12th April

Important dates

 1 to 30 April - Autism Awareness Month

10th April: Continuous Reporting Week 2

12th-14th April: MoEHE accreditation visit - Qatar National Identity Implementation

15th April: Primary Yearbook deadline 

Resource folder 

During the month of April we will focus on sharing stories and providing opportunities to increase understanding and acceptance of people with autism, fostering worldwide support is encouraged. Nicole has now shared a resource folder with you that includes activities that can be incorporated into lessons to bring awareness to Autism. 

To access the folder then please click here. 

Hot break times - Indoor breaks 

The decision around indoor/outdoor break times is under daily review. As predicted indoor breaks were soon to follow and today was the first day of such an occurrence. For this reason, below you will find the warm weather break duty schedule.

If you are on duty, you are asked to monitor the classes in your assigned area. Some teachers may wish to stay in their classrooms to monitor their students as well, however this is not an expectation. Also, we ask all staff to be flexible as some staff are not placed in their regular areas of work. This timetable will be in effect from 13th April until the 28th April. Click the link below to see more details. 

Warm weather break duty schedule

MoEHE Visit

The Ministry of Education and Higher Education (MoEHE) will be visiting us on Tuesday 12th April, Wednesday 13th April and Thursday 14th April to conduct an accreditation visit. In what is called the Evaluation of the Quality of Qatar National Identity Implementation in Internationally Accredited Schools in Qatar. Representatives will be visiting campus and speaking with students, teachers and parents, accessing our teaching and learning materials and observing our teaching and learning.  

It will be a face to face visit.  The MoEHE representatives will be wearing Visitor badges prominently.  The visit will not be restricted to Arabic, Islamic and Arabic History classes.  All classes will be potentially observed. Continue in your normal practices during the visit. You do not need to do anything differently. Please welcome the team member to your classroom and greet them if you see them moving around the school. 

The visit is an important part of our accreditation process.  Thank you for your cooperation and support.  

Literacy and Math Champions meetings

The first Literacy Champions meeting will be this Thursday 14/4/2022 and the first Math Champions meeting will be on Monday 18/4/2022. 

Things to note for Literacy members;

• It will be a face to face meeting.
• The meeting will be lesson 3&4 on Thursday as that is what worked best with the timetables. 
• If you are in class during those lessons, cover will be provided, please make sure you have an activity for your students to do during that time. 
• You all will need your Chromebooks and your math planning documents. 
• You do not need to prepare anything before the meeting.The meeting will be bi-weekly, you will have planning tasks to complete before the next meeting which will be Thursday 28/4/2022.
•  I will add the meeting location in the Google Meet. Please check the schedule below, the lesson indicated is the lesson you will need cover in, if it's incorrect please let me know ASAP. 

Things to note for Math members;

• It will be a face to face meeting 
• The meeting will be lesson 2&3 on Monday as that is what worked best with the timetables. 
• If you are in class during those lessons, cover will be provided, please make sure you have an activity for your students to do during that time. 
• You all will need your Chromebooks and your literacy planning documents. 
• You do not need to prepare anything before the meeting. you will have planning tasks to complete before the next meeting which will be Monday 25/4/2022.
•  I will add the meeting location in the Google Meet. Please check the schedule below, the lesson indicated is the lesson you will need cover in, if it's incorrect please let me know ASAP. 

KG members are reminded that as they have already had some planning meetings and because their Ramadan schedules do not link up as easily that they will be added to the planning meetings once Ramadan is over. 

Please let Nicole know if you have any questions. 

AIM VOCAB

Please click the link here for access to AIM VOCAB.

A couple of reminders...

Many thanks to all who engaged with the BlueSky PD on Thursday 31st March. Miss Sara asks for a review of your session as soon as you are able.

The Primary Yearbook is due to be completed by the 15th April, so please enter the information you desire onto your page at your earliest opportunity. Here is where you can access the Yearbook.

Formative assessment

A very readable article linked below....

7 smart formative assessment tips