School's out for summer

It has been an enormous push to get everything done, all our classwork and assignments completed, our learning objectives achieved, by the end of term. We have made it and we all - students, teachers, learning support assistants, everyone - need a break to recharge our batteries. As always, most of our teachers are staying with us after the holiday, and a few are moving on.

PE - Summer Holiday Update from Ms Gray

As the school year draws to a close and the long summer holiday begins, it’s a time to look back and celebrate all that we have accomplished, but it’s also a time to look forward to what’s ahead of us. Whilst we have now switched off our alarms, I do hope you plan some activities into your day that get your children out of their gaming chairs and off their sofas! Your children have worked so hard to build up their fitness levels over the course of the year, especially with gymnastics (Years 3 & 4) and the marathon and landmark challenges (Years 5 & 6) they have recently been completing in PE lessons - so please remember to keep that going over the holidays and release those ‘feel good’ endorphins! Staying fit and healthy also boosts your immune system, which as we know is even more important at the moment for fighting off infections.

As we say goodbye to the school year, it is also time to say goodbye to a much loved and respected member of the junior PE department. We have been lucky enough to have Mr Brennan as one of our PE teachers in the junior school over the last few years: who can forget his ‘can you beat Mr Brennan’ videos, and his professional instructional videos which helped many of you with the challenges we set you all at home? We wish him all the very best in his next exciting adventure, travelling and exploring the world. For those of you in need of inspiration for exercise this holiday, have a look at Mr Brennan’s Youtube channel and see if you can keep up or beat him? Why not challenge your family members to some of the workouts?

Junior Duke Awards

Congratulations to all award winners. Many students worked hard to complete their awards by the end of the school year.

Bronze Junior Duke: 3.01 Duaa, 3.02 Alesha, 3.02 Ethan, 3.02 Malek, 3.02 Zohha, 3.06 Sofia and 3.07 Noor

Silver Junior Juke: 4.01 Donnacha, 4.02 Kiara, 4.03 Jana

Silver Mini Duke: 4.08 Hadeel

Gold Junior Duke: 5.03 Jialing (Candy) and 5.11 Serene

Platinum Junior Duke 6.02 Lina and 6.08 Shayaan

A glimpse into the future

This morning, instead of timetabled lessons for the first hour of the day, we all spent time with teachers (and, in the case of Year 6 moving into Year 7, with Seniors students) from the next phase of our BSB learning journey. Sometimes, we might feel slightly nervous about moving up to a new year group in September. Our transition morning takes all the nerves away by offering everyone a foretaste of life in their next year group. One thing is for certain - time flies, and we all need to make the most of our school time, whether it's online, blended or normal in-school learning, with good attendance, right up to the last day of term. This term ends at 12 noon on Thursday, 1 July.

11th Etude Competition Bahrain 2021

We're very pleased to announce some superb results by BSB students in the recent 2021 Bahrain 11th Etude Music Competition. Here are the winners from BSB Juniors:

Ali 5.06 - Level 3 Piano, playing playing the classical piece “Summer 3rd movement (Storm) “by Antonio Vivaldi. Ali was named as Most Promising Musician.

Efe 5.09 - Piano Level 2

Nicole 6.01 - Voice (Pop) Level 2

Anumita 6.09 - Level 3 Pop solo, singing Don't Rain on My Parade.

Anumita 6.09 and Saanjh 6.09 - Duet - Level 2 singing I Won't Grow Up.

Salman 6.09 - String Instruments Level 2

Year 6 Online Party

Dancing, laughter, happy memories and a few wistful tears as the party came to an end... online events are the new normal, and they are starting to be just like the real thing as we all become used to the current way of life. Everyone, young and not so young, had a wonderful time on Wednesday from 5-6pm at the online Year 6 Disco. Many thanks to Mr Doyle for organising the event and for helping everyone to have a good time while being sensible and mindful of others. Sincere thanks are also due to Ms Mohi for creating the music playlist so we could dance the afternoon away. Well done to all the Year 6 students for being great company for one another at the online party.

Years 3 & 4

Today children in Years 3 and 4 have been learning about the number system used by the Ancient Egyptians. The children also tackled different levels of missing-number pyramids before moving onto a complex mathematical problem involving building pyramids of different sizes. At the end of the day the children took part in our first ever TTRS Festival, where children competed against each other as whole year groups. Well done to everyone who took part!

Below is a list of the winners in the TTRS & Prodigy Competitions
in Y5 and Y6:

TTRS
Y5 Top Class: 5.08
Y5 Top Individual: Sahar Ahmed
Y6 Top Class: 6.01
Y6 Top Individual: Aditi Ranjith Nair

Prodigy
Y5 Top Class: 5.11
Y5 Top Individual: Mohamed Shahbaz Ahmed
Y6 Top Class: 6.09
Y6 Top Individual: Alkhattab Alkhateeb

Iria swings into action

We may well have future golfing champions in our midst. Last September, Iria in class 5.07 entered the Future Champions Golf Tournament held by Bahrain Royal Golf Club. The tournament continued for nine months, ending on 4 June, with around a dozen young people competing every fifteen days. The order of merit positions changed many times over the weeks, motivating all competitors to try their hardest. Through her determination, perseverance and skill, Iria achieved an amazing second place overall! Many congratulations to Iria, and also to Mihir in Year 7, who attained first place.

Remote Learning

The National Medical Taskforce has announced that schools will remain on remote learning for an additional two weeks, which takes us up to Thursday 24 June, inclusive. We shall continue our online provision, through Google Classroom and Zoom. Be sure to keep attending your virtual lessons, to keep your learning on track. It will be report time soon - end-of-year reports for Years 3 to 6 are scheduled to be released to parents on Sunday 27 June.

Olympic Marathon Challenge

Report from Ms Gray

With the Tokyo Olympics fast approaching, we set our Year 5 and 6 students the challenge of trying to cover the marathon distance of 42km (26.2miles) by running, walking, swimming or cycling the distance over the last two weeks, developing 21st Century IT skills by using their mobile devices to record the evidence of their hard work. The challenge will continue for a third and final week before we embark upon our new challenge but, in the meantime, congratulations go to Faas (6.09), Alexandra (6.05), Hussain (6.10), Camila (5.06) and Paula (5.07) who were the first students to complete the challenge this week!

PCC Cookbook Competition

Please keep in mind the PCC Cookbook Competition, as per the PCC Blog page.

The Parent Community Committee is pleased to announce this year's International Student Cookbook Competition. This is a chance for you to show off your favourite family recipe. This competition is open to all BSB students and is limited to one entry per family. Selected recipes will be featured in an online cookbook and outstanding entries will win prizes.

Deadline for submission of entries: 17 May 2021

Announcement and awarding of winners: 10 June 2021

To participate, click on the registration form below:

Cookbook Competition Recipe Entry

Layan interviews F1 drivers

Layan in class 4.05 entered a competition, to think of an interview question to ask Formula One drivers at the time of the recent 2021 Bahrain Grand Prix.

We were all delighted when Layan's question was chosen, from many, many entries, and she was able to put her question via video to George Russell and Nicholas Latifi, the drivers for Williams Racing. Click on the video to hear Layan's question and the drivers' responses.