Duke of Edinburgh International Award at BBIS

What an amazing introduction to the Duke of Edinburgh International Award that BBIS has had, The hard work has paid off and the school is now an IAC - with hopes that next academic year we may even have a Gold Group! So far we have over 50 students taking part in the DofE Award, with next year taking on a further 38 students! Next year, we look forward to sharing with parents and staff the achievements of the first Bronze and Silver groups.

From a DofE Student perspective:

‘’The Duke of Edinburgh was very progressive and fun at the same time. Our team, Silver Seven made incredible progress by everyone starting their own award including: volunteering, skill and physical development. As part of our training, we have had three trips since the start of the year. These were to Hármashatárhegy, Margit-Sziget and Normafa. Each trip was challenging but got easier every time we went on a trip. We usually laughed our way through our struggles, like building a tent even though we never have before, and walking 15km with heavy backpacks on our backs. We always found a way to make it fun despite these difficulties. Overall, this was an enjoyable and definitely memorable year!’’

We started doing rehearsals two times a week for this show in September. We practiced and rehearsed for five months and then we finally presented to the school-- with 200 audience members for 4 shows! We had two main casts and a chorus. The main characters were Nicholas, Genevieve, Matthew and Bessie. We had chorus like the gods of memories and the Dragons. The story of this play was about a boy who goes to spend the summer with his grandparents but his grandpa is feeling unwell. Nicholas and his grandpa Matthew, spend a wonderful time in the summer and Nicholas kills a dragon so he can save his grandpa from dying. It was a lot of hard work, but it paid off because we had a lot of great reviews!

Message from Mr G: It has been an absolute dream work ng with you al to create 2 shows this year Super stressful Super time consuming But worth every second to see each and every one of you eave your comfort zones trust in the process, and perform in some of the strongest work I've ever seen from my students I hope I gave you the passion for acting that I myself a so found in middle school, and I hope you found your place where you can a ways be yourself and shine bright. I don't know what the future of the drama department is. But I do know that you are al such talented performers that no matter what happens you have a bright future ahead of you So, positive vibes only s ay the dragons in your lives, and ALWAYS reach for the stars BREAK A LEG in all your future shows And know that Ill always be n the audience cheering you on and believing in your ab lities

To our audience crew, and other supporters-- Thank you You made this year special with packing our Performing Arts Space full each time we performed Theatre cannot exist without an audience or a tech crew and your support made this year incredible and meant so much to myse f as well as the students.

For our second drama production with Mr. G, we were preparing a show to perform at the American Corner at the 13th annual Veszprém Drama Fest. We wrote a short, 20-minute show about a middle school drama play falling into chaos. It also included showing how mental illness and neurodivergency are normal, and shows us what some people have to deal with every day. We drove to Veszprém on a Friday, and had a really fun day and performed our show in front of a large audience on a huge stage. We got some really valuable feedback after the show, and I think I speak for everyone when I say we all really enjoyed this trip. Thank you Mr. G for the experience.

Events of the PFA

BBIS Parents and Friends Association (PFA) had a very productive year. We started the year with a coffee morning where we introduced ourselves and recruited some new active members. We organized two uniform swaps where parents had the opportunity to buy used uniforms for their children. As for entertainment, we organized the Mom’s dinner in September, the family picnic in October and the fun quiz night in November.

No doubt, the highlight of the year was the International Food Festival in March for which we prepared more than 50 dishes out of 16 countries.

We are really excited about next year, we have new plans, new ideas and will try to create an even wider range of activities for parents and families.

If you are interested in joining in the new school year, we meet on the first Friday of the month from September at the school cafeteria after drop-off.

See you around at our events.