The Year 3.1 students of Ms Schembri Fedele, have just embarked on a new learning experience with their student teacher, Ms Mildred Bezzina. The students have been working very hard in embellishing their notice board. Below one can see the students proudly presenting their work 🙂
On Tuesday 29th April 2014 the school embarked on a Marathon Walk. The children had been given sponsor sheets with the aim of collecting funds for the school council.
This Marathon Walk was linked to Science Fieldwork which was co-ordinated by the science teacher, Ms Charmaine Mifsud, together with the class teachers.
Year 3 to year 6 students were stopped at Dingli, near the football pitch. From there they walked approximately 4km to Buskett. On arriving at Buskett the students were given a 30 minute break, followed by a 45 minute field work session. Students learnt about various leaves, temperature readings in the shade and in the sun light, insects and other interesting things related to Science and Technology. The students then walked back to Dingli, following a shorter route. The students covered another 3.7km in 45 minutes.
The Kinder 1 to Year 2 students were dropped at Buskett. They had their fieldwork which was adapted by the class teachers according to their age. Ms Portelli and Ms Schembri joined us in the venture to give an extra helping hand.
Well done to the students and members of staff for making this yet another successful event. The school takes the opportunity to thank all parents for this noble cause.
On 18th March 2014, representatives from Transport Malta visited our school and held a session about transport and road safety for our year 2 and year 3 students.
During this session the students had the opportunity to learn about road safety and become more aware of basic safety rules when crossing roads or using bicycles and zebra crossings in pedestrian areas.
Trapping of wild robins was common practice in Malta. However due to awareness campaigns in school by Birdlife, this habit has been reduced. The Robin Roundup activity is a constant reminder to encourage students to stop wild robin trapping.
The year 3.2 students of Ms Rodianne had the opportunity to learn more about this sweet bird which visits our country during winter to protect itself from colder winters abroad. The robin travels long distances to reach our island. Pity that some robins end up trapped in a cage, rather than being enjoyed in our countryside.
Students prepared craft robins which were displayed in class as a follow up to this activity.
On 17th January 2014 the year 3.1 students of Ms Rosette and the year 3.2 students of Ms Rodianne had a hands on maths lesson. This lesson was co-ordinated and organised by the Maths support teacher, Ms Joan Vella.
The students had to make their on healthy sandwich. However they had to prepare their shopping list and then go shopping to buy the ingredients needed for this sandwich. They had to pay for the ingredients and make sure that they were given the correct change.
The children enjoyed their shopping. They went to the baker and to the grocer at Mgarr. When they returned to school they prepared their healthy sandwiches.
Well done to everyone 😉
During another mid-week session the year 3 students of Ms Rosette made a very interesting craft about dinosaurs.
The students made use of pasta to create their own dinosaur skeletons. Apart from enhancing their fine motor skills, students had to think of the best way to make use of pasta in order to create their own dinosaur skeletons.
The students has to put their creative skills at work in order to make sure that the pasta did, in actual fact, turn out to look like a dinosaur.
Well done once again 😉
During another mid-week session the year 3 students of Ms Rosette prepared dog puppets.
These puppets were made of recycled material. The students put in their own touch of creativity to create different dogs, all decorated to their tastes.
Well done for the hard work and keep up the good work 😉
All students love Halloween. Decorating their classrooms with spooky ghosts makes their learning environment closer to reality.
The year 3 students of Ms Rosette prepared a number of spooky ghosts during another mid-week session.
The happy faces of the students say it all. Well done once again 😉
Learning English is another challenge our students face every single day.
Nurturing love for languages is not always easy. Students may back away, fearing that they are not good or up to the challenge.
Working in a group helps our students overcome these inhibitions.
In the photo one can see the year 3 students of Ms Rosette working together to build up sentences by sequencing words in order. Such exercises help children to collaborate in order to learn new things.
Well done to the teacher for her innovative teaching methods.
During the mid week session, children have the time to prepare crafts related to the themes or topics being dealt with during that period of the year.
In the above photos we can see year 3 students of Ms Rosette doing a collage with leaves which have fallen from trees. Apart from doing crafts, the students learnt that during autumn many trees shed their leaves.
Another important lesson learnt is that one should never cut leaves from trees. All leaves used in this craft session were picked from the school garden which had fallen from trees.