Raffles World Academy - Primary School presents
THE SCHOOL SCOOP
22nd March 2015
INSIDE THIS ISSUE
Grade 2 in Atlantis..... 2
Pasha Cazan .............. 2
Grade 4 Inventors...... 3
TEDx in RWA .............. 3
Layan
Ardkani
Hyeon Song
Saeed
Maksim Cherkashin
Al Falasi
Yana
Andras Suto
Ravalieva
Vincenzo Aloi
Beste Akkaya
Joelle
Rahul Kumal
ABOUT US
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Our newspaper aims to inform all members of the school
community about the various events in the Primary School. Our
school is a big school and there is a lot happening each day and
quite often we miss out on the interesting events. The Primary
School does not have a newspaper run by students, so this is
the first initiative taken by our group. Through our newsletter
we not only hope to keep you well informed about how interesting the Primary school is but also share some great stories
from our friends and teachers. We aim to publish the newsletter
fortnightly. So don’t forget to read. Thank you to our wonderful
teachers and friends who have shared their news with us.
Antonio
Bilhim
Nihal Unni
Haya Mostafa
Jeong Hyeon
Yoon
Alsatti Ibragimov
Seong Hyeon
Yoon
Chinese New Year. .... 3
Meet the Team of Ace Reporters
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My name is Saeed and I am in Grade 2E. I am 8 years old and my country is UAE. My favourite sport is football!
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My name is Layan and I am 8! I come from Jordan and my favourite sport is swimming!
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My name is Yana. I am 9 years old. I am from Bulgaria. I am in grade 3C . My favourite sports are kickboxing
and swimming. I love waterparks and cinemas.
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My name is Joelle and I come from Germany. I am 8 years old. I am in 3C. I moved to Dubai when I was 2
and joined RWA in 2013.
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Haya here hailing from Canada! I have been in RWA for 5 years and I am now in Grade 3A. My hobby is basketball J
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My name is Antonia and I am in Grade 3B. Originally in Portugal, I have been living in Dubai since 2013. My
favourite sport is football.
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I am Vincenzo and I am 8 years old and in Grade 3C. I moved to Dubai from Northern Italy in 2014. I think
this school is good for learning and I enjoy PE!
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Andras Suto: Hi my name is Andras, I am from Hungary. I am 9 years old. My hobbies are swimming, basketball. My favorite subject is Math.
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My name is Alsatti, I am 10 years old and in Grade 4. My hobby is football. Football is the best! I am in a
team called ‘Its Just Football,’ and I play the Under 12 and Under 10 team. At home, I enjoy watching football games like BPL and the Champions League.
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My name is Beste. It means ‘best’ in German, although I’m Turkish. I’m extremely passionate about reading.
At times, it even gets into trouble because I am usually totally unaware of the real world as I’m reading.
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My name is Maksim Cherkashin. I am 10 years old and in Grade 4G. My hobbies are swimming, football and
running! In Grade 4’s beach run, I came second place and got invited for the Olympics where I won 3 medals!!
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Hi, my name is Hyeonsu Song and I am from South Korea. I am turning 11 this year and have been in RWA
for 2.5 years. I am in Grade 4F now and my favourite subjects are science and math.
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I’m Rahul, part of the newspaper publishing group in our school. I am currently in Grade 5. My home country is India. One of my favourite activities is music and also art. Making newspapers is great!
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My name is Seonghyeon and I come from Korea. I’m twelve years old and I am in Class 5E. I like horses and I
am good at swimming.
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I am Jeong Hyeon, 12 years old from South Korea. I am in Grade 5E. I have been in RWA for 2 years. I like to
draw and paint animals and plants. Furthermore, I also like to play jumping ropes.
GRADE 2 IN ATLANTIS
Last month, Grade 2 took a trip in Atlan-
but they can still hear very well. After the
tis. We were learning about animals in
dolphins, we got dressed and watched
their habitats as part of our unit. There is
the sea lions performance. They were so
a place in Atlantis called Dolphin Bay that
cool because they were trained to do
has dolphins and sea lions. We had so
tricks like flips, dives and twirls. They
much fun on the trip. We swam in the
were really funny especially the boy sea
water with the dolphins. The trainers
lions. We got to touch the sea lions be-
came in the water with us for our safety.
fore we went back to school. We learned
It was a strange but wonderful experi-
so much about sea life.
ence! The dolphins skin felt like rubber to
touch! We even got to hear them singing,
that is how dolphins communicate. You
can only hear them underwater. They
have tiny ears that look like a little dot
PASHA CAZAN PERFORMS IN RWA
Grade 3 had a violinist over to perform with an electric
violin! Her name is Pasha Cazan. She came to our school
and played some songs on her electric violin. Just last
week She released her first ever album called PASHA CAZAN BACK FROM THE SOUQ!
Born in Moldova in 1983, she was taught the violin at an
early age by her mother Lidia, who is well known Moldovan
violin master. At the age of 8, she won the 3rd prize on the
national level as a young violinist, among older high level
competitors. Pasha also learned the piano as Second instrument.
Being so talented for her age, at 15 years old, Pasha started
replacing her mother’s post and other teachers at the high
music school. Followed by four years of harsh musical training with her Russian teacher, that is when she decided to
leave the conservatory for good. During those harsh years,
she used to escape in the middle of the night to the conservatory, sneak into one of its room in the middle of darkness, and play
continuously until discovering the real sound of the violin…closing the eyes, imagining the people sitting, listening and clapping,
Pasha enjoyed every minute of it and built her present personality as a violinist. Two years later, Pasha won the first prize in the
competition “Stefan Neaga”, followed by gaining the degree of Orchestra conductor.
After being offered to play of the most prestigious orchestras around Europe, Pasha felt it was time for a serious move, and In
2007, she felt a big connection to the Arabic world and decided to move to Dubai to explore a whole world of new possibilities.
In 2009, she decided to pick up her first electric violin a way to move from a whole classical world of sound into a new modern
one. Since then, Pasha played in some of the most prestigious events in Dubai and gained popularity in the local and regional
market.
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BREAKING NEWS:
TEDX BREAKING
ALL LIMITS
Last week, on 3rd of February, TEDx auditions we're
held in RWA. Kids got
selected by there teachers
for their commitment and
hard work. TEDx is an organization for people to
share their ideas so other
people could understand
Grade 4 inventions
and turn the idea into life. I
got selected and my topic
YOUNG INVENTORS OF GRADE 4
The young inventors of grade four at RWA were learning about complex
machines and simple machines. Here are some of their inventions:
Shoe polishing machines, recycling machines, balloon popping machines, bottle cleaning machines, mini room alarm machines, tea making
machines, wall cleaner machines, milk pouring machines, and, last but
not least, plant watering machines. Who knows, maybe one day every
house will have one of these inventions!
HAPPY CHINESE
NEW YEAR!!!
was about the war in the
Middle East and all the orphans who are suffering
Chinese New Year starts Thursday, February 19. With the Chinese New Year just
over, the hype is starting to settle down,
and people are into the tradition of China. They opened a bake sale for the primary section of the school and sold cake,
Chinese noodles, Chinese cookies and
Chinese jelly! The bake sale started on
February 11th for Grade 5 and February
12th for Grade 4. It was a blast!
from the destruction and
hunger: all the horrible
things which can happen to
them. Have a thought
about this, and come to
see all of the kids from
different
schools
per-
forming live on stage on
the 25th of March, RWA
First Floor Gym.
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