This year our Grade 3 students went to Umm Al Quwain Marine Club with Ecoventure, where they stayed over for one night. Students developed their communication and organizational skills while completing different team building activities, took risks while completing a climbing wall activity and developed their independence and self-management skills over the entire trip.

Students eagerly overcome the challenging activities such as obstacle courses, raft building and team building. They were very courageous for staying overnight away from parents and family which for some many have been the first time ever.

Our Grade 4 students went to Dibba, Fujairah with Northstar. Students worked on their collaboration and communication skills, self-management skills and confidence.

The zipline activity was a great activity where so many of the IB leaner profile attributes and attitudes are touched upon. Students were caring towards one another whilst encouraging their peers to take that leap of faith, students could feel empathy for one another as they all felt the same fear and students had to be risk takers to take that initial jump.

Usually on our WWW journey this would be students second residential trip experience where we move from a one night overnight trip to two nights. For this group, it was their first time away on a residential trip and we were extremely impressed with how well they dealt with this challenging experience.

Last but not least our Grade 5 students spent 3 nights and 4 days at the Al Sahara camp in Ras Al Khaimah with Ecoventure. This was particularly challenging as this was the first trip for these students who missed the previous 2 stages of our WWW journey due to COVID restrictions. As much as we knew that this would be a challenge for students, we did not want them to fall further behind in their development and were confident that they could successfully overcome this challenge. We were extremely proud of how all students dealt with this experience and how they all conducted themselves across the week.

One their first day students learnt all about the local flora and fauna on our trip to the Mangroves. Students loved this exploratory time whilst finding different shapes, colors and sizes of crabs, fish and other insects.

Over the 4 days students completed a variety of fun activities linked to our IB Learner Profiles. All students worked on their problem solving and collaboration skills whilst building a buggy that could sustain the weight of their team, their team work and courage whilst taking on the challenge of Jacobs ladder, their inquiry skills whilst learning about camels, traps and how to build a shelter with limited resources.