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September 2010 Twenty-Fifth Edition

MISSION STATEMENT BRITISH INTERNATIONAL SCHOOL ISTANBUL

The British International School Istanbul provides a caring

international environment, fostering cultural diversity. Individual students achieve their full academic potential, inspired to become

lifelong learners and responsible citizens of the global community.

BISI COMMUNITY NEWSLETTER

WELCOME TO OUR

2010-2011 ACADEMIC YEAR

YOUR COMMUNITY! YOUR NEWS!

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John Shippen and Elizabeth

Carolynne

(in or-

Zaheer and wife Sabeen

Iysha and fiance Ahmet

Jessica

John Brain and Ali Joe

John Brain’s wife Tulay

Bill and Cher Bradley

Caroline (left) with Heather (right)

The ‘Get To Know You’ Questionnaire – New Staff 2010

Name Age National-ity

Subject Where are you moving

here from?

Marital status

Part-ner’s name

Is your partner

moving to Istanbul

with you?

Do you have a

child / chil-dren?

What age are your children?

Carolynne Bell

30 Scottish! Head of P.E.

Manila Boyfriend John No No n/a

William (Bill) Bradley

56 English Director of School

Qatar Married Cheryl Yes Yes – grown up

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John Ship-pen

27 English Physics Rome Girlfriend Eliza-beth

Yes No n/a

Ian Oxlade 30 English Drama Notting-ham

Married Hannah Yes No n/a

Zaheer Sid-dique

36 British Maths Abu Dhabi

Married Sabeen Yes Yes Arfaan(m) 12 Naima(f) 9

Iysha Ellen Miah

31 British Art London Fiancé Ahmet Yes No n/a

John Brain

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Sassen-ach

Chemistry

Bangkok Married Tulay Yes Yes (boy) Ali Joe is 19months

Jessica Holt 34 English Primary-Year 3

UK (Manila before)

Boyfriend Danny Yes No n/a

Michael Fen-wick

34 British Music Kuwait Girlfriend Najia No No n/a

Caroline Garner

33 British Art and EFL

Istanbul! Single N/A No No n/a

Katya Skoudy

French French London Boyfriend No

Primary & Secondary New Staff

Katya Skoudy

Ian Oxlade

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Welcome Note - Director of Secondary

Welcome to our first newsletter of the new school year! I hope that you have noticed that there have been some changes around BISI since you last received a newsletter. What’s changed? Well there is me for a start, Brian Smith has moved on to a school in Northern Cyprus and I flew in from Qatar to take over the reins. We’ve also got lots of new staff! In the Secondary School we have an entirely new Creative Arts Department, Iysha Miah is our new Art Teacher, Caroline Garner is also an Art Teacher though not exclusively! Caroline will also be doing some English as a Sec-ond Language teaching. Also new in Creative Arts is Ian Oxlade who has joined us as a Drama Teacher, Amy Sozer will also be teaching Drama but again, not exclusively, she is actually part of the Humanities Department and will be teaching History and ESL. Then we have Michael Fenwick who is our Music Teacher and Head of the Creative Arts Department, also in Music but on a part-time basis we have Firuze Goltepe who joins us after a pe-riod with the Dubai Philharmonic Orchestra! So with an entirely new department we will be expecting great things from Creative Arts in the coming year. I will be joining the Mathematics Department as a teacher this year – I’m going to be working with the Year 8 Accel-erated group. We also have Zaheer Siddique joining the Mathematics Department. There are two new teachers in Science, John Brain is a Chemistry specialist and John Shippen is a Physicist. Joining the Humanities team as a History teacher is Robert Somers whilst both Katya Skoudy and Esperenza Vargas have joined our Modern For-eign Languages Department. Last, but by no means least, we have Sandra Scotland rejoining the school not only in the PE Department but also as Dean of Students this time. You cannot fail to have noticed another change that is happening at the Zek Campus – we have a new building going up! I am no expert in construction but I am led to believe that we will be taking that over during the course of this school year – already the bids are pouring in for rooms in the new building and I am expecting to be very busy allocating space in there in January or February or March or … well soon, anyway! We have had quite a few promotions in the Secondary School as well, Alison Bowers, Joy Bosman and John Bos-man have all become Key Stage Leaders and are rapidly getting their teeth into their new roles, Stephen John and Michael Tarbuck have taken over as Heads of Mathematics and Science respectively and Justin Robertson has started his new role as IGCSE Coordinator this year. And then there are changes to the way we are doing some things. A new innovation for the Secondary School this year are ‘Subject Weeks’ where our various departments plan a special week celebrating their subject and every-one gets to join in. The Modern Foreign Languages Department kick things off with a Languages Week between the 27th of September and the 1st of October. They will set the benchmark and all the other departments will try to outdo them when their turn comes. We have a year to look forward to, lots of changes have taken place and lots more will take place as we take our journey through the year. One thing will remain constant though, the education of our children will always be our number one priority and we will be aiming for, and challenging, every child to be the best that they can be everyday throughout the entire year! Enjoy our first newsletter

William Bradley

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Secondary - Junior MUN - June 2010

BISI – KOÇ Debating Tournament 2010:

Entangled on the horns of the Ram

It was with a sense of great anticipation that our JMUN debaters took part in the one day tournament with Koç students back in June. The Koç debaters had age and experience on their side; but our lot were fighting fit and ready to flex their de-bating muscles again. The topics this year were chosen around the theme of secu-rity, conflict and freedom. Arguments were lost and won over issues ranging from the introduction of full body airport scans to banning the burqa in the West. Debat-ers new to JMUN, such as Parrmys and Arthur, put up a brave fight while our more experienced members showed their mettle. In the end, however, it was Koç who tri-umphed, debating the final round motion: ‘This house has no confidence in the UN’. Well done also to those who put on a thought-provoking balloon debate on the sub-ject of human rights. Kaan Varol, arguing for freedom from torture, won the debate with a mixture of insouciance and smart reasoning. Now the new JMUN season is kicking off with the annual Hisar school conference and Sven and Sophie leading the team. Go, debaters! Miss Lewis

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Robert College International Model United Nations (RCIMUN) April 2010 Last April members of the BISI MUN attended a very large conference at Robert College. This was attended by around 70 schools. Our delegation represented Mauritius,a small island nation off the coast of Africa in the Indian Ocean. Though the country we represented was small, the delegation had a big impact at the conference. All of our delegates made an impression in their debates. Two of our delegation were juniors but neither of these students was overawed by the occasion. Indeed Noah Sprent had his resolution adopted by the Environment Committee. This was one of only four resolutions presented to the General Assembly at the end of the confer-ence. He presented the resolution and answered questions from an audience of over 400 peo-ple. A truly remarkable achievement! Phyllis Güven (Year 12) represented Romania in a historical re-enactment of the Cuban missile Crisis of 1963 where the USSR (Russia) and USA almost went to war. Luckily war was avoided this time as well! Can Poge (Year 12) was our ambassador and was always on hand to help other students. Of course these conferences are a great opportunity to socialise and make new friends. Our students certainly approached this with great enthusiasm attending an evening dinner and cruising along the Bosphorous. I am sure this conference will be remembered for a long time by all of the BISI MUN team.

Secondary - Senior MUN - August 2010

The BISI delegation Oscar Çoban (Special Conference), Lara Gürcan (Political), Phyllis Güven (historical re-enactment), Can Poge (Ambassador and Disarmament) Sevil Arıf (ECOSOC), Vishwesh Shah (Human Rights), Noah Sprent (Environment) Mr. Tarbuck (Advisor)

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A Welcome Note from the English Department - 2010 Another academic year and another September/October issue of the BISI Newsletter. Welcome to new parents and welcome back to parents who give their support once more. Already I have had the pleasure to meet so many of you and answer the questions that inevitably arise at the beginning of the first term for students in year 7, students beginning their IGCSE courses and those embarking on their IB studies. I hope parents received my introductory letter sent early in September, but if not please don’t hesitate to contact me with your concerns or questions. Last year the English Department observed and recorded many successes; students previously unenthusiastic about reading suddenly ‘switched on’, students not keen on writing were able to employ a number of creative and technical devices to enhance their writing skills, there were those who at the beginning of the year shied away from discussion but by the end could be seen often gripped furiously in debate, and there were students who hid from drama but vied (equally as furiously) for main parts in performances or role play as the year progressed. The Inter-house competitions, both poetry and prose, were also hugely successful and offered some superb original writing from students across Secondary and Primary. We had great success in the staged MUN debates and an outright winner in the international COBIS Poetry Competition. Academically, our Key Stage 3 results improved, as did our IGCSE results for the second year running. August brought the IGCSE results for exams sat in May and June and for those of us anxiously waiting A*- C results they were as follows:

IGSCE Language 83% (78% 2009), IGCSE Literature 93% (91% 2009) and IGCSE ESL 90% Our students clearly benefit by so much encouragement from parents and teachers in and outside of BISI. This year the English Department strives to improve and develop skills and confidence further still. Once again, we will do our utmost to ensure your child progresses as they should and hopefully even beyond expectations. I am often asked how students can be supported at home and have given some guided notes within the Parents Handbook for English alongside some useful learning websites. But quickly here may I remind you that continued encouragement and interest in studies is a given, as is providing and maintaining a well lit and quiet study area. Reading to and or in front of our children provides a valuable model to be copied and creates opportunities for sharing stories and news for discussion. For extended pieces of writing it would prove beneficial if parents could be involved in the planning or proof-reading stages of writing. Many inaccuracies, such as vocabulary and structure, could be greatly and speedily improved upon if students had the advantage of a second pair of critical eyes to help direct, develop and correct. This is not always easy I know and is probably quite often unwelcome, however if this were to happen, no matter how often or infrequent, standards in writing and presentation would rise. On this note, might I suggest that students be encouraged to use a dictionary and perhaps even be persuaded to carry a pocket one in their school bag? The best advice to give though is the encouragement of reading. Quite simply students who read are the ones who succeed. This ramble closes then with some new book recommendations. These are 8 books that are aimed at students in year 7 to 11. I believe they are worth the effort in obtaining.

Secondary – English Department

Code Orange by Caroline Cooney While completing his infectious disease report for science class, Mitty fears he may have contracted smallpox. When he searches the internet for in-formation about this disease, he alerts a terrorist group who plans to kid-nap him and use him as a biological weapon against the people of New York City.

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Drums, Girls, and Dangerous Pie by Jordan Sonnenblick What is the most annoying thing in the world? For Steven, the answer is obvi-ous; his little brother Jeffrey. When Steven finds out that Jeffrey is sick, how-ever, he must use all of his skills as a drum-playing, girl-crushing, friend-finding, parent-manipulating teenager to help his family keep laughing through this heartbreakingly tragic year.

Epic by Conor Kostick Epic is a fantasy role-playing game that is more than just a game—it’s New Earth’s government and economy. Everyone has always played Epic the same way, by slowly accumulating wealth, but no one can rival the Committee, the world’s tyrannical ruling group. But Erik, a risk taker, thinks he and his friends may be able to change all that and a little bit more.

Eyes of the Emperor by Graham Salisbury It is 1941. Eddy Okubo is 16 years old, a Japanese American, and enlists in the US Army to protect the country he loves. The Japanese bomb Pearl Harbour, and suddenly Eddy is the enemy. He and 24 other Japanese American soldiers are sent on a terrifying secret mission that will test their loyalty and courage.

Jeremy Fink and The Meaning of Life by Wendy Maas If before your 14th birthday, you received a quadrupled-locked, mysterious box engraved “The Meaning of Life”, lovingly handcrafted by your dead father, what do you do? Quite simply, you run around all of Manhattan with your best friend, trying to find the missing four keys to unlock the age old mystery.

Tales of the MADMAN Underground by John Barnes For years, Karl Shoemaker has been part of what he calls the Madman Under-ground group of kids forced (for no apparent reason) to attend group therapy during school hours. Karl has decided to be different. He is going to get out of the Madman Underground for good. He is going to act and be Normal. But Nor-mal, of course, is relative. Karl has five after-school jobs, one dead father, one seriously unhinged drunk mother . . . and a huge attitude.

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Secondary – English - continued

Going Bovine by Linda Bray All 16-year-old Cameron wants is to get through high school-and life in gen-eral-with a minimum of effort. It's not a lot to ask. But that's before he's given some bad news: he's sick and he's going to die. Which totally sucks. Hope arrives in the winged form of Dulcie, a loopy punk angel/possible hallucination with a bad sugar habit. She tells Cam there is a cure but only if he's willing to go in search of it. With the help of a death-obsessed, video-gaming dwarf and a garden gnome, Cam sets off on the mother of all road trips through a twisted America into the heart of what matters most.

Revolver by Marcus Sedgwick When Sig Andersson is held hostage in his family's cabin in the unforgiving Alaskan wilderness - along with his father's frozen corpse – menaced by the terrifying Gunther Wolff he realises his dead father had an untold story that he must piece together. This chilling thriller is relentless and tension is constantly maintained as past and present narratives collide. The pressure on Sig to remain one step ahead of Wolff is inexorable; and at the heart of everything is a revolver, a Bible – and human greed.

One more note that does need mentioning is an official congratulation to the following students. These are the win-ners of the Best Young Writer of BISI 2009. The competition ended the penultimate week of last academic year and so these winning students, though they enjoyed photographs in the sun, did not have their deserved moment in the spotlight. Towards the end of term last year things were, as usual, hectic. As a result no doubt there were less entries as there were for the poetry competition but the range of writing in terms of style and subject was both promising and engaging. Well done to all those who entered and especially to those mentioned below:

1st Place & Best Young Writer of BISI 2009 – Batu Oguz, now year 11 2nd Place – Sydney Ensing, now year 11 3rd Place – Penelope Aoun, now year 9

awarded merit:

Wouter Van Spengler – now year 7 Hye Lin Lee – now year 7 Ayelen Sprent – sadly left BISI at the end of year 6 after her starring role as Oliver

Again, I welcome you to the English Department and ask once more for continued support in helping your child reach their potential in their study of English and English/World Literature. Should you wish to contact me, please do arrange an appointment via the school secretary. Alternatively, you may contact me on my school e-mail address. Russell Gunnell, Head of Department.

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Secondary – International Award

International Award- Bronze Expedition

17th September 2010, 7am, Zek campus. Everyone arriving for a five and a half hour bus journey to Eskişehir for a weekend spent on our Duke of Ed-inburgh Bronze Level Expedition. Looking at as an “experience” rather than a chance to have some good fun. The trip exceeded any and all expectations by far; on the day we arrived we received training on the expedition we would be taking part in the next day and given instructions on the materials we would need to use. Warned that we better close our sleeping bag zippers tightly so as not to experience “the coldest night of our lives”, shocked to find out we would need to carry at least 7 litres of water up the mountain track with us and that we should take strong precautions from tics, we were then treated to a tour of Eskişehir. Not only did we go on a boat tour but we, the students, also started acting like 5 year olds when we were given the chance to ex-plore a makeshift pirate ship! The expedition itself was physically tiring but eve-ryone had a great time. We trekked up to the campsite, set up our own tents, prepared our own meals (except Mr. John who had Peter, James and Tolga cook his), had team competitions that in-volved climbing up steep hills, roasted marshmal-lows, had a dance off with our expedition coaches and covered our faces in war paint. We also man-aged to avoid tics despite half of us wearing tank tops and shorts and Gina also survived a broken sleeping bag zipper. The activities and experience were good fun and we got to see some really beauti-ful scenery, so thank you to our teachers for taking us!

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I felt very privileged that Oliver was my last show at BISI. Ms Stiles and I picked the show with the view to ‘going out with a bang, and making it as big as possible’… and I think we can say that we definitely achieved that! The performance could not have been done with-out the help of so many. All the teachers and support staff were fantastic with all their help running additional classes and set building. It was great to have Mr Gunnell involved as Fa-gin proving that Drama is to be enjoyed by everyone. But most of all as always, it was the cast that made the show for me. We felt honored to have so many students involved in one way or another from Year 4 to Year 12 and every student contributed so well to the show. We could not have done it without you all. We managed to raise a phenomenal amount of money for charity which is brilliant so thank you all for your kind donations. So all that is left to say is keep up the drama and in the words of Fagin ‘cheerio......I dunno somehow I'll miss you.' Lorna

Secondary – Drama Department

OLIVER

A note from Lorna Walker who was the Drama teacher at BISI last year and the person behind the Oliver production. Lorna is no longer with us but teaching in an international school in Egypt. We wish her the best of luck!

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Merchant of Venice Trip IGCSE Drama and IB Theatre students attended a performance of William Shakespeare's The Merchant of Venice on the last Saturday of September. The Japanese cast of nine performed in their own language. Turkish subtitles projected on the back wall of the atmospheric black-box theatre space aided understanding for some audience members. The production was funded by the Japanese Government as 2010 has been declared Japan Year in Turkey. Stood outside the lovely Talimhane Theatre, near Taksim Square, students met the show's direc-tor who heard us speaking English and came over for a chat. As well as being given free goose-berry sponge cake, meeting the artistic team can be one of the many benefits of attending per-formances at smaller venues. This theatre seats 150. The production was blessed by the ac-tress who played the crafty heroine, Portia. Her name was Atsuko Ogawa and it was a privilege and an education for us all to watch and study a highly accomplished performer from the front row of such an intimate venue. Other performers were very good. Shylock, the moneylender, was played engagingly by the award-winning Seiya Nakano who clearly has a thing for Al Pacino. Complimenting the production by playing incidental music that helped the audience understand the changing fortunes of the characters were two musicians who were playing Japanese percus-sive instruments. One was a very beautiful singer. Our students were very impressed by the simple, striking stage design. Large decorative props were hung by wire from the ceiling of the theatre. Overall, it was a swift, controlled and very entertaining performance. Sydney Ensing, Y11: I was a little nervous at first about the language barrier because I knew that it would be performed in Japanese but, at the same time, I was a little excited. Although in the performance I got lost once or twice, I always succeeded in returning back to the story at one point or another. I was really glad I went because it was a different experience and I believe that it will help me in the future with acting and to use not only speaking lines but use body language too. “I've just had a thought”, said the well-spoken director politely, “if only you'd informed us you were coming earlier, I could've projected the English subtitles too. We've got both sets.” The lack of English did not affect our enjoyment. We just quickly learnt to watch and listen to the play in a different way. If anything, the Japanese speech helped to make this an exciting, international ex-perience. It was a great first trip of the year for our students. It is the British International School, after all. Ian Oxlade

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Secondary – Arts

Art Club 

  

Art club this term is all about nature. We will focus on sculpture and be creating our own 3D shoes that are inspired by mother na‐ture. The shoes will be of high fashion quality and cutting edge design and good enough to exhibit in Istanbul Fashion Week. We are looking for KS3 students who are free on a Monday and are passionate about design. This is an opportunity to create 

something very individual and innovative. 

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Secondary – Arts - continued

Some wonderful samples of student work from last year.

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Secondary – Summer Prom

The 2009/2010 academic year ended with an amazing summer prom. The students enjoyed the night in their smart attires and the lights, decorations, catering and music transformed the school courtyard into a real disco. Just 10 minutes in everyone was dancing and having a fun time. I would like to thank all students and staff for coming by and contributing to this awesome event - what a shame it was that we had to finish quite so early! Can Poge

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Secondary – Fashion Show

For our group project in CAS a number of us decided to make a Fashion Show to fundraise money for IZEV, a charity that provides education for students with learning disabilities. With the help and support of teachers, especially our main supervisor Mrs. Johnson we managed to pull together a wonderful show! Our theme was “Recycling” and the outfits that came out were truly amazing. We had participants from all year groups in secondary and our competition was also open to Year 6’s. The outfits were stunning and full of personality, the catwalks well strutted and of course we had our fair share of model drama on the day of the show; like any true fashion show! It was a fun event for everyone involved and showcased a mixture of creative talent; calling for creativity in designing the outfits, hair and make up as well as set design and music perform-ances. We had a great time planning and organising it and hope everyone else did too! Congrats to everyone that participated.

Phyllis Guven and Can Poge

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WEEK OF LANGUAGE 27 September – 1st October 2010

The Modern Foreign Languages Department’s Week started on Monday 27th September 2010 and runs until Friday 1st of October. The main purpose of this event is to promote and highlight the importance of learning a foreign language. This year we have organized a series of cultural activities as well as different quizzes and competitions. The activities include Mufti Day which took place on Tuesday 28th September with the students dressing up in their national costumes or the colours of their country. On International Food Day students will bring in food delicacies from their home countries to share with our international community. Gabriela Davutoglu Head of the MFL Department

Secondary - Modern Foreign Languages

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Welcome Note - Deputy Director of Pre/Primary School

Hello from Pre and Primary School

Welcome from Pre and Primary School to our Community Newsletter. I would like to say a big thank you to Helen Kiran, our Head of PR and Communications, for starting this initiative again this year. Pre and Primary School’s first event was our monthly Coffee Morning on the first Friday of each month and this is now attended by the Director of Secondary, Mr William Bradley. We would be delighted to see our secondary parents taking part. Please come to next month’s Coffee Morning if you couldn’t make it to our opening one. We then had our Parents’ Intro-ductory Meeting where all the parents could meet their child’s new Class Teacher. The Teacher outlined the curriculum for the year and answered any questions that parents had about the class. We welcomed many of the new parents and children to the Zekeriyakoy PTA Brunch at Da-lia Beach on Sunday I9 September. The weather was beautiful and we enjoyed catching up with old friends and meeting new families here. The Zekeriyakoy PTA AGM was held on the following Friday evening and the support for this year’s PTA was superb— a huge thank you goes to the Committee Members who arranged these two events. The Year 3 classes have already been on four trips this month. They went to Anadolu Kav-ağı, Rumeli Hisarı, the Panorama Military Museum and Topkapi Palace to support their learning about the Bosphorus. The Student Council has been elected from Years 3 to 6, and the Chairperson and Vice Chair elected. Well done to all the children elected. Their first event was to hold a non- uni-form day for the Pakistani Flood Appeal. Our House and Vice Captains for Cedar, Maple and Oak have been elected. Well done to those Year 6 children elected. They have been busy counting up House points for our as-semblies on a Friday. We have had three assemblies this month: we discussed our Golden School Rules, and began our SEAL (Social and Emotional Aspects of Learning) and Citizen-ship themed assemblies. We started our Clubs for the Autumn term. The children have chosen from a wide ranging list which includes Art, Card Making, Puppet Making, Cricket, Rugby, Swimming, Taek-wondo, Ballet and Chess. Happy reading! Amanda Ilhan Pre and Primary Deputy Director

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Primary - Art Project

Talking Textile in 5D We’ve been busy little bees in 5D creating mosaics and a large mural outside our classroom. It has been lots of fun but a little time consuming. The mural has taken about 3 hours to do. We have found that we have to be really careful placing every single sequin and try not to get the glue on our fingers otherwise it gets really difficult. The mural has been lots of fun but it was a lot of cutting of material. Mourad brought along a cur-tain… and it has turned out to be a pretty good background for our work. Our mural shows us at BISI as the tree. We are enjoying reading ‘Diary of a Wimpy Kid’ and listening to the talking book, ‘War of the Worlds’. We would like our mural to be more ‘touchy feely’ but we are worried that all our materials might fall off. The team at 5D

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Primary - Student Council

The new Primary Student Council Last week the new Primary Student Council was elected by the members of their class. This year the Student Council will be: Martin Santos (3E) Tim Rijnsdorp (3P) Mete Karabiyik (4SS) Lucus Murillo (4T) Nadia Klomp (5D) Ruya Hazeyen (5F) Akanksha Shah (6A) Stan Rijnsdorp (6A) Young Hyun Yeo (6F) Mariam Zara (6F) The Student Council is the voice of all primary students; so if you have any questions, sugges-tions or ideas please speak to one of the members. The Student Council meet every Tuesday lunchtime at 12:25; however, without your input we couldn’t have our meetings! Miss Sutherland Smith has decided to step down as a teacher member of Student Council and has been replaced with Mrs Aycan. The Student Council have already thought of some fantastic fundraising ideas, so watch this space. Congratulations to all the members of this years Student Council. Rebecca Fox

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Swim Meet against IGA / KS1 Sports Day - Friday 21st May 2009 - Thanks to all staff who allowed students to be out of class to compete against IGA and also to those who allowed students out of classes to help with KS1 sports day which took place on the same morning. It was a hectic Friday but looking at the results of the swim meet, it was also a successful Friday. I have attached the results for those who are interested in having a look. We did really well. The girls won EVERY race they entered and Mina and Naomi remain unbeaten (however, they have yet to compete against each other so the swim gala at the end of term will be good for them!). Our BISI girls also beat both the BISI and IGA boys relay teams. Girl power! Well done to every-one who took part and made the day a success and lots of fun. Last but by no means least, I would like to offer a great big thank you to the parents who helped me with timekeeping. THANK YOU!

Sports Events

Secondary Swimming Gala - Monday 21st June 2010 - Our annual swim gala was as exciting as ever with houses competing in 25m races using all 4 major strokes (front crawl, breast stroke, back stroke and butterfly). We also had some very close relay races and a superb race to finish which saw 2 teacher swim teams compete against the 3 student house teams resulting in a slight teacher victory over Maple house. Unfortunately, Oak and Cedar didn't have as many students competing in races throughout the day so due to higher numbers of competitors, as well as some fantastic individual performances, Maple won the swim event with the other houses finishing as shown below. Competitors and the points they earned for their houses are attached. 1st Place = Maple 2nd Place = Oak 3rd Place = Cedar

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Secondary School Sports Afternoon Tuesday 22nd and Wednesday 23rd June 2010 - The PE department decided to end the year with a house v teachers, 2 day sports tournament using basketball and football as our main activities. Houses split into years 7-9 competing as a junior team and years 10-13 competing as a senior team. Unfortunately there were some stu-dents who missed out on the fun of the tournament as they chose not to swim on the Monday (which rendered them ineligible for the tournaments) but for those who fully participated, I am sure they will agree, they had a fantastic time and were pleasantly surprised at the levels of abil-ity, skill and fitness shown by our very own BISI staff. We hope to continue this 3 day sports ex-travaganza this year with swimming, football and basketball being our main sports and hope to get even more students and staff involved. What a great way to end a school year!

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PR Events - British Consulate Fete

BISI took part in the Autumn Fete held in the grounds of the British Consulate. Organised by a small group of dedicated teachers were a selection of fun activities for children including face painting, musical instru-ment corner, guess the language, crazy obstacle course and a bouncy castle for the little ones. Many hours of fun were had under the blazing sun in the beautiful gardens of the consulate. A couple of glasses of Pimms and some bacon butties* accompanied by the beat of the drums in the music corner, made the day all the more worthwhile! Participants of the ‘Guess the Language’ corner had their knowledge of languages tested by having to listen to a pre-recorded tape of a single phrase, recorded by our students, in 15 different languages and guess which language was which. Trust me, it really was challenging! The little ones enjoyed having their faces painted and a good bounce around in the castle, while the more mature visitors enjoyed toning their waistlines with the hoola hoops!

* Butties: British slang for sandwiches!

Guess the language!

MEF International volleyball team formed an amazing band with our very own Michael!!

Some real talent!

The Te

am!

Little Jonzie, Big Jonzie!!

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British Consulate Fete - continued

Iysha made the little ones look even more beautiful!

Members of the live band joined us for a jamming session!

The Bacon Butties!!

Wiggling to the beat!

Michael teaching the little ones rhythm!

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DIRECTORS OF SCHOOLS Amanda Ilhan Pre School & Primary School Deputy Director +90 212 202 7027 amandailhan@bis.k12.tr Richard I’Anson Pre School & Primary School Director +90 212 257 5136 richardianson@bis.k12.tr William Bradley Director of Secondary and Principal of +090 212 202 7027 Zekeriyakoy Campus williambradley@bis.k12.tr Tuba Guven Director of Admissions +90 212 286 7375 registrar@bis.k12.tr Helen Kiran Director of PR/Communications +90 212 202 7027 communications@bis.k12.tr

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