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P2 - Bake Sale to Help...

Royal School of Music...

Green House

Nursery Making Pizza at...

P3 - Year 7 in Istanbul

Parenting Workshop

Reminder

“Positive Parenting”

P4 - Forest Schools at BESA

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P5 - Monthly Calendar /

School Nurse “ Years 3&4...”

Turkish Lesson with EYFS

Cinderella

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TEAM POINTS

RED LIONS

GREEN

DRAGONS

BLUE BOARS

YELLOW

TIGERS

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39 45

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Children are awarded team points for positive behaviour

and good work. These team points are collected every

week and are then added up to reach a grand total at the

end of the school year.

GOOD BOOK Each week teachers choose children for special recognition. Their

pictures are displayed in school on our good book display board.

Here are the “Stars” for this week:

NURSERY : Abra Nath

Ada Atalay

RECEPTION: Inji Mehdi

Ali Cavusoglu

Y1: Alya Can

Ekinsu Cetiner

Y2: Ada Ozcirpici Selin Gorur

Y3: Zeynep Basturk Selcan Mehdi

Y4: Sera Baytug

Luke Kearton

“All of Year 3&4 for their

performance at the Embassy”

Y5: Selin Aksezgin

Ciara Tudehope

Y6D: Olivia Rhodenizer

Aral Cetiner

Y6M: Doga Mutis Denzel Kiptiness

Y7: Zoe Henley

Oskar Henick

Y8:

CLASS OF THE WEEK:

BOYS FOOTBALL TEAM:

Antonio Cabral, Matthew

Wade, Qusai Kilani, Bart

Huisinga, Kayra Ozturk, Ege

Ozdas, Thomas Iemma

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MAY 2015 • Issue 29

GREEN HOUSE

As part of our IPC unit, „What‟s on the Menu‟ we

are learning about gardening and greenhouses. We

are fortunate enough to be able to take a tour of our

own school greenhouse!

NURSERY MAKING PIZZA AT NUM NUM’S

Nursery had fun at Num Nums this week! Thanks to one of our

year 3 parents, Begüm Börekçi, We were able to make pizza as

part of our IPC Topic: Food! We made the pizza, ate the pizza

and then drew a picture all about the visit. We had a great time!

BAKE SALE TO HELP VICTIMS OF

THE EARTHQUAKE IN NEPAL!

On Tuesday 12th May, the student council will be or-ganising a bake sale to raise funds for the victims of the Nepal earthquake. Money raised will be sent to the British School of Kathmandu in Nepal, who have ensured us that, “money pledged to our care will re-sult in every single penny being spent on projects that will benefit children, are related to education, and we know will give long term benefit to the children and people of Nepal.” Please see the link below for information on what the British School of Kathmandu, who are also a member of COBIS, like BESA, are doing to help the earthquake victims. You can also donate directly if you wish by clinking on this link. http://www.tbskathmandu.org/extra-curricular/community-service-charitable-work/ The school council would be very grateful if you

could send in a cake/cookies etc with your child on

Tuesday, and/or allow them to bring in some money

to buy a cake.

Thank you.

Mrs Sarah Sener and the School Council

ROYAL SCHOOL OF

MUSIC EXAMINATION

Congratulations to Quinten for achieving an im-

pressive MERIT grade in his Level 5 Theory of

Music exam result.

Well done!

Mrs Hande Peker

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YEAR 7 IN ISTANBUL

MAY 2015 • Issue 29

Last week Year 7 travelled to Istanbul as part of their

IMYC study of the theme of Discovery. Students discov-

ered many things about the history and culture of Istanbul

and were lucky enough to see a range of places including a

behind the scenes tour of The Grand Bazaar, Topkapi Pal-

ace, The Sulemaniye Mosque, The Blue Mosque, The

Hagia Sophia, Buyuk Ada, Istiklal Caddesi and many more.

The Year 7 students were a great credit to our school with

their excellent behaviour and interest in the many places

they saw.

PARENTING WORKSHOP “ POSITIVE PARENTING ”

Please find attached information regarding the final session of the interactive Parenting Workshops series held by our school psychologist, Guler Ann .This one is for parents of students in Nursery, Re-ception, and Years 1 & 2. It will be at 6 PM on Thursday, May 14th. Please write to gulerann@besaturkey.org if you would like to attend.

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FOREST SCHOOLS AT BESA

MAY 2015 • Issue 29

Year 5 have been lucky enough to spend the last three weeks partici-

pating in the Pilot Scheme for the new Forest Schools sessions. We

have been involved in a number of exciting activities, including build-

ing shelters, making tree spirits, swinging in the trees, collecting and

identifying flora and fauna, making forest pictures and educating oth-

ers about the importance of not throwing rubbish into the woods.

Perhaps the highlight of the whole experience, described by some of

the children as “the best day of my life,” was setting and lighting a fire

in the woods. The children collected dead wood, helped set up the fire

ring and lay the fire, and then cooked sausages and marshmallows on

the open fire. They tasted delicious!

Forest Schools has been a wonderful experience for everyone in-

volved, and we hope to be able to share the joy and learning with more

classes next year.

For more information on Forest Schools, please visit:

http://www.forestschools.com/

Making tree spirits out of mud. Enjoying the fire.

Putting on some more wood to

keep the fire burning. Learning how to feed the fire safely.

The fire circle – learning about safety.

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MONTHLY CALENDAR

14TH MAY PARENTING WORKSHOP 6.00PM

NURSERY, RECEPTION, YEARS 1&2

18TH - 22ND

MAY

HALF TERM HOLIDAY

27TH - 26TH

MAY

YEARS 3&4 RESIDENTIAL TRIP - FARM

TRIP / KONYA

YEARS 3 & 4 VISIT 'MINIK KASIK' KITCHENS TO MAKE HEALTHY PIZZAS

TURKISH LESSON WITH EYFS

In Early Years Foundation Stage, we are learning all about

food. This week in Turkish lessons, we learnt the names of

some food. We also tasted food that were sweet and

sour. We enjoyed singing Turkish songs about food!

CINDERELLA

The Year 3‟s and 4‟s performed this week, for an audience

of diplomatic special guests including the Turkish Foreign

Ministers wife, Mrs. Cavusoglu, at the British Ambassa-

dor‟s Residence. They performed a selection of songs

from their spring show, which was the Roald Dahl

„Cinderella‟ play. Once again, they sang beautifully and

impressed their audience with both their singing and pro-

fessionalism. Well done!

This week, Years 3 & 4 went to the 'Minik Kasik' kitchens to make healthy pizzas. They got to roll out the dough, apply tomato paste and a variety of healthy toppings of their choice. Once their healthy pizzas had been baked in the oven, they enjoyed eating their tasty meals! The visit was rounded off with the children being presented with 'Minik Kasik' little chef graduation certifi-cates. We would like to thank Mrs Selin Oztekin and Ilknur Seyhan of 'Minik Kasik' for inviting our children to this fun and healthy activity.