Dead Dog in a Suitcase (School Play)
Mayor Goodman and his dog have been brutally killed. As a local fish and construction businessman, Mr Peachum, steps in as the new mayor, who is to blame for the assassination? Corruption, murder and theft are rife in the city. Wanted criminal, Macheath, seems to be to blame, but is everything as it seems? As Chief of Police, Colin Lockit, attempts to hunt the killer down, he is also trying to discover who has got his daughter (Lucy) pregnant. Will Lockit catch Macheath before the city is dragged towards destruction?
If you’d like to watch the show put on by our students, please purchase a ticket from the community shop from Monday.
Graduation – “au revoir” to the class of 2024
On Tuesday evening, friends and family gathered with the class of 2024 for their TBS graduation ceremony at the Hyatt Place hotel. A wonderful evening of farewell speeches, music from the class of 24 and dinner table conversation was a perfect way to say farewell to a wonderful year group. It was a real pleasure to welcome back from the class of 2012, TBS alumnus and Managing Director of the Kantipur Media Group, Sambhav Sirohiya together with his brother (Class of 2018) and their wives. Sambhav inspired us with his story of how he has overcome setbacks and disappointments in his life to make him the strong, determined and successful leader and entrepreneur he is today.
Above: Guest speaker Sambhav Sirohiya with his family.
Please click on the link here to view photos from the event.
Model United Nations
This week saw the first TBS Model United Nations Day for Year 9, 10 and 12. The day started with an opening ceremony and keynote address given by Mr Chevillard, Deputy Representative for the UNDP in Nepal followed by a gay of engaging with some of the major geo-political issues of the day in a series of UN style committees, chaired by experienced guest dais, who led our student through the formal procedures of UN style debate and resolution making. Students were assigned to one of four committees for the day.
The MUN Security Council discussed countering terrorism and violence and focussed on the recent situation in Afghanistan.
The MUN Environment Programme went a little off topic with their conversations about the war in Ukraine but managed to bring it back on topic with a resolution on the possible environmental impact of an escalated war.
The model DISEC looked at the use of PMC’s and Mercenaries in Areas of Armed Conflict and passed a resolution looking to regulate the use of mercenaries.
The final committee – a model British House of Commons – discussed the situation of migrants across the globe with specific reference to the UK position. Keir Starmar was nominated as the best delegate!
Each committee chair nominates their best and outstanding delegates with winners’ certificates awarded in Friday’s closing ceremony. We hope students really enjoyed their experience, learned some more about geopolitics, diplomacy and had the opportunity to develop their skills in, amongst others; public speaking, debating, teamwork, collaboration and agreeing compromises. MUN club will relaunch in August and we hope that many delegates from our first TBS MUN conference will be inspired to sign up.
World Scholar’s Cup
Whilst the older students were taking part in MUN, Year 7 & 8 had a wonderful opportunity to experience the full WSC experience competing in teams of three in the traditional programme of free writing, scholar’s challenge, scholar’s bowl and team debating. In the afternoon, we enjoyed the exhibition debate, the cultural fair, the “adopt your yak” (a himalayan Alpaca?) ceremony and of course the final presentation with many certificates, medals and trophies being presented. Look at the photos to see how much fun we had.
The Scholar’s Challenge – 6 subject areas, 60 questions, 60 minutes. It’s like an exam but more fun because it’s the World Scholar’s Cup!
Team Debate – Dogs are better than cats! Can you argue persuasively in public? Judged by our student WSC leaders.
The cultural fair – each country has the opportunity to share their culture with the other scholars.
The overall champion team and first winners of the TBS WSC champions trophy (on the left) and the second team (on the right) who also won trophies for being section winners of the team debate and the scholars bowl.
Community Partners
A group of four students visited one of our community partner schools to start a library refurbishment programme. Our students have been working on these plans all year and finally everything fell into place. Stage 1: fresh paint. The project will be completed during next academic year.
The TBS Alumni Games
Friday sees the return of the Alumni Games, where teams representing the alumni compete with the current school teams in boys and girls basketball and football. After the competitions were finished, a community BBQ was enjoyed by all. All money raised from this event will be used to support our community partner schools.
Year 10 Physics students building a model of a nuclear power station:
