News from our Secondary Vice Principal, Peter Thorpe
Dear GAA Secondary Parents,
As we are now in full swing, starting our second month of the school year. At this point, routines and expectations should be well known and understood. One area that we continue to work on is having students follow the GAA Dress Code. Please help support us by making sure your child wears the appropriate GAA uniform every day, including ties/scarves and all-black shoes.
Next week, together with GAAPA, we are recognizing Bullying Prevention Week by initiating our Campaign of Kindness. We will be holding assemblies to highlight how students can help make GAA an even safer and more caring learning environment. Secondary students will have the opportunity to win gold movie tickets by participating in our Bullying Prevention Video Competition. (Entries are due October 23rd.) Our advisory classes will be creating Kindness Posters to be displayed in the hallways. GAAPA will also be asking students to make the pinky pledge that states. “I promise to be kind, be a good friend to all my classmates and be an upstander. Once I have taken the pinky promise everyone will know that I care for others.”
As we are now in full swing, starting our second month of the school year. At this point, routines and expectations should be well known and understood. One area that we continue to work on is having students follow the GAA Dress Code. Please help support us by making sure your child wears the appropriate GAA uniform every day, including ties/scarves and all-black shoes.
Next week, together with GAAPA, we are recognizing Bullying Prevention Week by initiating our Campaign of Kindness. We will be holding assemblies to highlight how students can help make GAA an even safer and more caring learning environment. Secondary students will have the opportunity to win gold movie tickets by participating in our Bullying Prevention Video Competition. (Entries are due October 23rd.) Our advisory classes will be creating Kindness Posters to be displayed in the hallways. GAAPA will also be asking students to make the pinky pledge that states. “I promise to be kind, be a good friend to all my classmates and be an upstander. Once I have taken the pinky promise everyone will know that I care for others.”
To coincide with the Campaign of Kindness, we are also introducing our newly revised Caught Being a GEM! Program. Students can earn GEM cards for exemplifying one of the IB Learner Profile traits (caring, knowledgeable, risk-taker, balanced, principled, reflective, communicators, open-minded, balanced, inquirer). Earning GEM cards will help the students earn points for their house and could result in special privileges during the school day. Although students can earn cards for any of the 10 traits at any time, in our advisory classes we are focusing on one trait per month. October’s trait is Caring – to overlap with the Campaign of Kindness. The students with most Caught Being a GEM! Cards for Caring at the end of the month will receive special recognition at our assemblies.
We look forward to an excellent week, and a year full of kindness.
Regards,
Peter Thorpe
Secondary Vice Principal
Regards,
Peter Thorpe
Secondary Vice Principal
ASMA (American Scholastic Mathematics Association) CONTEST:
GAA will be running the first of the 6 ASMA contests this year for Secondary School Students. The contest will take place next week on Oct 11th, Tuesday after school. There are limited spaces. (20 Junior/intermediate (Grades 6-8) students, and 20 Senior students (Grades 9-12) can sign up). Sign-up sheet will be outside Room 240 (Ms. Farah Sami’s room).
The competition is 35 minutes long.
When: Tuesday October 11th. It will start at 3:10 and finish at 3:45.
Where: Ms. Farah Sami’s Room - 240
Last year GEMS American Academy participated in the ASMA’s and received first place, if you want to find out more about the competition please go to http://www.asan.com/asma1.htm.
Thank you,
The Math Department
The competition is 35 minutes long.
When: Tuesday October 11th. It will start at 3:10 and finish at 3:45.
Where: Ms. Farah Sami’s Room - 240
Last year GEMS American Academy participated in the ASMA’s and received first place, if you want to find out more about the competition please go to http://www.asan.com/asma1.htm.
Thank you,
The Math Department
Islamic
Grade 6 students are working on Asma al Husna (Allah’s Names) project in Islamic Non-Native class.
Here is our Community and Secondary School Calendar - Scroll through the months to see what's planned for this year at GAA
Please make sure you check this calendar regularly for updates and new events.