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- Arusha Campus News – 23 Mar 2025
UWC East Africa Arusha Campus Newsletter Sunday 23rd March 2025
Kayla (D2), Hadi (D1), Isabella (D2), Francis (D2), Ernest (D1) and Adam (D2) at the TEDx Youth UWCEA event yesterday on Arusha Campus
Upcoming dates
Mon 24th-Fri 28th Mar – MYP MAP Testing
Thu 27th Mar – Festival of the Arts 5pm
Fri 4th Apr – Last day of Q3
Tue 22nd Apr – First day of Q4
Dear Parents
The OP Peaks Adventurers scaled the heights of the Usambara Mountains this weekend.
Its been a week where not everything has quite gone to plan and things always seem a lot worse at this time of year when students and teachers are tired and ready for a break. Our students, such as our M5 Personal Project students or our D2’s getting ready for final exams, have such a lot to accomplish that I am not surprised they have a feeling of being overhwhelmed. Similarly, our teachers have huge marking assignments and I know they are so conscientious and anxious for their students to perform as well as they can. So, when things don’t quite go right, lets make an important and healthy assumption – that everyone is really trying their best!
If we do that and support our community members – including students, parents, teachers and staff, then we will achieve what we set out to achieve.
Have a splendid week,
Phil
Primary Years Programme News
The amazing stations that P5 organized for the students from Kafika House
This week the students in P5 organised stations for the students from Kafika House to participate in. These stations showed great creativity and enabled the students to participate in a wide variety of activities.
Teaching with stations offers many benefits including increased student engagement, natural brain breaks, providing a range of visual, auditory and sensory experiences, working in small groups, and lots of opportunity to ask and answer questions. It was a fun way to provide many experiences for the students.
Amanda, Head of Primary Years Programme
PYP fun in the pool!
The PYP celebrated two amazing swim events (see images above and below). The first one being the NEC swimming session where the children displayed great progress in their water confidence. Second event was the P1 to 6 Inter House Fun Gala with lots of silly events, including the T-shirt swap, the balance the duck on the head, the horse race and the Dala Dala collect race.
Big thanks to Miss Amanda, Miss Caitrin, Mr Kevin and Mr Frank and Mr Samwel for organising everything!
Festival of the Arts on 27th March 2025
Above-right:M2 Design students (Isabela, Ellen & Nicolene) collaborate on their bead project for the Festival of the Arts on March 27. Above-left: M3 Design students (Maddie, Juliana, Billy & Imma) build their disc golf tonal.
Above-left: M2 students Khalif and Kulola practice their music piece for the Festival of the Arts. Above-right: D1 students Talia, Elizabeth, Illy, and Chiara prepare for their a cappella performance.
Above left: Anahi and her D2 Visual Arts classmates, in the background, add final touches to their pieces for the Festival of the Arts. Above right: M1 students Ava, Eric, and Anvika rehearse their devised piece for the festival.
TEDx Event held on Saturday 22nd March
The TEDx Arusha team (above) who successfully organised the TEDx Youth UWCEA
This weekend, on Saturday, our campus hosted the TEDx Youth Event in the PA from 3:00 pm until 5:45 pm. This year’s theme, “The Power of Vulnerability” was fully explored through the six speakers’ topics. At the heart of these talks was the need to embrace our vulnerabilities and use the same for the betterment of society. Above is a photo of this year’s TEDx Organizing Team. Look forward to watching and listening to these powerful speakers soon on the TEDx official platform once the videos are uploaded. Thank you to all for your support in making this event possible.
Mr. Toney,, TEDx Supervisor/Organizer.
Service Awards 2025
In the past month, we were thrilled to note that two of our students’ projects won awards in the categories they entered their projects. Delphin Kyanda (pictured above, left), a D2 student won the Connie Burford Student Service Leader Award from AISA. This award is in recognition of his ongoing impactful project in the Nakivale Refugee Settlement in Uganda. Ali Bitek (pictured above, right), a D1 student has been awarded the Go Make A Difference award for his project proposal that seeks to empower the youth at Panyadoli Youth Centre, Bweyale Touwn Council in Uganda with entrepreneurship skills. Beyond the recognition, the two students will receive money from the two organizations to actualize their projects. We wish them all the best as they embark on this journey to make a difference in their communities.
Mr. Toney, CAS Coordinator
Gardening Club has vegetables for sale!
Dear UWCEA community,
Don’t be bleak and buy a leek!The Gardening Club is making a Crop Sale and we need your help! It will be to raise funds for purchasing seeds to restock our amazing garden that has become a little empty this winter. For now we will be selling leeks, green chilies and rosemary with more to come! Our portions and selection are moderate at this time, but with your support, we expect to offer more in the future.
The prices are:
2 leeks – 3,000TZH
3 fresh branches of rosemary – 2000TZH
3 green chilies – 1000TZHIf you would like to help fund this incredible project, CLICK ON THE IMAGE ABOVE and fill in this excel with your name and contact info and we will get in contact with you on how to pay and get your product:
Thank you and have a good week!
The Gardening Club.
The Festus Feast
The Festus Feasters enjoying their day of hospitality with their English teacher (above)
This weekend, I hosted my D2 English Class for lunch to celebrate nearly 2 years of teaching and learning with this group. The Festus’ Feast is always organized towards the end of D2, to play board games and reflect on the journey with my learners. It was wonderful having the students at my place. Below is a photo taken when the students had just arrived.
Mr Toney, DP English
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