BRITANNICA INTERNATIONAL SCHOOL Friday 17th June 2016

NEWSLETTER

Upcoming Events

Number 36

Dear Parents This week we welcomed many new students to our ‘Step Up Day’ on Tuesday. All classes moved up to spend the day with their new teachers or to view presentations from teachers arriving in August. In addition we welcomed candidates for the new Principal position on Monday and Tuesday. An update on the recruitment process is expected in due course. Staffing Update Today we said goodbye to Nurse Bernadette Kiss our Védőnő school nurse. Our thanks to her for her contribution to Britan-nica this year. Next year we welcome Nurse Anna Hodozso who will be with us almost full time as our new Vedőnő. She is an experienced school nurse who is fluent in English and Hungarian. ECA’s Please be reminded that today is the last official day for our ECA Clubs. A couple of our external providers may arrange catch up sessions next week and you will be notified directly if this is the case. We will be sending details of next year’s ECA Club Programme via email at the end of August. Watch out for further details. PSA Update The PSA Committee met for the last time this year. My thanks to Rita Kolozsi, Ágnes Kulcsár for their hard work throughout the past year in the running of many events for our whole school community. In particular I would like to thank Vera Meerstadt the depart-ing Chair of the PSA for all her hard work and commitment to Britannica throughout the past two years of her leadership. The community has much to be thankful for. Vera will be continuing to support the PSA but not in the position of the Chair. Further details about PSA developments will follow in due course. My sincere thanks to all. End of Year Reports Our teaching staff are in the process of finalising the end of year reports for all students. Reports for Year’s 1-5 will be shared on Thursday 23rd June and Year’s 6-13 on Friday 24th June. Final Week Next week is our final week of term and as you will see from the calendar we have lots of trips arranged for students across the whole school as well as activities and events in school. Friday 24th is our last day of term. We will be having our two prize giving assemblies in the morning. Primary Prize Giving will be at 8:45a.m. and Secondary Prize Giving will be at 9:35 a.m. All parents are welcome to both celebrations. The rest of the morning will be taken up with ‘Britannica’s Got Talent’. This looks set to be an extravaganza. Please note that school will end early on this day for ALL students at 2:00p.m. Please can all parents be prompt in collecting children on this day. Summer Drama Camp 27th June – 1st July The first week of our holiday’s will be taken up with our new ‘Summer Drama Camp’ we look forward to welcoming students aged 7-12 to join us for this week of activities. Further details can be found at our school office. Summer Works Schedule As shared in more detail at my recent Principal’s Coffee Morning, we will be having a number of development works and maintenance works projects taking place on our school site over the summer. When you all return in August please be ready for some changes to our access control and security provision. This is part of a phased process and I will update you on more details next term. Kind regards

Mr Richard Vaughan Principal

June 2016 Friday 17th June ECA Clubs Finish Monday 20th June

Year 2 Mersey Trip to Hungarian Parliament

Year 6,7 & 8 Residential Camp

Year 10 Residential Tutor Trip to Vienna

Year 3 Trip to the zoo Tuesday 21st June

Year 3 Orczy Adventure Park

Year 4 Sleepover Wednesday 22nd June Year 1 Trip to Zoo Friday 14th June Prize Giving Assemblies End of Year for students & academic staff

In the last two weeks, Year 9 and 10 have been doing a cross-curricular project based on the Hungarian film Saul fia (Son of Saul). The film tells the story of a prisoner in the death camp of Auschwitz during the Holocaust from a very special point of view, and it won the Grand Prix in Cannes as well as the Oscar for the Best Foreign Language Film in February 2016. In a series of lessons in Hungarian, History, English and MFL, students have discussed the historical background of the Holocaust, and compared some extracts from other films on the

same topic to see how this film is dif-ferent as for filming techniques and per-spective. As the final part of the project we invited Ms Julia Varadi, a cultural journalist who has written a book based on interviews with the film makers, to have an interactive talk involving the students. The project has given students new per-spectives in analysing film language and provoked some very interesting thoughts about this important and sensi-tive topic, so we are planning to do sim-

ilar projects in the future as well.

Ms Dinnyés, Mr Guignard and Ms Zsemberovszky

Year 9 Trial Hike at the Normafa

Walking in the rain...

Camp setting competition...

Ms Zita Zsemberovszky Year 9 Form Tutor

Ms Zita Zsemberovszky KS3 Coordinator

Year 2 Mersey Lego Project

Ms Barbara Blair Year 2 Mersey Class Teacher

Ms Lilla Rákosi Year 3 Tamar TA