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It has been a pleasure welcoming many of our students back to school last week, 15th of October, on our first week of Extra-Curricular Activities at school since March 2020.

Dear Parents, Welcome back after what I hope was a fantastic break for everyone and at least an opportunity was taken for some rest and relaxation. Mrs. West and I headed to Santos and Guaruja and for me the highlight was visiting the home of Pele, learning more about him at the museum and seeing all the recognition he received for his contributions, to sport of course, but also other notable things he did to contribute to society. This is what we aim for all our students, your children, that they become future leaders and also contribute to the wider world as responsible global citizens.

As a language teacher, I find it incredibly interesting that two people from two separate and distinct cultures can experience the same thing and it will mean both the same and different things to each of them. Take a sign that we are seeing increasing more often in the world:

Dear Parents, It is hard to believe and difficult to comprehend that I have now been in Brazil for two months and have not yet met all your children in school. In a year of many firsts, many adjustments, great compromise and challenges, it is actually with great pride that we have reached the end of the first term of this academic year.

Have you been procrastinating more than usual during lockdown? Are you finding it more difficult to bridge the gap between work and downtime?

The former First Lady and President of The United States of America will read one of their favorite books with us.

As half-term nears, we are presented with a golden opportunity to power down our devices and disconnect from the online world with no virtual deadlines to meet or conference calls to attend. I, for one, intend to embrace it fully!

You certainly heard about this before, but do you really know what exactly is a Galaxy? A Galaxy is a huge collection of gas, dust, and billions of stars and their solar systems.

We're fascinate for the creation of our great scientist int he world. But have you imagine yourself being a scientist?

NASA, that's right, the National Aeronautics and Space Administration will help us to find out the difference between this two things that might be similar, but have their differences. So press play and have fun.

Do you want to learn about the COVID-19? Take a look at this video with Dr. Panda

Hair Love, an Oscar®-winning animated short film from Matthew A. Cherry, tells the heartfelt story of an African American father learning to do his daughter’s hair for the first time.

Do you know the difference between real life robots and the ones you see in movies like Star Wars? Well, you might not know, but we have a lot of robots aroud us doing their jobs everyday. If you want to learn abou them just click on link bellow to acess the Science World Magazine.

Today was an exciting day for our primary students at BCB.  We officially launched our first MIT Challenge of the year and it is called Living in Space, inspired on researches from the MIT Expert Dr. Ariel Ekblaw.

A lot of people remember doing hundreds of very repetitive questions in their maths classes. Is there a point to such repetition?

If anyone asked you what your children have learnt during the pandemic, what would you answer? They’ve learnt to wash their hands and wear face masks? Most are probably computer geniuses by now? We may well have created a generation of future ‘Bill Gates’ or ‘Steve Jobs’ thanks to online schooling and virtual playdates!

This particular newsletter was written on Wednesday, after the delayed announcement about a reopening date for schools in Sao Paulo. If that has changed you will already have received a separate communication, if not, a communication will be released as soon as we have official news.

In our Secondary blog, the importance of reading has been highlighted. And I could not agree more. Reading is definitely the extension of school in our lives. It enables us to contemplate how people can express themselves, in diverse manners. It is astonishing how plastic language can be!

Throughout the last six months, we have all had to experience change that none of us could ever have imagined. This huge shift has meant that the defining boundaries between the different areas in our lives and our relationships have been scrambled and we have been presented with many challenges. For most of us, our natural instinct, when faced with change of this level, is to avoid it. Just as we automatically recoil when we unexpectedly happen upon a dangerous animal or we instinctively pull our hand away from a hot stove, we naturally try to put upsetting thoughts and feelings out of mind. However, we cannot escape the reality of what is happening and we cannot resist the change that has occurred in all of our lives, instead we need to actively accept that there are many things that are out of our control and surrender to this change. As the pandemic that many thought would pass within weeks stretches on into the foreseeable future and becomes our new reality, we are faced with how to cope with the mental health effects. When life is not exactly as we want it to be, it can be helpful to turn our minds towards acceptance.