Middle East International School December 2017

MIS is:

Internationally accredited

by AdvancED

Nationally accredited by

QNSA

Licensed to operate in

Qatar

Providing the American

curriculum based on the

Common Core

Standards

Welcomes students,

teachers and families of

all nationalities.

Qatar National Day

We will be celebrating Qatar National Day on December 14. You can

see our celebration in two ways:

Please join us at 8:00 a.m. for a dress rehearsal

And/or join us at 6:30 p.m. for the full show

We hope this advance notice helps you plan to join us and celebrate

Qatar, our home! The students have a variety of presentations

planned.

Qatar National Day is quickly approaching. We want to share the program for the evening and hope you will join us! Each performance will be about 5 minutes and our goal is to honor Qatar on National Day.

In addition, on display will be several student art pieces. We hope you will enjoy the creation of art the students have worked so hard on!

A special thank you to all the teachers involved! Each grade level has a teacher advi-sor who helped them organize.

Student Presentations for Qatar National Day (Tentative Schedule)

MIS Students Qatar National Anthem – High School students

MIS Students Arabic Song – High School students

Arabic Students Sword Dance—Qatari students

KG1/KG2 Song

Grade 1 Arabic Dance—Farhana Najhana (Our Joy Has Succeeded)

Grade 2 Acrostic

Grade 3 Poetry Recital—A collection of short Qatari poems

Grade 4 Songs in Arabic: “We Love Qatar” and “Qatar is My Life”

Grade 5 Song and dance about Tameem Al Majd

Grade 6 History of Qatar

Grade 7 Food and Culture of Qatar

Grade 8 Heroes of Qatar History

Grade 9 Thobes and Abayas—A quick fashion show highlighting Qatari fashion.

Grade 10 Video “Why we Love Qatar” - MIS students share their love of Qatar.

Grade 11 Seven Ages of the Emir—A short skit about the important parts of our Emirs life and upbringing. Video “Qatar Changing over the Year”

Grade 12 Song – “We are Qatar”

Inside this Newsletter:

PAGE 2—Arabic Class

Awards

PAGE 3—Teacher Feature,

Ms. Elsie

PAGE 4—Student Trips

PAGE 5—New National

Library Contest

PAGE 6—Perfect Attendance

PAGE 8—SEHHA 2017

PAGE 8—Reading Photos

PAGE 9—January Exam

Schedule 1

December

Events

December 7

Early Dismissal at 12:30 p.m.

December 14

Qatar National Day Celebration

December 18

NO SCHOOL—National Day

December 22-January 1

NO SCHOOL—Winter Break

We have not yet been informed about

December 17. December 17 may or

may not be a national holiday.

This will impact the January date that

school resumes.

Please watch for a text message.

We will notify you as soon as we

know.

File Work

We are currently in the process of updat-

ing our files.

If your student has been a part of the MIS

community for several years, they may

have joined before certain requirements.

Now, MIS is working to ensure every stu-

dent file is accurate and up-to-date.

If we need copies of documents from you,

we will send home a sheet listing those

documents with your student.

Please help us get our files in order!

Learning Together is the Work!

Every day our teachers are improving their skills to be the best for our

students. The kindergarten teachers and Ms. Minu recently attended a

child psychology seminar together in the evening to review learner

needs, learner characteristics, art therapy as a teaching method, activi-

ties to develop critical thinking and ways to praise and motivate stu-

dents.

Thank you to the kindergarten team for their extra effort to learn and

grow!

Appointments Needed

Just a reminder to parents—please make an appointment to see a

teacher or principal.

Each day, your student(s) is our primary focus. From 7:00 a.m. until

2:00 p.m., we are with them—821 students. Please understand that

teachers have only a short break to eat their lunch and are working

with students the remainder of the time. And, principals are observing

teaching as well as working with your student(s).

Stopping a class and stopping the learning of 20+ students for an “on

demand” meeting is not an option. We say “no” and ask you to sched-

ule a time that works for teacher and you.

We do not want to waste your trip by having you wait or taking time to

come back another day. By scheduling an appointment, everyone's

time is respected.

The quickest way to schedule an appointment is to email the

teacher directly.

Emails for all staff are found on the website under Quicklinks!

Elementary Arabic Awards—

November Students

Studies show: Learning your first language makes you better at learn-

ing a second language. Ms. Nisrin, elementary Arabic, is awarding her

young students to motivate them to be better in their first language!

Grade 1—Adam Ahmed, Abdullah Faroogh, Alanoud Khalid, Taaha El

Jaber, Habiba Shady

Grade 2—Ghazal Ramy, Mazen Sayed, Sara Hisham

Grade 3—Dana Khalid

Grade 4—Zina Ashraf, Haneen Ahmed

Grade 5—Massa K Al Assadi 2

New Website

www.misqatar.com

School starts at 7:15 a.m.

Being on time helps students develop lifelong habits

for the world of work and ensures a smooth, orga-

nized start to their day. This is important as young

learners build habits of working and learning.

Parents dropping their kids off before 6:30 a.m.—

there is no supervision. Our gates open only at 6:30

a.m. for the blue canopy area.

School Ends at 2:00 p.m.

Please be prompt as supervision after school is not

provided.

Email

As a part of our service to you, we provide our corre-

spondence via email. Please make sure that we

have your updated email.

If you do not receive anything from us, please send

us an email at misadmin@misqatar.com with your

child’s name and grade.

When we have your email, you receive:

Lesson Plans

Newsletters

Special Announcements

Event Updates

Community Opportunities

Teacher Feature: Ms. Elsie

Ms. Elsie D. Bacus is a li-

censed teacher from the Philip-

pines, and she has been a part

of MIS since 2002. She gradu-

ated with a Bachelor of Arts in

Elementary Education and

earned units in her Masters of

Arts in Education. During her

years in the Philippines, she

taught both public and private

school students from KG1 to

Grade 4 and had attended several seminars and workshops in

the Philippines. She has been teaching 24 years both in the

Philippines and here in Qatar (9 years in Philippines and 15

years at MIS). Moreover, she is very happy to share 8 years of

teaching in KG2 and the rest of the fruitful years in Grade 1

here in MIS.

Thank you Ms. Elsie for your dedication to MIS, our students

and our families! Your service is very appreciated.

Student Absences

What do you do if your child needs to leave school?

Call us. Only a parent phone call can excuse a

child from school. Calls from nannies or drivers

will not be accepted by the school. We want to en-

sure that you are in control of when/if your student is

absent—not the student, nanny or driver.

Student Art Feature

Our students produce wonderful art every day, but the drawing

below from Abdullah Abdulhoque Abutaher Meah, Grade 5, is

in the spirit of Qatar National Day.

Questions?

If you have a question about anything at school, please email

any one of the principals or Dr. Sue. We are happy to assist

you.

School is a little different now than many years ago and differ-

ent than independent schools. We are happy to explain why

we do some things and take your suggestions.

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November Students

of the Month

KG—Lara Tarek Mohamed Diwan

Gr 1—Haya Mahmoud Taha Mekkawi

Gr 2—Eira Cabison Maghacut

Gr 3—Asala Yousef AlShaboul

Gr 4—Juliana Renee Dela Cruz Miclat

Gr 5—Rayyan Omar Ghazi

Gr 6—Sara Ghazi El Bushra

Gr 7—David Drew Ayson

Gr 8—Andrea Joy Deveraturda

Gr 9—Miguel Mari Carlos

Gr 10—Sara Omar Ahmed

Gr 11—Nunurayi Matimba

Gr 12—Layaly Bakr

Thank you to these outstanding students for

being role models socially and academically

for their peers. They helped us start our

school year in a very positive way!

Student Trip—China

Twelve students were chosen to participate in the 1st Student

Exchange to our sister school in China. Congratulations to

these students! We know they will be excellent ambassadors to

China.

Selina Haddad, Dania Maher, Hanaan Riaz, Almohanad Ghazi,

Sean Michael, Aleyna Sarakurt, Tamara Sadian, Rachel Mangli-

got, Rachel Pomperada, Angelica Cabang, Francis Owen Mag-

sumbol, David Pomperada.

Student Trip—USA

Dr. Reena will be leading the trip to the USA (Connecticut) in

April over the MIS Spring Break. If you have an interest, please

email Dr. Reena at reena.rajesh@misqatar.com.

For the USA trip, there is no obligation to host a student in order

to travel. We will (hopefully) be able to find host families within

our community when the time comes.

PISA

Students born in 2002 were required to take the PISA in early

November. PISA is an international, standardized test that stu-

dents around the world take in March 2018. The diagnostic test

our students took gives us valuable information to prepare them

for the actual PISA in spring.

They did well with reading being the best results. Thank you to

the students for their hard work on the morning of testing!

MIS Students Thank Our

Custodians, Cleaners and

Security

On November 23, students KG-12 came together

to thank our custodians, cleaners and security.

Each person was recognized and given a cash

gift. High School students put together a wonder-

ful video of students saying thank you.

Check out the video on our YouTube channel

which you can go to from the home page of the

website!

www.misqatar.com

Looking for Volunteers: Host

Families for Exchange Students

If you would like to volunteer to host exchange students from

the USA, please reach out to our guidance counselor Ms. Tessy

at tessy.manalil@misqatar.com

You will be provided

with the details and

guidelines for serving

as a host family to our

foreign exchange stu-

dents.

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Author Celebration

Banners, pictures and valuable quotations from R.L Stine, Ronald Dahl and Agatha Christie were a part of the

Author Celebration. Students from grades 1 to 12 submitted approximately 30 works on different categories such as

picture, album, poem and collage. The best works are awarded a Certificate of Appreciation and displayed on the

school library display board. This is one small part of our goal to increase reading for pleasure for all students!

New National Library

With over 1 million books and resources,

the new National Library is a treasure for

Qatar.

We hope you will visit the library and get a

library card!

In order to encourage getting the

library card, we are having a contest

for students.

From December 1-January 25

The grade level with the highest percent-

age of library cards will win an additional

field trip. Students and their principal will

decide on the field trip date and location.

Students must show their library card

to their homeroom teacher in order to

be recorded for their grade level.

She will keep a tally of each grade level

and calculate the percentage.

The winning grade level will be an-

nounced in the first week of February, the

start of the new semester.

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21% of MIS Earns Perfect Attendance—Quarter 1

Each quarter, we examine the attendance of our students because ATTENDANCE MATTERS! Research in educa-

tion shows that students who attend regularly earn better grades and develop intellectual abilities quicker and earli-

er. We honor these students who have attend each and every day on time and never left early.

Kindergarten

KG1—Arwa Wael Roushdy Ibrahim, Haadi Nouman Bin Arshad, Hanin Wael Mansour , Youssef Ashraf Moustafa,

Mohamed Shady Shaban , Omar Mahmoud Mohamed, Yara Magdy Khalil

KG2—Zoe Adrielle Lecaros Ayson, Sara Ahmed H M Al Murqeb, Ahmed Ashraf Ahmed, James Hanna Salloum,

Sarrah Zhafira Azzahra, Sitti Jasmine Anonuevo Aldam, Daniel Neman Al Beeyni

Elementary

Grade 1—Aisha Bernice, Besan Sami, Dale Quincy, Omar Eissa, Jana Adil, Abdullah Faroogh, Amani Gana,

Mohamed Samir, Gwen Eirand Babasa, Selen Mohammed Ibrahim Hammad, Taaha El Jaber, Joud Abdulrahman,

Maira Asad Bhatti, Oshioriamhe Bello, Ribal Hamzeh

Grade 2—Ahmad Khalid Safa, Ghazal Ramy Abd Al-karim, Gomana Wael Roushdy, Rund Raid Qubbaj, Sama

Lynn Mohammed Khalfan, Sarah Salaheddin Youssef, Yousef Sherif Nabil Shafick, Adam Mohamed Talat, Bisma

Mushtaq, Oshieneh Samuel Bello, Kareem Bassam ShafiekAbu-Khalil, Mohamad Khalid Abdulaziz, Mohamed

Amine Moutawi, Muhammad Daffa Atharauf, Zaina Mansour

Grade 3—Dana Khalid Safa, Danya Artuz, Ibrahim Eleweily, Lana Said Ali, Natan Samson Belay, Ronald Ajoc, Rim

Ahmed, Sulaiman Zahoor, Rob Hernandez, Basil Eyad Tubaishat, Jamil Al Masri, Nayef Y.A. Shams, Nervana

Khaled Badrieh, Yaman Murad, Youssef Ayman Eltokhy

Grade 4—Gregory Zach Ybanez, Haneen Ahmed Massoud, Muhammad Hamza Al Farisi, Monzer Hesham, Najla

Thufaila Arfandiya, Raghad Raid Qubbaj, Zaineh Eyad Tubaishat, Abdullah Hayder Saleem Alabbas, Khaled Mo-

hamed Abdelmageid Mohamed Elwadia, Omar Mahmoud Al Batarni, Ruba Tarek Saleh Khawaja, Assem Radwan

Abdulrahman Al Rababa'h, Cyrus Miguel De Guzman Adaza, Juliana Renee Dela Cruz Miclat, Leen Hamed

Hamed, Nirbhik Aryal, Talen Mohammad Ibrahim Hammad, Yara Bassam Jamil Al Masri

Grade 5—Adrian Martin Guzman Bargo, Aiza Asad, Charles Allen Vicente Jacob, Mujtaba Hatim Mahdi Imam ,

Samantha Ysabel iaRetonio, Tameem Nasser Ghadban, Yamin Bassam Shafiek Abu Khalil, Zain Rami Abd Al

Kareem Al, Zeena Abdelhalim Siddig Abdalla, Abdulaziz Khaled Abdulaziz Ahmed Khamiri, Janna Wael Roushdy,

Ibrahim Hassanieh Negm, Julian Karl Fronda Amul, Majd Hamzeh, Marwan Mamdouh Mohamed Ibrahim Ahmed

Elmaghraby, Noor Salaheddin Yousef Al Otaibi, Yazen Mohamed Khalfan Nasser Alyahyai, Abdullah Amer, Adam

Salem Al Youssef, Ammar Abbas, Dave Stanley, Ryan Ahmad, Talal Mohamed, Tariq Zeiad, Umar Aziz, Waleed

Khalid, Alia Koukach, Ghaya Adel, Massa Al Assadi, Zain Radwan

Middle School

Grade 6—Ala Adil Abdusalam Amer, Carlos Mari Abao Bisenio, Somaya Mohammad Mahmoud Bakr, Stephen

Colin Calara Catilago , Aaliyah Khaharani Jalas, Imran Descallar Shanawaz, Leen Musa Al nammari, Mohamed Ay-

man Moustafa Eltoukhy, Muhammad Sulthan Al Bukhari, Omar Ahmed Mohamed Ahmed AbouMostafa, Amal Omar

Ibrahim Ahmed, Lei Francesca Cuaderno Mariano

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Grade 7—Andre Mikael Guzman Bargo, Gabrielle Quicho Orosco, Maryam Ashraf, Moustafa Abdelkader

Abousalem, David Drew Lecaros Ayson, Farida Tarek Mohamed Samir Taha Abdelrahman Al Mekkawi, Jassim

Luke Clark Yee Allado, Larin Mahmoud Deyab, Marc Steven Banda Balaoro, Maryan Khalid Badrieh, Tayba - Sidi

Ben Ali, Yousef Abbas Eldesoky Ahmed Eladawy, Ahmed Mohamed Abdelhafiz, Einnor Joshua Ignacio Perez,

John Benedict De Leon San Miguel, Lian Carlo Mercado Hernandez , Sitti Jamira Anounuevo Aldam

Grade 8—Andrea Joy Dela Cruz Deveraturda, Sadaf Aftab Ahmed, Sara Ayman Fawzy Abbas Soliman, Abdelrah-

man Adnan Fawwaz Al naimat, Aisha Araki Abu Agla, Danica Kate Trasmer Ignacio , Angeleah Belen Alonday

Ganelo, Delphina Ayeki Derbo Arthur, Isobel Kyte Bilae Laureta, Leonie Fakhoury, Mayesha Jahin Islam

High School

Grade 9—Abdula Salam Khan Mohammad, Anastasia Vladislavova Marinova, Miguel Mari Carlos Martinez Aliado,

Jameela Khaled Mohamed Amer Mahmoud, Maria Kezdekbayeva, Andrea Rafael Canaria, Fares Ali Mohammed

Osman, Patricia Marie Albeza Daguio, Taegan Ruth Sauls

Grade 10—Al Mohanad Ghazi Mohammed, Leonel Dion Peter Valle Tambe, Ronna Anjela Rafael Canaria, Sara

Omar Ahmed, Sean Michael, Abdulla Waleed Abdulla Saleh Duwaisan, Hiba Mohamoud Hassan, Abriane Jett

Bermudez Maquinana, Joud Fawzi Al Abtah, Laith Sami Zaitoon

Grade 11—Armie Rachel Miram Nuguid, Janessa Sophia Alcantara Paderes, Samir Elsheikh Rahma, Ahmed

Saad GS Al Romaihi, Quds Mohamed Alyahyai, Moustafa Ashraf Moustafa Abdelkader Abousalem

Grade 12—David Arnold Gomez Pomperada, Fatima Omar Ibrahim Ahmed, Francis Owen

Agulto Magsumbol, Melek Sidi Ben Ali, Nora Abdah, Ayda Gamal Mohamed Al Hassan, Syed

Abdullah Sharique

From our School Counselor—Ms. Poonam

This month, let’s try discussing a few statements that can be used to start a conversation at home about positive behavior choices. I enjoy new tasks even when it means extra work or responsibility. I treat everyone's personal belongings in the same manner as I want my things treated. I avoid fighting, hitting, assaulting others and try to solve problems in a calm manner. I will not partake in any obscene gestures and disrespectful or foul language or actions. Harassing or purposely embarrassing other students makes them feel bad. I hate back talk. I know that without change, progress cannot be made. Even if I get a chance to lead others, I will never be bossy or hard. I encourage my joyful nature. Failures make me strong. I tend to avoid holding onto past events. Helping classmates or adults is one of the great joys in life. I feel proud when I know that my generosity has benefitted someone. I have made a positive impact on someone’s life. Before criticizing somebody, I try to imagine how I would feel if I were in his/her place. I try to look at everybody’s side of a disagreement before I make a decision. I respect my teachers, superiors or authorities. I follow a systematic way for studies and personal life style. The answer to each of these for school students is “true.” Take this quiz with your child and open up a discussion about choices.

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“If there is any one secret of

success, it lies in the ability to get the other

person’s point of view and see things

from his angle as well as your own.‟

– Henry Ford

Emphasis on Reading!

We have been asking students to do more leisure reading to improve comprehension and build vocabulary.

They are doing a fantastic job in their efforts including showing their sense of humor about reading across the

content areas. Here is 10A reading with Mr. Elliott, their mathematics teacher. Thank you, Ms. Lottie, for en-

couraging reading through your photo contest to include reading and pictures displayed on the English bulletin

board!

Water Bottles

Please send your student with a water bottle

each day. November was national environ-

mental awareness month and we are working

on ONE thing to help our environment. We

are eliminating the waste of plastic cups in

our building. Staff and students are encour-

aged to have a water bottle of their own!

Core Values

Responsibility, Integrity,

Community, Empathy

Students starting in Grade 1 show responsibil-

ity by taking care of their own materials:

books, pencils, notebooks.

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SEHHA 2017

We are so proud to be sending the following students to SEHHA

2017 (Science Education and Human Health Activity) at the Col-

lege of Health Sciences at Qatar University. These students are

exploring a future in medicine, pharmacy or health sciences which

includes some job shadowing.

Hajar Al-Malem

Zaina Khalid

Maryam Abdulla

Shaikha Ahmed AlHelal

Shaikha Hamad Ahmadi

Mariam Zeyad Al Dafaa

Reem Mohammed Al Baker

Exam Schedule for January

At the end of January, students will be taking first semester exams. Students should begin preparing in December.

Teachers are required to post to One Drive their exam preparation sheet by no later than December 17.

The exam schedule for Grade 6-12 is below.

Students in KG-Grade 5 will have normal school days during the exam schedule.

In order to leave after the exam, students must have a parent permission on file.

In order to take a brother or sister who is KG-Grade 5, student must have a parent permission on file.

We encourage you to maintain a regular schedule for KG-Grade 5 students. KG-Grade 5 have regular classes dur-

ing the exam time. We want them to stay for the full school day each and every day.

Again, we run two schedules during exams. One schedule is specific to students in Grades KG-Grade 5. One

schedule is specific to Grades 6-12. Please email the classroom teacher or principal if you have questions about

your child’s schedule.

On exam days, please make arrangements to pick up your Grade 6-12 child immediately after exams.

School bus riders Grades 6-12 can continue to take the bus and leave at 12:15 pm with the KG students. Students that are staying back till 12:15 can utilize their time to review for the next exam with their respective teachers, in rooms assigned by school principals.

Kindly sign and return the permission slips which will be sent home to update us with your child’s dismissal routine for the exam week.

Date of Exam Time Schedule

January 17th

Wednesday Normal School Day

ICT for Grades 6-8 ONLY

Student dismissal for all grades at 1:55 pm

January 18th

Thursday 7:15 – 8:10 am

Islamic Studies for Grades 6-12

Student dismissal for all grades at 1:55 pm

January 21st

Sunday 7:30 am – 9:30 am

Science for Grades 6-12

Student dismissal Grades 6-12 at 9:30 am

January 22nd

Monday 7:30 am – 9:30 am

Language Arts for Grades 6-12

Student dismissal Grade 6-12 at 9:30 am

January 23rd

Tuesday 7:30 am – 9:30 am

Social Studies for Grades 6-12

Student dismissal Grade 6-12 at 9:30 am

January 24th

Wednesday 7:30 am – 9:30 am

World Language for Grades 6-12

Student dismissal Grades 6-12 at 9:30 am

January 25th

Thursday 7:30 am – 9:30 am

Math for Grades 6-12

Student dismissal Grades 6-12 at 9:30 am

January 28 - February 3, 2018 Semester Break.

First semester report card distribution: 8 February 2018

Second semester/third quarter starts February 4, 2018

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Showcasing Students’ Art Work

Our students have been participating in various art competi-

tions these past months. We are happy to share some sam-

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