Students used their knowledge from the topic text, ‘Kensuke’s Kingdom’ and learned some basic survival skills to build a shelter, start a fire, read maps, and design a floating raft on which to make their journey home.
The students rotated around 4 stations and completed them all. They were shown how to use 6 figure grid references to find clues and treasure around the school. They were then taught how to build a shelter to protect themselves from all the different weather elements, as well as how to start a fire using a flint and some timber. Finally, using all the knowledge of forces they have been shown in science, they were asked to build a raft and get themselves across the water.
Overall, it was an amazing day and the students learnt so much about survival and will now use this knowledge to write survival guides for our sister school in Mexico.
“It was the best day I have ever had in school” – Hannah 5A
“I loved the rafting – it was so much fun, and our team didn’t fall in!” – Zack 5D
“It was so much fun and really enjoyed learning all the different survival skills” – Mohamed Al H – 5E
“I was amazed I could start and then build my own fire, I had to show resilience as the flint was hard to use, but I did it!” – Alia – 5F
In 2014 Mrs. Lowe arrived to teach at the British International School Abu Dhabi, excited to work with the Physical Education Department to implement and embed Dance within both the curriculum and the CCA programme. Schemes of work were created for FS1 to Year 9 and all PE teachers received professional development training to understand the fundamentals of Dance, to discover the importance of Dance and how movement can be creative and powerful.
Last week, Mrs. Stanier, our Head of Humanities, had the pleasure of accompanying three of our amazing students: Tia and Renad from Year 12, and Turkan from Year 10, to Houston, Texas, to take part in the NAE UNICEF summit. We were thrilled to be hosted by one of our Nord Anglia schools, The Village School in Houston, the first Child-Friendly City in the US recognised by UNICEF. The Village School is a boarding school, so the students got to experience what life was like as a boarding student there for the week.
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