WelcomeWell, this is it. We have reached the final newsletter of the year and, as always, a time to reflect on all that has been achieved. Looking back over past newsletters I read with very happy memories in the final June 2019 edition of the Orbital Budapest trip returning, Year 6 Macbeth, secondary Romeo and Juliet, the Year 6 Ibarra adventure and leadership trip and many other face to face celebrations that, once again in 2021, we have had to postpone, change or cancel entirely. Of all the schools in our group and even around the wider world, we have been hit harder than many in terms of the prolonged time we have had to spend apart. As a result, we have learned to overcome new challenges and find new ways to meet our goals. I think I can say with great confidence that few communities would have done a better job in staying and thriving together. Throughout the time since March 2020, our values have supported us to care for each other whilst continuing to aim for excellence. Thank you to all the parents who have thanked staff, shared joyful images of learning, provided time and space at home and continued to support our BSQ students to flourish. Being back together at BSQ in August 2021 is certainly something I know you all wish for as much as we do. Have a very happy holiday and see below for a celebration of our year at home. BSQ Equality & Diversity Committee The Equality and Diversity Committee has put together these resources for YOU. We have all contributed to CLICK, therefore, you will see a little bit of us on every page. There are different categories such as movies or books. Please explore all of them with your families and help us spread awareness about the importance of Equality, Diversity and Inclusion in our community, our society and the world. Happy Summer Everyone! Let´s talk about emotions Fear is an emotion that appears when we think or feel that we are in danger. It is a natural reaction that allows us to be careful and respond to different situations. Talking about what frightens us and understanding what causes us fear will allow us to react in the best way and move forward. 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 It is with sadness that I write the final newsletter of this unique year here at BSQ – although we have remained online for the whole year and been separated by time and space, our special community has continued to flourish and develop. We say goodbye to teachers and students as they move onto new opportunities and ready ourselves to welcome new teachers and students to our school. We are continuing to support our Year 6 students moving up to Year 7 and Secondary, with two more opportunities to celebrate with them, at Friday’s Leaver’s Assembly (at 2:30pm on the KS2 Canvas page) and the Year 6 Graduation Ceremony (at 2pm on Monday 28th June on the Year 6 Canvas page). Then on Tuesday 29th June, we will hold the BSQ Award Ceremonies: 9am for EYFS and 11am for Years 1-6, both on the Parent Portal. Finally, on Wednesday 30th June at 11am, all students in Years 1-6 are invited to our End of Year Goodbye Assembly, on the Parent Portal. If you have recently joined this area of the canvas portal and have not yet received an invite for any of these events, please do contact Mr Madden ([email protected]). As we reflect on this unique year of living and learning at BSQ, I want to personally thank each and every member of our community for their patience, resilience, enthusiasm, happiness and strength of character throughout the year. I hope that you are all able to spend some time recharging the batteries and time with family and friends, ready for the challenges of the new academic year, wherever you may be. Please do take the opportunity to thank everyone involved in your child’s development and see you all soon. Marcus Madden Head of Primary Year 1 Newsletter Over the past two weeks our creative Year 1´s have been looking at an ´Amazing Journey´. We looked at how children around the world travel to school in amazing and adventurous ways. Year 1 also watched some really creative assault courses for hamsters and squirrels which we all really enjoyed! Once the children had thought through and discussed an amazing journey of their own, they carefully planned it out by thinking about where they would build it, with which materials and the form of transport they would use. This meant we were able to integrate our Design Technology knowledge along with our Transport Topic this term. We had trains zooming along homemade tracks, mermaids swimming away from evil dragons, rabbits going on an adventure and incredible marble runs to name but a few. During our ICT lessons we learnt how to use the Videoshop app where we edited, added music and text to our videos. With this new skill Year 1 were able to film their ´Amazing Journey´. All of Year 1 made a huge effort with their projects and as you can see from the photos, they enjoyed the space to be creative. Year 1 team EYFS Update Dear parents, 1:1 sessions will conclude by the end of this week in addition to Little Kickers. It has truly been a delightful year and a lovely experience working with you as a team to teach your children. They have impressed us all, with their resilience, positive attitude and love for learning. We look forward to celebrating their personal accomplishments at the ‘Early Years Awards Ceremony’ on Tuesday June 29, at 9:00AM via Canvas on the Parent Portal. The last day for students will be on Wednesday June 30. This day each Early Years Foundation Stage class teacher will prepare a ‘End of the Year Class Celebration’ via Canvas at 11:00AM. More details on this will come as we move closer to the date. To all the Fathers, we extend warm greetings on the special occasion of Father’s Day and hope that you had a wonderful day with your loved ones. Antonella Coronel, Head of Early Years Being BSQ – Secondary Update Last week was wonderful with many interactions with parents and students. The task of leading a school requires a lot of communication and usually this is done in the day-to-day life around campus. This week I have been finally able to do this directly with the year 6 and 7 students and parents for their graduation photographs, and of course activity connected with the graduation of year 13 this week. What struck me was the enthusiasm and excitement at being on the school site and how pleased the students and parents were to meet their teachers in person again. I am really excited about the fun days on Monday 28th as staff and students will have time to connect and celebrate the year in a fun and relaxed way. Years 7-9 at 9 am, and years 10,11 and 12 at 1 pm. Drop off and collection will be via the drive through. You will have received a letter outlining the arrangements. I had a positive meeting with our new parents joining us in year 7 next year and I have witnessed some great welcome and introduction events delivered by our staff to a nervous but excited group of year 6 students. They have a sense of fun, they are independent, and are bright and enthusiastic. These are the qualities for success. Our teachers are excited to be welcoming them next year to the secondary school. Year 11 have been busy this week enjoying the IB taster sessions for their study subjects next year. I have also been meeting students to finalise their options. I was struck by how informed they were about their future aspirations which is wonderful to hear as this really frames their motivation and goals going forward. I am also incredibly proud of their achievements which have been against the odds. Well done to them all! The end of the year is a time for celebration and rightly we should all be extremely proud of our achievements. Teachers have worked incredibly hard, the students have had to cope with learning in a very different way, and children should be commended on their success. We must not forget you as parents. I, along with my wife Natalie, have also had the challenge of balancing our responsibilities with the need to supervise our children as they do their lessons online. We are acutely aware of how challenging this is to you as parents, and I would like to extend my gratitude on behalf of our teachers for the support you have given them. Often this is the difference between a successful and a stressed child. We are a family and a team around each and every one of them, and this year particularly has been one that the this has been critical. Well done and thank you! If you are a parent of one of our year 13 Graduates, I am really looking forward to meeting you and giving you all my best wishes and congratulations at the Graduation ceremony as your son or daughter embarks on their next chapter in life. They really have done extraordinarily well this year and we are all super proud of them. I am confident that those going abroad to universities in the UK, Europe and the USA will have great success. Students staying local at university or travelling will also be very prepared for their next challenge. Do please look out for the results service advice and ensure that access codes for downloads are at hand, and destination universities have the information they need. If you are unsure, please contact Miss Todd who is keen to help you. Finally, I would like to express my sincere thanks for the welcome and support that you have given me in my first year at BSQ. It has been unprecedented for me and a quite different start to a leadership position in education. We have enjoyed a huge amount of success throughout the school, and I am extremely proud of our staff and students. BSQ is a wonderful school and community and I look forward to meeting and working closely with you all next year. Have a well-deserved break. Lee Moors Head of Secondary Y11 IGCSE, Art and Design programme It's a pleasure for year 11 art students and the teacher, to present and share with the BSQ community the results of their IGCSE, Art and Design program. During the two years course, students explore a topic set by the teacher, or by Cambridge, and experiment different ways to communicate their ideas and intentions through visual language, as well as manipulate a variety of art mediums and techniques, deep into artists and art movements and plan a final piece that shows a coherent relationship between their preparatory explorations and their final piece. Here you can observe fragments of their best project, as well as some reflections of the students' experience after taking the Art and Design course. My experience in IGCSE art really opened my eyes to different forms of creativity and creating art. Before, I would mostly stick to graphite for my drawings, but this course pushed me into trying new mediums, for example, acrylics, watercolour, ink, markers and colour pencils. It also challenged my time management skills, since IGCSE art requires lots of work and dedication. I needed to balance my time between other school subjects and art as it consumed lots of my time. What I liked most about this course is that I got the chance to include my own style and ideas into my work, normally I wouldn't do this, I would just find a picture I like and copy it, but now, I discovered my art style and discovered new ways to make it unique. – Antonella. My experience was filled with excitement, creativity and a little bit of stress. It was not my first time entering an art programme but my technique needed improvement and I had not used some materials like charcoal in a really long time. Therefore, this experience was like being on a roller coaster while blindfolded because I did not know what I was doing most of the time and every piece I did was like an adventure. However, my favourite part of this whole experience was discovering that I could create more things that I thought I could. It was astonishing to see some of the things I created and realize that I made them. – Veronica. Being an IGCSE student in art is really challenging because there's a lot to do in a short period of time and having to manage time but also this benefits us because it teaches us how to work hard and work with the timing. Throughout the year, we learned to be able to take it into our own hands and experiment. – Marilin. My IGCSE Art experience was tough but fun! Earlier this year I suffered an injury that prevented me from doing anything for over 2 months... I had accumulated a large amount of pieces that I had to do. Thankfully, I recovered and was able to finish everything! In the programme, we first did a practice/ coursework project that consisted of 8 preparatory papers. My theme was the 'Evolution of the Horse'. I had a lot of fun doing it (even though I felt like giving up like 1000 times) and I am extremely happy with the results! It was really tough, but 100% worth it because it was really satisfying seeing your final product! In the second project, I chose the theme 'Fracture' and wanted to study the Japanese tradition of Kintsukuroi. Kintsukuroi consists of fixing broken pottery by binding it with gold- increasing the value of the pottery. This shows that there is beauty in imperfections and this is the message that I wanted to express in my 4 preparation papers. I was also extremely happy with the outcomes from this project! Overall, I learned a lot from this course and the experience it gave me, it was really worth it! If you are thinking of doing the IGCSE Art programme, do it because you like art, not because you think it is the easiest course. In fact, I think this was, at some point, harder than chem and that's saying a lot! – Anabella I would say that the IGCSE Art course experience is interesting. You get to try out different mediums that you may have not ever used before and develop skills in other mediums that you have had experience in. It is really a course of self-improvement and constant peer assessment and many times it does get tough. I really enjoyed being in this course because I improved many skills I had and discovered new things as well as had fun while doing the explorations. – Daniela. IGCSE art was a very interesting experience. We got to explore new areas of art we had not seen in past years, and push ourselves to explore our talent to the maximum. For me personally it was very challenging but yet fun, it was an experience that I will never forget. Making the portfolios and having some time in my day to paint and draw was very helpful amongst the stress of the IGCSE, I would say it was almost therapeutic. On other occasions it did not come easy as this course is fairly difficult and really makes you push yourself to the limit. For anyone in year 9 thinking of taking art, I would highly recommend challenging your art skills and take this course. – Vanesa. For the art newsletter, I decided to select one of my favourite pieces of works, from project 1 paper 6, Which is a drawing of The current London and a Sticky note with a drawing of a somewhat industrial London, which is aligned with the perspective. I chose this because in my opinion it's the best work that I've done, and it really represents how much effort I put into it, as I really liked my idea. – Gael. Katherine Gala PE In Physical Education students are currently performing Healthy Heart Month. Students have been learning about the cardiovascular system, whilst paying close attention to their heart rate. Understanding how we get energy to our muscles and how we can improve our overall fitness. With the help of a few special guests, Mr Edwards has been creating exercise videos for students to complete. Using the link below feel free to join in on the action and complete a video when your students have their next lesson. Mr. Bradley Edwards, PE Teacher
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