Welcome from the Principal
Dear Parents,
Welcome to the second newsletter of the academic year. We have had a positive term, building on the sound foundations established at the start of the year. Students have a clear understanding of the routines and expectations we have been in the process of embedding. Students respond well when they know what standards have been set and why. Most rise to the challenge when the culture is one of high expectation.
A significant part of the curriculum has been taught and learned from early years to sixth form (key stage 5). It is essential that parents continue to support their child’s learning by, for example, hearing them read books, asking them questions about what they have learned and providing a good learning environment at home. We continue to provide most year groups every week with guided independent learning tasks in maths, English and science on the Century learning platform. It is important students complete these to consolidate their progress in these core subjects.
I hope the parents of our Year 7 and 8 students find the weekly curriculum newsletter and curriculum booklet very useful. You receive weekly curriculum information and the curriculum content that is covered in every subject for the whole year. This is designed to help parents in organising and supporting their child’s learning. In addition, I hope you found the parents consultation afternoon (16th November) helpful in finding out how your children are progressing in every subject and what they need to do to improve further. This will be followed by report portfolios highlighting teacher and student PROUD work, supported by teacher commendations and recommendations.
I wish all our students and their parents a pleasant and restful winter break and look forward to the start of the new term on 2 January 2024.
Dr. Nasim Butt
RSI Director/Principal
SRS Sports News – Term 1 Round Up
It has been a very successful term for SRS Sports Teams across the primary and secondary school. Over 400 students have represented the school in over 61 competitive fixtures. The SRS Sports Team’s focus has been ‘Sport for All’ in term 1. However, it is testament to our students’ ability, parental support and staff expertise that we have had a very successful first term.
Congratulations must be passed on to all our teams who proudly represented the school. However, special mentions include Year 3, Year 4, Year 5, Year 6 and Year 8 Football Teams for their impressive achievement of not losing a fixture.
A special mention also to our junior swim team attending their first Gala and achieving third place; and finally, the pioneers of female sport at SRS, the Senior Girls Basketball team who represented the school in both under 16 and under 19 competitions. We are immensely proud of them all!
A big thank you goes to all SRS students who attended sports clubs and represented the school, to parents who often stayed late to support their children in practice and fixtures and to the SRS Sports Team whose commitment, enthusiasm and support made this possible.
The season has now ended, all extra-curricular sports clubs ceased on Friday 1st of December for the winter break. The SRS Sports Team will be in touch again early in January with our new expanded offering of SRS Sports Clubs.
We wish you all a restful and pleasant winter break.
UAE 52nd National Day
Arabic and Islamic Studies News: أخبار القسم العربي وفعالياته
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Primary School News
The Primary School has been a veritable feast of kindness, creativity and competition recently as we marked the annual Anti-Bullying week, enjoyed our artistic endeavors for our Art and DT drop-down days and our pupils excelled in our Champions League Spelling Bee challenge! We have certainly been developing the 6C’s in our students this term!
We explored our uniqueness and celebrated our differences on international Odd-Socks day and throughout the week students produced wonderful artwork along the ‘Anti-bullying’ theme, including inspirational messages of positivity on specially designed rocks to display in our Art Garden.
Build Character
Learning to deep learn, to keep trying, to have integrity, empathy and compassion and to always be a learner.
Kindness is a core ‘Character’ strength that our pupils embody on a daily basis.
UK Secondary School News
As we have entered the second half of the term for the academic year 2023-24, there have been yet more academic triumphs and exciting events for the students of SRS Secondary UK. At the end of October, students in Years 10 and 11 were rewarded for the social responsibility work undertaken with lower year groups – they now understand the importance of working with their peers in the lower years, thereby fostering a sense of community and imparting valuable life lessons.
On the 3rd of November, we also celebrated Flag Day as a school. Rather than settle for simply raising the flags and singing the national anthem, we decided that a commercial souk would take place throughout the day. Students took part in all manner of activities – from penalty shootouts, through to archery and even carnival-style events. An assortment of flag-themed items was sold from the kiosks, with students (and even many staff members) taking advantage of the opportunity to buy flag-themed pens, badges, and scarves.
The students remained after the event to count their profits, tallying these against their losses and expenses. Again, at SRS, the major theme for this year is InvestIQ – or how to use your money wisely to create sustainable businesses that yield profits. The commercial souk was a carefully planned business event that would teach our Key Stage 4 students how to invest wisely, while also providing enjoyment for our students in Key Stage 3 during a day of national celebration.
In terms of other events, students took part in a charity football match on Wednesday the 15th November. We have also held a Parental Consultation Day on the 16th of November, to ensure that communication between the school and its stakeholders remains very strong. To finish Learning Cycle 1, we staged Awards Assemblies to ensure that every student in the secondary school was rewarded for their hard work and efforts in this term.
