The Year 6.1 students prepared their first special assembly for this scholastic year. We were in for a great surprise since the students gave a fantastic show of hip hop and break dancing.
Students performed a very energetic and acrobatic dance showing their gymnastic and flexibility skills.
Well done for setting a very good example regarding the importance of exercise to all the students 🙂
The yr 6.2 students of Ms Raisa have launched the first special assembly for this scholastic year. As planned in the school development plan, every class is to present a science experiment during special assemblies.
The students prepared 2 experiments, one to make children aware that we are surrounded by air, and the other to demonstrate how the primary colours mix together to form new colours e.g. red and yellow make orange.
Well done to all 🙂
On the 16th October 2015, the year 6 students had the opportunity to learn more about the Great Siege of Malta. They visited the Armoury and the Throne room in the Grandmaster’s palace in Valletta. The Armoury houses one of the finest collection of weapons of the period of the knights of Malta. Spears, swords, shields, heavy armour and other weapons are on display. Later, children took part in a parade where some of them took the role of Knights and some pretended to be the Turkish soldiers.
This event was organised by the Education Department in collaboration with Heritage Malta.
Click here to view our students being interviewed by local journalists during this experience.
The Year 6 students had a very interesting robotics workshop organised by the our eLearning support teacher, Ms Laura Schembri, together with the eLearning centre support team.
The students had the opportunity to build their own Lego robots. The robots were connected to a laptop and they had to be programmed to do particular movements.
With the help of this workshop the students had the opportunity to work in pairs or in groups, build their own robots by following a set of instructions and then work out a programme using the LEGO WEDO software.
One can tell from happy faces of the students that this was a very interesting workshop, where students had the opportunity to learn by doing.
Special thanks to the eLearning support team 🙂
All good things come to an end… Our year 6 students will soon be proceeding to middle school. Their journey at our school ends, but ahead of them is a long road which will hopefully lead them to reaching their goals and dreams. To bid our year 6 students farewell, the teachers took them for a bowling session where they had the time to relax and chill out with their friends after the benchmark exams.
On behalf of the staff at Mgarr Primary School we wish you all the best of luck for the future 🙂
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.
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.
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.
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.
The Maltese environment is home to a number of different butterflies. Unfortunately, some of these butterflies have become very rare and seldom can they be found.
During preparations for another Dinja Waħda activity, the year 6.1 students had the opportunity to learn about the life cycle of butterflies, while familiarising themselves with the butterflies that can be found on the Maltese Islands.
The year 6 students of Ms Raisa Cutajar and Ms Ingrid Frendo visited the temples of Ħaġar Qim and Mnajdra. Such visits serve as fieldwork for students. It is also a means of appreciating history through hands on experience. Can you spot Filfla in one of the photos below?
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The Yr 6.1 students of Ms Raisa Cutajar had a go in preparing a snack, followed by a healthy dessert, during their mid-week activity. The students had the opportunity to learn about the importance of hygiene when handling food, while finding an alternative and healthier option for dessert. The students enjoyed their snack and enjoyed the time spent together socialise and having a go at cookery skills in the school kitchen. Well done to all 🙂
Ms Rodgers, Eko Skola co-ordinator and assistant head at our school, has embarked on a useful mission at our school on 16th January 2015. This being World Tree Day, the students were asked to participate in a school based drawing competition. The students who drew the best 6 drawings were awarded a book.
Later on, during the day, students from yr 4, 5 and 6, participated in a clean up campaign of the school gardens. The students did a fantastic job and 4 large garbage bags of waste were collected.
The younger classes participated in other activities to raise awareness about the importance of trees. Below one can see photos of the yr 1.2 student of Ms Marilyn Bugeja doing a bark rubbing activity. This activity was a follow up of a lesson during which students talked about trees, their shapes and the different leaves and trunks.
Below are the year 2.2, of Ms Maureen Borg, during an art lesson in preparation for the drawing competition held by Ms Rodgers for the students.
