PRIMARY SCHOOL NEWSLETTER, VOL. 3 No. 7, 8th June 2007

Dear Parents and Guardians,

Students of the Week
Students of the Week
The Students of the Week ending 25th May 2007 were: Vannesa Lyon (Play Group), Marcello Rosafio (Nursery), Bert Nokes (Reception), Liban Ismael (Y1), Naeem Yusuf (Y2), Amy Phillips (Y3), Oliver Holding Fay (Y4), Olivia Cowan (Y5) and Celia Seeger (Y6). Well done, everyone!

Netball
On Thursday 24th May, the U13 team played Jaffrey Academy away and won 9-8. Well done, girls!

Football
On Thursday 24th May, the U13 team played Mombasa Academy away and lost 12-0. However, they beat Light Academy on Tuesday 29th May at home 1-0. Keep it up!
There is an U11 7-aside Football tournament on Saturday 16th June at Oshwal Academy. Letters will be sent to parents very soon if they have not been sent already.

Swimming
Report from Mr. Farid: CASA U7 Swimming Gala was held at Oshwal Academy on Saturday 26th May and BMIS was represented by 8 swimmers: Anyango Blanchet, Thomas Haller, Justin Walters, Jamie Jennings, Anna Clarke, Malaika Noor Mohamed, Joanna Dyer and Liban Ismael. In the girls' 6 years category, Anna took 2nd position in breast stroke and was placed 6th overall. In the boys' 6 years category, Liban was placed 11th overall. In the girls' 7 years category Anyango took 3rd place in butterfly, 5th in breast stroke, 7th in front crawl and was placed 6th overall. In the boys' 7 years category, Thomas was 2nd in butterfly, 3rd in breast stroke, 4th in IM and was placed 6th overall while Jamie was 12th overall.
They did us proud! Well done, little swimmers, and thank you to Mr. Farid and the parents who took and supported their children.

School Exams
Exam week is now over for most of the Primary School but Y6 still have their SATs next week if the papers arrive from the UK in time. If they are late, a circumstance well beyond our control, we will have to push the exam week on until they come. Remember, Year 6, READ THE QUESTIONS AND INSTRUCTIONS CAREFULLY!!!

SATs Parents' Evening
Y2-6 parents will be invited to meet Class Teachers next Friday (15th June) from 3.00 - 5.30 pm to see their children's SATs test papers and discuss their levels of attainment. Parents should have received a letter from their children's class teachers about this.


ABRSM Exams
I would like to wish all the candidates, parents, teachers and children, who took the ABRSM practical examinations here today every success! Having been through them myself, I know how nerve-racking they are and those certificates are really hard earned! Good luck, everyone.

LAMDA Exams
The LAMDA exams will take place at the school on Tuesday 26th June. Mrs. Hughes apologises for the fact that some will be quite late but the examiner from the UK has a lot of candidates. The times are as follows:
14:00 Madeleine Holding Fay, 14:20 Julia Rogers, 14:35 Anthony Neugebauer, 14:45 David Nesbitt, 14:55 Euan Nesbitt, 15:10 Vivek Dhutia, 15:45 Natasha Neylan, 15:55 Samira Vahsen, 16:05 Yvonne Bachmann, 16:15 David Boulton, 16:30 Kristy McGovern, 16:45 Sean McGovern, 17.00 Oliver Holding Fay, 17:15 Savanna Allport, 17:30 Dominic Blanchet, 17:40 David Keates.
We wish you all good luck.

French Poetry Competition
Next Tuesday afternoon (12th June), Mr. Kirby will be taking four representatives from our school to the French Poetry Competition at Oshwal Academy. The children representing us are Amy Phillips (Y3), Oliver Boulton (Y4), Savanna Allport (Y5) and Kylie McKenzie (Y6). This is the first time we have entered such a competition and I hope that they will enjoy the experience and, perhaps, bring us back a prize.

Assemblies
Thank you, Mrs. Miranda and Y2 for your lovely assembly on Wednesday. Next Wednesday (13th June) is the Reception Assembly and on Friday (15th June) Nursery and Playgroup will be giving their assembly.

KS1 Production
Just a reminder that on Friday 22nd June the Early Years and Key Stage 1 children will be performing "The Golden Goose" at 6.30 pm.

Have a good weekend.

Allen Corbet
Primary Headteacher

 

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 SECONDARY SCHOOL NEWSLETTER, VOL. 3 No. 7, 8th June 2007

Dear Parents and Guardians,

Our year 7 students participated in a tree planting exercise on Tuesday in Vikwatani in order to celebrate World Environment Day. Despite managing to get very muddy and the long delay in returning to the school after getting the bus stuck; a good time was had by all concerned.

Mr. Peter Barnard has been visiting the school this week as part of a familiarisation exercise. I have included below a short passage from Mr Barnard.

From the Headteacher designate, Mr P M Barnard

Thank you all for the warm welcome I received from students, staff and parents on my visit to Braeburn International School, Mombasa.
I am looking forward immensely to joining you all again in August.
The school is a wonderful place for students to learn and grow and for the teachers to demonstrate their effective teaching skills.

I have no intention of altering the uniform in any way. All I ask of students is that you wear the uniform with pride and always look your best at school and outside. Remember you are all Braeburn Mombasa's ambassadors in the streets of Mombasa.

Thank you all again for the welcome. See you soon.

(Question: For one soda to the student who gets it correct by September, guess what the ' M' is in my name. It is an unusual!)

In a recent year 8 French lesson we decided to have a French picnic. The students had been learning the necessary vocabulary and sentences for requesting food and drink, expressing preferences, offering to others. Every student contributed their own food and drinks and acted though where there were the inevitable lapses into English. The students made a creditable effort to speak as much French as possible. To their surprise and amusement special guests popped in. I say a big "merci beaucoup" to Mr. Daniels, Mr. Farid, Mr. Gannaway, Mr. Fred and Mrs. Jennings for their assistance.
One student, who will remain nameless, felt she had indulged a little too much food. I understand that she managed to get through the following PE lesson with no ill effects!

French year 8, Mr Kirby

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Andy Hill,
Headteacher

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