PRINCIPAL‘S WELCOME BIS ABU DHABI TIMES

It is with great pleasure that I share the Term 2 edition of the BIS Abu Times for the 2022-23 academic year containing all the latest news from The British International School Abu Dhabi.

Here at BIS Abu Dhabi, we are “Empowering & enriching lives for future success”. This is not only the lives of our students, but also the community, our parents and our teachers alongside the many good causes we support and this term’s magazine truly demonstrates this.

We have had many opportunities to come together as a community this term, from Coffee Mornings, Duathlons, BBQs to name just a few, but for me the highlight was our student led event for Happiness Day. Our Year 12 students challenged us as a community to come together in unity, to highlight their call to action with “One People, One Planet”. The voice of youth was empowered to drive their passion project and they created an event where the youth smiled and acted. You can read more about it on page 20. The next challenge is to ensure all future events focus on being environmentally friendly and sustainable. We learned that this is a cause the youth want us to acknowledge.

We have had much sporting success to celebrate and I am proud to have been the Principal when our students won their first ever BSME Games. We are now the 2023 U19 BSME Large School Games winners and would like to congratulate all of the students that took part and brought us the trophy home. We also had the pleasure of hosting 10 schools from across the Middle East at the U11 BSME Games and cohosted the BSME Swimming Championships. Both were fantastic events, helped by our amazing staff, students, and community group, who made sure all visiting schools and parents were welcomed with open arms.

We were delighted to be able to celebrate our students’ outstanding academic success at our International Examination Board Achievements Awards, you can read more about it on page 10, but I would like to take this opportunity to highlight Junha, who was awarded the Highest Single Subject in the World Award in Mathematics.

In closing, I would like to take this opportunity to wish everyone a blessed Holy Month. I look forward to welcoming everyone back for Term 3.

Ramadan Kareem!

Liam Cullinan Principal

In March, we hosted the first Young Leaders Conference for Year 6 and 7 students. Students who applied for a leadership role and were successful, started their day collecting their lanyards and goody bags before joining the other Young Leaders in the hall. Mr. Cullinan spoke about being a ‘Champion of Change’ and shared our new school vision before Mrs. HeptinstallLowe got the students thinking about the qualities of a good leader.

Students then split off into the following workshops: Language Leaders, Student