Thank you to parents who were able to attend and contribute to the meeting last evening. If you were unable to join, please click below for the recording and find attached presentation pdf.

Meeting Recording

Parent Meeting Presentation 18th Jan 2021

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Hello TBS! We hope that all students are doing great in their mocks! We have one final week for the exams to end, then finally we can go back to binge watching shows on Netflix! The Mocks will commence the school’s plan to slowly introduce students back to campus. As always, our community at TBS are fully prepared to reopen school and have taken all the necessary steps to create a safe environment against covid. We believe our plans to maintain a 1.5m distance at all times, limit the numbers of students in each room, compulsory mask wearing, hygiene procedures and the ventilation of rooms, all in line with WHO guidelines, mitigates risks as much as possible.

Teacher of the Week – The students have selected this week’s ‘Teacher of the Week’ as Ms. Morgan for being very supportive and fun in class. Ms. Morgan’s classes are interactive by giving students quizzes for the chance to compete with one another and learn from their mistakes. 

Weekly Fun Challenge – This week’s challenge is a fun word search ! Lets see who’s the fastest at solving this. (HINT: 3 of the hidden 16 words are names of fellow members of TBS!)

This week the Foundation 1 students set a ‘rhyming words’ challenge. Their teachers and friends had to find the odd one from a set of objects. Can you find the object that doesn’t rhyme?

Foundation 2 are really excited to come back to school. They listened to a story about Teddy who is returning to campus and watched the video of our new setting. Arya drew a picture of himself wearing a mask, getting ready for school and Noah is looking forward to meeting his friends and teachers again.

Year 1 has been using their creativity and new knowledge about insects to write and perform poetry and to make fabulous nature art. Have a look at the insects made by Amayah, Naavya and Shanaya.

Year 2L delved straight into their  ‘People from the Past’ unit and looked at two famous figures in great detail this week, creating a timeline of Edward Jenner’s life by researching the key dates. In English, the students started writing biographies of Pablo Picasso. The students of Year 2W have been looking at fairness during their world languages session this week. They created pictures of things they thought were unfair. Have a look at Romeo and Muntaqim’s examples. 

 Juhi’s timeline and Balark’s first part of Picasso’s biography.

At the end of their first week, Year 3 thought about their hopes and wishes for the New Year. They set themselves challenges, thought about things they wished to try,  and listed their plans for 2021.

As part of their Active Planet topic, Year 4 have been focusing on volcanoes. In English, they have been looking at what happened in the Roman city of Pompeii, following the story of the eruption of Mt Vesuvius. Focusing on creating clear paragraphs with detailed description, they have worked on describing settings. Meanwhile in Geography, they have been creating fabulous volcano diagrams.

With the New Year often bringing resolutions for many of us, Year 6 have been thinking about their own goals this week – goals to achieve by the end of this term and goals to achieve by the end of the school year. It’s been really good to see them thinking about how to make their goals SMART – we look forward to seeing them succeed! 

After their amazing ‘Go With the Flow’ entry points last week, this week Year 5 have begun to look more closely at the causes of flooding, conducting experiments into the impact that humans have had through building. By pouring water onto soil and onto concrete, they’ve very quickly come to some excellent conclusions. 

Finally, we are starting to see students returning to campus! All of the teachers are so excited to see you all back in campus enjoying playing a range of different sports. Next week, will see the first week that students will be taking part in live practical PE lessons. It is great that after all of this time, we can start to see students back on the TBS campus enjoying themselves. Please remember to come in full kit, otherwise you will not be allowed to participate and will be sent away from the campus.

This week saw the setting of the KS3 PSHE work. It is looking into dealing with change and the different strategies that students can use to help them when this happens. Over the last ten months, there has been so much change to the world that we know and everyone has had to be so adaptable. Talking about students’ own personal experiences and how they have coped will give different people ideas on strategies they can use moving forward. 

Once again, the students of KS3 have been producing huge amounts of high quality of work. The effort that is being put in by these students is fantastic and really deserves recognition. In Year 9 Science, the students have been looking at thermoregulation and the way that the body’s internal core regulatory system manages the body’s temperature. They were tasked with creating a presentation that looks into the different elements involved with this. 

In Year 8 Science, the students have been looking at the phases of the moon. They were looking into the different phases that appear at different times of the month and the reasoning behind this. 

Year 7 Music has been studying the work of Modest Mussorksky, a Russian composer known for his master of programme music. This week they were looking at Gnomus, a piece of music representing a ‘little gnome, clumsily running with crooked legs’. They identified what Mussorksy did to the music to make it sound sinister and applied that to their own music!

Norzin chose the Kraken from scandinavian folklore and used low pitched instruments, a minor key and uneven tempo to show the depth of the sea and the fear of the sailors. To listen to Norzin’s musical creation please click here. 

Aayan chose to reflect the Manticore, the legendary Persian ‘man-eater’. If you listen carefully you can hear it roar as it soars through the sky! To listen to Aayan’s piece of music click here.

Our student of the week goes to Aryanna in Year 7. In music, the students were tasked with linking famous art paintings to sounds and creating their own piece of music. Aryanna’s performance was excellent, mixing creativity with excellent music knowledge. Well done for going the extra mile and creating an amazing music piece!

It’s been another busy week in KS4, not only with the usual learning and teaching, but also with all the preparation for the start of the IGCSE mock examinations this week.  There has been a tremendous effort made by all those in school this week to get everything safe and ready for the return of our Year 11 students: from the dais and the didis getting the campus ready, to teachers getting exam copies printed and the examination officers getting all of the spaces set up for our year 11s.  

Thursday morning saw the return to campus of the first cohort of students since March.  It was lovely to see them in person, and for them also to be able to see each other in person – albeit socially distanced!

Mock examinations will continue for all of next week also.  As a reminder, here is the student timetable.  While mocks are running, year 11 students are not required to register with their mentors in the mornings and are completely ‘off-timetable’ until Monday 1st February.

The focus sport for KS4 PE this week was Ice Hockey, there was great participation in the workouts, but the final quiz question proved tricky. Do you know what a penalty box looks like and is used for in Ice Hockey?

In Geography, year 10 students have been looking at Rio de Janeiro and in particular, the favelas (slums) found there.  While there are many negative aspects of favelas, there are also many positive aspects, which have been considered.  Did you know that until very recently, favelas were not included on Google Maps and were just shown as ‘grey’ areas? Now they are shown and this, in part, is due to a fantastic initiative, which can be seen here (Beyond the Map).  It’s an interactive experience and there are some short ‘documentaries’ about real people living in the favelas and their stories.  A firm favorite this week has been Luis’ story “The boy who dared to dance”.  Have a tour around Rio’s favelas.  You may be pleasantly surprised!.  Another great website for bringing geography to life is this one, which also shows the different aspects of Rio and its favelas.  

In Music, Year 11  students Manawi and Abayaa have been revising for Mocks using jamboard and other softwares to help them! Here are their revision jamboards.

In Drama, Year 11 students this week have been preparing for their mock exams and considering staging design in relation to their assessed monologue performances. Here are a couple of examples of the openings of students’ essays. You can see that the pieces of work not only give insightful detail to the students ideas, but they also comment upon the context of the performance and how those ideas can be realised on stage. 

Miss Howell has said that she has been  super impressed with Nirvan, Sachi, Aadil and Sarbodaya in year 10 this week.  She has said that all their answers on Peardeck were correct  and that they showed their workings for the calculations and used the correct vocabulary for their written responses.

Miss Howell has also commented that Sachi is always so positive during her mentor 1-1 sessions. She is always there and at PSHE on time. She does everything asked of her without complaining and to the best of her ability. Well done, Sachi.  Keep up the great work!

KS4 Student of the week

This week’s student of the week is Aayush in Year 10.  He has worked consistently hard in his subjects and has also remained positive, showing great resilience, with some recent events.  Here is what Aayush has to say:

This is my first year in TBS, I really love the environment of TBS as the students and teachers are very supportive and they are all very friendly. The students are always there to extend a hand of friendship, I have made lots of good friends online. My advice to other students is to not stress too much and enjoy the little things outside school. My hobbies are cycling and playing football, though I haven’t been able to do those that much recently due to covid.

Keep your eyes peeled for the KS4 students’ student of the month announcement next week!

It is hard not to sound too much like a broken record but I am in such awe of the resilience of our students. They have really risen to the challenge of online learning and have kept their motivation and determination to succeed, which is very promising with mock exams coming up next week. 

Highlights

Congratulations for our amazing attenders last week with 100% – Seoyun, Erica, Joeun, Sneha and Adwita! 

Well done to Daniel and Phurba have made great progress and shown fantastic effort in their Computer Science lessons this term. 

Ms. Howell was really impressed with Ohjun’s resilience and effort this week when he persevered with a really difficult exam question in Physics and figured out the correct answer by carefully considering the two cables supporting the lift and the radius of the cables.

Roisin (prepared mock exam for art, made great progress in art). 

Mrs. King has been really impressed with Shloka’s progress in Chemistry! Well done! 

Well done Ritu for fabulous contributions in psychology – she has even been explaining things to other students. 

Vibek has shown consistent effort and determination in Chemistry. 

Student of the Week 

This week our student of the week is Ndeye Seck. 

Didi has been nominated by her teachers for her amazing and unwavering attitude towards your studies but also your kindness towards your peers and your teachers. 

Ms. Morgan mentioned that she emailed last Friday to share some useful revision sites that she had found and wanted to share with her classmates. 

Ms. Van de Kaa has been impressed with her progress in business and is particularly impressed with her resilience and her attitude to learning.  Didi’s effort in completing class work and direct independent study tasks has been fantastic.

Mr Piaf says that in Psychology, she rises to every challenge and appreciates those around her. She is a very positive presence in Y13 and the wider tbs community. Her eye for detail, her support to others and her tenacity are inspiring.

Didi’s advice to other students: 

“Reach out to the people around you when you need help, not everything can be done independently”.