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Cycling Events in Doha Qatar Pearl

18 October, 2016 21:07 , Leave a Comment ,

Excitement is in the air as the World Cycling Championships took place in an Arab country for the first time. Our city, Doha, has been the host of this incredible event. Approximately 1000 cyclist were racing through the streets of the Pearl. This event has had a wide impact of the residents of Qatar. It has caused roads to close and traffic jams to increase. From October 8th to 16th, residents found a solution by parking vehicles at Katara. For ten hours a day the completion forced people to take boats, buses and golf carts to get to their homes. The total distance of all races has been 626.26 km.

Some of the problems that have occurred are the temperature is too hot and the traffic jams have increased, greatly.

By Phoebe Jewell-MacGregor, Chiara Pelliteri, Moises Simpino and Laura Freitas.

Posted in: Happening in Qatar

DP Students Meet Volunteering Teams

18 October, 2016 14:48 , Leave a Comment ,

On October 12th, DP students visited the Qatar Foundation HBKU Student Center to talk about volunteering opportunities with ROTA and Orbis.

Reach out to Asia (ROTA) is a volunteering organization based in Qatar. It contributes to saving lives in Asia and some parts of the Middle East by rebuilding schools and training teachers so that helpless children can have quality education and get back on their feet. Students in need of volunteering opportunities for CAS can address this organization, and give a step forward in helping the world little by little. DP students were very interested in what the head of the organization had to say, and on how one can find ROTA on many different social media.

Similarly, Orbis changes lives of visually impaired people in poverty. Additionally, they train doctors to become professional eye surgeons to spread the importance of vision, with over 30,000 trained doctors to operate on patients across the regions. The devastating number of visually impaired/blind people really opened our eyes to the world, and prompted us to help out other people by volunteering too.

The 11th graders were inspired by the effort and hard work ROTA and Orbis have put into aiding those in need. You can also help out by visiting ROTA’s website: www.reachouttoasia.org and Orbis’s webpage: www.orbis.org

By Lama Abbas and Afnan Tag (Grade 11)

 

Posted in: Happening in the school

Hispanic Culture Day

16 October, 2016 21:03 , Leave a Comment ,

Last Wednesday, October 12th, we celebrated Hispanic Culture Day. On this occasion, some of the students in Grades 6 and 7 went to Preschool and helped the teachers to perform some activities in Spanish, such as story telling & playing songs and games. After that, all the MYP & PYP teachers collaborated to make different activities for all the grades such as Kahoots, paper flowers making, watching an educational video in Spanish, playing “El pañuelo” and playing a game with Tagalog and Spanish words. The students had to rotate from class to class with their tutors to attend each activity. It was a fun learning day that all students enjoyed.

By Angela Arlati

Posted in: Happening in the school