Delhi Private School, Dubai Newsletter – May 2013

Grades 3 to 5

“The principle goal of education in the schools should be creating men and women who are capable of doing new things, not simply repeating what other generations have done; Men and women who are creative, inventive and discoverers, who can be critical and verify, and not accept, everything they are offered.” ― Jean Piaget

It is a time to reflect on our goals and what we can do to help children achieve them. One of the biggest challenges in meeting any goal, whether it be related to academics, waking early, changing a habit, or just becoming happier, is finding the motivation to stick with it. If you can stick with a goal for long enough, you’ll almost always get there eventually…

The following READ Books have been distributed for the month of May. English

Grade 3- The Millionaire Miser, Masha and the Bear Grade 4- I am Rosa Parks, Roald Dahl's- The Enormous Crocodile. Grade 5- Kidnapped, Roald Dahl's - Geoge's Marvellous Medicine.

Hindi

Grade 3-Golu molu caterpillar Grade4-Himraja kee beti Grade5-Tenali Raman

Webzine topics for the month of May 2013

Students responded enthusiastically to the webzine topics which were as follows: Grade 3 Think about a trip you went on with your family. Illustrate on what you enjoyed the most with your family on the trip. Grade 4 Illustrate a scene in the form of a poem or a drawing from your childhood of an event that has stuck in your mind or memory. Grade 5 If you could invent something that would make life easier for you or your family, what would you invent? Be an artist and depict your ideas.

Curricular Activities

Integrated Activities Thursday activities comprised of English and Social Studies integrated projects on the theme ‘Family’. The differentiated activities comprised of poetry recitation, paragraph writing, making photo gallery and poster making based on the theme with link to Dubai.

Class Assembly 7-5-13

The Class Assembly of the week was by Grade 4J on the topic ‘Wonders of the Universe’. The teacher in charge was Ms. Rhea. Students presented facts on planets and the universe. A skit and dance on the topic were presented. Candidates for Primary School Head Boy and Head Girl gave an impromptu introductory speech during the assembly.

Certificates for 100% attendance were given away to students of grade 3 and 4.

Class Assembly 21-5-13 The Assembly on the topic ‘Our Parents and Teachers are Our Inspiration’ was presented by the students grade IV F. The teacher in charge was Ms. Harsha. The students presented an inspiring skit and a song dedicated to teachers.

Class Assembly 28-5-13 The assembly on ‘Global Citizens’ was presented by the students grade V C. The students presented a wonderful assembly which was informative and inspiring. The teacher in charge was Ms. Jyoti Srimali. The students rendered the school song along with an informative skit.

Events Other events / tasks: The school nominations for Hamdan Award, year 2013 have been called for. TIMSS and PIRLS 2011 school report was released this week by the KHDA. For our

school, the average scores were significantly higher than the center-point (500).

Mufti Day for term 1 was held this month to make students aware about the

importance of charity.

KHDA – What Worked workshop.

More than 1,500 educators, including teachers from our school attended What Works, a series of teacher-led professional development workshops for private schools in Dubai. Since its launch in September 2012, What Works has attracted 120 schools. Organized by education professionals from across Dubai’s private schools, the final event of the 2012/2013 academic series, What Worked, was held on 15 May 2013.

DPS Dubai was part of the panel discussion - How What Works contributes to our Professional Development (previous presenters). Allowing schools to develop through collaboration, rather than competition, the workshops encouraged the sharing of best practice on a range of topics including mathematics, leadership, science and literacy.

Yardstick activity for Science:

Student enthusiastically participated in the Yardstick activities for the themes: Grade-5-Web of life Grade-3- Living train

A workshop on Health and Hygiene was conducted for students of Grade III on 30

May, by the Lifebuoy. Students actively participated in the work shop and understood the importance of taking care of their teeth and other body parts.

As part of "Fun City Little Inventors" programme and to enhance the creative and

scientific skills, students have been urged to create and submit an invention that can span out to all life areas –be it creative, scientific, funny, and futuristic or - just a good idea for our everyday life. The inventions are to be submitted in the form of a model.

Yardstick activity for mathematics was initiated this month with kits on Tessellations and place values for grade4 and Tangrams for grade 3. Lab activities included Warli Art, Number spiders and Flash cards on Place Value.

On 14 May 2013, Investiture Ceremony was held for the school Student Council. Twenty seven students from primary school, grades 1 to 5, were inducted into the Student Council. Apart from the Primary School Heads, Grade Prefects, Sports Prefects, UAE and Environment ambassadors, Islamic ambassadors and House Prefects were invested. The student body was invested by our Principal in the presence of our distinguished guest Mrs. Sanjay Varma, parents and students of Grade V and XII.

Mother’s Day at DPS Dubai

Mother’s Day Celebration for grades III and IV was held on 23rd May, 2013. The mothers were invited to school where activities were planned in their honor, based on the theme ‘Future of the girl child’. The theme based activities kept the mother – child duo occupied and proved to be a bonding time for them. Parents had to choose from an array of activities. Mothers were very happy to come and show case their creativity with their little ones. They had quality time with their babies at school. It was heartwarming to watch the children see their mothers participate and win; their pride and joy could be seen on their little faces.

Creative efforts by mothers …

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Ms. Pratima Navin Ms. Chanda Keswani Ms. Rashmi Nandkeolyar Coordinator HM (Primary) Principal