Category Archives: Happening In The School

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!

On October 12^th, 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 11^th 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)

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

Last week  at SEK we celebrated book week, not only with students but with staff and parents as well. On the first day of book week the D.E.A.R time concept was introduced to students and staff to be practiced throughout the whole week. D.E.A.R time stands for drop everything and read time and this happened everyday between 8:00 to 8:20. Each grade had different activities throughout the week. On the first day grades eight, nine and ten visited the college of North Atlantic to have a tour of their facilities and their library. Meanwhile the grades six and seven had an author visit by Mr Khalid Al Obaidan (Arabic poet). The students were fascinated by the elements of Arabic poetry. On the second day of book week the whole MYP was lucky enough to have the author Mrs. Mohana Rajakumar go through the process of becoming an author. She highlighted important aspects such as the difference between writers and authors and also focused on the importance of time management, an ATL skill we are encouraged to develop. On the third day of book week we were honored to have Mrs. Justine Jewell visit our school and give us a very motivational speech about finding our passions and how that helps us to follow dreams. As you can see MYP had a lot of fun during this week just like the PYP did. They had the opportunity to have a mystery event. These mystery readers were varied from parents to teachers and they would read in multiple languages. The PYP also had the chance to dress  up as their favorite book characters in the last day of book week. In the main hall there a was book exhibition available to all grades and their parents. Book week was a great experience for all of us and we would like to thank the book week committee.

By Claudia Montalvo