Please find attached the last calendar for the year.
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Please find attached the last calendar for the year.
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A massive thank you to all the parents who have joined us over the past two weeks and told stories from their cultures. We listened to stories from Australia, Ireland, Canada, Portugal, Brazil, Turkey and also from the Arabic cultures. The elementary student council representatives would like the whole GWA community to wear red clothing on Thursday, May 4th as a token of our love and appreciation for our support staff, and everything that they do to help us. A 5 AED donation will be accepted to support SEWA.
Sewa is a sanskrit word that means to sacrifice your time and resources for the benefit of others without wanting anything in return. Sewa is a universal concept which involves performing an act of kindness without expectation of reward. It is performed selflessly and without an ulterior motive. At GWA our SEWA projects aim to relieve hardship and bring a little bit of joy to blue collar laborers and non-qualified staff in the UAE. Students are given the opportunity to volunteer and organize collection drives to support this.
As part of our Unit of Inquiry “Tell Me a Story”, we will be exploring different ways stories are told. Next week we are focusing on oral story telling. Please orally tell your child an interesting story about him/herself when he/she was a baby. This can be a very short story (even just one sentence). Your child will then tell the same story to their friends in class. Our class story telling schedule is below.
This week GWA will be having an Environmental Week with a focus on environmentally friendly activities in and around the school. As part of the events, students are invited to wear green clothing to school on Thursday, April 27th. Participating students are asked to donate 5 AED which the Eco Council will use to purchase a reverse vending machine for the school. The government has decreed that the school will be closed on Sunday, April 23rd, in observance of Al Isra’a Wal Mi’raj - Ascension Day. Parents are also reminded that the last day of the school year will be Thursday, June 22nd and will end at 12:00 noon.
Next week we will be starting our final unit of inquiry entitled “How We Express Ourselves - Tell me a Story”. The central idea behind this unit is: People from around the world create and pass on stories in a variety of ways. We will be focusing on the following lines of inquiry:
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