NEWSLETTERAPRIL 2016

P01 examinationsMock and End of Term assessments

P02 university fairsPreparing a a path for our studentsto prestigious higher education institutions

P03 olympiads and other eventsHighlights of various local and internationalevents for the academic year.

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headteacher's messageDear Parents/guardians,

We have come to the end of yet another extremely busy term that saw our students and teachers take part in various academic and co-curricular activities. Apart from the intense preparation of our candidates for their final Cambridge International Examinations, we have ensured that our finalists attend a number university fairs for the purposes of preparing them for higher education; something in which we, as a school, take a keen interest.

Our candidates have sat their mock examinations which, we hope, will give an idea how they will perform in the final examination that will take place in May/June. Already some internally assessed exams have been taken. Other students have done their end of term exams and marking will be done and report forms prepared by 15th April. You may collect your son’s/daughter’s report card from then.

My sincere gratitude to all of you for your continued support without which our programmes would grind to a halt. I humbly request that this continues so that we may continue to be the shining star we have always been for the benefit of all.

Please use this time to offer crucial parental advice and guidance to the young ones need. Next term’s classes resume on 3rd May 2016. Boarders report on May 2nd 2016. On behalf of the entire Light International School, I wish you all a happy holiday.

EXAMINATIONSGreetings from the exams office. We have just completed our Mock examinations for Year 13, 12 and 11 and End Term exams for Year 10 and 9, without an incident.

However, we noted that some of our students were not well equipped with the relevant subject equipment like calculators and geometrical sets particularly for mathematics and sciences examinations. We kindly ask that you ensure your son/daughter is provided with the required equipment to ensure smooth running of the forthcoming Cambridge International Examinations. Kindly take note of the following:During the Cambridge International Examinations all candidates sitting for their examinations MUST have the following:• A calculator version FX-82MS.• Transparent geometrical sets with all the equipment.• 30 cm ruler.• 2 blue, 2 black Pens and 2 HB pencils.• Transparent pen/pencil pouch.• Transparent water bottle (optional).

Our commitment to ensuring conducive atmosphere for the upcoming exams is paramount and so we appeal to you, our dear parents, to give your guidance and encouragement to the dear ones over the short April break.

Omeriye Foundation and Light Academy Schools on 2nd March 2016 held a major 18th anniversary celebration of the schools’ establishment here in Kenya at the Intercontinental Hotel in Nairobi. It was a colorful event presided over by the Principal Secretary in the Ministry of Education, Dr. Belio Kipsang. The celebrations marked a major milestone in the schools’ history since the establishment of the first one in Kenya in 1998.During the celebrations, special a special tribute was extended to three courageous young men: Mr. Omer Kutlu, Mehmet Gul and Prof. Mohamed Bakari planted the Light Academy seed eighteen years ago. Prof. Mohamed Bakari is currently lecturing at the Fatih University, Turkey.The anniversary dinner was also attended by Hon. Ole Kaparo, Chairman of National

Cohesion and Integration; Prof. David Some, Chairman of the Commission for Higher Education; Prof. Margaret Kobia, Chairperson, Public Service Commission; Dr. William Okedi, NACADA CEO, alumni, teachers, parents among others.

Omeriye Foundation’s founding Chairman, Omer Kutlu, underscored the need for servant leadership in achieving holistic growth in education and improvement of the social good. Under the able leadership of the current Omeriye Foundation Chairman, Mr. Bilal Karaduman, the Light Academy schools have progressively expanded and now boast of eight branches across the country.

EIGHTEENTH ANNIVERSARy CELEBRATION

We wish to inform our esteemed parents/guardians that we will be having a holiday tuition program from Monday 18th April to Saturday 23rd April 2016 at 12:30 p.m.The tuition program will be absolutely free and all the

candidates in year 11, 12 and 13 are expected to be male student boarders during this time. Transport to and from school will be organized for all our female candidates.

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On Friday 22nd Jan 2016 we had an award ceremony to recognize some of the most outstanding students in different areas. We awarded the best students in club activities, sports and extracurricular activities, academic performance and behavioral considerations. Some of our talented students also entertained our teachers and students by playing some favorite tunes on the guitar and saxophone. We encourage and shall continue

giving similar awards each term as an appreciation and encouragement efforts to our students.

According to a Ministry of Education officials’ report following a standards assessment exercise,

Light Academy is one of the best schools in the country. This high rating of Light Academy is a vote of confidence, a clear indication of the school’s effective management and superb organization. We thank our Parents/guardians, teachers and the school administration for making this possible.

The year 11, 12 and 13 have had three university fairs. The first one took place at Nairobi Academy where many representatives from U.K universities from U.K. talked to them especially about entry requirements into different aca-demic programmes at

different universities. We were also invited for a second university fair at Brookhouse Inter-national School where candidates were given more information on requirements for entry into different Australian Universities. On 24th March 2016, ANA-TOLIA education centre

also had a fair for the best universities from Turkey whose represent-atives were at hand to talk to our candidates.We will continue to expose the students to various openings avail-able after their gradua-tion from high school.

We have come to the end of the term without major serious discipline issues.

We sincerely thank you, our parents, for your unwavering support and cooperation in guiding the students towards the right morals.

The indiscipline issues in which students have greatly improved this term include wearing wrong shoes and jackets, unkempt hair and

tardiness. In connection with this, we express our sincere gratitude for the invaluable contribution of vibrant Guidance and Counselling Department due to their continued support.

We kindly request you, once again, for your support in ensuring the

schools are tidy and neat all the time. We request that you also help in ensuring that if your son/daughter has unkempt hair, is neatly trimmed before they report for

next term.

We urge our parents to continue monitoring their

sons/daughters so that we may together bring up socially responsible,

academically competent and morally upright individuals.

Finally we would like to thank you and students who have been following updates on behavior on our school information system, CoolSIS. We urge those who have not started doing so to please begin in order to be able to monitor their son’s/ daughter’s discipline record/ status.

UNIVERSITY FAIRS

PRIZE GIVING CEREMONY

HOLIDAY TUITION PROGRAM

DISCIPLINE COMMITTEE

best school in nairobi countyKEY DATES FOR TERM 3

EVENT DATE

Opening day for boarders 2nd May 2016

Opening day for day scholars 3rd May 2016

Resumption of classes 3rd May 2016

Graduation day for year 11 & 13 28th May 2016

Midterm break 1st June 2016-05th June 2016

Closing date (End of Academic Year) 6th July 2016

Members of this club have had a lot of practical engagement with digital pho-tography and post processing. We have, this term, introduced members to the basics of digital photography, composing shots and working in different lighting

conditions. We also learnt about shooting in natural light, and modifying various controls such as aperture, shutter, speed and ISO. Next term we shall be delving into digital photographic effects and photo manipulations.

The club organized a visit to Huruma Children’s Home which was aimed at developing the need to share what we have with the less fortunate members of our society. This was a great success, thanks to the overwhelm-

ing support we received from our students, par-ents and teachers. All the students who participated in the Bronze expedition in Taita Hill were awarded certificates the patron (Uhuru Kenyatta, Presi-

dent of the Republic of Kenya) and are now plan-ning for a 3 days’ Silver expedition at Longonat- Naivasha area starting 9th to 12th April, 2016.Thank very much for your support.

The International Festival of Language and Culture was held on 19th March 2016, also at our Karen Campus. The colorful event was graced by participation of cultural groups from 15 countries. Participants who included parents, teachers and students showcased their cultural heritage cultural performances that showcased different stages of cultural dynamics focusing on music and dance, poetry, clothing, food and drink and more. It was

a wonderful experience for all those who participated as well as those who attended.

OLYMPIADS & INTERNATIONAL EVENTS

The East African Round of the World Scholar’s Cup (WSC) which took place at our Karen Campus between 23rd and 24th February 2016 was the biggest ever witnessed in Kenya. More than 400 stu-dents represented 22

schools in the two-day event in which the young learners engaged, taking part in different fun-filled educational experi-ences including de-bating, creative team writing, multiple choice tests, among others. All partici-

pants were awarded with certificates. A good number of our teams that partici-pated in the Nairobi Round also qualified for the Global Round which will be held in Bangkok, Thailand, in June 2016.

The World Scholar’s Cup, East African Round

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Golden Climate International Environmental Project Olympiad (GCIEPO) is around the corner. This great event is an International Environmental Project Competition that brings together primary and

secondary school students and their teachers to participate in an academic engagement aimed at finding solutions to various environmental challenges through scientific.The event will be held at our Karen Campus between 30th April and 2nd May 2016. We indeed expect to host over 400 participants from 35 countries who will be showcasing their science projects and ideas during the exhibition ceremony.

PRESIDENT'S AWARDS

Digital Art and Cinema Club

Golden Climate International Environmental Project Olympiad (GCIEPO)

International Festival of Language and Culture

ART CLUB The Light International School Art Club is not just a club. It’s an environment. A home where students are free to express themselves at different levels of creativity. Every artist needs an outlet through which to express themselves. It’s how we are

wired, lack of these outlets creates a bottled up frustra-tion that goes deeper than most people realize. And this is the main thing that the art club has been able to provide. We avail opportunities for anyone to come and experi-ence the freedom to exercise of being creativity- a therapy environment where they can come after a long day.This term we have been able to achieve a lot. We have also managed to showcase a few of our works of art at a small exhibition.This year is the year we hope break obscurity and reveal to the world what we are made of. We are planning our own exhibition that shall rotate in three

different gallery spaces as we take our rightful place in the world of art and make our voices heard loud and clear. We desire to be a voice of inspiration to every other young artist out there who is trying to get their foot-ing in the creative endeavor that art is.

AVIATION At Light International School we strongly believe that a great pilot is also a well nurtured individual and so we make every effort to imple-ment a training module that

makes for complete groom-ing of the aspiring pilot.

The school, in collabo-ration with Proactive Flight Training School

based at Wilson Air-

port, is currently creating

aware-ness in as

many of our stu-dents as possible about piloting and

flying with the aim of building a firm foundation for the for-mal instruction in aviation.We are proud to report that some of our students have done over 20 hours of flight training in the course of this term. The major topics being taught include:• Air Law.• Air Navigation.• Aviation Meteorology.• Aircraft Technical.• Human Performance.• Principles of flight.• Radio telephony.• Meteorology.

PHYSICAL EDUCATION AND

SPORTS DEPARTMENTWe in the Physical Education and Games Department express our appreciation to you (parents and stu-dents) for giving us max-imum cooperation as we undertook our duties in the department. We are hap-py to inform you that our school has paticipated in

various com- petitions against other schools and obtained remarkable results in basketball, football and hockey.Achivements:• 1st position under 15 years basketball held at Light Academy on 16/01/2016.• 1st runners up at Oshwal hockey tournament held at Oshwal Centre on 23/01/2016

Next

term’s games:• Rugby• Soccer As a department, we pur-pose to fully train and mo-tivate the students so as to help students realise their full potential and exploit their talents and the diverse capabilities they possess.

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Our students have been working on some projects for this international project competition which will be held in the USA (New York) and Romania (Bucharest) later in the year. We have already

submitted two projects for the Short Movie Category and another project for the programming category. We

hope for

the best as we approach the elimination period.

Genius Olympiad (New York-USA) and Infomatrix Olympiad (Bucharest-Romania)

ROBOTICS CLUBThis is a club that seeks to promote the integration of engineering with

mathematics among high school students. This club provides a wonderful opportunity to see how mathematics, science, and communication skills transform into fully functional robots.Next term the students are going to participate in GISUTECH (Uganda) and

INFOMATRIX ( Romania)

which will provide an exciting experience for anyone interested in robotics, engineering, and technology.