TES British Secondary & High School Section - NewsLetter

ESC Newsletter
Issue 6

Coming up this
month:

Welcome from the BSHS Head

 3-4 March:
Futurewise

Chrysta Garnett, Head of British Secondary and High School Section

Dear Parents

 10-14 March:
U13 FOBISIA
 17 March:
IGCSE & IB
Options Evening
 24-27 March:
Wizard of Oz
Production

Inside this issue:
Chinese
New Year

4

Radio Reflet

6

University
Counsellor

8

ESCPA

13

IB Spotlight

16

Sports News

18

And much
more!

February 2015

This month we celebrated the
start of the Year of the Goat
during our always spectacular
Chinese New Year celebrations. As ever, the Chinese
Department pulled out all the
stops and, with a willing band
of slightly embarrassed looking
male volunteers in garish costumes, recreated a production
of ‘The Cowherd and the
Weaving Lady’. This story
showcased not only the excellent acting and dancing abilities
of our male teachers, but also
the close links between Chinese Valentine Day and the
traditional European Valentine’s celebrations.
The CNY assembly was the
culmination of a week-long
Festival of Languages that has
grown from last year’s Mother
Tongue Day, to become a
cross section, cross campus

event that brought the whole
school together to celebrate

our wonderful diversity. Visiting authors, workshops, video
displays, riveting reads, displays, radio shows and poetry
competitions have all featured
at ESC this week and my
thanks to all of those involved
in making it happen.
As we continue on our path to
become a Centre of Linguistic
Excellence, we will have a team
of visiting experts in Chinese
Language teaching with us in

March to conduct our second
curriculum review of our CLC
programme. You have already
received a questionnaire from
me in which I invite your views
on your child’s experiences of
the programme in the British
Secondary and High School.
Your feedback is greatly appreciated and will enable us to
continually improve the quality
of our languages provision, so I
do hope you can take a few
minutes to participate.
We hope you enjoyed the
Chinese New Year holiday and
we hope our students have
come back refreshed. With
only 33 school days left of their
studies, it is imperative that
our H4 and H2 students soak
up every last minute of teaching and learning time as they
enter the final furlong of their
examination programmes.
新年快乐!