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students had fun making cut-out puppets and using shadows to tell their own tales, including a look at the story of Nian during the Chinese New Year festival.The Magic City,It’s been another exciting year in Drama at BISS and I have been very impressed with the dramatic output of our students. We have continued to expand our collaboration with Juilliard and looked at another ‘core work’ in Year 7 involving puppetry and based on the theatre company Manuel Cinema who use mixed-media to create thrilling theatrical spectacles. Based on their work
The lockdown didn’t stop students’ creativity as they explored the many monologues that are in the play and investigated different ways of becoming the characters in the famous tale of love and conflict.Romeo and Juliet.Linked to their work in English, Year 8 had a look at Shakespeare’s
Aladdin.One of the many highlights in Year 9 has to be their pantomime. Understanding the conventions of this British art form offered many challenges to the students but they had fun dressing up and entertaining our Year 2 students with their festive silliness in scenes from
Our IGCSE cohort have also had a busy year, producing a variety of monologue performances for their coursework including Chekov, Shakespeare and many 21stcentury playwrights including Tom Wells’ comedyAbout a Goth.Their group work took them to the edgy playDNAby Dennis Kelly which contrasted with the light comedy of Oscar Wilde’sThe Importance of Being Earnest.Variety again has been a feature of their work!
A huge congratulations to all our students for their wonderful improvisations, creativity and many, many laughs in lessons!
As our Year 13 students prepare for IB exams, they continue to receive exciting university offers from around the world. New additions to our list include renowned institutions such as New York University (Shanghai and New York), Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore (Italy), and McGill University (Canada). Students applying to the United States have earned acceptances from respected universities like New York University, Tufts University, University of Southern California and University of California San Diego.
Thank you to all our parents who completed the recent survey. As always, your feedback is vital in the decisions we make moving forward, and to receive so many fantastic comments shows just how engaged we are as an international community.
This year’s British Science Week at BISS was a resounding success, filled with student-led activities that brought science to life in the most engaging and interactive ways. Under the theme of ‘Change’ and ‘Adaptation’, students explored how science evolves to solve global challenges by taking part in a variety of hands-on experiments, competitive quizzes, and thought-provoking discussions.