November 2008 - British School Of Bucharest

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Visit the BSB website at www.britishschool.ro 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. The British School of Bucharest Magazine 32
Visit the BSB website at www.britishschool.ro What is CPD? And why is it important? CPD is an acronym for Continuing Professional Development. It is an integral part of any school program and forms a core basis of the BSB Development Plan. This summer, several of our teachers headed off to England to participate in a variety of training courses. Following is a brief report about three of the teachers. A Visit to Woodhouse Primary School, England Last year we were visited by the Head and Deputy Head of a leading primary school in the UK called Woodhouse. They spent two days with the staff of BSB working on assessment practices and how to raise achievement by setting targets. The work was very worthwhile and all parties gained a lot. This summer I visited Woodhouse School myself for two days to work with their Senior Management Team on assessment, target setting and effective use of ICT. This was a wonderful visit for me as I got to meet the students and staff and share knowledge and experience with another school who are working with very similar students to those of BSB. We have also initiated greater links between the two schools and are starting learning projects between the students at BSB and Woodhouse. EDA Course in Headship Skills, Cambridge, UK During July I attended a course with the Education Development Association in Cambridge. On my course were Heads and Deputy Heads from independent schools from locations as diverse as Bermuda, Luxemburg and Kenya. This was a wonderful opportunity to share good practice and learn new skills with many professionals in the field of education. During this 5 day course our group of 12 delegates discussed a wide range of issues connected to managing international schools and we all learned a lot from each other. Our course leader Polly Patrick was a very experienced Head teacher from the UK and she provided us with a wide variety of advice and training directly from the UK government. For me this was a very valuable experience and I gained a lot of useful knowledge and contacts with people in a similar position to myself. Ms Naima Hussain, Head of Primary Key Stage Management Training In the Summer I attended a week long residential course at Cambridge University. Throughout the week Ms Lindsey Banks and I attended seminars and tutorial sessions covering a variety of topics relating to our new appointments as Key Stage Coordinators. The course was very interesting, providing us with some excellent background information about our new positions. We covered a variety of subjects, including how to be an effective manager, how to carry out an observation and to co-coordinate staff effectively. The course was run by a current head teacher from London and drew on the expertise of other head teachers also. There were 24 other teachers from various international schools also attending. By the end of the course I think we had all gained a real insight into the new roles that awaited us; the course also gave us an important opportunity to discuss with other teachers issues relating to teaching in general and international schools. It certainly was a very busy week, but also a very satisfying week, and one we were very happy to have had the opportunity to be apart of. Mr Patrick Kennedy, Key Stage 2 Coordinator The British School of Bucharest Magazine 33
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