Games Club

New this term in the library will be a lunchtime games club for grades 9, 10 and teachers. As well as the old favourites of chess and Scrabble, we also have backgammon, Snakes & ladders, Uno, Mastermind, Frustration, Boggle and dominoes.

 The club will run during second break Monday - Thursday.  Come and escape the summer heat.

GETEX

The Spring GETEX exhibition is on at the Trade Centre this week.  I've paid a visit and collected information from universities and colleges around the world.  Please come to the library and see what a wealth of opportunities is open to you.

Book Week

Back to normal now that Book Week is over.  Highlights - our success in the Spelling Bee - Grade 9s visit to the Emirates Airline Festival of Literature at the Inter-continental hotel to see Nick Arnold and seeing teachers compete in the decorate Your Classroom Door Competition.  Congratulations to Ms Hanadi who was awarded first place by the judges from the student council.

Dubai Triumphs!

Congratulations to our Grade 9 and 10 students who took first and second place in both of the inter-campus finals.

INTER-CAMPUS SPELLING BEE FINAL 3^RD MARCH 2013

GRADE 9 WINNERS

First:                DXB         Marwan Rashed Bakheet Al Suwaidi  9.01

Second:           DXB         Ali Khalid Abdulrahman Alkhaja  9.08

Third:               RAK         Bader Ahmed

GRADE 10 WINNERS

First:                 DXB         Zakareya Abdalla Ahmed Mohamed Al Ali 10.01

Second:            DXB         Mohammad Adnan Salem A Kharitan Almarri

Third:                RAK         Abdulla Al Mansoori

Despite their initial nerves our students performed superbly and justifiably took top honours in the inter-campus final.  The representatives from RAK and Fujairah have promised that we will face a stiffer challenge next year.  Time will tell.

Spelling Bee Winners

After a hard fought competition we have our winners.
Congratulations to one and all!

GRADE 9 WINNERS

First:                     Ali Khalid Abdulrahman Alkhaja 9.08       

Second:                Ali Mohammed Darwish Al Hashmi 9.04

Third:                    Saeed Ali Abdulla Yousif 9.08

GRADE 10 WINNERS

First:                     Zakareya Abdalla Ahmed Mohamed Al Ali 10.01

Second:                Abdulla Ahmad Abdulla Al Shizawi  10.06

Third:                    Mohammed Ibrahim Hussain 10.09

Good luck to you all in the inter-campus final which will take place on Sunday March 3rd 2013.

Book Week 2013

Book Week 2013 will take place from Sunday March 3rd to Thursday 7th March.  The week kicks off with the grand final of the Spelling Bee with competitors from Dubai, RAK and Fujairah vying to be our champion spellers.  There will be a talk by Dr. Samineh Shaheem for Grade 12 students on planning the future you want.  50 fortunate Grade 9 students will get the chance to see and hear Nick Arnold, author of over 20 books in the Horrible Science series. Teachers will read in the gardens again during break time.  Lots of competitions will happen during the week including Spot the Teacher, Short Story Writing and one for the teachers' - decorate your classroom door to look like a book cover.
All the details can be found on the new website ATHS Book Week 2013

Magazines

More good news!
After a break, we are now receiving new magazines in the library.  In addition to World Soccer, we subscribe to Popular Science, Popular Mechanics, Wheels, National Geographic, Petersen's 4 Wheel & Off-Road, Digital Studio and Arabian Computer News.
These magazines can be borrowed for a one week loan.  Check it out!

Careers Day

Did you manage to find all the information you were looking for or did you get a bit lost in the crowd?  Or maybe you are a grade 9 student thinking ahead about your future career?
Prospectuses and leaflets from all the organisations attending the ATHS Careers Fair in the gymnasium on Tuesday are available in the library.  No rush - take your time browsing to see what possible careers are available to you.

THE SPELLING BEE IS BACK!

Get your spelling caps on! The ATHS Spelling Bee is back, bigger and better than before.  This year the competition will be held for both Grade 9 AND Grade 10 students AND will culminate in an inter-campus grand final between Dubai, RAK and Fujairah campuses.
Find the spelling lists here.

New Books

Great news!

Lots of new books have arrived in the library including the Total Football series by Alan Gibbons and dozens of new graded readers.  Hopefully most of these will be catalogued and ready to be borrowed at the start of next term.
Remember - if there are any books you would like to see in the library give me the details such as author, title and publisher and I'll see what I can do.

EAFL Writing Competition

It's not too late to enter the Emirates Airline Festival of Literature writing competitions.  There are competitions for Poetry in both Arabic and English on the theme of 'Hero or Villain' and Story Writing, again in either Arabic or English on the theme of 'Seeking the Truth'.  Check out the website for more details.  The closing date for entries is November 25th.

Good luck!

The Research Process

Doing a research project can be daunting but don't worry - there are places to get help.  The important thing is to be organised.  These sites will help you.

Research Skills

The Big6

Useful Tools

Grade 10 students are busy researching authors of short stories.  Use these tools to help.

Popplet is a great easy-to-use mind-mapping tool which allows you to work independently or share with your partners. Use this to help you organise the questions you want to answer in your research.

AND don't forget to check out online library catalogue, Millennium, to see which works of short stories we have in the library.

Online Encyclopedia

ONLINE BRITANNICA

This year we are fortunate to have access to the Online Britannica Encyclopedia.  You have at your fingertips a wealth of information, links to articles, websites and videos and it all comes in three levels of difficulty - Primary, Student and Britannica.  You can even set up workspaces to file articles you are interested in and no need to worry about citations - Britannica does it for you.

Please spend some time browsing - you never know what you might learn.

9.01 busy in the library

We're getting into the swing of things as the new year gets under way.  Almost all Grade 9 sections and STS students have been to the library to find out what we have on offer.  Grade 10 students will be beginning their enrichment project this week so it is all go. 

Here are some pictures of 9.01 in the library last week.

 

WELCOME BACK!

Have you been inspired by the Olympics and Paralympics to try out a new sport? Come to the library and check out some of the dozens of books on sports from athletics to Taekwondo.  Make this the year you try something new.

This is the newly painted golden postbox in my hometown.  In the UK every time someone won a gold medal at the Olympics, a postbox in the centre of their hometown was painted gold. 

Get writing!

THE EMIRATES AIRLINE FESTIVAL OF LITERATURE 

WRITING COMPETITIONS ARE BACK!!!

Entries are invited

in both Arabic and English

for

the Taaleem poetry writing competition Hero or Villain

and

the Oxford University Press story writing competition Seeking the Truth

All entries must be submitted on line before 25 November 2012.

Please visit the Writing competition page online for more details.