We would like to remind all parents to help us complete 2 very important forms regarding your child/children. Firstly, as part of The British School’s protocol, we would like to have your consent for various school procedures. This includes photography, medical treatment, educational visits and a number of other issues which require your consent. Please follow this link for further details and to provide your consent and contact Ms. Bajracharya at mbajracharya@tbs.edu.np for any queries. Secondly, we are also updating our records and are writing to request that you complete the Online Health Questionnaire Form for each of your children. The health form is confidential and mandatory for all the students. The health form enables us to ensure that we have the correct information and can support your child effectively. It also allows us to communicate with the appropriate staff about your child’s needs and react swiftly in the case of an emergency. Please feel free to contact our school nurses on nurse@tbs.edu.np or drop into the infirmary if you have any questions.

It is with great excitement that we are able to celebrate International Day this year. We encourage everyone to come to school that day dressed in their national clothes or the colours of their flag. We will start the day with a wonderful celebration parade of the over thirty different nationalities represented in our community. Further to this we will spend the day reflecting, learning and celebrating what it is to be a Global Citizen. We will share pictures and videos on our Social Media platforms throughout the day so families at home can enjoy the fun too. Unfortunately, owing to the current COVID situation, we are unable to invite families on site, but we have a task that families can take part in.

We are compiling a TBS Cook Book of recipes from across our diverse community. Share your family’s favourite dishes with us. See poster below for more details.

Hello everyone!!! The KS5 prefect team is very excited to have our own section here in the Newsletter. We are hoping to use this section to keep the community up to date on progress made in our respective areas, as well as sparking interesting discussions.

Updates from the team this week: 

• Both KS4 and KS5 student leaders met on Wednesday to discuss the projects they’d like to work on and the things they’d like to see happen in school over the course of the year. We’re looking into organising some events after we’re back from the term break!
• The perfect team has been, and will be releasing more weekly ‘TBS Talks’ on topics that we’re incredibly passionate about. We believe these will be beneficial to the student body’s learning so we hope everyone enjoys them!  

• Curriculum prefects (Meghna & Ritu): We’ve started talking to various teachers about diversifying the curriculum and having some much needed conversations about the PSHE Syllabus. 

Sneak peeks (what we have planned):

• Wellbeing Prefects (Aaj and Vishwas): Bringing back Kindness Day where you write cards to people about why you appreciate them. We would also like to have a ‘Random act of kindness day’. 

• • Community Prefects (Harira and Vibek): We want to focus on building relationships regardless of age group in our school while focusing on developing different social and individual skills. Our plans for the future include organising team activities/tournaments in order to build connections between students. We also want to work on helping everyone learn skills such as public speaking, emotional literacy & social intelligence.
  • Sports Prefects (Nabodita and Shastraveer): As sports prefects we want to try and allow students to participate in sports clubs this year and we are exploring the possibility of a modified Sports Day. We would also like to offer a wider array of options for after school activities for students to pick from so that everyone feels like there is a sport for them to play.

• Creative Arts Prefects (Abayaa and Eshaan): We have several events planned for students this year: primary students, secondary students, book lovers, art lovers, music lovers, we’ll make sure you’re all included in our projects. We’ve had ideas from art exhibitions and talent shows, to restarting school productions. We’ve also been discussing the idea of a Students Wellbeing Day after exams where we are off timetable and doing things we enjoy (to help us unwind after the pressure of examinations). Covid restrictions are a little difficult to work around, but we’ll try our best to make this year as eventful and enjoyable as possible for everyone! 

There are a lot of new faces around school this year, so we’re just going to re-introduce ourselves and our roles very briefly for anyone who doesn’t know us.

Student Leaders this year: 

We will reintroduce our KS4 Ambassadors next week!

As parents will know, our first reports for Year 11 and 13 were released this week and will be released on Tuesday for Year 10 and 12. At this time of year, we are focused on setting targets for specific and manageable goals which students should now work towards. This week Key Stage 4 and Key Stage 5 were reminded of what the data means and what they should do next in this assembly video, which might also be a useful explanation for any new families.

In Year 4 we have been creating some amazing work linked to our IPC topic – Active Earth. After an eruptive entry point, watching the Lego Lava City come under the threat of a volcano, we began by making models of the earth. We also learnt all about the tectonic plates, how they move and what happens to the earth’s surface when they move. On our class maps we have marked many of the world’s volcanoes and learnt about the different types of volcanoes on Earth. In English, we even wrote historical fiction stories set in Pompeii AD79, when Mt. Vesuvius blew its top! Following this work, we looked at earthquakes. We made seismographs and had a go recording a table top earthquake. We have learnt about seismic waves and how they travel then made safety posters for the classroom. We are now looking at the life of a pebble. Having collected some pebbles from around the school, we have done some careful observational drawings of our pebbles and will be carrying out some experiments to test how the pebbles we have collected have been formed. What an exciting topic!