CITIZEN July - December 2018

THE CITIZEN July - December 2018 A JOURNEY OF A THOUSAND MILES BEGINS WITH A SINGLE STEP The City School Goes Digital! Robo�cs Takes a Big Leap Forward! Offering Chinese Language classes at The City School 02 LEADING nEWS FROM HEAD OFFICE Cu�ng-edge Training Centres Opening Across Pakistan Offering Chinese Language Classes at The City School The City School is the their first level by research, monitoring, and venture which offers enriching pioneering school system that mid-November. Based on the evalua�on. The Faculty of and eminent training has taken the ini�a�ve of success of this endeavour, we Educa�on accompanies the programmes. It provides offering Chinese-language have also decided to expand the implementa�on of reforms with courses for students, parents, classes to its students as well as offer to other ci�es star�ng con�nuous research into how trainers, leaders and adults. Currently, the pilot with Faisalabad, Sialkot, In collabora�on with the effec�ve they are and how educa�onal prac��oners. course is running its first batch Multan, Gujranwala and University of Cambridge, teachers and students react to Our aim is to be a centralised The in two of our branches: Sargodha respec�vely. ‘ CEPD (Centre for them. They then create and fully equipped facility City School s Shalimar and DHA Campus in Educa�onal and Professional extensive reports that showcase where our customers can enjoy Lahore. The programme offers Development) the changes made and how high quality tui�on in a separate courses for adults and is delivering a range of they have affected conducive learning young students. For our first interna�onally-developed performance. environment. CEPD will focus batch, we have matriculated 60 training courses in mul�ple on two dimensions; one to students who will be finishing fields of educa�on. The City School , now working nurture talent through a strong in partnership with The Faculty curriculum and offer The Faculty of Educa�on at of Educa�on at Cambridge, comprehensive courses and Going one step ahead with APTIS Cambridge, through its promotes development of its workshops. Secondly, to foster The Bri�sh Council and The assessments. These Educa�on Reform and teachers–thus ensuring the skills and exper�se in City School joined hands to standardised tests are being Innova�on (ERI) Team solu�ons offered fit specific individuals whether novices or ensure quality recruitment of used in 85 countries worldwide specialises in research-informed needs of each programme. experienced in the field of teaching staff. One of the to assess the English-language systemic educa�on reform. teaching and learning, business, cornerstones of The City proficiency of all teachers and ERI is involved in interna�onal CEPD (Centre for Educa�onal & IT, ar�ficial intelligence, and the School is professional school administrators. projects of development, Professional Development) is a performing arts. development of its Parent Tes�monial: teachers – helping them “As a parent I am pleased with become pioneers and leaders in the new and improved the field of educa�on. Sound English-speaking environment Professional Development Qualifica�ons language skills are a in school. I have noticed a World-class Training for our Teaching Professionals learning. It also encourages prerequisite for an ins�tu�on change of vocabulary usage and teachers to reflect cri�cally on that promises academic spoken skills in my child. I am their own pedagogy and to excellence. Therefore, it is our also happy with the initiative experiment with new utmost priority that we taken with ‘Word of the Day’.” techniques within the maintain a certain benchmark classroom. Some unique in English language that does features of these PDQs include: not compromise on quality guided learning through teaching. To address this workshops tutorials, individual par�cular need, we are using study, collabora�ve the Bri�sh Council’s APTIS research-based learning, discussion of prac�cal applica�ons, and work-based Celebra�ng Independence Day learning in schools. For any individual, freedom and independence are one of the This course is open to Early greatest blessings. Pakistan’s Years, Primary, and Middle Independence Day was School teachers with a celebrated with great gusto at The City School is proud to be Cambridge Interna�onal to run minimum of two years of The City School Head Office. an approved teaching centre for accredited professional teaching experience. Teachers The event was arranged by the Cambridge Assessment development programmes for are evaluated by Cambridge HR Department in collabora�on Interna�onal Educa�on these qualifica�ons. Last year, through a por�olio of evidence with the Department of Music. staff gathered and paid homage Professional Development we held our first programme: which demonstrates their On August 13th, Head Office to our great country. A�erward, Qualifica�ons (PDQs) in: Cer�ficate in Teaching with knowledge, skills, and employees were pleasantly na�onal songs were sung that Digital Technologies in the understanding in the context of surprised to discover their struck every par�cipant and Teaching with Digital Central Region. The content their own work. This includes workspace festooned in listeners patrio�c chord. Finally, Technologies and Learning structure designed by pedagogical prac�ces, feedback emerald and white balloons. in the midst of that Educa�onal Leadership Cambridge empowers teachers from colleagues and students, The day commenced with a electrically-charged fervour, a flag-hois�ng ceremony in the cake-cu�ng ceremony was held Since October 2017, The City to make effec�ve use of digital along with the teachers’ own Sports Complex and a spirited before everyone returned to School has been registered by technologies in their students’ reflec�ons on their prac�ce. recita�on of Pakistan’s Na�onal their work energised and Anthem. The en�re Head Office upli�ed! Robo�cs Takes a Big Leap Forward! The students of Grade 7 and 8 They are accessible to people of will now be using the latest ICT all ages who are interested in World Literacy Day equipment as part of the building computers and The City School celebrates robo�cs por�on of our main exploring languages like Scratch world literacy day across all curriculum. From second term, and Python. The Raspberry-Pi campuses every year, but this students will be using can be used to aid coding and physics. year the Human Resources Raspberry-Pi and Edison robots computer-based learning, but Programmable robots, like department celebrated with the that will assist them in its value extends beyond STEM Edison, are amazing mo�vators under privileged children. educa�on. TCF is now one of providing a more hands-on, classes, with the poten�al to that keep kids engaged and Pakistan’s leading organisa�ons deep-rooted learning enhance educa�on across inspired in learning more. One For this cause, The City School whose mission is to support the experience. A Raspberry-Pi is a disciplines including music and reason for this is that the design has joined hands with The educa�on of underprivileged credit-card sized computer art. of such devices is based on Ci�zens Founda�on (TCF): a kids. We are proud to say that called a “microcontroller.” The Edison robot is the perfect building blocks like Legos. They non-profit organiza�on set up in all Regional Office staff and Microcontrollers can be plugged base for teaching a wide range foster crucial skills like crea�vity 1995 by a group of ci�zens who school children joined together into monitors or TVs, and use a of STEM topics. These include and play along with conceptual wanted to bring about posi�ve to donate a surplus number of standard keyboard and mouse. but are not limited to robo�cs, learning. social change through books for the cause. 03 educating nEWS FROM CENTRAL REGION Par�cipa�ng parents were Teachers’ Day Celebra�on Sale Ac�vity highly impressed by the ac�vity Teachers' day is celebrated On Wednesday, 10th October and management, and le� a worldwide on the 5th of 2018, a bake sale was organised posi�ve feedback. October to acknowledge and at Sargodha Campus. Mothers praise the consistent effort of brought homemade dishes and our teachers. Playing an sold food items with their indispensable part in the lives children. The sale was a great of students, teachers help them Almighty followed by our A�erwards, there was a cake learning experience for the figure out their best poten�al. na�onal anthem. Students cu�ng ceremony as a token of students providing them The students of explored the importance of the love for the teachers followed hands-on chance to buy and sell The City organised a special teachers in their lives and the by chocolates distribu�on. and understand the concept of School morning programme in order to ways they work hard to produce A part of the ceremony also profit and loss as well as the appreciate the �reless efforts of the best results. The students included an exci�ng cricket virtues of responsibility. their teachers, who work had organised various ac�vi�es match between teachers and diligently throughout the year. for the teachers too, who were students. Army Public School Pak. Studies Quiz Compe��on called up one-by-one to The Inter-District Pakistan by securing an overall 2nd The main organisers were the par�cipate. Studies quiz compe��on was posi�on in the district and 11th grade students of The held on the 17th August, 2018 winning a cash prize. City School . The programme Two the senior teachers were in correla�on with the started with sincere called to answer rapid-fire celebra�ons of Independence remembrance name of Allah ques�ons.

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