Autumn Term Week 2

A wonderful House Tea!

Jahili lions leap and bound

into Week Two!

The House Tea is here!

Excellence, Team-building

& House Tea; welcome to

week 2!

Science is fun!

The beginning of Year 5 is always an exciting

time as the children embark on a more

specialised time table. This is never more clearly

seen than in Science when the children make

their first visit to the laboratory and very soon

have the opportunity to use the equipment.

It was wonderful this week to see this

excitement first hand. As the pupils learned to

use the Bunsen burners and to explore the

fabulous variety of colours and as they carried

out flame tests on a variety of metal salts.

A deep love of learning evolves from activities

such as this and the ability to go deeper into a

subject these they have before.

NOTICE! Please can Hosn parents label pupil belongings with not only the name of your

child, but also the House. Ideally, a year would also be included. Thank you, I

hope to make the return of lost items quicker!

Ms Jennifer White

HMM

Hosn House Tea

On Thursday, 10th September, pupils, parents and teachers of Hosn

House came together in celebration of the start of the new academic

year. The community had their first opportunity to come together to

meet, chat and get to know each other. Refreshments and decorations

were kindly supplied by parents, and thank you to everyone who

participated to make the event such a spectacle.

In particular, I would like to thank Hosn House Parents Nevins Sharp

and Christine Beirne for their commitment, time and effort – without

them, the event would not have been the success it was.

One of Hosn’s Year 4 pupils, Isabella Millar from Yangtze class, has demonstrated

musical excellence in a number of ways since the end of the last academic year: Not

only does Isabella play five musical instruments, but she also passed four

examinations to an ‘Excellent’ level or to ‘Distinction’. Her achievements are as

follows: The Associated Board of the Royal Schools of Music (ABRSM)-guitar with

distinction (Grade 1); ABRSM – Violin (Excellent); ABRSM – Piano (Excellent);

Trinity College London - Drums, with distinction (Grade 1).

Well done, Isabella!

Excellence in action!

Teamwork makes the dream work…to be continued!

During House assembly this week, we considered team work to realise the end goal.

We watched an award-winning advert which saw a team of insects succeed in opening

a bottle of coca-cola. Bearing this in mind, we tried an exercise in team-building as a

House.

In mixed age groups, we each made a paper aeroplane and then split the room in half.

The challenge in team building was to watch out for any aeroplane heading for the

floor.

As a House, we needed to make sure that we threw our aeroplane and looked out for

everyone else as well. We didn’t quite succeed, so room for improvement for Hosn’s

team-building skills!

Thank you to everyone who made the House Tea possible. What

a success the first House event of the school year was. The House

Room was resplendent in red and filled with every imaginable

goody! It was truly a wonderful end to the second week of the

term.

Thank you to everyone who made the House Tea possible a

willing team of volunteers were ably coordinated by Rana and

Annie. Rachael O’Halleron

HMM

Hi! My name is Solenne and I am in

Fujairah Year 8.

The Fujairah House Tea was a great

opportunity for pupils, teachers and

parents to meet up after a long

summer break as well as allow us to

welcome new families into the best

Prep School House !

The cakes and baked items were all really tasty and the

tea was delicious.

However, the cherry on the cake was fabulous,

fantastic, festive and the friendly feeling that was felt

within Fujairah!

What a great start to the new school year !

By Solenne Green

Maths was awesome…and the

teachers here are really fun!

- Christos Alexandropoulos,

7 Jahili

I love the new school

layout!

- Lakshmi Mukandan,

8 Jahili

Being reunited with my

friends has been the

best bit!

- Neha Nouman, 8 Jahili

Meeting all of the new

teachers and pupils has

been great!

- Tamanna Khan,

8 Jahili

Bithna Update

Dear Parents of Bithna,

May I take this opportunity to introduce myself as Housemaster

of Bithna. I am very much looking forward to leading Bithna this

year along with a wonderful team of Tutors. We have some new

class Tutors joining the House:

Year 4 – Mrs. Nation-Granger joins us from Dorset in the UK.

Year 5 – Mr. Ward joins us from having taught at Dulwich College

in South Korea. He will be teaching PE and Games.

Year 7 - Miss Solomon joins us as a Prep school Maths teacher

and she has come from Liverpool in the UK.

Year 8 - Mrs. Shaikh joins us from London as a drama teacher

who will lead the Prep school productions.

David Scott

HMM

COMING SOON……

Helping Others

Look out for more information.

We will provide you with boxes and they

all need to be filled by Sunday, 11th

October.

We will be asking you to

please join us and help by

filling boxes with the

following items:

T-Shirt

Cap

Disposable Razor

Shaving Cream

Deodorant

Talcum powder

Toothbrush

Toothpaste

Small Hand Towels

Comb

Antibacterial Soap

Shampoo

The Prep School will be celebrating this on Sunday. Class

teachers and Tutors will be quizzing their pupils’

knowledge of Roald Dahl or undertaking some fun

activities – so watch out, you might not recognise them

if they are wearing their own Mr Twit’s beard! During

English lessons pupils shall be looking at a particular

book, aiming to understand more about Dahl’s writing. At

lunchtime, we shall be showing the cartoon version of

The BFG.

The Parents’ Broadsheet News and Views

Week 3 Autumn Term 2015 What a treat it has been to see so many of you here this afternoon for our annual House teas. The spread of food was staggering but even more importantly it was wonderful to witness the support for each House and the participation of all. It is always so beneficial to put names to faces and to meet the Tutor behind the email address and I know that the Tutors and House Mistresses and Master all thoroughly enjoyed seeing you today. My sincere thanks to all of the parents who have clearly been extremely busy preparing for this afternoon and who have made the event what it is. Have a lovely weekend. This week:

Roald Dahl Day – Sunday (this will not be a dress up day!)

Co-curricular Activities Start – Sunday Looking ahead:

OSRA Eid Chocolates – this has been cancelled due to the National Mourning in memory of those who lost their lives.

EID AL ADHA Holiday – Tuesday to Thursday (TBC) Looking further ahead:

'European Day Of Languages' 2015 – Sunday

Prep Familiarisation Day – Wednesday

Notes and Important Information

Car Park Volunteers – As many of you are aware the car park is very full at pick up time and we

wondered if there were any parents who would be able and willing to help as car park volunteers to assist

guide the traffic and keep it moving. If so please email afrost@brightoncollege.ae

Access to the School building: From Sunday, 6th September, we would ask that you say goodbye to your

children in the reception area and allow them to make their own way to their Classes or House Rooms.

This is in the interest of the health and safety of all our pupils and your support and understanding with this

matter is appreciated.

Naming uniform and equipment: We are introducing a new process for the all lost property within the

College. This new system will be dependent on everything being clearly named with your child’s name

and House. Please clearly write the first letter of your child’s House on their belongings so that things can

be retuned quickly and efficiently to the correct room each day (more details to follow.)

Image Consent: If you do not want an image of your child to appear in any College publication whether

in-House or beyond please can you ensure that you have signed the image consent form and returned it to

Priya Mitchell on counsellor@brightoncollege.ae

Letters that have been uploaded onto the this w k

Sports Bulletin

Spinneys Menu

Year 3 & 4 Topic, prep and reading letters

Year 3 & 4 Physical Education Lessons letters

Co-Curricular Activities Update letter

Prep School Prep Timetable 2015-2016

Years 7 & 8 U13 BSME Games Trials letter