FRIDAY NEWSLETTER from Secondary, Friday March 9th 2018
Week 29-Wow, we are Busy!
Sometimes when I sit down to reflect on what is going on and what is coming up I am simply amazed at how busy we are! Within these two weeks will will have opened up our library, presented our Fine Arts Exhibition, hosted a mini college fair, had students return from an international math competition, had students present at a local GIN Conference, hosted two multi school basketball tournaments, held a Sausage Sizzles and actually held classes and continued with our rigorous learning program! The next week will be about the same pace!
Second Semester Conferences
Our second semester Parent/Student/Teacher conferences will be held on the 22nd of March. This will be a non teaching day. Our conferences will use the same Student/Parent/Teacher format that we followed in the first semester. We will most likely be in both the MPR and the Music Room as we will be accommodating the IB Visual Arts Exhibition. It is very important that your student accompanies you for these conferences, this is the best way for us to work together to help them continue to grow and succeed with their learning. The second semester conferences are also a great time to speak with teachers about next year course selection. The online signup format that we used last semester will be used again. Parents with siblings in either the Primary or the Secondary will be given a window to sign up before the rest of our parent community. Thank you for your continued interest and support or your child’s learning here at BIS.
IB Art Exhibition
On the 21st of March we will be hosting our IB Art Exhibition for the year 2017. This event is the culmination of two years of hard work and the creative process. Our IB Visual Art students will be presenting their pieces as well as explaining their process and the relevance of their work. I have been truly amazed at the type of pieces our students are working on and the level of talent and creativity that they exhibit. This wonderful event will be held in our MPR at 4pm. I look forward to interacting with our students and their art work, I hope to see you there.
IB Diploma Course Selection
Our students have had meetings with our counselor, their teachers and the IB coordinator regarding all of the different course we offer and what their choices can do as they start to think about university. Over the coming weeks our DP teachers will present to all of our year ten students about their specific courses and answer any questions in a whole class forum. Students will come home with a full sheet of notes and ideas about all of the choices that lay ahead of them. Please speak with your student about the choices that they will soon be making.
BSSA Swim Carnival
On Monday, March 19th BIS will host the BIS Swim carnival. This is a fantastic event that allows many of our swimmers from multiple grade levels to compete against one another to see who will represent BIS in BSSA and IISSAC. We have a tremendous field of swimmers this year and I am really looking forward to watching them push themselves and represent BIS. GO Dragons!
BSSA Basketball Finals
This coming Tuesday and Wednesday our Junior and Senior level students will take part in the BSSA Finals for the basketball season. We have a large number of students representing BIS this year. A big thank you to all of the hard work of our students and coaches, in particular to our student coaches. I would also like to thank Mr. Sutherland and Mr. Lennan for all of their work in organizing these events and the transportation issues that go with them. Way to go Dragons!
Library Grand Opening
This Wednesday we had the grand opening of our new library. A huge thank you to Mr. Marshall, the Board, Ms. Walsh and the PTFA for all of their help in creating this wonderful space. Our students have been anxiously looking through the windows in anticipation of getting their hands on some books! We are very excited to incorporate this updated learning space into our instructional time. Please continue to check the Enews for regular library updates and announcements.
Fine Arts Exhibition
Last evening we hosted our first installment of the Fine Arts Exhibition. This was an opportunity for our students to display their artistic talents to the whole community. We had fantastic musical performances, creative and thought provoking art displays and creative expressions within the drama productions. Thank you for your continued support of the Arts here at BIS, we have such talented young men and women and I am so glad that they had an opportunity to show off those talents to such an engaged audience. I also want to say a Big Thank You to Mr. Andrews, Ms. Green, Ms. Staroverova, and Dr. Shepherd for hard work and dedication in providing these opportunities to our students. I look forward to our next rotation to see more of our students artistic talents!
SEAMC Math Competition
Our students have just returned from their Math competition in Manila They did a fantastic job representing BIS and have been very competitive throughout the whole event. We had a few students who received a medal that we were able to recognize at our assembly. A big thank you to Ms. Carbajal and Mr. Wilson for traveling with our students and presenting them with this opportunity and to Mrs. Wood for her organization and preparation of the students. Great Job Dragons!
GIN Conference
This year’s Middle School Global Issues Network Conference focused on taking action and inspiring middle school students from across the EARCOS region to Get INvolved!
The conference centers around issues of both social and environmental sustainability, and encourages students to become more globally conscious. Hosted by Canggu Community School GIN Team, during 2nd-4th March, students participated in a variety of hands-on experiences and formed lasting connections with like-minded students.
The first day of the conference included presentations from inspiring keynote speakers, discussing many crucial global issues, such as access to quality education and earth stewardship.
Our BIS students made the school proud by presenting a Service as Action project on the decline and importance of the preservation of bees in Bali. Her workshop raised awareness of a relatively unknown topic among students .
BIS Secondary Drama Production
On March 15th at 6:30 pm at the small field outside of the MPR our Secondary Students will present “The Lights Burn Blue.” Dr. Shepherd has brought together a fantastic cast and the students have done a tremendous job and are very excited to perform in front of a live audience. I hope that you will be able to join us for an evening of theater.
BIS School Fair
On April 12 we will host our annual school fair. Our PTFA does a tremendous job with this event. If you are interested in having a booth please check out their message on the Enews. This is always a highlight of the school year!
Grade 10 Personal Project Exhibition
Thank you for your continued interest and support of BIS and our students.
