Year 1 ended their Term 2 Science topic about plants and trees with a great couple of days at Umm Al Emarat Park this week.
On arrival at the park, we were welcomed by Mushrif the mascot and he prepared us for the day ahead with some dancing. The park rangers took us through the botanical gardens, and we were able to use our knowledge of plants and trees to identify different species.
We now know the name of the national tree of the UAE! Do you? If not, ask your child and I’m sure they can tell you. We learnt how some trees and plants prefer the shade to grow and we helped to build our own biomes whilst in the shade house.
We then went to the animal zone to see animals that live in the UAE, and we loved feeding some very greedy goats – they ate so much grass!
We know that deserts in the UAE are very hot and have little water. We were shown how to clean water that might be found in the wadis.
The children thought this was amazing and said ‘it was like magic’ when they saw clean clear water dripping into the bottle. It was a wonderful learning experience to be able to explore nature outside of school and put our term’s learning into a real-life experience.
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.
The British International School Abu Dhabi
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