November 2008 - British School Of Bucharest

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Year 5B
Ancient Greek Pots
Dilara and Maria making their
containers
Year 5T
Learning about the human body
Raphaela Werner listens to Bianca
Lucini’s heartbeat as Miss Catalina
looks on.
In our History lessons, we have
been learning about the Ancient
Greeks and their pottery and
we decided to make our own.
We used clay and Ms Barclay
showed us how to make pots
from coils or pinch pots or slab
pots. Then we spent the lesson
making our own designs.
The clay felt quite squidgy and
soft and it was fun to get a bit
dirty. The best thing about
making the pots was to discover
Year 5T takes its pulse after running
on the spot for 1 minute.
how the clay worked and what
we could do with it.
Doctor in the House!
Suparnan and Finn
In our Science Lesson, Ms
Barclay dressed as a doctor.
She wore a coat from the
Science Lab and tied up her
hair. Liria was the patient and
Ms Barclay showed us how
to find her heartbeat using a
In Science this term we have
been looking up how to keep
healthy. We have learned about
diet, our heart and things that
affect our body. We listened
to our heartbeats using a
stethoscope and learned how
to take our pulse rate.
We investigated what effect
exercising has on our heart rate.
Firstly, we took our resting pulse
stethoscope and how to use
a pulse meter. After that, we
used stethoscopes and pulse
meters to listen to each others’
heartbeats and count the
pulses while resting and then
after a little bit of exercise. We
saw that there were changes.
My partner was Joo-Yun. I
couldn’t find her heartbeat and
we joked that maybe she wasn’t
alive! It was a really fun lesson!
Alexandra, 5B
rate, and then we exercised
for one minute. Immediately
after we took our pulse to see
how it had been affected by the
exercise. Afterwards we took
our pulse every two minutes to
see how long it would take to
return to normal. Later in class
we graphed our pulse rates
changed.
5T Students
Year 6U
Diversity in 6U
Year 6D
Literary Genres
A class of many nationalities bridged
through one language - English.
Welcome to 6U, which is
located on the first floor of
the primary building. Our
teacher is Miss Ullman and our
assistant is Mr. Jonathan. We
are a unique class. In our class
of fourteen students, thirteen
languages are spoken. Also,
out of the fourteen students,
only two of us are actually
British. Some of the languages
spoken are Turkish, Arabic,
Serbian, Russian, Hungarian,
Urdu, French, Italian,
Romanian, and of course
English! We have written our
class guidelines so that all of
the languages are recognized
and appreciated, but here at
school we speak in English. 6U
is also a unique class because
six out of the fourteen students
are new to the school this year,
so we have been spending the
first few weeks getting to know
each other. Welcome to BSB!
Basil, 6U
Tatum and Casey (Year 6D)
performing their presentation of
literary genres
Year 6 D has been learning
about different literary genres
and the way they are employed
in literary works in order to
convey certain meanings.
While most of the class chose
to display their work as a
poster, two students, Casey
Whelan and Tatum Rouf, chose
role-play to illustrate their
work; in this, Casey interviews
a well known author - who
highlights the different types of
genres and what each features
specifically.
The students were then read
the opening of a story (mystery
genre) which ended with: “It
has been ten days since this
began. Ten days of hell.” After
that, students had to write what
had happened in those 10 days,
as a flashback, continuing the
story, but not in the “right”
order.
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