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APRIL 2014 Fifty Eighth 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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Message from the Pre/Primary School
April opened with PE and Health Week. Mr Huegel, Head of PE, and his team organised a superb sports week focusing on ‘Polluting Our Bodies,’ and how sleep, food, exercise and water help to combat pollution in our bodies. The week commenced with the Cross Country run in the Belgrade Forest. The Year 5 and 6 race went well and gold, silver and bronze medals were given out to the first, second and third place winners in each year group. Unfortunately, the Year 3 and 4 race wasn’t as successful as the place of the start line has become confused. The Year 3 and 4 race was held after the Spring holiday and second time around was completed successfully. A Healthy Bake Sale was organized jointly by the Primary Student Councils and PTA. They raised a substan-tial amount of money for our chosen charities. Thank you to all for supporting our charitable causes so kind-ly. The week continued with exciting sporty events each day. A morning ‘Wake Up’ walk/ run was organized in the Botanic Gardens followed by dancing in the gym! Inter house football and basketball tournaments were arranged at lunchtime. A judo session, a Fitness Challenge and a Step Aerobics class took place as well. The children, and some members of staff, participated in the interhouse biathlon relay which incorporated one member running and one swimming for house points. Our traditional Spring Bonnet Parade was held with the theme of PE and Health. Some truly inventive hats were displayed; for example hats decorated with a football pitch, a badminton racket and shuttlecocks, and table tennis balls. The Creative Arts team judged the best hats and awarded prizes. Our traditional egg hunt had to be held in the classrooms rather than in the Botanic Gardens as planned due to bad weather. However, all the children enjoyed finding an egg in their other year group classroom. A huge thank you goes to the Ferrero company for sponsoring the event and the PTA for hiding the eggs. As our Guiding Statements inspire, we encourage all members of our community to be life long learners and to strive for continuous improvement. To this end, the teachers met on the first day of the summer term to discuss current issues in the Pre and Primary School. The Curriculum Coordinators lead discussion on the EYFS Curriculum, and the revised version of the National Curriculum for the Primary School. The Primary School Middle Leaders lead seminars on the changes to be made in English, Maths, Science and ICT for Sep-tember 2014. And finally, thank you for attending our Parent Teacher interviews to discuss your child’s progress at school. 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 Campus
Alkent Campus Performance. E-I-E-I Oops! The whole barnyard were dancing as Alkent performed E-I-E-I Oops! Old MacDonald, Mrs Old MacDonald, The Farmer in the Dell and Mrs Farmer in the Dell had a big problem. Their beautiful cow wouldn’t moo! The crazy pigs tried to help by telling jokes. The lost sheep were too sad to help because they had lost Bo Peep, whilst the roosters and cute chicks were too busy showing off! Eventually, the donkeys came to the rescue and encouraged the cow to moo by saying nice things to him. With lots of help from all of the farm-yard and audience our beautiful cow began to moo. The farmyard ani-mals danced to celebrate and great fun was had by all! Yahoo! The children and staff would like to thank all of our parents who helped make our wonderful costumes and scenery – it all looked fantastic! Alison Guzel
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Etiler Campus
Performance of ‘The Time Theif’
A great team effort from all the staff and children made this colourful, musical production even more special.
Many thanks to the teacher team: Mr Malik and Ms Aysenur for the Cannakkale secene; Ms Holt for the
cavemen, Mrs Guven for the Tudor dancers, Mr Lawson for the minstrels, Mlle LaPointe and Mrs Pembridge
for the Elvis scene, Mr Pembridge for acting and dialogue and Ms Goudy,
Ms Cigdem and Ms Fulya for our costumes.
Carolyn Guven
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Etiler Campus—Field Trip
Field Trip to the Ice Skating Rink
On Wednesday the 9th of April,2014, the Etiler Campus students and teachers, went to
the Ice Skating Rink.
When we arrived we were split into shoe-size groups. After that we lined up in
queues to get boots, helmets, and knee pads. I was very excited however, I knew other
people were nervous as they had not skated before so I reassured everyone. After we changed
into our skates, we were told simple instructions and out we went to the rink.
As the door opened I could feel the cool air. I became more and more excited. Stepping on
the rink the sudden slippery ice got me a little nervous, but a few moments later I felt as com-
fortable as I would have on the floor. Skating was really fun and exciting. Everyone was hav-
ing fun, from the people who couldn’t skate to the people who could. Teachers were helping or
also having fun skating and slipping. After about 30 minutes, even the people who couldn’t
skate were coming out to the middle, whizzing around.
Following the skating we went to a public park and had a pleasant picnic in the perfect
weather.
The ice skating trip was a huge success and everyone had a great time. My opinion is
to do this every year since it is a trip where everyone can join and have merry time.
Soyong Kim – Year 6
The Ice Skating Trip
During Sports Week the whole of Etiler Campus went to Silivri Kapi ice rink.
At the rink all the boots were the same colour but some of the helmets were different colours. The knee pads were big-
ger that the elbow pads.
We skated with the music on. At first I held onto the railing so I could protect myself from falling. When I felt confi-
dent, I started ice skating without holding on to any walls. I felt only a tiny bit nervous that I would fall down. My
knees sometimes hurt a bit when I did fall.
When everyone told us to go we changed back into our shoes, gave back our skates and returned the knee pads and
helmets. Then we went to lunch at the nearby park.
I hope we can go again because it was fun.
Derin Alemdar Year 6
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Etiler—Egg Hunt
The Great Spring Egg Hunt was held after classes had spent time decorating their hard boiled eggs in a class
competition/display. There were lovely Faberge style eggs and dyed eggs and eggs decorated with ‘egg tat-
toos’ and felt pen.
They were so lovely that they could not be used for the egg and spoon race! This was held in the garden,
even though it was drizzling with rain. The classes lined up and had a relay. The concentration was amaz-
ing!
In between these activities the traditional Spring Egg Hunt was held. Some of the campus mums came to
hide the plastic egg cases while the children were outside at break. Then the children lined up in Houses be-
fore going off two at a time to find 3 cases each. When they had them, they came running back to tag the
next two and collect their chocolate egg.
Maple was the flat out winner. Well done!
Carolyn Guven
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Zek Campus—Year 1’s Spring Poem
Spring
Warm weather
Green trees
Beautiful blossom
Tall tulips
Big blue sky
Little lambs
Chattering chicks
Busy beautiful birds
Sweet smells
Lush green grass
smiley smiles
Spring is on its way
By Year 1L
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Zek Campus—Pre/Primary Spring Bonnet Parade
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Zek Campus—Year 6
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Friday 11th April – Eggtastic
Competition: Form v From
Team 1: designing and perfecting a parachute to launch a raw egg over the fence from the green yard to the field area.
Judged for the least amount of damage to the egg, slowest drop time and coolest design!
1st 3.55sec with the egg FULLY INTACT
2nd 2.46sec with NO CRACK to the egg
3rd 2.33 sec with a SLIGHTLY cracked egg
Team 2: designing a catapult……. but some forms seemed to build a slingshot!!
Lots of debate between judges and form teachers. Did they follow the RULES?
*Longest distance for the kinder egg to travel from one side of the field to the other!
1st 17m 10cm – 10B
2nd 6m 20cm – 7S
3rd 5m 90cm – 8S
Special mention for 10I with an outstanding negative distance of 60cm, with the only egg to travel in the wrong direc-
tion!
Team 3: the RUNNERS in the rain. Fastest team to complete 14 points on the map and jumble the words to ‘Happy
Holiday!’
1st 9S
2nd 8I
3rd 8B
Sandra Scotland
Zek Campus— Secondary Egg Challenge
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In the last week of term our PE department had the privilege to actively design and structure the school week, so we
did!
This years topic for our Physical Education and Health week was ‘Polluting our bodies under the aspects of sleep,
food, exercises and water’
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Here I just want to bullet point some of the activities which have been going on and your son /daughter had the op-
tion to sign up for.
Polluting our Bodies project, displays and presenting them during Assembly
Morning runs in the Park and Fitness Mr. Huegel
Judo Mr Bemi
Fitness Monopoly Ms. Thompson
Inter House Basket Ball Miss Lucy
Inter House Football Mr. Boardman
Step aerobics Mrs Watson
Orienteering
Biathlon
Inter House Capture the Flag
Volley Ball Tournament at IICS
A special Thank You goes to parents and teachers who gave up their free time in order to spend an hour presenting
and having fun with the students.
Most but not all activities have been documented in the 5 min video http://vimeo.com/91637569 from the point of
one of a Primary student at the Zek campus.
Christian Huegel
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Primary Cross Country Results
Whole School–P.E. and Fitness Week
Y3
1st Oliver C
2nd Kereml
C
3rd Hong Jon
O
1st Polly M
2nd Sung
Yoon C
3rd Basia M
Y4
1st Harvey
1st Lucas
3rd Ege B.
1st Alice C
2nd Elisa
Robinson C
3rd Mahak
C
Y5
1st Nicholas
MAple
2nd Boggyun
Cedar
3rd Max Ce-
dar
1st Evy Ce-
dar
2nd Jil Oak
3rd Hazal
Cedar
Y6
1st Taegeun
C
2nd Ali M
3rd Colin M
1st Jozefina
M
2nd Emma O
3rd Nikol M
Overall Results 1st Cedar 2nd Maple 3rd Oak
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Primary Inter House Basketball/Football:
Year 5 & 6 Basketball
1st Maple
2nd Cedar
3rd Oak
Year 3 & 4 Basketball
1st Cedar
2nd Oak/Maple
Football
1st Maple
2nd Cedar/ Oak
Overall Inter House
1st Maple
2nd Cedar
3rd Oak
End of the Week RESULT
1st Cedar
2nd Maple
3rd Oak
Biathlon
1st Cedar
2nd Maple
3rd Oak
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Secondary-Cross Country
MEDAL WINNERS XC 2014
4k RESULTS
Y7 BOYS Name Time
1 Wessel 16.36
2 Thomas 16.44
3 Martin 18.31
Y7 GIRLS Name Time
1 Aina 21.47
2 Alexia 23.10
3 Sofie 23.23
Y8 BOYS Name Time
1 Louis 16.30
2 Tijn 16.49
3 Cenk 17.00
Y8 GIRLS Name Time
1 Nadia 19.31
2 Su 21.44
3 Selin 22.16
Y9 BOYS Name Time
1 Ismar 15.02
2 Seong Jun 15.54
3 Jae 16.33
Y9 GIRLS Name Time
1 Lauren 19.22
2 Esra 21.14
3 Gabi 21.16
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Y10 GIRLS Name Time
1 Lieke 21.10
2 Malika 21.29
3 Elena 23.48
Y11 BOYS Name Time
1 Jan 17.00
2 Hendrik 17.02
3 Ronaldo 18.25
Y11 GIRLS Name Time
1 Minnie 28.07
2 Ela ( I turned up and won the silver!!!) ?
3 Marie ( So did I, but I got bronze!!!) ?
IB BOYS Name Time
1 Carmelo 14.27
2 Soroush 18.04
3 Giorgi 18.05
IB GIRLS Name Time
1 Hannah 20.06
2 Caroline 22.51
3 Robin 28.32
Y10 BOYS Name Time
1 Ben 16.49
2 Ümit 17.58
3 Abdullokh 19.55
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IB GIRLS Name Time
1 Carmelo 23.52
2 Ismar 24.25
3 Louis 27.25
4 Seong Jun 28.07
5 Ümit 31.06
6 Hannah&Lauren 31.48
7 Soroush 33.44
8 Gabi 34.25
9 Esra 34.28
10 Lucija 36.40
11 Enrico 36.48
12 Vasudev 40.00
13 Carys 42.18
14 Chiara 42.47
15 Yasemin&Nadia 43.14
16 Ryan 43.56
17 Melisa 44.31
18 Ayush 44.44
19 Akanksha&Alyssa&Kristina 44.48
6k RUNNERS
TEACHERS 4k
1 Taylan 16.56
2 Eileen 18.57
3 Marien 22.24
4 Mark 22.32
5 Rob 22.49
6 Claudia 24.09
7 Angela&Uğur 26.30
TEACHERS 6k
1 Ryhs 24.55
2 Taylan 26.00
3 Carolynne 28.10
4 Eileen 29.05
5 Rob 36.29
6 Claudia 37.14
7 Joy 46.30
Overall Results
1st Maple 253 points
2nd Cedar 232 points
3rd Oak 213 points
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Secondary—Volleyball
Junior Boys Volleyball ISL Champions 2014
Congratulations to our Junior team for a very successful tournament at IICS on Wednesday 9th April. 1st place!!!!!
RESULTS:
Game 1: set 1 IICS(1) 28 BIS 30 set 2 IICS(1) 23 BIS 25
Game 2: set 1 IICS(2) 9 BIS 25 set 2 IICS((2) 17 BIS 25
Game 3: set 1 MEF 12 BIS 25 set 2 MEF 25 BIS 14 set 3 MEF 13 BIS 15
Semis: set 1 IICS(2) 16 BIS 25 set 2 IICS(2) 20 BIS 25
FINAL: set 1 IICS (1) 12 BIS 25 set 2 IICS (1) 22 BIS 25
Team Players:
Jae 19, Tomasso 28, Ismar 2, Can 1, Mathiue 99, Seong Jun 13,
Gavin 23, Tijn 8
Senior Girls Volleyball Team
Congratulations to our Senior girls for some great volleyball and teamwork out at IICS on Thursday 10th April. 3rd
place trophy!!
RESULTS:
Game 1: set 1 MEF 22 BIS 25 set 2 MEF 5 BIS 11
Game 2: set 1 IICS(2) 24 BIS 26 set 2 IICS(2) 12 BIS 13
Game 3: set 1 MEF(2) 15 BIS 25 set 2 MEF(2) 16 BIS 21
Game 4: set 1 IICS(1) 25 BIS 13 set 2 IICS(1) 25 BIS 22
Game 5: set 1 IGA 25 BIS 23 set2 IGA 25 BIS 23
Game 6: set 1 IICS(3) 11 BIS 25 set 2 IICS(3) 10 BIS 25
Team Players:
Chiara 17, Elena 5, Serra 89, Lieke 24, Anne 15, Mare 9,
Sibel 7, Sheida 4, Caroline 10
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Junior Girls:
Our junior girls finished 3rd in this year's volleyball tournament at IICS on Wednesday 9th April. They
worked hard as a team to encourage each other through some difficult matches. Their sheer determination
during the last few games helped them to reach the semifinals which they only lost by a few points in the third
set. Well done ladies!
Miss Bell
Senior Boys:
Gutted.....that is the only word! After being UNBEATEN throughout the day in the league and believing we
could take 1st place, it was decided that the top 2 teams of the day should play off for the winner’s tro-
phy. We had to play an IICS team that we had beaten convincingly earlier in the day but the final match was
a wee bit different. IICS held us to very tight sets; we won one, they won one and the third set was neck and
neck finishing at 27-26. This was by far the most determined and positive group of senior boys we have had
in a long time whose sheer energy and excellent team work was commented on by other players and coach-
es. You guys were amazing. I don't care what the trophy says, you were definitely the winners that day on
attitude alone!
Miss Bell
Akanksha Shah
Rowa Kurdi
Walija Abuhajar
Lucija Cosic
Francesca Celenta
Melis Topuz
Lauren Watson
Selin Dolay
Mariam Zara
Raad Momani
Carmelo Konmaz
Arda Oguz
Christian Tilley
Chris Schmitz
Vishwesh Shah
Zev Meerdink
Ramon Klomp
George Averladze
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Environment Committee
Compost it! Compost helps improve soil so it holds more water and plants grow better.
Allow grass clippings to stay on the lawn, instead of bagging them. The cut grass will
decompose and return to the soil naturally. Food scraps and kitchen waste also make
good compost, and you save money on fertilizers or other additives.
Proper maintenance reduces waste! Keep your appliances in good working order and
follow the manufacturer's suggestions for operation and maintenance. Shop for prod-
ucts with high consumer satisfaction and fewer breakdowns. If kept in good working
order, your appliances should last a long time and not end up as waste before their
time.
Don't trash it - reuse it! Be creative as you look for new ways to reduce the amount or
kinds of household waste. Give cardboard tubes to pet hamsters or gerbils. Plant seeds
in an egg carton. Make a flower pot out of a plastic ice cream tub. By thinking creatively,
you will often find new uses for common items and new ways to recycle and reduce
waste.
Just bag it! Help protect the environment when you shop. Keep reusable bags on your
car seat or near your door so they are easy to grab when you go. And you can even
combine shopping bags - just tell the cashier that you don't need a bag, then put all
your purchases together in one bag just be sure to hang on to your receipts!
Wait for the storm to pass! Don't fertilize before a rain storm. Your fertilizer - along
with your money - can just wash off your lawn and down the storm drain. Fertilizer run-
off can pollute rivers, lakes, and bays, and cause problems in recreational areas or fish-
ing grounds. Check the weather forecast before you head out, and wait for the storm to
pass.
Travel green! Look for hotels that encourage guests to use less water or energy. Hang
up your towels to dry so you can use them again. Use the sheets more than a night or
two. When you go out, look for local foods and souvenirs to reduce transportation. Be-
fore you go, unplug your computer, DVD player, and other electronics, and turn down
your thermostat.
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DIRECTORS OF SCHOOLS Amanda Ilhan Pre School & Primary School Deputy Director +90 212 202 7027 [email protected] Richard I’Anson Pre School & Primary School Director +90 212 257 5136 [email protected] William Bradley Director of Secondary and Principal of +090 212 202 7027 Zekeriyakoy Campus [email protected] Tuba Guven Director of Admissions +90 212 286 7375 [email protected] Helen Kiran Head of PR/Communications +90 212 202 7027 [email protected]
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