Welcome Happy Christmas I would like to take this opportunity to wish all our families a very happy Christmas break. As we head into the final week of this term – and this calendar year – there is no slowing down at BSQ. Following our wonderful Christmas Bazaar at the weekend, we now have plays, assemblies and end of term celebrations to look forward to. In amongst that, of course, lessons and learning continue as normal. Christmas Bazaar The Christmas Bazaar was a great success as always and a great celebration of the creativity and imagination of our staff and students in primary. The stalls looked wonderful and the children have learned a great deal about hard work and entrepreneurship as part of the process. We also enjoyed the excellent contributions from the secondary team who enabled us to share traditional games, paint murals and raise awareness for the Key Stage 3 community projects. Thanks to everyone who made this event such a success – even with the remaining challenges we face in terms of protocols and restrictions. January return Please note the dates below in order to ensure that our community remains safe following the Christmas festivities. We look forward to seeing all our students again on January 11 and 12. For more details, please see the letter on the Parent Portal. Why should you move here?! Following on from our last newsletter, in partnership with COBIS schools in Mexico City and the Bahamas, we wanted to share our stories of living and learning with children from very different places and with very different experiences. Here is another example of one of our students explaining ‘Why should you move here!?’ (to Ecuador) and another video from one student in Mexico - look out for more in the coming weeks.
BSL This week four of our Y2B and EYFS students will be demonstrating new signs: Happy Christmas, Santa and reindeer, using BSL. Please watch this brilliant video: Ms. Hayley Dean, KS2 Lead Dates for your Diary As always please check this section carefully and ensure that you have all the details in your calendars.
Emma Newman Principal Being BSQ – Primary Update I hope you and your family all enjoyed the Christmas Bazaar on Saturday and were able to purchase some suitable Christmas artefacts made from recycled materials – the students were very enthusiastic sellers! With only four and a half days left before the Christmas break, there is still lots of learning to do at school, but also several events for you to be aware of via your child’s Canvas page and the Parent Portal. We finish at 12pm on Friday 17th December, after our whole Primary Assembly at 9:30am, with Term 3 starting online at 8am on Wednesday 5th January. Students will return to campus and face-to-face teaching on Wednesday 12th January. These five days of online learning, to help ensure that everyone is safe and well after the Christmas break before we return to campus, will follow the pattern of the day we followed when school was closed for two days while the road was being repaired in November. This will allow for breaks from the screen and will not impact the learning for our students. We will send more details about timetables through your child’s Class Canvas page. Please continue to visit your child’s Class Canvas page for updates about events and learning in the coming days and also to always contact your child’s class teachers if you have any questions about their learning or progress. We hope that you are all able to connect with loved ones both near and far in some meaningful way and can enjoy the Christmas break together. We look forward to welcoming you all back, firstly virtually and then on campus in the New Year. Marcus Madden Head of Primary Y6 contribution Year 6 have shown fantastic focus on their learning in the past few weeks, when learning about tsunamis, how to write newspapers, fractions, drawing to show different emotions and much more. As well as working hard with their learning, they have been busy designing great decorations for the Christmas Bazaar. To create the designs, we used a base of recycled material (such as plastic bottles, cardboard or a can). We then applied a few layers of papier-mâché which we painted white. The students were then extremely creative, adding detail to their canvases with paints, felt tips or physical objects. Their brief was to do something 'Christmassy' and they were all unique and creative with what they designed and made. Year 6 worked so hard on this, and the Year 6 team are very proud of their efforts. Well done, Year 6. Mr. Tomos Prosser, Y6 Teacher Being BSQ – Secondary Update Results and the rewards of hard work Well done year 13! They are finally at the end of their first mock exam experience and we have to acknowledge just how well they have done. On the whole their preparations have been satisfactory but the students themselves will reflect on this once the results come through. We need to remember that they have not had the experience of IGCSE assessments previously to set the tone and build a foundation for the stresses and challenges ahead. Results will be issued to them on the last day of term in an envelope. This is merely to inform of the grades achieved. It will allow some time to reflect during the holiday period. In January once Year 11 have completed their mocks a more formal report on strengths, weaknesses and the focus required in the months ahead will be released ready for the parent teacher conferences. I really do wish everyone the very best and hope that whatever the result, the information gained from the process gives staff, students and parents a clear understanding of what is needed over the next few months. We intend to hold an additional mock series in March for the 11’s in IGCSE and 13’s in IB before the main event. By then everyone will have been tested fully and prepared as best as possible. You will recall my notes of good luck to Ignacio last week as he embarked on two international tennis tournaments in the US. I spoke to his mum today and I am pleased to report that he came second in one event and he was knocked out in the quarter final by the German player who went on to win overall. He is having a wonderful experience and he is training hard. This week sees him play the main event. Again, we are all sending him our very best wishes. We have also had good news this week of success again with Joaquin and his national show jumping. He has just been named as number one in the provincial rankings. He is competing this week to decide on the national champion. I look forward to hearing all about his results and some pictures for next week. Once again we are sending our very best wishes for his success. Well done to them both. We are now entering the last week of the term and we all look forward to a well-deserved long break and the chance to share the festive season with friends and family. We enjoyed the first event at the Christmas Bazaar on Saturday. A huge success to everyone and well done for the money raised. There will be more pictures and results to follow. On Friday we have an early finish at 12.00 pm and normal lessons will be replaced with end of term parties in forms and other festive fun. I am particularly looking forward to the traditional Christmas quiz and the whole school singing the 12 days of Christmas! I hope that this will be a big send off for us all into the holidays. Y8: Greek masks There are no surviving masks that were actually worn from Ancient Greek Theater. A little sad to know, but we still have some of the historical records, drawings or descriptions to imagine how these beautiful masks looked like. Masks served several important purposes in Ancient Greek theater: to exaggerate expressions and help define the characters the actors were playing. In Year 8, as part of our work in the Drama lessons with the play Antigone, we are making masks. Each student will decorate and paint their masks according to their characters in the play. We may not be able to project sound like a small megaphone with the mask, but we are one step closer to understanding how this amazing art still influences the Modern day mask work Ms Espinosa, Performing Arts teacher KS3 CAS Updates We are very happy to have delivered all the collected toys to the Sinsoluka foundation. We are also very grateful that the PA helped us and accompanied us on this very special day for the Second Chance project. It was a unique and fun experience for all. Thank you to all the BSQ community for your support during the donations campaigns. Second Chance Project.
Have a wonderful week everyone. Lee Moors Head of Secondary
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