We Made a difference!- progress on board Ixdos

Take a look at a few of the illustrations created by our super Year 2 illustrators this week. They were inspired by and in the same style as Lauren Child, Axel Schiffler and Scott Nash.

Paint, pen and collage. Inspired by Lauren Child

Water colour and pen. Inspired by Axel Schiffler

Pencil shading. Inspired by Scott Nash

More Illustrations to come over the next few weeks!

This week we have continued to work in teams to solve problems by applying our Maths skills. 

Next week we will be focusing on Fractions during our team challenges.

The children have completed their postcards about Flat Stanley's adventures in Phuket and these are now ready to post to Canada, UK and Australia.  Next week we will begin to think about a storyline for our own Chapter books which we will be writing!

We MADE A DIFFERENCE!

Captain Pat has been into school this week to share with us the exciting news about work on the Schooner Ixdos. Thanks to the money raised by Years 1 and 2 the boat now has a solar powered pump, hand rails have been installed and much work on the fixtures and fittings has been completed.

The solar powered pump-on display outside the Primary Pool Area.

A message from Captain Pat

Well Done to our Stars of the Week!

Friday 5th June- RUN FOR HUGO

Each child brought home a sponsorship form this week to try to raise money for Mitochondrial Disease Research in order to help Hugo. Please support this in any way you can - every little bit helps! You can pay your child to run for 30 minutes or pay an amount for each lap they complete. 

The Goblin Next Door

The dress rehearsal will now be in the morning there are three performances over 3 days for our eager audience to attend.

Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday, 8th, 9th and 10th June

The show will begin at 1:30 in the Primary hall. No tickets needed! We can't wait!

Important message - The Goblin Next Door Date changes

The Goblin Next Door Performances have been moved back by one week. This means that the shows will now be on Monday 8th June, Tuesday 9th June and Wednesday 10th June.

Also some of the cast members were asked to come to school on Saturday to attend a rehearsal. This rehearsal is now cancelled.

Amazing illustrations

This week the children have been looking closely at illustrations-particularly those by Scott Nash who is the illustrator of the Flat Stanley books. They have been considering the different shades used in the pictures and recreating these in pencil. It looks like we could have some potential future illustrators in Year 2 as the pictures they have created are amazing. Next week we will begin looking at how Eric Carle illustrates his books- a very different approach to Scott Nash!

We only have one more week before The Goblin Next Door appears at school for 3 shows on 1st, 2nd and 3rd June. All the children are working hard to sing the songs and remember their lines. Some very interesting costumes are also starting to make an appearance so it is shaping up to be a great show. Over the next week we will be rehearsing very hard.

In Maths we are taking a close look at fractions- halves and quarters, what they mean and how to find fractions of shapes and numbers.  We will also be continuing to recall and calculate using our times tables and division facts. Our team activities will focus on these as we present a range of problems for the children to solve.

Our writing over the next week will focus on using speech marks and the children will be learning how to represent speech from speech bubbles into written text.

Friday 29th May- Uniform free day.
Wear your RUN FOR HUGO t-shirt to school if you have ordered one or wear any clothes but bring in 50THB to donate to our Term 3 MAD focus, research into mitochondrial disease. 

Friday 5th June will be the RUN FOR HUGO where we will be seeing if together as a whole school we can run a marathon!

A HUGE WELL DONE to this weeks Upstanding Stars!

Also CONGRATULATIONS to the Year 2 winner and runners up in the Library Bookmark competition. We look forward to using your bookmarks soon.

Australian Stanleys are here!

Hooray!- the Flat Stanleys from Australia arrived this week and have gone home with their new Year 2 friends to have some adventures. We look forward to looking at these on their blog. The children (and parents) have been working hard to record all the Flat Stanley adventures-well done! You can see them yourselves by visiting the blogs. Please take a look by clicking on the blogs below!

UK Stanleys Blog - http://stanleylukbisp.blogspot.com/

Canadian Stanleys Blog - http://stanleylcanadabisp.blogspot.com/

Australian Stanleys Blog - http://stanleylozbisp.blogspot.com/


This week the children have been learning how to manipulate images to create virtual postcards. This involves them taking photos, downloading and saving images from Edmodo and using the green screen app to create new images. Here are some examples of their work.

Stanley at Tarzan adventures

Stanley at The Big Buddha

We will be using these postcards as a focus for our writing.

Coding
The children have been busy learning to work in code to make programs do different things. They have used iPad apps -Scratch and Kodable to make characters move, speak and much more and have been programming the Pro-Bots to draw shapes. To do this they have had to think carefully about the properties of shapes and how to give clear instructions.

The Goblin Next Door
There are  only 2 weeks to go until the children perform the show 'The Goblin Next Door'. They have been busy learning the songs during music lessons and are having a rehearsal each Monday too. In assembly on Friday they treated us by singing one of the songs from the show and it sounded fantastic! The show will be on the 1st, 2nd and 3rd of June.

A HUGE WELL DONE to this weeks stars of the week!

Dates for your Diary

1st, 2nd and 3rd June - KS1 Production - “The Goblin next door”

5th June - Run for Hugo

Thursday 25th June - Last day of the school year. Classes finish at 1:00pm

UK and Canadian Stanley Blogs are up and running.

Flat Stanley on Phuket
Our Stanley guests from Canada and the UK have been treated to visits all over the island of Phuket. The children have been posting from pools, beaches and restaurants and treating our guests like royalty. Well done. More Stanleys went home for the weekend today. We await the arrival of Australian Stanleys with baited breath.

Year 5 present their research

Year 5 children came to Year 2 this week to present their research on dolphins and to talk about the their ideas on the difficulties posed by the dolphinarium which has been built, but not yet opened, on the island.  Many of the year 2 children have already signed the petition to say no to opening the dolphinarium.


Design a bookmark competition.

The library is running a library competition, starting tomorrow: 'Design your library bookmark competition':
The competition is open to all students from Nursery to Year 6.
The theme we have chosen this year is: READING

We want all the bookmarks to be the same format, so there is a template, and the students or parents can pick one sheet from the library. The sheet has 3 templates, and therefore each student can enter 3 different drawings in the competition. Students should not be doing their designs on any other sheet than the one provided in the library.
Please cover the basic guidelines outlined in the document attached with your class if you have some time.

At the end of the competition, we will choose the best design in each year group (so that means only one winner per year group), and we will get those professionally printed (200 of each bookmark), and they will all bear the name of the student who designed it, and they will be available in the Library.



Upstandables!

Well done to our upstanding stars of the week who have been solving problems and helping others!  Welcome Dayana to BIS and Year 2.

RUNFOR HUGO Update

RUN FOR HUGO Events

Thank you for your support of our Term 3 MAD project, RUN FOR HUGO, a fundraiser for Australian Mitochondrial Disease Foundation research into this devastating disease.

May 29 is now the Uniform Free Day for our first RUN FOR HUGO fundraiser

• This has been changed from the planned 22/5 day because our amazing community ordered so many t-shirts.  We need an extra week to get them here.  Nursery to Year 6 students are invited to wear their RUN FOR HUGO t-shirts or pay a 'fine' of 50THB (for the cause) to come in casual clothes.
• 5AH will run an assembly that includes information about mitochondrial disease and the marathon on this day and we will get some photos of everyone in their blue t-shirts.
• Students will bring home a sponsorship form for the marathon the following week.  

June 5 is our RUN FOR HUGO 'mini-marathon' Nursery to Year 6.

• Everyone wears their RUN FOR HUGO t-shirts again.
• Sponsorship forms come back. Family and friends are invited to sponsor (per the number of marathons completed) or make a donation to this important cause.
• Mr Richards will open the event at 8:15am by MTB.
• Hugo and his brother Josh, will run the first lap.  
• Every year level will have a half hour time allocation (before break) to add to our cumulative running total.  We will be recording everyone's lap/s and calculating how many marathons we have run.
• Year 6 will be first, and then go back to the secondary school. The schedule for other year levels will be released soon.
• Parents are welcome to run with their children if they are keen.

Thanks again for your support

Karen

kcornelius@bisphuket.ac.th

More Stanleys arrive in Phuket!

This week we received two parcels-one with 20 Flat Stanleys visiting us from Canada and the other with 18 Flat Stanleys visiting us from the UK. It was very exciting opening the parcels and we shared out the Stanleys so that each child is taking care of one. The Flat Stanleys that Year 2 have been making along with letters to go with them jumped into an envelope and were sent off for adventures too. We can't wait to hear back from them!

Six children from each class have taken their Flat Stanley home for the weekend along with an iPad to record their adventures onto a blog. The blogs already have some interesting posts - you can see them here.

Canadian Flat Stanley's blog
UK Flat Stanley's blog

We are still waiting for our Flat Stanleys to arrive from Australia!


On Wednesday there were some crazy and colourful costumes as we celebrated Book Day.
Well done Year 2 for making such a great effort to dress up!

 Can you guess which characters they are?

To see all the wonderful characters click here

 The children all took on the role of their characters and worked in groups to create a story involving all of them which they acted out for us all to watch.

The children have been busy working in teams to solve problems this week. On Tuesday they worked to solve problems involving measuring and on Friday they worked in different teams to solve shape and number problems. These activities will continue all term with the problems becoming more complex. Before moving to the next problem the teams must explain their methods clearly.

Finally, congratulations to our Year 2 swimmers who performed amazingly at this weekends swim meet. We are very proud of you!

A strange new boy in Year 2 this week!

This week we had a new boy join Year 2. He arrived in an envelope and he is completely Flat! His name of course is Flat Stanley and he is the character from the book we have started reading - Flat Stanley by Jeff Brown. He was sent to us by Mr and Mrs Lambchop (his parents) and he will be staying with us for Term 3 for adventures at BISP.

The children have started to make their own Flat Stanley's to also send on adventures to Canada, England and Australia. They have been busy writing letters to send along with the Stanley's. We are looking forward to receiving some Flat Stanley's from children in Canada, England and Australia to look after.

Flat Stanley will be our focus in Literacy this term. We will be writing letters, re-telling stories, writing summaries, describing characters and writing our very own stories about Stanley.



We started our week with some other visitors - The Upstandables and their friend Bystandable!



Bystandable has joined the children and together they are learning how to become an Upstandable. To do this they have to display upstanding behaviour. This means they should follow the code:

If you are NOT part of the solution,
You ARE part of the problem!


The children helped Bystandable by acting out different ways to be upstanding.






We are encouraging the children to not be bystanders and watch problems but to step in and solve them. All through Term 3 the children will be recording their upstanding behaviour and hopefully they will all earn their red Upstandable masks.


In Maths this term we are focusing on telling the time, taking away, solving written problems and learning about 2D and 3D shapes. Many of our Maths activities will take place through teamwork, in small teams across all 3 classes. This week the children worked together to solve some measurement problems.

You can support your child at home by asking them to read the time at different times during the day. We will be learning digital times, e.g. '9:40' and analogue times, e.g. 'twenty to 10'.



Next Week... we have three events:

On Monday there is a meeting for parents in 2JS room at 2:00pm for parents to learn about our Flat Stanley exchange and how to use the EasyBloggerJunior App on the ipads to blog about Flat Stanley's adventures.

Wednesday is Dress Up as a character Day. Children should choose a character from a book and come to school dressed as them. We encourage children to also bring along the book which their character is from. Please can children come to school wearing their costumes but bring their PE kits and sports shoes in their bags so that they can change for PE in the afternoon.

Wednesday and Thursday are Big Book Swap Days. A great chance to get some new books!

Parent workshop on Languages

Want to know more about Language Pathways through the school (Modern Foreign Languages/MFL Choices)?

• What languages are available? 
• How much time is dedicated to them? 
• What are the implications for secondary qualifications?

A parent meeting, to explain the language choices available, will support parents in making MFL choices for the next academic year and in understanding the implications of these choices through to Secondary. 

The meeting is open to all parents, but will have particular relevance for parents of children who will be in Y1, Y2 or Y3 in the next academic year.

When? Monday 27th April
Time? 8:10am
Where? Primary Hall

End of Term 2

We finished this busy term with a Silly 4 Songkran Music assembly. It was lovely to see all the children performing.  Well Done to all of you! 

Assembly was followed by some great Songkran activities organised by our Thai Teachers. The children bathed the Buddha, made sand Jedis and blessed their teachers. You can see some photos of these here.

This week we have also been to the Aquarium and taken part in our Swim Gala. Here are some links to photos of these events.

Aquarium photo's (taken by the children!) 

Swim Gala Photo's


Term 3

Next Term we will be learning about what it means to be 'Upstanding'. This topic has a big Personal, Emotional and Social focus. We will also be studying the 'Flat Stanley' books  by Jeff Brown and we may have a strange new child in Year 2!!!!! As we read the Flat Stanley books in class we will be creating our own chapter stories.  We will be taking care of some Stanleys who will be visiting us from school children from around the world and sending our own Stanleys for adventures far and wide.

There will be no swimming during PE lessons next term. Children will need to wear PE kit and trainers for both of their PE lessons  on Mondays and Wednesdays until the end of the school year. They will be doing a unit on golf during one lesson and a unit on Gymnastics/Dance in the other lesson. 


Also next term...

... the school will have a Great Big BIS Book Swap Day on the 29th & 30th April. Children should dress up as a Book Character on the 29th April so get your costumes ready!

...Year 2 will be performing in the KS1 Production - “The Goblin next door”. This will take place on Monday 1st June, Tuesday 2nd June and Wednesday 3rd June at 1.30pm in the Primary Hall.

Finally we would like to wish everyone a safe and happy Songkran wherever you may travel.  

See you on Monday 20th April for a new term!

A busy week ahead

As we move into the last week of term there are many events happening so here is a round up of what's on next week.

Parent-Teacher-Child Consultations - Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday
We look forward to sharing your child's progress and targets with you on these days. Children are invited to attend to join in the discussion and to help them to recognise their learning and how they can develop.

Swim Gala - Tuesday
On Tuesday 31st March Year 2 will have their swim Gala. This will start at 9:30 and finish around 10:40.  Parents are invited to come along and support us. Children need to wear their swim clothes and bring a towel. They will need to wear their PE shorts and  colour team shirt over their swim clothes.  They can either come to school wearing these or change at school.

Trip to Phuket Aquarium - Wednesday
On Wednesday 1st April Year 2 will visit the Aquarium. We will leave school at 8:15 and return around 11:30. Children should wear their normal school uniform for the trip. Children who have PE in the afternoon can change when we return.

Wear Purple - Thursday
To show respect for H.R.H Princess Maha Chakri Sirindhorn on her birthday we ask all children to wear a purple item of clothing on Thursday 2nd April.

Silly for Songkran - Friday
Year 2 will be celebrating Songkran on Friday 3rd April by taking part in traditional activities with the Thai teachers. They will be bathing the Buddha, making sand Jedi and blessing their teachers. 
Also, there will be a 'Silly For Songkran' fundraiser on this day which has been initiated by one of our Year 6 students. Please read the poster below.  Children may wear a Songkran shirt and for a donation of 20 Baht can have their hair done-in a silly style! There will be a cake sale and a toy sale after school and we are asking for donations of cakes and unwanted toys to support this. Please take any donations to the Primary Office.

To view this in a larger format click HERE

Oliver! - Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday

The Secondary and upper Primary students have been rehearsing hard for the show which they will put on on Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday. We have some very talented students in the school so we encourage you to go along and see an amazing show. Tickets are on sale in the Community Support Office in the Primary Foyer.

'The Goblin Next Door'

Watching this show may inspire your child to be a performer! In Term 3 Year 2 children will have the opportunity to perform in a show themselves as we put on 'The Goblin Next Door'. If your child is interested in being part of the main cast for this show they will need to sign up for the KS1 Production After School Activity on Thursdays next term.  All children will be part of the show with the rest of the cast rehearsing during music lessons.

After School Activity sign up sheets will be sent home during the week.

Phew!-What a busy week ahead!

WELL DONE to this week's Year 2 Stars of the Week!

International Day

We had a fantastic end to a busy week with our International day celebrations. Many thanks to all our parents who ensured that the children were dressed up to represent their country and for cooking some delicious food for the stalls. We all enjoyed it very much.

Mr Carey looking very British!

What a colourful and multi-cultural school we have.

The Year 2 children performed a lovely Thai dance. Here is a link to the video of their dance.

Parent, Teacher and Child Conferences

Many thanks to all parents who have already signed up for an appointment to meet with us during the last week of this term to discuss your child's progress. This year we invite children to attend along with parents as we believe that they should be involved in reflecting upon their successes and targets for development. If you have not yet made an appointment please sign up  HERE     Instructions on how to sign up are in last weeks blog post below.

Year 2 Trip to the Aquarium

This week your child will have brought home a letter informing you about our trip to Phuket Aquarium on 1st April. This will support out learning about how animals are adapted to survive in various habitats. Please return the permission slip with 30 Baht as soon as possible if you wish your child to attend the trip.

Respecting and celebrating H.R.H. Princess Maha Chakri Sirindhorn's Birthday

2015 is considered a significant year for Thailand, as it marks the auspicious  fifth cycle, or 60th, birthday anniversary of H.R.H. PRINCESS MAHA CHAKRI SIRINDHORN.

As a mark of respect and celebration.of the Princess's birthday all staff and children are invited to wear an item of purple clothing on Thursday April 2nd.   (otherwise normal school uniform)..

H.R.H. PRINCESS MAHA CHAKRI SIRINDHORN graciously presided over the Opening Ceremony of School <Dulwich International College> on Wednesday 26th April 2000.

WELL DONE to this weeks STARS OF THE WEEK!

Also WELL DONE to the Year 2 Library Best Borrowers! They were awarded with a book and certificate to congratulate them on their interest in books and using the library so regularly.

Remember the library is available for you to visit and borrow books from every day after school. Children do not just have to take out books on their scheduled Library day-they can borrow books every day!

Dates for your diary

Tuesday 31st March - KS1 Swim Gala

Monday, 30th March, Tuesday 1st April, Wednesday 2nd April - Parent, Teacher Meetings.

Wednesday 1st April - Year 2 Trip to Phuket Aquarium

Friday 3rd April - Last day of Term 2. Term Break begins. School finishes at 13:00.

Monday 20th April - Term 3 begins. NO AFTER SCHOOL ACTIVITIES DURING FIRST WEEK.

Measuring and Communicating

This week the classes have swapped around their measuring equipment so that 2CC are measuring length, 2KG are measuring weight and 2JS are measuring capacity. In all our weighing activities the children ultimately need to read a scale which can often be a challenging exercise. A scale is really just a number line but we need to find out how we are jumping along the number line.

Measuring Madness!

We are communicators!

The children have continued to research animals this week. During this process they have been using a variety of information texts and looking carefully to discover how information texts are arranged to make them interesting. The challenge for the children now is to communicate what they have learned through their own informative and interesting text.

The children will also be considering other ways they can communicate their learning-perhaps using an ipad.

We have been encouraging the children to communicate with their teachers and peers through Edmodo and have challenged the children to share interesting information by adding a post. This only needs to be short and shouldn't take long. The children, once having contributed a post may recieve praise and feedback from their friends online. They may also receive an Edmodo badge!

Here is a video showing you how to login and logout of edmodo on an ipad. The Edmodo app is free to download. Edmodo can also be accessed via the internet at www.edmodo.com  Please make sure that you Login (NOT Sign up!)

A big WELL DONE to this weeks Star's of the Week

IMPORTANT - information about Parent-Teacher and Child Conferences

At the end of this term we will be holding conferences. This time we invite children to attend the conferences with parents and teachers. Booking a conference time slot needs to be done online. Please read the information below which will explain how to do this.

Dates for your diary

Friday 20th March - International Day. Children should wear National clothes or in the colours of       their flag.

Tuesday 31st March - KS1 Swim Gala

Monday, 30th March, Tuesday 1st April, Wednesday 2nd April - Parent, Teacher Meetings.

Friday 3rd April - Silly 4 Songkran Fun. (More information will follow)
                             Last day of Term 2. Term Break begins. School finishes at 13:00.

Monday 20th April - Term 3 begins. NO AFTER SCHOOL ACTIVITIES DURING FIRST WEEK.