QA students at the party.
Grade 10 students of Qatar Academy completed their MYP course and their school year with a celebration held at the Student Centre in the grounds of Education City yesterday. With their two-year Diploma Programme beginning in September, they decided a celebration was in order.
They started the day with the Spiders Web, which is something of a tradition for QA MYP. This year was no exception as the activity aims to help raise the students’ awareness of their expectations of each other and to build awareness in areas that some students may be struggling with.
All the students sat in a huge circle where a giant ball of string was passed back and forth among them. While passing the ball, they kept hold of the string and slowly started to build a giant spider web inside the circle. They took that moment to thank the student or teacher they threw the ball to for something that helped or had made the past year a memorable one for them.
As part of the tradition, one of the students collected the string at the end and bracelets are made for each student.
It looked fabulous and was great fun to watch. Special Projects Coordinator Lisa Isom, who participated in the basketball event, said “I played basketball with the students today; it was great fun because the students really put everything into it. It was a great way to end the term”.
Some of the students taking part in the event were also partly responsible for arranging and running the event, and had arranged for Fuse Ball, 10 pin bowling, ping pong, football and basketball competitions to be held at different times during the day.
One of the students who helped organise the event remarked, “I really enjoyed being part of the organising team. We all had such fun while working as a team”.
Before the final activities took place, the students held an unofficial awards ceremony where they thanked several students and teachers for their hard work the past year. They also congratulated the Grade 10 students on the completion of the MYP in preparation for the challenging Diploma Programme for the incoming school year.
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