2nd May

Important dates

WB May 2nd - Year 4 Battle of the Books

WB May 9th - Eid break

WB May 16th - Years 5 & 6 Battle of the Books

WB May 16th - Health Week

2021/22 updated draft calendar

Report timeline

Congratulations!

All our congratulations go to Melissa and her husband DJ for the birth of their beautiful baby daughter, Nina. She was delivered safely on Thursday and here are the first pics - looking pretty in pink!

Transition spreadsheets - deadline this week ASAP

Please finish filling in the transition spreadsheets. The original deadline was today, so we really do need those as soon as you can. They are used for composing class lists for the next academic year, so the "notes" section is particularly important. Note - PMs not due until 27th.

Can you help?

Miss Genevive, class 1-6 TA: her mother is currently receiving emergency heart surgery in the Philippines and due to the Covid pandemic there at the moment she has had to resort to Private health care costing 1500 riyal a night.

If anyone would like to send some relief money to her please drop it off to Miss Ghadir in block E or Miss Catherine in 1-6 classroom this week ❤

I know we all wouldn't like to be in this position being so far away from home so every little will be greatly appreciated.

***Recruitment and opportunities update***

New primary intern

Many congratulations to Kris, currently a secondary AIM support teacher, who will be our new primary intern for 2021/22. Thank you to all those who applied, it was a very tough decision who to appoint.

Sharing the load

If you would like the opportunity to joint-lead a year team, this may be for you. We are looking to appoint a current teacher as the co-team leader in year 3, alongside Ms Amy Kate. This system has worked really well in the past and could be a great first step into leadership. If this prospect interests you, speak to a member of the admin team.

***Teaching and learning shout-outs***

Where teachers and students are in perfect harmony...

PD achievement!

Miss Saja S had some great news recently - she has been studying for a Speech and Language Therapy qualification for the last 10 months, and last week she discovered that she had passed the course, scoring a massive 84% in the final exam! Huge congratulations to her.

5-3 perfect attenders!

Some of us take a little time to "warm-up" on a Sunday morning.... not class 5-3! All present and correct for their lesson on persuasive writing with Mr Abraham at 8.45 am! Well done to those students and their teacher, especially as this is standard procedure for the class - Mr Abraham reports that 5-3 are excellent attenders.

If you are concerned about any of your students' attendance, complete the form here for your block secretary to follow up.

5-7 Fractions, decimals and percentages

Traditionally one of the most difficult areas for students in maths, 5-7 group B students made FDP look like child's play this morning! Student engagement was excellent. Well done to Miss Aliona and 5-7!

Tech talk

Introducing Mural...a visual collaboration whiteboard with tons of features. Teachers can create a free account and even do live calls from the whiteboard. Check out this tutorial. There is a video that shows the dashboard of you can skip that and see the dashboard slide.

Ed Puzzle and Screencastify

Be sure to make the most out of remote teaching with our Edpuzzle and Screencastify subscriptions by clicking here.

Social Clubs

The Social Committee is delighted to share with you the sign up sheet for the 5 clubs starting the week beginning 16th May. These clubs will continue to run for a 5 week period until the week beginning 13th June.

The clubs you have the choice of choosing between are as follows; Quiz Club, Golf Club, Healthy Eating Club, Adventure Club and finally Strava Club.