Friday 30 October 2020

12: Friday October 30th 2020 PRI

 Primary Parent Partnership with Alistair Bryce Clegg

We are very excited to be working with Alistair Bryce Clegg over the next two years. Alistair is one of the leading authorities on Play in Education in the UK. He is also an award-winning author and product designer. On Thursday 12th of November (7am-8am) we are inviting primary parents to join Alistair as he talks to us about the importance of play in education... how it prepares children for future success, both academically and personally, and how to support and facilitate it at home.


You can see his Ted Talk here

Or visit his blog here


"It doesn’t matter if you are 5 or 155 years old, play is one of the most powerful facilitators of learning there is”


Link to the Google Meet Event









Library Service - Levelled Reading Books

Due to requests from parents we are starting to make Lower Primary leveled reading books available via our library system. Your child’s class teacher will be able to tell you the current reading level of your child. You can then search for books in the Library system. The following reading levels are currently available;

  • BOOK BAND PINK

  • BOOK BAND GREEN

  • BOOK BAND RED

  • BOOK BAND YELLOW

  • BOOK BAND BLUE

Please contact Ms Isa isabelaparicio@abc-net.edu.sv for more information, any further suggestions or help logging in.

 

Kinder Literacy Workshop for Parents

On Tuesday 17th at 5.30pm we will be running a session for Kinder parents about early development of reading and writing skills. Kinder students have begun to learn the phonics sounds through the Jolly Phonics programme, and we are inviting parents to come and learn more about our early literacy curriculum. Jolly Phonics is a fun and muliti-sensory phonics method that gets children reading and writing from an early age. This means that we teach letter sounds as opposed to the alphabet. When reading a word, they recognise the letters and blend together the respective sounds; when writing a word they identify the sounds and write down the corresponding letters. These skills are called blending and segmenting. These are two of the five skills that children need to master phonics:

  1. Learning the letter sounds

  2. Learning letter formation

  3. Blending

  4. Segmenting

  5. Tricky words



LSU Drop-in for Upper Primary

Welcome to the LSU Drop-ins! A wellbeing space for our students. We want to invite our upper primary students to a space with LSU, where they can come to chat with us, if they want to talk about their feelings, their challenges and their successes too.


It is voluntary and students can join in the space provided for each year group:

2nd grade every Monday from 1:00 to 1:30 pm

3rd grade every Tuesday from 1:00 to 1:30 pm 

4th grade every Wednesday from 1:00 to 1:30 pm 

5th grade every Thursday from 1:00 to 1:30 pm 


It will be in Ms. Nancy's (LSU) google meet classroom. The link is https://g.co/meet/nancy-lsu or in google meet the space is: nancy-lsu


Día de Muertos - 4th Grade Art Project

Next week many families around the world will be celebrating Día de Muertos and 4th Grade have been learning about the sugar skulls used as decorations. Here are some beautiful designs,


By Mateo Belloso



By Andrea Bonilla Maldonado


By Sofi Campos:





Half Term Project Ideas

Next week is half-term and a well deserved rest for our students who have demonstrated determination and adaptability. However here a few ideas for those students who want an extra challenge:


DIY Play Supermarket Collect and wash used packaging to create a fun role-play area!

Get into Gardening! Visit the National Garden Bureau for ideas.

Invest in tools for some (supervised) woodwork projects Woodwork is so important for children – building confidence and providing a foundation for lifelong learning and STEAM.



Dates for your diary


PRIMARY

November

Monday 2nd to Friday 6th: Half Term holidays

Thursday 12th 7-8am: Primary Parent Partnership: Alistair Bryce Clegg Google Meet Link

Saturday 14th  9-11.30am: PK & Kinder 2021 Open Morning - email Estefania Chacon for more details

Tuesday 17th 5.30-6.30pm: Kinder Parent Partnership: Literacy Google Meet LINK

Thursday 19th 5.30-6.30pm: Primary Parent Partnership: Healthy Lifestyle Google Meet Link

December

Friday 18th: Last day of term 

Monday 21st: Christmas holidays start


January

Monday 11th: School resumes after Christmas Holiday


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