Today saw the celebrations of the top Cambridge A level results from last year’s exam series and we were proud to celebrate extremely high achievement in Art and Design, Psychology, Media studies, Literature, Geography, Biology, Chemistry and Further Maths.

We have had another very exciting week in Early Years and Primary, Early Years & Key Stage 1 were very excited to welcome the author, Sandra Shiwani Van Doesburg who read her books, Namaste & Are You a Snow Leopard to the children. They loved the stories and had some very interesting questions for Sandra, including about what inspired her to write the books and asking “how difficult is it to get a book published?” This visit was made even more exciting when the children found out that not only is Sandra of Nepali origin, she also studied at TBS when it was The British Primary School! It was so inspiring to see the achievements of one of our ex-students!

If you would like to look at her books online, here is the link to her webpage.

We have also had the results of our our competition and the following students’ work has been submitted to the FOBISIA art competition:

From Year 1, Stella & Aria, Year 2 Grace and Dhrasika, Year 3 Stanley & Tisha, Year 4 Abril and Avigya, Year 5 Aryaman and Avydaya and Year 6 Aahana A and Adeline. Their work will be on display next week.

 By Dia Lohia, Year 10 Business Studies

In business this term we have been looking at Unit 2, People in Business. This week we have looked into recruitment for various job roles in a company. We have explored different biases associated with recruitment where women may be less favoured due to the stereotype that they will rear children and therefore cannot be as present at work. We have also explored the gender pay gap and the fact that women are underrepresented in top managerial roles. Of the top Fortune 500 companies, only 8% of CEOs are female. This has tied in beautifully with International Women’s Day, March 8th, where we have explored the many beautiful accomplishments of women. We had a starter activity in business this week where we were told to draw a CEO hosting a meeting with their team. Many of the CEOs drawn were male, showing the stereotypical views of a male leading a company, however we had quite a few female CEOs drawn as well, perhaps showing the spark of change being brought on by this generation.

Furthermore, we had a look at an organisation called the Black Mambas women’s organisation, based in South Africa, that promotes anti poaching. All women employed as Black Mambas are women of colour. Having a look at these inspirational groups of women, really makes us realise how far we have come as a society and the many opportunities now available for women in business. This was a truly mesmerising week filled with applying the numerous leadership skills learnt in our business studies to organising some great events for Women’s International Day, 2023.

It was wonderful to come together and celebrate the linguistic diversity of our community on Tuesday for International Mother Language Day. This is a very important day for the members of our Bangladesh Community and it was wonderful to have Suha in Year 6 explain the importance of the day and why all of our home languages are so important.

The Secondary Leading Linguists had prepared wonderful stalls of quizzes and games in Bengali, Urdu, Newari, Hindi, German, Czech, Spanish and Nepali, for our Primary Language learners to enjoy. The event culminated in a fun quiz and some excellent karaoke in different languages.

Thank you very much to the Leading Linguists for all their hard work and all parents that participated.

Leading Linguists who helped in Mother Language Day 2023:

Y8: Upasana, Siying, Mateo,William, Amata, Ashish,Victoria,

Y9: Kashvi

Y10: Dia, Sivani, Sahara, Adeeb, Raghavi, Zainab

During cross-curricular day on February 4, 2023, students in Years 6-10 interviewed members of the TBS community about important events in their lives. They compiled these interviews into living history narratives that tell the story of some of the fascinating people who live and work around the school. We will be publishing one of the resulting stories each week.