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NEWSLETTER
ISSUE NO.27
6th April 2017
A MESSAGE FROM MR SIBLEY
Dear Parents,
I wanted to let you know about Ethan Smith, Henry
Gale and Matthew Gale who have raised funds for
Qatar Cancer Society. On 1st of April, the boys held
a bake sale and raised the sum of 322QAR for this
charity. We are very proud when our children show
such kindness to other people. Well done boys!
We have thoroughly enjoyed our International Week
where the children have had the chance to explore
other countries and appreciate other cultures and
traditions. We all enjoyed the Bedouin Tent, the
falcon and the camel being on site with us today and
the special International themed Assembly where
children performed dances and shared what they
had learnt during the week.
Many thanks to all the children and parents who
made and brought in food today for the children’s
International Food Fair. I would also like to say thank
you to the staff who have planned such exciting
activities this week and in particular Mr Mahmood
who has coordinated this International Week. Have
a wonderful Spring Break.
FIND OUT ABOUT OUR CHILDREN’S
ACHIEVEMENTS HERE
Awards of The Week
INTERNATIONAL WEEK AT DESS
We are a school of many different nationalities and
cultures at DESS and we celebrated with a whole week
dedicated to understanding the diversity of nationalities
and cultures this school represents.
The children took part in many exciting activities
throughout the week. Each class represented a different
country and lots of learning took place around these.
From making clay models of the Leaning Tower of Pisa to
building an Eiffel Tower made from marshmallows and
spaghetti and who could forget the children in Year 5 who
learnt the traditional war cry and dance of the Maori
people of New Zealand—a video which has now been
watched by over three thousand people on our Facebook
page! Watch out for a new update on social media later
today with what we think is now the greatest Haka ever!
Celebrations continued today where we saw some
fabulous national dress costumes in our parade from staff,
parents and children. A camel and a falcon joined us on
site and a Bedouin Tent where children sat and learnt
about the importance of the falcon in Qatar’s culture and
traditions. Children were also treated to a feast from our
parents of different foods at the international food fair,
from countries from all over the world. We were also
privileged to be entertained by the Arabic Department
from Qatar Music Academy.
THINGS TO REMEMBER
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Lost property will be cleared at the end of the term. Please re-claim anything which may belong to your children before this.
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Qatar Creating Vision Charity Days : Tuesday, 25th April ‘Dream Big Day’. Wednesday, 26th April Fundraising Day. Thursday, 27th
April DESS Has Got Talent’.
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Our Parent Council now have a dedicated page on the DESS website: http://www.dess.org/index.php/our-pta/parent-council.html
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Our policies can be found here http://dess.org/index.php/about-dess/policies.html.
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Calendar of Events can be found here: http://dess.org/index.php/news-and-events/calendar-of-events.html
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Sport at DESS
Music at DESS
Friends of DESS
Qatar Primary School Choir of
the Year:
Fixtures
Coming Soon :
Sunday, 9th April: Year 1 Swimming Gala
Ice lolly Day!
If your child is a DESS Voice Squad mem-
at 8am. Year 3 Swimming Gala at 12pm
Friday, 28th April: Car Boot Sale.
*150QAR per car*
ber, please support your child to learn
their lyrics for this competition.
Monday, 10th April: FS2 Blue and Green
Class Swimming Gala at 8am. FS2 Yellow
Time to be confirmed
Tickets for the competition will be availa-
and Red Class Swimming Gala at
ble very soon. As so many children will
10.30am. Year 6 Swimming Gala at 12pm.
Email [email protected] or
speak to Claire on Reception if
you would like to book a slot.
be taking part, tickets may be limited
and the Music Department will be writing
to parents shortly to let them know how
many tickets per family can be allocated,
how much the tickets will cost and the
process for ordering them.
Wednesday, 26th April: Year 6 QPPSSA
Girls Basketball competition.
Notices – April
Next FOD Meeting :
Tuesday, 2nd May at 7.30am.
Split B swimming ends Tuesday, 11th
April.
Upcoming Events:
Split A swimming begins Sunday, 23rd
Qatar Primary School Choir of the Year
April.
(2017) finals will take place on Monday,
15th May.
WHY NOT JOIN
OUR FANTASTIC
TEAM :
Job Opportunities
QPPSSA swimming squad emails will only
We are looking for books and toys to
be sent to successful children week com-
sell as part of our fundraising day.
mencing 9th April. Training will com-
Please deliver any donations to Class
mence Sunday, 23rd April. Thank you to
1D garden (Mrs Nicola Findlay’s class).
all the children who attended the trials
We would also be very grateful for more
who demonstrated high levels of motiva-
parent helpers to talk to the children
tion and determination in their swimming.
about their professions during the
‘Dream Big Day’. Please email [email protected] if you are interested.
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