ECP

TERM 1 Oct. 12th - Dec 18th 2014

ECPs start October 12th Dec. 18th 2014 (an 8 week session)
SIGN UP - SEPTEMBER 14th SEPTEMBER 18TH
ONLINE Forms can be found on 6delta or the school website Please attach the form to your email and send to ECP@ris.ae
DINING HALL - Starting week of Sept. 14th at 2:30-3:30pm, Tuesday 12:30-1:30pm
FEE - If there is a fee, please bring to the instructor on the first day of the ECP (as stated in the description).
FIRST DAY OF ACTIVITY Students will line up in the dining hall in the allocated area for their ECP directly after school on the first day of ECP at
2:45. The supervisor will pick them up from there.
If you have any questions please email amckinnon@ris.ae

Day
SUNDAY

PYP Grade
3-5

Club

Fun Sports/Games
Learn the basic rules and skills associated with a
variety of sport such as basketball, field hockey,
badminton, dodgeball and more!
Grade 3-5
Max 16
PYP Grade 3-5 Fun Science Club
Want to learn some fun science facts awesome
experiments.
Max 12
PYP
Kayaking
Grade 4&5
Come and kayak out on the sea among the
mangroves and you may be lucky enough to see
sea-turtles, desert foxes, flamingoes and manta
rays. Along the way you can learn about the
ecology of Abu Dhabis coastline and try out some

Supervisor

Location

Fee

TIme

Miss Trina
Lewis Meakin
Trevor

PYP Gym

Free

3-4pm

Miss Diana

B12

50AED

3-4pm

Miss Tina
Miss Alyson

Eastern Mangroves

100AED/session 3-4pm

paddle boarding, kayak hockey and water tag.

PYP
Looming Club
EY1 Grade 5 Do you love loom bands? Do you want to learn
how to make more than just fishtail bangles?
Come to Ms Jasmines looming club where you
can spend time with fellow loomers, share your
designs and create new patterns. Mya from Grade
5 will assist me and teach you how to create
sculptures with your loom bands. There is no
charge for this club, but please bring your own
bands.
Maximum 20
PYP
Story Telling Activity Club
Grade 1-2
Read a book and create an activity.
lunch time
Max 12
PYP or MYP
Raha Tennis Ladder League
You must be
An opportunity to join a tennis league and play
skilled enough some matches. This is NOT a coaching session,
to play a
but an hour a week to play matches and be part
match
of a ladder league. Players will be ranked,
hopefully by a Clark Francis coach, to ensure the
best possible matches. Players will move up and
down weekly depending on match results. Proper
tennis etiquette will be introduced and enforced,
but the idea is to just get out and play!

PLEASE bring the following
SCHOOL PE KIT AND TENNIS SHOES.
HAT, WATER BOTTLE, TENNIS RACQUET
ONE TUBE OF NEW TENNIS BALLS FOR
WEEK 1.
Max 16 students

Jasmine Taylor

EY1 J

Free

Bring your own
materials3-4pm

Miss Corinne

PYP building
Miss Corinnes room

Free

Lunchtime

Miss Carmen
Miss Ruki

Tennis Courts

Free

3-4pm

MYP
MYP
Grade 6-8
Grade 9-12

MYP
Grade 6-8
MYP
Grade 6-12

Grade 6-7
(boys and
girls)

Monday

PYP
Grade 1-2

Grades 2-5

Badminton Club
Come play some games of badminton continue
to build on your skills, and play some
tournaments.
Grade 6-8 MAX 14
Grade 9-12 MAX 16
Homework Club Academic Support

Mr Bryce McBride

MYP Gym

Free

3-4pm

Sharon Thompson

MYP Library

Free

3-4pm

Chess Club
Interested in playing chess and learning new
tactical strategies.
Join Chess club at lunchtimes.
Max 12 students
Canadian Flag Football
Want to try a new sport?! Come out and play flag
football this club is for beginners or experienced
players.

Greg Scrivin

D1

Free

Lunch 12:

Mr David Racine

Grass Area

Free

3-4pm

Reading Rascals
Continue your favourite reading adventures in
this club. Share your favorite stories! Further
develop your love of reading! Lets Read!!!
Grade 1-2

Scrap Booking
Create a scrap book of memories and design a
new page each week.
Grade 2-5
Arts and Crafts
Engage in a variety of creative arts and crafts.
Grade 3-5

Miss Eileen Butler

Room 3

Free

3-4pm

Haley Maine

Room 23
Block I

30AED

3-4pm

Wendy Urquhart

Room 17
PYP building

30 AED

3-4pm

PYP Grade 2-3 Fort Building/Reading Club

Students will begin their lessons by building forts
using blankets, chairs and their imaginations.
Well spend the second half of the hour reading
books in our cozy shelters!
Grade 2-3 students
Max 15 students

PYP Grade 1-3 Strategic Games
Learn how to think and problem solve when
playing games
Grade 1-3
Max. 12


FUN SCIENCE:
PYP
Come and join the fun science club designed by
Grade 1-2
Mark Biddiss.
A set of fun and novel experiments about physical
processes, properties of materials and ourselves.
Grade 1-2
max 10 students
PYP
Band Club
The program would operate on Monday nights
and give children who learn a musical instrument
at school and outside school to meet and put
together some ensembles that could perform at
school.

EY1, EY2,
Junior Chorus
Grade 1 &2
Come along and sing, rehearse and perform with
the junior chorus!
PYP
Community Art
Grade 1-3
Do you think like an artist and want to show your
creativity through art projects!? Join this
community art ECP!
Max 10

Genevieve

Rm 24 PYP

Free

3-4pm

Miss Christina Fraser

101 KG

Free

3-4pm

Miss Charlene
Miss Rose

Grade 2 R classroom

50AED

3-4pm

Stephen Hawkins

PYP Music Room

Free

3-4pm

Karen Page
Mary Ann Basin

PYP Music Room

Free

3-4pm

Kristina Dossett

EY1

40AED

3-4pm

PYP & MYP

Grade 4-7

MYP ONLY
Grade 6-12

Grade 9-12

MYP
Aged 12-17

Raha Newsletter Club

Want to help create a newsletter that promotes
activities happening at Raha and covers all the
events that take place in the school!?
Max 4 students Grade 4&5
Max 4 students Grade 6&7

Material World
The aim of this club is to provide a creative
experience which will develop key textile skills.
Members will develop their confidence,
communication skills and develop their
imagination. We will look at fashion designers
and textiles from around the world, to create a
sketchbook called a look book full of ideas and
experiments as well as producing final outcomes
using sewing machines.
No previous sewing machine experience is
required.
YOU must bring your own materials and sketch
book.
Max 6 students

Theatrical & Fantasy Make-Up
An introduction and exploration of a wide variety
of make-up products and techniques.
Max. 8 students

Arabic Club
For students who need more support in Arabic
Grade 6-10
RAHA Running Club
We are the RAHA 10 km Running Club. Our goal
this term is to introduce students to the Abu
Dhabi running scene by training for the Abu Dhabi
Striders Half Marathon & 10 km race taking place

Miss Elise
Mr Shawn Keddy

Grade 1 classroom

Free

3-4pm

Miss Charlie

B5

Free

3-4pm

Cora Nieberding

Miss Rheas room

50AED

3-4pm

Mona Kamel

C7

Free

3-4pm

Anne Moseley
Carmen Barrack

150AED which
is the cost for
the 10km run
supervisors will
enter you into

3pm meet
at the
statue in
the
courtyard

Grade 6-12

Grade 9-11

Grade 6 -7

on Yas Island November 14, 2014. No running

experience required, just interest in running! Our
club will meet twice a week on Mondays and
Wednesdays at 3:00 pm beginning September 24,
2014. Students will be provided with an 8 week
training program they can follow if they so
choose. Our intent is to run outside. We recognize
in September the weather can still be quite hot,
but we will be starting slow and using the
Secondary gym, while not ultimate, will be
considered. There is also a possibility our club
could be extended into December if students
want to join the X-Country Inter-School 3, 5, & 10
km event taking place January 9th at Zayed Sports
City.
PLEASE WEAR YOUR SCHOOL PE KIT INCLUDING
RUNNING SHOES AND BRING A WATER BOTTLE,
HAT, AND TOWEL

Be a Banksy (graffiti art club)
Are you familiar with the graffiti artist Banksy? In
this workshop you will explore his technique and
his work using stencils and spray paint. We will
design/or choose image, make stencils, and use
spray paint to see the effects of our stencil
making. ONLY students who havent done it
before.
MYP & DP
Grade 6-12
Raha Voice
Want to help out with the school newspaper.
Take photos, write articles, keep the school
community up to date with ongoing events, then
join Raha Voice.
Dodgeball
Max. 16

the race and

submit the fees
on your behalf

Steven Buchanan

E8

100AED for
supplies

3-4pm

Mr Chris

D4

Free

3-4pm

Joshua Toor

PYP Gym

Free

3-4pm

Grade 6-10

MYP
Grade 6-8

Tuesday

PYP & MYP
PYP ONLY
PYP
Grade 3-5

Wednesday

Grade 1-3

Amin
MYP CHORAL GROUP
Miss Sherrilee Bell
Come and find your musical voice! All Grade 6-10
boys and girls welcome, of all skill and experience
levels! We will learn proper singing posture and
techniques while singing popular songs in 2 and 4
parts.

Homework Club Academic Support
Jane Hayes

MYP Music Room

Free

3-4pm

MYP Library

Free

3-4pm

Tennis


Capoeira 4 Kids
Age 4-7

Fit Kids
A program designed to get moving - these
sessions will see kids get fit while having fun. The
sessions will include team challenges, games and
personal challenges to get fit and strong. classes
are designed to improve a child's overall strength
flexibility and confidence
Max 16 students

Clark Francis

MYP Gym/ Tennis

courts

200/4 sessions

3-4pm

Level up Skills

Dance Studio

650 AED/ 8
lessons

1:30-
2:30pm

Helen Wilson

PYP Gym

1-2pm

Minute to Win it
Minute to win it is a series of fun challenges
which the children try to complete within a
minute. The challenges can range from stacking
15 plastic cups into a pyramid, to knocking over
soda bottles with nothing more than a tennis ball

Gita Peterson

EY1 G

30AED

3-4pm

in a stocking which is tied around the waist of the

child. It is a lot of fun and suitable for all children.
Max 12 students
Grade 3-4
Iris Folding
Janet Bolitho
Iris Folding is a fun and easy paper folding
technique that can be used to make greeting
cards or designs can be framed and hung on a
wall. It is a lot like paint-by-number, except that
you are using folded strips of paper instead of
paint. The technique originated in Holland and it
is called Iris Folding because the center of the
design resembles the iris of a camera or eye.
Max 12 students

Grade 1-3
Fun with Food Junior
Miss Penny
Learn how to cook different kinds of salads,
desserts and other tasty delights from around the
world. This club is applicable for students who are
starting to learn about cooking.
Grade 1-3 Max 15 students
PYP
Educational Board Games
Kristina Dossett
Grade 3-5
Play games the old fashion way! Scrabble,
Checkers, Tic Tac Toe, Battle Ship, Chess etc.
Max. 10 students
PYP Grade 1-3 Games for understanding Reading:
Miss Christina Fraser
To help students gain a better understanding of
beginning reading though phonics and word
attack skills.
Grade 1 3
max 10 students
Grade 3-5
Page to Stage! - Drama Club
Natalie Cantini
Are you a budding actor? If so join us at from
Page To Stage.
Come and be part of our small performances for
family and friends.
Max 12 students

Grade 1 classroom

Free

3-4pm

Room 24
PYP

100AED

3-4pm

EY1

Free

3-4pm

101 KG

Free

Mr Peters Art room

Free

3-4pm
3-4pm

PYP
Grade 1-2
lunch time
MYP ONLY
MYP
Aged 12-17

Grade 6-8

Story Telling Activity Club

Read a book and create an activity.
Max 12

RAHA Running Club
We are the RAHA 10 km Running Club. Our goal
this term is to introduce students to the Abu
Dhabi running scene by training for the Abu Dhabi
Striders Half Marathon & 10 km race taking place
on Yas Island November 14, 2014. No running
experience required, just interest in running! Our
club will meet twice a week on Mondays and
Wednesdays at 3:00 pm beginning September 22,
2014. Students will be provided with an 8 week
training program they can follow if they so
choose. Our intent is to run outside. We recognize
in September the weather can still be quite hot,
but we will be starting slow and using the
Secondary gym, while not ultimate, will be
considered. There is also a possibility our club
could be extended into December if students
want to join the X-Country Inter-School 3, 5, & 10
km event taking place January 9th at Zayed Sports
City.
PLEASE WEAR YOUR SCHOOL PE KIT INCLUDING
RUNNING SHOES AND BRING A WATER BOTTLE,
HAT, AND TOWEL
Cool Crafting
Cool crafting is quirky, cutting-edge, craft-based
artwork. It is D.I.Y. craft. Using traditional
methods such as knitting, assembling, and plush
toy making, you will create fun and unique work
that blurs the lines between art and craft. If you
like hands-on projects and are able to work
carefully and with patience, this activity is for you.
Max 10 students

Miss Corinne

PYP building
Miss Corinnes room

Free

Lunchtime

Anne Moseley
Carmen Barrack

150AED which
is the cost for
the 10km run
supervisors will
enter you into
the race and
submit the fees
on your behalf

3pm meet
at the
statue in
the
courtyard

Mona Lee

MYP
Grade 9-12

MYP
Grade 6+

Grade 9-10

Grade 9-12
MYP
Grade 9-12

Cross Fit
An allover body workout where no 2 sessions will
be the same, challenge your body and increase
your fitness all while learning new movements
and exercises which include using your own
bodyweight, Olympic weightlifting and gymnastic
movements.
Max 14 students
Kite Surfing
This activity is designed for both experienced and
beginner kite surfers. If you already have all the
gear and just need an excuse to get down to the
water; here it is! If you have never done it before
and would like to get involved in one of the
fastest growing and most exciting water sports in
the world; here is your chance! Lessons from
some of the best instructors in the Middle East
will be available.
For more information email nclancy@ris.ae
Max 6 students

Cine Club Cercle Francais
Learn French from watching films, songs and
videos support French Language B, Phase 1 & 2
Grade 9-10
Arabic Calligraphy
Grade 9-11
Kayaking
Come and kayak out on the sea among the
mangroves and you may be lucky enough to see
sea-turtles, desert foxes, flamingoes and manta
rays. Along the way you can learn about the
ecology of Abu Dhabis coastline and try out some
paddle boarding, kayak hockey and water tag.

Helen Wilson

3-4pm

Naomi Clancy

Yas Kite Beach

TBA
depending on
how many
students

3-6pm?

Carole Chala

C12

Free

3-4pm

Omar Atri
Asem
Miss Alex
Marguerite Impey

Free

Eastern Mangroves

3-4pm

100AED/session 3-4pm


MYP
Grade 7,8
Grade 6

MYP
Grade 6-12
PYP & MYP
Grade 3-6

Grade 4-6

Homework Club Academic Support

Jeri Jones

MYP Library

Free

3-4pm

Academic Support
If you are in need of a quiet space to complete
weekly homework or study, come to Ms. Jens
room D12 each Wednesday at 2:45-3:45. You can
get help to use and read Managebac, use the MYP
library resources, prepare a weekly schedule to
help organize your workload and get some tips on
how to manage your time productively. Make this
ECA a weekly component of your home study
schedule and keep on top of homework and tasks.
There is internet access, a printer and stationary
supplies on hand to help you make the best use of
your time.

Field Hockey
Improve all your skills and strategies of the game.
MYP

TECH CLUB:
Explore the use of Minecraft as a learning tool
through gaming! Students will work in teams to
explore more advanced ways to use Minecraft
such as replicating buildings, creating new seeds,
or just collaborating on creating their world with a
group of others in the club. We will explore the
new mod called Galacticraft as well, and learn
how to use it by accessing online tutorials.
Grade 3-6
max 15 students
Senior Cold Cooking
Learn how to cook different kinds of salads,
desserts and other tasty delights from around the
world. This club is applicable for students who are

Jennifer Leather

D12

Free

3-4pm

Nick Grey

MYP Pitch

Free

3-4pm

Mark Kay Polly

Miss Haleys Room
PYP

Free

3-4pm

Helena Nickerson

Dining Hall

100AED

3-4pm

THURSDAY
PYP/MYP
Grade 4-10

SEPT 11th
start date
Swim tryouts

starting to learn about cooking.

Grade 4-6
Max 12 students




Triathlon Club
Rachael Hughes
Pool/classroom/track
Competing in a Series of 3 Inter-school Aquathons rach.hughes1@gmail.com
(Swim/Run) to be held at Yas Beach.
There will also be the opportunity to compete in
other events held in Abu Dhabi during the year
such as similar Aquathons, biathlons (bike/run)
and triathlons. All these events take place on
weekends, early morning.
Mix of Theory and Physical training.
Goal setting, nutrition, mental ability, safety,
event types and distances, Tri terminology.
Physical: Running, swimming and transition will
be our main focus at Thursday training however
the kids will also be able to join me at the track on
a Tuesday night for bike riding or a run (this will
be a non-compulsory training).

REQUIREMENTS:
Must be able to swim 400m continuous