Abu Dis Girls school football team

Hi ,

I’m so excited and happy to tell you about the last activity of our school .On Wednesday 7^th of December 2016 our school football team and other teams of Jerusalem suburbs schools participated in a champion ship . called “support her to play football” which is supported by Jerusalem clubs Association .

 we played with Bethany school first , we start to worry because they are from the best team in championship when we start playing ,the tension gone , while Malak Ayyad score the first goal , then we score another one by Malak Al-haj Hassan ,then they score a goal and the match end , and the referees Announces our won 2-1 , all people ,teachers and referees come to take photos with us then we played with  Al –Sauahra school we lose 1-0 they scores it by luck ,however we congrats them ,then we realize that we lose the first and second grade , then we played with AL-Machareaia at the third and fourth Rank , and we lose again to get the fourth grade , the cup flew from our hand ,but the directors and teacher were so happy because we have the first athletic achievement since 5 years.

I really hope to hear from you in the near future.

PS : I forget to tell you that the best player of the champion was Malak Alhaj Hasan from our school J

best wishes ,

Noor Taha Alhalaby .

from a student in Abu Dis Girls School

the twinning club at the Girls school meeting with Najah Ayyad from Dar Assadaqa women group

Abu Dis girls secondary school took the first step to make healthier food choices by taking part in Healthy Eating Day in Wednesday 6th of April

This Day was to encourage school children to eat healthy and useful food . And to advise  students and instruct them to stay away from unhealthy food which 

contains a lot of preservatives which cause dangerous diseases 

We have provided for the students in this day useful handmade food which contains a lot of nutrients , vitamins and proteins which are necessary for  the growth of the body especially at this stage of the of the students .

Dania Qasem 

Getting to know our school by Shoruq Bader 11th grade

Getting to know our school

Abu-Dis Secondary School for Girls, is a government secondary school belonging

 to the Directorate educating the outskirts of Jerusalem \ Ram.As any school in the

world we learn materials.In each grade we learn different things but we keep learning

 the same materials, until the 10^th grade.In the 10^th grade we choose which route we

 want to continue in academic route or vocational route, in our school we have just the

 academic route, and in the academic route we have two streams, the scientific stream

 which we mostly study math and science. And the literary stream which we study subjects

 like history and Arabic, and the last steam is commercial stream which we study subjects

 like technology and accounting. After two years in studying the stream we chose, 

we have to go throw the final year 12^th grade or which we name Al-Twjihi. In Al-Twjihi we 

go throw testes that the ministry writes, and people who pass this exams, get a degree

 and can register in colleges and universities.

The materials we learn at school are math, Arabic language, English language, science,

 history, geography, religion, technology, French language or health, sport and art. 

Arriving to London and Meeting Our Partners

We arrived in London Friday the 8th, and we went to a residential with many teachers in shropshire. The weekend was very productive and great. Upon returning from Shropshire, we went to LSU and Camden Girls School where we attended classes and met with our partner teachers.

Arrving to LSU

Meeting with our partner teachers

Camden Girls

We compared schools and the education systems between Palestine and the UK. Both systems had pros and cons and we agreed to activate our blog in order to make a long last communication between two schools. Also, we agreed to have a joint skype lesson once a month. We also agreed to exchange students' facebooks and social media profiles so they can start interacting with each other. We spoke about the situation in Palestine and the difffculties students face every day due to the restricition of movement and the constant arrests.
 *We hope we will be able to create long term twinning links and learn from them and raise awareness about the situation in Palestine


Nibal and Rudayna
Abu Dis Girls School

I want to go to the college

 Hi friends!

In the last session in LSU school we played a game call 'I want to go to the college' with the students. The game had been made with some other EVS volunteers in the past. We want to say 'thank you' for making it, because it is a really useful tool learn about  Palestinian issues.

The games is quite easy to play, we have a board with different boxes. You throw the dice and you move your peice forward the number in the dice. If your box has a question mark you pick up a card. All the cards are in the middle of the board. If your card has a positive answer about the school you can advance one box more, but if your card has a bad thing like the difficulties which the Palestinian students find every day, you should go back one box.
Example: 'I found my favourite book in the library' +1  ; ' The Israeli soldiers throw tier gas to the school' -1 The winner is thw first to arrive at the end of the board.

At the end of the game we talked about different topics in Palestine like the problems which the students have every day in the school: checkpoints, problems with soldiers,tear gas, etc.

Emilio Sanchez.

EVS Volunteer

 

 

 

Around our school

 

Our school, La Sainte Union is in the north of London. It is near Hampstead Heath, which is a big park here in London.

 

 

 

Aida, Naima, Zainab and Saoirse in front of La Sainte Union. We are all students here and we are all 16 to 17. We study subjects like History, English, Biology, Maths, Politics, Classics, Chemistry and many others.

 

 

 

Aida, Lucy, Zainab and Saoirse

 

 

 

La Sante Union is near Highgate Road, a typical busy London street.

 

 

We all use buses a lot, to get to school and around London.

 

 

 

Here are a selection of images from our school LSU:

 

 

The Art room:

 

 

 

 

 The Gym:

 

 

The Geography Department:

 

 



 

 

A painting of inspirational women by LSU students:

 

 

 

Science Lab: