Our international students who travelled to Manchester in January to sit their IELTS exams recevied their results last week. Pupils received a fantastic set of marks, which included, Mikolaj Stawicki from Poland, achieving a 7.5 overall and Lisa Imhoff from France, earning herself an 8 overall.

Miss Cheers, Head of the International Department said, “I am delighted to see our students achieve such excellent results. When you consider that most universities ask for IELTS level 6.5 - which reflects an advanced use of English, Lisa and Mikolaj’s achievements are very impressive, and this qualification will certainly help them in their futures.”

INTERNATIONAL NEWS26th March 2014

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IELTS Examinations Margherita Li has received an offer from Ravensbourne College of Art

Lisa Imhoff has received an offer from Carlisle College of Art

Holly Zhang has received an offer from Chelsea College of

Art and Ravensbourne

Jane Zhang has received an offer from Central Saint Martin’s College of Art

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Our international pupils hosted a Languages and Food Day for local English primary school children aged 9 and 10.

The children were taught several languages through a variety of fun and practical activities by our students which included; French, Spanish, German, Italian, Chinese and Latin.

Our Chinese pupils worked hard in the kitchen and freshly prepared a wonderful selection of foods using family recipes for the children to sample.

It was a great opporunity for our international students to interact with younger children and teach them different languages, and more about their cultures and traditions.

Languages Day

ENGLAND WIN THE 3 CROWNSFormer St Bees pupil and current England

Rugby Head Coach, Stuart Lancaster, holding a specially designed Rugby shirt showing the

St Bees School crest.

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Bowling with my friends... by Eddy Yang

In March our school took part in an activity called Ten Pin Bowling. When we arrived, we changed into ‘special’ red and blue shoes. The shoes looked very new, maybe they didn’t want us to make the ground dirty! This was my first time playing the game and I was very excited. First, I had to choose a bowling ball which was the correct weight and size. Then

I needed to bowl the ball at the pins and try to hit them. If you knock all ten pins over it is a “STRIKE”. There was a very exciting atmosphere, because it was a competition. We made two groups, each group had 6 people. I got the highest score of all the students, 75 points. Mr McNee was better than everyone else; he got more than 100 points!

After the game finished we needed some drinks, so we went to get a Slush Puppie. It was red, blue, green and yellow and had four different flavours. It tasted delicious!

At 4pm we headed back to St Bees on the school bus. I had a really good experience that day.

Spring Celebrations - Bulgarian Style

On the 1st March 2014, we celebrated the arrival of Spring. In Bulgaria it is known as ‘Baba Marta’ day.

Kalina Tsaneva, a Bulgarian student at St Bees School, distrubuted red-and-white tokens to mark the arrival of spring. It is tradition on the 1st March, as well as the days following, to exchange tokens, ornaments or a pair of small woollen dolls, traditionally called ‘Pizho’.

Kalina said, “It was lovely to be able to show my friends, how we celebrate spring in Bulgaria and give them an insight into my culture.”

Easter ConcertSt Bees students took part in the annual ‘Easter Concert’ last week. There were a variety of wonderful performances which included the School’s Ladies Choir ‘Gaudeamus’, who recently performed at St Paul’s Cathedral in London and the audience enjoyed hearing Kalina Tsaneva on the piano, Margherita Li on the Guzheng and Kevin Huang from Dalian, China playing the flute.