Update from the Principal – 18th May

Update from the Principal.

Dear Parents,

As the momentum builds towards the end of the term, you can feel the elation as we complete more and more events, projects and wonderful experiences for the students.  With our rehearsals in full swing for the summer musical, this adds a sense of excitement to the day to day running of the school.  We’ve enjoyed our PSL fixtures with our Girls playing this week and Boys playing next week at Bayan School.  Thank you to everyone who went along to support.

We’ve had school trips, PIRA/PUMA preparation and more awareness days to give our students a rounded education and wide range of experiences.  Many of these have been shared on social media, showing what our students are learning each day at school.

Congratulations to Zahra for winning the under-18 GDNlife monthly short story competition! Judged as ‘beautifully written and exquisitely illustrated’ Zahra worked on her piece titled Super Haley Wanted over time with her wonderful effort culminating with this award. 

This week, Ms Agnes, Ms Kate and Ms Stephanie have been to London and at the High Performance Learning (HPL) Conference in Windsor.  As the only school in Bahrain accredited by HPL, we have joined an elite group of schools in the world offering the highest standard of education to our students.  We look forward to how HPL can positively impact our community from August 2023.

As an international school we are used to our transient nature of staff, students and parents joining and leaving each summer.  We have a normal movement each year of around 20% of families, as do many international schools due to companies moving, new jobs, placements/contracts finishing etc.  For our families who are lucky enough to live here for 10-20 years, Bahrain is an amazing place to live and enjoy.  For the students joining it is exciting to meet new friends, learn from a new teacher and enjoy a new environment.  For students leaving, they’re blessed with many connections now around the world, friends in countries their families have lived in and now when a student finally graduates, they may have a global network of amazing friends, through social media channels and contacts.  This in turn enriches them with experiences of culture, language, and beliefs.  The international setting has many benefits.  Our students at Nadeen, are excellent at welcoming new students into our school and making them feel a part of our warm and caring community.  We have buddy systems, tutor time and team building activities to ensure everyone is included. 

We look forward to those joining Nadeen in the summer!

Staff Joiners – Summer 2023

Our school is growing with more staff and students joining.  This will be the biggest year of new students joining our school and to support that, we have a wide range of new staff and extra staff to cover new positions in the school.  These positions include a new Head of Primary, School Counselor, Science Technician, specialist Science, English and Humanities teachers.

For a full list of new staff appointed to date, including their photos, bios and information, please click here.  More updates will be sent out over the coming weeks.

Staff Leavers – Summer 2023

We would like to send our best wishes to our staff who are leaving our school this summer as they move on to new adventures elsewhere.  We are sad to see them leave and look forward to welcoming them back in the future to our community when they visit us in Dilmunia!

Ms Amanda – we very much appreciate the hard work, care and commitment Ms Amanda has had to our Early Years Team.  She has brought us expertise with a range of staff CPD, her knowledge of Applied Behaviour Analysis and had wonderful relationships with the reception students during her time at Nadeen!

Mr Ben – a valuable member of the leadership team as Deputy Head who has helped across a range of areas of the school, specialising in ‘Teaching and Learning’ to improve quality of learning, arranging our staff development sessions to improve standards of learning, teaching this year in Year 7 and supporting our staff, parents and students in school each day with his positive, calm and friendly manner.  We thank Mr Ben and wish him, Servani, Hari and Holli all the very best!

Mr Bradley – greeting the students in their native language every morning and creating special learning areas, like the tree house, are just a small part of Mr. Bradley’s time at Nadeen. He has supported the day to day running of the school operations during our time on the current campus: from systems development and support across all areas of the school administration to ensuring that the current campus remained operational and functioning. We very much appreciate his help with leading the maintenance and safety the four villas, carpark, and area surrounding our campus along with developing our amazing maintenance and security teams to ensure that our staff, students, and parents have had a fully functioning school and safe environment to work in. Safety is his passion and we are grateful for having a safe, clean and enjoyable school. We thank him and wish him all the best in the future!

Ms Jill – working with the maintenance team, Jill has supported the school across a range of roles during her time here.  She has constantly helped with every project, event and request to ensure that the needs of others come first and ultimately our staff, students and parents have the best we can offer.  She is also the creative mind behind many of our unique areas such as the school farm, gardens, and growing areas, as well as a passionate advocate of upcycling, repurposing, and being inventive. Our staff and students are very appreciative for all that she has done. We wish her all the best for the future! 

Ms Kelly – a brilliant member of the Early Years team who has helped various groups of students during her time at Nadeen, supported teachers and also taught Nursery this year with Ms Kacey.  A positive and professional team member of the Nadeen Team loved by our staff and students!

Mr Liam – our tech guru and someone who we will miss greatly from our team, who brings a sense of organisation, a fabulous student centred approach and a focus on ensuring the students get the best possible quality of lessons.  Mr Liam has supported many big projects such as Technology for learning, eSafety, Reporting and ECA systems.  We wish him all the very best!

Ms Moza – worked with the school administration team as a key member helping with organising events, communication, and liaising with parents. Her approachable, positive style and warm manner have contributed to a wide number of successful Nadeen School events. During recent time at Nadeen she has been a key member of the school Yearbook team and our memories are preserved in the books she has helped to create. We are very grateful for her helping out in a wide range of administration functions during her time at school and wish her the very best for the future!

Ms Nabeela – we appreciate the support she has shown to our class teachers as a flexible and helpful assistant teacher.  She is passionate about working with students and we are grateful for her hard work this year.  We wish her the best in the future!

Ms Roz – has brought the community a bundle of energy this year with her practical projects, exit point initiatives and many exciting student-led activities.  She has contributed to our curriculum, led professional development and shared her expertise in Teaching and Learning across the school.  We wish both Ms Roz and Jack all the very best in the future!

Ms Servani – as Head of English, has led a range of literacy improvements over the years at Nadeen School and the impact of these can be seen in the wonderful levels of English progress across the Primary school and just as importantly, the passion our students have for literacy in its many formats.  A special mention for the fantastic Lego club! Thank you for boosting the enjoyment of English at Nadeen School, we wish you all the very best in the future!

Have a wonderful weekend.

Dr Paul Walton

Principal

p.walton@nadeenschool.com