If your child comes home from school and says they have a
'lexile', don't panic! This is not a disease; it is a scaffold you and your
child can use together to further climb the ladder to reading success. Enjoy!
Students of Form 3, 4 and 5 have taken the Student Reading Inventory ( SRI) to
obtain their lexile scores. Our library books have been lexiled too.
What is SRI?
This is an adaptive computer test in the sense that the test
adapts to individual children. As children answer questions correctly, the test
difficulty increases; if they get answers incorrect, the test difficulty
decreases. At the end of this test, a lexile level is determined for the child.
This is a measure of their reading comprehension ability-in other words, how
well they understand what they have read, not just whether they know what the
words say! This is a big step for reading.
PT conference
Thank you to all parents who came in to meet their teachers
and a special thank you to all those parents who came in to my office to share
the success and happiness of their wards. It only reassures us that we are on
the correct path of educating Primary students and enthuses us to explore many
new areas that we can add to enrich our program further.
Gandhi Jayanti
At a special assembly Ms Aruna and Ms Sana shared a
beautiful movie that they made for students to reflect on Gandhi as a person
who fits the IB Learner Profile. This was followed by singing his favourite
bhajans – Vaishnav Janto and Raghupati Raghav -
that was led by the Indian Music Department.
Rehearsals
Our students are engaged with rehearsals, Internationalism
and the Founders Day. The excitement has begun to build up and amidst this we
are engaging them undisturbed from 10:15 to 1:30 in academics. The mornings and
late afternoons are rehearsal times in the Primary. This ensures that students
have their routine of learning in place too.
Usha Lamba
Principal
Primary School
