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November 1-3 ABRSM music exams

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1-7 Secondary Readathon Week 2

Season 2 ASAs start

SY Piano Competition 6pm theatre

SY PA Bonfire Night event

The University of Edinburgh Visit

Sanlitun and Shunyi (Primary) Football Tournament

ISAC Secondary Table Tennis

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Sanlitun and Shunyi (Primary) Primary Reports sent home

ISAC Secondary Cross Country Tournament

Secondary Progress Reports go Home

Secondary Residentials

Halloween

Victory for BSB!

Secondary reports back from their trips around China, with a full photo-blogs from each year.

A spooky Friday at Shunyi!

BSB almost win the U12 football tournament at Dulwich this week! Well done boys!

From the Executive Principal

ear Parents This week three of our students will be interviewing with Cambridge University hoping to secure places to study medicine and veterinary science. We wish them the very best of luck.

The open day was a great success and it was a pleasure for me to see so many of you there to hear Mrs. Smith discussing the primary school and Mr. Hewett to reinforce the success of secondary school. As we always point out to ourselves and to students, examination results are a key director of ones future, but they are not the only factor by far. Whilst our results are outstanding and we are justifiably proud of them the secondary school has set itself the goal of ensuring that students develop as people. Leadership, personal development, responsibility and moving outside ones comfort zone (and off the couch!) were the themes of Mr. Hewett’s talk and I’m very pleased that he is leading the school in this direction with such energy and clarity of purpose. I would also like to update parents on our policy as we move forward. As you will mostly likely be aware the key selection criteria for entry to the British School of Beijing for new students is behaviour. This will remain the case and we have no intention of reducing our commitment. We do not, and never will, knowingly accept students who have been expelled from other schools. This is an important factor in maintaining the family tradition of The British School. Equally we must remain internally vigilant. No student is perfect and as young people they will require guidance from time to time. Both in primary and secondary school the values of self and mutual respect must be consistently reinforced. Equally we must work in partnership with parents and our community to ensure that this sense of shared purpose is communicated well. The school communicates with parents in a very wide range of mediums and in general I receive many positive comments from parents about the information received from the school. Parental communication also helps the school to improve and the new parking arrangements at the Shunyi campus and the vastly improved facilities at the Sanlitun campus are evidence of this. The purpose of this last paragraph is simply to reiterate my statement that I welcome parent feedback on any matter concerning the school. This is our school and we can be proud of being Beijing’s oldest and most successful British School, but we must never ever rest on our laurels. That would be a failure on both a personal level but more importantly, we would be failing the most important people in our school; The children and young adults in our care. Mike Embley

Christmas cards, silk covered note pads, Christmas decorations, Turkish ceramics & jewellery, Chocolates, Homemade cakes. Christmas Hamper to be raffled Tombola Proceeds from the bazaar will go to local charities Foreign passport holders only please

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British Embassy Christmas Bazaar

Thursday 25th November 2010 10.00am to 2.00pm at The Ambassadorâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Residence 15, Guang Hua Lu.

Come and enjoy a glass of mulled wine and a Fish and Chip lunch while doing some Christmas gift shopping. Jewellery, Chinese parasols, gift wrap, Christmas cards, silk covered note pads, Christmas decorations, Turkish ceramics & jewellery, Chocolates, Homemade cakes. Christmas Hamper to be raffled Tombola Proceeds from the bazaar will go to local charities Foreign passport holders only please

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Secondary D ear Parents,

I am glad to report on a successful week of Residential Expeditions. Staff worked exceptionally hard to make sure that the trips were fun and packed with adventure and challenge. Most of the trips also included visits to cultural locations. One of the aims the residential was to allow students to experience the outdoors and to be introduced to new and exciting activities. This was to promote; - a sense of adventure, unpredictability, drama and suspense. - a consistently high level of expectation - a positive, success orientation in which growth is supported and encouraged. - an atmosphere of mutual support. - a sense of enjoyment, fun, an opportunity to laugh at a situation, at oneself and others. - introduction of group problem- solving, problems requiring a variety of personal contributions, problems though that can not ordinarily be solved individually. - expose students to a less predictable and less familiar than a school classroom. But this was not just for fun, by giving students a physical challenge, pushing them a little outside their comfort zones and allowing them to experience different things has a very positive effect on how they cope with everyday difficulties and stresses. Most of us spend our times in the blue comfort zone, dealing with everyday occurrences, but by experiences the unexpected in a controlled environment (green zone) allows us to learn how to deal with the unexpected and stressful circumstances much better. A lot of the experiential learning used in school comes from Kurt Hann These are some of the quotes used by Kurt Hahn Tell me, and I will forget. Show me, and I may remember. Involve me, and I will understand.” “I regard it as the foremost task of education to insure the survival of these qualities: an enterprising curiosity, an undefeatable spirit, tenacity in pursuit, readiness for sensible self denial, and above all, compassion.“ “There is more in us than we know. If we can be made to see it, perhaps, for the rest of our lives we will be unwilling to settle for less.” I trust your son and daughter has told you about the residential trip and was as enthusiastic about is as the many other students and staff have been. Rob Hewett Head of Secondary

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Secondary News BSB’s deadline to register for the December 4, 2010 SAT (the entrance exam for most US and many Canadian Schools) is this Friday, October 15. The exam will be given at the British School on Dec. 4th at 8am. Registration forms can be picked up in the Secondary Library.

Charity Challenge - Well done to Joe Howland! The boys completed a gruelling 12km run, 2km scramble on the Great

Wall and the sailing race, finishing an amazing 2nd. They were the only team with two school age members and did a magnificent job considering that they only intended to ‘compete to complete’ but they surpassed themselves. Well done!

Royal Yachting Association Awards

Year 7 students celebrated their success earlier this week when they received their RYA (Royal Yachting Association) Bronze level certificate of sailing and BSC T-shirts.

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Chengdu Having set off from sch ool at 6.45am, we ma de our way smoothly to the airport and from the re to Chengdu. Upon arr ival at 12.30pm, we we nt straight to a lovely res taurant for a tradition al Chinese lunch where we refuelled ready for an 22 2010 ISSUE 7 enlighten ingOCTOBER trip to Jinsha museum . We saw an excavation of the site, still in process, uncove ring skeletons, ivory and jad e. From here we went to Wuhou Shrine, filled wit h beautiful Buddhas an d art work. Next to the temple was a wonderf ul street filled with intere sting little shops an d amazing food stalls, where students enjoy ed chuar, blue candy flo ss and a variety of oth er delicacies. After some shopping and touring we went straight to our lov ely hotel for some res t and recuperation befor e heading to dinner. We enjoyed a lovely hot-p ot meal, those of us bra ve enough, had spicy sic huan hot-pot, it broug ht tears to our eyes! De licious! We returned to the hotel at 9pm, ready for a good nights sleep . Tomorrow, we are se eing the newly born ba by pandas and attempting some Kung Fu.

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University News: How to Choose a Course Not a College October 28, 2010 Robert Aldridge from Oxford Brookes came to BSB to talk to Year 12 and13 students about

choosing a “course”, not a college. Rather than focusing on a particular College or University he proposed a way to research a course. Some of the steps he outlined were 1. Choose a course of study. • An area of study in which you have achieved high grades and • An area of study in which you enjoy. • Success, meaning happiness (not necessarily wealth) comes from dedicating your career to something you love to do, in which you have real passion 2. Research the various places that offer your “course”. • Create your own table of course offerings and how they rank according to your own interests, such as teaching colleges vs. research colleges; strength in your course of study, facilities, proximity to city or entertainment, etc. Only after a great deal of research can students find the course that matches their needs.

Important Deadlines •

November 3, 2010 BMAT Exam

• November 1 through 15: Various US Early Decision Applications Deadlines. See https://www.commonapp.org/ CommonApp/MemberRequirements.aspx • November 7, 2010: 1:00 – 4:00 Beijing US College Fair. Tsinghua International School. See University counselors for more information

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• December 1, 2010: UCAS Application deadline for all courses except those required to submit by October 15 (Oxbridge – Medicine and Veterinary Studies). Some art and design courses have a 24 March deadline. •

December 1, 2010: Register by mail for January 22, 2010 SAT (US university entrance exams)

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December 1, 2010: Book an LNAT test slot

Information for Parents: Keep informed on your university bound student’s options and deadlines. Sign up for parent news on course options,

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From the Headteacher, Sanlitun

School Successes Dear Parents What a spooky scary day Friday has been. There were ghosts floating around the school and spells being cast. Yet even with all this excitement the children still showed how hard they work in class and how much progress has been made in two months. I am sure every parent who attended Open Morning were impressed with their childâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s attitude and commitment to learning. Our Chief Operating Officer, Mr Peter Burdon visited BSB this week and remarked on how he could feel a buzz in the air and described the atmosphere as purposeful and industrious. Yet again our girls and boys who represent Sanlitun campus in football had a successful week. Mr Hubbard and Mr Bobby have organised lots of fixtures in preparation for the big tournament at Dulwich on Saturday 6th November and the boysâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; teams still remain unbeaten! One of our priorities on our School Improvement Plan is to ensure each child understands the success criteria needed to succeed in the activity they are doing. The Primary Leadership Team has been observing lessons this week and have seen first-hand how children are grasping new concepts quickly and progressing at a challenging level for them, because they have a clear understanding of the success criteria. Please remember the photographer is in next week and send your slip back if you would like a sibling or family photo. An order form for the flu jab will be going out soon for those parents who would like their child to have the flu jab on Wednesday 10th November. Warm regards, Janet

It is almost that time of the year again, and our Christmas Fayre is approaching fast! The Fayre is a busy buzzing occasion, filled with Christmas carols, mince pie eating and mulled wine guzzling! If you are interested in being a vendor at the Fayre please contact lisa.li@britishschool.org.cn We look forward to seeing you there!

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Foundation Stage, Sanlitun

Vegetables and Divali Pre Nursery children have been learning about vegetables this week. We tasted fresh carrots, bell peppers and potatoes. We also used them to make pictures and noted the different shapes they make. We did lots of pictures of different vegetables by colouring with crayons, painting with sponge and rollers and sticking. The pumpkin is the most important vegetable for us this week. We carved a pumpkin in our classes and then made our own paper jack o lanterns for Halloween! We all got dressed for our Halloween party too. It was another great week! Nursery has been learning about Diwali and what people do to celebrate this festival. We all enjoyed the story of Rama and Sita and found Ravanna the ten headed demon very scary! We made pictures of his head and counted 20 eyes altogether! Reception have started a new topic â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;Under the Seaâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;. We have played in the role play area that we designed ourselves and acted out the story of The Rainbow Fish. We have also collaged a giant fish full of glittering scales and made our own sea masks. We have talked about our emotions, discussed how the Rainbow Fish and Little Blue Fish were feeling in the story and written speech bubbles

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Key Stage One, Sanlitun

Spooky pumpkins! It has been another busy week in Sanlitun for our Key Stage 1 children, with some spooky happenings too! Year one have created some fantastic graphs in numeracy, to show various information such as peoples favourite colours and favourite fruit which are now are display. They achieved this through active learning, creating their own ideas about what information they would like to find out. In literacy they carried out activities based on the tale of Jack and the Beanstalk. Children retold the story through drama, and listened to emotive music to describe feelings. They used they idea of the scary giant within the story, to explore feeling frightened and thought about how they might show this feeling through their use of body language and facial expressions. Finally in topic, they continued to look at homes and created some fantastic art work by using straws and paint to make prints. Year two continued to look at information texts in literacy, creating information leaflets about Beijing and writing spooky Halloween dictionaries. They also used a recipe book to follow a method and made scrumptious pizzas! In numeracy they used shapes to design pumpkin faces and then had lots of fun helping to carve a real pumpkin based on their designs. In topic the children started to think about the local area and where they live in Beijing. 2H went on a short walk to explore the area around school and managed to take some fantastic photos and discover some new landmarks. 2M and 2K will be doing their walks next week. As well as all this 2M have been busily preparing for their class assembly which will take place next Monday afternoon. The theme is based on different cultures from around the world, so they have been learning how to talk and sing in different languages. We can’t wait to see the finished performance next week. Finally to finish another fantastic week, the KS1 staff and children all dressed up to celebrate Halloween and enjoyed a fantastic party organized by our wonderful parents association. Sanlitun KS1 Team

Key Stage Two, Sanlitun

Fizzy teeth! Last Friday the children in 3Y taught the Sanlitun Primary school a valuable

lesson in dental hygiene. Their assembly, titled ‘Teeth’, began with the tale of ‘Lucy & the Dentist’. A story of a young girl called Lucy who loved to eat sweet things and drink lots of fizzy drinks like coke. Worst of all… Lucy never brushed her teeth! The children showed that, because of her lack of dental care, Lucy had to receive fillings from Dr. Floss the dentist. Mr. Thomas then eagerly volunteered to take part in the next section of the assembly. He climbed the steps of the stage drinking a bottle of coke! Three of the 3Y children were then brave enough to volunteer to enter the disgusting and hideous place that is Mr. Thomas’ mouth. With help from the tooth fairy, the mouth explorers were shrunk down to enable them to visit Mr. Thomas’ teeth where we learnt about the different types of teeth and their functions. After a visit from the Fluoride Fighter to scare off some pesky plaque, the mouth explorers waved goodbye to Mr. Thomas’ teeth and the tooth fairy returned them to their normal size. The students (and teachers) hopefully learnt some important information about caring for their teeth through the stories, acting and songs from 3Y. We are already seeing even more beautiful, bright, shiny smiles in Sanlitun campus!

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Key Stage Two, Sanlitun

Spooky Instructions All has been spooky this week in year 5! We have

been working hard in Literacy to develop our understanding of instructions so we could devise are own disgusting recipes in time for Halloween. We played a great game in pairs – we sat backto-back with mini whiteboards and one of us had to shout out instructions of how to draw a picture (already drawn on a whiteboard) and the other had to try and draw it perfectly on their whiteboard. We sat back-to-back to make sure we couldn’t see each other’s whiteboards. It was much trickier than we thought it would be! Once we had mastered clear, precise oral instructions we worked on our written instructions. With Halloween upon us we thought some recipes that were ‘super-gross’ would be perfect. It started off with the teachers sharing a very special recipe with the children; Miss Byford demonstrated her instructions for making a ‘Flying Potion’. It didn’t work the first time because she’d forgotten to put the adverbs in! We tried it again with the adverbs in but still she didn’t fly! Not until the final instruction was it clear that the potion wouldn’t work until midnight. We asked the year group to be vigilant if they happened to be up at midnight (which we didn’t encourage!!!) and look out of their windows to see if they could see her flying around. Two children in Class 5A think they may have seen her. Inspired by the ‘revolting-ness’ of Miss Byford’s recipe that included dried human skin, snake venom and bat’s blood we made our own recipes. The spookier, grosser and more disgusting the better. We used success criteria to make sure we included all the things we needed to in order to be successful. We hope you enjoy this example and have a Happy Halloween. Please don’t try this at home unless supervised by a witch! Christine Armstrong Year 5

INVISIBLE POTION Ingredients 1 bottle of paralyzing potion 1 bottle of awakening potion 100g zombie eyes 2 pairs of bloody chopped hands (shaking) 10g monster blood An unwrapped mummy A beheaded head 1000g (1kg) guts – any kind 10 big, fat, slimy slugs – also any kind 100g maggots Utensils Dusty 100 year old spoon Vampire skin or cloth Dr. Frankenstein’s finger as taste spoon Zombie head as a mitten Large cauldron Rusty knife Bent dagger

1. First pour the paralyzing potion carefully into the cauldron and repeat “I can be invisible” 3 times deeply. 2. Empty the awakening potion into the cauldron and mix it with the paralyzing potion. Cackle with laughter while you are mixing. 3. Take out the vampire skin and cover the potion in the cauldron. Leave for 10 seconds. 4. Put in the monster blood and the beheaded head and crush it aggressively. 5. Add 1000g of guts into the monster blood. 6. Destroy and add the bloody chopped hands first, before adding the 10 zombie eyes (carefully and quickly). 7. Now add/put (or empty) the mixture together crazily and pour them into a ‘sprayer’. Shake it like a maniac!!! 8. Wait for 1 minute and spray it on yourself (or a friend) and wait ‘til midnight or midday. 9. Get invisible and scare people!!! Chef’s note: If sauce required, use the rusty knife and bent dagger to bash the maggots and big, fat, shiny slugs. Taste it with Dr. Frankenstein’s finger. Take the large cauldron, put it all in the cauldron and mix it (it must be hot!!!). Take a sip with the zombie head and drink it afterwards – whole pot!!! By Adrian – Class 5A

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BSB Sanlitun Sports news Another super sporting week at BSB Sanlitun this week! On Monday, our U11 Girls team played away to FCY Chinese School and again produced a very good performance. Our young team played some great football but ultimately went down 4-1 to a very good team, but never lost heart and were rewarded with a well-struck penalty from Doreen. Two days later the girls were at it again, this time alongside their U11 Boys counterparts over at BCIS. This time, the girls performance was rewarded with a 1-0 win thanks to a super strike from Atu! The boys hardly had time to stop for breath as they played 3 matches in a row against BCIS A,B and C teams. They played some high quality football with great passing which was a joy to watch. They won their forst game 3-0 with goals from Jorge, Zhuan Ee and Howie, before producing a magnificent fightback from 2-0 down to draw 2-2 with a last minute goal from Aaron! In the last game they beat the A team 1-0 with Zhuan Ee scoring again. Well done everyone who took part - especially the high number of girls who came over to BCIS. Next Monday, the U9 Boys play at BCIS whilst the U11 boys go over to BSB Shunyi for their matches. The football season finishes next Saturday 6th November with both our U11 Boys and Girls teams playing in the Primary Football Tournament at Dulwich. Please come along and support our teams!

Sanlitun Choir

Lower School Choir is an ASA for children from Year 1 to Year 3 who are too young to become members of the schoolâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s junior choir but enjoy singing together. We only started this activity at the beginning of the term but we can proudly announce that we have already built a repertoire of songs with different parts, songs from different countries and songs in different style! And now it is the time of the year to start learning Christmas songs! We are going to learn a big bunch of them and select the best ones to perform together with the Junior Choir at the Carolâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Night concert. We are looking forward to seeing you there! Vera Mitford Music teacher

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Chinese Culture ASA

In SLT KS1 Chinese culture ASA, first we did something related to the Mid-autumn Festival. We had a story about ChangE, a beautiful lady that we believe living on the moon. Then we made a 3D card with “Tu Ye”, who is the god of the Mid-autumn Festival. We also practiced to write Chinese calligraphy. It’s the first time for most children to try and they were so excited although they got messy. In the recent two weeks, we made our own Peking Opera mask, which is called “LIan Pu” in Chinese. Children made it really carefully and we watched a little bit “Monkey King” cartoon to get a better understanding of the mask. (Cheryl Xu)

Sanlitun Chinese

We had another busy week in the SLT Chinese classrooms! In Y2, Group A students learned about wild animals like the lion, tiger, and giraffe. They played matching games in which someone held the Chinese character of a certain animal and the others picked the person wearing the correct animal hat. This helped the children memorize the characters, and they enjoyed the game very much. In Y3, Group B students learned about school subjects and made their own timetable written in Chinese characters. In Y6, the heritage group students displayed their articles about the October holiday. They designed and typed them all by themselves. (Cheryl Xu)

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Chinese Painting ASA

KS1 Children enjoyed Chinese painting very much. Most of children are able to hold brush-pen in the right way after learning and always try their best to practice. They learnt Chinese traditional colours and use them carefully to paint. We have learnt how to paint cherry and pear in Chinese way already, and next week we are going to learn how to paint animals and children would practise more painting skills.

EAL

Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s been a busy week in the EAL department. The intensive EAL students have all been given their termly assessments this week and have all worked really hard in their assessments. It is really fantastic to compare recent assessments with the assessments done at the beginning of the yearall the students have made so much progress. EAL students in other year groups have received in-class support on a variety of topics; writing spooky recipes, acting out Roman role plays and inventing their own Roman gods! Our tip for EAl students is about break time: donâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t always play with people who speak the same first language as you at break time. You will learn English much quicker if you play with people you have to speak English to. All the students in the school are very friendly-they will want to play with you and help you!

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A Message from the Head of Primary, Shunyi

Guinea Pigs, Carrot Soup and Open House Many thanks to all our parents who came into school for Thursday’s Open Day – we had a record attendance with 150 plus parents and friends touring the Primary classes. The children were delighted to see you all and we much appreciated your lovely comments and suggestions. Thanks to those parents who helped out during their visit – with Chinese lessons, modeling, making salt dough and so on. Your participation was a great example to our young learners. After germinating, planting out and weeding their carrot crop all year, the Y5s (now Y6s) got to chop, cook and taste their delicious carrot and coriander soup. It was creamy and delicious and I know families have been cooking it at home now too as the young chefs have taken copies of the recipe home. A display of the children’s learning is outside the Primary library for all to see. Enjoy. The gardening group has cleared out the planting beds ready for the spring planting in 2011. What can we grow to eat in our organic garden for next year? The guinea pigs, Twinkle and Tom, have moved indoors for the winter. They will live in the Foundation Stage in the loving care of the Foundation children. They will be cleaned, fed and watered by the pupils who have a weekly schedule of “pig” duties. Learning to respect and care for living things is an important part of the Primary School experience. A display of Guinea Pig facts and info will develop in the PS foyer so do drop by and see what the children have learned about GP habits and behaviour. Class Representatives: most of the posts are now filled and our 1st meeting is on Wednesday at 8.45am in the boardroom. The Reps will start work on the contact lists for families in their class so please do respond to their email when they get in touch with your family. The Reps will also assist classes with special events and coordinate class helpers. Thanks to all those who have volunteered – wonderful! Can I remind parents please to make sure that the children come into school in full winter uniform and with a warm coat. It is cold now and children do need to be warmly dressed for the playtimes they enjoy so much. Have a lovely weekend. Jane Smith, Head of Primary

Non Uniform Day Non Uniform Day We are very proud to announce that the money raised for non uniform day which was held on Tuesday 19th October, amounted to 5, 740.10rmb! This money will be given to the ‘Child’s Voice Appeal’, along with the money raised by a Secondary non uniform day which will be held on 29th October. Quite a number of people were involved in trying to raise money for this charity. Dawn Bowskill’s (Y3 TA) husband and son came second in a sporting competition around the Great Wall, which involved sailing, hiking and a run. On Sunday 24th October, Dawn Ross and Daniel Marr ran the Beijing half marathon to show their support for this charity. We hope to raise even more money in the near future by running along the Great Wall in May 2011. We welcome any parents who would like to compete in this run alongside BSB staff, to help the BSB community raise even more money for charity. Dawn Ross

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PANDA BOOK AWARDS PANDA BOOK AWARDS 2010-2011

Younger Readers Category

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2010-2011 Older Readers Category

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Foundation Stage, Shunyi

Electricity and leaves

In Teddies 1, the children prepared for Halloween and played with several Halloween and Autumn toys. This week in Teddies 2 the children explored Autumn. They examined the colours red, brown, and orange. The children also worked on mixing paint to make these colours and creating leaves with the shape of their hands. Teddies 2 children also made leaf rubbings and leaf collages! This week Nursery children continued the topic of light and dark. The children explored the darkness and light by creating a puppet show using their hands. Nursery children also made a large starry night with black paper and pins! The children also started to take ownership of their own work and choose a place in the classroom to hang it up. Finally, Nursery also continued to talk about electricity and where we can see electricity at home and at school! This week in Reception the children started the topic of animals and animal habitats. They are exploring different types of animals and how many legs each animal has. The focus has been on wild animals – their characteristics and where they live! In Reception, the children have also learned some new high frequency words such as: up, no, go, not, got, on, look, can and to. These words are being used to make sentences in speaking and writing. They were also used to make sentences about animals, such as, “This is a lion.” All Foundation Stage children had the opportunity to dress up in their Halloween costume on Friday and participate in various Halloween activities such as bobbing for apples, carving jack-olanterns, playing with pumpkin innards, and making ghosts!

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Key Stage One , Shunyi

Halloween Fun in KS1! Year 1 have had a super spooky week which culminated in a fantastic day devoted to all things ghoulish and scary on Friday 29th October! All children, including teachers and teaching assistants came dressed in their scariest Halloween costumes. During the morning, all Key Stage 1 children were involved in a circus of activities, such as making worm burgers (sweetie worms on wafer bread), pumpkin printing, drama, magical maths, and making scary spells and beastly bats. The children particularly enjoyed making the worm burgers with Miss Severy! In the afternoon the children had a Halloween disco. Thank you to all parents who were able to send in food and drink for this event. As well as dancing away, children also took part in apple bobbing and other traditional Halloween activities. Finally we had a prize for the best Halloween costumes across the Key Stage. What a great end to a busy week! Dawn Ross

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Key Stage Two , Shunyi

Seeds to Soup! Last Year Student Council asked each class to plant seeds in the Eco area at the front of the School. Each class planted their seeds after being given a choice, by class vote, of what it was they wanted to plant. Some classes chose flowers, others chose vegetables and fruits to plant. Last year, the Year 5 children chose Carrots and roses. Over the summer the Year Groups seeds have continued to grow and have bloomed into fully grown plants producing flowers, fruits and vegetables. The Carrots grew very well and during the activity days the Gardening activity dug them up as part of their â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;Preparing

for Winterâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; campaign. We thought that it would be brilliant to use the vegetables we planted, helping the children understand the process of planting, reaping and eating. Mrs. Bowskill kindly offered to cook with the, now Year 6, children on Monday and each class had a session in the cookery room. They started off peeling and cleaning their ingredients and then chopped, cooked and liquidised their soup. The smells coming from the cooking room were very tempting and many children were curious as to what was going on in the cookery room. As you can see it was great fun, the children thoroughly enjoyed the experience, in particular eating the soup as it was delicious! A big thank you to Mrs. Bowskill for showing the children how to cook and helping them prepare it, and also to the gardening activity for digging up the carrots. Well Done Year 6! Christian Bishop

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Key Stage Two It has been a very busy week in lower KS2. Following the activity days, the children have got straight back into the swing of things and have had a very productive week. Year 3 In Year 3â&#x20AC;&#x2122;s literacy work the children have been working very hard to gather information that will be used when they write their non-chronological reports. These reports are about sea creatures which links in nicely with their oceans topic. The children worked in groups to collate their research and presented their findings to the class at the end of the lesson. In numeracy, Year 3 is coming to the end of its shape topic. The children have been learning about symmetry and right angles. Using this knowledge, they have made symmetrical rockets and robots. After completing their work, the children named their robots using only letters that contain right angles. In topic the children have been looking at a plan of the school and have been comparing it to their own maps. The children were asked to find differences between the maps they had drawn and the architectural drawing provided by the teacher which provoked some very interesting discussions about scale. Following this, the children labelled their own maps with landmarks around the school. Year 4 Year 4 are still explaining things! In literacy the children have been continuing to develop their skimming and scanning skills by solving a murder mystery. They then used these skills to gather lots of facts about the Roman army from a variety of different information texts. This is in preparation for their final explanation text which the children will write next week. In numeracy the children have learned how to collect data to answer a question. They collected data using a tally chart and asked children in different year groups about their favourite colour. After this the children presented their data in a graph. The next task was to write questions about their data for other people to answer. This week KS2 had disability awareness lessons which gave the children an opportunity to gain some insight to what life is like for someone who is blind, paralysed or an amputee. There were different activities for the children to simulate these conditions, with the main focus being a discussion about the difficulties they encountered during each of the tasks. This should allow the children to empathise with people who live with these conditions every day.

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Sporting Success at BSB! On Saturday 23rd October, BSB under 12 Football team competed in the ISAC tournament hosted at DCB. Twelve schools participated in the event throughout the whole day and was a great success on and off the field of play. The bears where feeling nervous and very anxious before the start of the tournament, however the buzz and excitement of the prospect of participating against other teams helped the bears to play to their very best! The boys gave an amazing performance throughout the day and showed great sportsmanship to the fellow competitors, which provided the shining example of BSB spirit. The bears reached the grand final but unfortunately they couldnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t produce the same outstanding performance to win the competition coming runners up overall. The bears eventually lost to WAB 3-1 but the game was very close and it could have gone either way. The bears performed exceptionally well throughout the whole day and they are a real credit to the school and they should be very proud of their achievements. Ian Phillipson Coach U12 Football Tournament placing

1st. 2nd. 3rd. 4th

WAB BSB ISB DCB

Womenâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Handball at BSB At BSB, there is not only handball for the little ones but also for all the mothers, female staff members and other women interested in playing this fast and fun game. Please feel invited to join our free weekly sessions on Tuesdays at 8pm at the BSB gym (Shun Yi campus). All levels are welcome!

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EAL

Key Stage 1 Key Stage 1 has progressed very well this week. We’ve covered a number of important topics designed to build the student’s vocabulary and confidence. The children covered family members and looked at important adjectives used for describing people. The students contributed very well in class games and were very keen to tell us about their own families. Well done Key Stage 1. Key Stage 2 This week has been very productive in EAL. The children in KS2 have worked very well and have met some challenging tasks head on. Together, we’ve looked at the days of the week, months of the year and the seasons that surround them. We played some great games that really facilitated the students learning. KS2 also focused their attention on adjectives related to the house. They went on to undertake a very challenging running dictation task. The exercise involved a lot of teamwork and patience being completely student led. Lastly, the pupils worked on giving/receiving and rejecting advice. Their mission was to design a welcome brochure for an alien coming to BSB about what he should, could, supposed to and must do on a daily basis.

Chinese

It’s been another busy and hard-working week in Primary Chinese classrooms. Year 3 H2 children looked at the meaning and features of six different Chinese radicals and did a great job analyzing characters belong to each radical. In Y5 and Y6 H2 Chinese lessons we also concentrated on the formation and construction features of characters, by playing some puzzle games and anagrammatism games, which were very much enjoyed by students.

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NORMANS

SAXONS

Sanlitun House Points

VIKINGS

ROMANS

Secondary Merit Awards

Shunyi House Points

Normans

311

Normans

715

Saxons

401

Saxons

800

Vikings

238

Vikings

700

Romans

407

Romans

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Key Stage 3 Joseph Bradshaw

Erik Melander

Mina Shin

Amelie Auvray

Key Stage 4

Well done Romans!

Well done Saxons!

JiEun Kang

Randy Zhang

Prateek Pandey

Silvia Vininyu

Parents Page BSB is pleased to widen the scope of our newsletter by including a parentsâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; page, items for this page should be in keeping with the ethos of the School and should be submitted to our Publications and Liaison Officer on newsletter@ britishschool.org.cn before 4pm Wednesday on the week in which they are to appear. Please note we cannot advertise businesses, the aim is to promote charitable events and personal ads.