Hayah Spring 2016 Newsletter

Cover Story Inside: “ Seeking the Best of Two Worlds”

GETHER2 VOLUME 56, APRIL, 2016 QUARTERLY NEWSLETTER

Hayah’s New Interactive & Digital Newsletter

Inside This Issue: Grade Level Trips, The Science Fair,Quran Competition, Shark News, and More!

Elementary Literacy MonthLIterarcy Month was full of excitement this year in Elemen-tary! Mystery Parent Read-ers dropped in for surprise visits during Library Lessons. There was such a fun variety of stories read to students by parents. The Hayah Reading Sharks was another enjoyable activity for students who chose to be involved where they were encouraged to read as many books during the month. Our top winner was Yaseen Mosaad. Congrats Yaseen! Our first Book Fair was also

held during our Reading Month with lots of great books to choose from.The yearly Character Parade was just as eventful with students dressed up as their favorite book character!Lastly, we ended our fabulous Literacy Month with our well-known Read-A-Thon where students race to answer ques-tions on the texts they read all month long. Congrats to all winners and those who par-ticipated!! Way to go Hayah Readers!

Hayah’s Annual READ-A-THONThis year’s annual Read-A-Thon included Grades 6 through 9 and took place between December 8 and December 16. Grades 6 and 7 experienced the exciting competition in which each group raced to answer questions on books they had previously read. Grades 8 and 9 participated in a trivia reading competition. Winners from all grade levels received gift certificates.

Seeking the Best of Two WorldsCongratulations are due to our amazing staff and students who were behind the success of the “Seeking the Best of Two Worlds” Event. As usual the choir enchant-ed us with their beautiful sing-ing and this year they sang songs with four different languages from around the world. The English play followed the choir, “Around the World in 80 Minutes,” where students were involved in writing parts of the script and brilliantly acted with different dialects and accents from eight countries. The students put through an amazing effort, choosing the play themselves from last year and working since September,

representing all the Hayah core values through their dedication, hard work and commitment The last part of the night was a very special Arabic play “My Dad’s Will.” The students were fun, talented and really beautifully engaged throughout the whole event. It is worth mentioning that the idea of the script was written by our Alumna Marwan Hafez.

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في الملتقى الثقافي السنوي لحياة.. روح الفريق الواحد تشكل

البعد الفلسفي لفنون األداء.)صورة من العرض(

)بين الشرق والغرب( هو عنوان الملتقى الفني الثقافي، والذي أقيم على مسرح أكاديمية حياة

يوم السبت الموافق الخامس من الشهر الحالي بإشراف قسم

الدراما وفنون األداء وقد ضم البرنامج فقرات درامية

وغنائية باللغتين العربية واإلنجليزية يرسخ من خاللها

قيًما ومفاهيم تربوية وتعليمية ضمن التي تهتم بها أكاديمية

حياة؛ وهي البحث عن أجمل ما في العالمين الشرقي والغربي ...

وقد اشتمل البرنامج على:- أداء غنائي لكورال حياة بعنوان )نغمات على جدار الوطن(؛ لوحات غنائية من مختلف البلدان العربية تتخللها فقرات شعرية باللهجات العربية المختلفة.مقتطفات غنائية من -

مختلف بلدان العالم باللغات الفرنسية واألسبانية واإلفريقية واإلنجليزية- أداء كورال حياة.

عمل درامي باللغة -اإلنجليزية

بعنوان)حول العالم في 80 دقيقة( يبرز الثقافات العالمية المختلفة في أواخر القرن التاسع

عشر، من خالل اختالف اللهجات واللوحات االستعراضية، وقد تميز

هذا العمل بمشاركة واضحة من الطالب القائمين عليه من حيت

وضع السناريو والحوار والرؤية اإلخراجية.

وقد ُاختتم البرنامج بمسرحية من فصل واحد باللغة العربية عنوانها )وصية بابا(، فكرة

مروان حافظ من خريجي أكاديمية حياة.

إضافة الى مشاركة الطالب اإليجابية فيه، فإن هذا الملتقى سادته روح الفريق الواحد لجميع

القائمين عليه، مجسدين بتلك الروح ذلك البعد الفلسفي لدراسة

فنون األداء.

Elementary Soccer Tournament at CAC

Hayah

Coach Ahmed Adel, Sheila Moloney, Sari Abdel-Gawad, and Jemma Dooley took 40 excited grades 2 to 5 soccer players to CAC on Thursday, March 3rd to compete against CAC and MES soccer teams. There were a lot of happy players and parents as the teams played 4 games. The 2/3 girls and boys teams both had close games and placed 3rd, but they did get some experience.

The 4/5 girls and boys both made the finals, which were exciting matches. The boys finished 2nd and the girls needed extra time to clinch the championship. Congratulations to all players and coaches.

Varsity Boys Basketball played for goldin the METs tournament

JV Boys Soccer team travels to Dubai

Sharks

Coach Karim Eldib and Coach Sherif El-Samra took the first Shark team abroad to Dubai to compete in the Middle East Unity Cup March 4th and 5th. It was exciting for the boys to play teams from 5 different countries and they did Hayah proud. The boys were great ambassadors demonstrating skill and sportsmanship. They finished the round robin play with 3 wins and 4 0-0 draws, 1 goal short of making it to the finals. Regardless, the Sharks made a name for themselves,

capturing the attention of all coaches and the tournament organizer. This opportunity will prove to be the start of a great Shark movement. Congratulations to all the boys and their coaches.

MES hosted the 2016 METs Varsity Boys Basketball tournament and the Sharks proved to be a force. After round robin play the boys finished with 3 wins and 1 loss putting them in first place. In the semi final game the boys persevered beating our rivals CAC to move on to the finals. The team from Lebanon, LES, was strong and the Sharks stayed with them until the 4th quarter. The Sharks placed 2nd which was a great showing with only 8 players. Congratulations to all the players and the coaches.

قال رسول اهلل صلى اهلل عليه وسلم: “خيركم من تعلم القرآن وعلمه”

Elementary Quran Competition

Grade 5 Science FairOur fourth and fifth grade students took part in the annual Science Fair. The general theme for grade four was the human body and how to take care of it.

As for fifth grade, the stu-dents utilized the scientific method to solve problems related to global warming and raise awareness about this issue. They displayed their research skills and explained their findings to the judges through their oral presentations.

Middle School School Without Walls Trips

Grade 7 Around Town

Grade 8 trip to Sokhna

Grade 6 trip to Fayoum

This year, students enjoyed exploring locally during school without walls

Grade 1 Learned about Chocolate with Ganache Chocolatier

Grade 5 Trip to El Moez Street

Grade 3 ArtyScience FarmTrip

Elementary School Out and About

Grade 4 Fagnoun Trip

Grade 2 Trip to the Childrens Museum

Whether it was activities at Hayah or exploring around Cairo, the Elementary students enjoyed many engaging experiences.

Hayah Students Participate in the 11th Annual Science Fair!

Hayah’s mission statement is to empower the future gen-eration of our children to be intellectual thinkers, believers and problem solvers. In this event, we have witnessed our students grow their learning as they got exposed to real world problems- initiated, explored, and created plans to solve them. Students have sited lots of effort as they strived to make their projects stand out the most. While it was hard making a final decision of the finalists, we’d like to thank High School science teachers for taking some time to come and help in the judging pro-cess.

A shout out to Mr. Rahul Agrawal HOD for being a significant helping aid through the planning and success of the Science Fair event! Ms. Shayna Coughlan for providing 7th grade students with traditional

motivation to apply creativity and critical thought to research and experimental topics in Science. Mr. Jason Romey for developing a passion for STEM careers at a young age for our Hayah 8th grade students by providing them with an expe-riential education that excites, engages, and enriches them through a unique strategy of learning. Ms. Aliaa Samaha and Ms. Nourhan Mohamed for providing 6th grade stu-dents with opportunities to be engaged in a learning process that excites, energizes, and exposes them to a wide vari-ety of skills and concepts in ecology, helping them serve/ protect their environment and “GO Green”! Gratitude also goes to Mr. Jason Kreft and Mr. Ali Kandil for all the help they provided the students.

The fnalists in 6th Grade were:

Finalist Certificate: 6R Boys class– Amro Khaled/ Mohamed Omar Elakkad/ Sabry Ibrahim/ Salman Hisham/ & Abdullah Wael El Esseily).Third Place Winners went to the 6T girls class- Aesha Mo-heb, Malak Dajani, Jana Amr, & Leila Farid Kandil .Second Place Winners went to 6E boys class - Mohamed Ahmed Mostafa, Ali Amr Al Azzouny, Youssef Sedawy, Mar-wan Ahmed Deif. First Place winners went to 6E boys class- Adam Beblawy, Adam Ashraf Ezzeldin, Nour Eldin Mahmoud Gamal, AlBara Sami Elsayed.

Finalist Certificate in the 7th grade went to Nour Amr Abdel Aziz, Jannah Walid Omar, Malak Mohamed Abu El Leil, Nour Sherif Shaheen, Ahmed Hisham Allam, Ahmed Osama Mahgoub, Amr Hassan, Hassan Shehab Hashim, Mostafa Selim.

Third Place Winner went to Rahma Tayel. Second Place Winner went to Fatema EL Zah-raa Yehia Otozbeer. First Place Winner went to Jannah Walid Omar.

Finalists Certificate in the 8th grade level went to Noureddin Dawoud El- Husseini, Yassin Amr Abdel Hamid, Abdullah Walid Sallam, Omar Mohamed El Leithy, Ayatallah Tarek Tha-bet, Lama Nabil Khallad, Nour Amr Abdel Hamid, Mariam Walid Nabil, Maya Mohamed Roushdy.

Third Place winner was granted to Alia Abdel Ghaffar. Second Place winner, Abdelrahman Ahmed Ibrahim. Lastly, first place winner was granted to Adam Mohamed Wahba.

In short, Hayah would like to thank all of our students, parents and teachers for their determinations and probable

urge to make the Science Fair a growth and an interactive learning experience. We are looking forward to continuous success in upcoming events and further educational occa-sions to come. “GO HAYAH”!

Check out our video of the whole experience here!

METs Track and Field MeetHayah hosted the METs (Mid-dle East Triangular) Track and Field Meet on March 11 and 12 this past spring. The event was held at the Olympic Stadium in Maadi with an outstanding number of nine schools, includ-ing Hayah, who participated in 13 different events throughout the two days. Schools, both lo-cal and abroad, traveled as far as Jordan’s Mashrek Interna-tional School to compete.

Hayah placed second overall for the entire two day meet! Students did an outstanding job competing and placed in multiple categories, with mul-tiple students placing first in their event.

Hayah Students in 1st Place:Cooper Romey Shot PutAmina El Saket U12 Girls 400mAmina El Saket U12 Girls 800mAmina El Saket U12 Girls High JumpOmar El Alamy U16 Boys 800mOmar El Alamy U16 Boys 1500m Omar El Alamy U16 Boys 3000mMariam El Husseini U18 Girls 100mMariam El Husseini U18 Girls 200mMariam El Husseini U18 Girls Long JumpMenna Fouad U18 Girls 800mMenna Fouad U18 Girls 1500mMenna Fouad U18 Girls High JumpIman Yehia U18 Girls Shot Put

See how all of the schools did by following the links below:

All Event Results

Ahtletes by Age Category

Overall Schools Results

High School Trips

Grade 9 & 10 Trip to Marsa Alam

Grades 9 through 12 enjoyed new experiences while learning at Cairo’s universities, Hayah, and the Red Sea

Grade 12 Experience with Ganache Chocolate Making

Grade 11 Trip to Heya Talks Presentation at AUC

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MARK YOUR CALENDARS!Look Ahead at Future Events

TRI 4 A Cause Sports Day

Grade 4 ConcertMAY12

Grade 2 ConcertMAY25

K GraduationJUN14

G12 GraduationJUN2

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