Our Grade 9 & 11 students attended their fourth public speaking session on Sunday; a series of classes as part of the Youth Leadership Program that is offered by Toastmasters International. The program comprises of 8 sessions, in which students unlock their speaking potential and become effective communicators and leaders.
Congratulations to our Grade 6 students, who worked as a team to raise over JD 800 in their bake sale. Their chosen charity is the Palestine Children"s Relief Fund. This non-profit and non-political organization was established in 1991 and aims to address the medical and humanitarian crisis facing Palestinian youths in the Middle East. Since then, it has expanded to help suffering children from the region.
IAA students training participants from Safoot & Al-Rashid public schools on the art of debating, in preparation for the upcoming Al-Majlis Al-Arabi. The event, which is under the patronage of HRH Prince Hassan Bin Talal, gives our students the opportunity to use the Arabic language to debate and express their views.
IAA"s Grade 9-11 students taking part in the AMMUN last Friday, organised by the Amman Baccalaureate School, where the theme was "We The Peoples”.
Students drafted and debated resolutions on various topics; "Building a framework to further prevent food wastage”; "Integrating the Syrian Refugees into the European workforce with adequate latitude” and "Protecting the right to privacy through the prevention of online hacking, tracking and surveillance.”
Congratulations to all those who participated!
Our first Habitat for Humanity project for the year kicked off last Saturday at Deir Alla. Our Grade 10 and 11 students were involved in building and rehabilitating homes for needy families in the area. The mission of Habitat for Humanity is to make poverty and homelessness a matter of conscience and action so that it becomes unacceptable in every nation on earth.
