GWA Blog

At George Washington Academy (GWA), we believe that a strong start sets the foundation to a successful journey. 

On a magical evening, the GWA community gathered to celebrate a remarkable milestone—our 25th Anniversary Gala.

From its humble beginnings, George Washington Academy has evolved into an institution known for its dedication to excellence, trilingual instruction, and character development.

As part of the ongoing celebrations for George Washington Academy's 25th anniversary, the Green Council Club organized a special tree planting initiative to contribute to the school's sustainability efforts and leave a lasting impact on the campus environment.

Your child’s ability to focus in school, mental health and mood, growth and development, and behavior are all impacted by the quality and amount of sleep they get each night.

After School Activities at GWA provides not only robotics activities but also the opportunity for teams to participate in regional, national and international competitions. On Saturday, April 8th, GWA hosted and participated in the First Tech Challenge, where 11 teams coming from different cities around Morocco joined the competition with a great deal of enthusiasm, motivation, and most essentially with the passion for coding. 

Model United Nations is an international organization for high school students in which they can attend conferences all around the world to debate social issues such as war, gender equality, human rights, energy transitions, and access to clean water. GWA’s MUN club is led by a group of eleventh grade students, Youssef Chbarte, Antonio Eugeni, and Adam Bensouda. 

On February 5th, GWA's ASA Team Legends, Team Neophyte, and  Team Synapse competed in the annual FIRST® LEGO® League Challenge Morocco Regional Tournament. GWA has had students participating in FLL Morocco since its inception, more than 8 years ago resulting in 100+ alumni to the ASA FLL program.

We are glad of GWA students' participation In the international Emerging leaders conference: Roaa Abuljadayel, Youssef Chbarte, Adam El Harouchi,Yassir Rabbaa. We hope that this fantastic experience will enrich their educational journey.

The annual International Festival has become a signature and much-anticipated event of GWA. This year saw the 6th successful festival at the school campus last Saturday ( May 21st). In fact, our goal is to nurture Global Citizens while valuing Care, Respect, and Integrity in the heart of our students...

The GWA community witnessed online the end of a challenging year and the beginning of new opportunities for our dear graduates.  

We would like to extend a massive congratulations to the Senior Class of 2021 for completing their Capstone projects, proving their readiness for university-level expectations.  

You are Architects, you receive raw materials and with your imagination, creativity, knowledge, patience, perseverance, dedication, and love, you create. 

GWA's University Counseling Department helps to prepare the Class of 2021 for a bright future.

The new murals covering large portions of GWA’s facade set the tone for a new era.

The 5th-grade Living Wax Museum is a learning tradition dating back to at least 2013.

Sustainability will become our foundation for growth.  Exemplifying this shift in focus is the culmination of Upper School 3D Arts ‘Trashion’ unit.

On April 3 rd and 4 th Team Synapse will compete in the annual FIRST ®  LEGO ®  League Challenge Morocco Regional Tournament.

As GWA expands the IB curriculum into our upper school arts department, Ms. Heyl and Mr. Morris have already put into practice the elements of the IB curriculum that distinguish it as a top-notch pedagogical practice world-wide.

This feature highlights the impressive impact of the Valentine's Day Bouskoura Forest clean-up, a service project coordinated and initiated by Ghita Mikou and Natasha Chugani, two of the first GWA students scheduled to graduate next school year, in the first cohort of GWA’s International Baccalaureate Diploma Program. 

A largely unsung hero of GWA’s success during these unprecedented times is the Human Resources Department. The role of the HR department continues to expand due to COVID-restrictions and regulations, now including COVID testing and vaccinations.

GWA students have proven themselves to be appealing candidates for top universities around the world.  Just last year, the 36 graduates of the class of 2020 received 2,702,000 USD in scholarships and grants.

On January 30th, each participant will be assigned to a team of students from all over the world.  Each team will be assigned to represent a country experiencing extreme poverty.

An expanded load of IB course offerings allows students to pursue almost any higher education path they choose. 

“GWA has crafted this brilliant approach to literacy where the child's native language is honored.”

Morocco is rich in some of the best-preserved living history that exists in the world today, but there is still plenty to discover from digging deeper into Morocco’s past.  Two GWA upper school students publish their discoveries online.

The Lower School and Upper School have collaborated to create a Holiday Showcase Video of student work from this past semester. Watch the Showcase!

This year, there will be no yearbook.  The next-best alternative:  a quarterly, online publication entitled AURUM. 

Along with all of the standard COVID-19 prevention measures, the teacher and class that has had to take even more precautionary measures is band class and band teacher, Zachary Nenaber.  

After attending the Climate Action Day webinar, Mrs. Martin called on GWA students to write their reflections and then take action. 

Dr. Susan Marie Martin, Published Author, Interdisciplinary Researcher, and GWA Teacher, Guides GWA Seniors through their Final Research Projects

Learn more about how GWA teaches digital citizenship as an important part of educating the ‘whole child’ during these unprecedented times

Each student agreed that the conference was an exceptionally impactful experience. Rania Alaoui sums it up by saying “nothing could have topped it”. 

We are thrilled to announce 12 different live stream instructional opportunities that still allow for hands-on learning.  

There is much more to online teaching than what you see on the screen.

What parents want to know about GWA’s Online Learning Model, 2020-21

The entire school, the grounds, and buses were sprayed with an antiviral (approved by  ONSSA National Office) which eliminates several types of viruses on any surface. 

GWA offers an admissions process entirely online - from first inquiry through admissions testing!

This year, newly arriving families and teachers to Morocco will be celebrating their first Ramadan from within quarantine. 

GWA boasts the largest children’s library in all of Morocco with over 60,000 titles.  The goal, however, is not to have the most books:  it is to have the right books.

At the beginning of the school year, Ahmed El Harouchi was tasked with writing a GWA anthem:   A song that would embody GWA’s vision and what GWA students and graduates represent in society.

The GWA community salutes the massive effort of all the cast and crew as well as the core team of directors. 

GWA presents AIDA next week on March 11th, 12th, and 13th.  Every musical performance is the culmination of months and months of time, effort, and energy exploding on stage.  Read more about the experience the cast and crew of the spring musical have undergone in order to produce AIDA.

Moulay Thami is a few kilometers away from GWA, but a world away in terms of opportunity and all the benefits that come with money and privilege.  This year, GWA’s lower school is committed to helping to bridge the gap by transforming this village school into a well-equipped and beautiful place to learn.

It is a well-known saying that ‘play is the work of children’.  GWA’s Nursery and Discovery classes utilize a play-based learning curriculum model where play is combined with STEAM learning (Science, Technology, Engineering, Arts, and Math) as well as language development and social and emotional intelligence development.

Do you remember the first time you fell in love?  It probably wasn’t with another person, it was probably with football, or drawing, or an instrument, or computer programing.  The Makerspace at GWA is a space for students to fall in love and find their passion.