Juniors Archived News 2020-2021 Term 3

Headteacher's News Thursday 1 July 2021

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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.

Today we said farewell to Ms Halpin and Ms Mohi, who have both helped me enormously in running the junior school for several years, as well as teaching a number of classes. Mr Brennan, who gets a mention in Ms Gray's PE report below, also leaves us this time around. Ms Hooper, who has taught Art to Years 5 and 6 for two years, is leaving us too. Mrs Collinson, teacher of Year 5 and 6 English, is returning to the UK to join a school there. Mrs Moodley, a Year 4 teacher, and Ms Mann, Head of Year 4, are heading off to pastures new, as is Mr Prendergast, who has taught Science and Humanities to Years 5 and 6. Mrs Harling, who has kept our musical learning going through blended and remote school, and Ms Zainab, a learning support assistant who has ably helped us in Year 3, are also moving on. We thank our departing colleagues for all they have done for the students and the school as a whole, particularly through these troublesome times. New teachers are coming in to take up the reins, and over sixty juniors' teachers and learning support assistants are staying with us, to continue great educational provision after the summer break.

Riya's Debating Gold Medal

Riya in class 6.08 participated in the Owlypia Global virtual round during the weekend 24-26 June. Riya was placed in a team with two students from another school to participate in the OWLINS category (9-11 Year olds). Her team did exceptionally well and together they achieved a gold medal in speech craft and team spirit challenge. The debate motion was "Films are better at explaining than books", with Riya's team speaking against the motion. Click here to hear Riya's speech.

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.

There are many opportunities available over the holidays. If you are staying here in Bahrain, we have the BSB Elements sports camps, as well as the opportunities provided by RLS Bahrain in the ‘#Itonlytakes20seconds’ campaign. Also, for those of you who watched or heard about the Danish football player going into cardiac arrest at the Euro football competition (he is recovering well thanks to the prompt CPR he received on the pitch), UK Coaching have created a digital toolkit, which includes a free interactive eLearning course Learn How to Save a Life, which is an invaluable resource.

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?

Wishing you all a happy and healthy summer holiday - stay fit, stay healthy, stay safe!

Alexandra Gray
Head of Junior PE

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

Head Teacher's Awards

I am specially pleased to see everyone making an effort right up to the end of term. That means you know the importance of finishing a job properly. Well done, and please have a safe, happy summer, everyone.

Headteacher's News Thursday 24 June 2021

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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.

Year 6 BSME App Competition

Message from Mrs Hall

Massive congratulations to all the creative App designers from Year 6 who have been participating in the BSME App Challenge since November 2020.

Working in teams, the children had to design an App that would solve a real world problem that they wished to solve. Teams were judged on their App design, problem solving, team work, creativity and presentation skills.

After many months of work, BSB Year 6 students submitted two team designs.

The ‘Space Us’ App was designed with multiple applications. It can be used:

To remind and reinforce the users on social distancing measures during COVID and notify the users when safe distancing is breached or at the risk of being breached;
By parents or caregivers of children to ensure that the children are within safe distance from them in playgrounds, supermarkets etc.
To identify the presence of people to reach out to during an emergency and for rescue operations;
To enhance security measures in houses and restricted areas;

The ‘Brain Pro’ App was designed to assist students. It can be used:

To analyse results from mental maths, cycle and other tests and identify areas of weakness that students need more practice in;
Remind students to submit homework on time;
Collate assignment deadlines to create reminder pop-ups;
Remind students to remain hydrated throughout the day.

All students who joined this challenge earned a participation certificate.

We are delighted to announce that the Brain Pro app team achieved joint runners-up in this competition, which was entered by international schools all over the region:
Pratyush 6.01
Haider 6.01
Lina 6.02
Alkhattab 6.05

Many congratulations to the runners-up, and well done to all who took part!

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

Junior Duke Awards

Hearty congratulations to the latest Junior Duke award winners - very well done indeed, to have completed your Junior Duke Award before the end of the school year.

Bronze Junior Juke - Aarav 3.02

Bronze Junior Juke - Mohammed 3.05

Silver Junior Duke - Zarah 4.01

Anyone who is still working on their Junior Duke Award, please remember Sunday 27 June is the last chance to give your submission to Ms Ball, so your certificate can be ready before term ends.

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.

In other news..

End-of-year reports for Years 3 to 6 are scheduled to be released on Sunday 27 June via the iSAMS parent portal.
Last day of term is Thursday 1 July, when students will finish at 12:00 for the summer break.

Head Teacher's Awards

I'm really happy to see students working hard and keeping their learning on track as the end of term draws nearer. Very well done, everyone who gained an award this week. Have a safe and pleasant weekend.

Headteacher's News Thursday 17 June 2021

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Maths Day

Report from Mr Drennan and Mr Smith

For the second year running, Maths Day has been an online event. Throughout the week, students have been taking part in online competitions to answer the most correct questions in Times Table Rockstars and Prodigy Maths. Collectively, the students in Y3 - Y6 have correctly answered a whopping 342,483 questions in TTRS and 17,234 questions in Prodigy. Well done to you all!

The students have also been attempting online mathematical challenges and puzzles designed to promote logical thinking and develop problem solving skills. There are some useful links on this slideshow if you want to try at home.

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!

Years 5 & 6

Today, Year 5 and 6 students have also been taking part in an investigation about the probability of rolling any score in a 2-dice roll using virtual dice and spreadsheets. They enjoyed the challenge and were surprised by some of their findings.

Abdullah and Jaden (5.10) creating their spreadsheet to predict outcomes of the 2 dice roll.

Talya, Lily, Olivia and Sam (6.09) working as a team to take on the challenge.

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

Ancient Egypt Day: Year 4

Queens, pharaohs, mummies... Ancient Egypt must have been empty today, because all its inhabitants were here in Bahrain, connected to BSB remote school.

Throughout the day, we have practised Ancient Egyptian Maths, learned Ancient Egyptian history and sung songs about the era. Thanks for all the super photos we have received, of everyone's lovely costumes and fun educational activities.

Check out this Google album of the day.

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.

Junior Duke Awards

Hearty congratulations to this week's two Junior Duke Award winners - James in class 3.05 for his Bronze certificate, and Mohamed in class 4.02 for his Silver Mini Duke award. Splendid achievements, demonstrating your commitment to be independent, capable young people. Very well done indeed.

#ItOnlyTakes20Seconds: Swimming at BSB Elements

Following on from last week's blog post, we have more students and staff who have sent us pictures raising awareness of the importance of learning to swim. Sabian is in Year 7 now, and continues to be a member of the swimming team. Nyall in Year 8, another team swimmer, is brother to Annabelle in class 4.01. Mr Williams, as well as being a PE teacher, is dad to Fabien in class 5.10.

Learning to swim is a vital life-preserving step, making it possible for young people to save themselves and others if they should find themselves in water. Swimming is also excellent exercise, for overall health and fitness. We very much look forward to the end of the COVID situation, whenever that may be, which will allow us to resume swimming lessons as part of the PE curriculum. Until then, BSB Elements Swimming provides a great opportunity for young people to learn to swim, and for experienced swimmers to keep their skills polished.

Please contact Tracey to book your child's place (marshallt@thebsbh.com). There will be several other sports offered through our Elements programme, including basketball, gymnastics, dance and taekwondo, so please contact elements@thebsbh.com for further details.

In other news this week...

End-of-year reports for Years 3 to 6 are scheduled to be released on Sunday 27 June via the iSAMS parent portal.

Head Teacher's Awards

Well done to this week's award winners, for aiming toward the very best standards in your school work. Have a safe and restful weekend, everyone.

Headteacher's News Thursday 10 June 2021

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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!

Alexandra

Janna

BSB Elements - Swim for Safety

Summer Holiday Swimming & Sports Opportunities at BSB

RLS Bahrain have launched their #ItonlyTakes20seconds Campaign, which highlights how quickly a child can drown, encouraging parents to ensure no child is left unsupervised near water and also actively encouraging parents to ensure their children learn to swim. Because of MoE COVID safety rules, we have been unable to undertake swimming lessons during curriculum time, so it is even more important that parents take up the opportunities being offered this coming summer. Our Elements Summer Swimming Camps are an ideal way to improve your child's swimming, led by Tracey Marshall and her expert team of coaches, so please contact Tracey to book your child's place (marshallt@thebsbh.com). There will be several other sports offered through our Elements programme, including basketball, gymnastics, dance and taekwondo, so please contact elements@thebsbh.com for further details.

Melio Competitions - Mahatva 3.02

A huge shout-out to Mahatva in class 3.02 who achieved highly commendable 3rd places in not one, but two Melio competitions last month: the Public Speaking Challenge and the storytelling Challenge. Terrific job, Mahatva. Well done!

Junior Duke Awards

We have a really glittering line-up of Junior Duke Awards this week:

Silver Mini Duke - Isa 4.02

Gold Junior Duke - Adhvik 5.11

Platinum Junior Duke - Ibrahim 6.09

Extremely well done, everyone! Your commitment, tenacity and dedication have resulted in these well-deserved awards.

Head Teacher's Awards

Congratulations to this week's award winners. Have a safe and restful weekend, everyone.

Headteacher's News Thursday 3 June 2021

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Healthy Lifestyles

Click on the image to see a super educational presentation by four students from class 5.11 - Rayan R, Sahar, Serene and Rayan OJ. They worked together as a superb team to put the presentation together. I hope you have as much fun as I did with the interactive quiz, although I am sure you will get a better score than I did!

Silver Mini Duke - Vaiga 4.07

Well done to Vaiga in class 4.07 for completing the Silver Mini Duke award, showing independence, maturity and initiative; an achievement to be truly proud of.

It is gratifying to see the Duke Award certificates rolling steadily in. If you are still working on yours, keep it up, and you could see your name here on the blog before the end of the school year.

Subject teacher conferences

After ironing out a few issues with the online booking system, we are going full steam ahead with subject-teacher parent meetings next week, 6-10 June. This is an opportunity to meet with subject teachers, following the meetings with form teachers that took place in term 2. Some parents have asked me why form teachers are not available for meetings this time around. It's because the form teachers are themselves subject teachers and, if they are busy seeing again all the parents they saw last time, they will have no time left to see the parents of other classes they teach. As always, if you wish to see a teacher who is not on the booking system, you are welcome to contact the teacher directly.

Booking appointments

1. Go go https://mychq.net/britishschoolbahrain/Login.aspx

2. Click the colourful iSAMS logo.
(Please don't type anything in the boxes.)

3, On the page that appears after you click the iSAMS logo, please enter the credentials you normally use to log in to the iSAMS parent portal.

Here is a short video to demonstrate logging in to CHQ.

Please let us know if you encounter any issues with the appointment booking process.

Virtual School Student Guidelines

For the best virtual learning experience, please be sure to follow these guidelines every day.

Learning never stops, whether we are on blended school, fully remote school or normal operations with everyone coming into school. We all want to see an end to the pandemic so that we can get back to normal, with clubs, sports, school trips, concerts and all the things we enjoy so much. However, we can keep our learning going by full, enthusiastic participation in virtual school at the present time.

Head Teacher's Awards

Another splendid line-up this week. Congratulations to all award winners. Keep up the great learning! Have a safe and pleasant weekend.

Headteacher's News Thursday 20 May 2021

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Year 3 Ancient Roman Day

When I visited the Year 3 corridor today, I was amazed to see Ancient Roman people who had travelled through time to visit us in the 21st century. The Ancient Roman visitors enjoyed using modern devices, like laptops and tablets, and they told me that they used pigeons to send messages in the days before smartphones and email were invented. They showed me examples of the wonderful mosaics they used to make. Thanks, Ancient Romans, for teaching me about life in your time, and thanks to Ancient Roman mums and dads for the amazing costumes.

Junior Duke Awards

Platinum Award - Faas 6.09

Well done Faas in class 6.09 - the first BSB student to complete the Platinum Junior Duke award. Faas is also the Deputy Head Boy this term. His well-deserved award is a further sign of his independence and maturity. Many congratulations!

Silver Award - Lara 4.03

Many congratulations to Lara in class 4.03 on her Silver Junior Duke award. Lara takes her school work and her musical instrument practice very seriously and is also learning a wide range of skills, through the award scheme, that will stand her in good stead in later life. Well done, Lara!

Let's keep the award certificates coming in!

Head Teacher's Awards

Well done to all this week's award winners, for great progress, effort or attainment. It is a pleasure to see so much valuable learning going on. Please have a safe and pleasant weekend.

Headteacher's News Thursday 6 May 2021

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Head Student Team for Term 3

This term's Head Student Team has made a vigorous start, taking up the reins with enthusiasm and building on the solid work of their predecessors. They all received lots of votes in the Year 6 election we held, back in term 1, which decided the three Head Student Teams of the school year. Already, they have set up their own Google Form for students to make suggestions that will help us improve the school. Also, they are constructing their own Google Classroom page, where students will be able to join the Head Student Team in solving puzzles and challenges to stretch the brain. They are a truly dynamic team who, like the teams of the previous two terms, will leave a lasting impression on BSB Juniors, when they eventually move on to the Senior School.

Anumita
Head Girl

Pratyush
Head Boy

Faas
Deputy Head Boy

Fatima
Deputy Head Girl

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

Gold Junior Duke Award

Many congratulations to Ibraheem in class 5.07, on achieving the Gold Junior Duke Award, a sign of independence and capability. Very well done indeed, Ibraheem.

We all look forward to further Junior Duke Awards in the coming weeks. All students who signed up for the programme, please keep working towards your certificates.

If you didn't sign up this year and you wish you had, make sure you don't miss out next school year.

Head Teacher's Awards

The super standards continue, in effort and achievement. By trying our hardest, in all our lessons, we can attain the best possible outcomes. Well done to all this week's award winners.

Wishing everyone a safe and relaxing weekend.

Headteacher's News Thursday 29 April 2021

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Fatema wins Silver

Superbly well done to Fatema in class 3.09, who achieved second place, in her age category, in the worldwide COBIS Coding Competition. To reach that awe-inspiring standard, Fatema had to design and code her own game application, to impress the judges more than almost anyone else in the world. Incredible work, Fatema!

The judges had this to say:
" It has been fantastic for us all at Discovery Education to see how students and their teachers from schools throughout the world have been engaging in coding – once again, we've been hugely impressed by the number and standard of entries. Fatema's game is super fun to play; the design of the starfish maze is great; it has moving objects, bubbles and puffer fish with different point scores. The game runs for 60 seconds and the code and points are accurately tallied."

Click here to play Fatema's wonderful game. Watch out for the starfish!

Mohamed Shehab TTRS.mp4

Mohamed rocks in Times Table Rock Stars

Mohamed in class 4.02 sets a blazing pace on Times Table Rock Stars. Check out the video to see Mohamed blast through the questions, answering accurately at two per second.

Instant recall is the key to success at TTRS. If you have to think, or count on your fingers, Mohamed will leave you standing as he jets away into the distance. Keep practising, and you can be that fast, too.

Wake up and walk!

Sebastian in class 6.03 set his alarm early last Saturday - he took part in a 5km charity walk, that started before sunrise, and was organised by the Ladies' Captain of the Royal Golf Club. Sebastian was the only entrant from BSB Juniors.

Well done, Sebastian - a great way to keep fit and to help others at the same time.

Silver Junior Duke Award

Special congratulations to our latest Junior Duke award winner, Kashvi in class 4.04.

Very well done, Kashvi - an achievement of which I'm sure you are very proud.

The Junior Duke Award is all about being independent and able to do things yourself, in preparation for being an adult of the future.

Keep up the good work, all of you who are still working towards your Junior Duke award.

Gerga'oon

Mrs Sana and the Arabic team set up a special corner of the school atrium this week, to celebrate Gerga'oon - at this special time of year - check out the photo carousel. We also received some super photos taken at home. It is lovely to celebrate the culture and festivals of Bahrain and to see the children enjoying themselves so much.

Head Teacher's Awards

More great work has taken place this week, with a healthy spread of awards from all four year groups. Well done, everyone. Keep up the excellent work.

Have a lovely long weekend. Remember, Sunday 2 May is a holiday, and Monday 3 May is a staff training day with no students in school and no online lessons. Blended school restarts on Tuesday 4 May - see you then, either in school or online. Stay safe and well.

Headteacher's News Thursday 22 April 2021

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The Earth, our spaceship

Science fiction writers have explored the theme of self-contained spaceships that can fly through space for generations, carrying supplies to sustain their passengers indefinitely. Our planet is like that - it is our only refuge, in the vast expanse of the universe. The image has a strong message. First, the safety of the Earth is in our hands. Second, the stewardship of the Earth transfers from each generation to the next, hence the older pair of hands is passing the planet into the younger hands. Both pairs of hands cup the Earth securely as it transitions into the future. Please treat the Earth responsibly. Your great-grandchildren will thank you.

Bronze Junior Duke Award - Mahatva 3.02

Congratulations to Mahatva in class 3.02, who has shown independence and ingenuity in gaining his Bronze Junior Duke Certificate.

Well done, Mahatva. By undertaking the challenge and making this achievement, you show yourself to be a worthy adult of the future, who will take good care of the Earth for decades to come.

Let's hope to see further Junior Duke certificates in the weeks ahead.

Adreyel F1v2.mp4

Adreyel interviews Team McLaren's drivers

Adreyel in class 4.06 put a really interesting question to F1 drivers Daniel Ricciardo and Lando Norris. Adreyel's question was chosen by the event organisers from the hundreds of entries sent in from all over Bahrain.

To hear Adreyel's question, and the drivers' replies, click to play the video.

Head Teacher's Awards

Well done indeed, everyone who has received a well-deserved Head Teacher's Award this week. Head Teacher's Awards can be given for many things - amazingly excellent work, super helpfulness and thinking of others, trying extra hard... the list goes on. Keep putting 100% into your learning, everyone, and we shall see who is in the awards gallery next week.

Wishing everyone a safe, restful weekend. Ramadan Mubarak.

Headteacher's News Thursday 15 April 2021

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Ramadan Mubarak

I would like to extend warm greetings for the Holy Month of Ramadan to all of the BSB community, during this very special part of the year. Wishing everyone a safe, healthy and happy time.

Young Artist

Never underestimate what young people can achieve. Isa in class 4.09, and his mum, ran an art exhibition at Harbour Gate, marking Bahrain Mothers' Day. Isa's art work received high accolades, and found a buyer!

Well done, Isa. Your talent and commitment are a shining light in these challenging global times.

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.

Williams.mp4

Awe-inspiring athletics results

My thanks to Ms Gray for sending me the results of last term's Junior Athletics Competitions. Congratulations to all who took part, especially those who really tried and extended their personal best achievements.
Click the link to see each set of results.
Year 6 Athletics Competition (whole year group competition)
Year 5 Athletics Competition (whole year group competition)
Year 4 Athletics Competition (whole year group competition)
Year 3 Athletics Competition (class competition)
Once again, junior students have risen to the challenge and excelled themselves. Well done everyone!

Silver Junior Duke Award - Maaria 4.02

Enormous congratulations to Maaria in class 4.02, who has completed her Silver Junior Duke Award.

The Junior Duke Award is all about life skills for primary aged children, encouraging independence, learning new techniques and building a strong character in preparation for later life.

Maaria's achievement will, I am sure, encourage many who have entered the award scheme to push on and attain their certificates.

Charity Drive

Kaviesh in Year 12 has reminded us about the annual BSB charity drive in aid of the Migrant Workers' Protection Society, a BSB-approved charity.

If you would like to contribute any of the listed items, including empty shoeboxes for us to package them, please drop off your donations at Reception in the administration building during the coming weeks.

Thank you in anticipation of your kindness and generosity at this special time.

Kids and Pets Day

Do you...

have a pet?
enjoy making videos with your pet?
like to enter competitions?

If you answered YES to all three questions, please read the flier carefully, about Kids and Pets Day. You have until 21 April to send your video to pawsrcsi@gmail.com, along with the consent form.

Your video must

be in vertical (portrait) format,
show a young person's special relationship with their pet;
be between 15 and 45 seconds long.

My dog, Honey, wishes you good luck.

Head Teacher's Awards

We have a long list of Head Teacher's Awards this week, from the last two assemblies. Super congratulations to all who gained an award, through their determined effort and excellent work. Have a restful weekend, everyone.

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