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Nursery and Reception and Years 1 and 2 enjoyed a falconry demonstration this week. A Barn owl, Eurasian eagle-owl, Raven and Red-tailed hawk were all brought to the children in the Maples playground and Willows garden. The children were shown how these birds of prey hunt, fly and survive in the wild. They also learned some interesting facts about each of the birds, for example, did you know that the Eurasian eagle-owl is the largest owl in Europe?

On Friday 4th June a selection of our Year 8 & Year 9 students have competed in the annual ISMTF Middle School Maths competition.

Year 12 students have completed the first part of their Theory of Knowledge assessment. This involved each student exhibiting 3 objects which help form an answer to a knowledge question. These are open questions such as What counts as good evidence for a claim?, How does the way that we organize or classify knowledge affect what we know?, Should some knowledge not be sought on ethical grounds?, Are some things unknowable?

Shakespeare never intended his plays to be studied, deconstructed and analyzed, he intended for them to be performed. So, in honour of the Bard, Year 9 have become directors, designers, actors and producers to bring the words of Macbeth off the page and onto the stage. This project demands a high-level of understanding of the relationships and motivations of the characters and gives students the opportunity to be creative and responsible for meeting deadlines.

The COBIS Student Achievement Awards 2021 received nominations from outstanding students across the globe, yet it was one of their youngest nominees who stood above the rest.

To celebrate Earth day, 22nd April, the Eco-committee would like to challenge students, parents and teachers of BISB to think what they can do to reduce the food waste they produce and even try to grow some food from scratch.

This year's Global Campus Visual Arts competition gave children an opportunity to learn more about Climate Change. The Year 6 Extended Literacy class took the opportunity to think about which aspect of Climate Change was most important to them and what we should be doing to combat it. The children were then asked to depict this in a medium of their choice to illustrate their thoughts.

On Saturday 13th March, 12 of our Year 10 and Year 11 students competed in the challenging annual ISMTF (International Schools Maths Teacher Foundation) Junior Maths Competition.

The NCSS Challenge is a programming competition open to all school students and teachers. The Grok Learning website team, based in Australia, have been running coding competitions like the challenge for over 12 years.

This year we are running a really special summer camp at BISB. In collaboration with the British Theater School in Manchester, we are offering a Summer Drama Camp led by native English speakers and British actors.

The eco-committee invites our BISB families to participate in the first eco-challenge. Please see the poster for more details, join us in cleaning forests around Bratislava and share your picture in action with us.

The Canadian Computing Competition (CCC) is a fun but also a difficult challenge for secondary school students with an interest in programming. It is an opportunity for students to test their ability in designing, understanding, and implementing algorithms.

Students in Year 8 are being ambitious in their use of Minecraft in History this month to extend their understanding of the Slavery and Abolition topic they have been studying.

This year's Global Campus Comic Book Competition focused on students using their creativity, imagination and innovation in inventing solutions to combat climate change.

As the first MIT-STEAM Challenge of the year lifted off, the prospect of being virtual did not affect our students. Thanks to their ingenuity and Minecraft Education, they were able to create new objects/processes to allow life in space to continue as normal (as normal as you can be in low gravity) for those participating in sport, art or preparing food.

Holy Roman Emperor, Charles V is reputed to have said, “I speak in Latin to God, Italian to Women, French to Men, and German to my Horse.“ We can question his attitudes to gender politics and equine husbandry, but there’s no doubt Charles V was a successful language learner, as at home in the salons of Siena as in the stables of Schleswig-Holstein.

How lovely to have the students back in school! The corridors are buzzling, everywhere you can hear laugh and chit chat. In our last Year 7 German lesson we’ve tried to catch a bit of the Christmas spirit in our lesson by learning new things about Christmas and German Christmas vocabulary.

Our school is hosting College Entrance Exams - SAT on Saturday 19th December 2020.