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THE FUTURE BELONGS TO THOSE WHO BELIEVE IN THE BEAUTY OF THE THEIR DREAMS – ELENOR ROOSEVELT
Looking to the Future
by Mr Peter Sloan
It’s our final newsletter and next week will be the final week for our Year 6 leavers. The children are preparing for their farewell assembly and are reflecting on the past and also looking to the future. During the recent maths/assessment workshops for parents we touched on the future (please see the article elsewhere in this issue). We focussed mainly on the short term, talking about planned changes that will bring about improvements to our mathematics curriculum and also the way in which our systems for assessment in BPS are going to offer more to pupils and parents. We also looked further ahead. The changes in the new curriculum are designed to help our children to become even better mathematicians, however, they are also being introduced to help our children to grow as problem solvers, to develop as individuals who will be able to consider a range of strategies and choose the best for the situation they find themselves in.
This will complement the IB Learner Profile in use at BSHS and will clearly identify the kind of learner we want our children to become confident, independent young people who make a positive contribution to their world. We look forward to hearing great things about our Year 6 leavers as they continue on their learning journey. We wish them all, together with those children across BPS who are moving on, a very fond farewell and all the best for their future. Thank you to all of our parents and families for their support during the last year. Thanks also to our hard working staff, teaching and nonteaching, for their care and commitment to our splendid children. I wish you all a safe, restful and delightful summer.
B6.2 KM & 6.3 TM
Another BPS initiative planned for next year is the development of the BPS Learner Profile. B6.1 CW & 6.4DK
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Many Thanks to our Section Councillors, Class Reps & PTA Committee This Tuesday we held our annual Thank You Tea to say how much we appreciate the support given by Section Councillors, Class Reps and PTA Committee over the last school year. Our special visitors were charmed by an outstanding performance from our Year 3 and a 4 String Ensemble and our Lower School Choir. The music was outstanding and our guests were treated to songs from the show
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by Mr Peter Sloan
'Oliver'! Many thanks to Ms. Lin and Ms. Trehern who organised our musicians. We do very much appreciate the work of our Section Council, C PTA and Class Reps and the difference they make in the lives of our school and our students.
SASFAB Project at TES (Smart Art-design design Service in Fablab with IOT) IOT by Mr Duncan Millward Back in October, our BPS Tech Crew had a fantastic opportunity working with students from Tatung University and Kevin Cheng(Associate Professor, Graduate Institute of Design Science, Department of Computer Science and Engineering) in a Maker Day event, funded by the Ministry of Education. The children were given a problem and a design case to create something interactive and fun. Through problem solving,
collaboration, creative and critical thinking the children were able to make imaginary creatures come alive. The school was recently presented a Certificate for our involvement in this programme, by Kevin Cheng's wife Sandra. Sand In the new academic year we are hoping to conduct a similar programme programme.
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Congratulations! by Mr Peter Sloan I'm sure the whole BPS community will join in sending congratulations to Mr. and Mrs. Lovrincevic on the birth of their daughter, Annabelle, earlier this week. Mum and baby (and Dad) are all doing well.
Maths Mastery in Action
by Mr Duncan Millward
On Tuesday 06 June, Mrs Katrina Millward led a parent workshop to share the way BPS is tackling the new 2014 UK Curriculum for Maths, through a Mastery Approach. The workshop also shared the new Assessment and Reporting System to be used in the next academic year. The workshops worksho had a great turnout overall, and participants received a glossy brochure outlining new information. This will go out to all parents in the new academic year. A big thank you to Mrs Millward and the Core Curriculum Leaders for all of their hard work this year. For or the slides of presentation, please click here: http://gg.gg/2017_MathsWorkshop
CLC Visiting Teachers from Singapore A group of 34 Singaporean exchange teachers accompanied by Prof. Tseng, the Department Chair of Chinese as a Second Language at National Taiwan Normal University, visited TES on June 7 to attend the
by Mr Duncan Millward workshop on Differentiated Instructions in Chinese, led by Eveline Leane, and also to observe lessons and meet with CLC teachers at both Primary and Secondary campuses.
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Academic Calendar 2017 2017-2018
(Mon) 12 June
- End of Year Report Out - Year 4 Trip to The Taipei Children's Amusement Park
(Tue) 13 June
- Year 2 Trip to Fantasy Island in Living Hall
(Wed) 14 June
Uniform Day) - Last Day of School (Non-Uniform
(Mon) 14 Aug
- First Day of Next Academic Year 2017-2018 2017
For more details of the school academic calendar, please click the link below: http://www.taipeieuropeanschool.com/calendarM.php
Thank you & See you Next School Year! This will be our final ‘Bulletin’ of the school year and I would like to say a big thank you to Diana Doo who has served as editor, photographer, reporter and production team. We’ve had very positive feedback about the ‘Bulletin’ and her hard work in preparing prepa and presenting our BPS newsletter has definitely been well worthwhile.
