ANNUAL REPORT 2014 - 15
MULTICULTURAL CYCLE 2015 “UBUNTU MURAL” For seven days during the Multicultural Cycle in Advisory time, students in grades 6, 7, and 8 worked together to create a mural, after watching the video “The Miniature Earth” and reflecting in a creative way what they understand and how that effected them personally as a group. We were extremely excited about the project and the mural was placed on the side wall of the Visual Arts building close to the Middle School office.
Ubuntu is an African word for a universal concept. The spirit of Ubuntu is expressed in Xhosa, one of South Africa’s eleven official languages, understood in English as “People are people through other people” and ” I am because you are” and “ We are that Village”. https://youtu.be/hedHdWV3CDU
INTERNATIONAL CHOIR FESTIVAL – PARIS 2015 Carol Morgan School was one of the 16 international schools represented at the Middle School Honor Girls’ Choir festival in Paris this past April. This festival is sponsored by AMIS (The Association for Music in International Schools) and brings together six girls from each school to join together to create a mass choir. The six girls from CMS, Camila Menicucci, Carola Maglione, Anabel Marti, Maria Brant, Ana Cristina Perez, and Annette Baittiner, learned ten pieces of music before the festival. When they arrived at the American School of Paris, they worked alongside 93 other singers under the direction of the Kathy Heedles to prepare for a final concert. They rehearsed five hours a day for three days, but also took some time to sightsee and enjoy the fabulous city. It was an unbelievable experience and one that brought together so many different cultures. Music truly is a universal language.
FIRST LEGO LEAGUE COMPETITION (FLL) With the school’s interest in robotics and success in the senior FIRST competition, FRC (First Robotics Competition); it was with some excitement that the Carol Morgan School prepared for the inaugural FLL (First Lego League) competition here in the Dominican Republic. The FLL competition is aimed at the 9-14 age range which fits perfectly with the Middle School; the aims of the competition fitting nicely with those of the Carol Morgan School as a whole and the Technology department especially. Not only do competitors have to prepare for a demanding Robot Game, but they are expected to both uphold and explain guiding Core Values and also prepare a Project that sees them interact with and offer insights to professionals within a given area (this year, it was education). As the age range covers both Upper Elementary and Middle School, some time was spent on deciding how best to offer the possibility of entering the competition to the widest number of students possible. Due to the difficulty of organizing a common time between Elementary and Middle School, the decision was made to limit the involvement this year to just Middle School. Indeed, the difficulty of finding a time suitable to prepare for the competition led to a combination of time after school on
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