TUESDAY, 28 FEBRUARY 2017 Issue 214

PRIMARY SCHOOL NEWS GENERAL SECONDARY

SCHOOL NEWS COMPETITIVE SPORTS NEWS

Innoventures Education recently held their annual Athletics Championship on Sunday, 12 February at Dubai Sports City.

The championship was attended by nearly 600 students from across the Innoventures Education schools Dubai International Academy (DIA), Collegiate American School (CAS), Raffles World Academy (RWA), and Raffles International School (RIS).

Dr. Ahmad Saad Al Sharif, Deputy Chairman of the Board of Directors and Deputy Director General of the Knowledge and Human Development Authority attended the event as the Chief Guest.

At the end of the championship, DIA had the highest score from amongst the primary and secondary schools, as well as the highest overall score.

The Innoventures Education Athletics Championship is an annual event for students to showcase their sportsmanship, team spirit, and aptitude towards nonacademic activities.

Innoventures Education places a significant emphasis on extra curricular activities, and the Athletics Championship reinforces this. The Group believes that sports brings our community members together and enhances co-operation between the various teams.

I N N O V E N T S - I N N O V E N T U R E S E D U C AT I O N AT H L E T I C S C H A M P I O N S H I P

OVERALL WINNER

FIRST PLACE SECOND PLACE THIRD PLACE FOURTH PLACE

DIA - 1427 Points RWA - 1177 Points RIS - 809 Points CAS - 754 Points

I N N O V E N T S - I N N O V E N T U R E S E D U C A T I O N A R A B I C W R I T I N G A N D Q U R A N R E C I T A T I O N C O M P E T I T I O N

Congratulations to our students who participated in Innoventures Education Islamic and Arabic writing competitions on 7-8 February. 17 students from DIA competed against the group schools and took first and second places in Arabic B writing and Quran recitation. Well done DIA stars, we are proud of you!

I N N O V E N T S - I N N O V E N T U R E S E D U C A T I O N A C A D E M I C O L Y M P I A D

The Academic Award was organised to test students from Year 7 to Year 11 in the fields of English and Arabic spelling, as well as, in the field of Mathematics. The event was split into a Middle School Category (Years 7-9) and a High School Category Years 10 & 11). The competition included a timed individual round of 3 questions in each discipline followed by a buzzer round.

Students showed exemplary skill in all areas and DIA won the Middle School and Overall Award for combined score over the 2 categories. The students from all schools enjoyed themselves and created a close and exciting competition. One student wrote an account of her experience during the day as follows:

On competition day, we didn’t stress too much since there was no way to prepare and no way that we could know what questions they were going to ask us. We were mostly just excited that we would be

competing together. On the bus, we all discussed strategies that would help us excel in the competition.

These strategies included seating arrangements for each subject, and verifying each answer before we submitted. The nerves finally hit us when we entered the competition room, but luckily for my group, we were participating after the middle school team. In the end, we lost our section, however, due to how well the middle school team did, the point difference made up for it, and DIA ended up coming first overall!

I really enjoyed this experience overall, and hope to participate again next year. Shamma Younus, Year 10A

Yazeed Zanati Usman Kashif Loay Naseriddin Samaya Alattas

Middle School Ranking - 1st Place Hamza Zaidi, Sophie Sananikone and

Aly Hamzawy

G I V E U P D A T E

GIVE SCHOOL NUMBER 1 NEARING COMPLETION

Dear parents and students,

Our first school in Nepal is nearing completion! We post the most updated photo of the structure below. Well done to all of you and thank you for your contributions.

A reminder that each school is looking to recruit 6 students to go and begin work on

school number 2 and 3. If you are interested, please tell your Innoventures Education

Coordinator as soon as possible!

This school will soon house over 100 primary and Secondary School students in Western Nepal

ACADEMIC YEAR 2015 - 2016

FEBRUARY 2017

Sunday, 26 February - Thursday, 2 March Book Week

MARCH 2017

Wednesday, 1 March Water for Life Carnival

Sunday, 26 February - Thursday, 2 March Book Week

Thursday, 2 March SS PTC (no school for SS students)

Thursday, 2 March Year 3 sleepover at DIA

Sunday, 5 March IVEI Sports - Cricket – U12, U14, U16, U18 @ DIA

Monday, 6 March Innovents - Literary Soiree hosted by RWA

Tuesday, 7 - Thursday, 9 March Year 5 Camp

Wednesday, 8 March Innovents - Chess Competition hosted by RIS

Thursday, 9 March Emirates Airline Festival of Literature – Visiting Author (Sarah Outen MBE FRGS)

Thursday, 9 March PADIA Movie Night

Sunday, 12 March IVEI Sports - Cricket – U11 @ RWA

Wednesday, 15 March PS & SS PD Half Day. Early dismissal at 12.00pm

Wednesday, 15 March Innovents - DIAMUN hosted by DIA (Opening Ceremony)

Thursday, 16 - Saturday, 18 March Innovents - DIAMUN hosted by DIA

Thursday, 16 March Staff PD. No school for SS & PS students

Sunday, 19 March IVEI Sports Swimming - U8, U9, U10 & U11 – PS - @ CAS

Wednesday, 22 - Friday, 31 March CAS Trip

Wednesday, 22 March MYP Personal Project Exhibition

Friday, 24 - Friday, 31 March Borneo Yr5 & 6 Trip

Sunday, 26 March - Saturday, 8 April Spring Break

APRIL 2017 Sunday, 26 March - Saturday, 8 April Spring Break

Sunday, 9 April Students and staff return after Spring Break

GENERAL PRIMARY

SCHOOL NEWS SECONDARY

SCHOOL NEWS

PRIMARY SCHOOL NEWS

DONATIONS FOR AL NOOR SCHOOL

The PSC social has been active in assembling a collection of toys and books to donate to AL Noor School in Al Barsha. Al Noor Training Centre for Children with Special Needs is a non-profit organization which falls under the Ministry of Social Affairs. Established in 1981, Al Noor has been providing high quality of professional training to the special needs community in Dubai for over 30 years.

The books will be used to enhance the Al Noor library and the toys will be used at the center or sold in the second hand stall at their Fun Fair on Friday 24th February.

Well done to our PSC members for their wonderful contributions.

COMPETITIVE SPORTS NEWS

HINDI MOTHER TONGUE CELEBRATES THE PAST

Hindi Mother Tongue students depict certain sections of Indian History on a timeline, covering

the Mauryan, Mughal and Maratha empire.

HINDI MOTHER TONGUE CELEBRATES GRANDPARENTS’ WEEK

Hindi Mother Tongue students celebrated Grandparents’ week, where some grandparents visited us and shared some

stories. It was an initiative to encourage both children and their families to come together and share their learning and

further enhance their vocabulary. In return, children thanked them by making cards. It was an

absolute pleasure to see this intercommunication.

Year 4 camp

Year 4 students had a great camp experience on Feb 8th and 9th. Students worked in groups and showed they can be true collaborators. It was great to see how Year 4 students took care of each other and interacted with one another outside the classroom environment. You were excellent risk takers Year 4!

PLANET PRESENTATIONS BY YEAR 4

Year 4 students worked hard to “create” their own planets for their summative assessment. Students followed a

checklist which reminded them that they needed to include the atmosphere, gravity, forces, seasons, day/night, tides

etc. on their planet for their chosen animal/plant/human life. Parents, teachers and peers were invited in to listen to

the wonderful presentations by Year 4 students.

PRIMARY SCHOOL NEWS GENERAL SECONDARY

SCHOOL NEWS

SECONDARY SCHOOL NEWS

DIA CAREER FAIR 2017

On Tuesday, 14 February, we were delighted to host the second

annual DIA Career Week, a joint parent/school management led

initiative to give students in the Secondary School an introduction

to the various different careers and professions in the world of

work.

Year 10 students had the opportunity to engage with

twenty-eight different professionals from a wide spectrum of

different career backgrounds and ask questions related to their

work, education and qualifications in their particular profession.

These professionals volunteered their time and commitment

following communication from the school, with some – but not

all – being parents of children at the school. Students were

organized on a mini-seminar basis so students would have the

opportunity to become better informed about the full range of

careers being highlighted.

It was a tremendous experience for our students. Students

came away from the experience very enthused about the

different career prospects and definitely feeling like they got

some inside-track information and insights about future

prospects. Alongside this event, we also had other activities for

other Year Levels focused on careers and employment

planning.

DIA would like to thank the participants involved in helping us organize this event.

Adam Fitzgerald Head of Year 10 Robert Jennings Deputy Head of Secondary School - Pastoral

Valeria Freundt Year 10 Parent Representative Cecilia Braidy DIA Parent

COMPETITIVE SPORTS NEWS

THIMUN HAGUE 2017 BY AANYA BAHL

When one is told to think of the Netherlands, scenic images of tulips and windmills come to mind, with intricately decorated wooden clogs occasionally placed in the viewing frame. However,

for the seventeen of us that went to participate in this year’s THIMUN conference, the Netherlands brings completely different thoughts to mind, inducing nostalgia-filled memories of committee debates and research reports, afternoons in Amsterdam and long bus rides spent humming cheesy songs from 2007.

The theme for THIMUN 2017 was “Borders in a Globalized World”, completely apt in context to the globe evolving around us. The conference, attracting over 3,500 students from 200 schools around the world is the biggest global Model UN conference to exist, and was founded in 1981, making it the oldest by far. This year, DIA’s assigned delegation was Uruguay, and with delegates spanning committees such as the Security Council and the Disarmament Commissions, we had quite a striking presence. As if that were not enough, two of our students, Sara Atassi and Dharkann Sainani had the opportunity to serve as student officers and were extremely diligent and effective in handling their assigned positions.

Throughout the period of the five-day conference, we were able to witness an unprecedented level of debate, and were exposed to issues imperative to the twenty-first century. Personally, it was also heart-warming to witness the countless efforts by UN aid agencies such as the UNHRC and UNICEF, which had set up stalls at the entrance of the building and constantly encouraged delegates to contribute to their causes. As students who are blessed with roofs over our heads and food on our tables, we often wonder if our efforts to multinational agencies providing humanitarian aid are helpful, and seeing the work done by

past UN agencies and the ones present at the conference really put things into perspective.

Apart from time spent at the conference, we were also allotted a couple of days to explore Amsterdam and a small hamlet called Vollendam, during which we visited the Van Gogh museum, the Anne Frank House, a cheese factory, a clog factory, and windmills, among many other attractions. As Vishank Rughwani, a delegate of the Disarmament Commission puts it, “it gave me an up close and personal view of European culture and history which is difficult to access in Dubai.”

In retrospect, our trip to The Hague not only gave us access to an MUN conference unlike any of us have seen before, but also to Dutch history and culture- something we all cherished and learned from. Without a doubt, every one of us who went can say that we learned more than we ever thought we would, not only about our assigned topics, but about ourselves as well.

Amsterdam Canal (Picture credits to Viva Noronha)

YOUNGEST FINALIST at UAE AI & ROBOTICS FOR GOOD AWARDS 2017

FADIL ELEDATH, YEAR 11C, DIGITAL DESIGN

UAE AI & Robotics for Good Awards is an annual competition, a global platform for innovation, focusing on the prac-tical side of technology for the betterment of society.

This year I was one of the 11 finalists and the youngest participant competing in the competition with universities and multinational companies for a one-million-dirham award.

In collaboration with my friend Michael, we built and presented the project Trashberry - a full technology enabled ecosystem that helps in the disposal and recycling of cans and bottles.

The Trashberry system has been designed to instill a sense of responsibility in consumers thereby reducing improper disposal of waste and helping the recycling process. The prototype built from recycled materials comprises a vending machine and a waste sorting machine. The system creates an account for every customer that uses it. Every product within the vending machine has a unique RFID code, so when a customer purchases an item, that product's tag is recorded under the customer's account. When the consumed item is disposed in the waste sorting machine, the item is identified and disposed in the appropriate recycling bin. The consumer is awarded points for recycling which when accumulated can be redeemed for future purchases.

The machine, built from recycled electronic parts uses Raspberry Pi’s, an EV3 and other components from LEGO Mindstorms along with RFID readers and tags. Various programming languages have been used here - Python, Robot C, SQL, PHP and a host of others, to interconnect the various components to ensure ease of use at the consumer’s end. This was the most challenging part of the project. By using Trashberry, Dubai can improve and meet its waste management goals. The project currently focuses on the beverage industry. If we can change Dubai’s recycling rates of aluminum cans alone, which is much lower than the 67% world average, it would have an immense positive impact on our city.

This wasn’t simply a project that two teenagers worked on, using old broken printers and expired metro tickets. This wasn’t something we built to win a competition. Trashberry Inc. was designed with a vision, to deliver a holistic solution to end waste to a proactive community. Our demonstration with the soda can was the first step to the solution to end waste. The first step to a sustainable Dubai.

LINK BETWEEN ENGLISH & ARABIC

During this activity, students were asked to translate books studied in English classes over their MYP years and this allowed students to compare/contrast the Arabic and English languages and recognize the depth of each text. We were able to study a variety of books ranging for "To Kill A Mockingbird" and "Things Fall Apart" to "Romeo and Juliet" and "Of Mice and Men". This task was extremely beneficial as it taught each one of us the importance of the morals within the stories as well as the need to study and compare languages more often. The Arabic language is far more complex than that of English Literature and so translation was a challenge as we were to discuss the chosen novels in detail and use specific terms which would not be found in the English language.

Aisha Al Muhaisen, Year 11B

بقلم يوسف حرفوش الصف الحادي عشر –اإلنجليزي بالعربي

(To Kill a Mockingbird)قرأنا في كتاب اسمه لقتل الطائر المحاكي

في الواليات المتحدة 8291مؤلفة القصة اسمها هاربر لي هي مؤلفة أمريكية ولدت في عام

في الواليات المتحدة أيضا. حتى مع كتابتها كتاب واحد فقط في حياتها و 9182و توفت عام

هو بالطبع هذا الكتاب فقد حازت على جوائز كثيرة و أصبحت من الكتاب المعروفين عالميا

بسبب طريقة كتابتها البارعة.

كتابها يتكلم عن معاملة السود في أمريكا في الثالثينات و باألخص سوء معاملتهم بسبب

الفرق بينهم في اللون و العادات.

الشخصيات:

أتيكوس فينش )األب(

سكاوت فينش )البنت(

جيم فينش )الولد(

بعد االنتهاء من قراءة الكتاب أحببته جدا بسبب طريقة كتابته الرائعة و الرسالة وراء القصة. إن الرسالة قوية جدا و أثرت

على طريقة معاملة السود و يجب على كل إنسان أن يعامل المختلف معه في اللون أو الدين أو الجنس معاملة حسنة .

اإلنجليزي بالعربي

تشينوا أتشيبي( للكاتب Things Fall Apartاألشياء تتساقط )

مازن عمر الصف الحادي عشر

اإليبو الذين يعيشون في إن األشياء تتساقط رواية يتحدث فيها الكاتب عن عادات وتقاليد الناس

أفريقيا. إنهم كانوا نشؤوا في شمال ووسط أفريقيا حيث يوجد األنهار و الجبال الكبيرة. و

لكنهم انتقلوا إلى جنوب نيجيريا اآلن. و يتكلم هذا الكتاب عن شخصية اسمها أوكونكو و هو

الشخصية الرئيسية في هذه القصة التي تحكي لنا عن استعمار الدول األفريقية ومنها قبيلته

( . و إن قبيلته هي قبيلة مثيرة و عندها عادات وتقاليد Umoufiaالتي تدعى بقبيلة أومفيا )

غريبة فهم في رأيي ذو تفكير جاهلي فكانوا يعاملون النساء و السيدات جميعا بطريقة غير

محترمة فكانوا يضربهن أو يعذبهن إذا شاؤوا.

و لكن لنرجع للرواية فإنها تحكي لنا عن حياة أوكونكو الذي كان ولدا من عائلة فقيرة و أبوه كان رجال وحيدا من الرجال

بال كرامة و ألقاب و كان عنده ديون كثيرة و لم يدفعها ألحد و هذا قوى من أكونكو و جعله من أحسن و أقوى الناس ذكاًء

و ذا إرادة كبيرة. فعندما كان يكبر كان أبوه أقل مكانة في القرية و لم يستطع أن يدافع على قبيلته فكان يخاف من رؤية

الدم. و هو في صغره مات أبوه من مرض شديد وكان أبوه حنونا و يحب أبناءه و كان يستطيع أن يعزف على كل

األدوات الموسيقية ببراعة. و هذا جعله غريب فهو لم يناسب هذا المجتمع الذي يصفه الكاتب.

بعد موت أبيه كبر أوكونكو وحاول أن يبدأ بمشروع مزرعة البطاطا فهي كانت أهم المحاصيل لهم في تلك القرية وكان ال

يحصدها إال الرجال فهم كانوا يرون أنه أكل مقدس بالنسبة لهم فممنوع على النساء و األوالد أن يحصدوا هذا المحصول .

فذهب إلى أكبر مزرعة بطاطا في القرية وسأل صاحبها أن يعمل عنده و يأخذ من محصول البطاطا نظير عمله . فبدأ

عمله وأخذ ألف بذرة بطاطا ليعمل عليها في مزرعته وعندما بدأ وزرع خمسمئة بذرة و ولكن لألسف دمرتها السيول في

الشهر التالي فقرر أن يزرع مرة أخرى و لكن مئتين و خمسين بذرة و لكنها دمرت مرة أخرى بسبب السيول أيضا فقرر

أن ال يزرع شيئا حتى انتهى الشهر . و بعد ذلك الشهر أستطاع أن يزرع البذور المتبقية و حصد مرة تلو األخرى و

أصبح من أقوى و أغنى الناس في القرية عندما كبر.

كريم الحمامي :

اسم الكتاب الذي قرأته "من الفئران والرجال"، الشخصيات الررئريرسريرة جروري ولريرنري. كران

جوري رجال صغيرا و لكنه يتميز بقدرات كبيرة من الذكاء وليني مرن نراحريرة أخررى رجرل

كبير وطويل و لكنه قليل الذكاء ، وكان لديه تأخير وتصرف مثل الصغار و كران يرعرانري مرن

التوحد . أحداث هذه الرواية حدثت في الواليات المتحدة في وقت قريب من الكساد الكبير في

. في هذا الوقت العمال كانوا في المزارع مثل جوري وليني فركرانروا يرذهربرون مرن 8291عام

مزرعة إلى مزرعة بحثا عن فرص العمل الرتري مرن شرأنرهرا أن تسرمرح لرهرم لرلروصرول إلرى

أحالمهم. كانت أحالمهم شراء أرض واسعة حيث يمكنهم الحصول على الحيوانات المرخرترلرفرة

مثل األرانب والكالب.

لكنهم مروا بمشاكل كثيرة وقفت عائقا لتحقيق تلك األحالم .

ويليام شكسبير روميو و جولييت بقلم : عائشة المحيسن

روميو وجولييت هي إحدى أهم أعمال شكسبير وأكثرها شهرة ، قبل الحديث عن

روميو وجولييت سألقي الضوء على صاحب العمل الشهير وليام شكسبير، وهو من

وكان وليام شكسبير الشاعر والكاتب .أعظم وأشهر الكتاب اإلنجليز على اإلطالق

المسرحي والممثل، الذي يعتبر على نطاق واسع أعظم كاتب في اللغة اإلنجليزية

.8282-8124 عاش من .وكاتب مسرحي في العالم

روميو وجولييت تكمن في أن الحب الملتهب جمع بين ;قصة الحب والكراهية حكاية

الهوى المشبوب .حبيبين ينتميان إلى أسرتين من ألد األعداء بينهما ثأر قديم وثأر جديد

.تصوره المسرحية على خلفية من الكراهية والبغضاء

الموضوع الرئيسي هو الحب وهذا موجود على طول القصة

أصبحت قصة عظيمة .وألأن روميو وجوليت أحبا بعضهما بعضا إلى النهاية

وصارت قصة حب أبدية .

PRIMARY SCHOOL NEWS GENERAL SECONDARY

SCHOOL NEWS

STUDENT ACHIEVEMENTS

SAM VAN DER STROOM, YEAR 9

Last January DIA Year 9 student Sam van der Stroom competed in the Dutch Junior National Swimming Championships with fantastic results. The short course championship took place in the Dutch city of Eindhoven and spanned 4 days. Sam had qualified for no more than 9 individual events being the 200-400-1500 Freestyle, 50-100-200 Breaststroke, 200 Butterfly and 200-400 Individual Medley. Besides swimming new PR's in each race, Sam achieved 5 top-5 rankings and is aiming for several podium finishes later this year during the long course nationals for which he has started qualifying already. Currently Sam is the fastest Breastroke swimmer on all distances in his age group for the 2016/2017 season in the Netherlands.

Last weekend the best swimmers of the Middle East and clubs from the UK came together for the Dubai Open 2017, a major long-course tournament being held at the Hamdan complex here in Dubai. Prelims took place during the day with finals being swum in the evening. Besides making it into the finals for 6 out of his 7 events, Sam claimed gold on the 50m Breaststroke in a time of 33.83 and finished 2nd on the 100m Breaststroke in 1:14.07.

COMPETITIVE SPORTS NEWS

COMPETITIVE SPORTS NEWS

STUDENT ACHIEVEMENTS

ADRIA ANGLADA YEAR 7

After a successful season our U12 Boys Football team was placed third at the Sport 360 National School League.

Out of all the players, Adria was selected to participate in the the Stade Rennais coaches and former Manchester United player Mikaël Silvestre training camp.

From the selected group of 30 players, Michael Silvestre has select only 8 top players in UAE in that age group, and one of them is OUR Adria Anglada!

The top 8 players will receive an all expenses trip to Rennes, France to join the Stade Rennais FC to train at their academy, meet the First Team players and watch a match. This trip will occur from May 4th -7th.

KYRA ORTNER, YEAR 9

Kyra Ortner, from Year 9 came Second Place in the age group Under 25 at the Dubai IGNITE Run. It was a 5k race. Out of 185 participants she is ranked 30th.