2020-2021

Year-1 Celebration Assembly

21/6/2021

To celebrate the achievements of the students towards the end of the academic year-2020-2021.
To acknowledge their attainments and abilities.
To focus on building confidence and prioritizing self-worth of each child through appreciation and encouragement.

Year 1 corridors buzzed with excitement, laughter and claps on Monday 21st June 2021 as the teachers in their respective classes organized the CELEBRATION ASSEMBLY to reward children with the attainment and success in terms of their academic and non-academic performance. This most awaited celebration in the end of the year is planned to encourage them to be at their best behavior and mannerism and to motivate children to embrace the new challenges and allows them to welcome the new academic year with great zeal and enthusiasm.

1F Class Assembly (Water pollution)

8/6/2021

To encourage students to save our oceans.

Keeping in mind, World Ocean day celebrated on 8th June, the theme of the assembly was chosen as “Water pollution”.
The moral of the story is that we should not pollute water and waste water.
The message was given through the story about the animals who every day come to the pond in a jungle to drink water. One night when all the animals were fast asleep, humans came to the jungle and dumped the garbage in the pond. The animals were sad and thought how will they quench their thirst. Then the water queen came and made humans realize that they should not pollute water. The queen made them realized that water is important not only for humans but for aquatic animals as well.
Also, at the end people were interviewed on the beach, how to save our Oceans and keep it clean. It was a pleasure to see the young explorers giving this informative message.

1L Class Assembly (Cultural Diversity)

24/5/2021

To respects the presence of all diverse groups in an organization or society, acknowledge and values their socio-cultural differences, and encourages and enables their continued contribution.

Cultural Diversity is the existence of a variety of cultural groups within a society. As UAE is the best example of cultural diversity where people from different countries are residing. Based on this theme students of Year 1L give an important message on Cultural Diversity. Children wore costumes representing their home country. They spoke about the importance of cultural diversity that we all are different that make us unique. Students emphasis on the fact that we should respect each other’s culture, religion, ethnicity, language, nationality, geographical location and lots of other things.
In the end little bibliophiles celebrated the cultural diversity by giving a strong message on acceptance of other person the way they are.

International Women’s Day

8/3/2021

To understand why we celebrate International Women’s day and importance of it.

During registration session, the Year 1 and 2 children celebrated the International Women’s Day. The teachers discussed with the children on the importance of celebrating this day. International women’s day celebrates the wonderful work done by women in the society. It is a way to show how women have influenced the world because they were outstanding at what they did. Children could also identify different women in their family and spoke about the amazing things done by them. They learnt to appreciate the hardships women in their families take to raise them. They wrote messages and created art work using paper and also ICT tools dedicated to the wonderful women in the world and their families.

1G Class Assembly (Count your blessings)

25/2/2021

To encourage students to be thankful for what they have.

Count your Blessings theme helped the students of 1G showcase their numerous blessings – some which are God given, other’s which they have created for themselves. They were also grateful to be a part of The Winchester School where health and safety of children is the key focus, with a special mention of the safety measures followed by the school during the Covid times. Children also acknowledged those who were not so blessed with the privileges and how they could make a difference in their lives.
It was a pleasure to see the enthusiastic participation of the parent giving a strong message.

Humanities Day

4/2/2021

To give an insight to the teaching methodologies that are followed for Humanities.

During their humanities lesson, the Year 1 children began on a musical note with a song on the physical and human geographical. A padlet link was shared where children presented their videos on how they made their dioramas on human or physical geographical features they had visited or experienced in real life with suitable plants and animals using recycled materials. It was indeed amazing to see children speak at length of their travel to various places. This was followed with a quiz on the human and physical geographical features. They also experienced a virtual tour of a desert, mountains and a canyon.
Year 2 too, began with a song on mapping. Some children created a word search of our wonderful world which they played in class using the annotation tool in Zoom. Others created board games on maps with the aim of hunting down buried treasure through a range of clues, symbols and the map key. Many came dressed as globes or maps and talked about the countries they had on themselves. A few asked riddles based on the atlas – the continents, oceans of the world and important human and physical features. The lesson wrapped up with a ‘Beat the cartographer’ game to review the continents, oceans and countries of the world. They also had a virtual tour of London. Finally, they created a jigsaw puzzle of our wonderful world, their own continent or a messy map of the school, their local area or an invented place of their own using a variety of different materials and equipment following the Messy Map Guidance for how to make a Messy Map.

Lingo Fest

28/1/2021

To impart awareness of different languages spoken across in UAE through self-introduction (in their native language) and creating a post card of important landmarks.

The KS1 had an exciting day as they celebrated language diversity in their respective classes through different activities. Year 1’s event was not only great fun, but also a unique and exciting way for kids to experience the magic and joy of learning about another language and culture. Children spoke in their mother tongue along with their parents about their country’s culture, festivals their hobbies, music etc. The videos for the same were shared on the PADLET link. Year 2 children were all geared up to create their own post card with their countries famous monuments or landmarks and sweet message in their native language. It was truly a pleasure to witness the parental engagement in this event.

Parental Engagement Program

26/1/2021

To engage and enlighten children with Mystery Reading and workshops on various learning professions through the parental engagement program

School based family and parent support activities have the improvement of children’s learning as a clear and consistent goal. Parents volunteered as Mystery readers, creating an exciting reading environment for children. Parents from specialized fields like journalists and lecturers from eminent work fields, came and shared their experiences and real time examples with our little earners. It was a great pleasure for children to get some amazing insights on these Vocational fields, learn and apply it in their lives. They experienced facts about how do these professions exactly work in real life. They enthusiastically enjoyed the application of their learning through the activities by the end of the session.

Art Exhibition

26/1/2021

To depict the culture and tradition of UAE and create Logo on Wellbeing through the medium of art.

The KS1 had a creative and engaging session during the Art Week. “New Days New Ways” was the theme for Year 2. They designed a logo on Wellbeing – mentioning how the school helps them to learn about their Wellbeing on daily basis. Whereas Year1’s created their artwork on an A4 or A3 size posters keeping in mind the theme which was the UAE culture and traditions. Teachers created a power point and collated all the work of the children that was shared with the entire class. Each and every Artwork – Logo was fascinating that covered the uniqueness of UAE and its marvelous heritage. Different mediums were used ranging from crayons, colour pencils to paints. Indeed, it was a pleasure to see how the little ones drew the national symbols with perfection and panache.

Parental Engagement Program

26/1/2021

To engage and enlighten children with Mystery Reading and workshops on various learning professions through the parental engagement program

School based family and parent support activities have the improvement of children’s learning as a clear and consistent goal. Parents volunteered as Mystery readers, creating an exciting reading environment for children. Parents from specialized fields like journalists and lecturers from eminent work fields, came and shared their experiences and real time examples with our little earners. It was a great pleasure for children to get some amazing insights on these Vocational fields, learn and apply it in their lives. They experienced facts about how do these professions exactly work in real life. They enthusiastically enjoyed the application of their learning through the activities by the end of the session.