November 2008 - British School Of Bucharest

More documents

Recommendations

Info

Visit the BSB website at www.britishschool.ro Year 1H From All Over the World 1H group photos Year 1J Show and Tell, Stories, and Self Portraits 1H Self-portraits 1J at work on their self-portraits 1J students enjoying a story The children in Year 1 J have enjoyed participating in an assembly based on “Show and tell”; we shared information about favourite things and toys – how we got them, and The children in Year 1 H are from all over the world. Between us we represent 11 different countries! We have much enjoyed learning about these countries, finding out about the ways we are similar, as well as learning about the things we do differently in our native cultures. what they mean to us. We also enjoyed painting self portraits that we displayed in class - we looked closely to our features and to how they are different and represented them on paper. In science, we have been measuring our hands to see how many cubes we can carry. We have investigated in order to see if there is a link between size and our capacity to hold larger amounts. We We have also been thinking about our lives in Bucharest - the things we like to do and the places we like to go. It has been a very exciting start to our year together! Mr Stuart Harrison, Class Teacher used different strategies to pile up, layer the cubes, so that sometimes smaller hands could carry more. We worked together on a storyboard of “Where the Wild Things Are”. We discussed and wrote about our favourite ways to enjoy stories, based on the book “Amazing Grace”: some of us like to dress up, act stories out, become characters, listen in bed, use puppets or dolls etc. Ms Helen Jezeph, Class Teacher Year 2B 2B students in there new class Miss Banks and Miss Livia welcomed the new 2B at the beginning of term. We are now working together as a team and the children know the routines of 2B. What a finely tuned working team we are!! We have been learning the times tables in Maths. In Literacy we’ve been exploring Traditional Stories. We performed a class assembly this month to KS1 and some of the classes in KS2. It was a great success and the children made up their own dance routine. All good practice for when it’s a parent assembly and you all get to come in and see us! In Science, we have been investigating Materials and their Properties - looking at a range of different natural and not-natural materials. We have experimented with popcorn to see how it changes before and after applying heat. Thank you once again for all your support - particularly with the wonderful artefacts you all provided for our Topic subject, it was super. Ms Lyndsey Banks Key Stage 1 Coordinator Year 2W The children in Year 2 W have been having a lot of fun in Science. We have been learning about the properties of water as part of our Science Materials topic. We designed an experiment to show us which methods cause ice to melt the fastest. We have also observed boiling water changing into steam and then back again to liquid when it cools. Mr Mark Williams, Class Teacher A sample of 2W student work The British School of Bucharest Magazine 30
Visit the BSB website at www.britishschool.ro Years 3L & 3P Roman Day To see more pictures of our Roman day please have a look at one of our blogs: www.3lbsb.edublogs.org, www.3pbsb.edublogs.org Year 4H Science: Habitats Mena and Mariana searching for mini-beast in a flower garden habitat. Roman day was on the 8th October and we dressed up as Roman and Celts. We started Roman day by remembering what we have learnt about the Romans. We had a lot of fun on the Roman day. First we did some Roman literacy. In Roman literacy we read a story called ‘Escape from Pompeii’. Then we did some Roman Maths. In the afternoon we had a feast of Roman food. We had pancakes with honey, oranges, apples, grapes, marzipan, olives and Glorious Gladiator Cake. It was very tasty. After the feast we made mosaics and some children had a gladiator fight! Here is what some of us thought about the day: ‘I liked dressing up and making the helmets because we used many colours like blue, purple and orange. The colours were very light and good. We dressed up like Romans. I couldn’t believe it. I loved the Roman Day because I Searching for mini-beasts and noticing the apples, which are all part of the food chain in this habitat. In year 4 we have been studying animal and plant habitats. We learned that a habitat is a place that provides food and shelter for both plants and animals. For example we investigated the plants and animals living in sea grass beds, tropical rainforests, woodlands and many others. looked like a real Roman.’ (Anda Voicu) ‘I enjoyed the Maths because I liked learning the letters.’ (Ioana Roibu) ‘The Feast was very good and so much! I had a good time.’ (Engin Berberoglu) ‘I liked making the beautiful mosaics because I liked the things we did in teams.’ (Amelia Spackman) ‘In the Roman day I liked making mosaics and fighting with swords because we were in teams.’ (Philip Gogos) ‘We made some spectacular Mosaic. My group made a flower pot mosaic. Other groups made different types of mosaic. We used confetti for tiles.’ (Bridget Calthrop) Year 3 We also discovered that there are habits all around us at the BSB, so we went outside and had a look. We found minibeast habitats everywhere under rocks, on leaves, in bushes and up trees. Tudor, 4H Year 4K Enthusiastic entomologists examine BSB Up close and personal. Daniel pauses to record what he has found Tasos has an eye for detail. Elena and Clotilde contemplate a bugs life. Year 4’s Science unit has seen the children carefully consider their surroundings. While learning about habitats, the children took some time to explore and find out about different habitants that share our wonderful garden areas. They found a huge range of insects and mini-beasts and they carefully recorded the results. It was fun to record the facts and to look closely at the details of the tiny creatures while contemplating the way they behave. The British School of Bucharest Magazine 31
Page 1 and 2: The British School of Bucharest Mag
Page 3 and 4: Visit the BSB website at www.britis
Page 11 and 12: The Music Department adds a little
Page 29: Visit the BSB website at www.britis

November 2008 - British School Of Bucharest

Create successful ePaper yourself

Delete template?

Save as template?