LION'S ROAR 3 7 June 2013 - The British School Manila

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LION’S ROARReception AssemblyThank you to our wonderful reception children for their assembly this morning where they were veryexcited to share all the amazing facts they had found out about animals. It was clear that they were soexcited to prepare the costumes and dances and loved being the stars in the movies that were shown.Here are two quotes from our reception children:The best bit is the dancing part and you have to listen really hard.— Manolo Reyes RADI loved flapping my wings with all the blue feathers.— Penny Butler RADNursery AssemblyOur next assembly will be the nursery children performing the Hungry Caterpillar, a great book by EricCarle. This follows up on the discovery science work they have done observing cocoons and watchingwith amazement the whole evolution process. Note this assembly is for nursery parents and siblings onlyand will be held in the Cluster F Assembly Hall.Year 1 Careers day / KS 2 Sports dayAs there is no assembly for the rest of the school on Friday 14 July, this will allow the year one CareersDay and the KS 2 Sports Day to begin earlier. As it is our first run through with the new format for KS 2sports day, this is for students only this time, but we look forward to inviting parents in the future.Careers DayAs I mentioned above, next Friday, the 14 June is Careers Day in Year One. The children will have theopportunity to hear from a range of Year One parents about their chosen career and what that entails.The children are encouraged to wear clothes found at home to reflect their possible chosen career.Please also bring in PE kit, trainers and socks.ReportsYou will be receiving your End of Year reports next Monday with the opportunity of making appointmentsto see the teachers in the final week of term.PTC s (Parent Teacher Conferences)/ SLCs (Student Led Conferences )The end of year Conferences will take place on Wednesday 26 June from 1-5pm. Please make anappointment if you feel that you require further information after you have your child’s report. There is abooking form with your child’s report. Lessons will finish at lunchtime that day. Children shouldtherefore be collected at 12.30pm. The NSP school bus will provide a 12.30pm service for their ridersand will depart from Gate 5 as normal. Please inform the bus office if you wish to avail of this service.The free satellite bus service will not be available at this time.One final comment about reports; we get a number of parents requesting old reports and copies ofreports given out, once we give these out it is the parents responsibility to keep them and provide futureschools with copies and not ours, so once you have shared your child’s report with them please storethem away safely.Tudor dayLast Thursday saw Year 4 celebrate their Tudor Day, it was a great success and once again elicited anumber of excited children’s comments-:Year 4 Tudor Day was spectacular. My favourite part was doing the leap frog in our DramaActivity. It was really fun to leap over people and watch them jump over other people. I alsoreally enjoyed the feast because an apple went into Sylvie’s apple juice! – Luci Hall 4SC2 7 June 2013THE BRITISH SCHOOL MANILATelephone 860-4800 Fax 860-4900 Website www.britishschoolmanila.org
LION’S ROARMy favourite part of Tudor Day was making the Pommander. It was really fun and lots of juicefrom the orange squirted everywhere! – Ian Sy 4SCTudor Day was amazing. I loved everything but most of all I enjoyed making a Coat of Arms. Ialso like the Tudor Day lunch, especially the chicken legs. I also like the Horrible History at theend of the day – it was so funny. – Renzo Tan 4SCMy favourite part of Tudor Day was the Tudor Feast because the food was super and the Refectoryeven looked like an actual Tudor place in England… - Arabella Chidwick 4SCTudor Day was amazing. I enjoyed it so much expecially the Coat of Arms….you had to draw oneon scratch paper and draw things that represented your personality. For example if you drew adog that would mean you were loyal. – Purvi Aiyer 4SCI liked the dancing and acting Shakespearian style with Mrs Moriarty. – Sachi Shadforth 4FOI loved the Tudor feast. The food was delicious! – Olivia Van Niekerk 4FOI enjoyed all the activities, especially designing the coat of arms. – Sasha Lamb 4FOMy favourite part was making the pomanders. They smelled really nice. – Alexia Mattinson 4FOI enjoyed making the Tudor houses. – Coco Leather 4FOYear 2 Pirate DayLast Thursday, Year 2 also had a special day as the children allturned into feisty pirates. They looked for buried treasure and usedtheir cutlasses to fight any enemies who dared to interrupt theirpirate lunch. They had a fantastic morning making pirate hats,parrots and designing their own flags. I think you would all agreethat even Blackbeard would have enjoyed the Year 2 Pirate Celebrationand the amazing decorations hats that adorned the Year 2 areaand the canteen.Thank you to both Year 2 and Year 4 parents for all of their helpsetting these events up.Year 4 Great Cup Cake Bake SaleNext Friday, 14 June the students in Year 4 will be having their Great Cup Cake Bake Sale as part oftheir ‘Young Entrepreneur’ study unit.The children will be making 6 different types cup cakes as well as looking at different elements neededfor a small business such as costing of ingredients, advertising, packaging, slogans. They will be assistedin this by Ms. Claire Atkins who actually runs her own small cup cake business. The unit also has acommunity service theme to it as the cupcakes the children make, will be sold for P50 each and anymoney raised will be donated to a charity – CHILD HAUS.CHILD HAUS has an outreach programme being assisted by our own Erwin Adevoso and operates inQuezon City.We hope the school community can help us in this by purchasing a cup cake or two as the children willhave 300 to sell!Summer SchemeWe now have 40 children signed up for the Summer Scheme we still hope that the other 30 places willbe filled. If you are thinking about joining please inform Kristine in the office as soon as possible. Thestaff on the scheme are now starting to purchase resources and we need to know numbers urgently.3 7 June 2013THE BRITISH SCHOOL MANILATelephone 860-4800 Fax 860-4900 Website www.britishschoolmanila.org
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