Mathematics

Overview Primary

In the Primary Phase, the delivery of Mathematical learning progresses by encouraging pupils to discuss and explore concepts in depth, applying their knowledge in problem solving contexts. Students make use of visual and practical resources to aid understanding before moving into abstract learning. The use of Information Technology is also encouraged using online programmes, such as Mathletics and Education City.

As students become more confident in number recognition and place value, they apply this knowledge into written calculations. In the accompanying photo, you can see a small group of Year 1 pupils partitioning a whole part into different smaller parts using practical equipment. As part of the Year 2 curriculum students are required to collect discrete data and place this information into a bar chart. You can see Yousuf and Seyara collating catergorised data using coloured sweets from a Smartie packet. Mathematics and chocolate - a great combination!

While studying units of measurement, Year 3 students are introduced to all of the monetary units used in the United Kingdom. In one of the photographs you can see Zahra distinguishing between the differing values: pence and pounds, coins and notes. In another photograph, Miane shows her ability to choose the appropriate tool to measure the length of the corridor that supports learning in a real-life context. Students in Year 4 continue to develop skills in calculation and mental agility. In the photo you can see Maria and Eya consolidate multiplication facts in a Connect 4 game situation.

The real-life application of reading and recognising place value had Year 5 pupils engaged in an activity to research population sizes in towns across England and Scotland. In the photo, you can see Lilly and Aryamik reading and ordering large numerical values. Students in Year 6 are required to calculate the passage of time, prior to consolidating this skill by reading and interpreting a timetable. In the photograph you can see the written work that Grace and Zania have successfully completed. The development of mental agility is also important. Kareem takes on the role of teacher and shows everyone how to get the target number in a recordbreaking time!.

In addition to the maths learning in lessons, there has been a vast array of fun and exciting Maths events and competitions. We started the year off in September with a small number of pupils in Year 5 and Year 6 taking part in the KENKEN 2019 Competition. In November, Hartland once again hosted the “Primary Maths Challenge” with a selection of Year 5 and Year 6 students taking part. All students did extremely well, however, a particular mention should be given to Tobias Horwell in Year 6 who achieved a high score and was selected to compete in the bonus round in February. In the same month, BARVEMBER was launched. All classes were asked to complete daily problem-solving questions that supported bar-modelling. It was great to see students solve the questions and present their own maths work as bar models. Finally, throughout May and June, students have been invited to take part in the KENKEN Class Challenge by completing 3x3, 4x 4 5x5 or 6x6 grids. Moreover, students in Years 4 to Year 10 were encouraged to register for the KEKEN Competition 2020. We eagerly await the School Level results of this competition in the hope that some pupils from Hartland School may reach the International Level in December 2020.

Mrs M McDonough

Primary Mathematics Leader

Overview Secondary

Building on last year’s successful year in Mathematics, this academic year has seen students face the challenges of an array of new topics. During the year the different year groups in Key Stage 3 have been developed their understanding of key areas in number, data handling, geometry and algebra. Topics taught in class have been brought to life through application to real life problems and projects. We have had shared lots of success stories this year, including Mathematicians of the Month awards, Numeracy Ninja champions and participation once again in the Dubai Super Maths League.

In Year 7, through studying algebra, students have learnt how to simplify and write algebraic expressions and can recognise the impact of powers on expressions. They have learnt how to factorise and expand algebraic expressions and can now solve one-step and two-step equations. Students can now apply Trial and Improvement to solve equations. In the last unit in Year 7, students learnt how to work out the terms of an arithmetic sequence using term to term rules and can now generate and predict what geometric sequences will look like.

In Year 8, students have applied Pythagoras’ Theorem to calculate missing sides in right angled triangles. In data handling, students can now represent and interpret data through distance time graphs and rates of change. Students have learnt how to calculate dependant probabilities and interpret probability tree diagrams. We considered real life scale models and students improved their geometrical skills by drawing to scale, and constructing triangles and nets using a ruler and compasses. In the last unit, students in Year 8 studied straight line graphs and can now calculate the gradient and equation of straight lines written in the form y=mx+c.

In Year 9, through studying algebra, students can expand and factorise expressions and change the subject of an equation. They have learnt how to graph quadratic, cubic and reciprocal functions. Students can solve simultaneous equations through algebraic manipulation and by plotting the equations and they have learnt how to solve problems using trigonometry. Students were introduced to the different properties of the trigonometric graphs and now can accurately plot these. We spent a significant amount of time examining how percentages are used in the real world, in advertising to attract customers and also considered the use of percentages in banking and real estate.

In Key Stage 4 this year we have covered a vast amount of topics in Mathematics. Students have worked extensively across the 4 key areas of the subject. From learning the intricacies and applications of circle theorems within geometry, to solving quadratic graphs through factorisation and plotting to find solutions, students have been challenged. As a year group they have made fantastic progress and are in an ideal position as we prepare to venture into Year 11. As a department, along with Mrs Desrayaud and Mrs McDonough, we have been really impressed with the attitude and effort and that we have witnessed in our classrooms. A massive well done to all the students who have made this such a memorable year!

Mr G Brown

Head of Mathematics

MODERN FOREIGN LANGUAGES

Chinese Exchange Trip

In January, we were very fortunate to host a school from Chengdu, China. We invited 15 students and their teachers into our school to sample life as a student at Hartland. We asked 14 year 5 students to buddy up with them for the day. It was so lovely to see them all communicating with each other in the morning to find out more about each other. As the day went on, the visiting students came out of their shells and shared with their buddies information about their home. We all learnt that Chengdu is a dynamic and vibrant city in Sichuan, the hometown of the Panda bear. After the students had experienced a sample timetable including Art, Drama, Music, Maths, English and Science. It was lovely to see them coming back together at the end of the day. The Chinese students gave gifts to our students as a Thank you for looking after them and I believe a few friendships were started on that day. It was so lovely to see students from another part of the world, enjoying all that Hartland has to offer.

Mandarin

The Mandarin students had an amazing afternoon participating in the Chinese New Year celebrations at Grand Parade, City Walk, Dubai. Our boys and girls looked quite the part with their traditional Chinese outfits on, and blended into the Chinese crowd seamlessly. Equipped with basic Mandarin and filled with great enthusiasm, our students joined the parade of dragon dances, lion dances, martial arts displays, drumming processions, and vibrant Chinese ethnic costumes displays. They sung the New Year songs alongside the parade group, smiled and took in the celebrating atmosphere while waving to the audience who were clapping and smiling. Young and old, Chinese and non-Chinese people all gathered at this celebration of the Chinese New Year. As tradition goes, young children receive “red packets” during Chinese New Year as part of the celebration. Hartland students embraced this tradition wholeheartedly when they were handing out red packet after red packet to children in the crowd and wishing them “Happy New Year” in Mandarin. Both the children receiving red packets and our students were beaming with smiles. It had been one of the most exciting moments of the parade for our students. It was with great pleasure to see our Mandarin students engrossed in this language and culture banquet and thoroughly enjoyed themselves.

This year in Mandarin, we have covered the topics of colours, pets, fruits, friends, family and daily activities in lower years. In higher years, we have touched the topics of greetings, age, appearances, birthdays and daily routines.

Our students have participated in colour sorting, daily activities acting-out and self-introductions including family, friends and their favourite toys!

We have enjoyed learning through actions, I am so proud of our students as they picked up a book and said, “I am reading”, or when they flew a toy airplane over head and telling me “I have an airplane” in Mandarin. In higher years, our students have tried their best at the self-introduction speech contest in our weekly “Mandarin Corner”; they were able to tell us about their names, age, appearances, favourite routine activities and families in spoken Mandarin!

Mandarin Key stage 3 (Y7-8)

This year in Mandarin, we have covered the topics of daily greetings, polite requests, certain professions, detailed descriptions of timings, routine activities, stationeries, locations, and detailed appearances. Our students have participated in “real” scenario conversations in which they had acted out tea-drinking experience, shopping experience; they chatted about their daily routines, they arranged locations of their stationeries according to Mandarin verbal instructions, etc.

Our students have enjoyed learning through both offline and online lessons, through participating in events such as the Chinese New Year Parade held at the City Walk this year. They have tried their best to grasp this oriental language, and they have made good progress in their speaking and listening Mandarin as well as in reading and writing the pictogram-like Chinese characters. As year groups grow, we are excited to see classes growing and as always we are overwhelmed by the amazing progress our students make. They have had many opportunities to full engage in the learning from reading stories in French to creating their own role plays. We strongly believe that the 4 skills of listening, reading, writing and speaking are to be practiced from day 1. Though students will spend more time speaking and listening at the beginning of KS2, as they move nearer to secondary, we focus on all 4 skills to ensure they are fully prepared for their language learning journey ahead. In year 4, there is a strong focus on being able to present one’s self and to create and describe pieces of art. In year 5, we have spent the year focusing on giving our opinions on food, sports and music and in year 6, we have spent the year looking at how we describe in detail, where we live, France and more recently we have focused on other French speaking countries. I am so pleased with the excellent attitude our students have when it comes to learning another language and I can’t wait to see them grow further as linguists.

Secondary French

We are so fortunate to have the option to choose so many languages in secondary and to have two lessons a week for each language. I have enjoyed seeing the year 7 students grow in to linguists and develop their French skills. They are now able to give opinions, talk about a town, describe themselves and their families, talk about their school and give opinions and describe future holidays using another tense. In year 8 students have been able to expand on this and learn another tense to enhance all their hard work from year 7. They also looked at hobbies, Paris in detail and they expanded on their ability to talk about themselves. In year 9, they focused on using 3 tenses alongside each other and they learnt how to talk about parts of the body, jobs and what they would like to do in the future and their rights and priorities as they think about IGCSE French. We are also very fortunate to have an IGCSE French class and we have been working on key language they learnt in KS3 and ensuring they are able to develop their vocabulary and their grammar further in different context. In their final exam next year, they will be tested in their listening, reading, writing and speaking skills. We also have 1 student who has done the IGCSE French exam this year.

MODERN FOREIGN LANGUAGES

Primary German

What a busy year we had in German! I must say, I am very happy with the progress our German students have made. They show enthusiasm and fantastic creativity, primary students as well as secondary students. This makes me proud. In Year 3 this year, we have focused on describing our family and ourselves. The students have learnt simple sentences and expressions to introduce themselves. They have also included colours and numbers in their sentences. Through German songs, games and stories, they have gathered a range of vocabulary.

Year 4 has focused on the topic ‘in school’ and ‘where I live’ later in the year. They are now able to describe where they live and how their house or apartment looks like. They have learnt prepositions to describe the location of furniture and household items. In Year 5, we have focused on the students speaking skills. We started the year with describing the weather and comparing seasons. Students were able to create their own weather forecast using a big range of vocabulary, including adjectives and connectives. We then switched to the topic ‘in the city’ which has included directions, important buildings and shopping. The students have created fantastic shopping conversations and recorded themselves on Flipgrid. In Year 6, students are developing their grammatical knowledge and they are focusing on creating longer pieces of writing and taking part in longer conversations in preparation for Year 7. They worked on describing where they live and what they do in their free time.

Secondary German

In Secondary, I have introduced a new Workbook called ‘Beste Freunde’. It covers all relevant topics, as well as developing speaking, listening, writing and reading skills. All students have worked hard to develop their knowledge and language skills. Year 7 has been looking at what we do and learn at school. They have been able to describe and compare timetables and express their opinion about different subjects. We then moved on with the topic, Family. The students created a family tree, which has been presented to their peers.

In Year 8, we have covered a range of topics such as hobbies, transportation and giving direction. Through a variety of different teaching and learning activities, students have been building their communication skills, enabling them to express their ideas and thoughts. We had two new students who have joined German class this year and I am very proud with how much effort they have caught up Grammar and Vocabulary.

The students in Year 9 have been talking about daily routine, German food and Technology. They have focused on past tense in speaking and writing, present tense and future. Year 10 has been preparing for GCSE German exam this year. The students have worked on a range of topics such as daily routine, going on a student exchange or food habits with incredible effort.

Spanish

It’s hard to believe it’s only a few short months since we were in the classroom! It has been amazing to see how well students have handled the changes and, in many cases, really thrived with the additional freedom and flexibility of online learning. In Primary, most lessons have been pre-recorded, in order to give the children the flexibility to complete the tasks at a time that suits them. Participation has been excellent, and we have used a range of websites and apps to ensure students can still practise their speaking, listening, reading and writing skills, from old favourites like Linguascope and Quizlet to new discoveries like Flipgrid, Edupuzzle, Gimkit and Teachvid. Through the year, Year 3 have been working on introducing themselves, expressing simple opinions, describing their clothes and their school subjects. Year 4 have been describing themselves and their families, designing monsters and learning to give directions in town. Year 5 have been learning about food and sports. Year 6 have been learning to describe the weather, their daily routine, parts of the body, injuries and illnesses and Spanish fiestas.

In Secondary, almost all lessons have been live, and attendance and participation have also been excellent. We have used many of the same websites as mentioned above. In Year 7, students have learnt to talk about themselves, their friends and family, what they do in their free time and school life. In Year 8, students have started to use the past, present and future tenses to talk about holidays and food. In Year 9, students have been talking about jobs and future plans, healthy living and a specially adapted scheme of work about life in lockdown. It has been great to have our first GCSE class studying Spanish this year in Year 10 and they have been working really well throughout the year. We also hope to have our first GCSE results to announce this year as 2 native Spanish speakers in Year 9 have been entered for their GCSE early.

Italian

It is always a pleasure to share my love of all things Italian and this year has been no exception. The students have been a joy to teach and delighted me with their enthusiasm and verve for language learning. In Year 7, where all of the students were beginners, we have studied free time, describing one’s family and home country, daily routine and discussing our families among other topics. They have studied the phonetic makeup of the language, learning to pronounce Italian with panache as well as developing their listening skills. We have also covered verb conjugation in the present tense and adjectival agreement. In Year 8, students have built upon the successes of last year and they have gone on to study school life, transport, holidays, directions in town. They have also been introduced to Italian cultural life, learning to discuss and research films, books and the theatre. We have learned to use the perfect tense and to recognise the imperfect tense in Italian, we have also considered the different uses of indefinite and definite articles. More recently, I have been so impressed with the way that students have coped with the transition to distance learning. Our live lessons have given students the opportunity to practise their speaking and listening skills, as well as continuing to hone their reading and writing skills. 71

MORAL EDUCATION & SOCIAL STUDIES

Moral Education

Since its inception by the UAE Government in 2017, the approach to and delivery of Moral Education in Hartland has gone from strength to strength. Moral Education is comprised of four pillars – Character and Morality, The Individual and the Community, Cultural Studies and Civic Studies. Character and Morality explores universal ethical value such as fairness, caring, honesty resilience, tolerance and respect. The Individual and the Community delves in to the relationship of the students with their families, social environment and communities at large. Cultural Studies focuses on local Emirati heritage and archaeology and the importance of preserving culture. In the upper year groups, Civic Studies concentrates on Emirati history, trade, travel, governance as well as global citizenship. From Year 2 to Year 10, the students cover different aspects of these four pillars on varying levels.

This year, I have had the privilege of delivering Moral Education to four different year groups across primary and secondary. It has been very interesting for me to see the different conversations that can take place about topics of a similar nature. A particular highlight for me was exploring the concept of equality and fairness with different year groups. When we examine this concept in the lower year groups, we often use the picture of the three children with three boxes, to help the students understand that what is equal, is not always fair. In the older year groups, we explore this further and apply the same thinking to the distribution of resources in different parts of the world. Depending on population, size and infrastructure, different parts of the world require different amounts of various resources. From visiting different Moral Education lessons in every year group, I was truly inspired by the thoughts and reasoning of students across Hartland. Students in Hartland enjoy Moral Education lessons – it allows them to discuss concepts that they may not necessarily encounter in the other subject areas. We are all very pleased with the direction in which Moral Education is going in Hartland and look forward to seeing the subject develop in the coming academic year. 72 YEARBOOK 2019-20

Social Studies

In line with UAE national priorities and the Dubai strategic plan 2021, the UAE Social Studies curriculum has been developed to provide students with indepth knowledge, skills and understanding in history, geography and civics, which emphasise the links and relationships between diverse groups, people, science and society. In UAE Social Studies lessons, students will contribute, as responsible citizens and residents of the UAE, to the building of a cohesive society that is inclusive of all, while preserving the UAE culture, heritage and traditions.

It has been a fantastic year for Social Studies at Hartland, thanks to all the hard work and dedication from all students in Primary & Secondary. Not only have we covered a large amount of content related to the UAE, we have continued to develop the key learning skills required at a higher education level, such as map skills, statistical skills, analysis skills and research skills- all of which will come in very useful as the students’ progress throughout their school life.

One of the highlights in Secondary was the Year 7 debate on Desalination. The motion was ‘desalination is the most sustainable way to increase supply of freshwater’. Students spent many hours researching, writing and practicing their debates, to which the quality was absolutely fantastic. Another highlight was in Year 8, where students had to research the life of His Highness Sheikh Mohammed, where they found notable achievements of his life. All in all a very interesting year for Secondary students, well done.

Moving to Primary, a particular highlight was in Year 6, where students had to research and learn a traditional Youla dance in the UAE. This dance was then presented to the school on UAE National Day, and also is now published on YouTube. What a great experience! In Year 3, students were given the task to explore the connections between new and old Dubai, where they produced a fantastic piece of artwork comparing the life before and after the formation of the UAE in 1971. Well done Year 3!

Mr Buse

Head of Social Studies

Primary Music

Music is a universal language that embodies one of the highest forms of creativity. Here at Hartland International School we inspire and engage students to develop a love for music and to support their talents as musicians developing their self-confidence, creativity and sense of achievement. Through effective teaching and learning of the knowledge, skills and understanding in music, we continue to maintain and stimulate pupil curiosity, interest and enjoyment in music.

Our music programme follows the British National Curriculum requirements for music alongside ‘Music Express’ and ‘Sing Up’. In Key Stage 1 students use their voices expressively, play a variety of tuned and untuned instruments, listen with understanding and experiment with sounds.

Year 1’s have explored the percussion family, especially the xylophone where they can read musical notation and perform simple songs with ease and accuracy. Year 2’s have thrived on their ukuleles and have carried out group and ensemble work while developing their communication, tolerance and confidence with singing and playing.

Key Stage 2 have further developed their understanding of the staff and music notation, while also exploring an instrumental program. Year 3 have been introduced to the recorder, year 4 the violin, year 5 have explored the voice and year 6 have completed a keyboard module. Students now have more of an awareness of musical cultures and traditions. Students confidence in performing has also been heightened in both a solo and group context.

Music at Hartland International School is used to promote excellence and enjoyment. It has a strong presence in the ethos of the school through assemblies, performances and productions; and the development of our school choir. With the transition to online students have engaged in a slightly different form of music learning, but none the less are still thriving.

Ms E Egan

Secondary Music

Building on the skills the students have been learning in both foundation stage and in the Primary school, students have focussed on the key musical skills of performing, listening and composing and through these have learned many different styles of music from around the world:

- Year 7 have looked at African music and programme music. - Year 8 have looked at Music for celebrations and Minimalism. - Year 9 have looked at Song writing and

Performance.

This year has been a very momentous year in the Music department, because we have introduced our first ever GCSE music class, who are following the Pearson Edexcel GCSE course. Similar to our own programme, the main focus for this is performing, composing and listening, and we have had a fun time studying lots of different styles of music and performing as much as we can.

Term 3 has obviously caused us to re-think what we were doing, and students have undertaken a composition task that has tested and encouraged their melody and rhythm writing skills using a combination of web based software. Year 9 have also been learning how to digitally manipulate sound to create pieces of electronic music.

We have as ever been joined by the Centre for Musical Arts who offer one to one or group peripatetic lessons during the school day, and online in term 3. We have had an increasing number of students participate in lessons through term 1, which has been very pleasing to see, and those students have also performed around school and online, showing what they have been learning.

Mr G Ansell

Head of Music

Performing Arts Picnic

Building on an initiative started last year, the Music and Drama departments have combined to offer a series of concerts known as the ‘Performing Arts Picnic’.

The first one of the year was during the hot season, and so a new venue was introduced, using the café area as a performance venue. Having students on upper floors using them as a balcony certainly created a unique atmosphere, and the performers did excellently in this new venue.

Our second picnic of the year was back in the regular venue of the Reflection Garden, and allowed the audience to relax in the warm sun for a relaxing afternoon of music and Drama. Both concerts contained a mixture of both solo musical performances and Drama monologues, many of which were preparation for ABRSM and LAMDA performance exams. Sadly the concerts have been somewhat curtailed by the school closure, however they will be back; bigger and better next year.

Winter Concert

In a change to the previous year all of the students in Year 1-10 came together for a festive afternoon to mark the end of Term 1, with Christmas trees, tinsel and even a life size elf statue greeting them on stage. A new addition this year was a pre-concert performance which took place in the café area, allowing students an opportunity to perform, as well as entertaining the waiting crowds.

As in previous years, each year group performed a song based around the season, there were also performances from the Key Stage 1 Ukulele club and the Key stage 1 and Key stage 2 choirs. They were joined in the final performance by the Parent’s Choir who had also performed earlier in the concert.

We also saw solo performances from our GCSE students Pujia and Nandini (both Year 10), as well as a trio of some of our most talented singers, Gypsy (6), Niamh (5) and ChaeliJade (9) giving us a lovely rendition of the famous German Christmas song ‘Silent Night’. The afternoon finished with a rousing performance of ‘We wish you a merry Christmas’ sung by all the students who had performed, and capped a fantastic afternoon, which put everyone in a very festive mood.

PHYSICAL EDUCATION

The PE department were fortunate to welcome two sporting icons to Hartland this academic year. Nathan McCullum, a former New Zealand international cricket player, and Manal Rostom, an Egyptian athlete who was the first woman to wear the Hijab to be featured by Nike, visited Hartland to speak to our students about their experiences of sport.

Manal Rostom spoke to our female students about her life experiences and the barriers she had faced in her pursuit of sporting success. She spoke of her desire to become the first Hijab Egyptian born athlete to complete the ‘6 major marathons’ (Tokyo, Boston, London, Berlin, Chicago and New York) around the world, which she hoped would inspire the next generation of female athletes. Manal then took to our sports field to lead a Hartland Team run to motivate and inspire our students that anything is possible as long as you are committed and are prepared to persevere. We also had the pleasure of welcoming Nathan McCullum to Hartland this year. Nathan, along with the coaches from Its Just Cricket Academy, provided a skills workshop for our aspiring young cricketers. Our students were fortunate to be able to question and ask advice from a player who had represented his country in a cricket World Cup and has also participated in some of the highest level franchise cricket competitions, such as the Indian Premier League, around the world. It was evident from the feedback, emotions and interactions of the students that they thoroughly enjoyed the experience.

Hopefully, next year, we will be able to welcome more sporting icons to our wonderful school.

Online Learning

During Distance Learning it was particularly important that we kept ourselves moving and engaged in activity for our physical and mental wellbeing. Since the beginning of Hartland’s online learning journey, the PE department wanted to keep lessons active, fun and engaging for all year groups to continue to build on the momentum of an already great year.

Foundation Stage loved joining in with live Zoom lessons, moving to music and developing their locomotor skills using teddies. Primary students had the opportunity to join PE Live at 11 each day, following teachers through a series of challenging circuits. There were also several fun guest appearances from class teachers!

Secondary PE lessons had a duel focus of fitness and developing skills, primarily agility through use of the artificial intelligence app, HomeCourt. Students participated in weekly fitness workouts with an emphasis on how they were developing systems within their body and which muscle groups were most active. The enjoyment of using HomeCourt led to Hartland students being involved in Dubai’s first ever Digital Sports Fixture, keeping alive fun, friendly competition

during Distance Learning.

30x30 Challenge

The 30x30 Dubai Fitness kicked off in spectacular style at Hartland with the whole school getting active together on the field. The Hartland community danced, jumped and moved together to music for a full 30 minutes to start the month off right and they never looked back.

With events running every day, there was a lot to be excited about. Parents joined some of our highly successful Enrichment activities, even getting up at 6.30am to join in with Biathlon training. Students participated in a range of activities on behalf of their Houses including Dodgeball, Basketball, Dance and the ever-popular House Run. The fun wasn’t just for families, there were also competitions for teachers! Staff delighted the student spectators with a Basketball competition and the hotly contested relay race!

The final 48 hours of the challenge were truly a spectacle to behold. Teachers, Parents and even the KHDA joined together to row continuously for two days! Over the course of those two days, the school community achieved an incredible 565,960 metres.

Mr N Statham

Head of Physical Education

SCIENCE

As one of the three core subjects of the National Curriculum, Science is a highly valued subject at Hartland International School. Science stimulates and excites pupils’ curiosity about phenomena and events in the world around them. Throughout the year we encouraged the natural curiosity that children have about themselves and their surroundings. We provided the students with the opportunity to develop their own questions and to consider various ways of finding out answers while also taking ownership over their own learning.

Year 3

Year 3 were introduced to the lab this year and have made some fantastic progress. The year kick-started with learning about Plants and they have blossomed in every topic since. An important aspect of Science is understanding how and why we investigate, the year 3 mastered this by the end of term one. They were able to identify different methods to test Magnetic strength and Force and represent their results through tables and graphs. Our topic Light gave the students the opportunity to investigate rainbows and shadows from home. The standard of work and their ability to adjust outside of a classroom has been amazing. The students have gained an independence when conducting their investigations which will be of huge benefit for when we return to the lab again.

Year 4

The year 4 students have explored many topics this year and have been introduced to a wide range of Scientific concepts and ideas. The Students started the year learning about Electricity, this topic tested their ability to accurately record and interpret data. They used online simulations such at Phet Colorado and integrated their Scientific knowledge with IT to gain a full understanding of Circuits and Electricity. The year 4 have continued to exercise their Scientific skills throughout distance learning with the topic Sound. The students utilised the materials they had at home and adapted their investigations accordingly. They have explored Evaporation, Condensation, Vibrations and Pitch at home and successfully evaluated their results and conclusions from their investigations.

Year 5

The year 5 students have covered a wide range of topics this year and have really developed their Scientific knowledge and skills. Our topics Separating Mixtures and Forces has challenged year 5 to utilise the Scientific Method when conducting experiments. When exploring these topics students formulated hypothesises, tested their methods and analysed their results before reaching a final conclusion. It was fantastic to see the year 5 rise to the challenge and adapt a new discovery approach to their learning. During distance learning the year 5 have been exercising their research and presentation skills whilst exploring The Solar System. It has been a delight to observe them present their projects with such confidence and enthusiasm.

Year 6

Year 6 have made fantastic progress in the lab this year. Starting off with a heart dissection in September really set the tone for their discovery learning throughout the year. The students utilised their analytical and enquiry based skills that they had developed in year 5 and really applied these to the topics they explored in Science. We covered aspects of the KS3 curriculum when we explored topics such as Electricity and Light and it was a pleasure to see the students thrive in an environment that challenged and excited them. Year 6 have really shown their commitment to the subject throughout distance learning also, our live sessions are always filled with enquire based questions, ‘Whys?’ and ‘What ifs?’. Their ability to adapt and adjust has been incredible and their competence in exercising their Scientific skills in a different environment has truly solidified their subject knowledge even more.

Enrichment

Many KS2 students also had to opportunity to participate in the Young Scientists enrichment programme where they were able to extend their knowledge and understanding on topics such as Microscopes, Chemical Reactions and The Circulatory System.

This year we have made some very exciting changes to our Key Stage 3 curriculum, to reflect changes that are happening in Science both internationally and here in Dubai. We have aimed to give our students the opportunity to investigate scientific phenomena and develop first-hand experience through experimentation. Year 7 started their journey by learning about how their bodies are put together, how cells become organs and how these organs work together to ensure we stay alive and well. In chemistry we used experiments to show how we can tell if a chemical reaction has happened and use these to predict the outcomes of some reactions. Physics focussed on the forces that govern our universe. Students have produced some fantastic project work throughout the year and continued to do so through online learning. Year 7 have faced the challenges this year has thrown at them with strength and resilience.

Year 8

Year 8 is an incredibly important year in Science as it builds upon the ideas taught in year 7 and aims to develop students understanding and natural curiosity for the subject. We started the year finding out about how our body systems work to keep us healthy and alive. Students really enjoyed being able to dissect hearts, lungs and eyes. In chemistry students deepened their understanding of chemical reactions by learning about the building blocks of matter, atoms. They discovered how these tiny particles combine to form the world around us. In physics students began using quantitative methods to conclude on key findings. They calculated speeds, pressures, moments and energies. Year 8 have continued to make outstanding progress even through the recent challenges we faced. The natural curiosity this year group have has made it an absolute pleasure to teach them.

Year 9

In year 9, students aim to develop the skills and knowledge they will need to make them successful at GCSE and beyond. We started the year embedding the key skills in science. This included calculations, graphing and analysing data. Students then dove straight into the AQA GCSE Science course. We have been extremely overwhelmed by the capabilities this group have shown in science. Their natural curiosity and love for the subject has meant they are already excelling in the GCSE course. We are so excited to see the achievements of the students throughout the next 2 years. It is a testament to each and every student that even through these unusual times we are still on track and students are producing the same high level of work consistently. Year 10 students have experienced many new and exciting areas of science this year. In Biology they have looked at how life works and how their bodies are structured and have had first-hand experience of anatomy through many organ dissections. A highlight this year has been their work on the human immune system. With recent events students found this topic very interesting and really delved into the science behind what we are all experiencing around the world currently. In Chemistry they have looked at the atomic world and why atoms combine to form new substances. Students have also been practising their experimental techniques and have mastered such task as titrations and electrolysis. In Physics students have explored the topic of energy and have used this to aid their understanding of chemical reactions and biology systems. They focused also on the subatomic world and the interactions between particles and forces.

Young Scientists Enrichment

We had a very successful science enrichment where students took on challenges in groups and came up with their own explanations and theories for different science phenomena. This included topics such as water conservation, forces, and life on different planets. Students amazed us with their creativeness and systematic thought processes. On behalf of myself, Mrs Musgrave and Mrs Rogers, we would like to say a huge congratulations and well done to all of our students this year. You have faced the challenges head on and have never dropped your focus. You continue to show progress in science and we are so impressed with your continued effort to complete science experiments at home. We cannot wait to see you all again soon and watch you grow and become the new generation of scientists that this world desperately needs.

CAREERS at Hartland

It’s never too early to start thinking about what career you may choose in the future and I am delighted to say our students have shown amazing interest and enthusiasm in career exploration this year.

Year7’s have been busy researching careers, professions, jobs and occupations and the many terms we use when exploring careers, they looked at why people work and the benefits of being happy and fulfilled in the workplace. They even found some famous quotes in support of their research.

Year 8’s have been developing their self-awareness and self-appreciation, understanding that we are all individual and unique. Our strengthens, abilities and talents in whatever area they lie, are what make us unique and special individuals. They explored different careers and enjoyed matching strengths, abilities and talents to these careers.

Year 9’s were faced with the challenge of choosing GCSE subjects, probably the first step towards a certain career theme. Through research, information, advice and guidance across the individual subjects and career spectrum they have all come to suitable conclusions and are now eagerly preparing to transition to Year 10 and the beginning of their GCSE course.

Year 10’s have been exploring career paths and the role employability skills play in career progression. We specifically looked at the importance of good communication, the development of networking and leadership skills. Getting involved with extra-curricular activities – Duke of Edinburgh Awards, MUN, sports teams, volunteering and other activities on offer all support the development of these skills.

To further enhance their career learning, our Year 9 & 10 students have access to UNIFROG, a one stop career platform which offers them an interactive means to investigate possible choices - outlining subject/ grade requirements, information on Universities and other third level options, progression pathways and much more. www.unifrog.co.uk

Career Websites:

www.careerpilot.org.uk www.careersbox.co.uk www.theuniguide.co.uk

Ms Sheedy

msheedy@hartlandinternational.com

C A R E E R Curious Awareness Research Education Excel Reflect

HARTLAND FRIENDS

Hartland Friends have had another busy year this year. We welcomed new parents to the group and to the school with a Welcome coffee morning in the first few weeks of term 1.

Pink Day was an outstanding success this year. Working with the School’s Charity Committee the school community managed to raise over 11,000dhs for Brest Friends and the Al Jalila Foundation by dressing in pink and enjoying an extensive range of culinary treats at the bake sale. The parents were also given the chance to listen to some inspirational speakers, drawing attention to women’s health.

As part of the end of the Winter Term celebrations, the children were asked to write a kind note to another classmate, each message was then attached to a candy cane and at the end of term the members of Hartland Friends delivered baskets full of these tokens of kindness to each classroom. Foundation Stage were lucky enough to see Father Christmas and one of his elves visit!

At the Winter Concert, Hartland Friends provided the refreshments of Mince Pies and mulled spiced punch for the enjoyment of the large number of parents, grandparents and carers who attended.

The Spring Term was a busy one for the Hartland Friends with two major events planned. We kicked off with the annual Spring Fair- another amazing day that was enjoyed by the whole school community. Each year group hosted a stall with games for the community to play and this was supplemented by other stalls, musical performances by students and a host of other entertainments that were provided by the hardworking volunteers and the greater community. We then went on to plan for the Movie Night, but with Covid-19 starting to affect Dubai, this had to be cancelled.

With the pandemic now affecting the normal operations of the school, our Summer Term’s annual Crazy Hair and clothes day and Hartland Picnic will have to be postponed until the next academic year.

Hartland Friends give heartfelt thanks to all those who have volunteered for events throughout this year, Hartland’s SLT and staff as, without those who are willing to give up their time, none of these events would be possible. We look forward to welcoming new members and events for 2020-21.

Mates Help Mates

2020 started with devastating news of the Australian bushfires wiping out homes and habitats for thousands of people and animals. With us having a large Australian community within the school and the wider community, there was a strong desire for us to do something to help raise money to support our friends and neighbours. Therefore, coinciding with Australia Day on 26th January, the Hartland community came together to raise money and awareness. Throughout the school day, pupils participated in a range of activities from learning about native plants and animals to learning how to prevent fires and fire safety.

We were even lucky enough to have a personal thank you from an Australian firefighter (Max and Amelia Kirwan’s uncle) who gave thanks for our efforts. The fundraising came in the form of a bake sale which our always popular at Hartland; this time it had an Australian twist with parents and pupils baking ANZAC biscuits, Lamingtons and fairy bread. We even had some Tim Tams! Our Charity Committee and Hartland Friends ensured that everyone had the chance to purchase a sweet treat and we raised 10,000dhs for charity – a fantastic effort!

CHARITY

Making a difference no matter how small…

The Charity Committee was established this academic year as an opportunity for all children to collaborate towards a shared goal of supporting others less fortunate. Through different events each month, the children wanted to support, not only the Hartland community, but the wider world. This is a true testament of the children’s strong moral compass, which has been nurtured through the Harland Values that we continue to deliver, even through the distance learning approach.

Pink Day

Representatives from the Charity Committee were invited to the Al Jalila Foundation to receive an appreciation award and certificate for the school’s efforts on Pink Day, where we raised a total of 11, 200.25dhs by selling pink cakes, wearing pink and organising a raffle. The children were also privileged to attend a tour of the foundation to see how the money raised has supported research and investigations in their laboratories.

Al jalila Children’s Hospital

As part of the National Day celebrations, two representatives from the committee, went to the Al Jalila hospital and joined other schools from across Dubai to create a wall mural that will be permanently displayed in the hospital.

Christmas

As a school community we were overwhelmed by the contributions from the school community to fill gift boxes to say ‘thank you’ to the support staff for all their hard work. These gift boxes were handed out at the annual Christmas lunch meal served by the Charity Committee as a token of our appreciation.

Australia Day

We raised 10,000dhs to help those affected by the Australian bush fires by organising our own ‘Australia Day’. We wore the Australia flag colours, learnt about the habitat, and sold Anzac biscuits at breaktime. We were honoured to have members from the Red Crescent visit the school to receive a cheque for the money raised for the ‘mateshelpmates’ appeal.

Stray Dogs Center, UAQ

We have also been helping our Furry Friends by collecting donations of food, toys and blankets for the Stray Dogs Center, UAQ which was launched at our own Spring Fair stall. The Charity Committee are looking forward to visiting the center to meet the grateful recipients.

Ramadan

During the Holy Month of Ramadan the focus for the committee has been a ‘Gift of Giving’. The children produced a video dedicated to all the hospitals across the UAE, thanking them for all their efforts, showing pictures and videos of cards and lanterns they have made. The children also wanted to set kindness challenges, which have been shared each week to the Hartland community. The whole school has also supported the ’10 Million Meals’ nationwide campaign, where we helped contribute to raising over 15.3 million meals to families in need across the UAE.

By continuing to share these acts of kindness through various events, we know that the world will be filled with love and hope for the future. It is important for us all to remember that the smallest act can have a big impact in all our lives. We want to take this opportunity to thank everyone for their generous contributions and donations to date.

ENRICHMENT

The Hartland Enrichment Programme was carefully designed to offer a wide range of choices including academic, creative and sporting options. The programme enhanced students’ skills in a variety of areas whilst encouraging them to have as much fun as possible, developing their confidence, creative skills and analytical thinking. We continuously aimed to ignite new passions as well as extending existing interests, building skills to support future success. At Hartland we strongly believe the enrichment activities are just as important as the academic curriculum. They complement each other and help develop wellrounded students, teaching them life skills that will prepare them for the future.

Our students have improved their academic performance as a result of skills learnt during enrichment, such as time management, organisational skills, problem solving, critical thinking, public speaking and leadership skills. The enrichment programme has created social opportunities for students to be part of different teams, providing a sense of belonging which facilitated in developing friendships outside of their usual circle. Over the year, students of all ages have been involved in numerous interactive, rich and exciting activities that have furthered created a love for what they are learning and provided an opportunity to explore new interests. I have seen the joy and excitement prevail amongst our students and a sense of exploration and enthusiasm has been ever present. Students have had the opportunity to choose from an impressive offer of 100 enrichment activities during term 1 and term 2, an astounding offering from our exceptional education team. The launch of a wider range of enrichment activities such as Yoga, Ukulele Popstars, Funky Feet, Top Trumps, Master Chef, Expo 2020 Young Innovators, Cheerleading and Performance Poetry have proved to be tremendously successful. The ever-popular enrichments such as Animation, Lego, Gymnastics, Young Scientists, Street Dance, and Skiing continue to be in demand when sign up goes live.

Some awe-inspiring events and achievements have been accomplished as a result of the enrichment programme. Students have attended specific enrichments that have opened opportunities for them to compete in competitions such as miniMUN, Monologue Slam and Chess. Additionally, our performing art students successfully completed their LAMDA (London Academy of Music and Dramatic Art) exams in January 2020.

There was no stopping Hartland International School this year as we continued to offer some enrichment opportunities during distance learning, such as Live Library, Picture a Story, miniMUN, Chess, Choir, Ukeleu Popstars and LAMDA.

The memories and skills attained during enrichment activities are long lasting and will be treasured forever by the students at Hartland. It truly has been another amazing year of unforgettable enrichment experiences

Mrs Shahida Ibrahim

Head of Primary

and memories.

TERM 1 & 2 Ski Dubai

Now in its third year, Ski Club was so popular that we had to extend our numbers and recruit more willing volunteer teachers. Every Thursday we would meet at 1.30pm outside the library in preparation for our bus journey to the Mall of Emirates.

It has been a challenge putting on several layers and ensuring all hats, gloves and scarfs are on before stepping foot into the coldest part Dubai. Students have thoroughly enjoyed the whole process from learning how-to walk-in ski boots to getting on the slopes and mastering the pizza move! It was so lovely to see so many students sign up for two terms as it gave them the opportunity to make excellent progress. There are so many students who started in the beginner group who moved up quickly and enjoyed every moment of their 90-minute ski lesson each week. The well-trained instructors were very patient with them and worked hard on ensuring they were improving their technique each week.

Horse-Riding

The Horse-riding enrichment took place at the Al Habtoor Polo and Resort Club, a 15-minute drive from school. It is a very convenient location with excellent facilities and trainers. The students were assessed as to ability and divided into groups. They spent time riding and learning to care for their horses. As the students progressed, they were given greater time riding the horses and the opportunity to walk them back to the stable, help un-saddle and put the riding equipment away in the tack room. The students gained in confidence and understanding, learning to relate to horses with patience, care and attention. This enrichment challenged our students, particularly as horses don’t always do exactly what you want! The students had to learn to be firm, calm and direct in their instruction for the horse.

Sailing

Two budding sailors joined the Hartland sailing enrichment this year at Dubai Offshore Sailing club. Rafaella and Aayan chose the inviting waters of the Arabian Gulf to enhance their skills. For Rafaella, already a competent sailor, the sessions consisted of rigging and racing in a small, individual vessel. Aayan learned how to set up a slightly larger craft which allowed him to venture out with his instructor to develop his basic skills. The conditions were changeable from week to week, so the pair had to show resilience and adaptability to stay in control in a range of situations. Sailing back into the marina as the sun set was always a special way to end the day! TERM 3 (DISTANCE LEARNING)

MiniMUN

Students participated in on-the-spot debates as well as preparing debates to compete against other schools. They developed their use of vocabulary relating to public presentations and MUN language.

Chess Club

Chess club went online during term 3 with students playing regularly in friendly matches and tournaments. Using an online platform enabled participants to watch each other’s games and develop their strategy by watching more experienced players. The club culminated with an online friendly inter-school tournament.

Ukulele Popstars

Ukulele Popstars continued to thrive throughout distance learning. It has given students a musically and socially enhancing experience while doing something they love! Musically students have learnt about chords and chord patterns, playing techniques, age appropriate repertoire while also developing their musical ear. Socially, students have had the opportunity to build stronger friendships with peers and with those in different year groups to themselves. It has also provided students to experience the joy and satisfaction of performing well for themselves and for others.

Primary Choir

Another enrichment that has continued throughout distance learning has been primary choir. What a way to end a day! This enrichment has provided students with an environment where they can discover their singing voices, explore music literacy and build on their vocal technique throughout distance learning. The skills developed within music enrichments are highly transferable to all aspects of a child’s education. Well done to all those who joined!

Primary & Secondary Book Club

We have been running two Primary Book Clubs for the last three months, one for Years 1-3 and the others for Year 4-6, and we have been shadowing the judges of the prestigious Carnegie and Greenaway Awards. These medals are awarded for the best writing or illustrations in children’s literature published this year. We have read all eight books shortlisted for the Kate Greenaway Award for illustration, and have been drawing, writing and talking about each one, and sharing our thoughts with all the other shadowing groups around the UK and internationally. It is the fastest hour of the week – we have had such a lot of fun and can’t believe how quickly it goes. A Secondary Book Club, which is reading excerpts from the Carnegie shortlist has also been running for the last month of term, and the hope is that this will continue into the holidays. 87

HAPPINESS AND WELLBEING

Wellbeing is at the core of all we do at Hartland and paramount to a child’s ability to thrive. A finely tuned approach to the development of each child’s social, emotional, physical and cognitive wellbeing is embedded into every aspect of the Hartland curriculum.

PSHE

The delivery of PSHE takes place in whole school assemblies in addition to the classroom setting. Topics this year have included the importance of healthy friendships, listening skills, empathy and helpful thinking.

World Mental Health Day

We were fortunate to have Psychologist Malek Kamal from Thrive Wellbeing speak on Raising Confident Children at our first parental-engagement talk of the year. Classes focused on creating Gratitude Jars to support positivity and thankfulness. Bookmarks on the same theme were also given out to staff and secondary students as part of the Secondary Assembly where The Power of Right Thinking was discussed.

Parental-Engagement Talks

The role of parents in their child’s development and wellbeing cannot be underestimated. For this reason, providing parents with tools and strategies for supporting their children have been incorporated into regular parental-engagement talks, in addition to weekly written blogs. Topics have included The Importance of Raising Emotionally Intelligent Children, Third Culture Kids and The Secrets of Parenting an Adolescent.

Individual and Group Counselling

Students are all aware of the option of individual or group counselling if they or their parents believe that they would benefit from additional support. Several students attend counselling sessions on a regular basis, working towards jointly constructed goals, in a supportive and enriched environment. Sessions are talk-therapy based, utilising the medium of play for younger students.

Online Wellbeing

Whilst the medium has changed, counselling support has not! Video blogs tailored to students’ ages have been provided on a weekly basis, supporting wellbeing with topics such as managing anxiety, boosting a low mood and building resilience. In addition, some students, along with their parents, have continued with individual counselling via Teams or email. A webinar focusing on Creating a Positive Environment for Online learning with a live question time was conducted and 2 websites, one for students and their parents and one for staff, along with Angela Blair, our Staff Wellbeing coordinator, have been developed.

Enrichment

Enrichment offerings this year have included Philosophy for Children and Peer Power Rocks. Philosophy has focused on teaching thinking skills and the ability to question, reflect and reason. Peer Power Rocks has provided students with the opportunity to work alongside children with autism in order to deepen their empathy and tolerance for students of determination, expand their communication skills and provide real life volunteering experience. Students have played games, learned the basics of boxing with a former world lightweight wrestling champion, cooked up a storm and developed numerous artistic creations.

Mrs A White

School Counsellor

WORLD BOOK DAY

Library

The Primary and Secondary libraries have been thriving hubs of reading, research, games and fun throughout the year. From learning about the Dewey Decimal system from a caveman, to our very own Liz Pichon doodle on our wall, there has been very little that hasn’t happened in the Library this year.

Malou Solvhiid Larson won the UAE Tom Gates Doodle Competition, held to celebrate the stage show at Ductac which our Year 5s went to watch, and her prize was a visit to Hartland by Liz Pichon. She entertained and inspired KS2, and signed hundreds of books, and left us a fantastic doodle on the wall outside the Library.

The Primary Library Committee have been busy keeping the library ship shape, and reading to Foundation Stage – and were almost finished writing the first Library newsletter, when the school was closed due to Covid-19.

On the last day before closure, we celebrated a rather muted, but nevertheless, energetic and fun World Book Day, and the school enthusiastically embraced the Share-A-Million Stories campaign by filling in their bookmarks every time they shared a story with someone.

The Secondary Library is always busy at lunchtime with the hum of people working, playing board games and relaxing before lessons. A delivery of new books half way through the Spring Term reignited people’s enthusiasm for reading, and there was lots of delving into the boxes to find new treasures.

Mrs MR Grieves

Librarian

Emirates Airline Festival of Literature

This year’s Festival was an eclectic and exciting mix of authors, poets, illustrators, scientists, engineers and thinkers. We were extremely lucky to host structural engineer Roma Agrawal at school, where she entertained Years 3, 4, 5 and 6 with her amazing stories of the science and engineering behind some of the world’s most iconic structures. This was a perfect opportunity for a Library/DT collaboration.

In anticipation of her visit, Mr Peacock and Mr Cherry cut out hundreds of skyscrapers which were hid around school; the lucky finders were given a net to decorate with their favourite book characters, so when Roma arrived, she was met with an art installation (appropriately named ‘Skyfall’) and a leaning tower of book boxes. We also ran a Design a Skyscraper competition, which was won by Meylis Amanmammedov in Year 4.

Year 5 & 6 took a bus to Festival City to join lots of other students to join Dr Maggie Aderin Pocock on an extraordinary tour of the Solar System, while students from Years 8, 9 and 10 went to NLCS to listen to Mitch Albom, author of Tuesday with Morrie, talk about his latest book, Finding Chika; it was certainly a powerful and emotional morning.

MUN 2019 - 2020

Hartland International started its very own Model United Nations (MUN) and Mini Model United Nations (MINIMUN) this academic year.

Model United Nations has been an international debate club since 1947 with clubs and members all over the world from 10 years old to University students.

Model United Nations is an educational simulation and/or academic activity in which students can learn about diplomacy, international relations, and the United Nations. MUN involves and teaches participants speaking, debating, and writing skills, in addition to critical thinking, teamwork, and leadership abilities, it is meant to engage students and allow them to develop deeper understanding into current world issues.

This academic year, 33 students from Year 5 to 10 attended a national conference in EISJ, Dubai and debated upon global issues for 4 days. They have also continued their MUN work online by giving ambassador speeches, taking part in debates as well as becoming familiar with the Universal Declaration of Human Rights.

SKI TRIP SWITZERLAND 2020

Only a matter of weeks before the world shut its borders, eleven intrepid travellers from year six to ten set off for Switzerland on Hartland’s second annual ski trip. Arriving late at night, we weren’t afforded the initial stunning views of the Alps on our drive up to Verbier but this made waking up early the next morning that bit sweeter! The new sight of snow-capped mountains rising above the alpine village was quite a way to begin the trip.

We immediately hit the slopes on our first morning and broke off into teams. We had a wide range of skiing abilities this year so some people stayed on the picturesque training slopes in the village whilst others headed off into the mountains.

Over the course of the week, everyone made it into the mountains and got to experience some of the finest skiing in Europe. It was simply remarkable to witness the bravery of our group attempting the red and black runs that are very common in Verbier. Runs that seemed impossible at the start of the week became par for the course by week’s end.

This truly was the experience of a life time. I know the memories will live long. All of our skiers (and our solitary boarder) should be tremendously proud of how they represented themselves and their school throughout the week. They were frequently commended by the instructors and staff in Switzerland for their superlative behaviour and the great example they set to other schools!

SPORTS DAY

Sports Days were a tremendous amount of fun this year, with each House and Year demonstrating a competitive spirit and a collaborative approach. The House Shield was more fiercely contested than ever, with several school records shattered in the quest for victory.

In the Primary School, the spoils were shared between Mushrif and Creekside who won the Year 3 and 4 competition and the Year 5 and 6 competition respectively. Both events were concluded with a relay races that were so closely contested they left every spectator and competitor on their feet cheering, long after the runners crossed the finish line. In the Senior School, things were equally close with Mushrif once again coming out on top. These two hard-fought victories were enough to secure their signature red on the House Shield for another year.

In Foundation Stage and Key Stage 1, Sports Days were an explosion of activity with students determined to make their parents and teachers proud. Running, jumping and throwing in front of hundreds of supporters produced some magnificent results.

TOLERANCE PROJECT

As part of the UAE Tolerance Project a collaboration between Hartland International School, Latifa School for Girls and Rashid School for Boys was formed. Groups of students joined together to create friendships, come up with ideas, plan projects and have social activities.

The year 5 and 6 girls group met together every few weeks to create a symbol of friendship through Jewellery making.

The students welcomed the opportunity to work with others from a neighbouring school and considered what they predicted the experience to feel like. Upon their introduction to one another, the girls instantly made a connection, welcoming one another to their schools, taking pride in discussing their ideas and views on friendship. The students were proactive in their approach and independently led their own project. Together, they developed the idea of symbolic friendship connections, focusing on friendship bracelets which they would embody their beliefs of friendship as well symbolising their time together during this project. As a result, real friendships were made and Hartland students were invited to share in the National Day festivities of Latifa School, an experience they relished in!

The girls went to a workshop at the Tashkeel Art Facility nestled in Nad Al Sheba. They were able to discover new techniques together and create an amazing piece of meaningful jewellery that could be displayed at the Latifa School for Girls UAE National Day celebrations. This was a wonderful opportunity and our girls were able to experience a true Emirati style National Day extravaganza. The outfits that were worn by the girls at Latifa School for Girls were incredibly beautiful and the Hartland girls were able to join in with many activities with their new friends.

Emma Bowden

Ami Jackson

As part of the UAE Tolerance Project a collaboration between Hartland International School, Latifa School for Girls and Rashid School for Boys was formed. Groups of students joined together to create friendships, come up with ideas, plan projects and have social activities. The year 5 and 6 girls group met together every few weeks to create a symbol of friendship through Jewellery making.

The students welcomed the opportunity to work with others from a neighbouring school and considered what they predicted the experience to feel like. Upon their introduction to one another, the girls instantly made a connection, welcoming one another to their schools, taking pride in discussing their ideas and views on friendship. The students were proactive in their approach and independently led their own project. Together, they developed the idea of symbolic friendship connections, focusing on friendship bracelets which they would embody their beliefs of friendship as well symbolising their time together during this project. As a result, real friendships were made and Hartland students were invited to share in the National Day festivities of Latifa School, an experience they relished in!

The girls went to a workshop at the Tashkeel Art Facility nestled in Nad Al Sheba. They were able to discover new techniques together and create an amazing piece of meaningful jewellery that could be displayed at the Latifa School for Girls UAE National Day celebrations. This was a wonderful opportunity and our girls were able to experience a true Emirati style National Day extravaganza. The outfits that were worn by the girls at Latifa School for Girls were incredibly beautiful and the Hartland girls were able to join in with many activities with their new friends. A group of our Year 7 and 8 boys were given the unique opportunity to engage in a collaborative project with Rashid School for Boys, with the aim of fostering tolerance, respect and most of all, friendship, between Emirati students and Expatriate students.

The students worked on an art project, where they were to create two pieces of Mosaic Art – one to be displayed in Hartland and one to be displayed in Rashid School. The boys met over the course of several weeks to work on this project. During this time, they created an outline of what the end result of this art project would look like, they designed, molded and painted clay tiles and they practiced their mosaicing techniques.

Sitting around a table together, creating their artwork allowed the boys to engage in discussions with each other and begin to develop friendships. Comparisons and differences between home and school lives were chatted about, funny stories were shared and when the boys became more familiar with each other, lighthearted teasing of artwork began to take place! While the final touches have yet to put to the project, everyone involved agrees that the project was a huge success.

These unique, original pieces of art will be displayed in Hartland and Rashid School for a long time to come and will serve as a reminder about what we can achieve when we work together. We are very proud of the efforts of our Hartland Students and we look forward to working on similar projects in the future.

Melissa and Grainne

TOLERANCE PROJECT

Hartland was very excited to have been chosen to take part and celebrate the UAE Year of Tolerance. This was for different age groups from Hartland international School to work with Latifa Girls School or Rashid School for Boys School. Through initiating many exciting endeavours from bead making to design and cooking projects, the true meaning of Tolerance became more apparent to all those involved.

Year 7 and Year 8 - Girls

12 girls from year 7 and 8 were selected from Hartland to work with 12 girls from LGS. Between them they discussed many ideas for their project before deciding together in their teams to do a creative cooking project to celebrate the cuisine from their different cultures whilst developing their understanding of the true meaning of Tolerance. Mrs Llewellyn and Mrs McFadden supported the girls to put their ideas into reality and encourage the cooperation and collaboration needed inorder to work together to prepare and cook beautiful food in Hartland’s wonderful kitchens.

On one occasion the girls packaged their chocoate brownies as a gift for the staff room on World Teachers Day which was very much appreciated. Several visits to each other’s school strengthened the bond between the girls including LGS hosting a tour of their school and a scrumptious buffet of traditional Emrati cooking. Attending the authentic UAE National Day together was profoundly interesting and lasting friendships were developed. Throughout the girls mainatained a journal of photos, recipes and poetry to capture their lasting memories during the UAE year of Tolerance in 2019. We hope you enjoy some photos of our wonderful Tolerance experience. Mrs Llewellyn and Mrs McFadden

One of our year 8 students summed up the group’s feelings-

“My favourite parts of this wonderful project were, collaborating with the Latifa girls and making delicious treats! I learnt so much about tolerance from this project, like how it is really important to accept others no matter their differences.’ Many of the girls created poems to express their feelings about what Tolerance meant to them.

Add a dash of kindness

And a pinch of co-operation.

A teaspoon of resilience and a cupful of diversity.

Mix with acceptance and culture, then add one more tablespoon of contribution.

Bake it with love and you will receive... …..Tolerance

Julia

FS1 FLAMINGO

Ms.S D’Olimpio, Hannah Holden, Sara van der Leeuw, Daniel Foeger, Karla Tayoun, Sebastian Sølvhviid Larsen, Anne Perez Garcia, Ali Mohamed Gamal, Grace Makena Thorn, Lucas Jensen, Isabelle Parslow, Youssef Barazite, Ailsa Davidson, Sora Kakami, Amore’ du Preez, Abdulla Almansoori, Isabella Lomonaco, Nelly Badr, Mrs S Guzman

FS1 ROSEFINCH

Ms M Cashman, Rachel Kearney, Ema Goncalves, Edoardo Franzutti, Shaikha Al Ketbi, James Choukrallah, Mira Al Kanhouch, Zaki Evans, Leann Dabliz, Lucas Diaz Montoya, Tala Hussein, Alister Hendry, Arabella Firmin, Mohammed Hussein, Sarah Boghean, Jude Al Zuhairi, Mila Aboud, Salahuddin Muhammad, Maayra Sakhala, Rose Statham, Mrs M Noureddine

FS1 SUNBIRD

Ms A Murphy, Mika Huxley, Kiana Kaur Rana, Sebastian Gerritsen, Ana Dumitru, Santiago Trujillo Laveaga, Hessa Bin Sulaiman Alshehi, Mohamad Hlawa, Zein Ahmed, Anne- Marie Olayiwola, Jayden Sayers, Mason Schmidt, Amber Rossi, Oscar Luyang Liu, Declan Green, Elisa Herth, Obaida Mahmoud, Helena Prato Alberti, Chuan Zhuang, Lottie Mahoney, Mrs M Lopez

FS 2 SKYLARK

Miss C Roche, Sasha May Fory, Samuel Wilkes, Leonardo Renner Farinon, Ellis van Varik, Nicholas Swagerty, Charlotte Quinn, Max Rogers, Felix Veevers, Alexander Toprak den Hoedt, Sofia Guerini, Divij Chitnis, Elif Unal, Can Yigit Ozkan, Arwen Grange, Mrs L Gamage

FS2 KINGFISHER

Ms R Moore, Romanos Michail, Anaira Suchede, Dmytro Blinnikov, Daniela Cocci, Abraham Ijaz, Rin Tajima, Yona Tahamtan, Emerson Jones, Maruwa Pinto, Hamad Algahash, Jessica Mahoney, David Fennell, Hannah Joseph, Hasan Tyebkhan, Ms C Nassuuna

FS2 ROBIN

Mrs F Gair, Rafael Asyraf, Ryan (Sehyeok) Oh, Dahlia Razin, Sebastian Diaz Montoya, Chloe Westray, Zane Amin, Lola Bitar Balsemao, Ayden Waheed, Mienke Du Preez, Anton Bornman, Michelle Chen, Daniel Gazzillo, Clara Fayek, Adam Ryburn, Ms J Dorio

FS2 SHEARWATER

Ms L Etherington, Rafaela Abdel Gawad, Aoibh Phelan, Shayaan Shahzad Malik, Olivia Lepich Reinisch Neves, Savelii Guseinov, Thea Tayoun, Yaman Aboud, Maryam Barazite, Rashid Mubarak, Mila Hansen, Carter Larkin, Alia Raduan El Tayan, Nimish Goel, Kiara Peiris, Ms M Del Rosario

FS2 PELICAN

Ms C Jones, Jules Delaunay, Sophia Nillesen, Frankie Brown, Ammarah Albiz, Rianna Alhalak, Levin Atagul, Amatullah Fakhruddin, Leena Khakwani, Naya Abdelal, Tom de Hoop, Caitlin Wickham, Alisa Kastahorau, George Ansell, Melissa Lepich Reinish Neves, Matthew Andow, Ms M Mahilum

YEAR 1H

Ms A McGirr, Estelle Jergoes, Sofia Soberon Gomez Peniche, Jasmine Rossi, Josiah Ong Choon Hwee, Chris Choukrallah, Oliver Tan, Meeha Beyer, Ella Statham, Valentina Guerini, Thijs Jorritsma, Constant du Troit, Kaia Acton, Adel Monika Sepsey, Hana Arissa Khairul Hanafi, Odhran Phelan, Jakub Alvin, Rishain Shakeel, Burhanuddin Fakhruddin, Vincenzo De Carlos Kiatsamuttara, Zosia Burgess, Zain Teleb, Ms D Bagayan

YEAR 1R

Ms S Nazarian, Gordon Thorn, Eline Romeih, Rayan Sfeir, Alice Franzutti, James van der Horst, Arash Bakhshi Zadeh, Angel Morkos, Niene Herinx, Enze Lin, Calum Davidson, Stephen Murray, Yuna Chua, Jesda Higham, Bassam Dabliz, Saeed Alawadhi, Hessa Al Rahma, Haroun Sherif Elfadaly, Sophia Hurley, Zabeer Shah, Ashleigh Kearney, Salih Mohamed Fadul, Ms C Jovero

YEAR 1T

Ms S Brady, Jawaher Al-Ali, Rishi Srikanth, Nala Leylamian, Maksat Amanmammedov, Victoria Tsourdis, Alessandro Valdivieso, Asmaa Eleslamboly, Adriel Cocciadiferro, Mia Cocci, Ali Algahash, Enzo Melis, Atheena Brielle Vijendrabarathy, Samuel Slade, Noortje van Duijn, Mathias Esquivel Hernandez, Chloe Estrada Matbouei, Aleksandra Diaz Leal, Leah Aloush, Marco Alifredi, Matilde Marcal, Arianna Vanetti, Ms W Galve

YEAR 1L

Ms N Moran, Ava Peet, Ayden Tharao Wachiuri, E’ssa Thompson, Soma Saito, Mira Ghanekar, Emma Salbut, Artemis Dehghan, Hamza Al Kanhouch, Alex Conraide, Ahana Jha, Miguel Soberon Gomez Peniche, Zara Firmin, Amalia Van der Meulen, Idhant Joshi, Ethan Hendry, Mazen Wael, Sohana Abbadi, Rafi Zaim, Forrest Millgate, Ms T Oganessyan

YEAR 2H

Miss H Pearce, Siem Van Duijn, Ameli Balt, Andrea Gazzillo, Maria Alnaqbi, Imran Barazite, Latifa Vasey, Max Holden (on floor), Anta Ba, Jeremy Delcriox, Yosef Tahboub, Aleen Riyal, Alina Ryburn, Jake Westray (on floor), Alia Mohammed Salaheldin, Adam Teleb, Noelia Maier, Gauri Nair, Tandie Kimunguyi, Murad Kubataev, Mr I Kakooza

YEAR 2R

Mr A Stenhouse, Yousuf Murad, Maryam Albiz, Abdalla Gamal, Indiana Van Mullekom, Emilio Gawad, Diego Correa, Sabine Blumberg, Nout Jorritsma, Alexei Ushakov, Kristina Tsurkan, Joshua Taylor, Kanta Nakagawa, Nicha Campforts, Sofia Germano, Seyara Peiris, Cedric Dekker, Angela Mutheu and Mrs R Caluyo

YEAR 2T

Ms AM Somers, Alexander Molander, Lana Barbour, Isaac Swagerty, Lucas Nieto, Elizabeth Parslow, Rebecca Mendonca, Armando Van Der Meulen, Olivia van der Leeuw, Sanan Malik, Chloe Wickham, Sebastian Ansell, Lucas Steinberg, Aadvika Nayak, Adham Ashraf Azab, Rayan Khan, Jude Al Turk, Abdullah Maqsood, Ms V Saldanha

YEAR 2L

Miss L Reseigh, Leon Nambiar, Oliver Houston, Ruqaya Murad, Cyrus Dekker, Bianca Argenzio, Rishan Sharma, Evelyn Sadler, Austin Robinson, Emma Germano, Archie Rogers, Katrianne Maglantay, Muhammad Bin Mohd Asyraf Reduan, Nefeli Rapetti, Alice Moura Castro, Jessica Regan, Ahoon Rasouli, Mohamed Zein, Louis Grieve, Mrs P Baloria

YEAR 2N

Mrs A Olayiwola, Kyuwon Oh, Ayperi Amanmammedova, Georges Randet, Noemi Jensen, Essa Umair, Puteri Ilmi Basyar Luqman, Albertus Beyer, Yvette Parubets, Marco Lomonaco, Zeina Amr, Liam Halen, Mohammed Almutewei, Mattia Raimondi, Ye Na Lee, Leonardo Vanetti, Juan Montes Guevara, Lana Chaaban, Isla McLeod, Mrs J Puntanar

YEAR 3H

Mrs M Hulme, Alexandre Delaunay, Aeriella Pienaar, Leila Al Zuhairi, Annsh Dutt, Lara Aldemairy, Jackson Van Mullekom, Malak Waheed, Andries Bornman, Tiffany Tan, Abdulla Alhussaini, Aisha Eleslamboly, Celeen Haytham Taha, Nathan Knudsen, Amelia Kirwan, Kenji Butt, Portia Steel, Matija Djuric, Mui Ying Amelia Ong, Youssef Fayek, Mrs F Guittard

YEAR 3R

Mr S Cordelle, Olivia Scheunert, Roha Hassan, Mert Boyuer, Ada Dumitru, Frederick Brown, Yehia El Gamal, Sami Zaim, Talia Riyal, Miane du Preez, Tala Barbour, Haniya Maqsood, Tia Aldemairy, Viyan Raina, Sophie Maeroum, Caitlynn Dekker, Hoor Haytham Taha, Taylor Sloan, Adam Papp-Budavari, Ms N Ranasinghe

YEAR 3T

Mr J Maynard, Aliakbar Fakhruddin, Alison Hopwood, Reagan Newham, Joao Lepich Reinisch Neves, Lillian Parslow, Alina Khan, Anna Guadalupe Candanedo, Hugo Higham, Maja du Toit, Vanessa Kotrikova, Ellebelle Weyer, Sehwan Joo, Adam Ghazal, Lamin Mohamed Ben Zian, Millie Slade, Vitoria Prato Alberti, Jane Binny, Emery Rolle Fuchs, Ms C Jagmis

YEAR 3L

Ms E Hevehan, Mohammad Al Hammadi, Rhia Kakami, Magdalena Slavkova, Pablo Camacho, Maya Al Kanhouch, Carina Fabbrini, Isabella Prevost, Sam Al Sawa, Benjamin Van Brussel, Daphne Garaud, Ayan Maalouli, Emma Isetta, Laurenz List, Zara Odhiambo, Keyaan Noureddine, Milana Guseinova, Inca Parsons, Alexis De Silva, Pavit Goel, Mr B McAlpine

YEAR 4H

Miss L Wainwright, Mael Maier, Arsham Pourrashid, Jessica Slade, Rei Tajima, Pedro Farias Wagner, Sara Ogla, Aidan Dunne, Amelia Scheunert, Alexander McGrath, Maya Hooman, Meylis Amanmammedov, Ali Khosravi Taghanaki, Micaela Barclay Guerra, Valentina Abdel Gawad, Viola Raimondi, Lea Goncalves, Liam Taylor, Freddie Payn, Mr M Wallace

YEAR 4R

Mr A Sandhu, Amira Azzan, Cyprien Guittard, Aryan Verma, Abdel Wahid Gasim, Mandisa Ngwato, Hanseong Cho, Jana Andilla, , Seungho Lee, Zuri Dahya, Magnus Grieve, Jood Sfeir, Darvyn Tan, Mira Papp, Bilge Ceylan, Alexandra Parubets, David Mcfadden, Daniele Giacomelli, Alia Al Marri, Morgan El Hage, Pablo De Mendizabal Salinas, Mr M Wallace

YEAR 4T

Mrs I McFadden, Laith Azzan, Leonid Sidorin, Omar Elbahrawy, Mohammed Vasey, Amelia Rogers, Malou Solvhviid Larsen, Sarina Khedri Shooshtari, Philippine Randett, Maria Guevara Montes, Zacharias Molander, Myrto Gkioni, Flavio Romano, Irina Savchenco, Eldrick Van Emmenis, Alexie Horwell, Eya Gueddes, Layla Balt, Carter Fennell, Maya Halen, Mr M Wallace

YEAR 5H

Miss G Dineen, Francesco Mathias Borrielli, Mun Jeong Kim, Aryamik Velliyur, Naomi Mendonca, Habiba Habib, Nicolas Nieto, Mrs S Dekker, Ava Bowden, Yerin Joo, Amna Al Hussaini, Lucrezia Di Castri, Maryam Fakhruddin, Giacomo Parrilli, Emma Houston, Aaron McDonough, Mohammed Mahdi Abbas, Stefania Isetta, Aayan Asthana

YEAR 5R

Miss C Williams, Zaid Shaheen, Annabelle Meyer, Khalid Bakhresa, Niamh Dunne, Alexander Moosman, Mrs S Dekker, Gabriella McAlpine, Essa Diyab, Neeva Wahbeh, Martin Camacho Adam Amin Hussein, Lilly Hopwood, Nima Fathalian, ,Amira Ibrahim, Ho Ting Christopher Yang

YEAR 5T

Mr S Walsh, Tristan Grange, Hongrun Wei, Zaynab Al Shalabi, Katarina Djuric, David White, Craig Newham, Mrs S Dekker, Anna Sobek, Leila Ghazal, Laura Foeger, Carla Mansour, Ayana Ndegwa, Can Khan, Sophie Tsourdis, Haza Diyab, Samaa Kumar, Sebastian Delcroix, Defne Gezgin

YEAR 6H

Ms T Engelbrecht, Abdalrahman Tahboub, Charl du Toit, Zania Molefe, Nada Babiker, Kristin Hackland, Marcelo Fernandez, Mr D Slack, Rafaella Barclay Guerra, Sienna McLeod, Sharief Azab, Lisa De Boni, Burhanuddin Nooruddin, Amina Kubataeva, Imran Noureddine, Yujoon Jung, Bartu Gezgin, Robin Scheunert, Jenny Yang

YEAR 6R

Miss S Coyle, Tiago Marcal, Eve Kriel, Zastian Van Emmenis, Yassin Elbahrawy, Aliz Papp, Ms T Engelbrecht, Manuela Renner Farinon, Aisha Ibrahim, Alex Butt, Maximilian Molander, Cristina Salgado, Marti Andilla, Nabeela Kazmi, Serwer Bakhshysh, Tobias Horwell, Gabriella Blumberg, Ciaran Joseph

YEAR 6T

Ms L Nugent, Alexander Taylor, Gypsy Lonergan, Amy Regan, Emily Steinberg, Bo Liu, Abdoulla Albahri, Ms T Engelbrecht, Max Kirwan, Mia Prevost, Khadija Belkhair, Juan Sanchez, Menara Peiris, Zalina Kubataeva, Kareem Maassarani, Adam Al Turk, Nikita Sobolev, Miriam Cozzolino, Alex George

YEAR 7H

Mrs M Naylor, Isaac Kriel, Parvathy Nair, Ahmed Al Hammadi, Saule Geneviviute, Jan Bayarenka, Youssef Gueddes, Melissa Raya, Anna Julia Ponce, Abdelazim Babiker, Jameel Lavers, Simrah Kazmi, Martin Guittard, Maria Slavkova, Faycal Noureddine

YEAR 7R

Mr T Lappin, Abeer Gasim, Jiho Lee, Amin Akhmed, Isla Evans, Leonardo Gorraci, Rashid Al Nuaimi, Touline Shaheen, Jacob Watson, Michael O’Grady, Eduardo De Mendizabal Salinas, Ema Sobek, Louis McAlpine, Habone Adour, Moaz Abdulrahman Hussein Aly Elsayed Yehia

YEAR 7T

Mrs L Rogers, Kiana Gibb, Lydia White, Elena D’Aprile, Gregor Bennie, Giorgi Oganesyan, Leonid Egorov, Mitchel Smith, Adam Tyebkhan, Nicolo Parrilli, Karim Wael, Jana Yehia

YEAR 8H

Mr G Rodgers, Lea Janjanin, Mohamed Davoodi, Budoor Al Wasiti, Mason Barton, Zoe Barstow, Elizaveta Soboleva, Alime Bakhshysh, Nicola Parsons, Jiaying Zhang, Noah Scheunert, Gautam Nambiar, Julia Maeroum, Jaehoon Jung, Morgan Joseph, Daniel Nieto

YEAR 8R

Ms K James, Alina Ben Zian, Wael Hamze, Samuel Mendonca, Ruairi McFadden, Sami Tadayon, Alisa Tsurkan, Karthika Ajay, Kaushiki Raina, Mohammed Al Balushi, Valentina Salgado, Isobel Hulme, Adam Fawzi, Catarina Moura de Castro

YEAR 9H

Cameron Fisher, Jack Pan, Jaad Hamze, Heelan Adour, Amon van Almsick, Miss J Haugh, Maria Oganesyan, Benjamin Brookes, Joshua Evans, Facundo Fernandez, Sakina Fakhruddin, Amy Butt, Dario Pous Gerodetti, Clementine Guittard, Alicia Segovia Barrios, Karim Tarek, Chaeli-Jade Pienaar

YEAR 10H

Mr G Brown, Saaed Al Nuaimi, Saif Al Wasiti, Mohammed Murad, Michael Olayiwola, Ryan McDonough, Joseph Hulme, Emirhan Bera Canli, Pujia Wang, Aalyah Prem, Peter White, Naya Maalouli, Rodrigo Raya, Zack Tulonen, Michelle Joy, Jana Khalifa, Jiaxin Zhang, Hana Fouda, Nancy Hamze, Kristian Maglantay, Maryum Al Balushi

As another fantastic year of sport draws to a close, I would like to take this opportunity to thank all our dedicated athletes and parents for their support. Without your hard work and commitment, the numerous successes we have achieved this year would not have been possible.

This year we were able to field a fantastic number and variety of teams in the DASSA leagues. We had more than 40 teams entered into an array of sports. Over 60 bus journeys took place as well as enjoying some home fixtures. Overall we were thrilled with the participation levels rising each term, finishing with 63% of our students in Year 3-10 representing the school in sport, equating to over 200 students. Such a brilliant achievement would not have been possible without a hardworking team of coaches and teachers behind the scenes to whom we are extremely grateful.

There were several magic moments and terrific teams who deserve special mentions for their performances this year. The Year 4 Netball team achieved outstanding success, flying through a number of tournaments and fixtures without defeat. We are looking forward to seeing them in action in the league next year. The U14 Netball team finished their season undefeated at the top of their league, scoring an incredible 83 goals in 5 games. Other teams which were undefeated throughout their seasons were the very promising Year 3 and 4 Rugby teams, who enjoyed some high scoring games along the way. The U15 boys’ and girls’ Cross-Country teams achieved great results, both featuring in the Dubai Top 10 out of more than 35 schools. The boys finished 7th overall with the girls just behind in 8th. The primary Cross Country teams also achieved fantastic results with the Year 4 girls placing 9th, the Year 3 boys 10th and the Year 3 girls 11th. Special mention must go to Amelia Scheunert who came 6th out of over 200 students.

Biathlon proved an enormous success this year with over 20 students turning up for training on a Thursday morning at 6.30am. Jessica Slade and Max Kirwan both recorded an amazing three 1st place finishes while Ryan McDonough also achieved a 1st place finish in one event. Amelia Kirwan achieved three 2nd place finishes, Max Molander achieved two second place finishes while there were also three 3rd place finishes for Lisa De Boni. The results of Jessica and Amelia were made all the more impressive given that the competition was for Year 5 students and they are in Year 4 and 3 respectively! The combined efforts of all students in the squad ensured we kept our Division 2 status in secondary whilst in primary we achieved our second promotion in as many years. Swim Squad have also featured in two galas this year, putting in some fine performances in friendly and competitive galas. After racking up a massive number of wins and personal bests in a time-trial gala with SWISS, they stepped up to their highest level of competition so far in the DASSA Relay Gala. The squad recorded a fine 3rd place finish in the event, scoring a number of first places, particularly in the Year 3 and 4 sections.

It has been amazing to watch all the students training so hard before, during and after school. In term two, when the focus switched to Girls Football and Rugby, we had over 70 students from the primary section attending these clubs and competing against other schools. For the first time we were able to enter two secondary Netball teams and preparations for the Athletics events were looking very promising after a warm up event at Brighton College. Although there were many sports and events that we did not get around to playing this year, we believe our students have excelled themselves with their participation and enthusiasm throughout the sporting year. We look forward to building on our successes next year.

AQUATHLON SQUAD

MAX AQUATHLON

U8 BOYS CROSS COUNTRY

U9 FOOTBALL

U9 GIRLS CROSS COUNTRY

U9 GIRLS FOOTBALL

U9 NETBALL

U11 GIRLS FOOTBALL

U11 NETBALL

U12 FOOTBALL

U14 NETBALL

U15 BASKETBALL

U9 RUGBY

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