TES British Secondary & High School Section - NewsLetter

ESC Newsletter Issue 4 Coming up this month: Welcome from the BSHS Head  1-10 December: H4 Mock Exams Chrysta Garnett, Head of British Secondary and High School Section  11 December: H1 & H2 Drama Evening  11 December: Values Day  17 December: Christmas Concert  19 December: End of Term Inside this issue: IB Spotlight 4 French Section News 7 Halloween 12 Terry Fox Run 14 ASPIRE 22 Sports News 30 And much more! November 2014 This last month has been packed full of high-profile public events that are always great opportunities to showcase wonderful aspects of our school. Our school is a thriving community of creative thinkers, risk takers, performers and academics and this edition of the Newsletter gives you a wonderful flavour of the wide range of opportunities that have been available to our students and parents in the last month. The recent H2 Drama IGCSE Performance Evening highlighted the wealth of burgeoning stage talent at our school, in some hard hitting and moving improvised pieces. Plays had been cleverly scripted around a shared stimulus and knockout performances were made even more powerful by the intimate surroundings. My thanks to the Drama team and their dedicated and highly skilled students for making their stories come alive in a memorable evening’s entertainment. We were very lucky in November to host a number of esteemed guests at the BSHS: Dan Grayson, Admissions Officer from Tufts; pedagogical expert Lane Clark from Cana- da; notable author and public speaker Andy Fletcher; and IB Theory of Knowledge writer and consultant Tim Sprod from Tasmania. All joined us this month to share their respective areas of expertise among the teacher, student and parent bodies at ESC. Lastly, the EPC and ESC campuses joined forces two weeks ago for our inaugural Terry Fox Run to raise awareness and support for Taiwanese cancer research projects. Darrell Fox joined us from Canada for both runs, in which all our children took part, from Year 1 all the way up to H4. In the end we managed to raise a jawdropping 800,000 NTD! My thanks to all parents who supported our students in their fundraising endeavours.