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Cancer Awareness Month

The months of October and No- Jeddah Prep and Grammar School
vember have been designated as Helping You Achieve
Global Cancer Awareness months: It’s all about Pink
Breast Cancer and Prostate Can- Founded in 1967
cer. In acknowledgement of their Cancer Awareness Month
significance we hosted a Cancer
Awareness Day on Tuesday 19 th
October 2021. The pupils wore
pink and blue accessories to show
their support. The Head Team
delivered an assembly to raise
awareness. After the assembly
pupils were given an opportunity
to write a short message to a per-
son suffering from cancer on pink
and blue posted notes. A pink and Early Detection is the Best Protection
blue heart display was made with
the posted notes. Pupils and staff
also had the opportunity to do-
nate to the Breast Cancer Research
Facility at Al Zahraa Hospital.

Mr Munsoor Shahzad
Assistant Head / DSL /
Head of Key Stage 4

Handa’s Surprise!!

the biggest surprise. As the story
is set in Africa, we talked about
different cultures and about the
variety of animals and fruits. We
had great fun retelling the story
using story maps that we created
at home and in class.

In school, we tasted the seven
fruits that Handa placed in her
Throughout the second half of the basket; we chopped the fruit to
Autumn Term, EYFS have been make a healthy fruit salad. It was
focussing on the story Handa’s delicious! We focussed on how
Surprise by Eileen Browne. It is Handa described the fruit in the
a story set in Africa about a little story. Indeed, the purple passion
girl called Handa who puts seven fruit was very tangy and the pine-
delicious fruits in a basket to take apple had lots of spiky leaves!
to her friend, Akeyo. But as she Which fruit would you like from
walks, carrying the basket on her the story?
head, various animals steal her
fruits. When she shares her basket Nargas Gulzar
with Akeyo, it is Handa who gets EYFS Coordinator

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