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This week saw students take over at BISB! The focus of the week has been marking World Children’s Day – a day that recognises and celebrates Children’s Rights and promotes youth voice in creating a better world for every child. Our Year 13 student leaders did a fantastic job leading workshops for their younger peers on the Sustainable Development Goals and encouraged them to speak up to use their rights for the empowerment of others.
Thursday’s Wear Blue Day was a show of solidarity in support of Children’s Rights and the work that UNICEF does locally and globally to protect them. The end of the week saw Years 7 and 8 deliver persuasive advocacy speeches on how we could move our work on the SDGs forwards as a school whilst Years 9-13 went head-to-head in heated debates on the same topic. Year 11, meanwhile, have been working on promoting awareness and understanding of Children’s Rights through their Service-learning action week, which included leading workshops for Year 3, launching a ‘For The Children’ anthology to celebrate students creative work, a donation drive of books, clothes, and hygiene products for Huvosvolgy children’s home, and a student-led assembly on peer empowerment. Overall, the week has been a display of student empowerment and a celebration of children’s rights as the cornerstone of education.
Rachel Rhodes
English Teacher, Social Impact Lead and CAS Coordinator
NAE-UNICEF Social Impact Regional Lead Europe
Year 12 have been spending a lot of time in Sports Hall One over the last week. Not doing sport, although they could tell you the science behind it…
There was a fun packed programme for the secondary students remaining on-site, which followed the 5 Co-Curricular strands. Students were immersed in languages, film-making, STEAM activities and cooking. They learned about children's rights and advocacy, and showed their creative talents through artwork. They hiked in the hills and formed friendships across year groups. See the Firefly page for further details and photographs
It has been a very memorable end of the primary journey for our Year 6 students. This last week of term has been jam packed. On Monday and Tuesday, the students performed the end of year production of ‘Olivia’, on Tuesday morning, there was a year group water fight and on Wednesday afternoon, they finally graduated with a special ceremony.
As a community, we've been actively promoting healthy eating habits through our weekly articles about life in the kitchen. With the summer holidays just a few days away and the heatwave this summer, we must all be more mindful of our fluid intake.
The British International School Budapest
1037 Budapest
Kiscelli köz 17
Hungary