Karla Mediah

This mornings, ‘brain development’ workshop celebrating how pivotal the first 5 years are for shaping our children’s brains. Neurons, synapses and myelination! Knowledge is power, & understanding why your child is feeling so many emotions is the first step to supporting them!

What a fab evening the Christmas light switch on at ⁦@McGettigansPub⁩ singing songs in both English and Arabic. The art of performance is underpinned by our ‘Singing For Learning’ program where the children sing daily. Can you believe FS2 learned over 150 songs last year!

First parent workshop of the year on Separation Anxiety. Did you realise that for 18 months-4 years old, 4 weeks is the typical time that children will experience some form of separation anxiety? Some great discussions with parents about how to support this #beginsatdbf

@tracyswinburne1 @LouiseS34334411 Hahaha - I’ve just used this with my staff

@LouiseS34334411 Ah, knew you’d love it! Everything we constantly talked about. ❤️ this book, built on authentic, genuine leadership “Leaders create leaders by passing on responsibility, creating ownership, accountability and trust.” #Legacy

A great read. Thank you @tracyswinburne1 Leading with humility, clear vision and purpose, ensuring everyone is a leader #sweatthesmallstuff #sweepthesheds #SummerReading

Thank you to our newest @Taaleem School here in Dubai for a very warm reception this morning! Staff Meeting with @DBF_Principal moving over to our PPP programme! What a setting for a school with the Dubai Skyline!🤩🇦🇪👏🏽 #respect #care #inspire #proudlyTaaleem

#TeamTaaleem leadership launch kicking off with the best start - @DubaiBritishFS on the first slide #beginsAtDBF #connections

@MrsMc_teaches @cosydirect Yes please - this looks great!

Seen lots of debates about CP in year 1. We have been experimenting with this in yr1&2 for the last 8years in my school. A few years ago I shared this document briefly explaining how. If anyone didn’t see it and would like it sending over, please let me know. 😊

@rustysmart Thinking the same thing today on our trip to Asda today!

There was once a time when we used to stock up on essentials and take them back to Dubai at the end of the summer. With the prices in the UK this summer, I'm seriously questioning that! #CostOfLivingCrisis #FuelPrices

@MrAdams333 @samhunterHT @pauldixtweets @Headteacherchat @MrAdams333 Read The Whole Brain Child by Daniel J Siegel before writing your policy. It’s really helpful for writing policy and theory behind brain development.

@samhunterHT @pauldixtweets @Headteacherchat I’m currently rewriting my behaviour policy and was going to just use ‘time out’ but I really like ‘reset’, thanks!

I appreciate this could fuel heated debate, but does anyone have any alternative/creative names for ‘time out’ or ‘reflection time’. Part of a @pauldixtweets approach and will involve a restorative conversation within it. @Headteacherchat

Last day of FS2 for this one and she already knows more Arabic than me! Thanks for a great term @DubaiBritishFS #BeginsatDBF @DaraziNadine - how did she do?

A wonderful last day in school for all the FS2 children and myself today. We will miss you all so much @DubaiBritishFS but we can’t wait to come visit at @DubaiBritishJP

An emotional farewell to the @DubaiBritishFS team today. I am going to miss you all so much. Thank you to everyone for your kind wishes and organising today. #ProudlyTaaleem

I was so impressed listening to the @DubaiBritishJP Student Leaders presenting to the Governors today. #BeginsAtDBSJP #ProudlyTaaleem

100% us here @DubaiBritishFS #wellbeing #proudlyTaaleem

Very proud of the whole team #TeamTaaleem who are now fully certified @TeamTeachLtd coaches. It is so important to ensure every teacher understands behaviour and the reasons behind this at a deeper level. @DubaiBritishFS

6 members of #TeamTaaleem are spending this week unpicking supporting children by focusing on how staff need to fully understand children’s behaviour&needs. Thanks @TeamTeachLtd & @louiseinclusion for this week #ProudlyTaaleem @DubaiBritishFS @Taaleem @JumeiraSchool @UISDubai

This week we enjoyed wonderful end of year celebrations for FS1 and FS2 showcasing our #Singing4Learning and #Talk4Writing! The wonderful celebration of FS2 marked their graduation moving up to #DBSJP. #Learning #BeginsAtDBF #FoundationStage #ProudlyTaaleem @Taaleem

Thank you to the Subject Leaders from @DubaiBritishJP who came to join us today to teacher all our @DubaiBritishFS FS2 children about what fun learning they will be doing in Year One next year. #TeamTaaleem.

Thank you to Neuropedia for their parent workshop @DubaiBritishFS on early development and social & emotional well-being. Great to see our community inclusion committee supporting new families too! #BeginsAtDBSJP #DubaiBritishFS #proudlytaaleem @NeuropediaDubai @Taaleem

FS1 blew us away this morning with their performance ‘Under the Sea’ thank you so much to all the @DubaiBritishFS parents, @DBSJP_HTPrim and @Bec883 for coming to watch. #BeginsAtDBF #ProudlyTaaleem