ART PROGRAM

Elementary Art School program

It is NAC’s mission to support students to develop not only academically but also culturally. Therefore NAC is launching an extra-curricular art program to enrich students by giving them the opportunity to do art and handicrafts, appreciating and learning more about art history enhancing skills and creativity.

This program will also encourage self-exploration and expression building confidence and enhancing performance.

Elementary program Goals

• Developing creativity and stimulating imagination through drawing, printing, painting, sculpting, collage and coloring by other media.
• The aim of the program is improving the art skills and art techniques, practicing handicrafts, and exploring cultures, Egyptian and others…
• This program will enhance and enrich general knowledge with interesting, facts, topics and themes which the students will apply in their art practice.
• Students will have several art trips visiting, museums , galleries and local artists learning different skills. As an added opportunity, students will be prepared to master their art abilities before entering the senior art program.

Upper School Program for University Preparation Goals

• This program is aligned with the standards of the College Board AP program.
• The instructional goals of this program are to encourage creative and systematic investigation of formal and conceptual issues.
• The students will be making art as an ongoing process that involves informed and critical decision making.
• They will develop technical skills and will get familiarized with the functions of visual elements which will encourage them to become independent thinkers contributing inventively and critically to their culture through the making of art.
• The art Program promotes a sense of quality in a student’s work, concentration on a particular visual interest or problem and extended experience in a formal, technical and expressive manner.
• This program will help students compile works of art in the form of a portfolio required by certain faculties for university admission.

Portfolios

Students will develop their portfolios in this class. The portfolios share a basic structure which requires the student to show a fundamental competence and range of understanding in visual concerns and methods

• Section 1

The student will be permitted to select the works that best exhibit a synthesis of form, technique, and content.

• Section 2

Students will be asked to demonstrate a depth of investigation and process of discovery through the concentration section

• Section3

The student will be asked to demonstrate a serious grounding in visual principles and material techniques

Requirements for the Upper School Art Program

• Due to the significant commitment that this program requires, only highly motivated students can join as it will help prepare them for the university through the development of the appropriate portfolios required by the different art faculties.
• Students will work in close cooperation with the teacher inside and out of the classroom and beyond the scheduled periods.
• They will need to maintain a sketch book or journal which is a necessary component of instruction and the student’s work will be analyzed and assessed on a regular basis.
• Ongoing critical analysis, through individual critiques, enables the student and the teacher to assess the strengths and weaknesses in the work.
• Students will be assigned interpretive projects that they will need to research to begin improvising ideas that they can express artistically.
• This program involves field trips and visits to different sites to enhance artistic creativity, imagination and talent.

Credits

Participation and High Achievement in the cultural activities offered at NAC may give the students a chance to obtain cultural scholarships offered by the American University in Cairo. According to the AUC Catalogue, AUC offers a number of cultural achievement scholarships in the form of tuition reduction equal to 15% of the full tuition .

NAC students who achieve high levels of distinction in cultural activities will be candidates for this scholarship.

ATHELITIC PROGRAM

Welcome to the Athletics Department at Narmer American College, Cairo. Our Athletic program is a comprehensive program applied in all International schools in the Middle East.  We enjoy local competition in the ISSOC League (International Schools Sports Association of Cairo).

Along with our athletics program we will be educating students on the benefits of physical activity and raising their awareness of nutrition and the importance of health and wellness and how it plays a major part in their education and their future.

The athletics team will be creating cross curricular activities with the teachers of the core subjects  to maintain a good level of understanding by putting into practice what they have covered in their academic lessons.

NAC is distinctive with outstanding Athletic facilities with a vast soccer field, air-conditioned gymnasium including a Basketball court, a Volleyball court, a Handball court, a Badminton court, indoor soccer court, 3 dance studios, 1 Olympic-size swimming pool, 4-lane track with field event facilities, a fully equipped gymnastics room, and lockers.

We will be running an Athletic program during & after school with many main teams: Volleyball, Soccer, Basketball, Swimming, Handball and Table tennis. Boys and girls teams will be available in every sport; Middle School students and High School students under the age of 16 can participate in Junior Varsity teams. Varsity teams are High School students in order to pursue the following goals:

1-To encourage Team spirit
2-To encourage intercultural cooperation
3-To develop a sense of fair play
4-To understand principles of group participation
5-To develop a sense of self-control and discipline
6-To understand the importance of participation to the best of one’s abilities
7-To offer the opportunity to broaden horizons through travel.

Regards
NAC Athletic Dept. team

DELF French PROGRAM

DELF Program

Enriching our Students’ Knowledge

DELF Program A1 & A2

DELF, Diploma d’Etudes en Language Francaise, junior version is composed of 4 independent diplomas of which qualifications are consistent with the international standards for test development and the Common European Framework of Reference for Languages. NAC introduces the Delf A1 program for the academic year 2009-210

DELF Diplomas

The 4 diplomas (A1, A2, B1, B2)

At each level, 4 skills are evaluated: listening, speaking, reading and writing.

The DELF is designed to assess the communicative skills of a candidate in a real situation, using authentic documents, and evaluating the know-how (writing a letter, asking for information, exchanging opinions) rather than the linguistic and formal grammatical knowledge. Candidates are capable of using the language for academic and advanced-level purposes.

DELF Exams

DELF A1

This level recognizes basic knowledge. It is the most basic level at which a language is used, called the “discovery” stage. At this stage, the learner can interact in a simple way: he/she can speak about him/herself and his/her immediate environment.

This exam will be for students starting from Grade6 following the regulations of the French Cultural Center.

Exam Registration

Students will be evaluated prior to registering for the exam and a fee will be due for the examination as applied by the French Cultural center.(To be announced)

Delf Curriculum

Narmer American College uses Delf certified material approved and recommended by the French Cultural Center in Cairo.

Teachers who are leading this program are certified by the French Cultural center and have obtained certificates authenticated from France By the CIEP (Centre International d’Etudes Pedagogiques.

Method of Instruction

Students enrolled in the Delf program will participate in different activities that are intended to enhance their learning and the development of different skills, such as spoken and written French.

The students will experience real life situations and learn to deal with French native speakers.

At the end of this course the students will be fully equipped