School Newsletter - January 2017

9-1-2017Issue No: 2017 - 015

PRINCIPAL MESSAGEEach month, Al Wisam School adopts a theme fromour ‘Mission’ and ‘Beliefs’ to align all classes and ex-tra curriculum activities. December was Patriotism.Our students and the school community beautifullylived up to the theme; I am very proud to see theamazing presentations, poetry glorifying our leader-ship and our country. I felt inspired to see the herit-age of Bahrain celebrated with such pride. The loveto the Kingdom of Bahrain was celebrated success-fully and by the whole school.This is an honour and pride to you parents, yourchildren’s love and dedication to Bahrain reflect yourcommitment to the school and to our country. Forthat I am truly grateful.May I take this opportunity to wish you a Happy2017. May God bless us all with peace, success,good health and prosperity.Dr. Lina LewisAWS Principal

ASSISTANT PRINCIPAL MESSAGEAlthough the month of December was half spent at school, itwas full of joy and prosperity as a good amount of the schooldays were spent in preparation for the Bahrain National Daycelebration. Al Wisam students were actively involved in theevent by giving speeches, poems and performing dancesfor the love of the Kingdom of Bahrain. Simultaneously,students participated in classroom activities displayingtheir love for the island, wrote essays and made drawingsabout Bahrain.On the other hand, during the first two weeks ofDecember, Al Wisam School held its termly Parent-Teacher Conferences to continue building a strongpartnership between parents and teachers. Duringthose conferences parents and teachers, as wellas students, worked together to ensure Al WisamSchool students’ success.Amaal AlHalwachiAWS Principal Assistant

THANK YOU..- Thank you to Mr. Jess, Primary Art teacher, for handling thecategory of (Visual Arts Category in United States of America) we arethe “THIRD PLACE WINNER”.- Thank you to Ms. Rana, Senior School Art Teacher, for displayingstudents work in Building B.- Thank you to Mr. Moosa and Mr.Sadiq for accompanying grade 8students to the Russian Language course.- Thank you to Ms. Dima for attending Future Doctor’s DetailsProgram and accompanying grade 12 students for 3 days. Anotherthank you for accompanying selected high school students to BayanMUN.- Thank you to Ms. Faten for leading student council and forspreading the spirit of kindness during last Thursday’s assembly.- Thank you to Ms. Dima for leading Student Council leadershiptraining.- Thank you to Ms. Dima & Dr. Lina for attending the AIESECPresentation last Friday at Zain headquarters. The school received acertificate of thanks.- Thank you to all Pre-school Teachers & TA’s for a wonderful &successful Science Fair.- Thank you to Mrs. Arfa for Leading an outstanding Science Fair.

PRESCHOOL ANNUAL SCIENCE FAIR 4 December 2016

PRESCHOOL ANNUAL SCIENCE FAIRAl Wisam PreSchool held its annual Science Fair on Sunday,December 4th 2016. The School Chairman Mr. Jaffar Al-Jishi,Principal Dr Lina Lewis and Vice Principal Mrs Amaal Al-Halwachigraced the occasion as the chief guests. The Preschool studentswelcomed them, followed by the cutting of the ribbon to mark theinauguration of a spectacular display of creativity!The fair entitled “Across the universe - Space” signified thegrowth and development of tender minds growing into responsibleyoung children. The exhibition was a colourful display of themodels created from paper-mache, cotton, toiletries and variousother items. The science fair gave every child an opportunityto participate, regardless of reading or math ability or Englishproficiency. Children’s sense of curiosity & creativity was apparent.Science is fun! The main attractions in the exhibition were specialperformances about space presented by KG2 students. There wasa great deal of enthusiasm shown by the students as everybodyappreciated the “hands on” approach to the learning aspect.







BAHRAINNATIONAL DAY

BAHRAIN NATIONAL DAYAl Wisam School held the annualNational Day celebration onTuesday the 13th of December2016.The day started off with theassembly where students proudlysung the Bahrain National Anthem;this was followed by the differentshows planned & performed bystudents from different grades,such as the Bahrain fashion showwhich featured Bahrain traditionalclothing, the primary studentsperformed “its my unity” song,as well as a Bahrain traditionalwedding among others.The show was concluded with abrilliant gymnastic show that wasperformed by our very own primarystudents.



























PROPHET MOHAMMAD’S BIRTHDAY (PBUH)

PROPHET MOHAMMAD’S BIRTHDAY (PBUH)On the occasion of the birthday of ProphetMohammad (PBUH), the school held a specialcelebration on Sunday, December 7th, 2016.To celebrate this special day, Islamic teachershad many hands-on activities planned for thestudents to engage them on this day, suchas watching a short film about the Prophet’spilgrimage (PBUH).



MUSICPERFORMANCE

MUSIC PERFORMANCEPrimary and Middle School students came together to experience thejoys of music. Some performed well-known pieces, such as “Do, Re,Mi”, “Pachelbel’s Canon”, and many more.Others performed their own compositions, which were created duringtheir class periods in previous weeks. They played the piano, drums,xylophones, recorders, and many other instruments. The studentswanted to show their classmates, and any teachers that couldattend,what they had been working on in the first term. They provedto have worked very hard and learned quite a lot in those few shortmonths.





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