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Big Sing Bratislava 2019
On Friday 15th March 2019, ten BISB Primary students embarked on a trip to perform at the ‘Big Sing 2019’ in Bratislava. The event was a great success for all the schools involved. Our students performed admirably and professionally throughout the day and collaboratively worked with students from ten other schools to showcase their work in a concert.
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Report on the Budapest Bike Mafia Coin Race
Our coin race raised 125,220 HUF in total and the Budapest Bike Mafia got 112,700 HUF after bank charges. The money we raised will be used for two projects: ‘Seeds for Hope’ and a sports project. ‘Seeds for Hope’ is a project where homeless people can plant seeds and grow their own food in one of the homeless shelters. The sports project is a project where homeless people can play sports and keep healthy. Report by Katie Veres, Year 5 Cobalt
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Hashtags on Twitter and Instagram
Below is a list of some important Twitter hashtags for BISB and some useful tips.
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Museum day for Year 12 Hungarian students
On Thursday, 28th February 2019, our Year 12 Hungarian students had their yearly Museum day trip. In the morning they visited the National Museum as part of their Hungarian historical studies where they received a guided lesson about the 20-30th years of Hungary called ’the Horthy-era’. They saw the famous historical relics and treasures such as the ’Red map’ which Pál Teleki designed before the peace treaty of Trianon in 1920. They also had the opportunity to try on dresses from that era.
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Year 3 Daffodil learnt about Kandinsky in class
Year 3 Daffodil class continued their Topic work entitled “Paintings, Portraits and Photographs” this week with the focus on abstract artist Kandinsky. The children researched his life and work and then responded creatively to the artist’s favourite music by Richard Wagner. The results are unique and highly creative!
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Poetry Showcase
This week we celebrated the creative achievements of thirteen students in Year 7 and 8 who wrote and performed their own poems. Inspired by renowned slam poets such as Sarah Kay and Harry Baker, they took to the stage to perform in a poetry showcase to students in Year 10.  The topics ranged from thoughts on self-acceptance to defying gender stereotypes. It was great to see such heartfelt, imaginative and thoughtful performances!
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The Importance of Complex Communication and Problem Solving Skills
What is the purpose of education? A few answers spring to mind here. Of course, our students are here to achieve good grades in their academic studies that will move them on to the next stage, but the purpose of education is much more than that. It is for the preparation of citizenship, preparation for the world of work, for personal empowerment to make positive choices and to set aspirational goals.
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Health and Wellbeing - Fitness fun for Key Stage 1
Fitness fun for Key Stage 1 This club focuses on improving and developing stamina, co-ordination, flexibility, balance and strength in young students. Students participate in a range of different activities each week including traditional circuit training, team and strategy games, and obstacle courses. Each week begins with a warm up and sessions always finish with a short game.
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Global Campus Comic Book Competition in Year 1
Congratulations to our Global Campus Comic Book Competition runners up: Tiancheng, Ester, Carmen, Kausar and Edward from 1 Grasshopper class. The task was to create a comic book story about a superhero who saves the planet. The children worked collaboratively and created the superhero character, ‘Sea Saver’. Sea Saver wants to stop water pollution in our oceans once and for all.
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Ski Camp 2019
We are pleased to announce that the 2019 BISB Ski Camp organised by Ms Katalin Sziraki and Mr Ferenc Puskas was, for the third time in a row, a massive success. Nineteen lucky students participated in the trip after being randomly chosen because the trip was once again oversubscribed.
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IB Visual Arts, Film and Music Evening - Tuesday 12th March 2019
Join us for our upcoming IB Visual Arts, Film and Music Evening on Tuesday 12th March at BISB Theatre. Doors open at 6.00pm.
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Ask the Artist - Bridget Kibbey
‘Ask the Artist’ is introducing you to an award winning harpist, Bridget Kibbey. Bridget’s diverse and energetic performances bring the harp to life and her biography on Global Campus Online shows examples of her performing many styles of music; from traditional composers, like J.S. Bach through to contemporary Irish music.
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Health and Wellbeing – Fruit & Vegetables: The Rainbow Challenge
Keeping things simple is key to improving our health and wellbeing in 2019.  Of course, as our previous issues have focused on, this can take the role of getting and staying physically active.  What we should not underestimate, however, is the impact of the food and drink we consume in helping us achieve and sustain personal targets.
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Coin race report by Katie Veres
We had our coin race on Friday 8th February. Everyone worked together to lay the coins out onto the school running track.
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Winners of Creative Writing Competition
The winners of our Primary Creative Writing Competition were announced last Friday during our Top Dog assemblies. The judges had a very difficult time deciding on the winners due to the wonderful writing on offer!  However, a decision had to be made and the winners received a book voucher for the PTA book fair which will be held during Book Week on Thursday 7th March. The winners of the Key Stage 1 competition and scribed story categories will be revealed this week.
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ENASA U19 News
The long awaited ENASA Basketball weekend finally arrived. 21 athletes from BISB participated in the season’s main tournament organised for U19 students. The very early departure from school was followed by a quick and quiet bus drive to our sister school in Bratislava, Slovakia.
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