During our club time we had two special visitors from “Deaf Link Uganda.”  Meeting deaf people for the first time was a great and awesome experience.  They taught us many signs of animals, fruits, greetings and words used in our daily lives.  They were very polite, kind and exciting, and used lots of vibrant facial expressions.  They taught us in a very friendly way.  It was absolute silence and amazing to enjoy learning without sound!  It felt like living in a very quiet and peaceful world! 

At first we felt sad that they could neither speak nor hear, like us.  But gradually they made us feel comfortable.  We realised that they are very intelligent and important to us and that it is alright to be deaf!  When club time ended it was strange to get back into the noisy outside world.  “I didn’t feel like talking I just wanted to be quiet.”  There should be Sign Language schools where everyone can have an opportunity to learn such a unique language.  That way we can all communicate with deaf people, so we can benefit from the richness of their language and that they too don’t feel left out.  We are grateful to our visitors for the privilege of interacting and communicating with them.  They helped us to learn in a friendly way as well as being thoroughly entertained!  Feelings shared by pupils attending Sign Language Club. Ms Kiyaga

CARE Project is planning for a trip to Watoto Children’s Village which will be open to all secondary school students.  As a fundraiser to buy presents for this trip, CARE is reminding everyone who is interested to keep registering their names for the coming PS3 competition which is going to take place on 10th of February.  The entry fee for the main event   (Pro-Evolution 2009/FIFA 2009) competition in which the winner is going to walk away with a grand prize is 5000/= and 2000/= for just playing any of the available games.  

 

The deadline for registration of any of the two events is this Wednesday, so you are all encouraged to register as soon as possible.  For more information on the competition or registration for taking part in any of the two events, please see John Olvanus (Year 12M) or Oyiti Ajawin (Year 11N).  You are all welcome.  
NB: Our 6 students attending the International Service Summit for the past 4 days presented a workshop on the CARE project and impressed many people.  A full report on the summit will be given next week.

EAMUN

 

All the resolutions for EAMUN passed!  The resolutions are as follows: Bolivia has a resolution for ECOSOC which deals with Brain Drain and the lack of global health care workers, as well as human rights resolution which deals with reducing drug trafficking.  Burkina Faso has a resolution to reduce deforestation.  Cape Verde has an economic resolution to stop money laundering and one for ECOSOC that deals with bio fuels.  Syria’s resolution deals with the US air strikes, while special summit deals with a wide range of topics which include: bio fuels, refugees, peacekeepers and their effectiveness, debt eradication, welfare, genetically modified food and free trade on their respective countries.  Anyone who needs a visa to Kenya must bring in all the things required on Thursday 5th February.  Don’t forget the photo call will be on Monday February 16th. Julia & Muthoni

English Challenge Results

Thank you to the English department for organising the secondary school interhouse English challenge two weeks ago.  The final results were: -

 

Impala    17 points
Kyoga    16 points
Rwenzori    12 points
Ssesse      7 points

Sports Round-up

On Thursday we took 3 teams to Ambrosoli.  The boys were very successful winning both their matches.  
The U9s won 2-1 with both goals from Marc and the U12s won 5-0 with Ricardo (1), Patrick (1) and Vincent (3) scoring.  In between the U11 girls lost 2-1.   Emma scored our only goal.  This week the focus turns to basketball with an U12 match at home to Ambrosoli on Friday and the ISU tournament taking place this Saturday.   On Thursday we also have a rugby fixture away to Vienna College.

 

As part of the warm-up for the senior soccer league starting later this month our senior team played the Rest of the World (Rainbow 2nd XI) on Friday 23rd January and won 8-1.  Kuda (3) Marko, Oyiti, Chris & David (2) scored.  Even the opposition goal was scored by our first XI with Erasme scoring an own goal.  Last Friday our staff soccer team played at home to Owino and lost 4-1 with Mr. Urquhart scoring our goal early on.  

Spelling Bee

Twelve brave Year 3 children entered the first spelling bee on Friday. They were given 5 words to learn at home and another set to spell without seeing them first. At the end of the round the teams were completely equal.  In the tie-breaker Rwenzori and Kyoga just crept ahead to score 200 points each to take joint first place. Impala and Ssese were very close behind on 190 points each. The next time we will definitely need trickier words for these super-spellers! Well done to you all. We are looking forward to the Year 4 Bee this week.

Assemblies

Reception L presented an assembly about Elmer the multicoloured elephant - they reminded us that we are all different. Thank you Rec L! Mrs. Dralega presented the KS2 assembly about being helpful and kind to those around us.  On Thursday 12M gave us an assembly on elections.  It contained an important message with headboy and headgirl elections coming up.  Don’t let fancy presentation overshadow substance.

Examinations end this week

The IGCSE mock examinations for Year 11 end on Thursday.  For the next 3 days the IT practicals are taking place in room 1 and on Wednesday and Thursday the art examinations are being conducted in rooms 10 & 11.  Please make sure you are aware of all the room changes this week.  Rooms 4 & 5 will be back in use from Wednesday.  On Friday there will be a special parents evening in the main hall for Year 11 students and their parents from 3:30 to 5:30p.m.

Thank you to our Volunteers

The art department in secondary school have been getting plenty of help this term.  We would like to thank Madeleine Griffin from the USA who has been helping out in afternoons and to our former student Sidika Manji who is assisting possibly for the rest of the year as she awaits confirmation of her place in a Canadian University starting in September.  Sidika is also helping Ms Thomas in setting up a Rainbow alumni interactive website.

Lamda Examinations

Entries for this year’s LAMDA examination will close on 28th February.  Please make sure you enter your child in time.  Rainbow accounts department have a list of LAMDA students and the relevant fee for examination grade they can take.  The examination will take place at Rainbow school in mid-June.  If you need more information please contact Avril Porter at This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it .  Thank you.  Mrs. Porter

Volleyball Serving Competition

A big thank you to Miss Nakibuuka for organising the volleyball serving competition in secondary school last Thursday lunchtime and also to Mr. Howard who sat in the sand as the ‘target.’  Only Rwenzori managed to hit him so they win 20 points.  But Ssesse also get 10 points for being the only house with a full team.  Well done, Lamya, the Ssesse house captain.

Year 5 Fundraising Sales

Every Friday for the last 3 weeks Year 5 had cake sales.  The purpose of the sales was to raise money for Kigezi Water Project, Kabale.  We managed to raise 499,000/=.  Thank you to all the parents and the children involved.  Mrs. Ssemakula

 

Child of the Week
Aruana    1A

 Maryam & Joana    1M
Mer    1MO    

Suubi  RO
Tamanna    2P    

Kimberly   2N
Keyana    2S
Dhrij     3SV    

Sam & Ariel  3SM
Martino    3MK    

Joey        4K
William    4LP    

Lorenzo        4R
Georgina    5B    

Daniel        5S
Mokgadi    5M    

Priscilla        6CW
Helena    6DW    

Francis        6PW

International Talent Show

Today there will be the final auditions for the International Talent Show for the junior age group (11 to 15 years old) and the winners will be announced later in the week.  We will then move on to selecting the Rainbow representatives for the older age group.  There will be a special assembly on 26th February to showcase all our winners.

Happy Campers

A very big thank you to Mrs. Green, Mrs. Kakumba, Mr. Kalanzi and Richard for giving up their extended NRM weekend to take the Year 9s camping at Jinja.  This weekend it’s the turn of Year 10.

Impala’s lead cut

We had our first submission of primary school housepoints for the term this week and its made a big difference to the overall scoreboard.

 

Rwenzori    11186 points
Impala    11307 points
Ssesse    10892 points
Kyoga    11044 points

… and finally the annual eye screening will take place in school starting next Monday 9th February.