Although staff at Dubai British School will run most of the Term 2 ECA programme, we do use outside agencies for some specialist activities (highlighted in grey). Some of these activities will have a cost attached to them, so please double check before you agree to your child attending. If you do wish your child to attend an ECA with an outside organisation then please look on the school website www.dubaibritishschool.ae under School Information/ECAs where more information on age groups, pricing and methods of payment are explained.

Please note that registration with outside agencies will be made directly through them. We have organised a sign up session which will take place on Thursday 7th January at 11:30am. Please refer to our website www.dubaibritishschool.ae to download registration forms for outside activities. The forms will include year groups covered, fees, timings and also other information that you may require.

Activities are offered to students as follows:
Foundation 2 Up to 1 activity
Key Stage 1 (Years 1 and 2) Up to 2 activities per week.
Key Stages 2, 3, 4 & 5 (Years 3 to 13) Up to 3 activities per week

Places will be allocated on a first-come, first-served basis. Many of our activities are very popular and we would urge you to return the form by Thursday 10th December 2009 at the latest. Although we aim to offer the opportunity for pupils to attend their first choices of activity, this may not always be possible and therefore we are urging you to provide other choices. Please ensure that you put their favourite activity as their first choice. If this activity is full we will then look at their 2nd choice. However, if there are places, students will be considered and every available place distributed to students fairly. We have attached a sheet with additional information about the ECAs to help you with your choices.

Please note the following dates and important information:
• Thursday 10th December 2009 - Final day to hand in pupil sign up sheets.
• Week beginning Sunday 10th January 2010 - ECAs commence.
• School is closed February half term - Sunday 14th - Thursday 18th February 2010.
• Thursday 25th March 2010 - All ECAs finish.
• All ECAs will run for approximately 10 weeks, depending on the activity or as indicated otherwise by outside providers.
• Please note that due to weekly whole staff meetings on Sundays, we can only offer a limited choice of ECAs on this day. As there have also been additional lessons added to the PE timetable this year, there are limited sporting facilities available to ECA usage.
• On Sunday to Wednesdays, Primary ECAs will start at 1.45pm and finish at 2.30pm. Secondary ECAs will start at 2.40pm and finish at 3.40pm.
• Thursday afternoons will be an important time for inter-school and inter-house sport. Due to the early finish on Thursdays (1pm), ECAs run on this day will start at 1pm and finish at 1.45pm for Primary pupils. For Secondary pupils, their ECAs will also start at 1pm but finish at 2pm.

We look forward to a positive response to our programme and hope you will encourage your child to get involved. If you have any queries about the programme, please contact Mrs Pennock & Miss Carley at eca@dubaibritishschool.ae

With best wishes,

A J. Homden
Principal

PRIMARY ECAs Programme Term 2 - 2010

SECONDARY ECAs Programme Term 2 - 2010

Sign up sheet January 2010

Outside Providers

Ballet - Turning Pointe January 2010

Cricket - ICC Global Cricket Academy January 2010

Football - Barclays International Football Academy Sept 2009

Football - Soccer Kids Dubai Sept 2009

Gymnastics - Du Gym January 2010

Gymnastics - Monkeynastix January 2010

Horse Riding - Jebel Ali Centre January 2010

Karate - Golden Falcon Centre January 2010

Rugby - Super Sports January 2010

Self Defence - Steve Drake January 2010

Swimming - AISS Aquatic January 2010

Tennis - Super Sports January 2010

Kick Boxing - Anthony Willis January 2010