January 22nd

 

🠊🠊🠊Important dates - January 

• 8th -  26th - LA appraisals 
• 15th - 29th - School photos 
• 22nd - week International Week 
• 22nd - week 1 T2 Continuous Reporting
• 22nd - week JAM Year 1 Support students
• 22nd - week student goal settings and meeting 
• 25th - deadline to request changes to reports 
• 25th - Assembly: Betty 1.1 and Catherine 2.6
• 26th - Early Release 1:15 

🠊🠊🠊Important docs

• Cover Document Template
• Cover Document Example
• School Photo Schedule 
• Sunday Morning Meeting Slides
• EMS Pulse
• Newsletter English
• Newsletter Arabic
• Break Duty Roster

🠊🠊🠊Actions 

• LA Appraisals on Bluesky (Slides are here)  
• Schedule/ use your vouchers 
• Break Duty- please be on time and arrange cover if you are unable to do your duty or are absent. 

🢖🢖🢖Upcoming CLCs🢔🢔🢔

New term, new ART

The new term always brings beautiful new art displays, which are starting to appear in Block D...

🢖🢖🢖AIM Creative Writing  🢔🢔🢔(click  the image for more)

🢖🢖🢖 21 C Corner 🢔🢔🢔

Join thousands for this exciting free virtual event adventure for everyone, presented by the UK Space Education Office (ESERO-UK) at STEM Learning and in collaboration with the European Space Agency (ESA) and the UK Space Agency.

Book your space here.

 Have you ever had a shark swim through your living room?

 Had a life-sized skeleton stand in your class?

 Or held a red blood cell in your hand?

You can do all that & more with AR in Google search! 

Click here to find more.

As you know, the Google Certified Educator Level 1 and Level 2 certifications are valid for three years. You must renew your certification status by retaking and passing the applicable exam. As part of the Google Reference School Program, we have specific quotes of certified staff that need to be maintained.
So, if you have received an email from Google saying that you have 30 days to renew, take advantage of those dates. Please reach out and request your voucher.

Are you a teacher who loves project-based learning (PBL)?
You never use our Makey Makey invention kit, and you are ready to use it in the classroom or in the E Maker Space?
Click here for a free, self-paced asynchronous course! You'll learn the basics of how to use Makey Makey, a few simple projects to get you started with your students, and see how teachers are already using Makey Makey in their classrooms around the globe!

Graphic novels are one of the most creative, innovative, and inclusive genres that can help build confidence in students who feel intimidated by prose-only texts and have trouble finishing a book.

Read this article from Scholastic about using graphic novels in the classroom!

Click here to access the Common Sense Media Graphic Novels recommendations.

If you enjoy the theatre...

I will be performing in Doha Players' latest musical theatre offering, "Blood Brothers" in February. Dates, plot synopsis and history of the show are below if you are interested, and the link to buy tickets is embedded on the poster pic below.

If you have any personal events that you would like to publicise in the future, share them with Renee or me and we will be happy to promote them via our Primary blog.

BLOOD BROTHERS by Willy Russell - tickets on sale now.

Show Dates - 2nd, 3rd, 4th, 8th, 9th, 11th and 17th February:

Regular Stalls qrs 80

Gold/Premium Stalls (middle front section), qrs 95

Special mega discount night Wednesday 8th February:

Regular Stalls - qrs 50

Gold/Premium Stalls - qrs 60

Introducing a new ticket category for those who would like to and are able to support the Arts.

Donation Tickets are Qrs 200. 

As a not-for-profit association, everything goes back into our funds to bring you even more spectacular shows in the future and helps to cover the cost of the venue, admin, costumes, set, props, lighting and sound equipment, etc.

This musical play is recommended for students and adults aged 12 and above.

Blood Brothers Synopsis:

A woman with numerous children to support secretly surrenders one of her newborn twins to the childless woman she cleans for. The boys grow up streets apart, never learning the truth but becoming firm friends. One prospers while the other falls on hard times. A narrator warns that a price has to be paid for separating twins: the lives of the Blood Brothers.

Blood Brothers won the Laurence Olivier Award for Best New Musical and its 1987 revival played over 10,000 consecutive performances during its 24-year West End and 2-year run on Broadway. Author Willy Russell continues to be one of the most celebrated writers of his generation.