• Mrs Cushla Hounsell – Director, Production, main organizer.

• All the Kindergarten Children, Teachers and Assistants for their

commitment to the show.

• The Kindergarten Drama club and Kindergarten Art and Craft club

for all the preparation in the weeks leading up to the show.

• Ms. Casey for her amazing vision of the Minibeast world. Ms.

Bonnie Jean for her choreography, face painting and stage

management. Ms. Roula for her creative skills with costumes and

set design. Ms. Swain for stage set up. Mr. Bhatti for the program.

Ms. Aviles for making the face paints.

• Costumes and Props – Mrs. Schellenberg, Mrs. Barlow, Ms. Alham,

Mrs. Webber, Mrs. Gould, Mrs. Daha, and Mrs. Al Ghool

• Face Painting – Ms. Krisztina, Ms. Farhat, Ms. Lindstrom, Ms.

Khemekhem, Ms. Al Shibli, Mrs. Schellenberg, Mrs. Webber, Mrs.

Gould, Preschool 3 and Preschool 4 Assistants

• Front of House – Ms. Martin, Ms Sura, Ms. Stubbs and

Ms.Khemekhem

• Back Stage Crew – Ms. Krisztina, Jack McKnight and Aya Husseini

From the Desk of the Head of Primary

Planning of class lists for the 08/09 school

year will take place in May.

As always, we will be building balanced

classes. Many decisions go into the building

of a class list. It is necessary that we make

every effort to balance appropriate student

combinations, distributions of students

requiring support and those students who are

accelerated learners, along with gender and

the correct social atmosphere necessary for

a successful learning environment. These

decisions are not taken lightly. We work hard

to try to understand the unique qualities of

each child. We place students in balanced

classrooms using the following criteria:

• Learning style

• Equal balance of boys and girls

• Equal balance of skill levels

• Behavior considerations

Special requests for a specific classroom

teacher made by parents cannot be

considered. However, if you have a request

in terms of learning environment or teaching

style that you think best fit your child’s needs,

please put your request in writing. The school

will review your input, but will make the final

decision on classroom placement. All letters

should be delivered to the school secretaries

addressed to the Head of Primary and

should be received no later than the 7th of

May, by 2pm. No letter will be considered

after this date.Information on placement in

classes for the next school year will be given

out with the final report card.

Ms Sandy Sheppard

Head of Primary

Summer Programs

Do you know of any local and international

summer programs that primary students can

attend during the summer holidays? If you

do please send all information to Mrs

Holland.

Kirby Larsen – visiting author

Thanks to the PTA who funded the visit and

supported a morning tea for Mrs Larson. It

was well timed with the Book Fair and a

great opportunity for our Senior students.

Parent Education Session

After the wonderful success of our last

session on Digital Citizenship and Wikis, the

Technology committee is again presenting

more on these topics, including 21st

century literacy. Please join us for the 18th

of May, at 1pm in the Primary BAE lab.

Bake Sale

May 13th will be the last PTA Bake Sale for

the year. These have been very successful

and popular events this year. All nut-free

baked goods can be brought to the PTA

room at the start of school. If you would

like to assist on the day please contact the

PTA at QAPTA@ yahoo.com

Electronic Akhbar

I would like to apologize to all those

parents who have not been able to

receive the Akhbar electronically for the

past few weeks. There seems to have been

a problem with Mrs Holland’s email

account, even though she has been

sending them regularly. You can subscribe

through the website, however, until all the

electronic problems have been ironed out,

you will continue to receive a paper copy.

I apologize again for any inconvenience.