratically for the designtheywantedtorepresentthem.

The winning artists joined Mr Zaim in the Art room to develop their logos. They explored scale, material and techniques to complete eye catchingdesigns.

Here are the winning artists with their first draft and final designs. Such creativity and artistic talent - We look forward to their scanned designs being displayed and used aroundTerajatopromoteandcelebratehouseteamactivitiesandpoints.

MELILAS

Language Leaders visit to P3

On Wednesday, half of the Language Leaders visited P3E. The aim of the visit was to observe miss Steph teach a language to the P3 children, to give them an insight of what it is like to teach a language to smaller children. It will be their turn soon to teach a language to P3. The rapport between P3 and Melilas was amazing. The Melilas students assisted the P3 students during the written exercises. Although some of the Melilas students were a bit apprehensive at the start of the lesson, they soon settled in.At the end of the lesson, the P3 students had the Melilas students running around the playground. They shouted out the words they learnt, and the Melilas students had to run to the correct pictures. P3 were amazing and picked up the language very quickly, including the written form of the words. Well done to the Language Leaders for showing resilience and being great language assistants. We cannot wait to see the Language Leaders in action. Thank you P3 for letting us visit.

M2 have been learning about the chemical reactions of metals, including displacement reactions.

Aadarshini

Julia

M1 have been learning about the organ systems of the human body, including modelling the digestive system, with the help of some of their parents.

They have been creatively describing the journey of a cheese sandwich through the digestive system.

Shanaya

Marcella

DIGITALEDUCATION

This year all students from P3 - M2 have been enrolled at code.org to participate in the annual Hour of Code activities.

In the week of 12th to 16th of December DE lessons will be focused on completing Hour of Code activities. Students will be able to access a variety of age appropriate lessons to engage in fun coding activities.

Click the link below to watch a short video about the Hour of code.

https://youtu.be/KsOIlDT145A

Using Scratch software the students in P7 worked in pairs to create interactive games to bring awarenesstotheUNSDG.

DEP3 students have been learning to use variables such as time and direction to code characters and objects. Using their knowledge and skills they created a maze game using Discovery Education coding.

What have we been learning?

M1 students learned to code music using the SonicPiapplication.

Music was used in P7’s UNDSG Scratch games asspecial effectmusic.

WHOLESCHOOL

Did you know that Panaga School is a member of the Global Schools Program and that our Miss Maura (P6 and Curriculum Lead) is a United Nations Global Schools Advocate? Global Schools Advocates work to empower educators in their communities to bring the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) into classrooms and curriculum, in order to support a worldwide movement of education for sustainable development. The UN SDG have long been a part of teaching and learning at Panaga School. Through our formailised membership and Miss Maura’s successful training and registration as a Global Schools Advocate, more opportunities, international collaborations and celebrations are available to Panaga Schooltobepartofthisglobalsustainabilitymovement.

Congratulations to Miss Maura for being recognised as the Advocate of the Month for her participation and contributions to this important programme.

The whole staff of Panaga School came together for a Team Building session aimed at getting to know each otherbetterwhilehaving fun in the process. Adults can have fun too! Thank You everyone for participating!

Thank You

The Scholastic Book Club order has earned Panaga School £189.98 (over BND$300) to spend on books.

The credit was spent on providing new books for both Libraries. Thank you for your support and look out for the Scholastic Book Club next term.

Miss Shelagh