November 2008 - British School Of Bucharest

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Visit the BSB website at www.britishschool.ro BSB University Course Overview, October 2008 After the long summer holiday it is great to see all our pupils back in school, refreshed and eager to learn new skills. This year our university courses are even more varied than before and this has helped to ensure that the majority of pupils received their first choice of course. Codes and Code Breaking, Planning a Dinner party, French, Romanian and Spanish for Key Stage 1 pupils and Problem Solving are just some of the learning opportunities available for our pupils. Indeed, this edition of Newsblast has been put together with the help of our Junior Publishing university course, so congratulations to all those involved. Our cookery courses are always very popular and over-subscribed, but we are fortunate to have 3 different cookery groups. Special thanks must go to our parent volunteers - Mrs Rouf and Mrs Henderson who are running one of these courses. If you would like to get involved with our university program please see our advert in this newsletter. Finally, one course that I am particularly excited about is our very own BSB tv and I am looking forward to it’s ‘launch’. The producers of ‘CNN’ and ‘BBC World’ better look out! Mr Iain Davidson, University Course Coordinator BSB TV: 3… 2… 1… Action! Do you want to be interviewed by BSB TV? Do you want to be seen on television? BSB TV is bound to interview you! This term we have been interviewing people and editing them on the computers. We had lots of questions to ask them and it took much time to load when we put them on the Digital Movie Creator 3! Some of the interviews took more than 3 minutes! Mr. Kennedy complained that it takes too much time to load! We had lots of fun putting animation and editing them! Some people like Mr. Mulvany made us say the question again and again. I hope I will be able to do a similar course next term! Alexandra, 5B French Course We have our French course with Mr Leese once a week and it is great because we get to use French in the course. We learn new words and try to speak in French, which often makes us laugh. My favourite thing in French University was when I tried the brie cheese. Oskar, 2B My favourite thing about French was the numbers and colouring running games. Sarah, 1J My favourite time in French was the food party. I liked the pate. Darius, 1J Gardening In the University Gardening course we are learning all about plants and how to take care of them. We are learning how to pot seeds and grow plants and how to transfer them into the ground and then take care ◄ Some students in the Gardening Course tending to the gardens of them. It is incredible how much you need to know in order to look after plants properly. “I like gardening University because we plant flowers. They are growing a lot!” Miruna, 2B Improvisational drama I chose Drama for University because I wanted to learn about theatre and learn new games and have fun at the same time. I like most the drama games because they are a lot of fun. I am learning special games of improvisational theatre. Robert, 5B The British School of Bucharest Magazine 16
Visit the BSB website at www.britishschool.ro BSB Junior Editors University Club We are the BSB News Blast Junior Publishers. We write articles for the BSB News Blast. We do interviews and use cameras to take pictures for the news paper. First of all, we discuss what we want to write in the meeting room and then when it’s approved we go off to the ICT suite. Now we do my favourite thing, the writing. After that, we help each other to edit our work. At the end of the university course Mr.Hamacher gives in our work to Mr. Peet, the editor of News Blast. If it’s good enough it will go into the magazine but if it’s not good enough it won’t make it in and it’s back to the drawing board. Monster Storms Course ◄ The BSB NewsBlast Junior Editors: Igor, Thomas, Rhea, Mena, Calista and Anna, who was absent. In our university we are studying monster storms. So far we’ve studied hurricanes and tornadoes. We’ve learned that both types of storms need moisture, warm air, and energy to form. We also learned that the storms can be different strengths called categories. Monster storms are very dangerous and cause destruction. The Monster Storm Team The Rowing Course ◄ Students experimenting with devices to imitate some of the phenomena that occur during storms In rowing we have been learning pace, speed and rowing technique. We are all aiming to row a total of just over 11,000 metres which would give us a grand total of 55,000 metres. There are four people in the rowing course- me, Johann, Basil and Cinar. We are all from 6U and are enthusiastic rowers. Harry, 6U University Cooking Course ◄ Cinar showing good rowing technique while Johann and Mr O’Brien help keep the running total of metres rowed. I like this course because we are learning how to cook. When I grow up I want to learn how to do all kinds of food. We have cooked cake, pizza, papanasi and Raffaello. The other reason why I like cooking is because it is fun and I learn a lot. Also I can teach my mum how to do all these foods that I did in cooking. Chira, 4H World Cup History Codebreakers Alert! Ross, Sarah and Suparnan writing codes, Year 5 I think that football World Cup History is really fun! I also lean a lot. I think it’s clever because we learn and have fun! I think everyone likes World Cup History. In football World Cup History we have been learning about the first World Cup all the way up to guessing In our Codes and Codebreakers University Course we have been learning about all the different codes that people from long ago and today have been using. There are picture codes and a man called Giambattista della Porta made up a code of boxes and dots which we learned. Then we used substitution codes, using a different letter or number about the next World Cup in 2010. We have also been looking at the best goals, saves, star moves etc. I recommend this to anyone who likes football and would like to play or lean more football. Scott, 6U for our message. We also learned about Morse Code and Call Sign Codes and next week is Braille and Sign Language. Every week we have to write a message in one of the codes for someone else to solve. Sometimes it’s hard to work out. It’s a fun course to do. Everyone should try it! Cesar, 6D The British School of Bucharest Magazine 17
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