On Wednesday Y6 spent the day in Secondary as part of their transition from Primary to Secondary. I will let them tell you about it in their own words.

On Tuesday we hosted the Year 6 from Ambrosoli. They had a great time and particularly like Art and the fact they they could play football at lunchtime. They also thanked us for getting our bus to their school on time. On a visit to another school the bus was an hour late!

I hope that many of you made it to Art Jam to see the wonderful work that KISU students have done in the Arts.

A really big thank you to the Art Jam committee and all the teachers who have worked so hard to put together the exhibitions.

Much more from Art Jam will be in next weeks Newsletter.

It is with great pleasure that I announce that KISU''s Creche is now open, up and running and welcomes new pupils aged 18 months to 24 months and their families. Please have a little scroll through the gallery of pictures below at the set up of the indoor space that has been resourced and well planned to enable children from 18 months to develop in all 7 areas of learning:

1. Personal, social and emotional
2. Physical development
3. Communication and language
4. Literacy
5. Maths
6. Understanding the world
7. Expressive arts and design

These 7 areas of learning and development are broken down into a further 17 aspects which form the Foundation Stage Curriculum, and through all of these 17 aspects, young children continuously develop the following characteristics of effective learning:

Playing and Exploring - Engagement:

Finding out and exploring;

Playing with what they know;

Being willing to 'have a go'.

Active Learning - Motivation:

Being involved and concentrating;

Keeping trying;

Enjoying and achieving.

Creating and Thinking Critically - Thinking:

Having their own ideas;

Making links;

Choosing ways to do things.

Everyday, Early Years Teachers carefully plan learning objectives and the intended learning outcomes take into consideration...

• that every child is unique,
• the activities available to enable every child to develop
• the provision and the environment that will enable every child to develop.

The following file expands on the 3 Prime and 4 Specific Areas of Learning and curriculum information (above) in much greater detail.

The creche is open from 8am to 12noon Monday to Friday and lunch is optional. With so much to explore, so many friends to meet and so much fun to be had, don't delay in getting in touch! We look forward to hearing from you soon and meeting your child to help them begin their learning journey at KISU.

Year 2 have been busy learning about life cycles in their science lessons. Humans, frogs, ducks and butterflies. We have also been teaching Year 1 and reception classes about the stages of a butterfly’s lifecycle during break time and lunch time as we have been observing butterflies, cocoons and even caterpillars around the KS1 playground. It’s amazing how many different creatures you can see when you look hard enough. Even in the playground we can see the different diets of animals. We’ve observed the ants and thought about the fact that they are omnivores, after watching them drag insects into their nests as well as leaves.

It’s great to see the Year 2 children being so involved in their learning and experiencing this learning first hand.

When I was heading up the stairs to the year 2 classroom I came across a butterfly actually in the process of emerging from its cocoon! I carried it upstairs carefully and gave it to Ms. Holmes, Ms. Jane and the Year 2 children who popped it gently into a butterfly net house. They were obviously delighted and so was I when they thanked me then asked me, "Mrs. Wise, would you like a piece of birthday cake?"

I checked in again later (no, I wasn't hoping for more cake!) and found our new friend safely tucked up in her new home and hanging from the roof so it looks like she has decided to postpone entering the world for now and is happy inside her cocoon for a little while longer. I hope she rebuilds her strength and that we are greeted by a beautiful butterfly on Monday morning that we will be able to study close up and then release into our school garden.

Thank you Ms A and your Year 4 team for your amazing assembly this week. The children are obviously fully immersed in your Term 3 topic all about Africa. They shared a wealth of knowledge and facts about Africa and Uganda and spoke clearly and confidently engaging the rest of the Primary school. The music, singing, percussion, dancing, storytelling and acting thoroughly entertained everyone. I so loved finding out 'How the Crane Got It's Crown' and loved the costumes and masks that the children had made to help retell their unique rendition. For those of you who couldn't make it to the Year 4 assembly, here are some highlights and the folktale the children chose to perform...

In Kindergarten 1 & 2 we have been focusing on the story ‘The Noisy Farm’ which ties in with our topic - farm animals! We have also been dressing up in farm animal costumes and exploring various sensory trays. Being in Kindergarten is fun!

Growth and Change

So far in their Growth, Change and Plants Topic, Year 1 students have been able to define a “Plant” and closely observe how seed growing plants change from a seed to a plant. They know the parts of a plant and the function of each part and can talk about how plants are similar and different. This week the students have been working to identify a variety of garden plants and are in the process of creating their own School Garden...

I couldn't choose from the following photographs which to include in this newsletter, I had to include them all!

Year 6 - Thembuluwo for being principled.

Year 5 - Suubi and Ivan.

Year 4 - Jovana and Toby for being principled..

Year 3 - Zainab and Atharvi.

Year 2 - Mukisa for great knowledge and to the whole class for excellent communication.

Year 1 - Hussein and Krishay.

Reception - Rain for inquiry and Rayan for open mindedness.

KG3 - Junda for great communication and Nehita for risk taking (You overcame your initial fear and engaged in exploring 'real worms').

KG12 - Hayaan and Elijah

Primary French Speaker of the week is Ahmed (Y5).

Primary Artist of the week is Cynthia (Y2) for being a reflective learner.

Well done all for shining this week!

Dear Parents/Guardians,

With all your professional responses, support and dedication, I would like to say

a very BIG THANK YOU to you all. Without you, the U7 Soccer Jamboree that took place at Heritage last weekend wouldn't have been a huge success. Many thanks.

Kind regards,

Mr Robert.

Thank you to the parents who have already returned the 'intentions form' regarding whether you are staying or leaving KISU next academic year. However we still have many unreturned. The Admissions Office kindly requests for you to complete and return the form with this important information at your earliest convenience so that the school can plan for the next academic year 2022-23. This information is very useful in terms of staffing, timetabling etc and we appreciate your help and support to enable us to plan effectively.

Our U9 and U11 Basketball Teams are scheduled to represent the school in a Basketball Bonanza at International School Uganda (ISU) on Saturday, 21st May 2022 (next week). Coaches and Team Leaders (Ms Cathy, Ms Homes and Mr Robert) will accompany the players and parents have been informed of all necessary details.

We wish them well and hope that they thoroughly enjoy the day, although my competitive nature does mean that I also hope that they come back winners, as well as having had much fun!

Have a happy Basketball Bonanza - thank you staff and parents for making this possible. I will report on how the teams got on in next weeks newsletter!

Friday 13th saw many students choosing to wear non-uniform and pay 5000k for the pleasure of coming to school in their own choice of clothes. This money will go towards helping to fund the School Prom for the oldest students and they are very grateful for the support from Primary pupils. Next Friday we will repeat non-uniform day again and children can pay 5000k to wear what want if they choose to.