20th September 2018
On We Go
YOUR WEEKLY UPDATE ON ALL THAT’S GOING ON AT THE GULF ENGLISH SCHOOL
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INFANTS What a start to Year 1! All the classes have settled in well after the holiday, and we have been doing some exciting things. We have been getting our hands dirty when practicing our number and letter formation by using play dough, flour trays, finger painting and creating prints. During Book Week, all the classes had different Year 1 teachers come to read a book to them, as well as reading lots of different stories in our own classes and during library time. Our favourite was ‘Not Now, Bernard!’ By David McKee. Swimming lessons started last week too! We were all very excited to get on the bus to go over to the Junior school where Mr. Brendan gave the students their first swimming lesson of Year 1. Everyone was very tired afterwards! All the students had a great start to the year and we are all very much looking forward to the year to come.
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JUNIORS Wow! What an exciting few weeks we have had in Year 4 since our return to school. As a year group, we have been focusing on celebrating student’s success. It has been a very few successful weeks indeed! In Topic this term, our theme is ‘Chocolate’. Each class had the opportunity to use their five senses to describe milk, dark and white chocolate. In Art, we looked at how we could use chocolate to create pictures. The students really enjoyed learning about how to change the chocolate from a solid to a liquid by melting it in the hot sun. There was great excitement among the students when they learnt that we would be then creating pictures using the chocolate. The creations turned out great (and very tasty!). Some very lucky students in Year 4 also had the opportunity to help Mr. Willy Wonka in his famous chocolate factory. The students who were successful in finding the Golden Ticket were taken away and introduced to Mr Willy Wonka – how exciting! Overall in Year 4, it has been a very successful beginning to term and we are looking forward to seeing where the next few weeks will take us.
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SECONDARY Dear Parents,
introduced, we hope that your child will not only
Welcome back on behalf of the entire Secondary
achieve success on a more frequent basis but also
Mathematics Department. We hope you and your
celebrate success as a result with their peers.
children had a fantastic break. We were eagerly
We hope and pray for a great new academic year
looking forward to having the children back in
for you and your children and Inshaa’Allah we
school and it was such a delight to have them
hope that our efforts as a department will make
return in good spirits.
you proud.
Alhamdulillah, last academic year was another
Yours faithfully,
excellent year for the school and for the
Wahid Fazil.
Mathematics department in particular. The IGCSE
Head of Secondary Mathematics Department
result for Mathematics was 59% of students achieving A*-C. Our Statistics group also managed to a secure 61% A*-C pass rate. Our greatest achievement last year was with our AS students: 56% of our students in Year 12 were able to achieve an A*-C grade, in one of the toughest courses we offer. This was only possible due to the excellent effort of the students, the unquestionable dedication of the teachers who taught them, the solid foundation of which the department prides itself in and, above all, the endless efforts of the parents. We recognise the efforts made by the parents throughout the child’s school life and would like to take this opportunity to thank them for supporting us in achieving these excellent results. As the new academic year starts, the department is eager to follow on from the success of last year and we hope that with your support the department will grow and improve further as time goes on. With the new information system being
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CONTACT The Gulf English School PO Box 2440, Doha, Qatar Main School: Tel: +974 44578777 Main School: Fax: +974 44861256 Infant Unit: Tel: +974 44886791/90 +974 44886201/93 Infant Unit: Fax: +974 44876821
Email: info@gulfenglishschool.com
Website: www.gulfenglishschool.com