Dear GAA Families,

Our first semester has come to an end and we are prepared to host Parent Teacher Conferences on Monday, February 28 from 11 am to 7 pm and Tuesday, March 1st from 7:30 am to 3:30 pm. Parent Teacher Conferences are an excellent opportunity to meet our teachers and discuss any questions or concerns you may have. Please refer to Mr. Klinkhammer’s message for sign-up directions.

Scheduling Season

We are entering our scheduling season at school. Our counselors have started to meet with students in grades 9-11 to discuss course registration options and the alignment with college and career plans. We ask that you continue to partner with us by discussing your student’s plans for the future as part of this process.

Dress Code Reminder

We have started to notice an increase in students that are out of school uniform. In accordance with school and ADEK policy, students are expected to be in uniform each day. Moving forward, students who are out of uniform will be sent home. Please visit this link to make orders from our uniform provider.

Regards,

Erin Lumpkins

HS Vice Principal

ADNOC Scholarship team is pleased to inform you that they will be opening the scholarship application process from 1st March – 31st March 2022 for both study abroad and domestic.

Best of luck to GAA Team this weekend!

The following students are attending the seventh annual Model United Conference at the American School of Dubai and the theme of this year is “Mobility”. ASDMUN offers delegates an opportunity to find creative solutions to some of the world’s most pressing issues.

• Harleen Sahni - Environmental Commission (EC)

• Bogdan Delcea - Economic and Social Council (ECOSOC)

• John Dagher - Security Council (SC)

• Joie Marishka Ramos – GA2

• Hunseo Lee- HRC1

• Yashbrata Gosh – HRC2

A special thank you to Alex Bejjani and Siddharth Guntreddy for helping prepare these delegates.

GAA Fine Arts Department is proud to present the Virtual Choir 2022, which includes students from the Quarter 1 and Quarter 2 Grade 6 Vocal Music classes and the Secondary school Choir Class. Even a few Teachers participated!

Huge thanks to Mr. Ashique, our Audio/Video technician, who helped Mr. Conner Joyce, our Music Teacher, to record the guitar tracks in the school Studio.

Each student and teacher was given a backing track to practice with. They then recorded a take of them singing to the track with headphones in. This allowed Mr. Joyce to gather everyone’s individual take and mix it together with the guitars in Garageband.

It took 7 weeks in total to prep the students, show them how to record (there was a specific set of instructions they had to follow in order to get it right), gather their recordings and then, finally mix it altogether. We are happy to report that we did not pitch correct any of our singers with digital tools in the post editing process, this is all us!

What a successful month of games for GAA Athletes! GAA Wildcats competed in Cross Country, Soccer and Basketball, showing incredible results. Congratulations!

Maitha Aljasmi, Grade 7, and her story about an Arabic quote

• February 28-March 1: Parent-Teacher Conferences - NO SCHOOL

• March 5 & 12: Cap and Gown Photoshoot of Grade 12 students and families

• March 7: Stu Williamson Absentee Photosession

• March 17-18: Secondary Musical "Annie" Virtual Production

• March 21-25: IBDP Virtual Arts Exhibition

• March 28-April 12: Spring Break - NO SCHOOL