Every year at TEA the members of student council put in maximum effort to organize a memorable event. One of these events is our famous fund raising walkathon. Every year it is a success, as we raise a reasonable amount of money to aid charitable organizations. However, this year it was an even bigger success as we managed to raise KD1,149 money to be given to the Senyar diving team.

The Senyar Diving team was introduced to us by our student council member, Bader Al Ali. He suggested to donate the money to Senyar in order to help them with their goals towards protecting the environment. The Senyar Diving team preserves Kuwait’s marine life by keeping the coastal areas and sea clean. They also protect and aid marine creatures.

You might ask yourselves how we raised this amount of money. During the walkathon our students bought in an amount of money and divided it with the number of laps they needed to complete the walkathon. They paid a fixed amount of money per lap. Of course, due to the students’ generosity and appreciated contribution, we managed to collect enough money. 

During our morning line up, after we had collected all of the money, Mr Vernall presented the Senyar Dive Team with a giant cheque on behalf of every student and teacher that participated.

We thank the Senyar Diving team for their continuous care towards Kuwait’s marine life.

 To find out more about the Senyar Dive Team you can visit their website www.senyar.net

By Leen El Taki – 10R

Good Luck to all Year 11, 12 and 13 students during your study leave. TEA wishes you the best for your exams.

Paris….the city of lights, history, adventure and love. For the forty students who chose to go on The English Academy school trip, it was an unforgettable experience.

From the Eifel Tower to Disneyland and then all the way to the Normandy countryside, France was remarkably breathtaking. It was breathtaking to the extent where there was no more memory left on our cameras!!

We really enjoyed the out door activities in Normandy, from rock climbing, abseiling, rifle shooting, a fun dip in the mud on the assault course and many more activities that are far to vast to mention on a single page!

On our last night in Normandy, France, we all had a blast singing campfire songs while smelling the sweetness of sugary marshmallows being roasted on the fire.

After a week of wonderful experiences we said “Au revoir” to France, even though we were still hungry for another slice of it.

By Masa Mihailovic 9G, Gizelle Salama 9G, Ghadir Hayssam 9R

[Show as slideshow]

TEA has returned from a successfull silver qualyfying expedition to Cyprus. 18 Students undertook a 3 day expedition and all passed. It was great fun but challenging for all.

Mr R Thompson

This year TEA held their first Science Fair Competition, where Year 7-9 students were encouraged to participate. The competition  ran alongside the Kuwait Science Fair, which two of our students were one of The Best 100. Students planned, experimented, and analysed their own investigations, ending with an open house display and award ceremony. 

Yasmine Abdelghafoor
Eiad El Shinawey
Hussein Eliwy
Abdulaziz Al Rebae
Mohammed Al Qames

The first place winner was Yasmine Abdelghafoor in Year 7, she investigated the effects of colour on the taste of food. Second and third prize were awarded to Andulaziz Al Rabea and Mohammed Al Qames, both in Year 7. Students were awarded prizes from the British Science Museum in the UK. Congratulations to the winners and well done to all participants!

Mrs H. Mohamed

Mrs Rimmer asked several students if they would be interested in entering the competition. The task was to collect some rubbish or recycled material and make something out of it.

The students were very inventive and came up with soome excellent ideas. Including dresses made of bin liners and chairs made out of bottles.

The projects were submitted and the competition was judged. The English Academy students competed against approximately fourteen other private schools in Kuwait and the standard or work produced was very high.

The Movenpick very kindly invited a group of our students to visit the hotel to observe all of the projects from other participating schools. We were then given a presentation on recycling which provided the students with information about how important recycling is and what schools and individuals can do to help recycling in Kuwait.

Miss L Procter

As part of TEA’s expansion in music a range of individual instrumental lessons are being offered by specialist musicians. At present about 20 pupils ranging from years 1 to 9 are receiving lessons. Mrs Short is teaching violin and Mrs Johnson piano (supplemented also by the department’s Miss Kate). Plans are well underway to include guitar, drums, flute, clarinet and brass instruments in the scheme. This will enable in the future to run groups such as orchestra and bands.

The benefits of learning a musical instrument have been well documented for improving skills such as hand/eye co-ordination and concentration which in turn improves skills in other subject areas. But most importantly students get to experience the sheer enjoyment of producing their own music.

All those currently on the scheme are showing great improvement and there will be performance opportunities for all. In many cases instruments can be provided although pupils are encouraged to purchase their own as they develop. We have invested a considerable amount in the music department.

If you would like further information please email us at enquiries@tea.edu.kw

Mr Fairlie – Head of Music

The pupils did amazingly well – we were the smallest contingent at the KESMUN event but by no means did they go unnoticed! For some, this was their second MUN experience but we had several who had only recently joined the group and were feeling somewhat apprehensive about the forthcoming event. 

The policy debates started promptly at 5pm on Thursday evening and every one of our pupils took part in the debates in one way or another – whether it was to raise issues by making an opening debate and putting forward a resolution – or to ask thought provoking questions to other delegates.

By 9pm on Thursday they were all buzzing from the excitement! The Friday was a 13 hour stretch of lobbying and debating – another chance for them to show their skills at arguing and questioning. Yet again, an excellent display of their command of the specific language required by both the UN and MUN. A number of teachers visited the event on the Friday and all have commented on how surprised they were at the sophisticated level of debate and discussion by all the pupils involved.

After a hard morning of debating and amending resolutions put forward on Saturday, all the delegates were shipped off to the Holiday Inn, Downtown where they were ushered up into one of the banquet halls for the ambassadors’ luncheon and closing ceremony. 

The closing ceremony was introduced by the Secretary General of KESMUN and followed by interesting speeches by the Ambassadors of Australia andPakistan, both of whom opened the floor to questions from the student delegates. Following this the Chairs of all commissions awarded delegates for ‘most improved’, ‘best effort’ and ‘best delegate’. From TEA Karol Kusmider was nominated ‘Best Delegate’ for the Human Rights Commission .

All the pupils put outstanding amounts of effort into their commissions, each of them having spent a considerable amount of time researching their country (France) and helping each other to present a united front.  

Rana Mohammed, who was attending her second MUN, made a leap from ‘quiet attendee’ at her first experience to being that of a forthright and argumentative delegate in the Territorial Disputes Commission questioning her peers directly. 

Absolutely every one of our pupils was a credit to the school and I was proud to be their Director. They displayed strong speaking and listening skills in an environment where the language demanded is specific and required to be strictly adhered to. This is an excellent opportunity for them to take themselves out of their comfort zone and test their strengths linguistically, politically and socially.

 Well done to the MUN team at TEA!

Ms Elvin

Year 11 Students:

Bader Ali
Ali Dawi
Mohammed Ahmed
Abdallah Al Qallaf
Faisal Layri
Abdulmohsen Al Mudhaf
Fatimah Bin Eiden
Zainab Farhat

On Thursday March 22nd, a team of  8 Year 11 students took part in the Earth Day Competition organised by Al Bayan Bilingual Environmental Committee at The Discovery Mall in Kuwait City. The competition involved events such as oral and audio presentations, physical challenges, a photo display and producing an on the stop mural and fashion item.  The TEA team won first place in several events and came 3rd place in the overall completion. The team have been invited to attend the REUSE Earth Day Celebration next month. Well done team TEA!