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We are pleased to invite you to join our new Head of School, Dr Saima Rana, for a virtual meet and greet. This will be an interactive meeting, with opportunities for you to ask questions and discuss Dr Rana’s plan for the 2020-21 Academic Year.
To join us at 4:30pm on Wednesday 10th June: Click HERE Meeting ID: 974 3077 9317 Password: 415643 Alternatively, to join us 12:00pm on Thursday 11th June: Click HERE Meeting ID: 956 3321 9309 Password: 890695 We look forward to having you join us. Managing Meaningful Transitions
This final term of the school year is a time of transition and change for families. For many, this is also a time of uncertainty due to the current pandemic situation. As we continue through the last months of the academic year with distance learning, children and families at GWA are getting ready to transition to a new grade, move to another part of the school or pack it up and move to another country. During this time of transition, students begin to say their goodbyes and start to think about what it will be like in their new school. Many students and families have great friends who are preparing to leave, yet may not have the chance to properly say goodbye. The expat life can be thrilling and complicated at the same time as we experience change all around us. With that being said, a tool we use at GWA to help students facilitate these transitions is called R.A.F.T. The late David Pollock, an authority on third culture kids (TCKs), transitions, and internationally mobile families, prepared very helpful transition materials including this tool to help people transition well. The R.A.F.T. is a four-step process that entails the following:
We can imagine that this is a time of many mixed emotions, in addition to the sadness of leaving friends and familiar places behind. Additionally, we also understand that preparing for this move under the current situation may not be straight forward. The GWA Counseling Team would like to invite you to a special presentation highlighting the importance of transition on Wednesday, June 3 from 8:30-9:30. During this presentation, we will share tools and strategies to help prepare you and your family members before the upcoming transition to a new destination. We look forward to seeing you there. Click here to join Meeting ID: 897 7011 4034 Password: 8XJ6u8 For more information and resources on the transition process, please visit our Global Transition Resource Page. Kind Regards, The GWA Counseling Team "In order to fly, you have to give up the ground that you are standing on". Dear ES Community,
We wish our Muslim families a joyful Eid Mubarak as we begin the Eid al-Fitr holiday in the coming days. Please note, as I write this we are still waiting for official KHDA announcement of the Eid holiday dates. After the Eid holiday, we will be returning to the pre-Ramadan timetables. Elementary teachers will be reposting them for families. RAFT: TransitionsThis final term of the school year is a time of transition and change for families. For many, this is also a time of uncertainty due to the current pandemic situation. As we continue through the last months of the academic year with distance learning, children and families at GWA are getting ready to transition to a new grade, move to another part of the school or pack it up and move to another country. During this time of transition, students begin to say their goodbyes and start to think about what it will be like in their new school. Many students and families have great friends who are preparing to leave, yet may not have the chance to properly say goodbye. The expat life can be thrilling and complicated at the same time as we experience change all around us. With that being said, a tool we use at GWA to help students facilitate these transitions is called R.A.F.T. The late David Pollock, an authority on third culture kids (TCKs), transitions, and internationally mobile families, prepared very helpful transition materials including this tool to help people transition well. The R.A.F.T. is a four-step process that entails the following:
We can imagine that this is a time of many mixed emotions, in addition to the sadness of leaving friends and familiar places behind. Additionally, we also understand that preparing for this move under the current situation may not be straight forward. The GWA Counseling Team would like to invite you to a special presentation highlighting the importance of transition on Wednesday, June 3rd from 8:30-9:30. During this presentation, we will share tools and strategies to help prepare you and your family members before the upcoming transition to a new destination. We look forward to seeing you there. The Zoom link is: Here Password is: 7Risid For more information and resources on the transition process, please visit our Global Transition Resource Page. Kind Regards, The GWA Counseling Team "In order to fly, you have to give up the ground that you are standing on". Leaves (Haiku) By Jhanvi Goyal 3A Leaves, falling down slow. Super lush, super green leaves. Falling to the ground. Congratulations to the winning bakers from the Elementary Bake Off Competition. With over 130 entries, form PreK through to Grade 5, picking winners has been extremely difficult. So difficult that it was impossible to choose between entries from PreK and KG1, so all students received an additional house point for their amazing efforts. The winner in each grade level has earned an extra 5 points for their house, dramatically changing the final out come which you can see here.
This coming week we are excited to announce the #Weareone house poster competition. This is an initiative of Dubai Expo 2020. #Weareone House Poster Activity Create a poster in your own language that says “EVERYTHING WILL BE FINE”. Take a picture of your poster with you in it and post it to your Seesaw by Thursday May 14 at 1.30pm. Please remember to write what house you are in so we can give you a house point. Every entry receives 1 house point. So get creating and earn a house point for your house. We are looking forward to publishing entries in the newsletter. https://drive.google.com/file/d/1JeTrbX2SmAYLp2DWL2W_QLanrTi2tPNE/view During these unprecedented times and the shift in our learning environment, it is wonderful to see children continue to take action. Action is at the core of learner agency, with children taking initiative and being response-abled.” Miss Angela & Miss Sophie
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