Calling on our Alumni
In the past year, four of our Alumni have been working hard to establish an Alumni Association for Windhoek International School. This process has been in the pipeline for a long time, but we could not yet bring it to fruition. We are now ready to launch our WIS Alumni Association.
The value of connections with alumni cannot be understated. Alumni are connections that can be used. They know the school context and are ideally suited to advise and be mentors for our current students. WIS has alumni all over the world and most of them have expressed keen interest in still being connected to WIS. We already have some children of alumni at WIS and Ms. Jacky Ferreira, our Primary School Portuguese teacher is an alumni of WIS.
On International Day - 13 April 2024 - around 16:00 we will be launching our Alumni Association. We will then finalise the constitution and administrative matters of the association. For this we need as many alumni of WIS to actively engage in the process. We request all alumni to have a look at the WIS Alumni Association Constitution Draft and send any comments to Maggie Reiff (mreiff@wis.edu.na) before this constitution is finalised and approved by the WIS Board of Directors. The aim is to have the constitution approved and the WIS Alumni Association formally established by the end of this academic year.
We have a LinkedIn Alumni Group that you should join and contribute to. We also regularly post our alumni stories in the Oryx and on our website. These are great stories to celebrate where our students are going and where life takes them.
If you are an alumni reading this and have not yet submitted the Alumni Questionnaire, please do so. We need you! Your data will help us create a database and connect with you.
Respectfully submitted
Maggie Reiff
Secondary Principal
روتين تنظيف منزلي واقعي للعائلات في الشارقة
من يسكن في الشارقة فترة كافية، وخصوصًا في المناطق القريبة من الأحياء الإنشائية الجديدة أو الشوارع الرئيسية المزدحمة، يعرف إن الغبار هنا مو مجرد إزعاج موسمي يجي مع العواصف الرملية. هو جزء من الروتين اليومي. تمسحين الرفوف الصبح، وبحلول المغرب فيه طبقة رفيعة جديدة، حتى لو الشبابيك مقفولة طول اليوم والتكييف شغال. العائلات اللي عندها أطفال صغار أو حيوانات أليفة تحس بالفرق أكثر، لأن الأرضيات والسجاد يتوسخان بسرعة مضاعفة.
المشكلة الأكبر مو قلة التنظيف، هي إن أغلب الجداول اللي نحطها لأنفسنا ما تعيش أكثر من أسبوعين. تبدأ الأم أو رب الأسرة بحماس، جدول يومي مفصّل لكل غرفة، وبعد فترة قصيرة يتحول التنظيف لردة فعل: نظفي بس لما يجي ضيوف، أو لما الفوضى توصل…
رفال روز لخدمات التجميل والأسنان والليزر في الرياض
يبحث الكثير من الأشخاص عن مركز متخصص يجمع بين خدمات الأسنان والتجميل والليزر والعناية بالبشرة في مكان واحد، مع الاهتمام بجودة الخدمة وراحة المراجعين وتقديم حلول تناسب الاحتياجات المختلفة. ويأتي رفال روز كخيار متخصص في تقديم مجموعة متنوعة من الخدمات التي تساعد على العناية بالمظهر وصحة الفم والأسنان والبشرة من خلال بيئة مجهزة وخدمات متكاملة.
يقدم رفال روز خدمات متنوعة تشمل علاجات وتجميل الأسنان، تقويم الأسنان، الليزر والعناية بالبشرة والتجميل، مع الحرص على تقديم تجربة منظمة تبدأ من الاستشارة وتحديد الاحتياج المناسب وحتى متابعة الخدمة وفق الخطة الموضوعة لكل حالة.
رفال روز
يقدم رفال روز مجموعة متكاملة من خدمات الأسنان والتجميل والليزر والبشرة، بما يساعد العملاء على الحصول على خدمات متعددة داخل…
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