SummaRISe - Issue 147

st Thursday 21 May 2015 Issue 89 Wednesday, 21 November 2018 Issue 147

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EVENTS NOVEMBER 2018

Thursday, 22 October

Year 6 Field Trip

Sunday, 25 - Wednesday, 28 November

Year 1 Field Trip

Wednesday, 28 November

UAE National Day school celebration

Thursday, 29 November

Commemoration Day

DECEMBER 2018 Sunday, 2 - Monday, 3 December

UAE National Day

Tuesday, 4 - Wednesday, 5 December

Year 2 Field Trip

Wednesday, 5 December

X Factor Years 3 - 6

Thursday, 6 December

X Factor Years 7 - 9

Thursday, 6 December

Teacher CCA’s finish

Thursday, 6 - Saturday, 8 December

Years 10 - 13 Musandam Trip

Monday, 10 December

French - Year 10 trip to Carrefour

Tuesday, 11 December

Secondary School Rewards Trip

Tuesday, 11 December

Year 5 Field Trip

Wednesday, 12 December

Year 4 Field Trip

Wednesday, 12 - Thursday, 13 December

Nursery Field Trip

Thursday, 13 December

Santa Grotto

Thursday, 13 December

Paid CCA’s finish

Thursday, 13 December

FS2 Winter Concert

Thursday, 13 December

Last day of term for students

Sunday, 16 December - Saturday, 5 January

Winter break for students

Dear Parents, This edition of SummaRISe celebrates the events that have enriched our curriculum in November, including one national event, two Innovents competitions, charitable work supporting our community, art, cultural and sporting achievements and individual examples of excellence. Congratulations to all of the students featured and all those who took part in these events.

I would like to thank all of the RIS parents who supported the school during our recent DSIB inspection by responding to the parent survey, and/or attending meetings with the inspection team. DSIB takes the parent survey very seriously, as they should, because the impact of much of what we do as part of school improvement must be evident on your children’s progress at school and should be evident to you. DSIB also evaluate parental engagement with the school and the number of parent responses is an important indicator of that engagement. Thank you for taking the time to complete this.

During inspection, the visiting team observed learning flourishing in FS, and a vastly improving school with very good policies and practices throughout. Their full report will be published in 2019 and this will be shared with the RIS community in full. There are areas of the school they would like to see us develop, including the careers service and the upgrading of some facilities, and we will take those recommendations on board and act on them immediately. Overall, the outcomes were very positive.

One further area of concern for us remains student safety at drop off. The area in front of the main school entrance (Gate 1) is not a drop off point for students arriving by car at the start of the day. There is a dedicated area for this at the rear of the school, away from the main road. It is a major concern for us that parents are dropping children at the side of the main road and expecting them to cross a public road, often weaving around other cars doing the same thing. We have acted on this to prevent the practice in front of the gates and subsequently, parents have continued to do this but further up the street. This is not safe and may result in the total closure of the front gates in the morning, significantly impacting the small number of children living in front of the school who do safely walk to school and cross the street with full visibility, accompanied by our security staff.

Finally, as we look towards the coming weeks, a reminder that the last day of school this term is Thursday 13 December. There will be some special events during the last week of term and learning will continue around them so please ensure your child’s attendance right to the last day. School will finish at 2:35/2:40 on 13th as normal. RIS teacher CCAs finish on Thursday 6th December.

Thank you once again for your support this term, I hope you enjoy this edition of SummaRISe and don’t forget there is much more available to see on the RIS Facebook and Twitter feeds.

Sincerely, Tim Richardson Principal

Innovents Maths Challenge Competition Congratulations to our Primary Maths Team! 3rd place in the Innovents Maths Challenge Competition

Innoventures Got Talent Competition Congratulations to Changju Song Year 11A Winner of Solo Performer Category

Innoventures Got Talent Competition Acclamations to our participants - Ulyana (Year 6), Sophie & Estefania (Year 7), Ahmed & Amil (Year 9)

Recent Happenings Year of Zayed collage mural made by The RIS Mural Art Club

Small Box Big Difference - Thank you to our Student Council who presented gift boxes to our security guards and welfare staff during assembly

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Recent Happenings in the Nursery Topic Transportation: Children are feeling like 'little adults' as they learn about vehicle safety, different modes of transport and traffic rules

'Story recall' sessions help children gain experience with reading comprehension, memory & vocabulary building.

Children listen to a story and recall the characters

Enhanced our outdoor learning environment by creating topic related resources.

Pretend play at a young age opens the doors to imagination.

A mini outdoor library and Nursery band

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Recent Happenings in the Primary IT Department - Preparations for First Lego League competition

Islamic Department - Students always come with some creative results when they are given the project, here we have some best examples of teamwork.

Year 3 Dodgeball Tournament for the Dubai Fitness Challenge - Go Falcons!

Our footballing falcons continue their fantastic run this season with the Girls getting 1st and the boys getting 2nd at the IVEI U11 tournament today. Go Falcons!

Year 1– Discussing life cycles of a human

Year 1 enjoying learning how to count by 2's outside.

Children in Year 2 enjoying listening to a story from their peers

Preparing the UAE Astronauts of tomorrow in Year 3

Year 2 Parents helping with reading and giving class presentations on the topic of plants.

R-E-S-P-E-C-T..Find out what it means to me!

Year 3 students exploring our core value of respect.

Year 4 children packing the Box Appeal boxes for the labourers of Dubai

Year 5: Our Emirati students speaking about Dubai during the 60's and 70's. Indeed a great way to introduce the lesson. Past- Present- Future

Buddy Reading- Year 6 students reading to Year 1.

Great collaboration

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Recent Happenings in the Secondary IT Department: Innovative ideas explored

by Secondary students. Designing a “Robot”

Humanities Department: Economics explained by the students

The RIS Remembrance Wall reflects on soldiers from across the world who fought and sacrificed their lives during the First World War

Drama Department: Year 8 wrote their final letters home in role. It will be adapted into monologues during the next lesson.

Science Department: Year 11 learning how the Nucleus divides.

Innovation: Ali Amiri in Year 10 shortlisted to interview in the Executive Council of the Government of Dubai. He spoke to them about his ideas for innovation and development in Dubai

French Department: Year 7 students learn how to give their opinions & use adjectives in French through Emojis

Sports: Well Done to our U16 Girls who picked up their first win of the season