Maths – Science Day…

Science K1.1 A Maths-Science Day was organised at school with the aim of giving parents a first hand experience of teaching and learning at our school. This was an opportunity for parents and students to work together in a number of workshops. Above are the K1.1 students of Ms Joanne who had an interesting session about space.Science K1.2 The K1.2 students of Ms Josianne learnt about moon dust and had the opportunity to pretend to be astronauts while learning about space.Science K1.3 The K1.3 students of Ms Camille learnt about magnets while counting the number of fish and rolling a dice to learn numbers and number value.Science K1.4The K1.4 students of Ms Nagaat, together with their LSA, Ms Sharon, had a counting activity followed by an experiment using yeast and balloons.Science K2.1 The K2.1 students of Ms Janice, together with their LSA, Ms Marika constructed their own robots using various containers while learning about shapes. They also planted their own sunflower seeds while learning about the essentials required for a plant to grow, namely, air, sun and water.Science K2.2 The K2.2 students of Ms Joan had a volcano erupting in their class, followed by a session about magnets.Science K2.3 The K2.3 students of Ms Marija explored scientific facts about density and gravity.Science Yr 1 The Yr 1.1 students of Ms Marilyn, together with their LSA, Ms Josephine along with the Yr 1.2 students of Ms Louise learnt about magnetism and density, while creating rainbows in a jar.Science Yr 2.1 The Yr 2.1 students of Mr Noa, together with their LSA, Ms Charmaine, learnt about dinosaurs before they became extinct.Science Yr 2.2 The Yr 2.2 students of Ms Janice, together with their LSA, Ms Anna, had various activities exploring ways of saving mother earth and learning about different habitats. Children produced their own bar graphs and learnt about the life cycles of various insects. They further explored their mathematical skills in doubling and halving.Science Yr 3.1 The Yr 3.1 students of Ms Rosette, together with their LSA Ms Miriam, created their own patterns and explored concepts about shapesScience Yr 3.2 The Yr 3.2 students of Ms Stephanie, together with their LSA, Ms Josette, made a volcanic eruption followed by sink or float activities. Finally they learnt about volume and length through various work shops.Science Yr 4.1 The Yr 4.1 students of Ms Angelique and their LSA Ms Graziella held an inquiry-based investigation on “How can we keep the paper dry when immersed into the water and why?”. Another activity was about Growing plants. Students had to examine the stages of the growth of a plant. Each week they kept a record the growth of the plant and compare to previous results. During the Maths-Science day the children had to draw a graph to show the data collected.
Science Yr 4.2 The Yr 4.2 students of Ms Claudine plotted bar graphs of their pea pods which had been sown the previous week. They also made a volcanic eruption and learnt about volcanoes.Science Yr 5.1 The Yr 5.1 students of Dr Micallef had to work in groups to solve various mind boggling problems about fractions. Even the parents had a hard time at coming up with solutions.Science Yr 5.2 The Yr 5.2 students of Ms Miranda, and their LSA, Ms Doreen, learnt about the solar system. They had to set up the solar system using a to scale model. This activity was followed by mathematical problem solving and a science quiz. Science Yr 6The Yr 6 students of Ms Raisa and Mr Cassar, together with their LSAs Ms Kathleen, Ms Audrey and Ms Ruth had 3 workshops. In the first workshop students had to find out what happens when mixing milk, food colouring and soap. The second workshop was about creating music with different levels of water and tubes. During another workshop students had to measure the length of various objects using meter rulers.

Links about this event:

http://www.newsbook.com.mt/artikli/2016/4/11/ritratti:-il-genituri-ma%27-wliedhom-fil-klassi-fl-imgarr.44343/

 

http://www.newsbook.com.mt/artikli/2016/4/11/ritratti:-il-genituri-ma’-wliedhom-fil-klassi-fl-imgarr.44343/

St. Nicholas Day

St Nicholas DayThe college celebrated the feast of St Nicholas on 4th December, this being the patron saint of the college. Every primary school sent year 3 students to this event which was hosted at our school. The middle and senior school also sent student representatives to celebrate this special day.

Mass was celebrated at the Mgarr Parish church, followed by a procession with the statue of St. Nicholas. The year 6 students of Mgarr Primary sang the college hymn followed by a short play “Scruuug” adapted and directed by Mr John Sultana.

The students were later entertained by Quivan, a year 3 student from Rabat Primary and by Jessica, who is a teacher at Rabat Middle School, and also singer by profession.

All students were given a goodie bag by Father Christmas himself.

Maths Shopping Activity

Shop02The Year 3.2 students of Ms Stephanie went for a Maths shopping activity in the locality of  Mgarr. During this activity the children had the opportunity to experience, first-hand, shopping groceries for a recipe they had to prepare at school. The children went to a grocery and to the bakery to buy ingredients for a healthy sandwich. They had to pay for the ingredients and make sure they were given the correct change. This activity helped children to learn more about bills, estimates, prices, change and euro coins.

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Learning by discovery…

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The Yr 3.2 students of Ms Stephanie have been enjoying their daily lessons by learning through discovery. In these photos one can see students working on various activities including place value of numbers, sorting coins, subtracting a one digit number from 20 by rolling a dice, matching numbers to number names and other activities related to Maltese. Such learning experiences provide the students with a positive learning experience 🙂maths02

Show and tell…

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Students are encouraged to prepare a short presentation about any topic they like e.g. The Jungle, A Family Vacation, Favourite Sport, The Solar System, etc.

These Yr 3.2 students of Ms Stephanie spoke to their classmates about various topics. While doing the show and tell presentation, the students used a digital microphone to record their narrative.

Marathon Walk

The school organised a Marathon Walk to raise funds for the purchase of literacy and numeracy resources for the students. The parents were very generous and a greatly appreciated donation was given to the school. 11 families donated more than €20. The highest amount collected was that of €32.60. A book will be given to all these families show our appreciation.

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The students walked across the countryside of Mgarr, leaving from the school, walking to Bingemma and up to Lippijja. From there the students walked back to the school covering approximately 5.4km.

During the walk the students were given water break and lunch breaks. The students had leaflets prepared. The aim of these leaflets was for the students to appreciate all that can be found around them in this beautiful village of Mgarr.

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Students also had the the opportunity to see a wind turbine, walk past a pig farm and a cemetry, see a number of green houses, olives trees and numerous fields. The fields were growing tomatoes, broad beans, marrows, onions, strawberries and artichokes.

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Well done to all the students and members for staff for the effort put into this walk and heartfelt thanks to the parents helpers who made this a successful event.

It’s that time of the year again…

Novena Day1December – an important month for us Christians… It reminds of the birth of Our Lord Jesus Christ. During this month we remember the hardships Mary and Joseph had to face and the poor circumstances in which the Lord chose to be born. It is a time of reflection about the important things in life – not material ones, but spiritual ones.

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Students are encouraged to prepare a special assembly in a run up for Christmas. This special assembly is spread over 9 days, hence it is called the novena. During these assemblies the students, under the direction of their teachers and LSAs, and with the help of Ms Borg Vella, assistant head, the students explore moral values and issues which remind us of love, peace and generosity.

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This is also an opportunity for students to sing Christmas carols, to animate our morning assemblies and to enhance their self-esteem. Merry Christmas to all 🙂