tbsc bulletin - The British School Caracas
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tbsc bulletin - The British School Caracas
TBSC BULLETIN Week 26: Friday 18th March, 2016 TBSC Contact Details Telephone: +58 (212) 266 2270/ 265 5870 Fax: +58 (212) 265 2141 Email: [email protected] Twitter: @tbscaracas Facebook: TheBritishSchoolCaracas Instagram: @TheBritishSchoolCaracas Message from the Head ‘Time flies when you are having fun’: Another term passes by and it only seems like Term 1 began yesterday! Some events have included World Book Day, World Maths Day, Stand up to Bullying Day, International Week, EYFS and MP1 Sportsday, IGCSE and IB Mock examinations, Parents’ Afternoons, Model United Nations trip to Rome and Learning Walks for both parents and teachers. If that was not enough, on Saturday 12th March we celebrated our annual Spring Fayre and what a Spring Fayre it was! Parents, students and staff had a great time. The community really came together and enjoyed themselves. Thank you to everybody for your support. All funds raised will go towards school projects. A special thank you to the Parent-Teacher Association (Melanie Lavegas, Adriana Tirado, Veronica Vespa, Johanna La Rovere and Sofia Sahagun), Mariana Cohen, Estrellita Bachenheimer, Pili Siso, Tati Maldonado, Becky Nicholls, Pamella Carrasquel and Margaret Donegan. We wish everybody a restful vacation period. Have a great time and recharge for what promises to be another busy and long (3 months!) term ahead. Yasir Patel ([email protected]) News ● @tbscaracas.com: All families have been given a @tbscaracas email address. Please see the next page for more information. ● Term 3: Monday 4th April is a staff INSET (In-Service Training) Day. Students return on Tuesday 5th April. ● TBSC’s GOT TALENT: Please note that this will take place on THURSDAY 28th APRIL. It promises to be a fun-filled evening with varied talent on show! Please come and support our students. ● Milepost 2 to Year 13 Sports Day: Tuesday 12th April. More information to follow. @tbscaracas.com - DONE This week we passed on email addresses for all parents within our Google Apps for Education domain (@tbscaracas.com). Each family received one email address (e.g. [email protected]). The reasons for these changes are: • Security: Our Virtual Learning Platform, TBSC Bulletin and various other Google related documentation that you need to access are currently ‘open’. With this email address, only email addresses within our domain will be able to see and visit our information. • More information: As a result of the above, we will be able to place more information onto the platforms and websites, such as photos and videos, knowing that it is entirely secure. • Streamlining communications: Feedback has suggested that parents would like communications to go to an alternative email address or only receiving selective emails. This will help towards that. • Access to Google Drive: You will be able to access Google Drive yourself without any permission issues. • Unlimited Cloud storage: Parents will receive unlimited storage in the cloud. You can upload any documents, videos, photos etc. However, please note that it remains the property of TBSC. Beginning in Term 3 (after the Easter vacations), all TBSC correspondence will be sent to the new email address only. You will be given instructions on how to forward the email to your personal account should you wish to do that. If you have any questions at all, please contact our ICT team ([email protected]) TBSC Parents’ Educational and Training Sessions TITLE DATE AND TIME Internet, Social Media and Children Tuesday 12th April 5pm TBSC 360 Staff Appraisal System Tuesday 3rd May 5pm Please email our Senior Leadership Team ([email protected]) if you have any suggestions or topics you would like us to cover Early Years Foundation Stage International week was a great success in Kinder and Pre-School classes. Thank you to the parents who came to tell us about their countries, as well as to all parents for contributing to our International Picnic on Wednesday, and for helping your children choose appropriate clothing to wear on Thursday. PS-D joined Y3C to learn about Saudi Arabia and Lebanon. Kinder F learnt about Wales. They did some cooking, learnt to count in Welsh, and treated us to a rhyme in Welsh at assembly. PS-P visited Year 2 Early Years Foundation Stage PS-P learnt about New Zealand Kinder S made masks from Peru. Milepost 1 MP1 have had another great week; improving our understanding of the world around us and learning from each other, every step of the way. Milepost 2 We have been enjoying a fantastic International Week across MP2. We travelled the world by studying Canada, Thailand, India and USA. Here are 4P enjoying an American Diner lunch! Milepost 2 Year 3S had so much fun performing the national anthem of Canada. They also had fun learning amazing facts about Canada. Did you know? The maple leaf is the national symbol for Canada. Did you know? Canada is the second largest country in the world Did you know ? In Canada the two main languages are French and English Did you know? In Canada there are 30,000 lakes! Milepost 3 International Week was a great success. 5B learnt about Fiji and 5C about Mexico. Great learning, great food, lots of fun and wonderful performances! Fiji rhythm! “Que viva Mexico!” Spanish Department ¡Venezuela no podía faltar en la Semana Internacional! Culminamos nuestros proyectos sobre Presidentes de Venezuela, Estados de Venezuela, Mamίferos venezolanos, La Gran Sabana, Papagayos, Banderitas y Artistas venezolanos. Felicitaciones a todos por su esfuerzo y participación. Intentamos reproducir algunas obras del artista venezolano Oscar Olivares. Algunos de nuestros mamíferos. Korea y Venezuela. Falcón, Miranda, Distrito Capital y Mérida. Spanish Department Nuestros papagayos: ...y que juegue con el viento la bandera nacional. Investigamos, aprendimos, compartimos y conocimos muchos estados de Venezuela. ¡Amarillo, azul y rojo, los colores de mi bandera! ¿Conocen a José Antonio Páez, uno de los presidentes de Venezuela? Primary Computing For International week the children visited England. Whilst some guarded royal palaces others visited various English landmarks. Do you know where they are? Primary Computing House Day The end of Term 2 was celebrated with a house day throughout the whole school. A house quiz was held to consolidate the amazing learning that has been happening during the week. TBSC Spellathon 2016 We are looking forward to this year’s TBSC Spellathon. Mr.Glover along with the Student Council are busy organising this grand event for students in Years 1-6! Last year TBSC raised a lot of money and it was a fantastic success. This year’s Spellathon will take place on Friday 8th April. Students will be given 100 words to learn. Each class teacher will help select target words for their class to practise and learn. The students will then be tested during our Spellathon on Friday. Any donation per word or target would be greatly appreciated and received. The student council will be working closely with the classes to decide where best to spend the money raised. Students have received the words and a letter of explanation today. TBSC Student Magazine Nickolai Birjoo and Danny Hernández have put together the second edition of the Secondary Student Magazine. This is a magazine written by students, for students. In this edition you will find everything from creative writing to fun facts to a brand new photo section. I would like to thank Nickolai and Danny for their hard work. Also, a big thank you to all of the students who contributed. STUDENT MAGAZINE Empowerment ‘We can complain because the rose bushes have thorns or we can rejoice because the thorns bushes have roses’ - Abraham Lincoln. Have a wonderful positive holiday! It was a fun and successful day for the Empowerment team on the 12th of March at the Spring Fayre. We managed to sell all the wonderful bags and crafts made out of recyclable materials. Thank you to all the children in Year 3S and Year 4 who worked extremely hard. All the money raised will go to support our school charity. Thank you to all the adults and parents who made this event successful. Pamella Carrasquel has this wonderful book holder made by Year 3S. Secondary House Morning This very special House Morning was organised, planned and run by the Secondary Student Council. As you can see, the day was enjoyed by one and all! Thanks to Diego Contreras and his team for putting together such a wonderful set of activities! Secondary House Morning Melon Eating! Secondary House Morning Catch the Balloon Secondary House Morning Choccy Bunny!! Secondary House Morning Tricycle Races!! Primary Library International Week 2016 We visited some states of Venezuela in a unique way: learning different dialects, expressions and funny words. Here you have some examples: Totuma (aborigin word) ¡Qué molleja! (used to express surprise in Zulia) Toche (used to refer to someone who is silly in Táchira, Mérida, Trujillo) Catire (all Venezuelan people use it to say blonde) Cámara/camarita (used to say buddy in Los Llanos region). Primary Library A traditional song was also taught: La pulga y el piojo v=l5pmqxjXZHo) (https://www.youtube.com/watch? Book Club Our April book is "Submission" by Michel Houellebecq. We will meet to discuss it on Tuesday April 12th at 6:30 pm in the Secondary library. There will be refreshments and wine, and everyone is welcome! This is quite a controversial book, which surely will make an interesting read. Author Michel Houellebecq (probably France's most famous living author) has even been forced to live in hiding after it was published. According to the London review of books: "Michel Houellebecq’s novel about a Muslim takeover of France is a melancholy tribute to the pleasure of surrender. It’s 2022, a charismatic Islamist politician called Mohammed Ben Abbes has become president, and France has fallen under his spell. Houellebecq’s timing could hardly have been better: Soumission was published on 7 January, the day of the Charlie Hebdo massacre. The novel was hailed by the right as a prophetic warning, a fictional cousin of Eric Zemmour’s anti-Muslim tirade, Le Suicide français, and attacked by the left, in the words of Alain Jakubowicz, as ‘the best Christmas gift he could have given to Marine Le Pen’. Both Houellebecq’s admirers and his detractors assumed that he still believed Islam was what he’d once called it: ‘the stupidest religion’. But Houellebecq has had second thoughts, and although his novel is deeply reactionary, it is not Islamophobic. Houellebecq says his novel should be read as ‘the book of a sad historian’, but the way it observes the passing of French secularism is more bemused than sad. There is never any question in Soumission that France doesn’t deserve its fate." If you have any questions please email [email protected] Upcoming Dates - Term 2 Saturday 19th March to Sunday 3rd April Easter Holidays Monday 4th April Staff INSET Day (no students) Tuesday 5th April Term 3 begins for students
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