Newsletter # 28

ISSUE 27 16 APRIL 2010

Romans win!

STRIKE!

FS Wiggly Woo

Year 1 Aliens

Secondary Humantities

NOW SUMMER

UNIFORM!

23 APRIL 2010 ISSUE 28

From the Executive Principal

D ear Parents We have been proud to host over 70 British students this week who have been stranded in Beijing due to flight cancellations caused by the ash cloud. The students have joined some of our classes in Secondary School and have been charming, grateful and impressed. For our part, I always think we gain a great deal of hybrid vigour from opening our eyes and our doors to new experiences. The students will stay with us for around a week or so as the flight issue clears up. We’re proud, of course, to work with the embassies to help those in need and we were honoured to receive a surprise visit from His Excellency Sebastian Wood the British Ambassador. Mr. Wood came to thank the British School for our hospitality in time of need and also to meet with the students at the school. Unfortunately, the plane taking myself and many of our teachers to Shanghai for the teachers’ conference was also cancelled, though not because of ash! No other flights were available due to huge demand caused by the Grand Prix and the Expo so we were unable to attend. Of course, we’ll be there in full force for the next one in November. On the theme of those in need, and far more serious need, I’m saddened, as are we all, to reflect on the recent earthquake that struck China. I have had a number of suggestions regarding ways in which the fortunate community of The British School can help. The main charities involved tell me that what is needed most is cash/medicine and toiletries. These articles that are easy to transport and not perishable. Parents, students, the Charity Council ASA, The Chatterbox coffee shop and others have come forward with ways to raise funds to support the relief effort that allow The British School to contribute without negatively affecting those charity concerns of which we are long term and committed partners. I feel that this is the right and appropriate way to proceed. Our flags flew at half mast yesterday as we joined the nation on the day of mourning for the victims. This week I have published our new fee schedule for the academic year 2010-2011. As advised previously the annual fees now include the residential trips for each year group. This was at the request of the Parental Advisory Board and the Parent Society. The fees also include the cost of one ABRSM music examination for those student taking the PIPs programmes. We have just welcomed back some of our Mandarin teachers from a training course held by Cambridge University in Hong Kong. They came back enthused and full of new ideas to pass on to the students. We were also pleased to welcome a very useful session held by the University of York who came to recruit our students. They were very impressed, of course, with the work we have done and our students’ attitude and aptitude.I wish all of you a safe and peaceful week. Mike Embley

Key Dates

April

Aliens Wiggly Woo Humanities DayYear 1 have been working hard at writing their own alien story, on top of painting their clay aliens!

Foundation Stage have been singing and dancing about wiggly worms and other insects living at the bottom of the garden.

The humanities department will be hosting a morning full of workshops for the whole of KS3 and KS4 on the theme of the Millennium goals.

Year 4 Pingyao Trip

Humanities Day

Shunyi Parent Society Meeting 9.30am

Primary BSB Idol

Secondary BSB Idol

Shunyi Parents Society Meeting

Foundation Sports Day

May

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KS1 Sports Day

KS2 Sports Day

SLT Swimming Gala

KS1 Swimming Gala

KS2 Swimming Gala

Summer Fayre

Shunyi Parents Society Meeting

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SANLITUN SHUNYISHUNYI


NOTICES

Friday 30th April - Foundation Stage(SLT + SY students) Cross Campus Sports Day to be held in ShunyiWe would like to warmly invite all parents, friends and family to join the fun and support our young athletes!

The event will take place at our Shunyi Campus, starting at 9:30 and is due to finish at 11:30. A bus for parents from the Sanlitun area will be provided, but we kindly ask that you contact Miss. Cher Wang to confirm your seat via this e-mail address; [email protected]. If you are making you own transport arrangements, please be aware of the traffic disruptions and road closures due to the car exhibition. We recommend you follow the directions below;

京承高速，后沙峪火沙路(6出口）出，见第四个红绿灯右转，沿路直行至优山美地路口左转即到。北京新英才学校南

Jing Cheng Highway, exit No 6 (Hou Sha Road), Turn right at the fourth set of traffic lights. Travel straight ahead and turn left at the first crossing (Yosemite crossing).

Should you have any questions, please do not hesitate to contact either Mrs. Katie Robinson; [email protected] or myself; [email protected]. We look forward to seeing you there.

WHOLE SCHOOL NOTICES

CHATTERBOXCAFE

Chatterbox Cafe wishes

to thank all the customers

and vendors who

supported the charity

bazaar on Friday 16th

April. It was a great

sucess and raised

5,800RMB for Beautiful

Harbour and Change for

Life.



UPCOMING SCHOOL EVENTS

SOCCER SATURDAYS FOR GIRLSAre you a girl 14 to 18 years old?

Do you like to play soccer?Do you like to play soccer?Then come to the soccer fields at ISB on Saturday mornings for some fun!!

This is your chance to play with girls from other schools and make new friends!

ISB Girls Soccer coaches Dirk and Susan Kraetzer will be on hand

to run some skill development drills and supervise small‐sided games.

May 1st ‐ 10:00 a.m. to 11:30 a.m. May 22nd ‐ 10:00 a.m. to 11:30 a.m.

May 8th – no session due to ISB Spring Fair May 29th ‐ 10:00 a.m. to 11:30 a.m.

May 15th ‐ 10:00 a.m. to 11:30 a.m. June 5th ‐ 10:00 a.m. to 11:30 a.m.Come to one session or come to them all!

There is no cost involved.

Players should wear proper soccer footwear, shinguards and bring drinking water.

If you have any questions, contact us at

[email protected]

Summer Fayre Vendors

Our Summer Fayre is fast approaching on the 22nd May. It is guaranteed to be an action packed day, full of fun and games. We have a range of new of activities this year, so it defiantly will be bigger than ever before! If you are interested in being a vendor at our fayre, please contact Laura Westley on [email protected]


We are the world We are the children

We are the ones who make a brighter day So let’s start giving

There’s a choice we’re making We’re saving our own lives

It’s true we’ll make a better day Just you and me

It is times like this that we need to take stock and be thankful for how lucky we are. I have spent time with two large groups of children and adults stranded in Beijing who have impressed me with their positiveness. I watched a magical assembly by Mrs Appelby’s class which ended with ‘You are my sunshine’ and then witnessed one of the children give another child a hug because he was sad his mum had left.

There are now over 2000 dead from the Yushu earthquake and we would very much like to raise funds to try and help some of these families that have lost everything. On Thursday we will hold a bake sale all day and all proceeds will go towards the earthquake victims and their families.

Enjoy the sunshine this weekend with your family and let us all say a silent thank you for all the wonderful things we have in our lives.

Warm regards,Janet Brock

From the Deputy Head, Sanlitun



Wiggly Wooooooo.....!Spiders on the floor, ladybugs in the grass, snails sliding on leaves and a worm called Wiggly Woo who hides at the bottom of the garden. Everyone in pre-nursery has been busy wiggling their fingers for all the songs and finger plays we have been busy chanting. We used cooked spaghetti to paint and they sure do look like worms! We pretended to be butterflies, with colourful fabrics for our wings and made an astonishing number of bugs like dragonflies, worms, caterpillars and of course butterflies. The finale of the week has to be our Earthworm Sandwich. It might sound yucky, but it really was made from crushed Oreo cookies, scattered on buttered bread with gummy earthworms. Yummilicious!

Nursery D has had a week of shape. In anticipation of the sun we made yummy ice creams by making cones and screwing up paper. Strawberry ice cream is the most popular! Shape games on the interactive white board have been lots of fun and we have been very creative making lots of things from space rockets to sharks on the junk modeling table. Nursery A has been busy practicing and making props in preparation for their performance which we hope everyone enjoyed today!

Is it bumpy, rough, smooth or shiny? These are just some of the questions the children have been asking this week as they have started to explore their new topic all about ‘Materials’. They have been sorting and describing lots of everyday materials and objects

in and around the school environment and have even investigated which materials would make a good waterproof coat for WALT! One of our favourite activities this week in Reception has been making our own yummy milkshakes as part of our work on ‘Capacity’. We helped to chop up and mix all the ingredients and then had lots of fun pouring it into different sized containers to see which held more. We then filled our cups to the top, drank half of it and then drank it all up so our cups were EMPTY!

Foundation Stage, Sanlitun


Key Stage One, Sanlitun

Iron ManAs part of our science fiction topic in Year 5 we have been analyzing the book The Iron Man, by Ted Hughes. We have read the story in class; scrutinized the words, phrases and techniques used by the author; compared the book to the cartoon animation that was made; improved the book with our own metaphors, similes and personification; and even wrote an additional chapter for the book to give the story a new and improved story ending! We shared our additional chapters with each other and some of them were truly inspired! One even included the Iron Man’s mum getting involved and what a dramatic extra chapter that proved to be!

Next week we will begin to write our own science

Key Stage Two, Sanlitun

Alien Space AdventuresOn Wednesday this week the KS1 children in Sanlitun were pleased to welcome Year 1 and Year 2 from Shunyi for the inter house sports competition. We had lots of fun playing ‘bucket ball’ and ‘football tennis’. The teachers were all very impressed with the team work skills demonstrated by the children and their good sportsmanship. In their literacy lessons Year 1 have been creating their own exciting alien space adventures, incorporating the characters and planets that they created last week. The children have used their imaginations to come up with a problem that their character will encounter and have been creative in thinking of how it is solved. In topic lessons the children have been learning about the moon and the astronauts who have visited it.

In Year 2 the children have been learning about telling the time in their numeracy lessons. After being reminded about how to read analogue clocks, the children were then introduced to digital clocks. Having identified which side referred to the hours and which to the minutes, the children quickly picked up how to read an o’clock, quarter past or half past time. Year 2I have clearly been very well behaved this term as they have already earned 100 marbles! Their reward was to have extra playtime with toys.This week a number of groups of children have been preparing their entries for the BSB idol competition. It has been lovely to hear the sounds of music playing, children singing and hands clapping along the KS1 corridor. Everyone is very excited about this upcoming event and we’ve all got our fingers crossed for our budding KS1 performers!


fiction stories, using everything we have learnt to aid us in our task. It is amazing to see how relevant and well-loved a classic like The Iron Man is with children, given it was written in 1968, over 40 years ago.Year 5 and 6 participated in the ‘Striking & Fielding’ inter-house activity afternoon at Shunyi. It is always a pleasure for us to visit Shunyi and see our friends. We are really proud of the great manners and good sportsmanship displayed by our children during the event. We all had a fantastic time and thought that ‘sting ball’ was great fun. Despite its name, there were no children ‘stung’ during the afternoon!Christine Armstrong

Key Stage Two, Sanlitun

Illuminating!This week in Year 6 the children have been revising How we see things. We began by identifying light sources and materials that reflect light. The children have investigated and tried to prove the theory that light travels in straight lines and have described what happens when reflective and opaque materials interrupt this beam of light. We have investigated how shadows are formed and have looked carefully at how shadows change in position and size as the sun moves across the sky. Laura Beverley Yr 6 Teacher

Fun with Friction.Year 4 - We began our unit by looking at forces and establishing how a force is either a push or a pull that makes things move, stop, change direction or change shape.We looked at how forces are measured and had great fun using Newton meters to pull various objects around the classroom.Fortunately the weather in the early part of the week allowed us to take our skills outside to test the effects that different surfaces have on the amount of force needed to pull an object along a surface. We first established the importance of a fair test and decided on the one variable that would change to ensure this – the surface.Armed each with a Forcemeter and a shoe Year 4 traipsed outside to begin the testing. By pulling the shoe along the surfaces – the basketball court, concrete, astro turf and tartan track – we established that the Friction was greater along the astro turf and that was why there more force was required to pull the shoe along it.Year 4 are very much enjoying their Science this term, we’re sure that their enthusiasm will rub off on everyone here at Sanlitun!


PESLT PEThe children at Sanlitun have all enjoyed starting their new PE modules this week. In athletics the children have been looking at throwing, jumping and running skills and techniques. They have all worked hard and we are already beginning to see some budding athletes. During swimming lessons the children have worked hard and have focussed on their stroke techniques whilst ensuring effective breathing. We are very pleased to see a high level of enthusiasm for PE accross all year groups. KS1 Striking & Fielding CompetitionThis week Sanlitun Campus hosted the Key Stage 1 striking and fielding competition. We were very lucky that the rain held off and we were all able to enjoy an exciting afternoon. Year 1 had great fun playing bucket ball and were able to demonstrate the skills they have been learning this year. Year 2 enjoyed some exciting games of football cricket and there were a high number of runs scored in all of the games, thanks to some effective striking. KS1 Results1st Red House=2nd Yellow House=2nd Green House3rd Blue House

Katie Robinson, PE Teacher

EALThe EAL students have been working really hard this week. All the students have been working on the building blocks of English language. Year one students have been learning how to talk about their families. Year two students have been creating their own characters in preparation for writing extended stories. Year 4 students have been working on writing a play script based on a popular fable. Year 5 students have been focusing on improving their use of tenses when writing and the year 6 students have been debating the advantages and disadvantages of watching TV and writing their own balanced points of view. Surprisingly, three quarters of the students disapproved of watching TV. I wonder if they actually follow their beliefs so rigidly.....?! A tip for this week: the EAL students who learn the fastest are the ones who play with English speaking students at break time. Encourage your child to play with students who don’t speak his/her native language. In this way, your child will have to learn Englsih and will enjoy doing it too!


What We Do Matters!The striking and fielding competitions this week were hugely enthralling and very competitive, with each House cheering on their team mates to victory. The Romans romped to victory in the end though, despite the other Houses’ best efforts - a good day was had by all.

Friday’s assembly featured “The World’s Most Dangerous Animal” who was encased in a box on the stage. The children had to use 20 cunning questions to figure out what it was, and in the end most realised the creature was in fact human (in the form of the wonderful Miss Cross). We then went on to think about why humans are so dangerous and destructive (polluters, destroyers of habitaits and ecosystems) and what we could do to minimise our damaging behaviours - use less water and energy and reuse items. The classes were set the task (through the Student Council Reps) to consider their class’s contribution.

The sunshine has meant that our outdoor learning has restarted - Y3 has been outside making shadows in science lessons, Y4 and Y5 Chinese beginners have been using the outdoors to review prepositions, and the FS are taking every opportunity to take their learning outdoors into the sand, garden, sun and big spaces - great active learning.

The warmer weather also means that summer uniform should be worn from Monday please. In this way, the children will feel more comfrotable as the temperatures rise.Have a lovely weekend.Jane Smith, Head of PrimaryREMINDER: Next Tuesday, there is a talk on Third culture kids - highly recommended.

A Message from the Head of Primary, Shunyi

KS2 Striking and Field Competition On Wednesday, KS2 Sanlitun children joined forces with KS2 in Shunyi to compete in a striking and fielding extravaganza! Each year group played the game ‘Sting Ball’, competing in a round- robin tournament to score as many points as possible for their house. All points were then added together to produce the overall KS2 house winner. The final results were as follows;Romans (Blue) 1st PlaceVikings (Yellow) 2nd PlaceSaxons (Green) 3rd Place Normans (Red) 4th PlaceDespite a rather gray day, spirits were far from dampened and all students had a fantastic time, truly striving to help their team win. A fantastic display of sportsmanship, congratulations to everyone.

Music News, Shunyi


Creepy Crawlies!This week has been lots of fun as the children start to enjoy the warmer weather, and the rain!

In Pre-Nursery the topic was ‘Little Creatures’. Children have been looking around outside for any creepy crawlies they can find! They have also painted cooked spaghetti to look like real worms, and have painted bumblebees for a little dance they know. Their new lovely display in the Foundation Stage corridor shows how much fun this topic is!

Nursery classes have been learning all about 2D and 3D shapes. They have been making 3D models and also building, drawing and painting shapes. They have also been busy looking for the letter ‘i’ as they walk through school. They also have had many objects on display in class which starts with the letter ‘i’ including insects and ice cream.

This week Reception started a new two week topic called ‘Materials, Houses and Homes’. They have been busy writing labels for different materials around the classroom and talking about the texture of the materials. They have talked about their own houses and homes and have built many houses from various construction materials.

Jo Pouncey, Shunyi

Foundation Stage, Shunyi


Key Stage One , Shunyi

Aliens & Google Earth!Year 1 were very excited about painting the clay aliens that they made last week. The children have also been working very hard at writing their own alien story. All children have word processed the title of their alien stories using Microsoft Word, and all were very proud to type their name on the front cover as the author! Great job Year 1! As well as this Year 1 have been talking to their parents and grandparents about the toys they used to play with when they were young. We then compared them to toys from the present day. In Year 2 we have been finding out how to locate places using an atlas, by looking at the contents and index pages. The children were very excited to have a go at using Google Earth, this time to ‘fly’ between different places to decide how we would travel between them. We also discussed the reasons why people would do this, such as for business or tourism. All the children in Key Stage 1 had a fantastic time when we went to Sanlitun last Wednesday, to participate in a ‘House Sports

Key Stage Two , Shunyi

Rainbow serpents & Roman soldiers!Year 3’s learning theme this term is “journeys,” centred around our art topic. We have really enjoyed learning about aboriginal art this week and have discussed the dreamtime story of the rainbow serpent and it’s journey of creating the mountains and valleys. We have discussed different types of journey and talked about different symbols to represent events that could inspire their artwork. Ideas include a journey through their favourite memories, a journey into the past along an ancient timeline and a journey into the future. I am always inspired and enthused by the children’s imagination and the Year 3 team can’t wait to see how their artwork develops; watch out for another fantastic display in the foyer soon! Year 4 are extremely excited about their residential next week and have been frantically writing notes in literacy all about Pingyao! They have been revising, discussing and applying the numerous strategies they have been taught involving problems with dividing, multiplying, adding and subtracting calculations. The Year 4, life size, Roman soldiers are almost finished! The children in Year 4 have made their very own army which will make a most impressive display!

Catherine Hall, Shunyi


Key Stage Two , Shunyi

Ghenghis KhanThis week year 5 have been continuing their work on Ted Hughes’ Iron Man. The children have looked carefully at the techniques he uses and have tried to use these in their own writing to create work in a similar style.The children have also been making their own 3D models of an ‘Iron Man’! Year 6 are really looking forward to their trip to Inner Mongolia in early June, so this term our topic is to learn about the geography, history and culture of this exciting place. This week we have started to learn all about Genghis Khan, a very impressive man. We have learnt how he transformed the Mongolian way of life through his vision of a united Mongolia and world domination!

In literacy we have been looking at the features of non-fiction texts including instructions. We had a great time learning and performing magic tricks in order to use them as a basis for written instructions.On Wednesday all the KS2 children took part in a fantastic striking and fielding house competition. We played a new game called ‘Stingball’, a bit of a cross between rounders and tig. Great fun was had and the completion was fierce but the blue Romans won it in the end.

828m of Maths!This week our gifted and talented mathematicians met to continue our exciting skyscraper work. I was very impressed with the book covers the children brought along as part of their challenge to make a scale drawing of the 4 tallest buildings in the world. Did you know that the Burj Khalifa in Dubai, which stands at 828m, is almost twice the height of the second tallest building in the world? The children continued this week to plan a plot of land to build a skyscraper on, we had to work out area, perimeter and discussed how we could work out the length of a triangle’s hypotenuse by drawing a scale diagram. We all decided on the plot of land which had the largest area surmising that this would support a taller building. The children were bursting with knowledge, enquiry and enthusiasm and I simply love teaching this group of very gifted children who are a credit to our school. Catherine Hall

Gifted & Talented Numeracy


Secondary

8CY AssemblyThis week 8CY presented their assembly to the school; last term in our citizenship lessons we had been exploring the importance of money. Where is money made and how it affects all areas of our lives. 8CY asked the question, “How would we cope if we left home without good qualifications and a good job.” How would we afford food, shelter, transport and even clothes! Using a great power point created by Kelvin Ng, they very articulately pointed out to the school that as teenagers and young adults, they lead a very privileged and protected life and that they should appreciate the hard work their parents do to keep them happy and healthy!Well done to Chelsea, Diana, Chloe, Darren, Zhou Ming and Kelvin.

Charlotte Yearn

Secondary

Dear Parents,

Thank you to parents who were able to attend the trip information evenings on Monday. I trust all your questions were answered and sufficient information was provided. The deadline for deposits has now elapsed so I would like to make a plea to any parents who have yet to make a payment to please do so ASAP. Additionally, I would like to remind parents that the remaining balance of 3000 RMB is due by Monday 17th May. I fully appreciate that school deadlines may not be the most convenient for individual families so please contact me if a greater degree of flexibility would be helpful.

Huge congratulations to the U14 girls basketball squad who came first in a tournament hosted at BSB last weekend. The boys travelled to Tianjin and secured 3rd place with some very impressive team play. Well done to all the players involved and the coaches Mr Ng and Mr Barnsley for securing fantastic wins for BSB.

The IGCSE decision making process for year 9 students is now in full swing; parents and students discussed future subject choices with our specialist teachers at this week’s Year 9 Options Evening. Within form lessons students have completing related activities in order to help them decide the subjects that they will study in year 10. If any Y9 parents have any further questions regarding the option selection process or the key stage 4 curriculum please do not hesitate to contact the school.

The secondary school has played host to stranded UK students from Lazlow’s Fencing Group and Newbold Community School this week; providing classrooms, internet provision and access for students to join lessons so they can continue with their studies. Out of chaos, positive and productive relationships have been formed bringing students and staff together from opposite sides of the globe resulting in the formation of enriching and rewarding experiences for all. Next Thursday, Secondary students will be performing in our BSB Idol talent competition from 2pm onwards so please join us for an entertaining afternoon if you are free. Martyn SteelHead of Secondary


Secondary Art

Humanities DayOn Tuesday 27th April the humanities department will be hosting a morning full of workshops for the whole of KS3 and KS4 on the theme of the Millennium goals.These are 8 goals based on UN declarations about global issues such as child mortality; poverty ; education and health.Targets were agreed in a document called the “Millennium declaration” ( 2000) that specified that by 2015 huge strides should have been made in (for example) reducing poverty ; increasing amounts spent on education or fighting infectious diseases - but most importantly, that all countries in the world would share responsibility for meeting these targets.As these are global issues, debt relief is one way that richer countries have helped poorer countries and so contributed to meeting these targets. These, then, are relevant issues that are not part of the mainstream syllabus but which, I feel, are important enough to be brought to our attention.Each workshop will be hosted by a KS4 or KS5 geography / history or business studies student and should impart information in a fun, interactive way. We are also fortunate to be able to give each student a keyring with a Millenium goal printed on it. Jo Parr

Secondary

Westminster WorkLast term Year 9 created excellent, detailed and very tricky pencil studies of Westminster Abbey in London. This term they have been extending their media and creative skills by developing the perspective and structure of the Abbey using inks, hot wax, tissue paper and bleach. The results are brilliant and develop the students ability, not only to control different materials, but also create an expressive piece of work from a traditional observed study. Charlotte Yearn, Secondary Art Teacher.


Secondary

Game programming clubOur Game Programming Club was off to a good start on Wednesday. We have 14 enthusiastic students from various year groups joining the club. This term we will learn to write game programs using the Game Maker software. At our first meeting we looked at some game genres that can be produced on Game Maker. With the help of Mr. Hultquist, I am certain our young programmers will soon be producing some interesting computer games!Kim Ng

Secondary

Secondary BSB IdolIn every corner of the music department secondary students are busy rehearsing for the upcoming BSB Idol which is to be held on Thursday 29th April, in the Shunyi theatre. Entries are welcome from all instrumentalists, vocalists, and dancers. This year will also feature a short comedy skit by one of our Year 7 students. As ever our formidable panel of judges will feedback to the students with constructive and sometimes humorous comments on every performance. Students who wish to enter should inform Mr England by Monday!Paul EnglandAssistant Director of Music

Limbo Dance House CompetitionStarting this Friday lunchtime, 23 April the students will be taking part in a Limbo Dance House competition. All the students can take part. Year 7 will be the first competitors. Next week it will be the Year 8s and then the week after the Year 9s and so on. We had a practice run during the Valentines Dance and we have several exceptional limbo dance experts. Good luck to all the competitors.

During the last 2 terms the students have participated in various sports competitions during the Friday lunchtime, usually with year group 1 class v the other class. So far we have had competitions in football, handball, basket ball, table tennis and dodge ball. Mr Nick Bourne


Secondary

External IGCSE and A/S and A2 Exams It is only a short time before the Cambridge and Edexcel IGCSE, GCSE and A/S and A2 examinations begin. IGCSE stands for International Certificate of Secondary Education and A /S stands for Advanced Standard. Besides the Yr 11 and 12 taking part in these externally assessed exams there will also be several Year 8, 9 and 10 students involved. The first set of exams, that are internally assessed, will be in the following subjects - Languages, ICT and Art. The students have been informed of the dates, times and their individual candidate numbers. We also have several candidates that have registered from outside the school. The start times of the Edexcel GCSE Chinese and all Edexcel A/S and A2 examinations have to be linked to the start times in the UK. This means that students taking a morning exam at 9 am will have to remain in a separate area to the rest of the students till 2 pm. The students starting an afternoon exam at 1.30 will start have to remain in a separate area to the rest of the students till 6.30 pm. They will remain in Library and can use the time to either revise or do class work or homework. There will be a school bus at 6.30 to take the students who live downtown to Sanlitun School. From there the students will have to make their own arrangements to get home. The above does not apply to the IGCSE and the Cambridge examinations.

SPORTS NEWSLast week U19 soccer and U14 basketball came to a close with the End of Season Tournaments

U19 Girls SoccerThe girls had a difficult but enjoyable season. The girls played with a very small squad of enthusiastic player and were able to score goals as well as win a game or twon a game or two. Congratulations to all of girls.Most Improved Player -Natasha MMost Valuable Player -Sylvia V U19 Boys SoccerThe boys had a successful season and were able to finish third in their league. Unfortunately other commitments meant that there were not enough players for the Tournament.Most Improved Player -Duncan WMost Valuable Player -Andre

U14 Girls BasketballAgain a small squad of players but this worked to the girls advantage as they were able to spend more time on court developing their team play. The girls responded very well to the coaching the had and were able to cap a good season with a winners trophy at the Tournament with Rebekka again leading the scoring; excellent!Most Improved Player -Katie KMost Valuable Player -Rebekka M

U14 Boys BasketballA good season for the boys. They worked hard in training and were able to develop their basketball fundamentals; it was good to see improvements in so many of the players. All of the boys came together well as a squad and worked hard for each other and for the team.Most Improved Player -Rishay CMost Valuable Player -Jonathan Z

This weekend:Saturday April 24, U12 basketball tournamentsBoys @ DCB -first game at 8.30amGirls @ BSB -first games at 9.00amComing up:Saturday May 8 ‘BSB Splash and Dash’ 12.00-3.00pm in the pool at BSB ShunyiJulian Barnsley, Athletic Director and Activities Coordinator


FOBISSEA Last Friday, students from year 4 and 5, both Sanlitun and Shunyi, took part in trials in order to be considered as a representative for the upcoming primary FOBISSEA games, due to take place in June. All students that attended the trials, showed an extremely high level of determination, skill, and fantastic sportsmanship. Unfortunately we were only able to choose 12 students from each year group and this was an extremely hard decision based on the standard of children we saw. The final selection was made based upon, fastest swimming times, track speed and achievements within simple agilities such as standing jumps, as well as assessment which take place during PE lessons for sports such as football and striking and fielding, in order to choose fairly, a well rounded team. Please join us in congratulating the following students for successfully being selected this year; Year 4 BoysNathan Bell SY, Ben Francis SY, Zen Suzuki SY, Danny Yang SY, Martin Li SLT, Nicholas Li SLT

Year 4 GirlsSammy Johnston SY, Mako Barnsley SY, Rosie Wood SY, Danielle Moore SY, Tracey Kong SY, Annlinn Chen SLT

Year 5 BoysPaul Chang SY, Oscar Chang SY, Fededrico Roma SY, Aaron Lam SLT, Zhaun Ee Yau SLT, Kimbo Weng SLT

Year 5 GirlsRickey Hao SY, Kathryn Smith SY, Maria Garcia SY, Georgia Phelan SY, Yoko Yamashita SLT, Dayna Lewis SLT A huge thank you to everyone who attended the trials, we certainly hope to see all these young athletes represent the school in other upcoming fixtures in the near future. PE Dept.

Under-14 Boys ISAC Basketball TournamentOur Under-14 boys’ basketball team represented by Aden Jung, Andrew So, Bjorn Shen, Duncan Watt, Fergus Chan, Kirby Weng, Jonathan Zhao, Joseph Howland and Thomas Tarry took part in last Saturday’s ISAC Division 2 Basketball Tournament held at Teda International School in Tianjin. We made an early start but the journey was delayed by bad traffic along the way. Upon arrival our boys were keen to start playing immediately. Our first opponent was Yew Chung International School whom we beat 52 - 14. This was the highest scoring match in the tournament! The next team we played was Harrow International School. Our boys played hard but lost the match 11 - 35. With a win and a loss, we still managed to qualify for a third and fourth place play-off. The play-off match against IAB was an exciting one. The boys played brilliantly and led the match right from the start. IAB kept up the pressure by scoring immediately after us. However we managed to hold them off to win third place. The final score was 26 - 23 in our favour. The boys responded well to the coaching given by Mr. Kay Chan, father of Fergus Chan. He was really pleased with the boys’ outstanding performance. Thank you Mr. Chan. Well done Bears! Reported by Mr. Kim Ng


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NORMANS SAXONS VIKINGS ROMANS

Sanlitun House Points Shunyi House Points

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Saxons

Vikings

Romans

Normans

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Congratulations to the Normans on earning the highest House Points for the week ending 23rd April.

Well done, Normans.

Congratulations to the Vikings on earning the highest House Points for the week ending

23rd April. Well done, Vikings.

Secondary Merit Awards

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Mina Shin

Sejin Kim

Leonie Buschmann

Minori Yariwake

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Oceane Duprat

Doris Sun

Prateek Pandey

Andrea DeMatteis

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