CES Newsletter Edition 2 20th December 2011 In this edition: Dear Parents, We have had a recent visit from Ms Kay Mongardi, Whole School News: accreditation consultant for the Council of International Schools. • Black and Orange Day • Student Achievement We were pleased to hear her report where she • Student Council Events reported a hugely significant improvement in school • Student Council Halloween culture and climate and an outstanding staff team Celebrations who is working extremely hard to make CES the very • School Pride best that it can. In saying that, she also reported • Headmaster's Coffee some significant work to do in Curriculum and Morning Assessment. We relish these findings and see this as • PTSA News an opportunity to become 'Better than Before'. • CIS Workshop In an exercise, she asked us to consider the significant progress that we had • Girls Football accomplished in a very short space in time. In doing this, I wish to congratulate our whole community on how it has come together to celebrate a new era for Cairo Secondary School News: English School. In this short space of time: • Head of Secondary 1. we have welcomed 8 new senior managers and 67 new staff to Cairo and inducted • IB Learner Profiles them into the school 2. we have a created a renewed sense of pride in the way our students act and Primary School News: wear their school uniform 3. we have developed a real focus on character education, respect and manners 4. we have created a renewed sense of pride and passion with the schools house • Head of Primary system and school spirit week • Mural Competition 5. we have developed a new senior uniform and an ethos of service within our • International Primary senior cohort Curriculum 6. we have developed curriculum in 6 weekly blocks with three weekly behaviour reports and six weekly academic reports Foundation Stage News: 7. we have created a student council, a prefect team, implemented student leadership training and created Head Boy and Head Girl • Assistant Head of Foundation Stage We could not had made so much progress without the support of our whole • Black and Orange community - thank you! I would like to take this opportunity to wish you and your Halloween family the very best holiday wishes for the winter break. Travel safe, enjoy family and • Kidsville we look forward meeting up again on January 8. • Reading can be fun! Educationally yours, Craig Monaghan Headmaster 1 Whole School News... Edition 2 Black and Orange Day CES has had a very successful kick-start to our Charity Drives for 2011-12, with our annual Black & Orange Day. It’s the 3rd year of fundraising for our local National Egyptian counterpart sponsor school, the Mohamed Farid Secondary Girls School, to help provide them with an improved quality of schooling. Thanks to the giving support of our students and parents across the Primary and Secondary schools, through a House Competition Candy-O-Gram Sale and a Non-Uniform Day, we successfully raised 14,838LE on Sunday, October 30, 2011…CONGRATULATIONS CES, on our largest fundraised amount ever!!! The funds will go towards the purchase of toilet bowls and basins for their girls’ bathroom facilities, which CES will be supporting to install for our sponsor school, over the next month. It is thanks to the caring and giving nature of all of you, that we were able to work as a Team and give back to our local community, helping to improve the way of life in Egypt! Student Achievement It is exciting to hear when our students excel outside the school in their chosen sporting activities. Abdelrahman Kamal (Y6KC) won a series of events at a Cairo swim meet recently and, as a result of this, he will now be competing at the national level later this month. His strengths in the pool are butterfly and medley. Abdelrahman trains incredibly hard, both before school and after, and this takes focus, commitment and displays his strength of character. We can’t wait to hear of more of your successes Abdelrahman. Keep up the awesome efforts and I’m sure you’ll be re-writing the record books before long. 2 Whole School News... Edition 2 Student Council Events Calendar 2011 – 2012 What Can You Look Forward to This Year? CES Student Council (CESSC) has worked hard to plan a number of special events for this academic year 2011 – 2012. They have listened to what students across the school have said and have tried their best to ensure that everyone will be involved in a series of social, cultural and fundraising events. Check out the CESSC Special Events Schedule and see what you can look forward to this year! These events will be posted on the school website calendar with specific dates for all to view. Look out for announcements and letters that will be circulated before each upcoming event to make sure you are well informed. You wouldn’t want to miss out! We hope to see everyone enjoying a great year filled with memorable learning experiences! CESSC Supervisors Tamara Brunskill & Christopher Kalff Year Month Event Description Groups From 3 - 6 pm the school gym will be open to all Years 5 – 6 students to participate in Thursday 15th Years Games Mania organized games and activities such as trivia, karaoke, Pictionary, video games, card December 5 - 6 games, board games and so much more! Food and beverages will be available. Let’s read to raise money for a good cause! Students will bring home books to read with “Read for 15th – 19th Primary their parents. Parents will track the amount of books read in a week and donate LE20 Good” Book January School per book read. The funds raised will go to charity! Members of CESSC will present the Week donations to the PTSA during the Winter Carnival. From 3 - 6 pm the school gym will be open to all Years 3 - 4 students to participate in Thursday 19th Years Games Mania organized games and activities such as trivia, karaoke, Pictionary, video games, card January 3 - 4 games, board games and so much more! Food and beverages will be available. Do you have any unwanted toys or clothes at home? Don’t throw them away! Save “Share the 5th – 9th Whole them for a special cause instead and bring them to school so that they can be donated Love” Toys & February School to orphans around Cairo. Members of CESSC will personally to present your donations Clothes Drive selected orphanages. Get ready for a night of glamour as the seniors head to a luxury hotel to party the night away in high style! This formal event will be open to students from other international Thursday 2nd Red Carpet Years schools as well. Get ready for pumping tunes from the DJ and to have your snaps taken February Valentine’s 10 - 13 as you make your entrance on the red carpet...CES goes to Hollywood this Valentine’s! Remember, it’s all for a good cause because 30% of the profits will go to charity! Bring it on, folks! Suit up for a wild session of paintballing in Rehab City from 3 – 6pm. Thursday 1st Paintball Day Years Form your teams and get signed up! Let’s see who the real troopers of middle school March Out 7 - 9 are! The day will start with a parade around the school track displaying the flags of the various nationalities at CES. This will be followed by a tour of the cultural stalls. Each class will pull Celebrating Thursday 29th Whole a country out of a hat and will be in charge of creating a cultural stall exhibiting all the World Cultures March School fantastic things the country is known for…art, dance, music, flora, fauna, famous people… Festival and best of all food! Each class will serve national dishes at their stall as well! Get your class parents to help out! Have fun celebrating the world’s diversity! Cinema & Lace up your bowling shoes and polish those bowling balls, Middle school is hitting the Thursday 19th Years Bowling Day bowling lanes! Sign up your teams and practice your backswing! Let’s see who bowls the April 7 - 9 Out most strikes and who bowls the most gutter balls! Splish, splash, let’s have a blast! Water balloons, tubs of coloured water, water guns, soapy Thursday 17th Summer Whole slip ‘n’ slide mats…enjoy the madness! Dress up in bright coloured beach wear and go all May Wet ‘n’ Wild School out with the wigs and face paint! Summer is close at hand and we’re going to celebrate! After two hard years of academic rigour, the Class of 2012 will be breathing a big sigh of Graduation relief! Goodbye high school, hello future callings! To mark the momentous occasion CES Tuesday 19th Ceremony & Year 13 will be hosting a graduation ceremony followed by a celebratory dinner. It’s time to invite June Dinner your families and charge your cameras…it’ll be a Kodak moment for everyone’s photo albums! 3 Whole School News... Edition 2 CES Student Council Halloween Celebrations The ghouls and gals at CES celebrated Halloween in a sensational way this year thanks to the tremendous efforts of the CES Student Council (CESSC). From the “Critter Catwalk” and “Wicked and Whacky Races” in Primary to the rocking “Halloween Dance” in Secondary, everyone enjoyed the thrills and spills of each exciting event! The morning kicked off the celebrations en vogue! In an attempt to scare the socks off their school mates, the “cool cats” in Primary strutted their stuff during the “Critter Catwalk”, hoping to win the “best costume” award for their year level.