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APRIL 2015 Sixty Seventh Edition

GUIDING STATEMENT OF

THE 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

YOUR COMMUNITY! YOUR NEWS!

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For a Better BISI…

A presentation was given to the Zekeriyakoy Campus PTA members of the new layout

for the Zek Campus Pre/Primary and Secondary Libraries. Work will commence on this

project at the beginning of July and is planned to be complete before the start of school

on 31 August.

Acibadem Medical Centre has now officially opened opposite the Zekeriyakoy Campus.

Please find link below to the services provided: http://bis.k12.tr//UserFiles/File/downloads/2014-

2015/pr/AciBademMedicalCentre-Zekeriyakoy.pdf

Please note that all the school photographs can be found on our Flickr account from the

following link: https://www.flickr.com/photos/britishschoolistanbul/sets/

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Message from the Pre/Primary School

As our Guiding Statements encourage, we ask all members of our community to be life long learn-ers and to strive for continuous improvement. To this end, the teachers met on the first day of the summer term to discuss current educational issues in the Pre and Primary School. Tamarisk Wright, Curriculum Co-ordinator for EYFS, and Cara Frigeri Curriculum Co-ordinator for the Primary School, lead discussions on pertinent topics. The Primary School Middle Leaders lead seminars on their sub-jects, to continually strengthen the horizontal and vertical alignment of our curriculum. Our sporting events have become a more of a prominent feature on our school calendar this year. In liaison with other schools in Istanbul, Mr Huegel, Head of PE, and his team, organised the ISL Cross Country event. Our students performed exceptionally well and won all 12 medals on offer! Well done students! As our Guiding Statements inspire, we ‘educate students to be respectful of, and knowledgeable about, and be involved in their local and international communities’. The PTA asked families to send in stationery gifts for children in the local community as part of the Children’s Day celebrations. These gifts were taken to our local council for them to distribute to the most needy. Our children recognised Earth Day by wearing blue and green, and they contributed a small donation towards our chosen charities. Our Creative Arts programme has also been amplified this year. Dr Sargent, Head of Creative Arts for the Secondary School, lead an intensive discussion on his subject as part of our monthly Coffee Morning. Selected children from the Primary School then performed outstandingly well in a Creative Arts assembly. Well done students! As part of the Centenary, our school was asked for children to sing at Gallipoli to mark the hun-dredth year anniversary of this tremendously important event from 1915. Six children travelled to Gallipoli and sang as part of the ‘Choir of Peace’. They sang in front of Prime Ministers from Turkey and Australia, and Prince Charles and Prince Harry from Britain. We are very proud of these chil-dren and thank their teachers for accompanying them so they could be part of this historical event. Finally, the Year 5 children zoomed off to Space Camp! After a short delay, the children were on their way to Izmir. Beth from Space Camp met them and they were shown to their room. They thoroughly enjoyed all the activities on offer at Space Camp; exploring gravity and building their own rockets. Many thanks to the Year 5 teachers for accompanying their children and looking after them so well. We hope you enjoy this month’s Newsletter. Best regards Amanda Ilhan Richard I’Anson Pre and Primary School Deputy Director Pre and Primary School Director

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Alkent — Spring Egg Hunt

We all had great fun searching for the eggs hidden all over the playground. We had to search

high and low but eventually we all enjoyed eating the delicious chocolate eggs!

It was an egg-cellent start to the holidays!

A. Guzel.

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Alkent — Year 2 Trip

Alkent Year 2 Trip to Emirgan Park.

As part of our Science and Geography work we recently visited

Emirgan Park.

We looked for and recorded different man-made and natural fea-

tures around the park. We also looked for and collected different

types of plant material, including petals, stems and seeds. Time

was also spent admiring the fantastic display of tulips too!

Alison Guzel and Candace Borcharding.

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Etiler—Year 3 Trip

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Zekeriyakoy Primary—Egg Hunt & Bonnet Parade

On the last day of second term, we celebrated the coming of spring. At assembly some secondary drama

students entertained the children with plays. Following on with the theme of the plays, containing animals

as characters, the children in the lead up to seeing the plays had created animal hats. They wore their hats to

assembly. It was such a colourful display.

During break time the children went to the garden to search for bags containing treats and then running

around in our lovely animal hats. It was lovely as we had not been using the garden during winter due to the

weather. So it was a lot of fun!

Dave Scarf

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Whole School Primary—ISL Cross Country

On Wednesday 15 April, Primary students from BISI and MEF took part in the ISL Cross Country at the

Belgrad Forest. In toal 12 medals were won by 12 of our Primary students:

Y6 boys

(1st but out of official ranking Thomas MEF he is a Y7 student)

1st—Matthis

Shared 2nd—Nicholas and James

No third place would have gone to Giulio MEF

Y6 girls

Evy

Hazal

Jil

Y5 Races (we also invited our Year 3 and 4 students to race for training experience)

Y5 and younger boys

1st Lucas

2nd Alessandro Y3

3rd Peter Y3

Y5 and younger girls

1st Elisa

2nd Lauren Y3

3rd Polly Y4

Christian Huegel

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Whole School—Year 5 Trip

The children in Year 5 from both campuses had a highly practical and

educational trip to NASA Space Camp in Izmir, as part of our Earth and

Space topic for science.

After a short flight the children were placed into groups and had to com-

plete many tasks such as controlling a space ship mission, travelling on a

360 gravity simulator, robot and rocket construction. They even got to

experience what it would be like to ‘Spacehop’ on the moon!

The children loved the four days they spent there, and every single one of

them passed the challenges and graduated from NASA Space Camp.

Martin Broadman

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Dear all,

It is that time of year again!

Months of revision, endless arguments about the amount of noise their siblings or the neighbourhood dogs

are making, tears of frustration because they don’t understand something absolutely perfectly, sleepless

nights as they pore over their books and their notes, all the times they tell you that you couldn’t possibly

have any idea of what they are going through and what pressures they are under. And all you can do is

watch them as they seem to get closer and closer to total meltdown!

Yes, the IBDP and IGCSE Examinations are finally upon us, Year 13 and Year 11 can at last get all that

knowledge out of their heads and onto paper in the silence of the examination hall as they aim for the best

grades they can possibly get. It has been a hard slog for all of them to get to this stage and now, all we

can do is wish them the very best of luck in their final examinations.

For our Year 13 students, in three weeks it will all be over and they can relax and look forward to their

Graduation on the 29th of May.

For our Year 11 students it takes a little longer. By the middle of June it will be all over for them also and

they can look forward to… well, doing it all again over the next two years!

To the Graduating Class of 2015

and

The IGCSE Class of 2015

Your parents, your teachers, your siblings and the whole school community

wish you the very best of luck in your final examinations!

William

Message from the Secondary School

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Zekeriyakoy Secondary—End of Second Term

A build your own Parachute competition was held on the last day of the spring term. Points were awarded

based on design, drop time and creativity.

The results were as follows:

1st - 13B & 13I

2nd - 8S & 9S

3rd - 10B / 8B / 7I

Fastest group to complete the orienteering: were Year 10S.

Congratulations to all!

Sandra Scotland

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Zekeriyakoy-Secondary—ISL Cross Country

This event was held on Thursday 16th April at the

Belgrad Forest and included students from IICS,

MEF and BISI.

The results are as follows:

4k Runners ISL Junior Boys XC 2015

4k Runners ISL Junior Girls XC 2015

Position Name Time School Points

1 Louis 16.21 BIS 10

2 Efe 17.13 IICS 9

3 Sehwa 17.33 IICS 8

4 Wessel 17.35 BIS 7

5 Luka 17.59 MEF 6

6 Kaan 19.27 MEF 5

7 Thomas 19.40 BIS 4

8 Leo 20.14 IICS 3

9 Eren 20.49 BIS 2

10 Ido 20.52 IICS 1

Position Name Time School Points

1 Makoto 18.32 IICS 10

2 Nadia 19.57 BIS 9

3 Ece 20.01 IICS 8

4 Sierra 20.08 MEF 7

5 Lilian 20.09 IICS 6

6 Svea 20.22 IICS 5

7 Selin 20.33 IICS 4

8 Aina 20.45 BIS 3

9 Mei 20.57 MEF 2

10 Maya 21.24 IICS 1

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4k Runners ISL Senior Boys XC 2015

4k Runners ISL Senior Girls XC 2015

Position Name Time School Points

1 Ismar 15.15 BIS 10

2 Ares 15.47 IICS 9

3 Gules 16.13 IICS 8

4 Antoine 16.36 MEF 7

5 Seong Jun 16.41 BIS 6

6 Andrew 17.07 MEF 5

7 Philip 17.09 IICS 4

8 Timur 17.58 IICS 3

9 Seb 18.12 IICS 2

10 Jasur 18.31 MEF 1

Position Name Time School Points

1 Hannah 18.00 MEF 10

2 Serena 18.14 IICS 9

3 Manon 18.39 IICS 8

4 Esra 20.33 BIS 7

5 Rachael 20.56 IICS 6

6 Lauren 22.07 BIS 5

7 Gabi 22.47 BIS 4

8 Carys 23.29 BIS 3

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10 1

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6k Runners ISL Boys XC 2015

6k Runners ISL Girls XC 2015

Final Scores after 6 events:

IICS 130 points

BIS 111 points

MEF 83 points

Louis and Ismar were joint 12th Overall in the İznik 10km which was held on Sunday 20th April. They ran a

time of 42 minutes. Congratulations to all our students.

Miss Bell & Miss Scotland

Position Name Time School Points

1 Ismar 24.55 BIS 10

2 Louis 24.56 BIS 9

3 Bahrouz 25.05 MEF 8

4 Ares 26.28 IICS 7

5 Joles 27.49 IICS 6

6 Andrew 28.30 MEF 5

7 Jasur 29.45 MEF 4

8 Seong Jun 34.12 BIS 3

9 Antoine 34.17 MEF 2

10 Efe 38.15 IICS 1

Position Name Time School Points

1 Hannah 27.54 MEF 10

2 Manon 33.38 IICS 9

3 Mai 33.55 MEF 8

4 Nadia 24.47 BIS 7

5 Lauren 35.33 BIS 6

6 Maya 36.56 IICS 5

7 Ece 37.18 IICS 4

8 Lilian 37.50 IICS 3

9 Serena 38.15 IICS 2

10 Carys 40.51 BIS 1

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Zekeriyakoy-Secondary—Junior Team Volleyball Tournament

The junior teams really impressed at this years ISL volleyball tournament. The teams (6 per side) were a 50

-50 mix of 3 Year 7, absolute beginners and 3 older Key Stage 3 students who attended the tournament last

year. The older students support of our new members was awesome. They encouraged each other, worked

as a team and went on to take boys 3rd place trophy and girls 4th place overall. The best part about this

tournament was seeing the potential for the future. If our Year 7's continue to practice and train, we should

be able to get 1st place boys and girls trophies by the end of Key Stage 3!

Watch this space.....

Miss Bell & Miss Scotland

Melissa Ekin

Selin Cetin

Anisia Petruccelli

Alara Yucel

Selin Kiran

Elene Arveladze

Cenk Karabulut

Gavin Cooper

Ayush Ranjan

Enis Sharshari

Eren I’Anson

Ethan Acikalin

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Both boys and girls, despite finishing 6th and 5th respectively, played some magnificent volleyball at this

year's annual ISL tournament. Most games were played to within the 2 point victory margin with BISI just

coming up short. We definitely grew as players and managed to look like teams that had been training for

years and not just the few weeks we have had. We'll done to all:

Selin Dolay

Melis Topuz

Mariam Zara

Leyla Iwasa

Lauren Watson

Esra Cuhadaroglu

Akanksha Shah

Ben Bedoni

Jangovar Juraev

Ronaldo Konmaz

Nicolas Schnapperelle

Can İdil

Raffi Goudy

Leon Açıkalın

Ismar Klomp

From a very proud Miss Bell :)

Zekeriyakoy-Secondary—Senior Team Volleyball Tournament

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During their Arts lessons, Year 8 are starting new projects in Music, Drama and in Visual

Art linked with the symbol of the tulip. We went to Emirgan Park on the morning of Mon-

day 20th April to sketch and find inspiration for these new units.

8S will be exploring the link between tulips and Baroque music, 8B will be creating mixed

media works based on the tulip and its symbolism in Visual Art, and 8I will be using the tu-

lips as inspiration for a new Drama project.

Lisa Mayer

Zekeriyakoy-Secondary—Year 8

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Zekeriyakoy-Secondary—French Trip

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Zekeriyakoy-Secondary—Beach Clean-up Project

All Secondary students except Year11 and 13 supported

by all Secondary teachers collected 325 kg worth of

waste from Kilyos beach!

The huge pieces of wood, wooden logs and metal parts

that did not fit into bags are not in this number because

our scale was too small.

Here are the results by grade as the measuring with one

scale forced us to hurry up and combine the results of the

form classes:

Year 7-- 53.8kg

Year 8-- 131.1kg (1st place)

Year 9-- 61.3kg (2nd place)

Year 10-- 54.6kg (3rd place)

Year 12-- 24.4kg

Congratulations and well done to all our

Secondary students.

Claudia Azizoglu

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The Gallipoli Campaign 100th Anniversary Concert

The above ceremony was held at Cape Helles (Abide) in Gallipoli, on Friday 24

April. A choir made up of children from a Turkish school, the French

school the British School (in Istanbul) and the Australian school (in Ankara)

were chosen to perform at this event. It was quite an extraordinary and histori-

cal event which saw visitors from all over the world. A total of 10,000 Austral-

ians travelled to Gallipoli by sea, including their Prime Minister Tony Abbott.

French and British visitors including Prince Charles and Prince Harry, as well

as many other world leaders.

Six students of British/French nationality between the ages of 8-12 were nomi-

nated from our school to represent Great Britain/France at this event. The cho-

sen few were Ayda Bekisolu, Max Gunnell, Evy & Lauren Mansat Gros from

Primary and Sophia Ilhan and Selin Kiran from the Secondary school.

The children sang three songs on peace; in Turkish, French and English. A truly

wonderful experience, that I am sure they will never forget.

On the following page you can read Evy’s thoughts of the event…….

Helen Kiran

The BISI Gallipoli ‘Choir of Peace’

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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 Head of PR/Communications +90 212 202 7027 communications@bis.k12.tr

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