Hello from the Arab Institute

Starting from this Monday two CADFA volunteers will be working at The Arab Institute on Mondays and Wednesdays running English clubs in an attempt to strengthen the link between the Arab Institute and Acland Burghley.  We really hope to create a strong link between the students at these schools where they can share conversations, photos and ideas.

Here is a photo of the school and we look forward to hearing from you all soon.

A meeting with Rob a teacher at Acland Burghley School and some of his student where we talked about the kind of class that we will be giving at the school in the launch time , we have decided that Noor will be giving presentation about the history of Palestine ,and Ehab will be giving  agriculture and Arabic teaching class.

ACLAND BURGHALEY SCHOOL

A very lovely welcoming by Rob the science teacher and his awesome students. We started our talk about the voluntary work that we are launching at  '' CAFDA association'',  we exchanged Ideas, methods and techniques.
So first of all what the students needs to know about Palestine we've agreed about making agriculture classes with Ehab and teaching Arabic, Noor to give history presentations about Palestine and teaching cooking :)

Strengthening the links

Over the past few lessons, I have aimed to familiarise the students with Acland Burghley School as much as I can.

Following on from the last lesson where we looked at the school's prospectus, I asked them refresher questions to see what they had remembered and thankfully, they had done their work. I put the boys in the computer room and let them look at the school's website and asked them to give me one interesting fact about the school. Many were basic, some more interesting. But in the process, the kids are hopefully beginning to see and appreciate the values of the link.

I also introduced Rob, our contact at Acland Burghley and the Friday afternoon Palestine club. The children were interested that such a club existed but are excited about hopefully speaking to the students face to face one day: something we will certainly try make a reality.

I sent the boys away with some homework; we eventually want to create letters to scan and email to the Palestine club. Rather than just send a normal letter, I asked them to bring in a picture or poem which 'defines' them or means something to them to form the introduction of the letter. Some suggestsions were pictures of the wall or Al-Aqsa mosque, some were poems by the famous Palestinian Poet, Mahmoud Darwish.

Next lesson, it will be interesting to see what they bring and hopefully we can begin with writing our letters!

From Arab Institute to Acland Burghley with Love

A video made by year 9 (year 10 UK) in one of our english clubs to give a message to Acland Burghley.

Introducing Acland Burghley

Today, I introduced the grade 7s and Grade 9s to their special twinning with Acland Burghley.

First, we started by looking at a prospectus of the school and identifiying the similarities and differences the two schools had. The children were all very enthusiastic about how to proceed with the twinning and we began to formulate ideas on writing opening letters to scan and send to the students of Acland Burghley. In this, we plan to introduce ourselves, thank the students for the twinning and maybe talk about the student experiences. The older students are also going to think off interesting ways to introduce the letter such as an Acrostic poem.

Grade 7 hard at work deciding what to put in their letters

For homework, the aim is to bring in a picture that captures the most important thing to them. Let's see what happens next lesson when we type up the letters!

Arab Institute Head-teacher Meets Volunteers

 Here are some artworks which are at the school too!!