CREATIVE LEARNERS TODAY, FUTURE LEADERS TOMORROW JUNE 2018 AL JAZEERA ACADEMY NEWSLETTER Academic leaders with Islamic values IN THIS ISSUE PRINCIPAL’S MESSAGE Dear Parents and Families, Ramadan Kareem As we near the end of the school year we can reflect on and celebrate the many achievements of our students across the Academy. We sincerely hope this Sheikh Abdulla Attends Prestigious Art Exhibition summer we will again continue the upward trend of exam achievements in school and IGCSE and AS international exams. We thank all students and staff who are moving on from the Academy this summer and wish them the best of success on the next stage of their journey. Thank you for your support throughout Y9 Boys QUESS Football the year. We hope you have a most Champions enjoyable Summer holiday and we all return ready for even more successful year ahead in 2018-19 Mr Sheldon Smith Principal HIS ROYAL HIGHNESS PRESENTS TOP AWARD TO FORMER Arabic Competition Success AJA STUDENT DANA AL ANZY Holy Quran Competition Roaring Lions Former AJA student Dana Al Anzy receives the gold medal, National Award for Anti Bullying Campaign Academic Excellence 2018 from His Highness Sheikh Tamim bin Hamad Al Thani. 1 CREATIVE LEARNERS TODAY, FUTURE LEADERS TOMORROW AL JAZEERA ACADEMY NEWSLETTER Academic leaders with Islamic values STOP PRESS! 2 CREATIVE LEARNERS TODAY, FUTURE LEADERS TOMORROW AL JAZEERA ACADEMY NEWSLETTER Academic leaders with Islamic values STOP PRESS! 3 CREATIVE LEARNERS TODAY, FUTURE LEADERS TOMORROW AL JAZEERA ACADEMY NEWSLETTER Academic leaders with Islamic values STOP PRESS! 4 CREATIVE LEARNERS TODAY, FUTURE LEADERS TOMORROW AL JAZEERA ACADEMY NEWSLETTER Academic leaders with Islamic values AJA ARABIC COMPETITION WINNERS 5 CREATIVE LEARNERS TODAY, FUTURE LEADERS TOMORROW AL JAZEERA ACADEMY NEWSLETTER Academic leaders with Islamic values A Message from the Head of Secondary Dear Parents and Families There were magnificent National Day celebrations in the wake of the unjust siege, boys and girls It has been an honour and a privilege for me to working selflessly to raise record breaking funds work with you and to lead the Secondary Team for Qatar Cancer charity, the Year 9 football team at Al Jazeera Academy over the past 4 years. I winning the league, Ghada Ali with the highest now move on to a new role as the Secondary score in the Middle East for English IGCSE, Moza Al School Consultant for the Ta’allum Group of Thani with Qatar’s highest mark in IGCSE RE, a 4 schools. Mr James Batts, presently the Head of year rising trend of students achieving 2 AS levels Primary will be the new Head of Secondary or more, Qatar debates, the highest representation School. of students at the Model United Nations I feel proud to have shared in the celebration of conferences, record numbers of winners in the Holy our students’ successes and to encourage the Qu’ran competitions, Spelling Bee Champions, the Islamic values, exemplified by Tarbeya and Prayer for Rain and all the dramas and crises, funny which underpin all we do in the school. The AJA moments and brilliant lively every day small scale experience has taught me what we all should successes and breakthroughs. It seems a blur but realize: we never stop learning, whether we are through it all we have all emerged wiser, more 9 or 90 years old. mature and ready to learn more. During this year there have been so many I thank our parents and families. Be proud of all memorable student achievements to inspire us that you have done to nurture and guide your all. Our successes ranged from the high quality children. I thank our teachers, support and site Art Exhibition at Katara when we were honored staff, for your hard work and commitment to our by the attendance of Sheikh Abdullah to the young people. Most of all I thank our students - to success of former AJA student Dana Al Anzy, who be educated is about high academic knowledge and received a most prestigious award. His Highness skills but it is far more than that. Who you are and Sheikh Tamim bin Hamad Al-Thani presented what is in your heart are what truly counts. Dana with the Gold Medal, the National Award I wish all of you the very best of success and for Academic Excellence in 2013 and now again happiness now and in the future. in 2018. Peter Kubicki Head of Secondary School 6 CREATIVE LEARNERS TODAY, FUTURE LEADERS TOMORROW AL JAZEERA ACADEMY NEWSLETTER ARABIC DEPARTMENT Academic leaders with Islamic values قسم اللغة العربية انطﻻقا من قول عمر بن الخطاب رضي هللا عنه )) تعلموا العربية فإ هنإ من دينمك (( فإن قسم اللغة العربية يهدف إلى : • رفع مستوى مهارات ال ّطﻻب اللغويّة. • تمكين ال ّطﻻب من استخدام اللغة العربية للتعبير عن حاجاتهم. • التّأكيد على أن اللغة العربية جزء ﻻ يتجزأ من الهوية. • المشاركة في الفعاليات الخاصة باللغة العربية. • المشاركة في تحقيق رؤية قطر للتنمية المستدامة 2030. 7 CREATIVE LEARNERS TODAY, FUTURE LEADERS TOMORROW AL JAZEERA ACADEMY NEWSLETTER ARABIC DEPARTMENT Academic leaders with Islamic values تكريم بعض الطﻻب مع اﻷستاذة أمينة خميس Honouring some students with Ms. Aminah Khamis طﻻب الدعم اﻹضافي مع اﻷستاذة : تيسير محمد Additional support students work with Ms. Tayseer Mohammed 8 CREATIVE LEARNERS TODAY, FUTURE LEADERS TOMORROW AL JAZEERA ACADEMY NEWSLETTER ARABIC DEPARTMENT Academic leaders with Islamic values Honouring some of our students تكريم بعض الطﻻب مع اﻷستاذ ربيع رمضان تكريم بعض الطﻻب مع اﻷستاذ نجم الدين سيد تكريم بعض الطﻻب مع اﻷستاذ ربيع رمضان تكريم بعض الطﻻب مع اﻷستاذة أمينة خميس تكريم بعض الطﻻب مع اﻷستاذ : محمد السيد 9 CREATIVE LEARNERS TODAY, FUTURE LEADERS TOMORROW AL JAZEERA ACADEMY NEWSLETTER ARABIC DEPARTMENT Academic leaders with Islamic values Supporting the Palestinian cause speaking about Jerusalem The Debates 10 CREATIVE LEARNERS TODAY, FUTURE LEADERS TOMORROW AL JAZEERA ACADEMY NEWSLETTER ARABIC DEPARTMENT Academic leaders with Islamic values Activating the value & Tarbeya Programmes Yes to Discipline 11 CREATIVE LEARNERS TODAY, FUTURE LEADERS TOMORROW AL JAZEERA ACADEMY NEWSLETTER ENGLISH DEPARTMENT Academic leaders with Islamic values INTERNATIONAL BOOK WEEK Year 7GE/1 English class kicked off International Book Week on a positive note. They were given an assignment to complete for the week which included writing a story, blurb, book review and a mask of their favorite characters. They have done a fantastic job and have produced some excellent work. VISIT TO QATAR NATIONAL LIBRARY The Year 10 Boys Trip to the National Library was an exceptional day. The boys were on their best behaviour and enjoyed the walk through the library to see the performance auditorium, the innovation rooms with recording equipment, filming material and a 3D printer. 12 CREATIVE LEARNERS TODAY, FUTURE LEADERS TOMORROW AL JAZEERA ACADEMY NEWSLETTER BUSINESS/ICT DEPARTMENT Academic leaders with Islamic values INJAZ LAUNCH EVENT AT QNCC The visit by Year 10 and 11 girls to the INJAZ launch event was successful. The event was attended by representatives from other secondary schools and universities in Qatar, who will be participating in this year’s competition. Students had the opportunity to meet the managers and organisers of the competition and asked key questions relating to their proposed business idea which Vinery, a health meal delivery service. SUPPORT AJA BUSINESS PROJECT Support AJA students who have developed a new business as part of competition for secondary schools in Doha. Vinery is a business that delivers fresh organic ingredients with healthy recipes. For more details: Contact Shahad Ibrahim CEO; Amna Al Hor and Sara Al Hamadi (Finance managers) and other Vinery staff. 13 CREATIVE LEARNERS TODAY, FUTURE LEADERS TOMORROW AL JAZEERA ACADEMY NEWSLETTER BUSINESS/ICT DEPARTMENT Academic leaders with Islamic values BUSINESS STUDENTS VISIT THE MELTING POT On Thursday 15th March, some of our IGCSE Business Studies students visited "The Melting Pot". The students met with the manager of the branch who explained his reasoning behind starting up a franchise and his choice for choosing this particular one. Students were very engaged and extremely articulate in their choice of questioning to the franchisee. They also had the opportunity to tour the kitchen and see how the food is prepared; which included Abdulla Kareem (11BY) preparing a cheese fondue meal for his peers. 14 CREATIVE LEARNERS TODAY, FUTURE LEADERS TOMORROW AL JAZEERA ACADEMY NEWSLETTER SCIENCE DEPARTMENT Academic leaders with Islamic values WE LOVE BALADNA FARM Year 11 IGCSE Biology students visited Baladna Farm in Al Khor. the largest sheep and livestock farm in the GCC which features the region’s most advanced rotary milking parlor. Students were truly amazed by the accomplishments of Qatar particularly due to the blockade. 15 CREATIVE LEARNERS TODAY, FUTURE LEADERS TOMORROW AL JAZEERA ACADEMY NEWSLETTER SCIENCE DEPARTMENT Academic leaders with Islamic values WE LOVE BALADNA FARM OUR FUTURE SCIENTIST In science, practical work forms an integral part of our courses. It makes science fun and opens up our minds to a whole new world. Here we have a group of our year 11 students, carrying out a titration experiment. Titrations helps us to calculate the concentration of an unknown substance. Just magical. KEEP CALM AND STUDY SCIENCE 16 CREATIVE LEARNERS TODAY, FUTURE LEADERS TOMORROW AL JAZEERA ACADEMY NEWSLETTER SCIENCE DEPARTMENT Academic leaders with Islamic values BIODIVERSITY PROJECT VISIT Year 11 boys, carried out DNA separation on different breeds of falcons and making use of university lab facilities. They attended workshops on selective breeding and adaptations of falcons, the boys thoroughly enjoyed the hands on experience and are now considering a career in the biology field. Biodiversity is the number and types of plants and animals that exist in a particular area or in the world. 17 CREATIVE LEARNERS TODAY, FUTURE LEADERS TOMORROW AL JAZEERA ACADEMY NEWSLETTER ISLAMIC STUDIES DEAPARTMENT Academic leaders with Islamic values HOLY QUR’AN COMPETITION Holy Qur’an competition for academic year 2017-2018 Registered Participants Winners KG School 102 102 79 Primary School 173 158 100 Secondary School 45 38 30 Total 320 298 209 ALMOA’THEN COMPETITION 25 boys practice in ALMOA’’THEN competition.