• The Term 2 date for the official notice of withdrawal to Ms. Bajracharya (mbajracharya@tbs.edu.np) is Wednesday, 17th November. Failure to give this notice period will result in the security deposit being retained in full.
• Now that the COVID situation is stable in Nepal and school is open, we have returned to full time in-class learning. This means that our online provision will come to an end on the 3rd of December. We will of course retain the facility to switch swiftly to online provision if the need arises, either as a whole-school move or for specific year groups/ subjects e.g. during mandatory self-isolation.

As we prepare for the arrival of the new design, we are now selling TBS Tracksuits at a discounted rate of NRs. 1500 (normal rate NRs. 3000). Limited stock/sizes available. Please contact Ms. Tamrakar at the Front Reception or via email/call for more details on available sizes and pieces. 

Hello everyone,

I hope you all enjoyed the beautiful light displays around the city over Tihar and spent much needed time relaxing with family and friends. 

This week:

Well done to all the Y12 and Y13 students who participated in the UKMT Maths challenge this Thursday! TBS also participated in Remembrance Day on Thursday. It was so lovely seeing everyone donate and reflect on the importance of this day, particularly in terms of the younger generation’s role in remembering. The Prefects have been working hard all week putting up and decorating the Wellbeing noticeboard in front of the English classrooms. 

Wellbeing day: Our prefects and safeguarding team have been diligently planning and organising Wellbeing day for several months now. Wellbeing activities like yoga, drama, creative writing and several more were run throughout the second half of day. It is so inspiring that we as a community are coming together to acknowledge the importance of mental health and to encourage each other to speak openly about our feelings. Just remember – it is okay to feel down at times, but please try to speak to someone about any challenges you are facing (sometimes the briefest conversation can have the biggest impact on how we feel).

The Performing Arts Department presents the first TBS Shakespeare Festival. Following almost two years without live productions, the Performing Arts  Department, supported by our wonderful colleagues in Primary, will be producing a Whole School Shakespeare Festival which will be performed at the end of March – we hope with a live audience! 

The KS3 students will perform, design the costumes and the set as well as contribute to directing their productions which all going to plan will be performed outside, as Shakespeare intended. 

Year 3 & 4 are producing a performance of Shakespeare Rocks to introduce William Shakespeare to the audience.

Year 5 & 6 then perform a magical and mysterious version of the Tempest, one of the plays from Shakespeare’s first folio.

Year 7 then transports the audience to a magical forest outside the city, maybe in Chitwan (!) , for a very weird A Midsummer Night’s Dream.

Sword fighting and powerful women rule in Year 8’s retelling of Macbeth. Look out for who really controls their destiny!

No Shakespeare festival is complete without Romeo & Juliet. Year 9 set theirs in modern day with parties and feuding families.

Finally, supported by Ms Mountjoy and Ms Williams’ A Level English Literature class, Year 12 will be performing and directing their own Much Ado About Nothing!

Preparations for this mammoth whole school project have already started:

Years 5 & 6 and Years 3 & 4 have both been preparing the musical numbers with Ms Gilbert and the script with Ms Mountjoy, Ms Wynn, Mr Smith, Ms Wheatley, Mr Alcock, Ms Wiggers, Ms Bradley and Mr Morris!

Year 7, 8 9 and 12 have also started their preparations – watch this space in the coming weeks!

Since we have returned to campus, the students in Year 9 have been excelling in subjects, right across the board. The students have been thriving with the opportunity to collaborate with their peers and being able to build relationships with their different teachers. It has been fantastic to see the students being so creative in a range of different subjects and finding ways to portray a particular topic, using innovation and initiative. The students have really encompassed the 5 C’s whilst they have been around the school and it is great to see them wanting to help each other and push themselves to be the best they can be. Well done for such a fantastic two terms Year 9!

There have been some amazing highlights during the students’ time in school this year. The Key Stage 3 aspiring leaders have started to think of ideas of ways they can benefit the school and the local community. Through regular meetings they have been thinking of charity fundraisers for our community partners, designing ways that they could make the school a more environmentally friendly place, discussing ideas and concepts with their mentor groups and displaying role model behaviour around the school. It is great to see so many fantastic ideas being thought of and everyone should look forward to some of these ideas coming into fruition in the coming months.

Year 9 has dealt with a change in modality in Music. Their Jazz fusion project started online and finished with amazing performances on International Day!

The students are now studying performance through Musical Futures pedagogy in a ‘Live Lounge’ Project. They work in groups to produce concert quality performances for their favourite songs. Students do not change any features of the song, rather, they are upskilled to match the challenge.

In Year 9 Science, the students have been looking at Energy Content and Power. They were tasked with creating a presentation that looked into how much energy is provided by different everyday items. This ranged from food, to petrol for a car. Some of the presentations were great and really went into detail about this particular topic.

In Geography, the Year 9s have been looking at the different income levels there are around the world and how in different countries there can be vast differences between the amount of money a family earns. They looked into the living conditions a family had, the food that they would eat and their modes of transport. This is all done via a website that allows the students to build these comparisons named dollar street.

For one of their tasks, the students were asked to choose a family from a particular income level and create a diary entry for that family. The students’ imaginative and compassionate responses were fantastic and it really encompassed the geographical knowledge they had gained over the first term.

In Year 9 Chinese class, the students were looking at different countries, nationalities and languages in Chinese. In the lesson, all students worked hard to make signs for the Chinese classroom!

The year 9 Biologists have been exploring genetic variation, using their knowledge of dominant and recessive alleles with given traits to create monsters.

It has been an incredible two terms for Year 9. It is exciting to see what else the year group is going to accomplish as we continue to move through this academic year!

Thank you to the parents who have already confirmed that this will be the last term for their child/children at TBS. In line with the school policy, the date for the official notice of withdrawal is Wednesday, 17th November if this will be the last term for your child/children at TBS. Please inform Ms. Bajracharya (mbajracharya@tbs.edu.np) the Admissions Manager, if you wish to withdraw your child from TBS by the above date. Failure to give such notice will result in the security deposit being retained in full. Parents will receive a Clearance Form to complete the withdrawal procedure nearer the end of this term. The security deposit will be refunded once the form is submitted and all the school resources have been returned to the school in good order. Parents will always be notified in the instance where a partial amount of the deposit has been frozen to cover missing or damaged resources. We thank you for entrusting us with the education of your child/children and wish you the very best for the future; you will always be part of the TBS family, so please do keep in touch. This could be through the school social media or getting involved in the Alumni Association, details of which are in the clearance form.