GARDEN DRIVE!

This month, October 2016, we are having a GARDEN DRIVE to renew and re-invigorate our Eco-Garden. It is a big part of maintaining our GREEN FLAG status.

Our campus and gardens are well maintained and all of the annual plants are thriving well, even over the summer. But now is the time to plant our perennial garden plants - veggies, herbs, flowers and such things (that die each year and have to be replanted). 

We will be collecting donations of seeds, plants, and tools to help us do so! 
If you'd like to support us - please bring your donations to Ms. Manahil's (Grade 3E) room G118, on the ground floor in the primary school atrium. You can also email her at ManahilG@rwadubai.com

Welcome Back!

After a few breaks and long weekends, we are back in the thick of it for the 2016-2017 school year!

We are happy to announce that we have successfully renewed our GREEN FLAG status! Thank you to all the hard work of RWA students, teachers, and administration. We have an ambitious Action Plan (linked) which you are welcome to explore to see what's coming up this year. 

See you next year!

As the 2015-2016 school year comes to a close, we are so proud of all we have accomplished. Here is a quick summary and a send of for the summer!

First, we are so happy to announce our renewed partnership with the GLOBAL ECO-SCHOOLS program. Thanks to our local partner in the UAE, the fabulous and knowledgeable Mr. Moaz at ECAT (Environmental Center for Arab Towns), we have been able to energize our students to accomplish even more!

Second, we would like to highlight our goals for next year (also found in our Green Flag Action Plan):

Continued Action Points:

- keep up with the Eco garden

- keep up the Eco dimension within the school (eco-monitors, promotion, competitions)

- keep up healthy food promotion in the cafeteria, especially meatless Mondays.

New Action Points:

- find partners to come in and organise practical & hands-on events to keep up the ECO awareness (Solar energy workshop & others).

- Reinforce the need for recycling through competitions & short videos to show during assemblies.

- Improve understanding of local bio-diversity.

- Finalize ban on Styrofoam at RWA.

HAVE A GREAT SUMMER! 

PYP Grade 5 Exhibition

One of our favorite things about the end of the year is our PYP Grade 5 Exhibition, which are the grade 5 research projects. There are always many ECO THEMED projects.

This year they had their own blog for the exhibition... Here is a link!

Curriculum Highlights

Here is an example of how our school learns about the importance of natural resources! 

Eco Garden Salad!

Although it is starting to get hot already, our Eco-Garden produced some fine vegetables!

Check out our teachers sampling our ECO-GARDEN goods!

YUM!

RWA Students Adopt Turtles !

Two of our KG students, twins Jad and Lily, adopted sea turtles with the 

Emirates Marine Environmental Group 

Please enjoy the Show and Tell presentation that Jad gave to his class: 

Bottle Recycling is picking up speed!

Remember the brand new Water Bottle Recycling bin that SUEZ donated to the school (see the blog post here)? 

We hoped it would spur on good practices, and it has raised awareness indeed!  More people are recycling! Our Eco-monitors show the difference.

CEBC Carbon Footprint Competition

Just a reminder that for the months of April and May we are aiming to reduce our carbon footprint in order to win SOLAR PANELS from our great friends at CEBC Schools Environmental Protection Program!  (Here is a link to our original announcement)

Even if we don't win it will still be important to follow these recommendations from the CEBC SEPP!

Eco Month : FASHION SHOW !

We at RWA love, love, love our ANNUAL RECYCLED FASHION SHOW! 

This year we spiced it up by inviting people to include COSPLAY character costumes made from recycled materials.

Students from KG1 to Grade 12 participated! As always it was a great success!

> PRIMARY ROCKS IT!

>KG1 COSPLAY KINGS!

>AWESOME!

 >BEAUTY QUEENS!