JPS Weekly

March 27th 2014 Jumeirah Primary School, Dubai Issue No. 27 - 13/14

YEAR 4 CAMP

Earlier this term, Year 4 students spent a night in Dibba at the North Star Camp. Looking at the photos a good time was had by all!

DATE Sun 30 March Mon 31 March Tue 1 April

EVENTS

DADS DAY
Year 2F Assembly for Parents 1.30pm

Paid After School Activity sign up - 1:45pm to 3pm

Select Year 4 Netball Workshop @ JESS Jumeirah - 2.30 to 4pm

Year 6 MARY POPPINS Production (Kite Cast) 7pm to 9pm

Wed 2 April

Year 6 MARY POPPINS Production (Umbrella Cast) 7pm to 9pm

LAST DAY OF TERM 2 School finishes at usual time FIRST DAY OF TERM 3

Thurs 3 April

Sunday 20 April

Mary Poppins
The cast of Year 6 children have worked extremely hard all term and are very excited about sharing their musical performance of the much loved 'Mary Poppins' with you. Come along and enjoy the charismatic characters, marvellous music and colourful costumes. Tickets are available for both performance nights from reception - but hurry as there is only a limited supply remaining! Refreshments will be available.

Tuesday 1st and Wednesday 2nd April, 7pm

We hope you enjoy the show!

A REMINDER! No parking in the morning drop-off zone Having to open the boot wastes time Please help us to keep the traffic moving

MESSAGE FROM THE FRENCH DEPARTMENT

To all children in Years 3, 4 5 and 6
Well done everyone for all your hard work on your assessments. The French Department is pleased with all your progress. We have an exciting start to next term with the forthcoming annual Art Festival. This year, the French Department is researching Ren Franois Ghislain Magritte. He was a Belgian surrealist artist who became well known for a number of witty and thoughtprovoking images that fall under the umbrella of surrealism. We will have a lesson this week to introduce him to you but in the holidays would like you to reproduce a piece of his amazing work. This can be done with any medium paint, chalk, photo, pencil drawing. Use whichever medium suits you. It could be a photo of your interpretation of his work with the title in French. More will be explained in the French lesson. However it would be wonderful if we could have some artwork of the same brilliant standard that we had last year when we did Robert Doisneau.

Good Luck!

Izza Binnie Head of French

THE FIRE STATION

Year 6 Arabic children recently visited the Fire Station as part of their Arabic topic Writing Stories. They interviewed the firemen asking them questions on safety and how to put out fires a perfect topic for their essays on brave people.

JPS Sports
DC ATHLETICS CHAMPIONSHIPS 2014
On Thursday March 6th, the 2014 DC Athletics Championships were once again battled out at Dubai College. The JPS children were, as always, a credit to the school and gave their all in every event. There were a number of standout performances on the day with many of the JPS collective finishing first within their respective events. JPS matched the performance of 2013 with a 4th place finish overall, and a full list of results is displayed on the PE notice boards. A huge Well Done has to go out to all of our wonderful competitors for their hard work in the lead up to the event and in every single event that they completed on the day. Some of the key highlights from the championships: The Farrell duo of Ned Farrell and Lottie Farrell, with Ned winning the High Jump with a very mature performance, resulting in a highest jump of 1.35m, and little sister, Lottie, then going on to win the Ball Throw with an excellent throw of 22.49m. Kyle Van Der Merwe completed an impressive jumps double win with 3.46m in the Long jump and 1.15m in the high jump. Outstanding wins for Emma Thompson and Sylvie Mezu who completed a very successful day for JPS on the high jump beds with Emma leaping to 1.1m and Sylvie clearing 1.16m

 Thomas Collins was the lone winner in the hurdles and came bounding in with a time of 9.78s to win the Year 5 Boys B race Aba Agbemebiese impressed the crowds with her 3.17m jump in the long jump to win that event for the Year 5 Girls Lianne Bradbury was crowned as the champion ball thrower with a wonderful throw of 34.08m The atmosphere was electric in the JPS tent during the 75m sprint for the Year 5 team as they took a clean sweep of wins. Emily Davidson set the standard for her team mates in impressive fashion when she tore clear of the pack and won convincingly in the Girls A race with a time of 11.46s. Tara Malhotra then followed suit, and, with a gritty determination, Tara was able to clock a time of 12.11s and take the win in the B race. Will Farrow kept the sweep going when he also came out of a tight A race with the win and a time of 10.78, which was the fastest time of the Year 5 Team. Thomas Collins then sealed the clean sweep with his first place in the B race, in a time of 11.52s. The year 5 girls relay team of Emily Davidson, Tara Malhotra, Sylvie Mezu, and Aba Agbemebiese ran clear of the opposition with a very professional looking performance and a final time of 33.72. The stand out track performance of the day was the domination of the Year 6 girls 600m A race. Ella Halpin took the lead right from the start of the race and destroyed the field with a pace that none of the other girls could cope with. Ella made her incredible time of 1.54.98s look effortless!
In keeping with the last few years, JPS won the Tug of War!

The JPS PE Department is extremely proud of the boys and girls who competed in the Championships, and the dedication and effort that the children put in on the day was faultless. The support from the parents throughout the athletics season has been amazing so THANK YOU! Lee Hole Head of PE

GIRLS FOOTBALL
JPS competed in the Duplays Dubai Girls' Football League Finals at Jebel Ali on Tuesday, in the plate competition. The girls all played really well and recorded a 1-0 (goal from Kate McDermott) win against JESS Ranches, and two draws against Raffles and AAM in their pool which was enough to take them through to the semifinals. In the semi-final, JPS played a very attacking game and managed to beat Wellington Silicon Oasis 1-0 (goal from Kate McDermott) to book their place in the final against DESS. The final was a very hard fought match with both teams having chances at either end, but a great corner from Lianne Bradbury was put away by Ella Fennell, giving JPS victory overall with a 1-0 win! Well done to the JPS defence and Sophie Fennell who did not concede one goal during the whole tournament - a great feat! All the girls played their hearts out and thoroughly deserved to win!

Well done JPS!

The Team: Lianne Bradbury, Sophie Fennell, Ella Fennell, Jennifer Buchanan, Kate McDermott, Alina Shaikh, Katerina Karlova, Leyli Sabbagh, Caitlin Van Loggerenberg, and Ananya Krishna
Vicki Stevenson Teacher of Physical Education

WELL DONE ROSIE!

Swimmer, Rosie Morgan (6D), recently won the Hamilton Club Championships

Wow, thats amazing Rosie!

MESSAGE FROM THE LIBRARY

We are looking for parent volunteers to help out on Monday and Wednesday mornings after drop off, to assist with putting books on the shelves . No experience necessary just a pair of helping hands! Pop up and see us in the library or send an email to

R.Nurmohamed1_JPS@gemse du.com

We are also looking for new library monitors in Year 6 to help in Term 3 to assist during second break (easily spotted with their smart purple badge!). If your child is in Year 6 and would like to apply for the position, please ask them to come to the library to collect an application form.
Reefat Mohamed Lead Librarian

DADS DAY
31st March 7.15am to7.45am
in the Quiet Garden, with your children
Dads Please remember to RSVP to the email sent by your Class Rep if you are attending, and also send an email to teacher saying that your child will be a little late to class.

We look forward to seeing you there!

The PTA May Event is on Thursday, 8th May Please join us to mingle with friends or make some new ones and get down on the dance floor at our

Get ready to join the rush for tickets to our al fresco international buffet! Tickets are on sale at pick up time all next week. Pay in advance for a table of 10 and you can choose your table location! Or alternatively, purchase your tickets individually and we will organise the tables.
Full drinks package 395AED or with soft drinks/juices 200AED.

dont come fancy, come fabulous! No tie required!

(See the poster for more information)

Its not a ball - so