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Issue 5, 21st June, 2013

InSPE Gazette

From the Headteacher

Iain Davidson

Head of School

As you will have noticed, the children have recently been put into houseteams. The four house teams (named after famous Romanian castles –Bran, Peles, Rasnov and Corvin) will be competing to score the mostpoints in order to win the INSPE house point cup at the end of the

school year. Children can win points for their house team by exhibitinggood manners, kindness, determination and great effort during class and

specialist lessons. Children can also win house points by performing atupcoming inter house competitions – such as sports day, book quiz andmany other fun surprises we have lined up over the course of the year. Each house has two captains who are responsible for encouragingtheir team to win more points and counting all the house points in theschool each week. You can keep track of who has the most house points

by checking our house points graph at the front of the school. Good

luck to all involved.

House Teams

Bran Peles Corvin Rasnov



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Mr. Tom FultonMs. Melinda Sali

Mr. Alan AsherMs. Iulia Mircea

Mr . D a ni el C i u l i na r u Mr s . Mi ha el a

Ms Ana Da vid

SLF enables practitioners todevelop skills and expertisewhich will help them ensurethey plan and deliver learn-ing experiences which ap-propriately challenge and

engage their learners and which support learn-

ers to achieve their potential.Nationally and in-ternationally, SLF is a rendezvous for allthose interested in improving education. It is

a platform to share information, highlight in-novation and showcase best practice. In addi-tion to providing continuing professionallearning opportunities,one of the most impor-

tant opportunities theScottish Learning Fes-tival provides to par-

ticipants from across

the learning landscape,is the abundant oppor-

tunity to network with others.

Last summer I chose to renew my first

aid training in England. InSPE funded the

instruction as part of my professional

development. The course I chose was

provided by one of the UK’s largest firstaid charities – the St. John Ambulance.

They train thousands of employees and

volunteers every year. My course fo-

cused specifically on paediatric first aid

and it is extremely valuable in a nursery/

primary setting. After

two days instruction

and active participa-

tion I gained my new

first aid certificate.




This year InSPE has decided to create a platform that would help you get in touch with real needs in the community of Bucharest bylinking the parents and staff members with a specific charity thatwe can support throughout the years. Last Saturday a team from our school visited the Harap-Alb orphanage located in sector 4. Even though the building has recently been renovated and

refurnished we have been surprised at the reality that the 58 orphans that live there, (agedbetween 1 and 8 )do not have their own playground ,do not have winter clothes and shoes and

end up staying inside for most of the cold season. We also noticed the real lack of toys and

reading books that can stimulate their mental and physical development.

Here are some specific ways in which you can help:

Offer your time and affection to the children in need!

There is always a need for people to get involved personally by playing

with the children regularly, and offering them affection. For further in-formation about how you can get involved please contact Ana David, a

member of our staff at [email protected]

We are looking forward to partnering with you in bring-

ing some change to these unprivileged kids that need us!The Charity Committee

We are going to put a donation box in thehallway of our school where you can placewinter clothes and shoes that could be usedby children between ages 1 and 8. We would

be very grateful if you could also donate

toys, puzzles, books and baby toys .

InSPE will organize a shoe box gift appeal.Starting in November you can register toprovide this special gift at the school office

where you can find a list with the children’s

names and ages.

The Christmas Production of orphan chil-dren gathered from different foster careshelters and orphanages from sector 4

will be held in the second weekend of De-cember. We encourage you to participateand purchase a 20 lei entrance ticket

from the office. Further details aboutthe time and place will be announcedthrough the School Gazette, Facebookand e-mail.The money will go towards

sponsoring their yearly summer camp.

Don’t miss this year’s special

Christmas Production presented by kids in

need

Give away the toys and winter clothes that you

no longer need

Put a smile on a child’s face on Christmas day



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Green Class has enjoyed learning about our-

selves, families and homes. We made lovely selfportraits on paper plates and read the story ofGoldilocks and the three bears. The children

enjoyed playing with the bear family and pre-tending to be Goldilocks in our role play area.We even had a porridge snack made by mummybear herself! This week we also finished ourbig project: we made a house out of cardboard

that we painted and furnished ourselves! We are learning to share and take turns when we

play with it.

In Orange Class we have enjoyedlearning all about our families. In ourrole play area we played in thekitchen where we pretended to cook

food for our friends and then in thewater area we washed the dishes.We loved making cookies, mixing the

ingredients, then baking them in theoven and eating them for snack. They

were delicious!

Pink class chil-dren are slowly

starting to be-

come settled. They are beginningto enjoy playing alongside their classmates and

are exploring more activities every day. Themessy activities are among the main attractions.

For several weeks our main focus in Pink Class isto encourage the children to increase their mo-bility and to get involved in various physical ac-

tivities. Therefore, the role play area has turned into a gym where the children have fun go-ing through a tunnel, building with big soft cubes or playing with balls and beanbags. Theyalso love joining in with finger rhymes and listening to songs about body parts.

Pink

Green

Orange



Pink class children are slowly starting to become settled. They are be-ginning to enjoy playing alongside their classmates and are exploringmore activities every day. The messy activities are among the main at-tractions.


Primary 1a had an amazing start of the school year!

The children had a chance to experience life in the primaryschool. We explored the different areas in the classroom and

decided behavior rules for working together in a friendly at-

mosphere. We also talked about ourselves and our families, so we can get to know the newchildren as well.

Our second project was `Our School`. We interviewed different people who help us learnand who take care of us while we are in school. You will be able to read our books about them!We also took a tour of the school, so everybody now knows where the ICT room, Library ,

roof and court playgrounds are and where the other year groups learn.

`The snake is in the grass….` As we started the Jolly Phonics program, we are very proud of

how good we are with the first sounds we can now read and write!

Primary 1B have had a busy start to the year. We had funlearning nursery rhymes and painting pictures of the charac-ters. We even made papier mache Humpty Dumptys! We have

been singing number songs and working with the numbers 1-10. The children have started to

learn phonics and have enjoyed singing the songs and doing the actions. They have also beenlearning how to write the sounds. Now that we are in Primary 1 we can also use the roof play-

ground!

In Primary 2 we have been learning all about Percy the

park-keeper and his animal friends. We have a Percy hutin our classroom and we have been doing many activities

based on the Percy books and about the animals that live in the forest. We asked the

children to write about Percy and this is what they had to say...

Primary 1 A

Primary 1 B

Primary 2



Primary 3 is learning about Energy this half term. So far wehave investigated that energy can be light. We looked at whatsound is and how it travels. We experimented with drums and

made our own string telephones to find out that all sound is

vibrations. Next we experimented with thermometers both indoors and outdoors and discov-ered that our weather can be very hot! Children made their own Shadow Puppet Theatre and

their own puppets. They also made their own Mini Greenhouses in order to explore thegrowth of a bean seed. We look forward to discovering all about motion and heat as part of

our exciting topic Energy.

P4 have been learning about the history of Bucharest during

the last 200 years by looking at the buildings and discovering

the stories they can tell us about the past. Yonatan wrote this

about our class visit to Northern Bucharest.

Architecture Visit By Yonatan Temelie

On Friday 20th September P4 went to northern Bucharest. We went to look at buildings. Wewere learning about the past.

First we went to the Minici House. Then we went to Floreasca park where we ate lunch. Af-

ter lunch we went to play. We had lots of fun on the zip wire and slide.

Traveling Through Time

We have been learning about the 20TH Century in our class-room. We learned about how people in the 20th century lived

and changes throughout the century in food, clothing, technol-

ogy, toys, entertainment, schools, shopping and transport.

We learned how family habits changed over time as well as how people didn’t watch TV when

they were eating and ate together at the table as a family.

We have made our own instrument like a guitar and thought about how we could change the

pitch.

By Talia and Maria

InSPE Gazette

Primary 3

Primary 4

Primary 5-7



We’re on the web

www.inspe.ro

and on Facebook!

The Eco-committee has already started meeting this year with members made up from eachclass in the school. The representatives from each class have been chosen as follows - Primary

5/6/7 - Anthony, Primary 4 - Delia, Primary 3 - Pola, Primary 2 - Hannah and Ms. McInerney,Primary 1a - Eric, Primary 1b - Sophie, Green class - Lara and Miss Monica, Orange class - MissMartha and Pink Class - Miss Anca. We have already chosen the topics of Biodiversity and

Health and well-being as our main areas to look at this year. We will be meeting each week toplan some exciting and interesting events based around these themes. We are also developinga paper recycling scheme for the school....so watch this space!

International School for Primary

Education

72 Petre Aurelian,Greenlake Residences, Bucharest 1Phone us on: +40 21 380 3535Send a fax to: +40 21 380 3838

The Library Packs are a special resource for you and your

child to use together.

Please take care of them.

They are not for brothers or sisters to use. They should

be opened at home with the items taken out and put away

carefully.

Library Packs can be borrowed on

Thursdays, they are for Pink,

Orange, Green and Primary 1.

On receiving your pack, pleasecheck all the contents are there.

You will be responsible for any

losses or breakages.

Make sure all items are returned.

You MAY NOT take out

Parent and Toddler

Group

Every

Tuesday and Thursday

9—11am in GP room

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