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The Bulletin BPS Newsletter

7th October 2016

MANY HANDS MAKE LIGHT WORK ~ JOHN HEYWOOD, ENGLISH ENGLIS PLAYWRIGHT AND POET

Student Council

(Tribe Council)

I want to extend a warm welcome and congratulations to all the children that were chosen to be on the Tribe Council this year. I know that we are going to work together as a team to make a difference in our lives and in the lives of others. The Tribe Council will meet with Mr. Coetzee once a week to discuss a variety of matters.





Our Tribe Council listens to all students to help them make our school a healthy, safe, green and fun learning environment. The Tribe Council gets involved in different fundraising activities. Make sure everyone is involved in an equal and fair way.

by Mr. Corné Coetzee

I want to be in the Tribe Council because I want to make the school a better place in the future. ~ Bella/ Felicia

I want to help make TES more environmentally friendly. ~ India

What does the Tribe Council do?


REMINDERS

I am in the Tribe Council because I want to a make the school a happier place for students. ~ Summer

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I want TES to be a better place to learn. ~ David

I want to help students in TES to become more confident. ~ Katelyn

I want to be in the Tribe Council because I want to be a better person. ~ Jeffery

The Tribe Councilors are: Year 2:

Corison Kang, Nana Chen, Keira Du, Julia Enersen

Year 3:

Wilson Li, Felicia Tai, Jeffery Chiu, Joshua Lowater

Year 4:

Ethan Chen, Yezan Al-Laham, India Bonnalie, Jorja Millward

Year 5:

Katelynn Chen, Ewan Choy, Kai Rai Scerri, David Chung

Year 6:

Bella Chien, Sarah Chang, Summer Cheng, Laurence Mayall

I want to be in the Tribe Council because I want to make the school better. ~ Laurence/ Kai Rai

(Mon) 17th October 2016 Workshop in Amphitheatre Foundation Stage : 08:30-09:10am Year 1 & Year 2 : 09:30-10:10am Year 3 & Year 4 : 10:40-11:20am Year 5 & Year 6 : 12:00-12:45pm These sessions will be led by BPS Senior Leadership Team & will focus on the teaching and learning in your child’s Year Group.

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Year 3 Animal Carnival

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by Ms. Jeni Wong

On Friday 7th October Year 3 ended their topic about endangered animals with an Animal Carnival to celebrate their learning and also raise some money for endangered animals. With the combined money raised we hope to adopt our chosen animals via the World Wildlife Fund and bring an awareness about endangered animals to others.

https://gifts.worldwildlife.org/giftcenter/gifts/Species-Adoptions.aspx It was a great morning with face painting, a treasure hunt style quiz made from the children's own report writing, photo booths with the featured animals, animal movies (that the children made in Computing) to watch, each child could sell their very own self-designed animal awareness sticker and food/drinks to sell.

A huge 'Thank You' to all the parents who volunteered their time to support our event by helping to man stores or help make resources. Many thanks to Mrs. Mrs Hall for making the children's videos into one long video for us to share. Our grand total made was about NT$51,910 as of today.

Global Development Goals by Mr. Craig Gamble During our KS2 Friday assembly Mr. Gamble introduced the children to the United Nations Global Development Goals with a particular focus on Goal No. 5, to achieve gender equality and empower all women and girls as UNICEF celebrates World Day of the Girl on October the 11th.

The children were encouraged to take part in a gender equality survey and upload their results to the World’s Largest Lesson website (http://worldslargestlesson.globalgoals.org/F romWhereIStand/) to help generate a global image of gender equity. You can download the survey and instruction sheet here (I have shared the docs with you on Google drive

http://gg.gg/globaldevelopmentgoal(http://gg.gg/globaldevelopmentgoa suverys ). Mr. Gamble would really like to have your completed posters and survey sheets returned to him following the holiday so that he can create a display in school of the data that the children gathered.

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Book Week

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by BP PTA

Our BP PTA Book Fair will run in EPC Library during the week of the 17th to 21st October (right after the half term break). It is an opportunity for students to purchase some great titles and to promote reading in the school. Each class will attend the Book Fair during the following timetable. To purchase books from the book fair, we recommend parents send NT$400-1000 NT$400 in a sealed envelope or zip bag with student’s name, name class, and dollar amount clearly written on the front.

Monday






Reception B1.4TC B4.3TH B5.2SM B5.4AA

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Nursery B1.2CC CC B3.3PG PG B4.2AL AL B5.3PJ PJ B6.3TM TM

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B1.1SL B1.3DT B2.3JS B3.1EB B3.2AL B4.1SB B6.1CW B6.4DK

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B2.1HT B2.2RH B2.4GR B3.4JW B4.4ET B5.1GR B6.2KM




Primary Assessment JAWS (Job Alike Workshop): Lift without Levels Report by Mr. Duncan Millward During Friday 30th September and Saturday 1st October, the British Primary Section hosted a FOBISIA (Federation of British International Schools in Asia) Primary Assessment JAWS: Life Without Levels. Organised in response to the changes to the English National Curriculum and assessment reform from the government in the United Kingdom, the JAWS was a way for educators from around the region to share how their schools have tackled these changes in terms of assessment, and for BPS to use this information to move our programmes forwards. Thank you to Mr. Gamble and Mr. Groom for speaking at the event.

Bake Sale – Year 5

by Mr. Peter Sloan

Many thanks to our Year 5 parents who have been hard at work with their Year Group Bake Sale this Friday. Halloween has never tasted so delicious!

Friday Open to all parents and students

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BPS Mad Science Day

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by Duncan Millward

On Friday 28th October, the British Primary Section will be celebrating science as it is an important part of the integrated curriculum. Science is a curriculum area that is being reviewed this year as part of our cycle of continue continued d improvement in the curriculum. More information will be sent to parents later in the school year, but on Mad Science Day the children will see a range of experiments and investigations, applying the process of scientific investigation

Run for Fun, Live to Give

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On Thursday 27th October, the whole of the EPC will be completing a run for fun to raise awareness of a local charity. All of the children will have the opportunity to take part. The timing will occur as follows: 8.20 - 8.30am: BPS Nursery (around Foundation Stage area) 8.30 - 8.40am: BPS Reception (around Foundation Stage area area) 8.20 - 8.40am BPS Year 1, BPS Year 2 (around junior area) 9.00 - 9.30am: BPS Year 4 (around junior area) 9.40 - 10.10am: BPS Year 5 (around junior area) 10.40 - 11.10am: BPS Year 3 (around junior area) 11.20 - 12.00pm: BPS Year 6 (around junior area) Children will wear their tribe T-shirts shirts on the day and will need to bring their school cap and water bottle. Parents are allowed to come and watch when their child's year group is running if you would like to come and support.

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Child Safety during and after ECAs by Mr. Kerry Nockolds The ECA programme is in full swing now, with students enjoying their ECAs and learning lots of new skills at the same time as having fun. The ECA team would like to take this opportunity to just remind parents and students of a few important procedures to ensure the safety and security of the children during this after-school period. Child supervision: If your child has a late starting ECA or is waiting for a sibling to finish their ECA, they must be supervised by a parent or guardian. They must not be left unsupervised on campus. To assist parents with this, the ECA programme offers a “Supervised Homework Club” (Y2-6) for these children; we supervise them whilst they wait for the start of their ECA. Please contact the ES Assistant Secretary Ms. Caroline Chen [email protected] , ext.1850, to ask about details for this service.

Children are expected to do homework, read a book or work quietly during this time.

Areas available for student play: After school, there are certain areas which are not available for use, and so children should not be playing in these areas, as they are allocated for ECAs only and supervision from ECA staff is limited to the ECA children. Simply speaking, the Junior playground area in front of the Junior building is the only place that children waiting with parents should be playing. Collection of children before and after ECA Collection before ECAs: The ECA assistants will take attendance of all children in every ECA class, if for any reason your child is not going to be attending their ECA we need you to inform us so we can mark the attendance sheet clearly. If a parent picks up their child without informing us, we spend a great deal of time trying to search the campus to find them to make sure they are safe. Thank you all for informing the ECA office of any occasion when you pick your child up early and they will be absent from the ECA.

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Collection after ECAs: When the ECA instructors bring the children to the collection points after class, please do not leave with your child without informing the teacher. For example, if an infant football ECA class is walking from the infant area to the Cafeteria for pick up, please don’t leave with your child if you see them walking past, make sure you pick them up at the cafeteria and let the teacher acknowledge you when you collect your child. As a quick reminder of pick up zones: Reception age: Glass Tube Infant Yr 1-2: 1

Cafeteria

Junior Yr 3-6: 3

Junior Atrium

All information about ECA procedures is available to parents in the ECA Chart viewable on the TES Website > Admission>Primary ECAs>ECA Charter Thank you for your support: We really appreciate your help following these safety and security procedures, without your help the job of the ECA assistants and ECA instructors is extremely difficult and concerns about children’s safety is obviously paramount to all our team.

ANY QUESTION ABOUT ECA, E PLEASE CONTACT: Ms. Caroline Ca Chen, ES Assistant Secretary Email: [email protected] Phone: 02-8145 02 9007 Ext.1850

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Reception

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(Sat-Sun) 8-16 16 Oct

- Mid-term Break

(Mon-Fri) 17--21 Oct

- BPS Open Days - BP PTA Book Week

(Thu) 20 Oct

- EAL Parents Workshop 1:45-2:45pm

(Fri) 21 Oct

- Year 2 Fit & Fabulous Day

(Sat) 22Oct

- ECCT Beach Clean-up Day

(Tue) 25Oct

- Talk about ‘’Children & Their Emotional Intelligence’’ by Dr. Daisy Lan Hung 1:30pm

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Nursery

(Tue-Wed) Wed) 25 -26 Oct - Year 4 Camp Taiwan (B4.3/B4.4) (Wed-Thu) Thu) 26-27 26 Oct

- Year 4 Camp Taiwan (B4.1/B4.2)

(Thu) 27 Oct

- EPC Fun Run

(Fri) 28 Oct

- BPS Mad Science Day - Dress-up Day

For more details of the school academic calendar, please click the link below: http://www.taipeieuropeanschool.com/calendarM.php

Year 2 (Trip to Buffalo Meadow)

TES Autumn Festival th (30 September)