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TBSC BULLETIN
Week 39: Friday 1st July, 2016
TBSC Contact Details
Telephone: +58 (212) 266 2270/ 265 5870
Fax: +58 (212) 265 2141
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Message from the Head
A historical and important voting process took place last week in Britain, with 52% of the voters opting to leave the European Union after 43 years of
involvement. Various outcomes have come about as a result with many discussions taking place as to what happens next. The British Ambassador to
Venezuela, Mr John Saville visited TBSC on Wednesday as the guest speaker for our Milepost 2 and 3 Prize Giving event. He stated that whatever one’s
view was of the result, it was important that people now work together collaboratively in order to positively push Britain forward.
Human character can be defined as “the mental and moral qualities distinctive to an individual.” One’s character can be beneficial to oneself, to others, or a
combination of both. Our actions with those we interact with regularly (colleagues, family, friends and acquaintances) give an indication of how much our
character leans towards serving oneself or others. However, we should be conscious of how we treat each other and how our character plays out with the
various groups of people we interact with. Working together and serving others should be embraced.
In and around North County San Diego, California, you will come across ‘kindness meters’. The idea behind these is to provide the public with a fast and
accessible opportunity to do something good for others, including complete strangers. It only takes a few seconds to impact another person positively. More
recently, some schools in the area have focussed on Social-Emotional Learning (SEL) and integrated this within the curriculum. This is nothing new but an
explicit mention always helps. In the English curriculum this is referred to as PSHE (Personal, Social, Health and Economic Education). The benefits of SEL
and PSHE, both in the short and long term include academic success as well as emotional wellbeing.
Students (and everybody) should have the opportunity to practice activities that foster respect, responsibility, compassion, courage, trust, perseverance,
honesty, gratitude, self-discipline and citizenship. Students should also be given the chances to show kindness and develop their character, serving others
whenever possible. Would a kindness meter work at TBSC? Maybe, maybe not, but the importance of character, kindness and working as a team for an
agreed shared goal, cannot be stated enough. We continue to work together with the community in order to enhance our childrens’ learning experience.
Yasir Patel ([email protected])
Last week of Term 3
Monday 4th July
Teacher Farewell Morning (8am start)
Monday 4th July
New EYFS Parents’ Afternoon (1pm - 2pm)
Tuesday 5th July
Public Holiday (no school)
Thursday 7th July
Last day of Term 3 for students - early dismissal
EYFS: 1130am
MP1: 1145am
MP2 and MP3: 12pm
Secondary Section: 1230pm
(siblings leave with youngest child)
Friday 8th July
Last day of Term 3 for teachers
Early Years Foundation Stage
What a busy week it has been! Starting with the Art and Music evening on Monday, then
Prize Giving and parties on Tuesday, and ending with a great deal of fun for Preschool with
their Water Fun Day on Friday.
And we have not finished yet - come back next week to see more fun and learning!
Milepost 1
Year 1 completed their
digital storytelling using
the Puppet pals app.
Watch and listen HERE
It’s been a wonderful penultimate week in Milepost 1. We partied late into the
early afternoon, ventured out to San Ignacio and participated in an extremely
moving Prize Giving ceremony. Here’s hoping the final week can be even better!
Milepost 2
Wednesday 29th June was a remarkable and eventful day. We all enjoyed celebrating
all the effort and achievements of all the students from MP2 (Year 3 and Year 4).
Celebrating our achievements and our
friends’ achievements too!
Well done to all the children!
“The way I look at things everyone is a winner” - Sally Paine
Milepost 2
We had a visit from Nicolas’ grandmother from Colombia who currently lives in Washington DC.
We learnt many things about her life experiences and her job. We learnt about how different
countries work together and how we are all connected.
She told us about the history of South
American and why, Colombia,
Venezuela, Ecuador and Bolivia have
similar flags.
Milepost 3
Year 5 have been reflecting deeply on their
learning from their Empowerment Project. They
helped prepare and deliver presentations for
Milepost 2 and 3 and for Secondary today
(Click here ).
They wanted to make a difference to the
children from RISE. They thought about and
planned what they could do. How would the
RISE children benefit from our Empowerment
Project and how would we benefit from this
project? It was a magical day and had a deep
impact on both the RISE and TBSC children.
They have now raised additional funds and will
be also sponsoring a year´s private education
for a Year 7 child from Escuela Jenaro Aguirre.
Empowerment Project - Year 5 Making
a difference in the community
If you want to see the Year 5 students’ presentation click here
Primary Computing
Digital
Fun!
Check out
more
HERE
Primary
Computing
La Kaskada
Presentations
Year 5 & 6
students
created
presentations of
their time at La
Kaskada.
You can watch
them from
HERE
Art And Music
Evening
For more images
from Monday
evenings events, or
past art exhibition
please visit this site.
http://tbscartexhibition.weebly.com/
Thank you to
everyone that
made this night a
success. It is a
credit to our very
talented students
that this night
could happen.
Art and Music
Evening
TBSC Lions Clubs
Basketball
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a
Orig
Volleyball
TBSC Lions Clubs
Art
Mini Football Champions!!!
Book Club
The TBSC Book Club has had its last meeting of
2015-2016 this week. Our summer book is Anna
Karenina by Leo Tolstoy, and we will meet once
again in the Secondary library next term, on
Tuesday September 6th at 6:30 pm to discuss it.
Snacks and wine will be served.
According to Modern Library Classics:
"Considered by some to be the greatest novel ever
written, Anna Karenina is Tolstoy's classic tale of
love and adultery set against the backdrop of high
society in Moscow and Saint Petersburg. A rich and
complex masterpiece, the novel charts the
disastrous course of a love affair between Anna, a
beautiful married woman, and Count Vronsky, a
wealthy army officer. Tolstoy seamlessly weaves
together the lives of dozens of characters, and in
doing so captures a breathtaking tapestry of latenineteenth-century Russian society. As Matthew
Arnold wrote in his celebrated essay on Tolstoy, "We
are not to take Anna Karenina as a work of art; we
are to take it as a piece of life."
If you have any questions please email
[email protected]
Primary Library
Concurso de revista literaria
Nos complace anunciar las ganadoras de Year 6G: Eva Benchimol y Marcela
Maldonado. Ellas titularon su publicación “Todo sobre mí” y estuvo dedicada a resaltar la
obra y vida del escritor venezolano Aquiles Nazoa. En Year 6Y las ganadoras fueron
Isabella Durán y Mariana Zúñiga quienes escogieron al ilustre escritor Gabriel García
Márquez. En La revista de Zúñiga y Durán encontrarán información muy interesante.
Felicitamos a las ganadoras por su dedicación, compromiso y seriedad para completar
este proyecto.
Primary Library
Concurso de revista literaria ¡Felicitaciones!
Eva y Marcela, Year 6G.
Revista: Todo sobre mí.
Autor: Aquiles Nazoa
Mariana e Isabella, Year 6Y.
Autor: Gabriel García
Márquez
Intercambiando
revistas
Sponsor a Student For High School
Education
Thirty-five 6th grade students attending La Escuela Jenaro Aguirre have to move on to High School to complete their
education in September. All of these students are A grade students.
Five of these students have already been awarded places at either Unidad Educativa Martin Tovar y Tovar , Unidad
Educativa Privada Americo Vespucio or Unidad Educativa Instituto Didactico Andres Bello and we are currently
waiting to have confirmation of further places at these schools. .
UE Martin Tovar Y Tovar educational costs for 2016 – 2017 will be Bs.94,250.00 per student. This total includes the
inscription of Bs.26,250.00 and the fee per month of Bs. 6,800.00. We are waiting on the fee structure for the other
schools but expect them to be similar.
Fundación Madre María Luisa Casar has been established to provide private schooling and finance for these students.
We are working with this foundation to support these students . If you would be interested in sponsoring a student
please contact me [email protected] for more information. Each month you would receive an update on the
student and a receipt of payment to the school.
If you would like to see more information please follow the link on our charity Facebook page https://www.facebook.
com/charity.tbsc
R.I.S.E. Request
If you are leaving Venezuela or if
your child has outgrown his or her
uniform please can you donate them
to R.I.S.E.
The children from R.I.S.E will not be
able to attend school in September if
the do not have a uniform and
shoes.
There are 3 boxes in the Entrance
Hall
● A box for all uniform items
● A box for shoes and trainers
● A box of all other clothes items
you would like to donate.
The labels on the uniform can be
changed to suit the school the child
attends
Yanette from R.I.S.E is coming on
Friday to collect all the items.
Thank you for all your support.
Other Notices
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Automático
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Chevrolet Cruze
Año 2013
Automatico
Km: 18.600
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Moto Suzuki. Modelo Vstrom 650.
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