Gayathry is Student of the Year

On another beautiful Awards Evening in the sparkling atmosphere of The Rainbow Club on Friday, nearly 80 students were honoured for their various achievements in secondary school last year.  A few new awards were introduced such as Mildred’s Athlete of the Year and The Wiltshire Prize donated by Ms Mudondo.  There were several students who picked up more than one award but clearly the most successful student of the night was Gayathry Venugopal.  Now in Year 12, Gayathry joined Rainbow in January 2000 in Year 1 and has become our most successful IGCSE student ever with 9 A*s.  Congratulations to Gayathry who, apart from winning prizes for English and Drama and for her outstanding IGCSE results, was named Rainbow’s ‘Student of the Year.’  It was a very close decision and she had just 2 more votes than last year’s headboy, Mugabi Byenkya (18 to 16) in a ballot of all the secondary school teachers.  The evening reached a spectacular climax with Mrs. Kotecha & Mrs. Kapoor from the Midland Group of Companies presenting Gayathry with a special trophy to keep as well as one million shillings in cash.  Incidentally this report has been typed for you by another of the night’s big winners.  Annet Kiiza won the C. A. Green Cup for Services to Rainbow along with 500,000/= for 11½years of excellent service as the secondary school secretary. NOTE: If you didn’t collect a programme at the end of the event on Friday you can get one from Lydia.

Prefects

Gayathry is also one of the newly appointed Year 12 prefects.  On Thursday 16th September during assembly time, Mr. Toscano introduced the 2010/2011 prefect body and their various positions.  It is interesting to note that on top of the five already existing positions namely; Common room prefect, Environmental prefect, Primary prefect, Sports prefect and Social prefect, four new ones were introduced.  They are; Library prefect, Uniform prefect, Discipline prefect and Lunch area prefect.  The prefects will also carry out break, lunch time and after school duties.  Below is the detailed prefect list and the various duties.  The break, lunch time and after school duty rota is displayed on various noticeboards.  I hope we all give our prefects the deserved respect and adhere to the instructions.

Name                          Duty
Vanessa Akinyange    Headgirl, Uniform & Common room prefect (6th form)
Jovin Ssali      Headboy, Common room prefect (6th form)
Gayathry Venugopal    Environmental & Library prefect (7J, 11MA)
Tanya Davidson               Environmental & Library prefect (7Z, 9JG)
Samantha Busingye             Environmental prefect (10T)
Moussa Barry                      Sports & Uniform prefect (10C)
Jawdat Nassour                   Sports & Lunch area prefect (8B, 10M)
Suleiman Ocheni              Sports & Lunch area prefect (8BA)
Sanjana Raj                        Primary & Library prefect (9K)
Nicole Muzigo                     Primary prefect (9VG)
Victoria Onen                     Discipline & Primary prefect (11I)
Alinda Byamukama           Social & Lunch area prefect (8S)
Karim Rucekeri               Social & Uniform prefect (11MA & 7M)                                
Mrs. Walugembe Head of Upper School

House Captains
More positions of responsibility were handed out on
Friday during the secondary house meetings as the 4
house captains for each house were chosen. They are: -

Rwenzori     
KS3: Rick Irungu & Liza-Marie Muhairwe
KS4/5: Miguel Rothe & Linda Ohairwe
Impala    
KS3: Sandra Nantumbwe & Munjikwan Obac
KS4/5: Amanda Matarutse & Mark Tushemereirwe
Ssesse
KS3: Christopher Green & Isra Nassour
KS4/5: Jawdat Nassour & Martina Kabenge
Kyoga
KS3: Michelle Semo & Sahil Halai
KS4/5: Betel Admassu & Michael Calnan

The Annual Rainbow International Careers Fair

Today & tomorrow Rainbow International School will hold the largest so far annual International Careers Fair at Sheraton hosting universities, colleges and agencies from UK, Malaysia, Australia, South Africa, Europe, Canada, USA and India.   There will also be several local universities present.  Rainbow students from Years 11, 12 & 13 will attend the fair.   This will be a great opportunity
for the students to gather information about their possible careers, courses and institutions.  Special thanks to students who have volunteered as stewards and teachers who have accepted to accompany students in the following order:

Monday at 8:30 Mrs. Bisasso and Mr. Nuwamanya will
leave school with Year 11, and at 12:30, Ms Grignard and
Mr. Matovu with Year 13.  On Tuesday at 8:30
Mrs. Walugembe and Mr. Fugill will leave school with Year 13, at 12:30, Mr. Avis and Mr. Spraggon with Year 12.

Students are encouraged to keep time and those leaving school at 12:30 to take an early lunch.  We also hope that many parents will come to this fair to explore opportunities for their children. Ms Thomas & Mr. Biteetsigirwe      (Careers Advisers)

Impala are first winners of the year

On Monday lunchtime a large crowd gathered on the field to watch the staff demonstrate their various levels of football skill as the Noel Mugume shoot-out reached its finale.  Already leading from the earlier rounds, the Impala staff team of Mr. Kalanzi, Mr. Musau, Ms Thorn, Mr. Kawuma and Mr. Avis who was the goalkeeper, simply extended the lead with 9 goals scored including the conversion of all 5 shots against Ssesse.  The final results:

Primary News

We had the first infant assembly of the year on Thursday.  2S presented lots of information about famous people.  The children even interviewed Rainbow’s very own famous person, Coach Max who has been competing as a professional swimmer since he was 12 years old.  Another of our PE department is about to represent her country in the Commonwealth games in India.  Do you know who that it?   Perhaps Year 2 should interview her too when she gets back!  In the Key Stage 2 assembly 5CO presented a series of lively skits which had the audience laughing throughout.  Jordan’s ‘grumpy sweetshop owner’ was particularly well acted. Well done to both classes.  

Congratulations to Mrs. Alison Haswell on the birth of her baby daughter Emily Zara on 16th September.

We welcome Primary Prefects Victoria Onen, Nicole Muzigo and Sanjana Raj.  We look forward to your involvement in primary school events.

Primary School Skipathon

Key Stage 2 inter-house skipathon begins tomorrow – Tuesday 21st September at lunch time 1:00p.m. on the small field.
Year 3 – Tuesday, Year 4 Wednesday, Year 5 Thursday & Year 6 Friday.
Class teachers, please remember to organise part of the teams – 3 students for each house.  Ideally, 30 students should participate in each – 12 for each form group.  Team names will be collected on Monday afternoon.

Football News

On Saturday mornings at 9:00 there are football coaching clinics for primary & secondary school children.  The secondary school letter was collected by those interested last week.  Here is the information for primary school.

Rainbow parents have organised a football club every Saturday from 9:00a.m. to 10:30a.m. on the big football pitch.  The children will train specific football skills and play fun matches.  Make sure your children bring a healthy snack and enough water to drink.  Since the children are trained by an external professional we have to charge UShs 3000 per session.  This fee may decrease as we get more kids participating.  Please bring the fee, each Saturday morning.  Enroll your child by collecting a letter from Lydia at reception and returning the reply slip.  Let your child join and enjoy.  Mr. Brenke (Parent of Adrian 1M & Leona 4P)

Tonight the senior girls football team will train.  We have so many girls interested in football that it is necessary to split the club into 2 age groups especially as we are competing in a league starting this week.  Remember you must have your own transport home at 4:00 if you wish to train on Mondays (it is for Year 10 to 13 girls only plus any KS3 girls who are selected for the senior team).  On Friday our senior boys warmed up for their league with an emphatic 5 – 0 win over Kabojja.  Rainbow’s goals came from Cheikh, Mabok (3) and Michael Moeller.  On Thursday the staff team made it 14 matches unbeaten when they beat the Super Eagles of Katwe 3-1. Rainbow’s goals came from Henry, Coach Paul and Moses (Bebeto’s brother) and included an impressive debut in goal by Mr. Colley.

School Council

Secondary school Student Board is now complete with the social secretaries; Alinda Byamukama (Year 13) and Karim Rucekeri (Year 13), treasurer - Beatrice Ejikeme (Year 13).  All members are reminded to keep time for all the meetings.  Thank you. Ms Imalingat.

Inter-house Language Competition

This is being organised by Mr. Jasansky and Miss Grignard and will be the main item in the secondary school this week.  The first part will take place on Wednesday lunchtime in room 27.  One of the first tasks for the new House Captains will be to organise their teams for this interesting event. Mr. Toscano

Welcome Isaaya Walakira

We would like to welcome a new member of staff in secondary school.  Mr. Isaaya Walakira is to join our PE department as an assistant.

Child of the Week

Rec H Claudia, Rec O Savannah, 1K Kevin, 1M Rinaldo, 1MO Kimberly, 2M Jonathan, 2N Megan & 2S Zoe.

Artwork of the Week

The first artwork of the week this academic year is by JANE AYOGU Year 11MA for her watercolour painting of a banana plantation.  Well done, Jane.  Mr. Ufoyuru

PSA AGM

A letter went home on Friday giving information about the PSA AGM to be held at the Rainbow Club at 6:00p.m. on Thursday, September 30th.  In summary: Nominations for the key posts of Chairperson, Vice-chairperson, Secretary and Treasurer can be sent to the present secretary, Mr. Kennedy Musau at This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it .  If you wish to stand for election then you should submit a photograph and short personal profile no later than this Friday 24th Sept.  

Impala lead

Impala are the early leaders in the housepoints table but remember it’s a marathon not a sprint!
Rwenzori 1016pts, Impala 1062pts, Ssesse 1019pts & Kyoga 1025pts.

… and finally thank you to all the new parents who attended the secondary school information evening last Tuesday.  We believe it was a very productive evening for all involved.