Exams – What an excellent result

Well done to all of the pupils in Year 11, 12 and 13 for achieving excellent exam results for GCSEs, IGSCSEs, AS & A2 Levels.

Ramadan

End of Term – Summer Holiday

House Point Championship Results

Graduation – Class of 2010

Congratulations class of 2010

Graduation Pictures coming soon…

Term 3 Starts

End of Term Spring Break

School will be closed for our end-of-term break from Firday 2nd April and will re-open for pupils on Sunday 11th April for the start of our Summer Term.

Parent Consultation Day

Literacy Week 14th to 18th March

Literacy week is a week dedicated to promoting Literacy and reading throughout the school.  There are various competitions for our pupils, ranging from creating their own book cover, poetry reading, and the much loved character day where the children come to school dressed up as a character from one of their favourite books.  Reading is promoted through 15 minutes of reading each day in class as well as the different age groups taking turns reading to children younger or older than them.

Quality Not Quantity  – The Great Short Short Story Competition

She used to jump over puddles.

The rainwater would splash, and often, a smattering of mud would appear on the red galoshes she wore. When she jumped over those puddles, she flew, as one flies high in the sky, without any inhibition, or fear; a feeling of vertigo that surpassed the eagles.  (46 words)

Task:  To write a complete short story; with a beginning, middle and end, in 50 words or less.  Find inspiration from real life, from literature, from your imagination. 

The alarm clock is screaming at me.  Come back tomorrow, I tell it, I’m still dreaming, but I don’t think it’s listening.  I consider suffocating it with my pillow, and then reluctantly I crawl out of bed and drop the clock in the toilet on the way to shower, oops. (50 words)

All stories must be original, hand written and in English.  Stories will be read by the students and staff of The English Academy, so all content must be appropriate to this audience.  All stories must be entered on a named entry form – available from your English teacher – to be considered. Entries will be judged in year group categories.  All entries to Miss Alvey by Thursday 18^th March. 

Kuwait Science Fair – 1st Prize & “Best 100″ TEA Winners

CONGRATULATIONS!!! to the following pupils for participating and winning awards in the Kuwait Science Fair annual competition.

Amneh Hisham Tarkhan (Year 12) - 1st Prize

Mahmoud Jawadat Al Suliman (Year 9) – “Best 100″ 

Amneh Hisham Tarkhan (Year 12) - 1st Prize Winner

Mahmoud Jawadat Al Suliman (Year 9) – “Best 100″

Kuwait Science Fair is the largest annual science competition in Kuwait, encompassing over 150 high-schools from across the country. The fair was created and founded as a joint partnership between ExxonMobil Exploration & Production Kuwait Limited and Kuwait Energy Co. to encourage young scientists to apply maths and science to a project of their choice in a competitive atmosphere.

 Two TEA students reached the last 100 of this prestigious competition. The Final was held on Saturday 6^th March 2010 where each competitor had to present their project and findings to a panel of 6 Judges. The event took place at Salwa Sabah Al-Ahmad Al-Sabah Theatre and Hall under the patronage of His Excellency Sheikh Ahmad Al-Abdullah Al-Ahmad Al-Sabah, the Minister of Oil and Information and Chairman of Kuwait Petroleum Corporation.

 The students only had two months to create their science projects and the competition consisted of different stages which included proposals, plans, procedures, experiments, scientific journals, scientific papers, presentations and a built display. Mahmoud Jawdat Al Suliman, a Year 9 student, received a certificate acknowledging his place in the top 100 for his project on “Haze Monitor: To Investigate The Amount of Haze Produced In The Atmosphere”

 On the evening the excitement mounted as the audience waited patiently to hear who the winner was. We are very pleased to inform you that Amneh Hisham Tarkhan, a year 12 student, was awarded the overall 1^st Prize for her project titled, “Which is More Detrimental to the Growth and Developments of Plants: Cigarette or Argilah Smoke.” Amneh has been at TEA from year 9 and is currently studying Biology, Chemistry, Physics and Maths AS Levels through the Sherifa Hilal Al Mutairi / Salem Ali Al Rashed scholarship programme. Amneh’s 1^st place prize included a trophy, KD750 cash prize, 100KD vouchers, certificates, scholarship to GUST University and a summer internship at Schlumberger.

 The English Academy will receive a computer lab from Schlumberger and will be admitted into their Excellence in Educational Development (SEED) program.

 The School Management wish to congratulate both Amneh and Mahmoud, their parents and teachers on this excellent achievement.