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director's note
director's note
Dear BISI Community,
Following our highly engaging Languages Week, we have another treat in store and that is the Spring Hat Parade on Friday! We are very excited to see the effort our students put into their projects.
During some of my meetings with you, the issue of 'communication' has come up. To this end the Primary Parent pages have been created for each campus - with information that is specific to each campus.
Our monthly newsletter will also be delivered and updated on this page. From September the newsletter will also be specific to each campus. I know some parents have indicated that they would like to see photos representing their child's campus.
The Parent Page is not intended as a substitute to the school website. We intend to add links to the parent page from the website. However, as this will take some time we have shared the Google Site page with you.
You will find all the relevant information you need as a BISI parent, including contact information with email links, various roles and responsibilities, the monthly menu, the newsletter, all school announcements to name but a few....
I am very pleased to see that our BISI parents are so responsive and engaged in our school community. I appreciate that you are all busy. However, all feedback is greatly appreciated and this is the reason for the surveys. The feedback you provide helps us to identify key areas which may need to be addressed.
We have many new developments coming up shortly and we want to ensure that you bookmark the parent page in order that you may have access to all the information sent out through the Primary section. We will of course continue to send reminders and updates.
Please see the Zekeriyakoy Parent Page link here, along with the link to our survey.
With best wishes,
Natalia Ambridge
International Women's Day
Tuesday 8th March was International Women’s Day. Students looked wonderful in purple! Thank you to those who made a donation of 10TL for the Yekuv Charity, an organisation which sponsors the education of girls in Turkey. Your support makes a difference!
Languages Week
We celebrated the diversity of our languages during the week of March 21. EYFS & KS1 students were able to hear stories in a variety of different languages including Turkish, French, Spanish, Greek, Korean, and Russian. KS2 students had a wonderful time performing various skits in the ECA club Mother Tongue Drama. Students were able to participate in Turkish games and "Guess the Language". Thank you to our Secondary Students who volunteered their time to read a story for Primary!
EYFS
March in EYFS by Ms. Lizzie
The Otter and Fish class have been very busy! During our Maths lesson, we looked at 3D shapes and then the children built towers with the 3D shape blocks. The children planted sunflowers. We talked about what the seeds will need in order to survive. Hopefully over the next few weeks the seeds will germinate and we can watch them grow!
EYFS students building structures with geometric shapes.
Robots created by City Students through their exploration of rectangles.
EYFS Tigers on the City Campus are very busy together!
EYFS Students enjoying playtime outdoors.
March 22 was World Water Day. National EYFS1 students worked with Ms. Şevval to explore the questions Why do all creatures need water? How can people live without water? How can we protect water? Why do we need to protect water? Students also made water puppets of their own!
Year One
Reading, Writing, and Following Instructions by Mrs. Robbins
Year 1B has been learning how to give instructions in Literacy/English this month. The students were able to verbally instruct, create a template to help them plan for their writing, and produce a book with instructions on how to blow up a balloon. They focused on the skills of adding in connectives such as "first, next, and last.'' They also learned how to give their instructions steps to put them in order.
Year 1 students are combining Computer Science and Maths using Beebots. They are learning how to program the Beebots to follow a path. Through this activity they are learning the basic commands and process of computer programming. They are also learning about turns and position, using the vocabulary; forward backward, left and right. The students have been practicing estimating by planning out how they are going to program their Beebots to follow the paths. Working in groups, the students are building perseverance. The students are able to problem solve and work together to program the Beebot to correctly to make it to the end of the line. Even if it takes a few tries!
Year Two
Y2 National Students enjoyed mild temperatures and some sunshine!
Year 2 National hosted one of our parents, Serpil Köstepen, for Women's History month. She is the first woman jet pilot in Turkey. She told us about her career and inspired the kids that women can do anything!
Science by Ms. Neslihan
In a science lesson National Year 2 students made a decoration from clay. We discussed the changes that clay has undergone. The children loved it!
Music Overview by Mr. Alper
Key Stage 1 has been training their voices by warm ups. We learned many songs and repeated previous songs “Do-Re-Mi” and “Edelweiss”. We found out about famous classical composers and listened to their masterpieces. We did echo singing with Bobo and trained our musical memory by repeating some melody patterns. We did rhythm practices. We played challenge games. We did body percussion and played unpitched instruments. We’ve deepen our music theory. (The staff, the clef, the treble clef, the bar, end and repeat sign, the time signature), values of the notes and the rests.
Celebrating Nowruz in 2F by Mr. Appleby
To help Malekreza celebrate Nowruz, or Iranian New Year, 2F Dragons used modelling bandage to create 'sculptures' of eggs, before painting them. Iranian, or Persian, New Year begins on the vernal equinox, or the beginning of spring, which is the 21 March on our calendar. The day is celebrated worldwide, and Persians have been decorating eggs to celebrate Nowruz for over 4,000 years! To make the eggs, 2F made a ovoid (3D oval) shape out of plastic. Then, taking small strips one at a time, they dipped the strip in water, and placed them over their egg-shape, smoothing out the strips around the shape.
Year Three
Students in Ms. Aycan's Y3 class proudly show off their work with fractions and decimals.
Investigations in 3A by Ms. Aycan
In class we have been investigating in Numeracy and Science. In Numeracy we have investigated – eggs in a basket, using playdough to create fractions, feeding animals fractions of food and perimeter. In Science we investigated how bones support us and how muscles and tendons work.
Year Four
International Women's Day by Ms. Çelik
In Y4 National, we talked about women artists especially the Mexican painter, Frida Khalo. We visited the Blue House Museum online. We also spoke with artist Idil Kem about painting.
Y4 Students play present tense dominoes during an ESL lesson with Mrs. Gwillim.
Students in 4S on the City Campus enjoyed spending time in the snow! Between building snowmen, making angels, and playing outdoors with friends, Y4 students managed to stay busy. Here are some photos and captions the children shared.
Harry: When I went outside I threw a snowball at my dad. We started a snowball fight in our backyard. My dad was making me a snowman. I helped and my dad and I made a shield for the snow ball fight. I made a wall and me and my dad started fighting. I hit my dad but he hit my shield.
Duda: In the snow I played with my family it was so fun. We made a competition of making snow men. Me and my dad won. The most beautiful one is the winner. Me and my dad made Levi and my mom and my sister made Maria. After we had a snow fight my dad won.
Tuana: When I went outside to build a snowman it did not stay upright, so my mom helped me a little bit. When I was done I was running with my dog for 9 minutes and when I asked if we could stay for a few more minutes my mom said yes. My mom made a film of me and my dog. It got very cold so we went home.
March Overview by Ms. Lincoln
So much learning still going on even though we have been interrupted by several online snow days. Children have been report writers for a newspaper. Following the journey of a failed expedition to Antarctica. The class have written, acted and interviewed the sequence of events of this tragic journey.
4L have worked so hard with fractions. Difficult for both students and teacher! But thanks to using pizza and bars of chocolate as examples, it is in fact much easier to understand.
We have been dressed in pinks and purples to recognise the importance of women’s month. Throughout the school students have been able to reinforce their already present understanding of the equality importance of the two.
Year Five
Y5 Students work to create props from recycled materials for the Mother Tongue Drama performances.
Y5 Summary by Ms. Lloyd
Both Year 5 classes have been learning together this week in their study of Atatürk; (soldier, statesman, and reformer) the founder and first president of the Republic of Turkey. We looked for his statue in our school, searched for his portraits in our classrooms and listened to many interesting presentations from our knowledgeable Turkish colleagues-special thanks to Mr. Cem, Miss Asli and Ms .Sukran. The students demonstrated their knowledge through the work they did back in their classrooms.
Decimal Place Value Riddle by Ms. Uyma
Y5 National Students playing the maths game, Decimal Place Value Riddle. The aim of the game is to work out the decimal numbers from the clues with riddle cards, which test children's knowledge and application of decimal place values. The students were divided into two groups and tried to find the decimal numbers for five rounds. The group with the most correct answers won.
Y5 Students use their plans for writing during an ESL lesson with Mrs. Gwillim.
Reema from Y5 City is testing the strength of her simple lever machine to see how far a small object can travel across the room.
Photos from a Science lesson in 5F where students conducted investigations into irreversible changes and dissolving.
Y5 National English by Ms. Kaya
Year 5 have been loving entering into the nail-biting world of Varjak Paw in their English lessons. Varjak is searching for a dog to help save his family but he has no idea what a dog is! The children did a great job of stepping into Varjak's paws and using drama to inspire their writing. Here, they dramatised a scene where Varjak meets a dog for the very first time...
Year Six
National School Drama Club by Ms. Meltem and Ms. Elif
Y5 and Y6 National Students have been having lots of fun in Drama Club. The children have been busy preparing Fairy Tale performances for Children’s Day on April 23. Here are some photos from Snow White. The Students are very excited to share what they have been working on!
Y6 International Students enjoy an afternoon outdoors.
Thank you from the PTA!
Dear Parents, BISI Staff and Students,
Heartfelt thanks go to each and every one of you who contributed to our Ukraine appeal last week. What a turn out! All in all, it was a very successful appeal and we have received more than 300 boxes with essential supplies, food and medicine mostly for babies and children. You played a very important part in making the Appeal such a successful one. It is an accomplishment which you can be proud of.
The supplies you have donated, together with other humanitarian aids, were all sent to Ukraine after the necessary checks were carried out by the Ukrainian Consulate and their volunteers. Once again, you have gone the extra mile to make our community a better place for us to work and live. Again, we would like to thank you for supporting our appeal and helping those most in need.
Your sincerely,
BISI PTA
Reminders & Upcoming Dates
Friday, April 1: Spring Hat Parade! End of Term 2, student dismissal at 12:00pm.
Monday, April 4-Friday, April 15: End of Term Break, No School
Monday, April 18: Start of Term 3
Friday, April 22: Children's Day Celebration
Monday, April 25: Science Day
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