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SEPTEMBER 2016 Seventy Ninth Edition

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.

BISI COMMUNITY NEWSLETTER

YOUR COMMUNITY! YOUR NEWS!

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Forthcoming Events

This is a new page in the newsletter giving you a look ahead to everything that his happening in the coming month – You should

be able to read about many of these events in the next newsletter:

3 & 4 Oct Primary Photographs for Zek children. Fatih Topuz will be photographing

your children ~ make sure they are looking their best!

3 – 7 Oct Secondary Trips Week – Year 7, 8, 9 and 12 are off on school trips for the week. Sadly, the Year 10 trip to

Gokceada was not approved by the Ministry so they will have to be in school for a special timetable with

Year 11 and 13

5 Oct World Teachers Day

5 & 6 Oct Primary Photographs for City children. Fatih Topuz will be photographing your children ~ make sure they

are looking their best!

6 Oct City PTA Coffee Morning

7 Oct Zek PTA Coffee Morning – Director of Secondary, William Bradley and University and Careers Counsellor,

Kathleen Hawthorne will be hosting the Coffee Morning in the Blue Gym. The topic this month will be

“The IGCSE and IB Option Process” and will primarily be aimed at parents of students in Year 9 and Year

12.

10 Oct Key Stage 3 Boys will be playing MEF at football – 3:30 Kick off if you want to watch

10 – 13 Oct Primary sibling photographs in both the City and in Zek.

10 Oct Secondary sibling photographs in Zek

12 Oct Secondary Sports Day to be held at Enka Schools in Istinye. Parents are welcome to come along and support.

If there are enough parents, we may even run a parents race.

14 Oct Key Stage 2 Sports Day held on the field at Zek. Please come along and support!

15 Oct Saturday soccer tournament at IICS for Key Stage 4 and 5

17 Oct KS 3 Boys and Girls football at IICS

18 Oct Zek Primary Parents Teacher Meetings 3:30 pm to 4:30 pm

20 Oct KS 3 Girls football at IICS

21 Oct Breast Cancer Awareness Day – Please join us by wearing pink today!

21 Oct KS 3 Boys football at IICS and Primary Football at Bahcekoy

22 Oct Saturday rehearsal day for the Secondary Production of Romeo and Juliet

24 Oct City PTA Meeting in the afternoon

24 Oct Alkent Parent Teacher Meetings 4 pm to 7 pm

25 Oct Zek Pre Primary Parent Teacher Meetings 4 pm to 7 pm

26 Oct Etiler Parent Teacher Meetings 4 pm to 7 pm

28 Oct Halloween Mufti Day for Pre Primary at both the City and Zek

31 October Halloween Mufti Day for Secondary

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Message from the Pre/Primary School

Another year begins in our very busy Pre and Primary School! We welcome all our new staff, children and parents to

our School!

As we write these Newsletters to you over the year, you will see that our Guiding Statements are mentioned numerous

times. Our Guiding Statements are what we do and why we do it that way at BISI. We rewrote our Guiding State-

ments in child speak for our younger students. For our Early Years Foundation Stage (EYFS) children, we have five

statements stating that all our children are ‘unique and special’, ‘we are kind, friendly and helpful’, ‘we play nicely by

sharing and taking turns’, ‘we look after everyone and everything’, and finally ‘we listen to our friends and our teach-

ers’. For our Primary aged children, we created a motto that they would remember: ‘I Succeed’. I is for Investigate:

‘we will investigate- inquire, reflect and explore’, S is for Safe: ‘we will learn about our social, emotional and physi-

cal needs to be able to keep ourselves safe’, U is for Unity: ‘we will care and share to help create unity in the world’,

C is for Creativity: ‘we will try to think creatively all the time’, C is for Community: ‘we will care about our school,

local and international communities’, E is for Education; ‘we will do our best to learn as much as we can’, E is for

Environment: ‘we will care about and be responsible for the environment- earth and everything on it’, and D is for

Daring: ‘we will dare to be the best person we can be with patience, kindness, integrity and respect for others’. Please

ask your child to see if they can remember our motto!

We welcomed all staff back to school in the last week of August. As part of our new teachers’ induction week in Au-

gust, we enjoyed an overnight stay in Polonezkoy and a boat trip down the Bosphorus. You will hear the phrase

‘lifelong learners’ at our school. This phrase pertains to teachers as well as the children. We invited training consult-

ants from the UK to come to our school to keep our teachers up to date with current practice as part of our commit-

ment to continuous professional development. We invited new parents to an open morning/afternoon in August. They

met with their child’s Class Teacher and we answered frequently asked questions at an informal seminar. At the be-

ginning of September, all parents were invited into their child’s classroom to discuss the overview of the year.

The PTA at both campuses has been busy from the first week of September! They arranged a second hand uniform

sale and also organised our annual External Activities Fair in the first weeks of September. This fair catered for all

individuals and groups who support our community by teaching private lessons for our children. There were private

music teachers, dance and drama teachers, language courses, fencing coaches, and counselors for example in attend-

ance. The Zekeriyakoy Campus PTA organized a Sunday Brunch at Garden Fiesta this year to welcome all new par-

ents to our school and greet returning parents from last year. Please approach one of us if you have a little time to

spare to support our events throughout the year.

Other events included our Curricular Enrichment Activities starting on a Friday morning, and our After School and

Private Clubs after school for the Primary aged children. The Year 5 children and parents listened to an informative

talk regarding their residential trip to Space Camp in Izmir. Mr Topuz is currently taking your child’s class and indi-

vidual photographs. He will continue next month to take the sibling photographs.

We have included some photos of our awards ceremonies held in June which were not published in the last edition of

the newsletter.

We wish you all the best for the year ahead!

Amanda Ilhan Richard I’Anson

Pre and Primary School Deputy Director Pre and Primary School Director

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Class 3G Class 4H

Class 4P

Class 5A

Class 5P

Class 6D

Etiler Key Stage 2—Awards Ceremony - June 2016

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Zekeriyakoy Primary—Awards Ceremony - June 2016

Class 1C Class 1L

Class 2E

Class 2L Class 3A Class 3P

Class 4SS Class 4T Class 5B

Class 5D Class 6F Class 6T

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Primary Director’s Awards 2016

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Etiler– Year 3 Trip

Intrepid Explores in Etiler.

In early September 3G in Etiler set out to discover everything they could about the area their school is in.

We looked, we walked, we talked, we filled in surveys and tallies and forms. After an exhausting adventure

the school sign picture was taken and we all went into the class to collapse!

Carolyn Guven - Year 3G

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City Campus—House Captains

City Campus House Captains 2016-17

We have brand new house captains from Year 6, all kitted out with their badges and raring to go!

Cedar- Sung Yoon Heo and Kerem Turhan

Maple- Na Yeon Kim and Min Seok Lee

Oak- CheHyon Sohn and Alvaro Balbin

Good luck to everyone on Sports Day!

Caroline Guven

Etiler Campus Coordinator

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Etiler Campus—Student Council

Here are the newly-elected members of City Campus Student Council.

Back row- left to right:

Carolina Balbin 6D, Hippolyte Gaucherand 5A, and Mohamed Muayad 6D

Front row-left to right:

Ziva Samardzic 6D, Ye Hyeon Jeon 3G, Hector Gaucherand 4H and Se Eun Lee 5J

And the traditional silly one, of course. Here’s hoping we have a great year!

Mr Jordan Smigelski is the Student Council Teacher Representative.

Caroline Guven

Etiler Campus Coordinator

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Etiler Campus—Street Dance Club

Street Dance Interactive demonstration in the Etiler playground.

At lunch time on Monday 23rd September a man with a cool hat sauntered (after security, of course!) into

Etiler playground and switched on the music. ‘Mr Bolek!” cried those in the know. “Let’s dance!” he said

and dance they did.

Here are some of our cool moves…

Carolyn Guven

Etiler Campus Coordinator.

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Zekeriyakoy—Music Department

Year One Children adding their own compositions with percussion

Year 3 Having fun with the Glockenspiels and using notation

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Secondary parents could be forgiven for not noticing the change to the newsletter this month, so I will point it

out here. In the past our newsletter has concentrated on events that have already happened, but this year we

have decided to put in a page (you can find it in the front of the Newsletter on Page 2) telling you what is go-

ing to happen in the forthcoming month. At the moment it is just a list of dates and events but we would love

to hear from you if you have any ideas for improving this.

The first month of the year was not the most eventful of months, especially as we had a holiday just eight

days into the term, but we are back, we are running and the term is running smoothly. Last week we had the

Week of Languages in Secondary School but as this only finished on Friday, it will not feature in the News-

letter until next month.

This week we have Trips Week for Year 7, 8, 9 and 12 whilst Year 10, 11 and 13 have a special timetable

concentrating on English, Languages and Mathematics (with the addition of Creative Arts for Y10). You will

be able to read all about these events in the October Newsletter.

I hope you enjoy the newsletter and all the events we have planned for the coming months.

William

Message from the Secondary School

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Secondary Awards Ceremony—June 2016

Secondary Awards - Music 29 June 2016

At the Presentation of Awards for the Secondary School, Year 7 performed two traditional British Folk-

songs, A -Roving and Skye Boat Song. Their beautiful warm singing set the tone for the following very mu-

sical performances. Our newly formed BISI Orchestra, made up of students and teachers, gave tight, clean

renditions of Greensleeves (trad. English) and Y esterday (Lennon/McCartney). The final number was A

Drop in the Ocean (Tolga Kashif) featuring the Chamber Choir and Orchestra together in a marvelous,

rousing performance to finish off the musical offerings for the academic year. We are looking forward to

thrilling you with many more next season.

Lisa Mayer

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Zekeriyakoy—Year 8 Art Trip

The Creative Arts Department started the year off with

a fantastic Year 8 Arts trip to the exhibition: MACK

Just Light and Colour t the Sabanci Museum on

September 8th. The German artist, Heinz Mack, was

one of the founders of a mid-20th century avant-garde

network known as the ZERO movement. The exhibi-

tion brought together paintings, sculptures and kinetic

works from the artist’s long

career.

The students used the exhibition as a starting point for

this term's creative work. They will make visual art

pieces (8B) and musical compositions (8I), based on

what they saw and experienced there.

Lisa Mayer

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DIRECTORS OF SCHOOLS Amanda Ilhan Pre School & Primary School Deputy Director +90 212 202 7027 amandailhan@bis.k12.tr Richard I’Anson Pre School & Primary School Director +90 212 257 5136 richardianson@bis.k12.tr William Bradley Director of Secondary and Principal of +090 212 202 7027 Zekeriyakoy Campus williambradley@bis.k12.tr Richard Robinson Deputy Director of Secondary +090 212 202 7027 Helen Kiran Head of PR/Communications +90 212 202 7027 communications@bis.k12.tr Tuba Guven Director of Admissions +90 212 286 7375 registrar@bis.k12.tr

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