On Wednesday we skyped into GEMS School in Dubai with Mrs. Shafaque Riaz. GEMS is also a Microsoft Showcase School. Professor Anne Dolan from Mary Immaculate College in Limerick joined us for the call and was very impressed with the work of the students who had prepared so well for the call. Anne is a past pupil of Clontuskert National SChool.
Notes from the students of the Senior Room
People in Dubai speak Arabic. Many of the parents work in the airport which is near GEMS School. They have more than four thousand pupils in their school. They have one hundred and five different nationalities. During our call to Dubai it was 37 degrees. They have a lot of traffic every day in Dubai.
When the students were researching for the Climate Action Project they found that they have had more sandstorms this summer and they predict they are going to have more rain in winter.
They have a Minster for Climate Change in Dubai like we do in Ireland.
They reuse water from the buses after they wash them.
School starts at 7:30 in the morning and ends at 4 o ‘clock. There are testing flying cars and self – driving cars in Dubai. They are trying to put the right thing into the right bins. Every month they go to the beach to clean it.
The children were not in the classroom at the time so we did not get to meet them.
Mrs. Riaz showed us some photos of Dubai and she asked us questions about Ireland. We told her about Hurricane Ophelia and what we have been doing in Clontuskert to help stop climate change.
We told her about the bins and about the green school and what we do. Their national sport is football.
We spoke to Mrs. Riaz for forty minutes.
Keep your eyes peeled on Clontuskert’s YouTube channel for some footage from the call.
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