Through what has been a challenging week for all of us, our community has shown true resilience, cooperation, and strength. Despite the variability of recent circumstances, our teachers have worked incredibly hard to ensure there is a smooth transition to online learning as well as a normal provision of mock exams for our older secondary students. We would also like to congratulate our students for being so fantastic in adapting to these unforeseen changes in such a mature, responsible, and inspiring manner. Especially to our older secondary students, a huge well done for making it through what has been an undeniably stressful week! Please make sure you all get some well-deserved rest over the weekend. 

Through these uncertain, difficult times, it is important more than ever to take care of yourselves and support one another through it – even if it’s as simple as giving your friend a call to see how they’re doing. Once again, a huge thank you to all our teachers and students for their continued efforts over the past week – hope you have a lovely weekend.

Best wishes, 

The Student Leadership Team

​Having made a flotilla of model boats as an Entry Point for the new topic ‘Go With The Flow’ last week, Year 5 were able to test and evaluate their designs whilst visiting campus this week. Early Years kindly lent out their water tray and, with the use of a fan substituting for an ocean breeze, several mini-regattas were held on the roof of the primary block.

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At the very end of last term, Year 5 spent a day looking at line art and mixing water colours to produce winter mountain scenes reflecting their house mountains and colours.

Aadya, Subigya and Manas from the Y10 Chinese class joined the Chinese band in the Open Mic event and performed a Mandarin song! It was amazing to see them enjoy themselves and use the language in a different way.

The whole Year 10 Chinese class did mini-lectures as an end-of-term tradition to wrap up any grammar structures they learnt during the term. They explained well and also designed questions for their classmates to test each other’s knowledge.

In Business, students have been covering functions of management and types of leadership style. Mr Goacher has been really impressed by Shaurya, Harshit, Kuenlay, Ishat, Siya and Riya and their contribution and attainment during the lessons.

In Psychology, Year 10 are enjoying studying the psychology of memory, particularly short-term memory and the experiment by husband and wife psychology team Peterson and Peterson, as well as looking at planning their own research study on memory. They may ask you to take part in their research studies!

The work below is an example of some excellent work by Arshiya, Well Done!

Finally Year 10 English students have been preparing presentations on some of the poems from their IGCSE literature anthology. They have done an excellent job analyzing the theme and language of these works, as well as providing their classmates with some opportunities for discussion. Beginning on Wednesday, each group of students will be teaching their assigned poem to their classmates.

Anoushka, Gethin, and Orry describing some of the techniques used in Rain by Edward Thomas

Adhyayan and Manas summarizing the message of each stanza in The Spirit Is too Blunt an Instrument by Anne Stevenson.

Aadya, Riya, and Subigya annotate a stanza of Request to a Year by Judith Wright

Budhi and Kuenlay discuss theme and extended metaphor in Consumer Report by Peter Porter