CAESAR Index - Taipei European SchoolDay 1 (Tuesday 10/3) - Meet and Greet We left school at 2 p.m....

IndexAccreditations for TES P4 – P5

U13 FOBISIA Games in Taipei P6 – P8

Bunan Tribe Children Visit TES P9 – P11

The French Section Turns 25 P12 – P13

The CP School of Life P14

New Technology in the FS Classrooms P15

TES Students Achieve Outstanding SEAMC Results P16 – P17

The Living Museum P18 - P19

Summer School is Spectacular! P20 – P21

IB Art Exhibition – Deviance P22 – P23

What is Maths Jam? P24 – P25

The Year 6 Mystery Trip P26 – P27

TES’s Reverse Christmas Tree P28 – P 29

TES Dance Team Wins 2nd Place P30

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Government based in Paris which is responsible for the accreditation /homologation of French National schools abroad.

Today some 494 schools are located throughout Europe, the Americas, Asia and Africa. Most of their students are children of French expatriates but they also include many students of other nationalities attracted by the quality of schooling provided. In any given academic year, around 330,000 students (40% French students and 60% foreign students) study in AEFE accredited schools.

The French Section of TES achieved this prestigious status in 1990 and is visited annually by AEFE.

Deutsche Auslands-Schulen International (DAS)D e u t s c h e A u s l a n d s -Schulen In ternat ional (DAS) was founded in 1960 and, it is located in Bonn Germany. DAS is

the network of 145 German Schools abroad supported by the German Foreign Office through the “Zentralstelle für das Auslandsschulwesen” (ZfA) with government grants. The ZfA together with the “Standing Conference of Ministers of Education of the sixteen Länder” (KMK) conduct regular inspections at the schools in order to guarantee the highest educational and organisational standards.

DAS is the label of an accredited German School abroad and our German Section at TES has held this highly valued status for 22 years.

International General Certificate of Secondary Education (IGCSE) Cambridge

The Cambridge University In te rna t iona l Genera l Certificate of Secondary Education (IGCSE) is the

world’s most popular international qualification for 14 to 16 year olds. It is taken in over 140 countries and in more than 3,700 schools and at TES it is the main programme provided in our H1 and H2 year groups for students continuing on from the British Section. Students in our German Section also take the IGCSE as a double award and students from our French Section take part in the languages component of the programme. Cambridge International Examinations is the world’s largest provider of international education programmes and qualifications with services to over 10,000 schools

worldwide. Cambridge University itself celebrated its 800th anniversary in 2009.

TES has been authorised as an IGCSE examinations center since 2002

Federation of British International Schools in Asia (FOBISIA)

The Federat ion o f B r i t i s h I n t e r n a t i o n a l Schools In Asia

(FOBISIA) is a membership association originally founded in 1988. FOBISIA aims to promote a British style education system in schools throughout Asia, and gives students the opportunity for collaboration and friendly competition through its annual sporting, musical festivals and other events.

There has been a huge demand for British education worldwide in the past two decades and in response to this demand FOBISIA has joined with other similar British networks in the Middle East, Europe, Africa, North and South America to represent the interests of British education abroad. Today FOBISIA has 50 member schools from all of the major Asian countries and our borders extend from India to Mongolia, South Korea, Taiwan, Indonesia and Singapore. All FOBISIA schools must have at least one of the accreditations above and schools can only join the Federation by way of vote of the member schools at the Regional Heads Conference.TES was one of the very first FOBISIA schools.

I hope that this has provided you with some background to our standing as a school in the international community. Critical to our continued success is to maintain our accreditation with these leading world authorities. Taipei European School remains Taiwan’s leading and only true international school thanks to your continued support and that of the hard work and dedication of our staff, students and governing parent bodies.

Dr. Allan WestonChief Executive Officer

In each edition of Zoom I try and provide some insight into the strategic developments at TES and several weeks ago I found myself in conversation with a group of parents, talking about the logos, which appear at the bottom of our letterhead. I thought it timely that I shared with our community the connections between those logos and our strategic plan. Our reputation across the community is that we are a “good school” but how do you as parents and community members actually know this unless we benchmark ourselves against International standards? Strategy 2018 sets out seven strategic goals and one of those is for us to gain accreditation for each of the sections and TES as a whole. As an international school we do not fit under the curriculum teaching and learning guidelines found in local schools and instead we naturally turn to the International educational bodies to gain accreditation. So what does this look like ?

C o u n c i l o f I n t e r n a t i o n a l Schools (CIS) CIS was originally called the European Council of International Schools (ECIS) and was founded in 1965, mainly in response to

the need for a coordinating body to assist the growing number of International schools being built to serve the needs of UN, military and non government organisations in Europe in the middle of the last century.

As the number of International schools around the world began to grow ECIS became CIS. Membership comprises more than 680 primary and secondary schools, 490 higher education colleges and universities, and represents 109 countries. The CIS offices are located in Leiden, the Netherlands, and in Ithaca, New York, USA.

Taipei European School became a fully accredited member of CIS in March of 2011.

Western Association of Schools and Colleges (WASC) The Accrediting Commission for Schools, WASC, began in 1962 in a similar context to that of CIS. As

the number of schools and colleges grew the need for standards and quality assurance also grew. Some of America’s top universities such as Stanford, USC and UCLA are WASC accredited. WASC extends its services to over 4,500 public, independent, church-related, and proprietary pre-K–12 and adult schools; works with 16 associations in joint accreditation processes, and collaborates with other educational organisations and its main office is located in Burlingame, California.

Taipei European School became a fully accredited member of WASC in March of 2011 and combined with the European based CIS accreditation it gives us world wide accreditation.

In ternat iona l Bacca laureate Association Diploma (IBDip) The International Baccalaureate is an internat ional educat ional foundation headquartered in Geneva, Swi tzer land founded in 1968. Originally it was formed to provide a

curriculum for senior secondary students which would be transferable across international borders and serve the needs of the increasing number of students whose families worked globally.

Today more than 3,900 schools have chosen to teach International Baccalaureate® (IB) programmes, with their unique academic rigour and their emphasis on students’ personal development. Those schools employ over 70,000 educators, teaching more than one million students worldwide.

TES became an IB World School in 2002 and we were re authorised in 2007 and again in 2012. At TES our IB Diploma programme is offered in the last two years of senior secondary school and at this stage all students at TES undertake the Diploma Programme.

Agence pour l 'enseignement français à l'étranger (AEFE)Founded in 1990 the Agence pour l 'enseignement français à l'étranger (AEFE) celebrated their 25th Anniversary this year. AEFE is the official body of the French

Accreditations for the Sections and School as a Whole

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Day 1 (Tuesday 10/3) - Meet and GreetWe left school at 2 p.m. in the afternoon, and headed for the Sunworld Dynasty Hotel for the meet and greet. Dr Weston gave us a little introduction about FOBISIA, “25 years ago, FOBISIA was a small organisation…”

Afterwards, we stuffed ourselves with delicious finger food. Then, we had a meeting to receive our kits for the next day’s swimming and athletics. We got ready for bed, still all very excited about tomorrow.

Day 2 (Wednesday 11/3) - Swimming & AthleticsWe woke up at 6:30 a.m. to go to breakfast, getting ready for a most tiring day which was starting with swimming. As we entered the pool, everyone was very excited, but what was even more thrilling was that the whole key stage 3 year groups were coming to cheer for Team Titans.

There were 200, 100 and 50 meter races and then relay races which involved medley and freestyle relay. It was testing for every one of the competitors because it was a very big pool.

After the lunch break, we had athletics. The girls started off with the track events and the boys went for the field events. Even though it was raining it did not affect the

event from taking place. We went through another few hours of hard work with events from 1500 meters running to javelin and high jump. It was really a tough day.

Day 3 (Thursday 12/3) - Girls Basketball & Boys FootballFor the boys football, we had an early start as the football tournament was at the new school pitch. Our first game was against BIS-HCMC who we easily beat, 2-1, which got our spirits up. Lachlan was pretty much our man of the day scoring the most goals, playing great even though he had a fever. We won one, drew one and lost the other games. In the final game I took an important penalty shot that decided on whether we get third or fifth. Sadly, I missed it. But what Team Titans

are perfect at is cheering teammates up when they are down. And that was what they did. We all tried our best!!

While the boys were having a competitive yet fun day up in our new football pitch, the girls were at the Department of Sports for the basketball games. We were up against Kellet in our first game.

They were said to be our most challenging competitors out of the other schools but instead of thinking it was hopeless, we had our heads up high and our spirit was undaunted, determined to make a great start in this day. Attack, counter attack and defense, it was indeed an intense game.

‘If we play perfect defense, we will win 80% of the

game as they can’t score any points.’ said Miss Huang our coach, and we followed this, getting a close win. Our next game was also close win, but sadly our luck wore off in our third game. Although, in the end, we got fourth place in the overall score, we could not have had played better than we did.

Day 4 (Friday 13/3) - Girls Football & Boys Basketball & GalaThe last day of the FOBISIA games, was basketball time for the boys. We had been training 3-4 times a week normally, and today was the day where we showed the people that hard work pays off.

We walked to the Taipei arena basketball court and quickly warmed up since we are going to play the Kellets from Hong Kong immediately. Everyone was really excited and luckily, our opponent was not that tough, so we won 8-3 in the first game and we took it as a warm up game.

The next game, we were up against BIS from Vietnam and it was the toughest game we played. With Mr Lee’s defensive strategy which specialises in zone defense, we succeeded in stopping them for a lot of times, unfortunately when the game was tied, Bernard our main centre got fouled out and their centre started

U13 FOBISIA Games in Taipei10th to 14th March 2015Regina Liu & Brian Chui, FOBISIA Sports CaptainsKwok Chow, Head of ESC Sport

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dominating the paint. We lost by six by the end.

In the game against Dulwich, if we won we had a chance at getting gold, and we made it count. The starters came on with pride and confidence and we got a head start immediately and we made it count winning 20-10.

After beating Shanghai, we cheered for Dulwich, since if Dulwich won against BIS, TES comes first, and it happened TES are the CHAMPIONS!

For the girls, unlike yesterday, the weather was bright and sunny, a huge relief for our team who had to spend the whole day outside. On the bus to the pitch we were shaking in excitement and nervousness while listening to the dual comedy singing of Chloe Jessica and Jessy Lee.

Thanks to them, we were able to conceal our up and down emotions. We were up in the first match against BIS-HCMC that morning. Maybe it was because of our maladjustment or our terrified emotions because they easily scored two goals in the first half. Now that we were able to run around the field, clearing our heads, we were into the game. Focusing on our defense, we were able to prevent them from further increasing the point difference.

The second game was a huge improvement compared to the first. Two nil to be exact but the referee had a

different angle than us and believed that the ball did not actually go past the line, but still a win. We then had a few losses and a tie.

Day 5 (Saturday 14/3) - LeavingThe end of FOBISIA. Four days of tiring but fun sports games ranging from swimming to athletics to football. We all did extremely well in every one of them and it was an honor to host this year’s events.

During the past four days, we met and talked to practically everyone and to be honest, it is really emotional when we all met at the lobby. “What’s your facebook account?”, “Can I add you on snapchat?” Questions like this kept the tears from flowing. After rounds and rounds of goodbyes, our parents started to arrive. With one last look around the hotel, memories of the days and time spent here circle around my head and will be with me forever.

Please check the Facebook page for more photos and videos.https://www.facebook.com/pages/U13-FOBISIA-2015/819958258085335

Also the U13 FOBISIA Video link, have a look it's awesome. https://drive.google.com/a/tes.tp.edu.tw/file/d/0B_CBued8nMTVel9jVW9ycjlnakk/view?usp=sharing

From February 11 -13, a group of Bunan children from Nantou Renhe Elementary School came to TES to celebrate the Language Week and Chinese New Year with us. Here is the story of how it started, was organised and the fun we shared with the children of the Bunan tribe.

The Development of the TES and Bunan Cultural Exchanging Project

The project was actually inspired by some of our children’s kindness. Following the great work of the TES children, parents, and staff, in 2013/14, raising money to help build several classrooms for the children in the Philippines whose schools had been destroyed by the typhoon; the children asked “Can we do something together to help the people in need in Taiwan?”.

At the beginning of the new school year, some Year Five children learned about the contribution of Dr. Mackay,

a Western missioner, who contributed his love and life to help the people in Taiwan. He left an indelible mark still visible today, building the first Western hospital in the Northern Taiwan, a boarding school in Danshui for the poor children to study for free, and the first girl’s school in Taiwan. To help the children learn from the spirit of Dr. Mackay, Ms. Catherine Wu, an ex-TES CLC teacher from a decade ago and now leader of a group of volunteers who help provide resources and support to several aboriginal tribes in Taiwan, kindly ran a workshop for our Year 5, CM1, and Klasse 3 children about “Sending Our Love to Tribes”.

Bunan Teachers Visit TES

In November 2014, two Bunan teachers spent eight hours travelling one day to come to TES and share stories about the Bunan culture with our children. Follow the visit, a group of British Primary Section leaders had a meeting and we decided to invite the Bunan children

Bunan Tribe Children Celebrate Language Festival Week and Chinese New Year with TES

Julia KaoPrimary Chinese Language and Culture Coordinator

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to come to celebrate the Language Festival Week and Chinese New Year with us at TES in February 2015. After the meeting, a series of fund raising events and the preparations, for the TES and Renhe Elementary School Bunan children’s art exhibit about “Gifts”, started.

The children from TES and Renhe Elementary School wrote to each other to introduce themselves to their future new friends, and they started to imagine what their friends were like, and to think about what might be a good gift for their friends. Thanks to the Year Five, CM1, and Bunan teachers for their guidance to the children’s art creation about “Gifts”, especially to Ms. Lia Winfiedale in the British Section, Mr. Danny Stacey in

the French Section, and Mr. Lu and Ms. Tian at Renhe Elementary School. With the kind support from Mr. Howard Huang, the CEO of the Foundation of Research for Open Space, the children were very lucky to have their art work about “Gifts” displayed at Songshan Cultural and Creative Park in February 2015. Mr. Huang kindly ran several workshops for some TES teachers and the children about the art project. He encouraged the children to think about what might be a good gift to a friend and paint it as an art work.

Other activities that were organised to raise money and awareness of the Tribes were: the Christmas Bazaar Year Five and Bunan stall in November 2014, the recycling project, the fund raising movie “Beyond Beauty-Taiwan from Above”, and the Year Five Breakfast Morning in January.

The Fund Raising Efforts

In January 2015, having learned about recycling while working with Tzu Chi Charity Foundation on the Philippines project, the children and parents from primary school helped a new recycling project. Bringing in used paper, batteries, cans, and plastic bottles every morning, within one month, we recycled 8kgs of cans, 57kgs of plastic bottles, 61 kgs of batteries, and 370kgs of paper, and raised over NT$4,000 through recycling. We were very impressed with our children’s effort and spirit as lots of children volunteered to help flatten the paper boxes, cans, and plastic bottles, first thing when they came to school in the early morning and the elder children helped the younger ones putting the materials into the right recycling boxes.

Children and parents of all year groups offered their help and kind donations. Many parents from all sections organised a food and drink sale before the fund raising movie. Some parents sent a whole box of new books for the Bunan children; some offered a Mac computer for the Bunan tribe; some prepared forty boxes of snacks for the Bunan children to take home to celebrate Chinese New Year with their families. Several children left envelopes on my desks with their own pocket money and notes saying that they would like to contribute and help. Some Year 6 children offered to treat the Bunan children to Krispy Kreme donuts with their own pocket money. With everyone’s help, we raised over NT$200,000 to ensure the Bunan children had a great trip to TES. Additional money helped provide educational resources and support to the Bunan children in the village who need educational support.

The Bunan Tribe Children Visit TES

The Bunan children who came to TES are a group of lovely children; polite, friendly, and well behaved. They had a busy schedule starting on February 11, when the Bunan children and their TES friends went together to see their own art exhibit about “Gifts” at Songshan Cultural and Creative Park. The Taipei City Mayor, Dr. Wen-Je Ko, had already visited the children’s art exhibit two days earlier. In the afternoon, the Bunan children went to the Eslite bookstore, Discovery of Taipei at Taipei City Hall, Taipei 101, Page One Bookstore, and had dinner at Ding Tai Feng Dumpling House.

During the next two days, the Bunan children had classes with their TES friends in the British, German, and French classrooms, joined the Chinese New Year celebration performances, organised and participated in the Chinese New Year Market activities with our children, and after school the Bunan children went with our children and staff to visit Danshui’s historical sites, watch the beautiful sunset, taste food, play games, and enjoy the lovely evening that was full of warm friendship.

Finally, on February 13, when the Bunan children were about to leave, they said it was so hard to say goodbye as the people at TES had been so kind and nice. While the Bunan teachers were helping to check if the children had taken all their belongings with them, one of them said, “I know what we have been left behind. You all have left your hearts at TES.” As our British Primary Section Acting Head, Mr. Duncan Millward, said, “It is not the end of a project but a start of the beautiful friendship for the many years to come.”

Future Support for Bunan Tribe

The Bunan teachers have been working with the well known Boyo Social Welfare Foundation to help the Bunan children’s learning after school. One Bunan teacher uses her house as a reading house for the volunteers from Boyo Social Welfare Foundation to help the Bunan children who do not have much family support to do their homework after school. We are now working with a group of parents, teachers, and educators from TES, Nantou Renhe Elementary School, National Taipei University of Education and a well known children’s foundation to arrange a trip to visit the reading house in the Bunan village in April to develop a long term link for us to send in more educational resources and support to help the children in need in the Renhe village in central Taiwan.

Thank You all for Your Support

Lots of people have been extremely kind to help and support the various fund raising events, including the Director Chi Po-Lin who showed up in the movie evening on January 27 to show his support to the project. He was very impressed with how enthusiastic and passionate our children, parents, and staff were for the project and how we worked hard together to support the Bunan children and educate our children about recycling and about our love and care to the land and people in Taiwan. Thanks to all the children, parents, colleagues, Heads, Dr. Allan Weston, and all the people who helped support and make the project a warm and successful one!

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Over the next 18 months the three Sections that make up the Taipei European School are celebrating their 25th anniversaries - starting with the French Section. The FS has lined up a series of events to celebrate its anniversary including an exhibition opening in May and a gala due to take place in the autumn. The festivities kicked off on 26th February, 25 years to the day that the original École Française de Taipei was recognised by the Taiwanese Ministry for Foreign Affairs, with a special assembly during which the students and staff of the French Section, along with a few VIPs, looked back at the school’s origins.

Back in 1989, a number of French families living in Taipei wanted to ensure an education for their children similar to that which they had received in France. With the support of the French Office in Taipei and the Alliance française, they set about establishing Taipei’s first école française. They recruited two teachers and found premises in a residential home in Tienmu. In August 1989, the school opened its doors to its first cohort – a grand total of 17 students. As the student

numbers grew over the years, the French School relocated first to Yangmingshan and later, with the British and German Schools, to its current locations as part of the Taipei European School Primary Campus on WenLin Road and Secondary Campus on Yangmingshan.

Providing a French education in line with what is taught in schools in France remains a fundamental objective for the French Section today. The school is an accredited member of the AEFE – the Agency for French Teaching Abroad – overseen by the French Ministry of Education. However, over the 25 years of its existence, the French Section’s objectives have grown; it is now a school that offers its students a complete French education and more. Chinese Language and Culture lessons are a crucial part of French Section life, as is English. Since 2007, the French Section offers a French-English bilingual program, giving all its students the chance to become fluent French, English and Chinese speakers. The French school is now also open to non-French speakers and offers tailored language support with

The French Section Turns 25robust FAL (French as an academic language) and EAL options.

In the 2014-2015 school year, the French Section has seen its enrolment numbers jump and reach a record 235 pupils. To mark its 25th anniversary, all the FS students and teachers came together for an aerial group photo on a sunny morning in January. The photo was unveiled at TES on the February 26th as part of the anniversary celebrations. We think the first 17 students and 2 teachers of the École Française de Taipei would be impressed to see how the school and its numbers have grown in 25 years and we wonder how many FS students there will be in five years time to spell out 30 on the green grass of the primary campus playing fields. Joyeux anniversaire Section française!

The original home of the FS in Tienmu.

FS children on the first day of school August 1989

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The French Section’s CP (year 2) classes have been working on a fascinating project this year L’école de la vie, or School of Life. Throughout the year the students from both classes have been learning the ups and downs of different jobs, through meeting professionals from different careers – talking to them about their work and experiencing what work in that field is like.

France is of course famous for its food and its cuisine, and the CPi and CPj classes have had lots of opportunities to try out the life of a chef – they’ve baked bread, filled crepes, toasted waffles and even made sushi with one of Taiwan’s best sushi chefs. The French Section also puts a lot of emphasis on art and plenty of the CP kids have expressed an interest in becoming artists when they grow up –painters, illustrators, designers, architects and even calligraphers! With CP being the school year when French children learn to read fluently and to write in elegant cursive,

it’s no surprise that so many of our CPs now say they want to become writers. As the CP Maths skills develop over the year there are children who say they want to be bankers when they grow up! A trip of Baby Boss broadened horizons further, with kids being given the chance to dress up and work as pilots, flight attendants, veterinarians, astronauts and archaeologists!

Some of the best fun of the year was had on a visit to TES’ local fire station. The fire fighters there gave the two CP classes tours of the station; showing them how the equipment worked, dressing them up in full uniform, letting them get behind the wheel of a fire engine and teaching them how to steer a lifeboat! With so many interesting professions and careers out there, it’s hard for some of our CPs to make up their mind. It’s a good job they have quite a few years ahead of them to decide!

The CP School of Life

2014-2015 has been a busy school year for the French Section. We’re celebrating our 25th anniversary, welcoming more students to our section than ever before, opening our French as an Academic Language (FAL) Department and introducing lots of new technology to our classrooms.

Our students are now using interactive whiteboards in every classroom, as well as laptops and iPads in our Primary School and chromebooks in our Secondary school, with 3D printers on both campuses. Our aim

is for technology to enhance our students’ educational experience in the French Section. We don’t simply want FS students to know their way around an iPad or a chromebook, but to be able to use them to extend their learning in all subject areas. Whether the kids are using these devices as another way to test their maths skills, research information for projects, to design comic strips for English class or to try out their programming knowhow, we’re pleased to say the investment is definitely proving worthwhile!

New Technology in the FS Classrooms

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Students from the Taipei European School Achieve Outstanding Results in South East Asia Mathematics Competition

The 2015 South East Asia Mathematics Competition (SEAMC) taking place from 26th February to 1st March in Hong Kong was the 8th time that TES has competed in SEAMC. Some 40 international schools from the across the region were in attendance, all of whom have been working hard all year to prepare for this prestigious event. Each school brought along two teams and each team had three students. Here are some of the results of this year’s TES SEAMC team:

Overall Team Competition: 3rd (of 80)Activity Team Round: Winners (of 80)Team Round: 3rd (of 80)Passback Round: 3rd (of 80)Individual Champion of SEAMC 2015: Alex Lee (1st of 240 students)

These are by far the best results TES has had and is a testimony to the high levels of passion and dedication

of our students: Neel Bhimani, Timmy Chiang, Ryoki Kunii, Shubh Lashkery, Alex Lee and Andrew Wu.

About SEAMC

Steve Warry, an enthusiastic teacher of the Alice Smith School, Kuala Lumpur had a bel ief that Mathematics could be a ‘spectator sport’. In pursuit of this, he organised the South East Asian Mathematics Competition (SEAMC) for March 2001. Tragically, he passed away the week prior to the competition, but the event went ahead and Steve’s dream became a reality.

SEAMC has evolved into an annual 2-day event organised by local volunteer teachers on a rotational basis throughout the region. Hundreds of international school students, aged 15 or younger, and their teachers come together for a long weekend (usually at the end of February) each year to share their enthusiasm for

Mathematics and problem solving. Each school enters two teams of three students and the Warry Cup is awarded to the overall winning team each year.

Every SEAMC event has five common rounds and then the host country adds more bespoke rounds according to facilities and resources available. The five common rounds are:

•Two individual multi-choice papers•A team question paper•A carousel of practical team activities•An energiser round!

While there exists a healthy competitive spirit, emphasis is on providing opportunities to build friendships with peers from other schools. This is emphasised through the buddy team rounds.

Julie Dale Head of Mathematics

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I was worried about something. And that something was the Living Museum. I was worried about it because firstly, my costume looked like Sherlock Holmes (who was not my chosen explorer. Nellie Bly was.) and secondly, I won’t know a lot of people, so it was going to be awkward when I talk to them.

We prepared for a long time just to get this right. We had to know what to do when it was our turn to go to the atrium, how to set our boards on display and how to take the boards down to go to the amphitheatre. I was rotation 2, so everyone in rotation 2 went to the amphitheatre with their boards while rotation 1 set up their boards, waiting for people to ask them questions.

In the amphitheatre, we watched videos about fractals and black holes. They were quite interesting but so many people at the back of the stairs kept talking. We had to learn how to walk to the atrium. We had to walk like those people in the army. When we went outside, we set our boards up like we were professionals. Then, we all waited for people to ask us questions. When a teacher rung the bell, it meant that rotation 1 had to bring their boards out for the parents to take pictures.

My explorer was Nellie Bly, who went around the world in 72 days; she was also famous for being a very good journalist. Not many people know my explorer because somebody broke the record soon after her, but she was

still the first person to break it.

When I went to school, I thought everyone was wearing clothes that looked exactly the same as their explorer. However, I saw lots of people with crazy costumes such as scuba diving clothes and costumes that people made by themselves. Then I realised that I was not the only one that had a costume that did not look like their explorer. But I still thought I looked like a detective.

Finally, we were actually doing the real Living Museum. Everyone was really excited and nervous about it. We had early break so we could have time to change from our school uniform to our costumes. All the people in rotation 1 quickly went to set up their boards in the atrium, and all the people in rotation 2 went to the amphitheatre to watch a video.

Instead of watching black holes and fractals, we watched Katy Perry singing in the Halftime show at the Super Bowl. After watching the Halftime show, we heard

The Living Museum Jasmine Smart, B6.1

a teacher outside ringing a bell. We went to our display boards and waited for rotation 1 to come in. We went out to display our boards while all the teachers and parents stared at our display boards and our costumes. I knew a lot of parents, especially my mum.

Lots of people were dressed as the same person but, only two people (including me) were dressed as Nellie Bly. My explorer had a black-and-white checkered dress with a black bag. Most of the year 6 students had pirate costumes on because lots of people sailed to new places.

After a lot of questioning and answering, the Living Museum was over and now the parents could take photos. Rotation 1 came out of the amphitheatre so the parents can also take pictures of them too.

Later, all the parents left because it was time for the year 6 to go back to their classrooms. We changed back into our uniforms, and came back to our classrooms. All the teachers were impressed at the Living Museum and how we had done. The Living Museum went well and I was not actually nervous. I am pretty sure everyone was nervous at first but then they were not when they were actually doing the Living Museum.

The Living Museum might be the only time I get to do it, so I will remember it. Not a lot of people in the world get to do the Living Museum and my school got to do it so it might be a once in a lifetime thing to do, so it was a good thing to remember. I enjoyed the Living Museum and that I hope to do it again in the future.

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2014 saw the extension of TES Summer School from 2 to 3 weeks and as a result a significant growth in the number of TES students able to join! Also, with the added flexibility of being able to attend on a week by week basis, some children who had missed the Summer School previously, due to a conflicting vacation schedule, were now able to come and enjoy the experience for at least for 1 or 2 weeks.

A record number of students join the fun!

With the new longer, more flexible approach to enabling students to join Summer School, record numbers of students were recorded last year, with 83 students attending across year groups.

With a great combination of new TES students and existing TES students, there were many great new friendships forged across classes and year groups.

Impressive range of fun, learning activities!

The Summer School is run by a cross year-group team of TES teachers and teaching support staff, with a tailored programme for each year group level. The basis of the programme is to provide a variety of fun learning activities which include popular activities like; cookery, arts and crafts, science experiments, sports, IT activities, language activities and the ever-popular Friday afternoon water fight!

For lower age groups: Whilst there is an emphasis on providing a varied and highly enjoyable programme of activities, the teachers also maintain a core curricular focus on developing language skills, communicating skills, cooperating skills and thinking skills throughout these activities. This helps prepare the children for new challenges they will face as they move up a year group for the new academic school year.

For the higher age groups: There is an additional focus to help the students prepare for the various challenges they will face in the coming year. This is kick-started in a stress free, motivating programme which works on skills in: spoken and written language, critical thinking, and presenting. For High School students it also offers important academic and examination skills preparation for English IGCSE.

What the students think of the Summer School!

It is always important to know how the students feel about the Summer School, so in addition to some of the students asking to add more weeks once they had experienced their first week, the survey which the children took expressed a 4.79 out of 5 happiness rating. In fact, the theme song for the summer was “Happy” by Pharrell Williams, and it really summed up the feeling of fun for the teachers and children that joined the 2014 Summer School.

TES Summer School 2015 Growing in strength, length and flexibility!

Carol ChristieSummer School Coordinator

2015 Summer School

Given the strength of feeling toward the Summer School from both students and parents we will be continuing with this balanced formula for the Summer School this year too.

Important Information: For 2015 Summer School

Class groups: Reception / Year 1 & 2 / Year 3 & 4 / Year 5 & 6 / Year 7 – 9 / High School. Location: EPC(both Primary and Secondary year groups)Key dates: Summer School: July 20th until August 7th

Summer School registration date close: May 31st

(N.B. The Summer School operates on a first come, first serve basis, it is advisable to reserve your place once the registration letters are sent out after Easter.)

The cost of the Summer school is NT$35,000 for three weeks, NT$25,000 for 2 weeks and NT$13,000 for one week. (Priority will be given to students wishing to attend all 3 weeks.)

If you are interested in your child attending this year’s Summer School programme or have any questions about it, please contact [email protected] for further information.

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It’s not something to put on your isosceles triangle shaped toast in the morning, or a slow moving queue of maths professors driving to work! To quote the organisers from the Maths Jam web site (http://www.mathsjam.com/, Twitter: @mathsjam):

“Maths Jam is a monthly opportunity for like-minded self-confessed maths enthusiasts to get together….. and share stuff they like. Puzzles, games, problems, or just anything they think is cool or interesting.”

Maths Jam Taipei is a monthly get together that started in August 2014 with just 2 participants, and has grown each month by a satisfyingly mathematical sequence (2,3,5,8…)! It takes place on the penultimate Tuesday of every month, as it does in the UK where it began, and also in India, China, Denmark, Canada, the US, Australia………It’s open to anyone who enjoys talking about maths but finds that sometimes perhaps other people don’t want to talk about it with them; it’s a bit like a book club with geometry and patterns.

How did Math Jam start?

The first Maths Jam was held way back in 2008 and now they happen in over 30 countries around the world. The movement was started by stand-up maths comedian (yes, there is such a thing), Matt Parker, who also does educational talks, touring the world spreading his enthusiasm for his favourite numbers and telling mathematical jokes. By the way, last night I dreamed that I was weightless! I was like, 0mg!

What do Math Jammers do?

Taipei Maths Jammers meet at Alleycats in Tianmu

from 7pm until our brains hurt and we can’t work out the bill properly. We discuss anything and everything mathematical, including playing 3D Noughts and Crosses, learning computer coding, trying origami,

What is Maths Jam?What is Maths Jam? Chris SparksESC Mathematics Teacher

solving puzzles, doing magic, teaching ourselves how to use an abacus and even battling with Japanese Temple Geometry. But that is not all! We talk about: how to generate fractals, how amazing prime numbers, perfect

numbers and the number 3435 are, the wonder of the Fibonacci sequence, symmetry and beauty in maths. We also bring along maths problems we got stuck on or puzzles we need help with and everyone gets stuck in. Sometimes we fail but we always learn something new, and in case you were wondering, 33 + 44 + 33 + 55 = 3435.

Perhaps not surprisingly, many of the maths and science teachers at TES are involved in Maths Jam, but anyone is welcome and we would love to have more people join us - some new additions! You just have to like the idea of getting enthusiastic about mathematics, excited about puzzles, competitive over games and scribbling workings and ideas over any available piece of paper, menu or napkin (left). As mathematician Paul Lockhart wrote: "Most mathematics is done with a friend over a cup of coffee, with a diagram scribbled on a napkin".

Want to join Math Jam?

If you think this sounds like fun, (and it is!), if you enjoyed the recent movies “The Imitation Game” about Alan Turing,“The Theory of Everything” about Stephen Hawking, or if you love to do Sudoko, play chess, and solve puzzles, then get in touch with Chris at [email protected], or just come along to Alleycats and look out for the mathematicians “creating our beautiful little poems of thought, sonnets of pure reason."

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From the second I woke up on the day, I simultaneously realise that my heart was already racing 100 miles per hour. I was so excited (and a little nervous) about what exactly would happen and what I would find out on the Mystery Trip. The Mystery Trip is a trip where the teachers take you on a little ‘expedition’ and you actually do not know where you are going.

This style of going on a trip is certainly fresh for every new Year 6 student because for the past few years (Infant to Year 5), we have only been on trips where the adults and teachers tell us where we are going. However, in Year 6, it’s different, because the teachers (Ms Dalmonego, Mr Stebbing, Mrs Millward, Ms Bennett, Ms Bullard and Mr Cheung) only told us bits of what we will be doing on the trip, such as 'we will be walking most of the way' or 'it is a highly risky trip’. In fact, some teachers did not seem to know where they were going either!

When we left TES, we went on the MRT to Shipai Station where we would carry on walking to Yang Ming University and from there, up on a trail. The truth was my legs were sore from earlier, so when we had completed only the first steep path up the University, my legs and feet already felt like they were going to crumble into ashes at any moment.

After we had a snack at a little seating area, the groups split up to go on to Battleship Rock, the highest point of the trail. The path there was not any easier to walk on than before, in fact, the path up to the Battleship Rock was harsher to walk on, because there were stairs. Soon we were already up to the point where we would wait in the lower part of the trail as the groups go up and come down from Battleship Rock.

As Battleship Rock has a limited amount of space, we were only allowed to go up one group at a time. Soon enough, it was our group’s turn to go up on the adventurous Battleship Rock.

We were climbing up the huge piece of eroded rock in no time flat, it was covered with sand that made the ground under our shoes slippery and if somebody was not careful enough, they would certainly fall! I sat in the space between two pieces of high rock with sand running through it, that made my feet slip very easily, so I had to hold on to the sides to prevent myself from skidding down.

It was windy up there; I knew that because I could feel it rushing through my clothes, making snapping noises as it flapped. The bumpy rocks made me uncomfortable but I told myself ‘Bare with it, you just have to bare with it, how many times will I get to do this!’ After we got our photo taken by our group teacher Ms Bennett, we climbed down onto the trail to travel to our place for lunch, Zhao Ming Temple…

The route to Zhao Ming Temple was not easy; it was a very narrow path with twigs and grass all over the dirt. Every now and again we would meet an intersection and Mr Cheung would tell us to go the main way, eventually, we came to an intersection where on the left, the path goes down, and on the right, the trail goes up.

We were soon stuck there until we met an old man who looked like he was exercising. We asked him ‘Are there any other temples on this trail?’ the old man replied ‘No, there is only Zhao Ming Temple, the two pathways both lead to it,’ After he went off, Mr Cheung called Miss Dalmonego on his mobile phone and she told us to wait

By Euan Tseng, B6SD

The Year 6 Mystery Trip

there at the spot.

While we were waiting for Miss Dalmonego, we went up the path on our right to ‘explore’ what was up there. We went up until the highest point where some people wrote with chalk, ‘TES’. After we were reunited with Ms Dalmonego’s group we heading for lunch at Zhao Ming Temple.

When we finished lunch, we carried on through the weaving woods, I was not sure I would be able to make it to the end, because my legs were already dragging me behind, making me pant and want to lie down on the floor in distress!

At around the end of the path, there was a bit where we had to use thick white ropes to support us to climb down (as there were also the slippery sand and plus, it was kind of steep). Before the trip, teachers have told us about going on ropes, but I thought Miss Dalmonego meant like ropes where you would climb down from a cliff, but it was only holding it on the side to keep us sliding down the slope. I heaved a sigh of relief when we all finished the whole trail and got back onto solid road again.

Miss Dalmonego told us that we had one more place to go until we go to the shops, which was the hot, steamy Thermal Valley. 20 minutes later, we arrived at the huge steaming Thermal Valley. The lake was around 5 meters

wide 4 meters in length with thick white steam puffing up from the lakes surface.

The water was pure sea green and also had a very strong smell of sulfur. We only stayed there for around 5 minutes before we went back to the shops to buy ice cream, drinks and souvenirs. There was one more place where we went, which was Beitou Creek. The teachers let us play in it, climbing on rocks and splashing water all over the place. A few people fell in, including me, and got my shirt and pants wet, but luckily, my pants were waterproof and my shirt was white, so the water did not seem so obvious on it.

The day was fun, especially the food and playing in the river. I enjoyed it very much and I believe many other people appreciated this trip, I knew it was to help with our topic work, which was Explorers. Of course, trips have good and bad things about it, in fact, every single thing you do in your life has a positive and negative thing about it, but in general, I really had fun on this trip!

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Christmas is the season of giving and this year at TES we proudly supported the Harmony Homes Association Taiwan through our charitable fundraiser, The Reverse Christmas Tree.

By Jeni WongPSHE Co-ordinator

What is the Reverse Christmas Tree?

As a tradition, we take our gifts from under the Christmas Tree. The Reverse Christmas Tree aims to take our gifts and ‘GIVE’ them to others in need.

Who?

Harmony Homes , Taiwan- Caring for people living with and children affected by HIV/AIDS in Taiwan. http://www.harmonyhometaiwan.org/ Founded by Nicole Yang, Harmony Homes aims to support People Living with HIV or AIDS (PLHA) by providing them with a secure place to live and integrate them back into society. It often serves as place to help the children born to PLHA live safely in our society.

Children from the Tribe Council went to visit Harmony Homes. They found Harmony Homes a happy environment but in need of some repairs and donations to help them buy essentials such as milk powder, nappies etc. for the children in their care.

TES’s Reverse Christmas TreeGiving Donner Geben 給

When?

On Fr iday 5 th December we had our jo in t assemblies for the Reverse Christmas Tree. Nicole Yang and some of the children from Harmony Homes came to enjoy our assemblies and we presented them with our donation.

How did we help?

The children from the three sections of TES made and decorated their own origami envelopes in school which they then took home to fill with donations of money to help buy the essentials and make the needed repairs.

How Much?

We raised, approximately an amazing NT$185,000 for Harmony Homes.

A huge ‘THANK YOU’ to everyone, it was great to teach our children to share and show they care.

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Taipei European School’s Dance Team, led by Ms. Jill Lin, won 2nd place in the ROC National Students Dance Competition on 18th March in XinZhu. Well done to the team and Ms. Lin for this outstanding achievement.

Swire European Primary Campus ( EPC )727 WenLin Road, ShiLin District, Taipei 11159Tel : + 886-2-8145-9007Fax : + 886-2-2832-5058

Swire European Secondary Campus ( ESC )31 JianYe Road, ShiLin District,Taipei 11193Tel : + 886-2-8145-9007Fax : + 886-2-2862-1458

www.taipeieuropeanschool.com

JULY 20th - AUGUST 7th In Taiwan for the Summer? Your children need something funand purposeful to do? Then join the summer activities at TES Summer School! • The aim of the Summer School is for students to have a fun-filled variety of activities while improving their skills in key curriculum areas.• Lessons are based at EPC from 8:30 am - 3:30 pm, Monday to Friday. Earlier drop off is available and supervised from 7:30 am.• Children can take part for one week (NT$13,000), two weeks (NT$25,000), three weeks (NT$35,000). Registration will start after Easter, registration forms to be distributed through home-link diaries.For more information, email [email protected] (Summer School Coordinator)

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