April 28, 2023

Welcome to our DAA Parent Community 

#DAAPA #Togetherwecan

DAApa general assembly

Dear DAA Families,


We hope that you all had a Relaxing, Happy Eid Break & that you all spent some quality, family time together 😊


‼️‼️ Our DAAPA General Assembly will take place on May 31, Wednesday, 8am-10am at the School Auditorium. The elections of the new DAAPA Team for 2023-2024 will take place, and we invite all parents to join.  If you are interested to become a member  of the DAAPA Executive Committee for next year, please send your expression of interest specifying the role you are interested in with a brief description of your qualifications to daaparentconnect@gmail.com before  May 26th. For your guidance, once you express interest for a position, we will send you the roles & responsibilities of the post. 


Looking forward to seeing you at the general assembly.


As we are reaching to the last 2 months of this Amazing Academic Year, we still have some exciting events that we would like you to mark your calendar for the following up coming events, and we always appreciate your non-stop support, generosity, help to DAAPA 🙏❤️


Have a great weekend 😊


DAAPA Team

Teacher Appreciation

💐Teacher appreciation 💐  Our annual teacher appreciation lunch is an opportunity to give back to our amazing teachers and thank them for their hard work. If you would like to contribute an item to this lunch, please fill out the form.  📌 https://docs.google.com/forms/d/1Ig9dbxI-lIoBrhPzmg0ib5W-ETFhxzxAmokQGwFrsyQ/edit  🌻 Just a few reminders: - no alcohol or pork - if your item contains nuts, please clearly label it   🌻 Drop of items:  May 5th  7:00am - 11am


the Leopards Den

In celebration of Teacher Appreciation Week, the Leopard’s Den has donated AED 1500 to the National Honor Society’s Teacher Appreciation initiative. The students will be gifting coffee vouchers to the teachers in the high school, to thank them for everything that they do! 


The leopard’s den also donated mobile sleeves to the Operations for the support staff.

booster club 

Being the biggest supporter of our Athletics Department, I have ordered and gotten delivered 600 DAA sports bags for all our team members who are competing in the school’s sports teams. 


We thank you all for supporting the Booster Club every Wednesday by coming & buying the Popcorn 🍿, Cookies 🍪, Donuts 🍩 & the drinks 🥤 which make us able to support the Athletic Teams … GO LEOPARDS 🐆⚾️🏈🏀⚽️⛹️‍♂️⛹️‍♀️🤾‍♀️🏊‍♀️🏊‍♂️


Ebru Tezel

Booster Club Leader

PARENT-LED CLUBS and communication channels

Book club: We are excited to let you know that our book club, run by Autumn, is in full swing. In book club we discuss many great books from different genres and authors. For more info please join our Whatsapp group

 https://chat.whatsapp.com/Ji3CJaR8cTfGVg0YcdnHi6


Yoga club: Yoga Club is back! Not just back, but in-person back! Double YAY!

We will be practicing every Tuesday From September 27th at DAA. Kindly join the link below if you are interested. Hope to see you soon. Namaste! 


 https://chat.whatsapp.com/GGzfvIUihYWJHUVlpW4Yr2

DAA Inclusion:  This Group is for parents with children in the inclusion program at DAA. A chance to liaise, connect and make friends. 

https://chat.whatsapp.com/KkGp5cPgOHd10w6AsUdMsx

country and language groups

In the spirit of fostering cultural connections, we have created country and language groups to connect parents who share the same nationality or language within the DAA community.

Please find the below link, and note that there are a few new additions!

If you don't see your country group below, please reach out to DAAPA and we'll help you create one!

vOLUNTEER WHATSAPP GROUPS 

Calling all Moms and/or Dads who would like to be a part of our volunteers chat groups! Our divisions hosts several events throughout the year and it would be great to have you involved in organizing and hosting them along with the DAAPA team! The children absolutely love seeing you there at the events! Click on the link below to join:

Elementary Volunteer group: https://chat.whatsapp.com/DUMrjswfGxT4daZDoc7sB7   

Middle SchoolVolunteer group: https://chat.whatsapp.com/G6khzUwc7nGD2cdQ1qlRJk 

High School Volunteer group: https://chat.whatsapp.com/E0ffMfs9zwKAij9PLbjAZI 

leopard's den

Come grab your loungers for MESAC and HSC week!

Thin enough to be worn as PJ’s in the hotel, thick enough to be worn in the hotel lobby.

AED130, cash only, please

We are open 

Monday - Thursday

7:15-8am, 2:30 - 3:15pm

Fridays, 11:45am-12:15pm 

Reminder these are for lounging at home or on trips. Cannot be worn to school

local business listing

DAA Parent Community Business Listing

We have received an overwhelming response from the DAA parent community for our DAAPA initiative to compile a list of local businesses that are run by DAA parents ahead of the Holidays. The list is now ready and includes over 50 local businesses ranging from Food & Catering, Fashion & Accessories to Home Services and Health & Wellbeing products. Have a browse HERE and check them out!

As a gentle reminder, DAAPA is providing this list as a courtesy for informational purposes only, it does not constitute an endorsement or recommendation of any products or services and it will be the parents’ responsibility to verify the providers independently.

Parents, If any of the details need updating, please reach out to DAAPA. 

Communication

Please feel free to reach out to us at:


daaparentconnect@gmail.com


You can also follow us on Instagram, at :


Daapa_daa

https://www.instagram.com/daapa_daa/


You can also follow us on Instagram for all DAAPA events and updates

https://www.instagram.com/p/B3_f5vrAQZ6/?igshid=wvkegf4p4hn8