YEAR TWO STARS

Room 12 English language learners have worked really hard in their ESOL class and have learnt so many new and very, very  tricky words related to their Unit of Inquiry - How the World Works. They shared their learning with Ms Dixon and Room 12 students.

HOW THE WORLD WORKS

 Our young ELLS have worked pretty hard to create a multilingual picture dictionary with the key vocabulary for their UOI . They are amazing communicators and extremely knowledgeable students.

HOW WE EXPRESS OURSELVES

 

HOW WE EXPRESS OURSELVES - a current Unit of Inquiry for our year 5 students is being studied in ESOL, too.  To be able to express ourselves in a more sophisticated manner, our students are learning how to use proverbs and idioms in spoken and written language.

HOW THE WORLD WORKS

 

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Year three students have started a new Unit of Inquiry : HOW THE WORLD WORKS, with the central idea - Scientific understandings are gained through curiosity- observation and experimentation.

In their ESOL class, they have been curious while observing and happy while experimenting. They are excellent communicators and have great key vocabulary of the current UOI knowledge. Having learnt so much, their thinking can be expressed in English very accurately and confidently.

LEARNER PROFILE ATTRIBUTES - CARING

 

SHARING THE PLANET

 

Year Three students' Unit of  Inquiry "Sharing the Planet" has been celebrated in their ESOL class. They have been reading a very inspirational text called On Thin Ice - about sharing the planet with, almost extinct, polar bears.  They have learnt many new words and can use facts to describe what polar bears look like, what they eat and how climate change is affecting them. They are caring and they know what we can do to make our planet a better place for all

HOW WE EXPRESS OURSELVES

 Year one and year three students are learning how using correct word order and verb forms will help them express themselves better.  

COMMUNICATORS

 We are so proud of our Year two students who can write in different languages. Some can read, too, and all of them can speak fluently. What an amazing group of COMMUNICATORS.

Connecting to the Learner Profile in English Language Learning!

 James and Yui came to see me to share their learning in Korean and English in connection with the PYP Learner Profile attributes. The research and thinking they have done in order to bring meaning in two languages to each of the attributes, and then to use a digital platform to illustrate and share their learning has been amazing! James and Yui created an illustrated poster for each of the attributes with definitions of each attribute in both English and Korean, which will be of great use to our future parents and students coming from Korea. Thank you Yui and James, and to Mrs S! Ms Baker

Learner Profile Attributes

 Our wonderful students learning English have continued to amaze and motivate us with their wonderful learning around the Learner Profile attributes! Angela in Year 6 has made Attribute posters in English and in other languages, and has received a glowing recommendation from Mrs Gordana Stanojevic about her excelling in the attributes of being Caring and a Communicator. Well done Angela, you are definitely developing these great attributes in your approach to life and learning!

GLOBAL CITIZEN CLUB

 This week is a Chinese Language Week. Global Citizens Club members have celebrated it and discussed different aspects of Chinese Language. We are so lucky to have many bilingual students at our school, who can read, write and speak in at least two languages. It was very interesting listening to the contributions they made about their heritage language. We talked about Mandarin written language features, script, symbols and much more.

Te Wiki o Te Reo Maori

 Our ESOL students have had an extra opportunity to not only celebrate Te Reo Maori in their classrooms, but in their ESOL classes, too. Those able to read and write in their heritage languages have worked collaboratively in creating multilingual vocabulary lists and have compared some of the language features of Te Reo Maori to their languages.

What our bees think about Milford school? By James Lee

Milford Primary School is a place that everybody can learn and enjoy! (It is a beautiful and amazing place you should visit us!)

There is a hall that we usually have assemblies at.

Well, when it's raining in winter time we have PE(Physical Education) in the hall.

We also have our beautiful library that obtains non - fiction, fiction, picture, comic books etc.

There is a gigantic field that you can play soccer and in the middle of the field there is a cricket pitch that you can play cricket. There are playgrounds : senior playground and junior playground. Also the playground that everybody can play on.

There is our good doll house that has all sorts of different sports equipment.

(soccer balls, basket balls, cricket equipment, bouncy balls etc).

There are OVER 20 ROOMS AT MILFORD SCHOOL!!!

Room 1 ~ 4 are Year 6, Room  5 ~ 7 are Year 5 ........... a lot more

In ESOL (English for Speakers Of other Languages) we learn English Basics.
For example we learn grammar, punctuation, reading etc..

For our new global citizen club we are learning other countries traditional things.
So far we have learnt things about Serbia.

On the main entrance there is a bike park too!

WELCOME TO MILFORD SCHOOL 2020

Welcome back to the existing, and new students to ESOL classes at Milford School! Watch this space, as there will be many photos and stories to celebrate our students' learning this year!