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26 th January 2017 Year 3 CFL students
THERE ARE FAR, FAR BETTER THINGS AHEAD THAN ANY WE LEAVE BEHIND – C.S. LEWIS
REMINDERS
Chinese New Year Celebrations elebrations! by Mr. Peter Sloan Happy Chinese New Year! Throughout today (Friday) we have held a number of assemblies for different age groups to celebrate Chinese New Year. Our assemblies were organised by staff from our Chinese Language and Culture team and brought together children from all three sections. The assemblies were a tremendous time of celebration and fun and everyone delighted in watching performances from children from different year groups. We had lots of dancing, acting and singing with an added bonus of a performance by the BSHS Drummers. It was a fantastic show and a brilliant way to start Chinese New Year. The finale was wonderful as some amazing Lion Dancers from BSHS joined the assembly and danced their way out of the amphitheatre. The assemblies were a really fantastic trisection event as the children from our three sections came together to celebrate an event central to the heart of our home nation, Taiwan. Many thanks to all the staff from our Chinese and Language Culture team for creating such a positive and purposeful opportunity for celebration and unity.
From everyone at BPS we wish you a healthy, happy and successful Year of the Rooster.
新年快樂 Please click ck the link below for the Chinese New Year Blessing from our Heads and Teachers: https://goo.gl/pXrzae
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Chinese New Year Market Chinese New Year market is a fair held annually a few days before Chinese New Year. It's really busy but fun for Chinese Chi people to do the preparation. People will go to the market to buy some food, flowers and in the market, there are some games for the children too. The CLC team were keen to give the students this kind k of experience. Teachers prepared their own stalls which included food, games and
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by Yun-Yeh Tsai Chinese calligraphy to provide a market environment for the kids. The children hildren were really happy to participate in all activities and tried a lot of Chinese traditional food (bubble milk tea, spring onion pancake and winter melon tea) and many games. The CLC Team will buy some readers, art and craft materials by using the money spent at the market. Thank you for all your support support.
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Happy Year of Rooster by Yun-Yeh Tsai CLC team has arranged a varied programme this year with more and more students involved in the performance and celebration. celebration
相聲 三國演義
For this year, Year 6 CLL group performed (xiàngsheng) which is a special genre during their Chinese lessons.. Year 5 CL group perform four different stories from (Sānguó yyǎnyì), a histori novel set in the turbulent years towards the end of the Han dynasty and the Three Kingdoms period in Chinese history, starting in 169 AD and ending with the reunification of the land in 280. The
CFL students from m Year 3 to Year 6 performed a little lion dance, Chinese martial art dance, and pop dance to celebrate the Chinese New Year. Also, the drum team and the lion dance from ESC joined join our celebration and interacted with the younger children. At the end of the celebrations, Heads eads from each sections gaive g the children red envelopes to wish them a good new start. On behalf of the CLC team, we wish you a happy, healthy and prosperous year ahead. Happy New Year!
Special Visitors by Mrs. Julie Wickham The Nursery children learned about how many families celebrate Chinese New Year. 3 Grandmothers, 1 father and 2 mums came with photographs, games, decorations, food, chocolates, stories and lots of information about Chinese New Year. Thank you so much. It was
a great experience for the young members of the school to hear and learn from parents and grandparent grandparents. I think our special guests enjoyed it too. They were fantastic.
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Table Tennis Competition by Mr. Paul Harding Over the last three weeks, Year 5 and 6 children have been taking t part in a table tennis competition. Seventy children from all three sections took part in the competition which was organised by the Year 6 boys, Dhruv Lashkery (B6.2KM), Laurence Mayall (B6.4DK) and Varun Uttamchandani (B6.2KM) with the help of Mr. Harding.
Harris went on to beatt Parker 11-8, 11 11-5 in the Grand Final to become the Taipei European School Primary Table Tennis Champion for 2017.
After several competitive matches in the earlier rounds Parker Su (B5.2SM) beat Stefano Villa (B5.2SM) 11-7, 11-55 in the Year 5 final while Harris Chen (B6.2KM) beat Nathan Han (B6.1CW) 11-8, 11 9-11, 11-5 in the Year 6 final.
The trophies willll be given out during an assembly after Chinese New Year.
Parker Su (Year 5 Champion)
Congratulations go out to all the players for showing great skill, determination and sportsmanship at such a young age.
Harris arris Chen (B6.2KM)
Harris Chen (Year 6 & BP Primary Champion)
Parker Su (B5.2SM)
Nathan Han (B6.1CW)
Cambridge English Exam
Stefano Villa (B5.2SM)
by Mr. Peter Sloan
This week, the he British Primary Section held meetings to provide parents with information regarding the Cambridge English Language exams. This is an opportunity for our non-native non English speakers that we are pleased to support. The exams are not a part
These tests offer our pupils the chance to demonstrate their ability to use se English and also help to familiarise them with the world of exams, in a no-stress, stress, fun atmosphere. Ms. Bagley will identify the level best suited to each child.
of our curriculum, nor are they a part of our school EAL programme, however, the examinations are designed to help students to build confidence in their English language nguage ability and allow learners to show their language skills in English.
There will be a charge for children taking the test. If you are interested in
finding
out
more, ore,
please
contact
Ms.
Bagley
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[email protected] Application forms for those wishing to take part in the exam will be available from the BPS Office after the
Students will have the opportunity to sit one of the three levels of
Chinese New Year holiday.
the Cambridge Young Learners English exams. All of the exams will take place at the European Primary Campus on the morning of
I must stresss that there is absolutely no requirement for BPS children to
May.. Those children who do enrol will be able to
take the tests, as mentioned above they are not a requirement of our
attend preparation classes with Ms. Bagley, a member of our staff
curriculum. This is an additional opportunity for children to develop
who is a registered Cambridge tester.
their skills in English.
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Bus Service Semester 2 fees due
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by Mr. Kerry Nockolds
Lovrincevic
This semester the t bus fees are being made via the AOS,, so if you haven’t already done so, please make sure you have put the money onto your family AOS account, and then go to press “JOIN”. Reminders have been sent but there are a number of parents that have yet to press the “Join” button. Please refer to my letter, sent out in November 2016, explaining the change in payment procedure, via AOS not via invoice with school tuitions tuitions. Attached also was a full “step-by-step step guide” which showed exactly which button to press to complete the process. If you want this sent to you again please contact the Students Services office, but simply put it is actually exactly the same process as paying for anything on AOS, like paying a field trip which we have all done many times. The buss fee for your child/children has been set up based on the bus route used in semester 1, (unless instructed otherwise by parents) and the corresponding bus fee also set up on AOS. The original deadline date (January 16th 2017) has been extended to assist those parents that have not yet pressed “Join” to confirm their child’s seat. So the final due date for paying your child’s bus fee is now February 2nd 2017 as the bus service starts on Monday February 6th. Please Note: If your bus fee has not b been paid byy this time, it will be taken that parents do not wish their child to take the bus service in semester 2 and so they will not be included on the bus route schedule which Ms. Natalie Wu sends out prior to the start of the semester. If you are not sure if you ou have paid, please go into your AOS account to double check. We appreciate each parent’s help in confirming this, so no child goes to get the bus when they are not expected to be there.
Thank you very much.
Mr. Kerry Nockolds Director of Educational Services
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- Back to school
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Year 6 Trip to Feitsui Reservoir
6Feb – 10 Feb - No ECAs (Thu) 9 Feb
- CLC & Specialist Teacher- Parent Meeting
(Fri) 10 Feb
- Seminar to Parents: How to Interpret a Book at 13:50
For more details of the school academic calendar, please click the link below: http://www.taipeieuropeanschool.com/calendarM.php ww.taipeieuropeanschool.com/calendarM.php
Nursery CNY Games & Treats
Book Critic, Columnist, and Translator (including the latest Diary of a Wimpy Kid!!) Date: Friday 10th February 2017 Time: 13:50 – 14:40 Venue: Amphitheatre, Junior Building
