It has been wonderful seeing our youngest students playing and having fun together at the school premises this week. Their adaptability has impressed all staff. They adjusted so quickly with all routines in an unfamiliar environment. We saw cooperative ants showing their resilience by building castles together repeatedly to make the walls more sturdy. The students were very responsible in putting away the toys they played with to be cleaned. They showed their creativity by creating paintings and writing messages. It was joyful to hear communicative parrots talking, singing and dancing with Ms Pathak, Ms Gautam, Ms Sharma and Ms Gilbert.

Popular amongst our learners from Year 1 to Year 6,  the International Primary Curriculum enables our students to develop and gather a variety of skills and knowledge. More importantly, and what we as teachers love to see, is learning and skills from different areas of the curriculum being applied and used in our learning journeys. This has been excellently showcased by Primary during the TBS-Lympics topic.

During the past two weeks our learners have been applying their skills and knowledge to tackling a variety of tasks. Like all Olympic level athletes, they have demonstrated great resilience and adaptability in their approach to the tasks. It has been wonderful to see our learners reflect on the tasks they have completed. Through this mini-topic, our ever enquiring learners made valuable links in their learning,that showed skills learnt across the different subjects could be useful in other areas.

Well done to all the athletes –  it has been a pleasure watching you apply your learning to tackle different challenges.

Year 7 has had a fantastic start to the new academic year. It can be quite a daunting prospect for the students moving from Primary to Secondary school, however, every student has taken the challenge in their stride and succeeded over the first few weeks. Our students have shown real resilience in finding their own solutions to problems and starting to take responsibility for their own learning. Some of the pieces of work that have been created have been incredible and the Year 7 students should be really proud of what they have done so far. The whole TBS community is excited to see the positive impact these new secondary students are going to have on school!

There have been some highlights of the work the students have been doing. In the Year 7 Performing Arts Workshop, the students have had the chance to combine their love for film and drama by recreating their favourite scenes from films. They were tasked with taking a photo of one particular scene. Saanvi’s recreation of Little Foot and Sannah’s Dora the Explorer were absolutely fantastic.

In Year 7 Nepali, the students are being introduced to the national Nepali Curriculum for the first time. This comes with its own challenges, however, the students have really taken to the lessons and have produced some incredible pieces of work. The students were studying the famous Nepali poem ‘Parichaya’ and were practicing their writing skills. 

Finally, in PE the students have been taking part in a range of different live lessons and discussing elements of health and fitness with their teachers. Alongside these live lessons, the students have been working on an Olympics project and designing how the Olympics could be held in Kathmandu. This week the students were asked to create their own logos and mascots for the games, with the end result being great. Well done Year 7 on such a fantastic start to the year. Keep up the great work!

Pema in 6E has been supporting children in Afghanistan by creating and selling beautiful handmade bracelets. She has donated the proceeds to Save the Children, a charity supporting children through the current crisis. We are very proud of Pema’s kindness, compassion and commitment to helping others who may be in need. This really does show the TBS ethos through and through!