Jan 10                          Welcome to our DAA Parent Community 

DAAPA

For Students, by Parents.

HAPPY NEW YEAR TO ALL DAA COMMUNITY 🎊🎊 DAAPA Wish you all a year full of Health, Happiness & Peace ❤️


We are so excited to start 2025 with so much fun, amazing events .. stay tuned, check the up coming events to mark your calendar 🤩🤩


Be Safe & Enjoy Life 


DAAPA TEAM 🙏💖


Keep in touch via our email daaparentconnect@gmail.com

#DAAPA #Togetherwecan

DAAPA'S IFF IS almost here!

INTERNATIONAL FOOD FESTIVAL

Our International Food Festival returns on February 1st!


Ticket sales for DAAPA’s largest and most-anticipated yearly event will begin soon .. DAAPA’s IFF .. Be sure to purchase your tickets early to secure your spot at this exciting celebration of global food, culture, and performances!


Stay tuned for more details and exciting new additions to the event and don’t miss out on this unforgettable experience!


Ticket Sales:

🎟️ 50aed *Cash Only*


🗓️ January 27th - 31st


🕓 7:00am-8:15am & 2:00pm-3:15pm 

Friday 7:00am-8:15am & 11:00am-11:45am


📍 Main Lobby & Middle School Lobby



IFF 2025 Country Reps

🇸🇾 Syria - Safa

🇺🇸 USA - Avani & Mahak

🇪🇬 Egypt - Shayma

🇵🇸 Palestine - Elham

🇯🇴 Jordan - Suhair

🇹🇷 Türkiye - Ebru

🇨🇦 Canada - Heather

🇾🇪 Yemen - Khawlah

🇦🇲 Armenia - Nancy

🇱🇧 Lebanon - Dina

🇰🇷 Korea - Geehyun

🇮🇳 India - Sangeeta & Rohini

🇲🇽🇨🇴Latinamerica- Iliana & Liliana

🇳🇱 Netherlands - Monique 

🇮🇷 Iran - Moloud 

🇩🇪 Germany - Meike

🇯🇵 Japan - Yumi & Emi

🇵🇰Pakistan- Munazza 

🇧🇷Brazil

🇵🇹Portugal


To support your country table, join the country whatsapp groups linked BELOW in this newsletter!




DAAPA ACTIVITIES

MS MOVIE NIGHT

In partnership with MS Student Council, DAAPA is hosting a Movie Night later this month for our Middle School students on campus. Students who wish to attend must sign up HERE: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSdcbwlBcti2cFtRtvnYNr8Ydc9UpOD5Z7t_iy1s_qAbsyFfyg/viewform


🎥: Spider-man, Into the Spider Verse

🗓️: Friday, January 24th

⏱️: doors open at 5:30pm

📍: GEMS DAA, HS Roof Top Terrace, 3rd Floor. (Enter Gate 2 and walk up main lobby wooden staircase)


Complimentary Popcorn

CASH ONLY Concession Stand

MS MOVIE NIGHT JAN 24 2025.pdf

DAAPA CLUBS

BOOK CLUB

The DAAPA Book Club is a long-standing parent club that meets once a month, right after morning drop-off. Each month, we vote to select a book to read from a wide range of genres. 


Nidhi Bruce, DAA parent and published author shares her thoughts about the club : “The book club has given me an opportunity to share my love of books with other DAA parents, expand the range of books I choose to read, and even meet some wonderful authors along the way.”


Do join us for a lively, engaging discussion and discover incredible books you might not have picked up otherwise.


January’s Book: The God of the Woods, by Liz Moore.


LINK to join What’s App: https://chat.whatsapp.com/Ji3CJaR8cTfGVg0YcdnHi6


@daapa_daa

Padel Club 


One of our longstanding DAA families  (14 years and counting) recently opened beautiful new padel courts in Al Quoz, called Padel Edition. Each Monday morning courts are reserved for our DAA parents. ALL Levels are Welcome! Beginners have access to Coaches for lessons and can find their friendly competition with courts reserved for matches. Come join and meet an active group of  DAA Parents who are ready to learn, get fit and have fun doing it! 


Click the link, be sure to sign up (there will be a waitlist at first) to catch the following week. Don’t worry if you don’t own a padel racket, they have some available for rent. 


LINK to join: https://chat.whatsapp.com/KTk5ojy4VQ2EMw5zoSoAt7


@padeledition

@daapa_daa




Sculpt & Pilates Club: “Wednesdays With Aya”

DAA Mum and Barre Instructor, Aya, creates an enthusiastic, supportive, fun environment each Wednesday teaching parents Sculpt on campus. 


Make time for yourself to get stronger, gain more energy with this once a week class! All levels are welcome. Click the link below to join the group to sign up, class size is limited to the first 25 people to sign up, then waitlist is created. 


Meet a fun group of parents after morning drop off, just bring your yoga mat, stretch bands, two water bottles for weights, and you are ready to join.  Here are a few snapshots taken over this past month.


LINK to JOIN What’s App: https://chat.whatsapp.com/GGzfvIUihYWJHUVlpW4Yr2


@aya_fitness_lab

@daapa_daa




FOOD NETWORK


🍽😋🍽😋🍽😋🍽😋🍽😋🍽

DAAPA’s Food Network Culinary Experience was so exciting .. parents traveled to Egypt to discover the amazing and rich culinary variety of  Egyptian Food through a great variety of delicious dishes from different parts of Egypt. They enjoyed great music and in true Egyptian tradition enjoyed the bukhour show !  Don’t miss our next culinary trip .. stay tuned 🙏

#DAAPA #togetherwecan


This is a culinary experience like no other in Dubai. DAAPA Food Network will take you on an epicurean journey around the world with a fun group of DAA parents.  


The group welcomes ideas for the months ahead to expand their knowledge on cultures through food. We hope you’ll sign up and consider joining the next event. 


You and your tastebuds not regret it! 

LINK to join What’s App:

https://chat.whatsapp.com/KfVPGaLoe9vFVcCrHykgam




Movie Club


If you love going to the Cinema, this is the group for you! Recently the movie club met for a matinee while the kids were at school, which worked out well. We dropped off the kids at school, met over coffee at the mall to get to know each other and made our way to the cinema. After the movie we had plenty of time to make our way back to school for pick up. It was a fun and truly enjoyable day out, please join us! 


LINK to join What’s App: https://chat.whatsapp.com/Io1sJjiqdypCoCCaeiV7gB

@daapa_daa




LEOPARDS DEN

Opening hours

Monday - Thursday mornings: 7:20am - 8am

Monday - Thursday afternoons: 2:30pm - 3:15pm

Friday afternoon: 11:40am-12:20pm

Middle School Colour House T Shirts 

Cotton t-shirts Dhs 60 or Dri-fit t-shirts Dhs 30

TRIBE T Shirts 

Dhs 50

CASH ONLY, kindly bring exact change.

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!


Clubs

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 School Volunteer group: https://chat.whatsapp.com/G6khzUwc7nGD2cdQ1qlRJk 

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


Contact

Please feel free to reach out to us at:


daaparentconnect@gmail.com


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


Daapa_daa

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