From
Lucas
Football Coach
LIONS IN ACTION
During last week in our school the first friendly triangular soccer tournament in the history of BIS took place.
Our lions faced the French School of GZ and YWIES International School.
It was an incredible day, the atmosphere throughout the week was full of excitement and anxiety for the event.
The whole school was on the playground to cheer on the team and every game was lived with a lot of joy.
Our lions gave everything on the pitch, playing as a team, trying to pass the ball and build collective actions. Despite the age difference, we were able to impose our game for most of the time.
Focusing on teamwork, collaboration and solidarity sharing the ball.
YWIES had 2 really powerful strikers who scored goals and managed to beat us 2-1.
The story was different against the French School, where we were able to prevail and establish ourselves on the field through individual overflows combined with collective actions of passing and space occupation. BIS managed to take the victory 3-0.
The results are a mere decoration for the joy experienced and shared by the kids and the whole school, all the grades were present to encourage and give strength to the team, it was an incredible moment that the kids will remember for a long time.
At the end of the games the kids shared lunch with the other schools and we closed a wonderful day.
We will keep trying to organize more events like this to keep developing our Lions and give them unforgettable experiences!
GO LIONS!
From
Suzanne Bonney
EYFS Homeroom Teacher
This Month Reception A Class have been extremely busy exploring and talking about the lives of people around us that help us and their roles on our society.
We get together at the start of each busy day to participate in class discussions, where we offer our own ideas, using our recently introduced vocabulary. This is a fun time where we are learning to listen to each other attentively and respond appropriately to what we hear. Where we are building up our topic knowledge and vocabulary through songs, rhymes, stories, games, and through lots of role play and small world.
After our circle time, we set off to do our own individual learning. We have set tasks (our jobs) to do and we decide when and how and in what order we want to do them. This is giving us practice in time management and the vital ability to follow instructions and carry out tasks in a given time. Thus, we are becoming independent learners, managing our own time throughout the day.
Each week is a surprise, this week we were Doctors, Vets and Nurses. Next week we may be Firefighters or a Police Officers, or we might be mad Scientists doing crazy science experiments or a Construction Workers building bridges or Great Walls.
We work together to create and make our own role-playing characters and props to help us tell our narratives and stories. Then we invent, adapt and recount our stories as we play and explore.
Our roleplay and small world play, helps us to demonstrate our understanding of what we are thinking, what we have been reading or what we have been listening to and by retelling the stories using our own words we can introduce and strengthen our use of this new vocabulary.
We are showing accuracy and care in our drawing and written work and show our work with pride on our Class Dojo. When we are doing our phonics and reading together every day, we are recognising more and more sounds and words every day. Blending and segmenting our words and sentences together as a group has also help some of us not be so shy anymore as we all encourage each other as we work.
Then at the end of our day we get together again to share our creations, explaining the talk about the processes we have used and most importantly we celebrate each other’s achievements.
To help with our role play fun if anyone has any items, they don’t need anymore that you think EYFS could use, please send them in to me.
Items like…
Handbags, purses, baskets funny hats, etc, for pretend shopping. Pots and pans, jugs and kitchen utensils for imaginary cooking in sand play etc. Old telephones, keyboards for office play. Travel brochures, maps, binoculars for travel agents, we are always trying to come up with new role play ideas and small world play toys for retelling of stories. We will always find a use for it.
Or if anyone want to help us to create our role play fun in the future just let me know.
From
Zanele Nkosi
Primary School Homeroom Teacher
Here's an update on what we've been up to since our last newsletter feature – Year 1B.
We've been focusing on enhancing collaboration among our students, engaging in various activities, and completing projects that require teamwork. This has not only strengthened our communication skills but also nurtured the spirit of being effective team players. One notable project involved the students constructing a house, which was part of our Global Perspectives’ learning objectives – learning a new skill. This task served as an opportunity for them to improve their collaborative and communication abilities. It was impressive to see them working together to assemble the pieces for this project.
In addition to the house-building project, we embarked on a creative endeavor, crafting our own teddy bears using egg trays. This not only introduced a new skill but also allowed us to enhance our artistic and painting abilities.
Our science lessons have been particularly exciting. We've taken our learning outdoors, exploring, and discovering objects that relate to our lessons. In addition, we've been actively studying our bean germination project, which has helped us understand what plants need for survival, such as water, light, and air. The students have had a blast participating in this project, eagerly awaiting the progress. It's been a week since we started the germination project, and the beans are showing promising signs of growth.
Moreover, we've been diligently expanding our vocabulary and language skills by exploring sight words, which are crucial for speaking, reading, and writing. The students have actively participated in our sight word hunt, using newspaper articles every other day to find specific sight words. This exercise is essential, helping the students recognize the frequency of sight words in both written and spoken English. Their progress in writing skills has been impressive, and we look forward to witnessing their continued growth in this area.
From
Melissa Jones
Secondary School Homeroom Teacher
BIS Students' Environmental Actions and Self-Discovery
This month has seen the upper secondary students finish off their make BIS greener projects, as part of their global perspective’s lessons. Working collectively and focusing on the skills of research and collaboration, which are fundamental skills that they will utilise both in further education and employment.
The project kicked off with year 9, 10 and 11 students researching the current eco friendliness of the school, embarking on interviews around the school with BIS staff and collating their evidence to deliver pledges in the Friday assembly.
We saw year 11 displaying their work in the form of a vlog, in November assembly. Succinctly identifying where they could make a difference in the school. Pledging to set a good example to younger students as green ambassadors, as well as outlining changes which could be made in relation to the use of electricity, waste, and school resources, amongst many other suggestions and proposed initiatives . Year nine students followed in their footsteps presenting their pledges orally in assembly and vowing to make a difference. Year ten is still to announce their pledges so that is something we can all look forward to. As well as completing pledges all the upper secondary students have compiled very comprehensive reports detailing their findings and solutions which they would like to carry over into the school.
Meanwhile Year 7 have been working on the ‘why work’ module, finding out more about themselves and their strength and weaknesses and possible future career ambitions. The next few weeks will see them completing surveys with staff, family members and individuals in the community to ascertain why people undertake both paid and unpaid employment, so look out as they may be coming your way. Comparatively year 8 have been studying personal identity for global perspectives. Identifying what influences them socially, environmentally and in terms of family. The objective to produce an abstract self-portrait based on their heritage, name and characteristics which is still in the making.
The past week has seen all students busy with assessments for which they have all studied very hard, so this week they are excited to continue with their current projects. Whilst year nine, ten and eleven will start to delve into health and wellbeing, kicking off with looking at disease and its prevalence in their communities as well as on a national and global level.
From
Mary Ma
Chinese Coordinator
As Winter Begins, Forecasting Potential
"In light rain, the cold grows without frost, the leaves in the courtyard are half green and yellow." With the arrival of the Start of Winter, students and teachers stand firm against the cold, lighting up all that is beautiful in our steadfast journey.
Listen to the clear voices of younger students reciting, "The sun, like gold, spills over fields and mountains..." Look at the neatly written homework and the colorful, meaningful poetry and paintings. Recently, students have started to describe new friends' appearances, expressions, actions, and speech, including their kindness and teamwork. They also write about intense sports competitions. Older students, in a discussion sparked by four mock emails, unanimously advocate against bullying, aiming to be supportive leaders in the school. Reading Mr. Han Shaogong's "Answers Everywhere," they actively promote harmony between humans and nature. When discussing "Youth Life," they suggest facing pressure directly, reducing stress positively, and living healthily.
As winter begins, the quiet progress in our Chinese language studies hints at our limitless potential.
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Post time: Nov-24-2023
