Dear Parents

This week in BIST Primary we are celebrating Book Week. I have been ringing the special reading bell each day that indicates to all staff and students that it is time to drop what they are doing and enjoy a few minutes of reading. In class, we have enjoyed watching videos of some par-ents reading their favourite books and the children have also been working on an oracy-based task which will lead to an in-class performance at the end of the week. We are now looking forward to Friday and seeing as many won-derful book character costumes as possible!

Groucho Marx

10th March

UPCOMING EVENTS…

. 8th-12th - Book Week. 10th - Year 10 Parental Zoom. 11th - Year 8 Parental Zoom. 17th - Year 7 Parental Zoom. 18th - Year 9 Parental Zoom. 29th - Enterprise Week starts

. 1st - Summative Reports for Years 11 to 13 re-leased. 1st - Last Day of Term 2. 2nd - Start of Spring Holiday. 12th - Start of Term 3

“Outside of a dog, a book is a man’s best friend. Inside of a dog, it’s too dark to read.”

INTERNATIONAL WOMEN’S DAY

March

April

Monday was International Women’s Day at BIST which was highlighted in mentor time and circle time discussions across the school. Nivedita in Year 7Z made this excellent video that was shared with all Secondary School classes on Monday morning.

Congratulations to Polina in Year 10 who came 3rd in this year’s Black Sea Schools Creative Writing Competition. This link will take you to Polina’s piece entitled The Imposter. This is a compe-tition across all 17 Black Sea Schools and this year had well over a hundred entries that got to the finals following internal school competitions.

ECO ZOOMERS

On Wednesday last week, the primary Eco Club zoomed with Precious Plastic Georgia - an organisa-tion that aims to reduce and reuse the plastic waste in this country. The Eco Club learned about ways we can reduce and reuse plastic. The children were excit-ed to know that lots of people and organisations are working towards the same cause! They are very keen to promote this within our community.

ALICE IN WONDERLANDFilming for our upcoming Key Stage 2 show Alice began last week. Many thanks to our wonderful parents for sup-plying amazing costumes, the children look fantastic! We have 2 more weeks of filming and then the editing begins. We plan to release our movie just before Easter holiday.

BLACK SEA SCHOOLS CREATIVE

Mr. Stephen Priest Principal

Ms. Sophie KasrashviliPA to the Principal

Ms. Alexandra BackhouseHead of Primary

Mr. Les PembertonHead of Sixth Form

Ms. Tumika SthapitHead of Administration

Mr. James MillerKey Stage 3 Coordinator

Mr. Alex TimmisDirector of Studies

Joanne GowKey stage 2 Coordinator

Ms. Andrew GrahamKey Stage 4 Coordinator

Last Friday a number Primary students were awarded with Progress Awards for their efforts over recent weeks..

PRIMARY PROGRESS AWARDS

We are now amidst the preparation for the long awaited British Lions Holiday Camp which is due to start in the April break. The day in the camp will begin with children being dropped off at school by parents between 8.45am-9.00am. They will then have specialised tennis, swimming and football/basketball sessions before being picked up be-tween 12.00pm-12.15pm. More information will be shared with parents soon, if you have any questions please con-tact Mr. Hammond.

BRITISH LIONS HOLIDAY CAMP Our new climbing wall is now in full use by students. Following an extensive training course for some of our staff by climbing wall specialists, small groups of stu-dents are now enjoying climbing as an additional ac-tivity in their PE lessons.

REACHING NEW HEIGHTS

One of our new community service partners is the Geor-gian Down Syndrome Association. They will be speaking to students in Years 5 and 6 next week and selling socks to raise money for their programmes. Please see the at-tached poster.

COMMUNITY SERVICE