bisi community newsletter - British International School

bisi community newsletter - British International School

JUNE 2014
Sixtieth Edition
BISI COMMUNITY
NEWSLETTER
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.
YOUR COMMUNITY!
YOUR NEWS!
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Message from the Pre/Primary School
Our final month of this academic year was rather eventful! June celebrated our Primary COBIS Team’s return from
Abu Dhabi. They played their best in football and basketball tournaments and the swimming competition; their placing certainly improved this year. The children had worked exceptionally hard training for this event throughout the
year. They represented the school impeccably. Thank you to Mr Huegel; Head of PE, Mr Boardman, and all the parents who accompanied the children on this trip.
The month also opened with rather unexpected inclement weather. The popular phrase ‘Keep Calm and Carry On’
prevailed and Fun Day only saw cloud rather than the torrential rain we had witnessed the previous day. The children
enjoyed the train ride, the bouncy slide and the climbing wall. They appreciated all the stalls organised by the teachers, for example, face painting, treasure hunt, hula-hoop stalls and many more. Our families enjoyed the Korean,
Turkish and Indian food in our Food Court, and sampled the many cakes on offer from our PTA Cake Stall. There was
entertainment prepared throughout the day for all on our Courtyard Stage. The raffle ended the day. An outstanding
amount of money was raised for our three chosen charities this year. Thank you so much to all our community; the
PTA, under the excellent guidance of Jenny Norden, the teachers and all the stallholders, for making Fun Day a great
day out for the children as well as making a remarkable amount of money for our charities.
The Year 3 children participated in their residential trip to Iznik. They delighted in the sights and sounds of Iznik for
their History/ Geography/ Art projects, and also experienced their first time away from their parents for many. Thank
you to the Year 3 teachers for planning the trip meticulously, and to Nikki Dereboy, Year 6 City Campus teacher, for
all her assistance on this trip.
The Year 6 children also had an extremely busy month! They participated in their second residential trip to Kartepe;
studying mountains and also having lots of fun. During the final week of school, the Year 6 students at the City Campus enjoyed an afternoon of bowling and dinner at Metro City. The Year 6 students at Zekeriyakoy Campus had a
wonderful time during their sleepover; swimming at school first, then going to see a film at Istinye Park, and finally
having a sleepover at school! Thank you to the Year 6 teachers for arranging these events this month.
The ESL also children adored their trip and picnic. Thank you to the ESL teachers for planning this trip so well for our
ESL children.
The Swimming Gala occurred punctiliously. We separated the Gala into Years 3/4 and Years 5/6 this year as numbers
are growing. Thank you to the PE department for successfully organising the morning.
The Zekeriyakoy Key Stage 1 children performance of ‘Eddie the Penguin Saves the Day’ and it was delightful to
watch. ’Recycle, reuse and renew’ has been a prevalent theme this year and so it was apt that we ended the year on
this note. The children were penguins and polar bears whose ice was melting, trees were dramatically being chopped
down, people were using too many electrical appliances and cars in Istanbul. Eddie communicated his message
through a radio show and also informed the Prime Minister that we really ought to look after our world better. Thank
you to the Year 1 and Year 2 teachers for preparing the children so perfectly!
We pride ourselves on our transition procedures. All our children moved up to meet their next Class Teacher this
month. The Early Years children from our Reception classes and their parents, met with the Year 1 children and their
teachers in our gardens and enjoyed an informal tea together. Year 6 thoroughly enjoyed visiting our Secondary
School for two days; the children can’t wait to move up!
And finally, thank you for attending our Awards Ceremonies. Your children have worked hard this year for which they
must be commended. For those of you moving onto pastures new, we wish you all the very best for the future. For
those families staying with us, see you on the 1st September! Have a great summer everyone.
Amanda Ilhan
Pre and Primary School Deputy Director
Richard I’Anson
Pre and Primary School Director
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Alkent Campus—EYFS Awards Ceremony
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Zek Campus—EYFS Awards Ceremony
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Key Stage 1—Swimming Gala
The KS1 swim demonstration allowed our students to show their parents their skills and safety considerations in the pool. The students worked through progressions for front crawl, back stroke and diving using the
kickboards to show that they understand that a good streamlined position is key to effective swimming.
Well done to all and to the staff who helped organise a fun morning.
Miss Bell
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Key Stage 2—Swimming Gala
The K.S.2 Swimming Gala took place on Friday 13th. June 2014.
The Years 3 and 4 competed first with the Years 5 and 6 finishing
their races at 13.30. after which they all had some well deserved
Pizza!
The overall House winners were Cedar with 202 points, Maple were
second with 171 points and Oak Third with 165 points.
Gill Yenilmez
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Zek Year 3—Iznik Trip
Year 3 went to Iznik to learn about Iznik tiles as part of their history topic. While there they made their own
Iznik tile, tried their hands at Ebru and still found time for a dip in the lake, a spot of games playing and of
course chilling out in the sun.
Jill Parker
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Primary COBIS Games—Abu Dhabi
We did excellent!
After weeks and month of training, in the last 6 weeks before the games that included skipping lunches and
working on Basketball formations, the final date of departure to Abu Dhabi COBIS games had arrived on
28th of May.
All 15 students, 7 accompanying parents and 2 teachers travelling had a super time.
1st Day was the Basketball in a fantastic brand new massive and modern sports arena. After winning our
group beating 3 teams we made it into the cup competition. Unfortunately we lost the first knock out game
ranking us overall 4th at the end of the day.
2nd Day was the swimming in the 50m pool of the Armed Forces Officers Club, which was also our hotel.
We had a couple of good races and the girls freestyle relay, Valeria made it into their respective finals, finishing the finals overall in good 5th and 6th places. The swimming was absolutely dominated by the two
teams from the host school and the African schools. Some of their swimmers having up to 5 gold medals
around their necks and several overall COBIS records.,..
Last day was about football and we travelled to "the dome" a blow up bubble with a big seven a side field.
We won one game but lost two from which one was unlucky 0:1 against the later finalist.
In the looser knock out round we where the stronger team and had several dangerous goal shots but an unlucky goal and just 3 attacks from the opened sadly ended our hopes for more and an even better overall
ranking... The students where very upset about this defeat.
In the end a fantastic trip meeting students from all around the globe and living together in a big hotel with
BBQ evenings, cinema nights, gala dinners, beach trips, ceremonies and very adventurous airport experiences.
BISI’s overall 8th position was the best ever result achieved in a COBIS game and after comparing to the
school we were up against this win was definitely a success.
Please see some articles in the following pages.
Christian Huegel
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FUN DAY—7 June 2014
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Message from the Secondary School
This is the final newsletter for the 2013 – 2014 academic year and by the time you read it virtually everyone will have breathed a very big sigh of relief and moved into summertime relaxation mode. What this
means to you and your family will be very personal; you could spend your time lying on a beautiful sunkissed beach somewhere doing nothing more strenuous than sipping a brightly coloured drink through a
straw; you could be driving all over your native country trying to fit in visits to all of your relatives and
friends and anyone else who knows you; you could be trekking in the Himalayas or visiting Machu Pixu or
doing a thousand and one other things. If you are a Year 12 student, you will probably be working on your
extended essay for the entire summer. Whatever you’re planning, I really do hope you are planning to enjoy yourself! Amidst all of this enjoyment let’s spare a thought for all of our support staff who will be
working throughout the summer getting things ready for the new academic year and for our Admissions
staff for whom this is undoubtedly the busiest period of the year!
The end of June is always a little poignant in school – we say goodbye to so many people. The end of the
school year is a good time for families to move on to pastures new and it is the time that we lose many of
our students. For all the Secondary families who are moving on we wish you the very best of luck in your
new lives, whether it is a return to your home country or to somewhere completely new to you, you go
with our very best wishes. To our students who are moving on, you leave behind your friends and your
teachers who will all miss you but who all hope you will be happy and successful in your new school.
We also say goodbye to several of our colleagues and, again this is never easy; on behalf of the whole
community I would like to say goodbye, good luck and thank you for all your efforts over the years. This
year our leaving teachers are:
Felix Fearnley
Jameel Saleh
John and Joy Bosman
Rhys Jones and Lucy McNaughton
Sunanda Rao
Valerie Van Sice
You will all be missed by your colleagues, your students and their parents. You have all played your part
in making BISI what it is today and we wish every one of you the very best for your future and we hope
that it will only ever bring good things.
William
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Graduation Ceremony 2014
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The Graduating Class of 2014
Anton Tvircun: Plans to continue
his education in Turkey
Arzu Alieva: Will go to Brunel University to study Sociology and Media Studies
Carmelo Konmaz : Will go to study
International Relations at the University of London School of Oriental
and African Studies
Christian Tilley: Will go to the University of Melbourne to study Software Engineering
David Davutoglu: Will either take a gap year or
studying Criminology in Turkey
Christopher Sshmitz: Will either take a gap
year or study Maths and Politics in Glasgow
University
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Hamad Alzawawi: Has been accepted by Bryant University in the USA but hopes to be
able to study Business Management in Turkey
Elif Gultekin: Will go to University
College London to study Information Technology for Management
Halil Gencay: Is planning to study
Business in Turkey
Kaan Varol: Is planning to study Economics in Australia
Lode De Heirdt: Will go to Delft University of Technology to study Electrical Engineering
Maya Elena: Will study Psychology
at City University London
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Na Yong Kim: Will continue her
studies in Korea
Nour Kordi: Will be going to City
University London to study Economics
Oliver Deyhle: Will study Chemical Engineering at Karisruhe Institute of Technology in Germany
Raad Momani: Raad is hoping to
study Business in Turkey
Robin Haverstock: Will be going to the University of British Columbia to study Psychology
Vasily Rashkovich: Will study Isotope Separation Technologies and Nuclear Fuels in Russia
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Yasemin Serpen: Will be going to the University
of Exeter to study Psychology
Vishwesh Shah: Will be going to Johns Hopkins
University to study Chemical and Bio-molecular
Engineering
Yersultan Kudereyev: Will be going to the University of Illinios to study Economics
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Zev Meerdink: Will be going to Inholland
University of Applied Sciences to study
International Music Management
The Graduation Ceremony of the Class of 2014 took place on Wednesday 28 May at 2:00pm in the Zekeriyakoy Campus. The event was a great success, even though it did take place under the blazing sun and 30 degree temperatures!
Every year we have some of our students performing at the ceremony and this year was no different. The processional music, “Tchaikovsky: The Seasons” was played by JiWon Min on the piano. The first musical interlude was the performance of ‘Let it Go’ from ‘Frozen’ by the BISI Choir. The second musical interlude was a
stunning performance by Sheida Kiran and Joshua Wyatt of ‘Come W hat May’ from ‘Moulin Rouge’. And
finally the recessional music ‘Defying Gravity’ from ‘W icked’ was sung by the BISI choir.
Our guest speaker this year was Nicole Pope a journalist, Writer, Turkey analyst and Consultant; author of
‘Turkey Unveiled: A History of Modern Turkey’. Our Valedictorians this year were Vishwesh Shah and Elif
Gultekin and they both have every reason to be proud of themselves. It is not easy to deliver a formal speech
in front of some two hundred or so people, but they both performed admirably.
I would like to thank, Helen Kiran, John Bosman, Richard Robinson, Dominic Sargent, Lisa Mayer, JiWon
Min, Joshua Wyatt, Sheida Kiran, Nicole Pope, all the members of the BISI choir, Ozlem Ozturk and her staff,
Vishwesh Shah, Elif Gultekin and all the Class of 2014 and their families for coming together and making this
year’s Graduation Ceremony such a wonderful success.
William Bradley
Class of 2014
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Secondary– Science Week
Science Week took place between 23rd and 27 th May. Science week is a good way to raise the profile of Science at the school and
is appreciated by the students not only as something different from their normal lessons but also helps them to understand that
Science can be even more fun than they experience in their normal Science lessons.
Three trips were organised with Year 7 visiting the Istanbul Aquarium, Year 8 visiting the Belgrade Forest for field work and Year
9 visiting Koc Museum. All three trips appeared to be thoroughly enjoyed by the students. We had our usual themed lessons during the week with Year 7 building cookers, Year 8 producing an environment rap and Year 9 producing balloon cars. Year 7 have
unfortunately not yet tested their cookers as incredibly there have not been any suitable weather days. We are hoping for full on
sun soon!
We had a demonstration of a plasma lamp with Miss Irina one lunchtime and also a Chemistry treasure hunt organised by Mr.
Bytheway-Clark.
The annual Science Spelling Bee competition took place for all years, the overall house winners were Maple.
Michael Tarbuck
(Head of the Science Department)
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Group 4 project
The Group 4 project is an essential and required component for completion of the IB Diploma and individual
G4 subjects. These include Biology, Chemistry, Physics, Computer Science and Sports and Health Science.
The theme for this year was energy. Students worked in their assigned groups for two and one half days to
investigate the theme and make a presentation to their year group, the Science teachers and Mr Bradley. The
assessment of the G4 project is not the product but the personal skills shown by each individual in displaying
self-motivation and perseverance, working within a team and self-reflection. This is assessed by the teachers
observing the students during the project.
This year produced some excellent projects looking at energy from many different angles including; fibre as
a regulatory substance in glucose absorption, caffeine intake or sugar intake and performance in exercise, a
simulation of a nuclear explosion in Istanbul and its effects and energy produced from the elephant toothpaste reaction.
Michael Tarbuck
(Head of the Science Department)
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Alacati—Surf Camp
Surf Camp in Alacati.
Early June a group of Y7 and Y9 gladiators set out to the
Aegean sea to master the battle against wind, water and
equipment and they got rewarded with victory in form of
satisfactory exhaustion and new skills. We set camp in the
top five star Alacati Beach resort ,witch is also home to the
kite and windsurfing school we got registered with. After a
calm first day, the rest of the week saw blistering winds
blowing over 20kn and converting the turquoise water of the
bay white. Dream conditions for professional surfers and
just the challenge our students came for. A morning swim at
6am or a cross country run at 7am was voluntarily organised
by this tremendous group, in order to train for their last day
water triathlon involving a runner, an open sea water swimmer and followed by a stand up paddle boarder racing as a
team.
The windsurf races where close and exciting and the kite
boarders, even though the conditions where hard, had their
first body drag experience on a real 7m kite.
This was one of the best trips we as teachers ever have been
involved in and we want to say thank you to the participants.
Well done! You can find a short video here: https://
vimeo.com/97854466
Christian Huegel
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Year 8—Akcakoca
"This month the whole of Year 8 went on an action packed trip to Akçakoca on the Black Sea. The trip included various morning outdoor activities including trekking through a canyon, visiting a cave and seeing a
waterfall. During the afternoons, we played various sports such as beach volleyball, cricket and football.
The Akçokoca Awards:
Best female trekker - Meila Heidt
Best male trekker - Ali Froozbakht
Best male dancer - Tijn Blanken
Best female dancer - Berenice Laurent
Best singer - Cenk Karabulut
Chubby bunny champ - Ece Kinik
Limbo champ - Enrico Sessia
Biggest wally of the trip - Deniz Atay
All the students had a brilliant time and were really sad to leave this beautiful area of Turkey."
Rhys
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Secondary –Swimming Gala
The last week of school is becoming somewhat of a sports week, kicked off by the Secondary School
Swim Gala. The competition levels were high, as always, with Maple making most of this year's
noise. There were some very close races and some excellent performances which you can see from the results. Well done to Cedar who won with a total of 115 points. In second place were Maple with 110 and
then Oak with 101. The scores prove that was the closest swim event we have seen in BISI for many
years. It makes the race to find the winners of the 2013-2014 house shield even more exciting and it brings
it all down to the results of the football and volleyball competitions that will follow over the next 2
days.......
Carolynne Bell
June 23 2014 Swimming Results
Year 7/8 Girls Freestyle
Plac
e
1
Points
House
Hannah Cranston
6
Cedar
2
Su
5
Cedar
3
Meila
4
Oak
4
Nadia
3
Maple
5
Selin
2
Oak
6
Heather
1
Maple
Points
House
CEDAR 11
MAPLE 4
OAK 6
Year 7/8 Boys Freestyle
Plac
e
1
Deniz
6
Cedar
2
Cenk
5
Cedar
3
Martin
4
Oak
4
Tommaso
3
Maple
5
Thomas
2
Maple
6
Tijn
1
Oak
Points
House
CEDAR 11
MAPLE 5
OAK 5
Year 9/10 Girls Freestyle
Plac
e
1
Lieke
6
Oak
2
Lauren
5
Maple
3
Carys
4
Maple
4
Gabby
3
Maple
5
Esra
2
Cedar
6
Akanksha
1
Cedar
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CEDAR 3
MAPLE 9
OAK 6
Year 9/10 Boys Freestyle
Plac
e
1
Points
House
Ben
6
Maple
2
Ishmar
5
Maple
3
Ju Seong
4
Oak
4
Umit
3
Oak
5
Seong Jun
2
Cedar
6
Alex
1
Cedar
Points
House
CEDAR 3
MAPLE 11
OAK 7
Year 7/8 Girls Backstroke
Plac
e
1
Su
6
Cedar
2
Kim
5
Oak
3
Maja
4
Cedar
4
Lara
3
Cedar
5
Meagan
2
Maple
6
Iris
1
Oak
Points
House
CEDAR 13
MAPLE 2
OAK 6
Year 7/8 Boys Backstroke
Plac
e
1
Deniz
6
Cedar
2
Thomas
5
Maple
3
Cenk
4
Cedar
4
Tijn
3
Oak
5
Martin
2
Oak
6
Pietro
1
Maple
Points
House
CEDAR 10
MAPLE 6
OAK 5
Year 9/10 Girls Backstroke
Plac
e
1
Lieke
6
Oak
2
Carys
5
Maple
3
Gabby
4
Maple
4
Lauren
3
Maple
5
Akanksha
2
Cedar
6
So Yeon
1
Oak
CEDAR 2
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MAPLE 12
OAK 7
Year 9/10 Boys Backstroke
Plac
e
1
Points
House
Ishmar
6
Maple
2
Ben
5
Maple
3
Jung
4
Oak
4
Alex
3
Cedar
5
Bailey
2
Cedar
6
Berke
1
Oak
Points
House
CEDAR 5
MAPLE 11
OAK 5
Year 7/8 Girls Breaststroke
Plac
e
1
Hannah C
6
Cedar
2
Nadia
5
Maple
3
Selin
4
Oak
4
Kim
3
Oak
5
Su
2
Cedar
6
Meagan
1
Maple
Points
House
CEDAR 8
MAPLE 6
OAK 7
Year 7/8 Boys Breaststroke
Plac
e
1
Deniz
6
Cedar
2
Cenk
5
Cedar
3
Tijn
4
Oak
4
Lennart
3
Maple
5
Martin
2
Oak
6
Mathew
1
Maple
Points
House
CEDAR 11
MAPLE 4
OAK 6
Year 9/10 Girls Breaststroke
Plac
e
1
Lieke
6
Oak
2
Carys
5
Maple
3
Esra
4
Cedar
4
Gabby
3
Maple
5
So Yeon
2
Oak
6
Akanksha
1
Cedar
CEDAR 5
MAPLE 8
OAK 8
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Year 9/10 Boys Breaststroke
Plac
e
1
Points
House
Mathieu
6
Maple
2
Ishmar
5
Maple
3
JuSeong
4
Oak
4
Batuhan
3
Oak
5
Alex
2
Cedar
6
Bailey
1
Cedar
Points
House
CEDAR 3
MAPLE 11
OAK 7
Open Girls Butterfly
Plac
e
1
Su
6
Cedar
2
Meila
5
Oak
3
Carys
4
Maple
4
Lauren
3
Maple
5
Gabby
2
Maple
6
Meagan
1
Maple
Points
House
CEDAR 6
MAPLE 10
OAK 5
Open Boys Butterfly
Plac
e
1
Deniz
6
Cedar
2
Umit
5
Oak
3
Cenk
4
Cedar
4
JuSeong
3
Oak
5
Ben
2
Maple
6
Ishmar
1
Maple
Points
House
CEDAR 10
MAPLE 3
OAK 8
Year 7/8 Boy/Girl Freestyle Relay
Plac
e
1
Hannah C, Su, Cenk, Deniz
6
Cedar
2
Meila, Selin, Martin, Tijn
5
Oak
3
Sophie, Maja, Gregori, Louis
4
Cedar
4
Meagan, Nadia, Mathew, Thomas
3
Maple
5
Iris, So Yeon, Gavin, Ryan
2
Oak
6
CEDAR 10
MAPLE 3
OAK 7
1
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Year 9/10 Boy/Girl Freestyle Relay
Plac
e
1
Points
House
Lieke, Kim, Ju Seong, Marius
6
Oak
2
Carys, Lauren, Ishmar, Ben
5
Maple
3
Akanksha, Esra, Seoung Jun, Alex
4
Cedar
4
3
5
2
6
1
TOTALS
CEDAR 4
MAPLE 5
OAK 6
CEDAR
MAPLE
OAK
115
110
101
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Secondary Prom 2014
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DIRECTORS OF SCHOOLS
Amanda Ilhan
+90 212 202 7027
Pre School & Primary School Deputy Director
[email protected]
Richard I’Anson
+90 212 257 5136
Pre School & Primary School Director
[email protected]
William Bradley
+090 212 202 7027
Director of Secondary and Principal of
Zekeriyakoy Campus
[email protected]
Tuba Guven
+90 212 286 7375
Director of Admissions
[email protected]
Helen Kiran
+90 212 202 7027
Head of PR/Communications
[email protected]
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