WelcomeWelcome back everyone from the Easter break. I hope you all found time to rest and recharge as we now move into our long, busy and very exciting summer term. There will certainly be something for everyone to enjoy both inside the traditional classroom and outside through events, community projects, Family Funday, trips etc. Just for example this week we have Road Safety Awareness Day and a (slightly belated) Easter Egg Hunt organised by the CAS students. We also welcome back our CAS team from the Amazon where they have been working alongside students from other schools, Fundacion Raiz and members of the Secoya Nation to continue the partnership we first started in 2019 and hope to see continue for many years to come. A message from the PA British Sign Language (BSL) This week two of our Y5 students will be demonstrating two new signs: weather and temperature 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.
Mrs. Emma Newman Principal Being BSQ – Primary Update Welcome back to Term 5 here at BSQ, which promises to be a busy and exciting term of learning. This week we have three main activities planned: Easter Activities organised by CAS Secondary students on Wednesday 27th April, Road Awareness Day on Thursday 28th April and the starting of Swimming Lessons for all primary students. For the Easter activities, the students will be encouraged to dress up in Ocean themed clothing, using colours like Blue, Green, White, Brown, Red, Orange and Yellow. Similar to the World Book Day, students dressing up will be asked to donate $1 to the charitable cause, whilst those students choosing not to dress up will be asked to donate $2. We will also host an Easter Egg Hunt, which will cost $1 for those students wanting to participate. Students will also decorate an egg in school, so please send them in with a suitable egg on Wednesday. From Tuesday 26th April, swimming lessons will start again in Primary. All students will be required to have a swimming kit in school on that day, with Early Years students wearing their swimming costumes under their outer layer and bringing in a set of underwear to change into afterwards. The pool is heated and warm, with no swimming on Mondays to ensure it is warm, clean and ready for use each week. The swimming kit each child will need is:
These are the days that each class will be swimming (therefore, not having PE on that day from April 25th): Swimming lessons make up an important part of the PE curriculum here at BSQ are a compulsory element of the timetable and curriculum, so if your child is not able to swim because of a medical condition, please send us the appropriate certificate for our records. Mr. Marcus Madden Head of Primary Y3B As you can see from the photos, Year 3B have been busy this term creating Egyptian death masks. Our topic this term in art is sculpture and we have been learning how Egyptians made their death masks and why they looked like they did. We started off by researching and designing a death mask in our sketch books. Then the whole class got nice and sticky with papier Mache which took two weeks to build along with the headdress and facial features. In our final week we got the chance to spray paint the masks with gold (of course) and decorate them according to our designs. The class did a wonderful job and the results were magnificent. In science we have been learning about forces and to end the term we played 3 strikes and you are out. The class had to run to different sides of the classroom to show their choice of answer. Well done to Sol and Sofiia who only got one strike. Magnetism experts. We ended our science topic this term with 5 science activities for the class to explore. Each table had different instructions and a variety of magnets to work with. Groups had to make a snake using ball magnets and make it wriggle across the desk. Another group had a magnet in water and had to see the water affected the magnetic pull. Lots of fun was had and many unexpected discoveries were made. Have a wonderful Easter from year 3B Being BSQ – Secondary Update The end of a long term is always a time of great joy and it was wonderful to see such an amazing finish last Thursday. The whole school took time to prepare and dress up for world book day, and the theme allowed us all to have lots of fun. Well done to Hugo for his Oompa Loompa outfit, to Mika, Isa, and Vicky for their ‘Thing’ Dr Seuss theme, to Anabella for the ‘White Queen’ in the Wizard of Oz, and finally Maria Veronica for her efforts as the ‘Queen of Hearts’ from Alice in Wonderland. The students in English played with words designing ‘slam’ poetry as a form of performance. Particular credit to year 12 who really engaged with this to produce some excellent themes. Students also created mini sagas which led to a 50-word story. There were some excellent stories with great creativity shown by Axel and Muriel in Year 7 and Lyla and her partner in year 8. Another event saw students making bookmarks and the physical fun came from the BSQ Quidditch tournament from the Harry Potter series. Well done to Mr Edwards for not only creating the arena but also to his team of helpers who ably introduced the rules for everyone to eventually form some very competitive and entertaining games. The best moment was Domenik Valencia as the Golden Snitch with what seemed to be the whole field of players trying to catch her to win the game – far too fast it seemed. As always the whole event came to a close with a well-considered and excellently led assembly by our CAS students facilitated by Sibone and Mrs Todd. I am always impressed by the confidence and creativity of our students when they step up and lead the school. Well done all for an excellent end-of-term celebration. We move now into a very important time of the year with everyone preparing for the culmination of their efforts in learning at all levels of the school. Everyone has worked incredibly hard this year in what have been challenging circumstances. Whilst on the whole we have been at the campus there have been some disrupted periods. The end of a school year is a point where children demonstrate their newly gained knowledge and skills and receive credit for their achievements. Before we know it, exams for everyone will be taking place. I encourage you all to prepare appropriately and use the remaining time to identify what is missing and what needs practising before the main event. You all deserve much credit and I hope you all receive the results you deserve. There are only about 11 weeks left and there is still so much to do and look forward to such as the family fun day, the graduation, and many other activities to celebrate the end of the year. I wish you all the very best for the weeks to come. EAL In EAL in recent weeks, we´ve been looking at new and interesting ways of greeting each other, as well as how we would say these phrases naturally in English - this is the funny looking language (phonemes) in red! See if you can figure out which of the phrases in red matches one of the greetings questions on the board. Good luck! Mrs. Nicola Berry, EAL Teacher Spanish B - Y12 In Spanish B,Year 12 students have been working on the unit called "EXPERIENCES" in which we deal with alternative tourism or thanatourism, a term created in the mid-90s, also called Grief Tourism or Thanatourism (from the Greek "Thanatos" meaning death), is an attraction to places associated with the occult or forbidden. The students researched, wrote and designed brochures about different places in the world where this type of tourism is practised. In Spanish B, students develop their skills to summarise, read and analyse texts, in addition to their writing skills in brochures, formal and informal letters, newspaper articles, personal journals and blog entries, their creativity is also something important in Spanish B and they have been perfecting. By following this link you can read about their research in the form of BLOG entries in addition to brochures designed by the students. You can comment or leave 5 stars on the ones you like the most. https://padlet.com/otabango/dc3h97r2jqzk7j7i Authors are:
Mr. Oscar Tabango, Spanish B Teacher Have a good week everyone.
Mr. Lee Moors Head of Secondary
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