Monthly Archives: October 2017

Hispanic Culture Day is an annual national public holiday in Spain on October 12. Like every year, SEK Qatar organized an event filled with lots of exciting and fun activities. PYP students were allowed to wear traditional dresses or red and yellow colored clothes. For MYP, celebrations started after second break and lasted until the end of the day. MYP stations were organized by Grade 11 students, as part of their CAS.

Students did rotations and joined five different activities:

• A contest called “Pasapalabra” which means ‘pass the word’. The game was simple, the instructors (Ahmed, Omar and Amr) will say some sentences for the players to guess, and the answers will start with the letter going by the alphabet, and if you didn’t know it you say “Pasapalabra”. Students loved this game and participated enthusiastically.
• A role-play organized by Shaikha, Benjamín and Adel, where some students showed their drama skills. After they choose a theme, they will have to pick some costumes to make the scene more realistic. After their performance, the audience will have to either give it a smiley face or a sad face.
• Salma and Juan Ramón created a Cuban music station. First the students had to listen to a Cuban song to get the right beat and then they had to reproduce the beat with their instruments (different ones and assigned randomly).
• Valeria, Chloe and Arwa did some reasearch about Mexican folk art and they planned an activity, where students had to paint a reproduction of a typical piece of Mexican art on a plate covered by foil paper.
• In the gym, Kamel, Mahmoud and Gabriela designed a two activities station, with two traditional games to do some exercise and enjoy playing in teams.

It was a wonderful celebration and all students had lots of fun!

On Wednesday 4th of October, some MYP and DP girls took part in a volleyball competition against many other schools (as Doha College, Sherborne English school, Park House, and Qatar Academy). It was hosted by Qatar Academy and took place within its premises.

There were a total of six matches in which the girls participated. Although not victorious, it was a great learning experience for everyone.

The girls tried their best and were very enthusiastic about their experience at the competition, keeping a positive attitude about the entire event. They look forward to their next tournament.

Congratulations to all who took part:

Adriana Abella

Isabel Pérez-Marsá

Isabella A. Jiménez

Gabriela de la Cuesta

Salma El-Bechouti

Katerina Darby

Victoria Pérez-Marsá

Fernanda Mosella

Tsunami Ceballos Paradeda

Gabriela Ponte Brinto

A special thank you to the teachers who helped to organize the trip.

This was a great learning experience for the team players!