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7th Grade Donates to AARF
Animals at AARF Receive Donations From Grade 7.
As part of its Social Studies programme, the Omololu International School Grade 7 class is focusing on becoming well-rounded global citizens who live with intent. Part of this initiative began with the students designing a campaign to collect pet food for the Anguilla Animal Rescue Foundation (AARF). Students worked together to design a logo, create posters, flyers and a slogan for the pet food drive. The activity ended with a visit to the shelter.
Students delivered their batch of donations and handed them over to the shelter volunteers. The class was able to learn about AARF and understand the functions of the shelter. Through a tour, students were able to observe how the AARF volunteers take care of the animals. During the visit, they also had the opportunity to play with the rescued animals. Dogs and cats at AARF are frequently advertised for adoption on its social media pages.
The Grade 7 students will be raising awareness and collecting donations for other causes in Anguilla as the school year progresses. As a consequence of these actions, Grade 7 will be able to give back to the community and learn more things about volunteerism.
Students from St. Dominic's Visit from St. Maarten and Plant Trees with Grade 6
On October 14th, the Grade 6 class received a visit from the St Dominic School located in St. Maarten. The purpose of this visit was to reflect on the IB attitudes and to make an effort to collaborate with other IB schools in our region. In addition, the Grade 6 class gained a wealth of knowledge about the environment through the different exercises done, like building flower pots out of used items to teach them about recycling.
At the end of the day to symbolize the bonds between the two schools and the focus on environment they planted a tree, specifically a palm tree. It can be viewed in the right corner of the playground near the parking lot. The Grade 6 students enjoyed this day and they say that it was a very educational and fun learing experience.
HONOR RolL Of Term 2 Announced
On Friday, June 5th 2020, Omololu recognized the Honor Roll students from Middle School of term 2. The school is going to continue this practice to encourage students to strive in their academic studies.
Students of each grade were presented with ceritificates to award their excellence.
Grade 7 Students:
Anna Lynch, Deputy Principal's Honor
Jaylene Letange, Deputy Principal's Honor
Kieron Edwards, Principal's Honor
Joseph Manasiriphan, Principal's Honor.
Grade 8 Students:
Fidel-Lim-Brooks, Deputy Principal's Honor
Joel Smith, Deputy Principal's Honor
Tehya Hodge, Deputy Principal's Honor
Sagé Connor, Principal's Honor
Mya Lake, Principal's Honor
Savannah Croft, Principal's Honor.
Grade 6 Graduation around the corner
The Class of 2020 is able to enter a new world of education after receiving their diplomas on the 18th day of June. The grade 6 class is preparing for their big day, practising their graduation songs and material that are needed to prepare for the big occurence.
Second Annual drama festival in anguilla
Omololu Middle School students attended the Second Annual Drama Festival along with public high school stundets. The Drama Festival was organised by Senoj Creations spearheaded by Collette Jones-Chin and featured visiting speakers from different islands.
first middle school sports day
On February 26th 2020, Homeschool and Omololu Middle School students participated in their own joint sports day consisting of many different races and activities. The events included:
800m (Boys/Girls)
400m (Boys/Girls)
200m (Boys/Girls)
100m (Boys/Girls)
4X100m Relay (Boys/Girls)
Potato Race
Cricket Ball Throw
Lime and Spoon
3 Legged Race
Medals were given to those who placed in these races. The school is greatly encouraged to create/host another sports day held at the Omololu Field.
YAY SPORTS DAY!!
Omololu middle school participates in the road race
On the 21st of February 2020, Omololu Middle Schoolers participated in the High School Road. The race stared at Tropical Distributers and ended at the Ronald Webster Park.
French classes celebrating candlemas
Le Chandelleur was celebrated on the 2nd of February 2020. French classes in Omololu taught by Miss Connor were to study the date and were tested on it. Le Chandelleur means Candlemas, also known as the Feast of the Presentation of Jesus Christ and the Feast of the Purification of the Blessed Virgin Mary. On that day the French would eat crêpes. Crepes are generally pale yellow and round, therefore they symbolize the Sun. In French class, learning about French culture and traditions. In celebrating this French Holiday, the grades six, seven, and eight learned about making crepes, saying and reading ingredients lists as well as recipes in French.
Reading is Lit, I Blame My Shelf: Omololu's Annual Book Character Day
On October 31st 2019, Omololu held it's annual Book Character Day. This is a day where children and teacher from all grades can dress up as any character from their favorite books and showoff their wonderful cosplay to all the students, teachers and even the parents. The theme this year was Reading is Lit, I Blame My Shelf. In this event all of the kids and adults had an extravagant time. This was the impression given based on the wide smiles on all of the teachers and students that strutted confidently on the runway.
Omololu Primary School Student Council Leaders announced
Following the Omololu Primary School election held on January 31, 2020, winners for the positions of President and Vice President have been announced. Nikhil Chatalani, Grade 6, won President and Milla Alvarez, Grade 5, won Vice President of the student council.
Members of the ONN press team sat down with the newly elected students to discuss their views on issues and changes they want to make to the school. Click below to listen to the interviews.
First set of Middle School Honour Roll Students Announced
On Monday, January 27, 2020, Omololu recognised the first set of honour roll students from Middle School. The school began this initiative as a way to encourage academic excellence in the high school students.
The Term 1 honour roll consisted of the Principal's List students, Mya Lake and Sagé Connor, who were recognised as obtaining an 80% or above in each subject and the Deputy Principal's List students, Savannah Croft, Anna Lynch, Joseph Manasiriphan, Michael Caragliano, and Kieron Edwards, who obtained an overall average of 80%.
The students were congratulated during a special assembly.
Middle School Students Attend ECCB creative youth workshop
The Omololu Middle School students attended the ECCB Creative Youth Workshop on the 31st of January, 2020. The workshop was held at the Teachers Resource Center. The purpose of the workshop was to explain what the art competition was about and to teach the students about what artists were and how art can be used every day. Students engaged in activities and listened to guest speakers.
The ECCB Creative Youth Art Competition is open to students ages 13-19.
Student Government Election
On Friday, January 31, 2020, Omololu International School held their fifth student council election. Individual class representatives were chosen earlier in the month. Each class was able to choose which style of voting they desired for their representative.
Friday's elections were for President and Vice President. After the speeches which parents also came to see, all the students from the different classes sent in ballots to vote for the person they want to be Vice President and Student Council President. The students who participated in the election were: Georgia, Aiyah, Mila, Leyla, Nikhil and Armoni.
3rd Grade Reads to Puppies at AARF
The Omololu 3rd Grade class is studying their unit of inquiry, which focuses on communication, travel and more. The reason they took a trip that is not aligned directly with their unit of inquiry, is because it actually focuses on caring, which was one of the PYP profiles that they have been learning about. AARF reached out to their class because the International Shelter Buddy Reading program was being promoted the day before.
AARF collaborates with the Missouri Shelter for dogs which was participating in the program, and they decided that they wanted to take part as well, in Anguilla.
Their teacher decided to take her class for two days meaning she split the class into two groups so the students had an opportunity to gain knowledge and information about what AARF does. The students also learned about the importance of how to take care of animals.
It's a great opportunity not only for the puppies, but also for students to enhance their reading skills so the students are actually reading with the puppies. At first, they played with the puppies for a while. The puppies got used to them and then they split them into groups and they each in pairs had puppies that they read their books to.
The most interesting part was after the puppies calmed down, they were listening like children and were looking up at them. It was a great experience for both the puppies and the students. We are now looking at trying to put together a schedule where other grade levels can also visit and spend time at AARF with the puppies.
Omololu Students Awarded at the 13th Annual Test of Standards Ceremony
On Thursday 21st October 2019, the 13th annual Test of Standards Ceremony was held. This ceremony is held every year to honour students for their excellent performance in the Test of Standards, CPEA, Music and Sports.
Omololu started off the night with the poem and song entitled A Million Dreams. The ensemble was put together by Ms. Thomas and Ms. Chin.
The students of Omololu performed very well. From Grade 6, the students Joseph, Kieron, Cajeah, Yohance, Trusardi and Ethan received awards. From Grade 5 the students Sanai, Zaynah, Davia and Dejanae were awarded. For Grade 3 Josiah and Chaundra were also awarded.
In addition, the Omololu Middle School student, Mya Lake, was given the chance to give the featured address. The night was full of cheerful smiles and ended on a rather high note with the awardees' song of Nara and Say Yes.
First Middle School STEM Fair a Success
On Friday, November 8th 2019 the children at Middle school held a Stem Fair featuring the categories of Intelligence and Behavior, Reverse Engineering and Inventions, The Living World, the Physical Universe, 3D-Things and Robotics and Innovation. The students were to choose a category and design and create their best innovation relating to the category. Each one has its own similarities ans differences. Students had to create their project using the scientific method used in an experiment.
They were also assigned to create a log/ journey about their whole process to makingthe project, which can be done electronically or with a book or binder.
First place for every category was awarded with trophies and second and third were awarded with ribbons. The overall winner received a trophy. There were also STEM related games and the winners of these were presented with prizes.
Middle school Cleans Road Bay
On November 1st, 2019, students from the Middle School cleaned the beach in Sandy Ground. The purpose was to work together to help create a better environment in Anguilla. The project was successful and they were able to relax on the beach after hours of tireless garbage collecting.