26 May

 

Important Dates

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NEASC Internal Reflection 

All teaching and learning staff have been assigned a reflection group and sent an invitation for the next meeting.  Please ensure that you have accepted that invitation. 

The dates for these sessions will be:

Tuesday 31st May between 13:15 and 14:20 

Tuesday 7th June between 13:15 and 14:20

What does a Learning Community Do?

• It connects people. Learning communities convene change agents across sectors, disciplines, and geographies to connect, share ideas and results, and learn from each other. Communities may work together in-person and virtually.
• It sets goals and measures collective progress. These communities align participants around common goals, metrics (ways of measuring achievement), theories of change, and areas of practice.
• It enables shared learning. Communities share learning from both successful and unsuccessful experiences to deepen collective knowledge.
• It supports distributed leadership. The scope of a learning community allows it to offer a wide range of leadership roles and skill-building opportunities.
• It accelerates progress toward impact at scale. These communities facilitate fast-cycle learning, measure results to understand what works for whom, and bring together the key stakeholders who can achieve systems-level change.

Read more about Learning Communities here at Harvard University Center on the Developing Child

BSME Competitions

The dates for BSME competitions for next year are below. If you think you would like your students to take part in any of these events for next year then please inform your team leader and we will try to ensure that we enter the contest. 

Please note that Education Perfect platform on which most of the events are taking place, is free for all teachers to use, it has resources related to the competition so that students can practice as well as many resources to use during other planned lessons and it can be used for assessments. 

BSME Science Championship: November 2022 | Education Perfect, Online: is an exciting 3-day event in which students answer questions online covering a range of content exploring the themes of Innovation, Sustainability & Technology. It is aimed at students in upper Key Stage 2 (Years 5-6).

BSME Primary Arabic Competition: May 2023 | Education Perfect, Online, The competition is a fun and engaging opportunity for students to engage, revise, and learn Arabic content on the Education Perfect platform. Students as young as Year 3 enjoy the online language events, but this event is probably best suited to upper Key Stage 2 students (Year 5-6).

BSME App Design Challenge Online | The Pearl Academy, Abu Dhabi: The App Challenge will provide a creative opportunity for children to develop their moral and social responsibilities whilst preparing for their roles as leaders of the future. Students must work in a team to decide on a real-world problem they wish to solve and design an app that can support solving their problem.

BSME Primary Writing Event Online | Modern English School Cairo, Cairo: provide students who attend BSME member schools in the Middle East with an opportunity to demonstrate their ideas and imagination through writing. It also offers students a platform to an international audience who will read and judge their work. Years 1-6.

BSME SRS Art & Photography Competition Online | The School of Research Science, Dubai: The SRS BSME Art Competition encourages creativity in students, increases artistic awareness in schools and allows talented students to communicate through the field of art. Years 5-13.

Resources

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Edutech Talks have created a great springboard for enhanced teaching and learning. However, for each student to reach those improved learning outcomes, the complex ecosystem of students, teachers, parents, and technology requires some thought. This panel of experts discuss how they see their schools moving forward and what they need to get there.

Watch this TikTok on an engaging new way to use Flipgrid and Jamboard

Day-to-day info - it's good to know!

Keep yourself current...

All adults still must wear masks onsite. This includes parents.

PDs in May-June & finish timings

Indoor Break Duty Rota

The duty rota for indoor breaks is in use from now until June 16th, there are no whole Primary outdoor breaks.

You can take individually scheduled 15-minute outside break times if you wish, but these must be in line with the nurses 'weather/heat guidance'.

Staff Children Supervision

Staff children supervision (All students KG1- Yr 6 start 1pm): rota for LAs can be found here.

NOTE: Pick up no later than 2:30pm, please.

Non Staff Children Supervision

Staff children supervision (KG starts at 12:45 and Yr 1-6 start 1pm): rota for LAs can be found here.

NOTE: Pick up no later than 2:30pm, please.