Dear Parents

International Week is here and there have been lots of interesting events so far in classes. In Secondary, each mentor group have been considering the prob-lems and issues in a range of countries such as Syria and Yemen each morning during mentor time. In Pri-mary a more in-depth study of a country is taking place throughout the week with classes looking at countries such as Kenya and Brazil.

Thursday evening sees our International Evening event which we hope you will all be able to attend. This is always an exciting evening at BIST filled with co-lour, music and the aroma of different national dish-es. Doors open at 4.30pm (or 3.30pm for stallholders) and the entertainment on stage will commence with all our children and staff participating in the flag pa-rade. This is followed by a packed programme of mu-sic and dance on the main stage. There will be prizes for the best national costume at boy, girl, adult male and adult female categories; and for country stalls in the most attractive, most informative and best food item categories. Our judges for these will be Mr. Mill-er and Ms. Joanne (national costumes), Ms. Alex and Ms. Tumika (most attractive stall), Mr. Graham and Mr. Pemberton (most informative stall) and best food item (Chef Gia and Mr. Priest).

This Friday the Primary students will be celebrat-ing Tbilisoba. Parents are asked to send in fruits and vegetables for the harvest displays. Parents are wel-come to tour the different class Tbilisoba displays from 2.25pm. As part of Tbilisoba, we are also sup-porting one of our community partners, Caritas and the SOS Children’s Village. We are collecting pack-aged foodstuffs for Caritas’ food kitchen which as-sists thousands of elderly people throughout Geor-gia. On Friday, children can choose to wear autumnal coloured clothes (browns, reds, oranges, etc…) rath-er than school uniform for a 5 lari donation towards buying school supplies for SOS children. The fruit and vegetables from our Tbilisoba displays are shared out amongst our BIST/BGA domestic and kitchen staff.

BIST NEWSKatie Melua

9th October 2019

UPCOMING EVENTS…

10th - International Evening - 4.30pm-8.00pm11th - BIST Tbilisoba from 1.00pm12th-20th - School closed for October Half Term Holiday21st - Return to school after October Half Term Holiday25th - Initial Progress Reports published to all parents25th - Family Assembly - Parents Welcome30th - Parent Class Reps meeting31st-4th - Junior Model United Nations, Ankara

November

4th - Years 3-8 Language Rotation 2 starts6th - Parents’ Coffee Morning8th - Family Assembly - Parents Welcome9th - Student and Parent Volleyball tournament18th - COBIS Mangahigh Maths competition starts18th-22nd - Health & Fitness Week20th - Secondary Swimming Gala21st - Primary Swimming Gala21st-24th - Performing Arts trip to London22nd - Family Assembly - Parents Welcome25th - Y1&2 Language Rotation 2 starts27th - Parent Class Reps meeting28th - Parents and Staff Cheese & Wine and Pub Quiz Evening

“Earth is my home.”

October

B L A C K S E A SCHOOLS GROUP

On Thursday the Year 6 students paid a special visit to a special place - the Kartli Wind Farm near Gori as part of the IPC Climate Control unit of study. The wind farm is the first of its kind in Georgia and on the

KARTLI WIND FARM TRIP

cutting edge of providing clean, renewable energy in Georgia. Our students got to see up close how the wind turbines convert abundant wind supplies into useful electricity.

The Kartli Wind Farm team gave our students a guid-ed tour of the facility and a treasure trove of useful information about the wind farm, its current work and its future plans.

Immediately following the trip the students enjoyed a tasty Georgian lunch at Salobie Restaurant in Mtskheta.

CARREFOUR TRIPThis trip was designed to expose the chil-dren to all kinds of fruits and vegetables as we have been talking about them in our IPC classes. Each child took it in turns to weigh the customers’ fruits and vegetables at the weighing point. They then went to look at the fresh fish and those swimming in the tanks be-fore going to the bakery section. They then got the chance to roll croissant dough. We brought the croissants back to school where our cooks baked them for our afternoon snack. They were delicious.

Mr. Stephen Priest Principal

Ms. Sophie KasrashviliPA to the Principal

Ms. Alexandra BackhouseHead of Primary

Mr. Les PembertonHead of Sixth Form

Ms. Tumika SthapitHead of Administration

Mr. James MillerKey Stage 3 Coordinator

Mr. Alex TimmisDirector of Studies

Joanne GowKey stage 2 Coordinator

Ms. Andrew GrahamKey Stage 4 Coordinator

Note;School on 10th will finish at the usual times 2:30 pm , 3:30 and 4:30 for students with clubs. There will be NO staff avialable to look after your child if they are not picked up on time. If your child/ren are using school bus please let school office knoe as soon as pssible, if any changes on day.