Ancient Civilisations Day

Unlike the International School of Amsterdam (ISA) where they have "Unit of Inquiry"(UOI) as part of the curriculum, here at the British School, students cover a few "projects"(I'm not sure the term used) a year. Similar to UOI, each project may take up to 8 weeks to conclude. To be honest, until now I still do not know under what subject they learn this.


Ilham and his fellow Year 4 classmates had just finished lesson on Ancient Egypt. Next, according to Ilham, they will learn The Tudors, The Romans, then World War II. So I suppose they learn this under History???? I would prefer the UOIs because they cover a more global issues like health, science, taking care of our planets etc...


They sure spend a lot of time learning about Ancient Egypt, from river Nile to pyramid to flood to pharoahs to mummies and Moses!!! Ilham came back one day telling me that they watched videos of Moses and that they had already watched 6 cds and still have a few more left !!! I wonder, is it really necessary to spend that much of time on Moses(their version of it anyway)???


Anyway, to conclude the end of lesson on Egypt, on November 11th, the students celebrated Ancient Civilisations Day where they dressed up as Egyptians and ate home lunch with an Egyptian twist. The costumes need not be expensive, just something white or T shirts will do, and sandals of course, preferably leather (imagine that!!! not expensive and yet leather!!! )


Since we didn't know where to buy the costumes anyway, we decided to make a simple one. Coincidently, we happened to have a guest staying with us at the time, and she was full of ideas. Let's see what she came up with using double sided tape (we do not have sewing machine!!)

Ancient Egyptian Warrior - that's what Ilham wanted to be...

Eye kohl was a must for men and women then..



Capal served as egyptian sandals :))


And his classmates...

Note that Arek, the middle boy was actually wearing his father's T-shirt :)))



Ahhhh the beautiful Cleopatra...



Lunch with Egyptian twist - pita bread and dried fruits....


They spent the day playing games like translating the secret code of Ancient Egypt letters and wrapping up mummies. As it happened, one of the boys came to school dressed up as a mummy, so he became their victim. They just had to wrap his head !!!

Majlis Raya Korban Di Embassy

Raya kali ni IA tak perlu masak untuk majlis makan yang pihak embassy hidangkan lepas solat sunat Hari Raya. Katanya ada orang-orang Shell yang sponsor, jadi depa upah lah sifu-sifu yang pandai memasak di The Hague ni.... Alhamdulillah.... IA ni bukannya pandai masak, kalau setakat famili dan tetamu sorang dua tu ok le.... Tapi kalau masak untuk 300 orang..... nainya.... periuk dan kuali besaq pun tak dakkkk....

Tetamu yang datang tak seramai macam majlis Hari Raya Puasa dulu. Budak-budak peringkat sekolah pun tak ada. Kawan Ilham, Syafiq pun tak datang, hanya Ilham saja yang ponteng sekolah....

Jom kita tengok apa yang depa hidangkan.

Ada nasi minyak(rasanya), rendang ayam, daging hitam, dalca, lontong, mee goreng dan kuih-muih...

DH antara yang pertama menuju ke tempat hidangan :)) Bukannya DH lapaq, kami dah makan pagi tu... tapi dia nak cepat sebab nak balik pi kerja....

Sedapnya makan, dah tak sedaq dunia la tuuuuu...