Children are back!

It was great welcoming the children back today. The gates were open and the children were met with friendly staff to assist them back into the school again. 

To accompany this here are some pictures from each of the year groups that were in today. 

KG1

Year 1

Year 2 

Year 4

Year 5

Year 6

What a pleasure it was to see students learning in class again. 

Important dates 

• 10th June - Leaders ACE training 
• 15th June - Leaders ACE training
• 16th June - Awards Ceremony
• 17th June - Stepping Up Year 6
• 21st June - Leaders ACE training 
• 22nd June - Reports published
• 24th June - Last day of school

iSAMS

We are reaching the final stages of the report card process. Please be sure to have placed your comments and grades on Markbook and iSAMS by this Tuesday, the 1st June. Thank you for all your hard work regarding reports. 

CLA Spreadsheet

The CLA Spreadsheet deadline has been extended. Please do ensure that you have placed in your deserving student by the end of this week. To find the spreadsheet click here. 

Attendance

Regarding attendance and the registration of students, please do mark students as present online if they are not physically in school but are working online. If they have informed the school that they will not be attending in person or have been added to the student exception list then it is appropriate to mark them as present online. 

Keep working on the yearbook. I know content can be challenging with online and blended learning. Memes, videos, TikToks, projects, Pop Awards etc. can all be added for each group. Due Date: June 6th

Congratulations to our latest Google L1 teacher!

Well done Janine! Great job!

Google workspace new features

Google Plus

There will be a optional session on Wednesday, May 26th or June 2nd at 1 pm to go over the new features of the Google Workspace for Education Plus features. Join with this link:

New Google Features

Wednesday, June 2 · 1:00 – 1:30pm

Google Meet joining info

Video call link: https://meet.google.com/xiy-zzdt-xbr

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

Today Miss Sarra decided to share a fantastic piece of work with us all. Her year two class have been working on the Solar System to great avail! Super job 2.5!

Wellness Workdays Newsletter

Please find the May Edition of the Wellness Workdays Newsletter.

This month's newsletter focuses on Occupational Wellness and includes tips for increased productivity. Why not find an accountability partner and try the 30 Day Challenge? (Remember, you only need to select 2 or 3 of the habits listed.)

Hang in there! The finish line is near. 

The English Modern School Award Ceremony

It was announced earlier that we will be holding our first-ever English Modern School Award Ceremony. This Award Ceremony has been put together by the Well-Being Committee, consisting of Monique and Piet in Secondary and Jason and Amy Smith in Primary, in an attempt to recognise and subsequently praise your efforts in school this year.

The award categories will be as follows; The Humanitarian Award, The Professional Development Award, The Dedication Award, The Innovative Award and The Head of School Award.

Awards will be given out to people based on self/peer voting after which the destination of the award will be decided either by the Well-Being Committee or Head of School. The voting will begin today and you will do so within your departments throughout the school using a google form. For more information and to access your google form to vote please click here to view the ceremony slide presentation.

Thank you very much to everyone for all your efforts this year and we hope you take part in this unique event.

Arabic PD

We are pleased to offer our final Arabic language PD for our Arabic Educators for this academic year.  We are leading a training that we believe will benefit educators for the start of the 2021/22 academic year. 

Ms. Eman will be leading:

Ideas for Delivering Engaging and Fun Arabic Virtual/Blended Classes

In this workshop participants will discover a number of ideas and games that bring entertainment, fun and excitement to our Arabic virtual lessons.  Educators will discover a range of ways to prepare and deliver Arabic virtual lessons that truly draw in their students. This PD is appropriate for all academic levels.

This PD will be delivered in person Saturday, June 12th 10:00am - 12:00pm.  In maintaining MOPH guidelines this PD will be capped so please email us book your spots soon!

Course Fee:  400QAR per educator

If you are interested then please contact Kristine Llorin at kristine.llorin@serajlc.net

The Quiz club gets cracking!

A message from Miss Nerike:

The Quiz club had our first quiz night on Wednesday and we all had a great time. 

Next week Wednesday we will be back for some more fun! 

Open invite for whoever wants to join Wednesdays at 18:00. Contact Nerike Combrink or Jason Mcintosh for more details. 

The Big EMS Animal Food Drive

With the summer holidays fast approaching there has been a drive put together to support animals in Qatar over the hot summer months. A number of the shelters around the country are over run and very much in needed of food to continue to feed the animals in their care.

If you can donate food or even water bowls for animals over the summer then please do bring them to the Year 3 hub where Amy Kate will be collecting it on behalf of 2nd Chance Rescue. Any amount of food is welcome no matter how big or small. Amy Kate will be collecting between now and the week beginning the 13th June when she will be delivering the food gathered to the shelter. 

Thank you very much.