Sept. 30th

 

Next week begins our reaccreditation journey with NEASC. As we have been embarking on this reflective process and reviewed the importance of student agency. Let's now think about student Engagement. It has been a buzzword in education for quite some time, but what does it mean to you? 

• How do you define student engagement? 
• What engages students?
• Can you think of a lesson or activity when the class has been engaged? How about one where there was less engagement? What was the defining difference between the two?
• How do you know when your students are engaged?
• Does engagement look different in math, English, science, etc.?
• Do I think about the engagement factor when planning? Do you ask yourself, "Is this something I would want to do? Will the students view this as meaningful?"

100% student attendance from Sunday, October 3rd! 

Anan will be working across all 3 campuses to meet these guidelines by Sunday morning. Therefore, his team will provide the extra furniture which was previously removed from classrooms today, tomorrow, and Saturday. The furniture will be placed in corridors for each year group and you will need to rearrange your classrooms yourself. Please work safely and at a time that is appropriate for you. This may be after school today, or at the weekend but your classroom must be ready at 6.45am on Sunday. Many thanks to those teachers who have already thought about their classroom spaces in light of the new directive. 

Please keep in mind, Anan and his team are working as fast as possible to support us. Please don’t panic if you don’t see furniture outside your class immediately as I’m sure you can understand this is a colossal task. 

The following guidelines will be put in place;

• Timetable- will stay the same there will be NO changes to the current timetable. 

• We will maintain safety bubbles for each class. 

• We will continue with NO outside breaktimes (we will review this after 1 week and schedule outdoor play breaks over the coming week) and NO cafeteria. 

• Gates for entry and exit will remain the same, which includes gate duty and WhatsApp for dismissal. 

• PE will be outside in class bubbles.

• Other specialists will continue to push in. AIM will work with groups in classes but not across the year group.

Live calls and blended learning

Live calls- cameras will be on from registration. There is NO expectation for you to run any 'Meeters & Seaters' style lessons from Sunday. 

The link is only for students at home who are there because of quarantine/travel or medical exemptions. Work can be posted to those students using online platforms. However, there is no expectation for there to be any online lessons. Your focus is now on your students in the classroom. 

NEASC visiting schedule 

The schedule will be amended so there will be NO observations on Sunday. Instead, observations will be moved to Wednesday. If you are chosen to be observed on Wednesday you will be notified as soon as we can look at the schedule.

On the guidelines, you will have seen that there are some restrictions we are unable to adhere to such as maintaining 1-meter distancing. Instead, we will observe safety bubbles, masks, and sanitation in our classrooms. Specialists will push in, PE will pull out. 

If you have any further questions please ask a member of the Primary Leadership team, who will be happy to help and support you.

Stay calm, patient, and work together.

Click on the image to read 5 ways to promote Student Agency

Speaking of Student Engagement!!! Some well-deserved feedback for one of our amazing teachers! 

We are the parents of _____from KG2, and we would like to show our appreciation to the amazing Arabic teacher Ms. Saja Ezzat. 

Honestly, we see an obvious progress in the level of our son's interest and excitement in Arabic in very short time starting from this new academic year. 

The methodology used by Ms.Saja used to be very kind and attractive enough to impress students at this age.

In addition to her effective way in communication and how she engages parents with their child's class environment, This transparency and care make us well assured about our lovely son; since we are highly interested in Arabic and Islamic Studies performance of our child as well as in English.

We feel that this feedback should be said for such an excellent teacher like Ms.Saja and we wish to see this outstanding example more and more in English Modern School.

Best Regards,

Pop Awards are back up and running. Please remember to fill out the Google Form and send us any pictures you get of your students with their certificates at home. 

World Teachers Day is Tuesday, Oct. 5th. To celebrate you, our awesome teachers, we will ask the students to dress up as their favorite teacher/admin staff. All students can dress up on Tuesday, October 5th. Please let your students know.