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Grade One
End of Year Examination
Revision Guide
May 2011

English, Maths, Science,

Social Studies,
Islamic Studies (in
English) and I.T.
 Grade One End of year examination Revision Guide – May 2011

16th May 2011

‫السالم عليكم و رحمة ﷲ و بركاته‬

Dear parents,

The End of Year examination week will begin on Saturday the 11th
June 2011. Information on the exact dates for specific subjects will
follow shortly in a letter from the school.

This examination week is testing a selection of the material that we’ve

covered since the midyear point of the academic year.

There will be a revision week prior to the examination week. The

revision week will start 4th June 2011. Subject teachers will give
students additional revision worksheets to complete during those
revision lessons.

The following provides a summary of what topics can be revised at

home.

Information on Arabic and other subjects should follow from the

teachers of those subjects.

This booklet includes information on: English, Maths, Science, Social

Studies, Islamic Studies (in English) and I.T.

Thank you.

(Grade One Teachers)

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English
The English exam will consist of 2 papers.

Paper 1 will cover an unseen passage (i.e. a story) with some

comprehension questions, Phonics and Spelling.

Paper 2 will cover High Frequency Words, Grammar and Handwriting.

For additional grammar practice you may use the following pages in
the Harcourt Language Practice / Reteach Book.

Identifying plural nouns page 32

Present tense verbs page 34
Adding - s to verbs page 35
Am, is, and are page 38
Past tense verbs page 41
Adding - ed page 44
Using was and were page 48
Describing words page 50
Color, size, shape page 52
Describing words for taste, smell, sound and feel. page 53
Using numbers in sentences page 58

For additional High Frequency Words practice you may use the
following pages in the Reading Street Practice book 1.2. High
frequency words means vocabulary, basically being able to
demonstrate which words are used in specific sentences.

Pages 6, 7, 27, 45, 47, 67, 77 & 87.

For additional Phonics practice you may use the following pages in
the Reading Street Practice book 1.2.

40, 44, 50, 66, 74, 75, 82 & 86.

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Spelling
Please memorise the spelling of these words we’ve already covered in
class. In the exam the written spelling of ten of these words will be
tested.

try soap
tail bright
she dream
play shirt
fastest may
snow burn
each rain
friends slower
loaf row
jump we

Handwriting: Writing so that letters correctly touch the lines.

Science
Please revise the following selection of topics covered in the science
books.

Please note that we’re testing the children’s oral comprehension of

the key words and concepts, not their reading or spelling abilities. The
format will be that we will read aloud a question to the children and
they will then have to select an answer from a choice of three which
will also be read aloud to them.

There will also be some questions where students have to write free
response answers. These will be short answers and the students won’t
lose marks for incorrect spelling.

To revise, we suggest that you check your child understands:

1) The meaning of the words that you find highlighted in yellow in
the colour textbook lessons;
2) The meaning of the words found in boxes in the workbook
exercises.
3) He should also be able to orally answer the questions found in
the “lesson checkpoints” located at the end (and sometimes in
the middle) of each lesson in the textbook.

The glossary at the back of the colour science reader provides

additional definitions of keywords and may also be referred to. You
can use this in conjunction with the words you find highlighted in the
texts for additional word definitions.

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Chapter Textbook
Workbook Page
and Lesson Page
Topic Number
Number Number
What makes things move 9 les. 1 247 92, 92A
How do things move 9 les. 3 252 94, 94A
What do magnets do? 9 les. 4 256 95, 95A
What gives off heat 10 les. 1 279 104, 104A
What makes light and
10 les. 3 284 106, 106A
shadows
What uses energy around us? 10 les. 4 290 107, 107A
How do you get energy? 10 les. 5 294 108, 108A
What causes day and night? 11 les. 2 322 117, 117A
What is in the night sky? 11 les. 3 324 118, 118A
How do farmers use
12 les. 1 343 126, 126A
technology to grow food.
What tools can you use to
12 les. 3 348 128, 128A
make dinner.

Mathematics
Please revise the following topics that we have covered thus far.
There will be at least one question on the exam paper for each of the
following topics. Please refer to the exercises in the green covered
Practice Masters / Workbook.

Corresponding page
Topic in Practice Masters/Workbook

Equal,
half,
third and fourth, 57 to 61
fractions of a set
non limit fractions
Minutes,
understanding the hour and
minute hands,
telling and writing time to the hour 64, 65, 66, 68, 69, 70
Act it out
Ordering events
Estimating lengths of time

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Days of the week

Months of the year
72 , 73, 77 , 78
Hundred chart
Counting with groups
Skip counting
Using skip
Before after and between
81, 82, 84, 85, 88, 89
Odd and even numbers
Numbers made with tens
Tens and ones
Ordering three numbers
Hundreds 96, 97, 123, 124
Cups, pints and quarts, litres
Doubles
Doubles plus one
Doubles minus one
Applying three numbers 133, 134, 137, 138, 144, 149, 154
Applying subtraction
Adding two digit numbers
Subtracting two digit numbers

Social Studies
Please revise the following selection of topics covered in the two
social studies texts: the Health & Fitness books and the For A Better
World books.
For the Health & Fitness the textbook, rather than the activity book,
contains the key information to be revised. To revise, please check
that your child understands and can orally explain the meaning of the
words that you find highlighted in yellow in the colour textbook and
that he can orally answer the questions that you find in the “review”
box at the end of each lesson.
In addition you can find keywords from each chapter defined in short
sentences in the glossary in pages 253-260 which may also help.

In the For A Better World books again it is the colour text book that is
of more use. Some of the key terms are highlighted within the
chapters.
Some questions in the exam will have multiple choice answers. Some
questions will be matching terms to definitions. Some require the
student to complete the missing word from sentences. There we will
also be some questions where students have to write free response
answers. These will be short answers and the students won’t lose marks
for incorrect spelling.

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For a Better World:

Chapter
Text Book Work Book
Number & Chapter Name What to Learn
Pages Pages
Lesson

Chapter 2 The definition of

What is a map? 18-19
Lesson 1 a map.

What is the
difference
Chapter 2 Using a map
between a 20-21 WB11-WB12
Lesson 2 key?
symbol and a
map key?

Chapter 2 Which way to The four

22-23 WB13-WB16
Lesson 3 go? directions.

The definition of
Chapter 3 What is a
earth, globe and 26-27 WB17-18
Lesson 1 globe?
model.
What are the
Chapter 3 Map of the continents and
28-29 WB19-WB20
Lesson 2 world oceans of the
world?
Health and Fitness:

Chapter
Text Book Work Book
Number & Chapter Name What to Learn
Pages Pages
Lesson
Who are
Staying safe strangers and
Chapter 7
around why is it not 132-133 31
Lesson 1
strangers safe to talk to
strangers?
What are the
Chapter 8
Staying well different ways 158-159 37
Lesson 4
of staying well?

Definitions of
Chapter 9
Drugs legal and 170-171 41
Lesson 2
caffeine.
Definition of
refuse and
Chapter 9 Staying away what are the
176-177 42
Lesson 5 from drugs ways to stay
away from
drugs?

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Islamic Studies
( in English) )
Please refer to the Islamic Studies Grade 1 book by Maulvi AbdulAziz
when revising this subject. The presentation of this exam will be similar
in format to that of the Social Studies and Science exams. Please
revise the following topics as found on the following table:

Chapter
Chapter Name What to learn: Pages
Number

The Prophet’s Kindness What does the story tell

19 91-93
(1) us about the Prophet?

The Prophet’s Kindness How are we supposed

20 95-96
(2) to treat our guests?
What do you say before
Etiquette of Eating and after eating? What
25 124-129
and Drinking are the etiquettes of
eating and drinking?
What do you say before
sleeping and after
27 Etiquette of Sleeping 136-139
waking up? How do
you sleep?
Why should we be
28 Kindness to Parents obedient to our parents 141-144
and how?
How to keep the
30 General Manners surroundings clean and 152-156
why?

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I.T.
Part of the I.T. exam will be theory based (i.e. answering questions) and
part will be practical (i.e. students will have to demonstrate that they
are able to perform certain tasks on the computer)

I.T. Exam Dates

The I.T. exam (theory and practical) is held during the revision week
(i.e. the week 4th Jun to 8th Jun). It will take place during the students’
normal I.T. periods of that week.

Please refer to any recent weekly planner to see which days your son
normally has I.T.

The first period of the week will be the theory and the second the
practical. Those students who are timetabled to have two I.T. lessons in
the same day will do the exam parts together.

Here are a summary of the core skills that the students should have
grasped.

The I.T. teachers will hand out some revision worksheets during the
week starting 28th May targeting some of these skills.

Chapter: 5 (Practical)
Lessons: 7-8-9-10-11

He should know:

● How to open the Paint program

● Using the eraser tool
● Using the airbrush tool
● Using the line tool
● Using the pencil tool
● Using the text tool

Chapter: 6 (Theory and Practical)

Lesson: 1-2-3
(the theory you can cover it from the worksheet)

He should know:

● What is multimedia?
● How to open the Microsoft PowerPoint program
● Creating a slide
● Adding Text and clip art to a slide

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Chapter: 7 (Theory and Practical)

Lesson: 1-2-3-4-5-6
(you can cover it from the worksheets)

He should know:

● How to open the Microsoft Excel program

● What is a spreadsheet?
● Moving around a spreadsheet

● Understanding and finding the cell address

● Enter data into a spreadsheet
● Extend the cell
● Changing the colour of text
● Changing the cell background

Chapter: 4 (Theory and Practical)

Lesson: 1-2-3
(Cover it from the book and the worksheets)

He should know:

● What are the internet and the web

● How to open any web address
● Safety on the internet

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