Dear Parents & Guardians,

Welcome to another week.

I would like to start this week by congratulating all of the students who participated in the MUN conference held at GEMS Winchester last weekend. Twenty three students participated in the three day event, supported by Mr Jake, Ms Helen, Ms Sangita, Ms Meena and Ms Rena. We had a lot of students who participated for the first time, and who did very well indeed. However, special mention must go to Ella McCluskey, Malavika Ram and Yassin Hamroosh. Malavika and Ella won “Best Delegate” for their respective committees, and Yassin won “Best Position Paper” for his. What an excellent result. Huge thank you to the staff mentioned above who chaperoned and gave up their own private time to accompany and support our students. Thank you and well done.

Today our Grade 11 TOK students found themselves in the spotlight as they hosted the TOK exhibition. The TOK exhibition is a relatively new aspect of TOK, last year being the first year it became a requirement. It is a mandatory, individual aspect of the TOK course involving students choosing three ‘objects’ and an IA prompt; and writing a commentary to demonstrate how TOK concepts manifest in the real world! It was fascinating to see how our students did this and the many great connections they made. I would like to thank Mr Osman Yavasca for coordinating and planning this event, and for his guidance and support of our students. Well done to all the students involved and to the other staff involved in the exhibition also.

Our DP and CP coordinators, Ms Burcu and Ms Mariona, held a very important ConnectEd today for parents of Grade 11 students. The session focused on transition from Grade 11 into Grade 12, important dates in the coming year and the assessment requirements that are remaining for each subject. Should you have missed the session and you have a child in Grade 11, please do ensure that you access the slides below.

This week, it gave me great pleasure to participate in the  Sheikha Fatima Award ceremony. Grade 10 and 11 students gathered in the MPH, while other grades zoomed in from classrooms to see Ms Jeeya Mahajan be awarded the Sheikha Fatima award for 2023. This is a very prestigious awarded presented to a female in all GEMS schools. Jeeya is a very deserving recipient and it was wonderful to celebrate her successes yesterday in front of her peers. Well done Jeeya!

We continue to wish our Grade 12 students well as they continue with their exams next week. Business Management, English, Physics, Geography, Global Politics and ESS have all had at least one paper assessed so far. They have been mixed reviews from students, but most are happy with the majority of papers so far. Good luck everyone – we wish you well!

Best wishes

Amanda Murphy

Jaguars Updates

Throughout the year, you will be able to review information about the week's sports results and scorers, in addition to action photos, match reports, sports news and much more on our Jaguar Sports website. 

You will also be able to read reviews of the latest GIS sporting action via the GIS PHE site.

Model United Nations

Grade 8-11

GIS’ MUN Delegation attended Winchester School of Dubai’s MUN Conference over the past weekend, engaging in lively debates to find solutions to contemporary problems. Congratulations to Grade 10 students Malavika Ram and Ella McCluskey for winning awards for “Best Delegate” for their respective committees, and to Grade 9 student Yassin Hamroush for winning “Best Position Paper” in his committee.

IDU Project Samples