Embassy Adoption Program with Seaton Elementary School First Visit

SQCC welcomed students from Seaton Elementary School on 10 November. Seaton is SQCC’s 2021-22 partner for the Embassy Adoption Program (EAP). EAP is a special collaboration between Washington Performing Arts and D.C. Public Schools.

The fifth grade students toured the permanent exhibition, learning about the Aflaj irrigation system, forts, silversmithing, as well as viewing displays of traditional dress from various regions across the Sultanate of Oman. Students also received name tags with their names, grade level and name of their school in Arabic.

Following the tour of the exhibit, students attended a lecture on Omani culture, people and history. The students were eager to learn about the animals of Oman, and asked many questions about Omani food, culture, the Arabic language, as well as the geography and climate of Oman.

At the end of the program, students were invited to write about what they learned during the visit on post-it notes, which students proudly displayed by placing them on a white-board. Some of these words included desert, ship-building, wild animals, silver jewelries, khanjar as a decorative outfit for men, Omani national dress for men and women, forts, and Omani culture and history, as well as Omani’s seafaring and trading.