Important Notices

Dear Parent,

This is a general reminder to all Parents to collect the June 2020 certificates of your child from the school Reception between 8.00am to 3.00pm on school days.

Please ignore if you have already done so.

Alternatively your child can collect it from Ms Martha if he/she is attending school.

Kindly collect the Oxford AQA certificate which has now arrived in school.

WSR is now on its 4th year in participating the Dubai Fitness Challenge and we would like to continue what we have started to make WSR as the most active school in the Northern Emirates.

Dubai Fitness Challenge (DFC) – the world’s only citywide fitness movement launched in 2017 by His Highness Shaikh

Hamdan bin Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum, Crown Prince of Dubai and Chairman of Dubai Executive Council,

will return for its fourth consecutive edition from October 30 to November 28, 2020.

The Dubai fitness challenge seeks to encourage people to make sports an integral part of their daily lives. By participating in

the challenge, you have the opportunity to truly transform your health and the quality of your life.

Watch a session on how to utilize Google Classroom: Click Here

Assembly time – Grade 11 - Lesson 1 – Sunday

Grade 12 – Lesson 6 - Sunday

• At present, health authorities recognize three vehicles of coronavirus transmission:

  1. The small droplets from speaking or coughing, which can end up in the eyes, mouth or nose of people standing nearby.

  2. Contaminated surfaces (fomites), although the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) indicates that this is the likely way to catch the virus.

  3. Finally, there is transmission by aerosols – the inhalation of invisible infectious particles exhaled by an infected person that, once leaving the mouth, behave in a similar way to smoke. Without ventilation, aerosols remain suspended in the air and become increasingly dense as time passes.

Breathing, speaking and shouting:

• At the beginning of the pandemic, it was believed that the large droplets we expel when we cough or sneeze were the main vehicle of transmission. But recent studies show that shouting and singing in indoor, poorly ventilated spaces over a prolonged period of time also increases the risk of contagion. This is because speaking in a loud voice releases 50 times more virus-laden particles than when we don’t speak at all. These aerosols, if not diffused through ventilation, become increasingly concentrated, which increases the risk of infection. Scientists have shown that these particles – which we also release into the atmosphere when simply breathing and which can escape from improperly worn face masks – can infect people, depending on the length of time and the nature of the interaction.

• Even though WSR is equipped with sophisticated Fresh Air Handling Unit ( FAHU ) it is advised and recommended to keep at least one window open for ventilation.

Courtesy - https://english.elpais.com/society/2020-10-28/a-room-a-bar-and-a-class-how-the-coronavirus-is-spread-through-the-air.html

Ensure to stay safe! Head to the Health and Wellbeing page for info about taking care of yourself.

The E Bundle package is available for parents to purchase from the school book store
– please contact Suneel for more details - Suneel.f_wsr@gemsedu.com

Please note, without the E bundle, children will not be able to access essential learning resources used by teachers to support student assessment and progress.

E Bundle package includes the following applications:

1. SAM Learning - SAM Learning is an online learning tool for GCSE, A level and KS3 subjects for online revision and assessment of learning.

2. GCSE POD - Knowledge rich content for 27 IGCSE subjects, GCSEPod makes it easy to revise and build knowledge in sequence through unique subject pods.

3. MyiMaths - An interactive online website specializing IGCSE, AS and A Level mathematics (numeracy).

4. Pearson Active Learn - A digital learning space for students to access learning and assessment resources for all of their subjects.

5. Fluency Tutor Rapid Read – A Literacy resource for students who find reading challenging, as well as for students learning English as a second language.