Year 3

Last week, Year 3 had a great time camping at Sankhu. We especially enjoyed exploring the fauna and flora of the region, completing botanical paintings, collecting interesting specimens for study in school, creating sculptures by the river and looking at the interesting ways that discarded items have been turned into treasure in the form of flower pots in the beautiful temple garden. This gave us lots of ideas to create our own ‘trash to treasure’ gardens.

Year 4

Year 4 had an incredibly refreshing yet physically challenging trip to Shivapuri for their expedition. We began the journey with a reflective exploration of Budhanilkantha Temple to appreciate the reclining Vishnu. We were able to observe a local festival with music and celebration before starting our first trek to Shivapuri cottages. Our first challenge was a set of 176 steps to drop off our gear! There was much encouragement among students to keep pushing. At the top, we made vegetable momos, taking time to appreciate the efforts that go into preparing healthy foods. The trip continued with collaborative activities such as scavenger hunts, nature art designs and making S’mores!

To promote awareness of keeping the environment clean, our classes took part in litter picking which involved removing dozens of bags of plastic from the beautiful nature trail.

Year 7:

Music from Indonesia is the topic Year 7 are currently working on. They are showcasing their control of musical texture, dynamics and melody by creating Gamelan performances to tell a story. We chose Jak and Betty and the Yak and Yeti. The students are using their creativity to develop melody and texture that reflects the page of the book their pair has been assigned.

Year 8:

Year 8 are learning about the music of ‘sound Asia’. Specifically the typical structures of classical music. They are using Raga to compose their own piece of music to accompany the Visit Nepal 2020 advertisements showcasing the beauty of this country we all call home. This project is designed to mimic how a composer would work in the real world.  Watch this space for their final projects!

Year 9:

Year 9 are working on a ‘band project’ This sees the students choose a song as a group and upskill themselves to be able to perform it. Sounds easy? It isn’t! They have been coming at break times and lunchtimes to practise and perform. A special ‘well done’ to Myles, Yosr and Maya for learning the drum kit patterns for their songs in 2 weeks!

Year 10:

The Year ten GCSE group have been looking at the music of Bach and Queen this term alongside working on their own performances for the Winter Concert.

Here you can see part of a presentation by Phillip and Raghavi on the key features of the Brandenburg concerto by Bach. The students developed these slides to present to the class on different elements of music.

Here they are in action for performance practise!

Year 12:

Year 12 have been working hard on their A Level content. This week they have been learning about Norwegian fairy stories and how that was represented in Evard Greig’s Peer Gynt Suite. They have also been working hard on their performances for the Awards evening next week and the Winter Concert!

See performances here and here.

Following a hard fought 3-2 defeat against Ullens School last Sunday, the Yeti’s bounced back with a fantastic 4-0 win over KISC on Thursday. Year 11 Harshit Gupta gave a player of the match performance, scoring a goal and creating several excellent chances.

Thank you to all of the students, parents and staff who came along to support the team. It really does make a huge difference!

The Prefect Team have a lot of charitable work to be proud of this term. While celebrating Breast Cancer Awareness Week, Meghna and Ben spent time putting together and giving informative assemblies and collecting donations, but the Sponge the Teacher fundraiser on Friday undoubtedly remained the highlight. It was wonderful to see teachers and students participate, and was an incredible success, raising over 73,000 rupees in total. Donations from Secondary students amounted to over 56,000 rupees, as contributed by donations, Sponge the Teacher, and face painting. Primary did a great job too, raising 17,000 rupees themselves. Thank you to everyone who donated and got involved, it is massively appreciated by the team. 

As we are in the month of November, TBS is also supporting Movember. The concept of Movember was developed to raise awareness about men’s mental health as well as prostate and testicular cancer. People around the world are encouraged to shave their facial hair on the first of November and to refrain from shaving over the course of the month to show support for the Movember movement. Several teachers and members of staff are participating in Movember and we would love to see some of the student body and parents get involved too! The Prefect Team will be posting weekly progress photos of teachers participating in Movember, so keep your eye out for them! At the end of the month we’ll ask members of the community to vote for who they think had the best progress.