As you look through this or any of the other newsletters, I hope you see the wide range of activities that our students get the opportunity to engage in. While last weekend was all about sports this weekend has two outdoor pursuits trips and next week has our Evening of the Arts and Arusha’s production of Mary Poppins Jr. While we look to provide a quality education in the classroom, learning has many aspects, and these outside the class opportunities are just another way to learn while having fun.
For those of you who were able to join us this morning you were treated to the PYP Sharing Assembly. This was a great showcase of what the different classes have been learning recently. You can see some pictures below from the event.
For PYP parents the next conferences are on December 11th and the signup emails will be sent soon. Please take the time to join us on that day.
On Monday we have the final assembly of the semester and parents are invited to join us. While it may seem early, the holiday on the 9th of December left us with few Mondays remaining.
This is a longer email, so please open it in the browser so that you can see all that is included.
Bob Cofer – Head of Campus
Upcoming Events
Project Sharation
This event is open to the wider community and we look forward to welcoming you to this celebration of projects at a variety of stages. Our project teams will host talks, workshops, swap shops, a fashion show, demonstrations and calls for partnerships.
When: Wednesday the 11th of December Where: K-Hall and Surrounds
Our sharation teams are outlined further down in the newsletter.
The Bucket Tree
Production Logo / Graphics competition – deadline 10th December
All students are invited to use their creativity and submit designs for artwork and graphics to be used in the promotional material for the whole school production in January. The selected, shortlisted entries will be used on tickets, posters, brochure etc. Designs will be judged anonymously, for the different school sections – PYP, MYP, DP. More than one design may be shortlisted for each school section and you can enter as many times as you like.
Entries: Please submit your artwork on PLAIN, WHITE paper to Mr Morley’s office by the end of school on Tuesday 10th December. Designs on lined or squared paper will not be accepted.
Names must be on the back of the design / drawing in one of the corners.
All entries will be displayed in school after the break and in Karibu Hall on the evenings of the performance.
At our Arusha Campus
Ben’s Corner
I am sure much of the focus in this week’s newsletter will, rightly, be on the Sports Weekend. It was a triumph of collaboration, commitment and an example of how so many people go above and beyond to make such events a success. I wanted to go back to before Sports Weekend to celebrate another hugely enjoyable event that slipped below the radar…Language Idol.
This is something that we have been thinking about organising for a long time and it was wonderful to finally make it a reality. As advertised, Language Idol aimed to “celebrate the incredible diversity of cultures within our campus by showcasing performances in your mother tongues. Through song, dance, spoken word, and instrumental performances, we invite you to share a piece of your heritage and let our community experience the beauty of our unique languages.”
It was a wholly joyous occasion with performers from across the school. The whole event was a genuine celebration of the richness of the languages and the varied traditions and cultures we nurture on our campus.
Well done to the Activities Committee for (finally!) making it a reality and I hope this becomes an annual event on the calendar going forward.
Ben Morley – Deputy Head of Campus
Diploma News
Although this was a short week, the D1 ESS students attended a field trip to a small local farm here in Moshi owned by the Mtuy family, where Mr. Simon Mtuy showed them how permaculture can benefit not only the quality of our soil and food, but the very systems which support life on our planet. Our students learned a lot about not only growing food, but an ecologically regenerative lifestyle. Thanks to Mr Will and Ms Hilda for organising.
The D1s also participated in an Advertising fair during the English Lang Lit class on Thursday, where they designed games to teach their peers about advertising techniques. The PYP joined us later in the fair and the diploma students needed to differentiate their game to suit the younger audience. We had so many creative games adapted from traditional children’s games like four-squares, twist, crosswords, board games, ball games, puzzles and jeopardy. Well done to our creative students and thanks to Ms Vagisha, Mr Gadi and Mr Russell for organizing.
We are now heading into our final two weeks of the semester. The D2s are preparing for their final self-taught orals and their mock orals for Language B and Swahili Ab initio. We wish them well.
Catherine Dowie – Diploma Coordinator
Project Week Fair
On Tuesday 19th November we had the Project Week Fair. This was a chance for the D1 student to present to the community what they did during project week. Each group prepared a short presentation. All presentations have been collated and can be seen here. These give you a flavour of what students did, but they added so much more information when talking about what they did. It was clear to see the students learned a lot both while planning for project week and during the week itself.
We had students who went and visited schools to see how public and private education compare, students who worked with NGOs, students who went and saw rhinos, students who helped teach English to safari guides amongst many other activities. This week we have started sending certificates of appreciation, small gifts and notes from the students to the organisations and people who helped with project week.
Residential Life
Dear UWCEA Community,
The past few weeks have been filled with excitement and energy as we’ve enjoyed a variety of activities across the school. From the incredible performances at Language Idol to a fun-filled Movie Night and an action-packed Sports Weekend, there’s been something for everyone!
We’re thrilled to invite you to our Diwali celebrations Saturday evening in Rafiki from 5:00 to 8:00 PM. Although slightly delayed, it promises to be a joyous occasion full of vibrant festivities. We’d love for you to join us!
Looking ahead, this week marks the beginning of preparations for our new Student Government elections. Students will have the chance to run for positions such as co-president and committee members. Best of luck to all participants—we’re excited to see your ideas and enthusiasm shine!
On Saturday, our MYP residents will go on a dorm trip to Arusha. The itinerary includes a visit to the cinema at Aim Mall, dining at local restaurants, and maybe a little shopping—an excellent opportunity for a change of scenery and some relaxation.
Lastly, a friendly reminder: if you haven’t submitted your travel form, the deadline is December 1. You can access the forms here:
Enjoy the weekend! Adnan Mackovic – Head of Residential Life
MYP News
As we approach December, the energy and determination of our MYP students are truly remarkable. They are busy juggling projects, assignments, and assessments, yet they continue to demonstrate exceptional grit and agency. Last week’s Sports Weekend was intense and filled with excitement, but even amidst the physical challenges, our students have returned to their academic responsibilities with admirable focus and dedication. It’s inspiring to witness their commitment and resilience, both in and out of the classroom.
M3 French Les élèves de M3 se sont amusés à créer des bandes dessinées pour se présenter! Ils ont partagé d’où ils viennent, leurs hobbies, leurs activités préférées, et plein d’autres choses.
M5 I&S In our M5 class, we worked on a fun project to create “biomes in a box” to learn about the different biomes on Earth. Each group was given a specific biome, like hot deserts, tropical rainforests, marine environment, arctic tundra, grasslands and cold deserts. We researched our assigned biome to understand its climate, living things, physical features, threats and how people live. Using simple materials, we built small models of these biomes in boxes to represent the environment by adding layers of soil and using plants, styrofoam, shells, paper, light, cotton, small figures, etc. This hands-on activity made learning enjoyable and helped us see how living things interact with their surroundings. By sharing our biomes with the class, we learned about the importance of each ecosystem and the challenges they face, which helped us appreciate biodiversity and conservation. Natalia – M5
M3 Math The M3 class, in connection to learning about gradient of lines, had to design a wheelchair access ramp to rooms 39, 40, 41 and 42 that are currently out of bounds. We count on the inclusion department to support us and convince Mr Cofer and the school board to select the best proposal and have the ramp ready for next academic year!! This is their Criterion D summative assessment: Applying Math to Real Life. Thank you Mr. Julien!
MYP Dates To Remember:
December 2nd – End of Semester Assembly
December 12th – Semester 1 Reports Released
December 13th – End of Q1 Classes end at 12:30 pm
Farah Fawaz – MYP Coordinator
Sports Update
Leopards on the Move!
Congratulations to the UWCEA Moshi Community. It was a real pleasure hosting Sports Weekend again this year with all of your help. We have received many compliments from the visiting schools about how well it was run. There were lots of questions about how we run this event so they could run a similar event. With over 800 people competing and on campus, be very proud Leopards for getting this done.
As for our performances…… We competed with talent and intensity; we conducted ourselves with sportsmanship and respect. A large round of applause to all athletes for your commitment to practices and your teams. This is what it takes to grow, and we are on the right track, so keep it up.
My favorite part of the weekend was of course the laser goal in the open football by Verus. But even that doesn’t beat the intensity that was displayed at the volleyball area, congratulations to the U16 team for defending their title. As always, our netball teams represented Moshi in the finals, I have come to expect this, great work girls.
Another new addition to this year’s sports weekend was the cheerleading team. It brought a spirit to the weekend that was heavily accepted. Good job Naomi and the cheerleading team.
Coach Pickell
Ultimate
The Gift of Ultimate Frisbee The UWCEA ultimate frisbee club had a special guest join training this week. Ms Elysia Chua from the Australian National Ultimate Team joined our training. She is in Moshi for 2 months for medical practice at KCMC, safari, to hike Kili and try to find some East African ultimate players. Lucky for Eylisa UWCEA has a thriving Ultimate frisbee club, and besides coming to Moshi to fulfill her medicine commitments, she really wanted to spread the love of ultimate with fellow ultimate players across the globe. She brought with her with amazing donations of brand-new flying discs, Australian Ultimate club shirts and sports cleats as donations from her Australian Ultimate frisbee friends. After a high-speed training Elysia, in the Christmas spirit gave each player a Christmas present, each player was thrilled to receive a brand new Discraft flying disc and a high quality Australian Ultimate club shirt. We are so grateful for your visit Elysia. We all hope to see you on the ultimate pitch sometime in future.
PYP News
Thank you to everyone who attended the sharing assembly on Friday morning. The children were very proud to share some of their classroom activities with you. There was a wide variety of learning on display: maths, poetry, construction, singing, dancing, French and Swahili. I hope you enjoyed the presentation.
Our U9 and U11 boys’ football teams will head off to SCIS early on Saturday morning for a football festival. We wish them a successful day.
On Monday, 2nd December, we will have the last whole school assembly of the semester. You are very welcome to join us at 10:30 in Karibu Hall. This assembly is happening earlier in the semester than usual because the following Monday (9th December) is a public holiday and there will be no classes on that day.
On Thursday, 5th December, at 6:30pm we will have the Evening of the Arts. An evening meal will be provided for residential students at 6pm on the green, but day students should eat something before they come back to school. The P2 – 6 children will be performing a dance and we will have tables and boards in the room showing our art work. You are warmly invited to attend.
After school clubs will end on Thursday, 5th December. The last Saturday football will be Saturday, 7th December. Thank you to everyone who offered a club to the primary children this quarter. If you are interested in offering a club in quarter 3 please can you email Coach Pickell on joshpickell@uwcea.org or me on deborahmills@uwcea.org
Please note the article earlier in this newsletter about a logo competition for our upcoming whole school production The Bucket Tree. The closing date for entries is the end of the school day on Tuesday, 10th December. It would be great if as many children as possible could take part.
Next week you will receive a sign up link for the parent teacher conferences which will take place on Wednesday, 11th December. Please look out for this email and sign up for a conference.
Deborah Mills – PYP Coordinator
EC/P1 Class
We have two weeks left till the end of the semester and we have quite a lot to do. This coming week, we will be assembling all our buildings into one cohesive place. We will place our creation on a table at the Evening of the Arts. You are welcome to come and view the project there.
This week’s swimming lesson was a milestone for ECs. We had no tears and no worries in the pool. Everyone was laughing and not willing to come out of the pool. Well done ECs for achieving this milestone.
EC/P1 had a chance to show their dance moves during the Primary Sharing Assembly this week. They danced to two songs taught to them by Ms. Jamie and Mr. Emmanuel. They did a wonderful job.
Mboka Mwasongwe
P2/3 Class
Thanks to all who came to the Sharing Assembly! We loved showing off our creations- the class put such wonderful, collaborative effort into making their boxes. It was delightful to watch them work together and bubble over with ideas. Next week, we will write stories to go along with our boxes. I look forward to reading about the adventures of Wind Rider, the enchanted house, the rocket ship and hoverboard, and Rozzum 678. Please encourage imaginative play at home!
Our class will have art on display at the Evening of the Arts next Thursday. We have been exploring 3-d painting and the use of perspective in artworks by Piet Mondrian. These next 2 weeks are sure to go quickly- it has been a wonderful semester!
Kacey Buckley
P4/5 Class
The P4/5 children were very proud to share their work on tessellation in Friday’s sharing assembly. The children have also been working with protractors to measure acute, right and obtuse angles and have completed addition and subtraction assessments. The research for the natural disasters slideshows has been completed – these will be shared with you when the presentations are complete. Our model plaster volcanoes are looking superb. We will have these on display on Thursday at the Evening of the Arts and hope to see many of you there. The children have started weaving projects – depending on how quickly these get finished, they might also be on display.
We are starting our new unit on expressing ourselves.
Central idea: “Our voice is an important form of expression to communicate different emotions, ideas and feelings.”
The lines of inquiry are:
The ways in which people use voice
How communication has changed over time
The ways voice influences others
Deborah Mills
P6 Class
‘My Teacher Ate My Homework,’ ‘My Kitten Is a Ninja,’ and ‘I Hypnotized the Teacher’ were just some of the fun poems by American poet Ken Nesbitt that P6 recited at this week’s Primary Sharing Assembly. They also gave a presentation in Kiswahili, talking about the characteristics and personality traits of their family members. We hope you enjoyed it.
Next week, we will begin discussing the UN’s Sustainable Development Goals and exploring how they connect to our upcoming PYP Exhibition. Although the Exhibition is still a little way off, P6 are encouraged to start thinking about it. Further details about the PYPX overnight retreat, which is planned for the first week back next quarter, will be shared before the break.
We will also begin a new Unit of Inquiry: Transdisciplinary Theme: How The World Works Our Central Idea: Understanding energy transformation allows us to utilize its power. Lines of Inquiry:
Sources and forms of energy.
How energy is transformed to do work.
Energy Conservation.
A big thank you to the P6 students who volunteered as ‘runners’ during last week’s Sports Weekend. You all did a great job!
Natasha Berri
Sustainability Committee
Greening Sports Weekend These past two weeks the Sustainability Committee was very active, but we are very proud of the success of the Sports Weekend that saw a lot of sportsmanship, competition, new friendships and sustainability. Despite the large number of students on campus, the Sustainability Committee implemented waste management strategies for a very high volume of people, doing our best to minimize the environmental impact of this big event.
Thus, we must thank all the committee members that ensured that the compost bins were spread out throughout campus and clean for the event, as well as Mr. Afzal and his staff, who made sure the event ran smoothly! There is still work to be done as we aim to reduce the footprint of the event in the future.
Call for New Sustainability Committee Members We’re excited to announce that we will soon be selecting new members for the Committee. For the past year, our committee worked towards our goals and to make school more sustainable, however after December break we will hand this honour to a new generation of committee members. We are looking for any M4-D1 students that are passionate about sustainability and want to make a difference, to please reach out to sustainabilitymoshi@uwcea.org or a current member.
On Tuesday the committee went to D1 Life skills classes to share our aims, objectives and achievement emphasising the importance within and beyond campus. Three new leaders will soon be announced.
Flowers We would like to thank the MYP Conservation service for championing the community recycling and compost program this week. We also thank the Tree Planting service for going above and beyond last week. A big thank you to the DP Environmental Service groups for spreading our latest and last stickers for the recycling program around campus. Thank you to Committee members Ren and Lauren for their sticker designs!
Upcoming We are excited to announce an expansion of our waste tracking around school through a full day solid waste audit, we are looking for volunteers to help so please get involved by emailing sustainabilitymoshi@uwcea.org!
SHARATION! Lastly, don’t miss the upcoming Project Sharation on December 11th from 15.15 to 17.15 outside of K-Hall. We are proud to be celebrating the environmental and sustainability projects happening across our campus. The event is open to the public, stay tuned for more details!
Leonor D2
Sharation Lineup
Our sharation teams are outlined below and excited to present their projects and experiences so far:
DP Environmental Service Group This service is dedicated to regenerative practices and circular models for reducing our impact on the ecological systems we operate in. This comes in many forms and through demonstrations and evidence of their progress they would love to show you what they have been working towards! These eco champions are ready to welcome you.
M4-5 Environmental Service group Much like the Diploma Environmental Service Group, these MYP students are dedicated to soils and healthy foods. They have explored food systems from the social, environmental and economic lens.
Swap Shop! M1-3 Environmental Service group M1-3 Environmental service group has been exciting to follow this year. They are tracking wildlife on campus, involved in our recycling and compost program, growing food and will be hosting a clothing swap shop during the sharation. Bring your second hand clothes and see what sustainable items can spruce up your wardrobe!
Tree Planting Service This exciting new project is starting to grow roots. They have been tracking species around our campus and working on their species identification and tree planting techniques. They welcomed experts and with their extensive team are hopeful at launching their first tree planting campaigns. They too are a part of our recycling and compost program with so much outreach ready to go, they are eager to welcome you as well!
Sustainability Committee If you are a keen reader of the newsletter then these dedicated ecological heros need little introduction. Our group of D1 and D2 students have been hard at work aiming to track our schools ecological footprint and are at the center of our community compost and recycling program. They are now mentoring PYP ecological heros and carrying out waste audits to identify how we can further reduce our footprint. With the February Tanzanian Youth Climate Summit ahead they certainly will be happy to share their work with you at the project sharation!
Community Clean-Up Service At the center of our recycling program, these D1 and D2 students are enthusiastic, active and committed to a cleaner and healthier neighbourhood. Every week they track and clean up waste around Shanty Town and on campus. Their attitude is fantastic and we could use more of them in our community! Maybe you can join their next community clean up.
Mindful Fashion (with a fashion show!) With a passion for sustainable fashion, Sarah Bozic (D2) has proposed a mindfully focused fashion service/club. With ideas already to fabric it is exciting to announce our first sharation fashion show all with off cuts and upcycled fabrics. The aim of the service is to go beyond design and shift the way we consume clothes, empowering local seamstresses and perhaps shifting where our fabrics are sourced in school and beyond.
Conservation Service (Cape Town 2 Kili) The Cape Town to Kili project launched training for your upper MYP students. These committed keen conservation minded students have learned a lot about conservation. With a day in the field under their belt and full scale training modules ready to go we are all eager to see what they have learned. Come along and support their progress, with this knowledge there are so many directions they can take their service.
Reefs (tentative) Launched with a design , this award winner of a service has been around for generations of diploma students. Their work on the Tanga coast will be on display as they look to pivot the project forward. Come along for some fishy business and learn about coral regeneration.
Smokeless Kitchen Health and the environment go hand in hand and this moving project is changing livelihood one chimney at a time. The smokeless kitchen is on a mission to provide a breath of fresh air to homes that use indoor combustion for food preparation. This life changing service has many stories to share and look forward to reaching out regarding their project.
This sharation is under the umbrella of United World College Sustainability.
Come along and offer questions, perhaps you know something our students do not and can help them on their project journey.
