Mr Andy’s Introduction

3 Welcome Students, Parents and Raha Community to the first Alumnivember special edition of the DP Newsletter!

FROM MR. ANDREW – DP COORDINATOR

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Good day to you all in the Diploma Community here at Raha. As always, there is a huge amount going on for our Grade 11 & 12 students. As the Grade 12s are in the process of submitting their applications for University, we thought it would be fun to have some contributions from our Alumni (apologies for my terrible Alumnivember pun!), who have given us some insight into how the IB prepared them for university.

Just for fun, we also asked some teachers to say how they chose their university (or how it chose them, in some cases!). I went to Glasgow University, as it was close to home and my mum didn’t want me to go far away! It also helps that it was free – it will amaze some of you that many people not only went to University for free, but they were also paid to go! I think that shows my age!

Ms Claire and Mr Walter were on campus late on Friday night enjoying some scary movies with the DP students. Is there anything more scary than coming to school at the weekend?

Grade 11 are starting their EE journey this month, and Ms Muge has some important information here. CAS is beginning to look like it did pre-covid and Ms Tania has taken some students out to the mangroves already. The Grade 12 ToK Exhibition was a great success and we’ve managed to get some photos of the students displays to share.

We also have some exciting sports events coming up – Rugby, Basketball, Netball, Cricket, Football…the list goes on and on. Of course there is some studying taking place too!

A reminder that Mock Exams will take place from 2nd – 14th January inclusive.

Have a great November! Mr Andy