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So is it just encouraging staff to plan really interesting?

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lessons outside focus and creativity obviously we have got more learner

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profiles that we're planning you know the curriculum against us very well and building

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that strong culture of the ib curriculum and i think it's what

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it is about finding that balance from a primary point of view using

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them which is standards in math,

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english and science but how we're building in those learner profiles so that the experiences

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and the children have it's not textbook based it is more holistic it

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is about you know communication collaboration

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And how do you,

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as a teacher,

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how do you invent that part of your curriculum and facilitate that type of learning?

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So that's the most important part,

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you know. And very personalised for each individual student as well.

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And I think that's what we're really excited about,

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is that we will have a school where,

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yes, we're going up to Grade A at the moment,

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but it will be very,

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very personalised.

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And as we continue to grow,

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we will continue to enhance and move forward.

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So we're starting off with a model that is very well -renowned from Raffles.

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World Academy in Dubai and we're bringing that model here.

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We know how successful that has been in Adventures and from our sister school.

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We're bringing that model here but adapting it to the culture that we have and

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the community that we have in charge of because they are different.

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So it is about contextualising it as well.

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but they don't necessarily prioritise the primary school and

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when I saw the plans for that to happen I was really impressed because

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for me continuous provision actually I was a year

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6 teacher and doing continuous provision and I

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understood how much the children got out of that learning from different aspects

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and different styles and really through an inquiry based learning approach all

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the skills that we embed in our children

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as a future learner,

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as a future,

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you know, they're the types of people you want.

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I'm writing a piece at the minute about student leadership and schools and you're

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mentioning a lot of the key aspects of student leadership.

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I don't know who it would be a question for but do you have a plan

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for student leadership?

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first couple of weeks is thinking about who are electing our student

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leadership and making sure that they have a voice and that you know a big part

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of the IP curriculum is about sharing the mission

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and the value statement with the students and I think it is having them

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as stakeholders very highly represented as part of a vision for the school

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and I think that you know that is generally part of the IP curriculum anyway and

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it's something that we really want to foster because ultimately it's a school for

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everyone and that's the culture we want to develop it's not about

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us and them and leadership or it's not about inner ventures it's not about the

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raffles name it is about the community that we want to build here and

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to do that you have to have everybody involved you have to have the involvement of

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the staff the students and the parents so that's why we

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will have an open door policy for our parents

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for people to come along you know and talk to us and speak to amina and

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i we want people to come forward with their questions we want we know we're not

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going to be a close school we want to have that ability to to connect

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with our parents and take on board on their feedback as well so

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did you see last week that the khda announced the new parent councils yes

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i mean it's quite small to start with but is that something that

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you're interested in

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developing here yes absolutely you know as a school we want to have parent

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voice we want to have that connection where parents feel they can you

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know and that's in every school as well so this we're now in our primary uh

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pet sports hall um so this will

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house maximum capacity of quite a few classes together

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but being a small school initially we will have one or two classes in

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here and time to talk about any one day

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But we plan to have a large variety of sports on offer,

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not only within our curriculum,

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but also as part of our CCA provision as well.

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So we will be offering CCA provision,

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which is quite unusual for Sharjah to have CCA provision more

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enough every day.

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And that will be provided not only by school staff,

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but also by external providers as well.

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So I think building a community and availability within

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a lot of our parents are coming to us and saying,

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they haven't to take their children to do Bahá' for dance classes

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and ballet and high quality provision and that's what we're wanting

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to be able to offer here as a school is more high quality provision for

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extracurricular activities or continuous provision activities.

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as part of our school and this will be in addition to the the

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provision that we offer as part of the curriculum so we're wanting to be part of

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like the dasa leagues and things like that as well as possible but we've

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got one we've got one um child who has who has registered with us

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who is you know a emirati student who is going to use a national

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swimmer and things like that so they're very keen to come along and

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have

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you know an opportunity to have high quality facilities as well

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as curriculum you talked about um the

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examples you gave about the ballet and the dance and charge has such a rich history

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of performing arts yes even though it's quite

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it's often misconstrued i feel but historically they've

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done shakespeare they've taken it to the edinburgh festival and how do you see

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I can see that sports is going to be a real priority for the school

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of performing arts.

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So performing arts is on the timetable.

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Every grade,

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right the way from our KG department,

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so our KG classes will have music and movement scheduled on their

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timetable,

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and then going obviously into KG1 and upwards,

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they all have performing arts scheduled on their timetable,

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with us employing a specialised performing arts teacher.

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Again,

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we want to build those links with Sharjah Performing Arts Academy.

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We wanted the students to come in here as well and work closely as part of that.

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So that's something that we have done previously as part

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of my MMRT school,

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is that we had them built connections where the theatre companies came,

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not just external theatre companies,

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but ones that are based here in Sharjah as well.

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How do we build them connections?

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You know, you've got your amphitheatre here and everything.

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And you know,

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it is.

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It's a fantastic place to work in terms of being in the Emirates

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of Sharjah.

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And I don't think people realise it.

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until you actually hear how much is actually available to the community.

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And then also going into the Sharjah Literature

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Festival and the book fairs and exposing the children.

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After COVID,

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we still know that there is a deficit in reading across education and we're

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really wanting to build them links as well and really expose children to

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high quality reading as well.

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So for us,

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our philosophy about home learning is that we are prioritising.

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reading and the joy for reading as part of our home learning

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policy.

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There will be opportunities from an IB perspective to bring that project

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-based work through,

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but our main priority will be the focus on reading for home learning.

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Physical reading of a book,

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tablet reading,

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mixture of books.

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So both myself and Armina and Inner Ventures have

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a philosophy about obviously the use of technology,

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especially in our younger year groups at the moment.

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Yes,

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technology will be available.

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We will be expecting children to bring devices up until they get to grade

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three.

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But it will be an integration.

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It will be an enhancement of the curriculum.

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Not everything is through the device.

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Because I'm a great believer of physical books as well and caring.

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You know, I think we've lost the ability for some children.

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Some children have never ever been to a library outside of school.

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And they do that physically.

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The ability to take a library book home hasn't

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come back.

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since COVID.

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So for us,

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children taking books,

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respecting the environment,

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it is a different environment to be in when you visit the library compared to being in

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the classroom.

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And children need to understand that,

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just like the way it's different when you're in the canteen compared to when you're

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playing outside on the playground.

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So it is about,

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we're not only teaching academics,

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we're teaching children.

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you know how to behave how to respect the place that you're in

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and that's our job along with the parents of the

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community to be able to do that to be able to grow children you know children need

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to distinguish okay i'm in a restaurant now this is not like playing outside

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on the playground with my friends yeah and every i'm just a massive believer

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in every walk of life everything in moderation a little bit of tablet time

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a little bit of physical reading get outside do sports you have some chill time

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and i've totally forgotten until i became a home that you used to bring your book home

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every week and my son's school he kept home he's like we've got this book and he

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gets excited every week to show me and it's not only that like we will encourage

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parents to be reading with our children as well because that is a bonding

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connection time that i think in some society now is lost you

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know i think yeah you know very busy working parents for instance

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not saying that it's just them but working parents you know they're

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very

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busy people by the time they get home they fed your child you put them you know bathe

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them and everything else having that just 10 15 minutes to sit down to connect

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over a book and have that conversation is a very valuable

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time a very precious time that i think you know some people have forgotten about

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how easy it can be and it doesn't cost you anything yeah you know it

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means so much that can be unique so much to that child to just have

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that bonding time yeah

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together.

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So we're heading now into KG on this side and some of

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these will be offices here.

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I really want to build that philosophy

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of having that connection,

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knowing everyone,

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knowing the security guards,

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knowing our cleaning staff.

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I think for me,

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building a culture like that is very,

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very important for your people to see that as well in adults.

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And I think it's that respect that everybody has together to

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work together.

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Thank you.

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