BRITISH INTERNATIONAL SCHOOL OF CRACOW

NEWSLETTER INSIDE THIS ISSUE: THE HEAD OF SCHOOL MESSAGE page 1

SCHOOL CALENDAR AND REMINDERS page 2

EXTRA CURRICULAR ACTIVITIES page 3

FOUNDATION NEWS page 4

PRIMARY NEWS page 5

Exam RESULTS page 6/7

IB/SECONDARY NEWS page 8/9/10

BISC RECOMMENDS page 11

Term 1 Week 1 6th September, 2019

British International School of Cracow ul. Smoleńsk 25, 31-108 Kraków, Poland

Dear All,

Welcome back! I hope that you all had a

wonderful and enjoyable summer holiday . We

begin the new school year 2019/2020 with more

than 205 pupils on board and with twenty new

families .

I would like to welcome our new staff members:

Ms Charlotte Banerjee will take over Year 3 this

year, Ms Maja Tomaszewska will look after IB

Psychology students, Ms Kasia Deja and Mr Jorge

Magalhaes will take care of the Music depart-

ment.

I am extremely happy to present you with the lat-

est exam results achieved by our IB students in

May 2019 session. The breathtaking score of 41

points was achieved by Sanjana Sammadar. In

IGCSE Cambridge exams all 19 students passed

their exams: there were No E and F grades and

43% pupils achieved A and A*grades. Congratula-

tions to all the hard working students and our staff

members for their dedication and passion in

teaching.

I would love to express my big thanks and words

of gratitude to Mrs Patrolekha Sammadar for her

extraordinary work as Parent-Teacher Association

Chairperson. Without her personal involvement,

determination and driving force many school

events would not possibly take place. Big, big

thanks Pat from the bottom of my heart.

The new caterer Fresh Up company has started to

work with us—you will find the updated menus for

the following week at the end of this newsletter.

IB students along with Mr Lagendijk, Ms Tokarz,

Ms Peplinska, Mr Dale and Mr Nabielec spent a

wonderful 2 days in Lubogoszcz. This was part of

their intergration giving IB1 students a chance to

get to know and quiz their IB2 colleagues as well

as enjoy various team building and creative

activities. Please see further for

more detailks and photographs

fromn the camp.. All studetns

arrived back safely albeit a little

tired from the camp.

Warmest regards

Dr Stanisław Kwieciński

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BACK TO SCHOOL

BRITISH INTERNATIONAL SCHOOL OF CRACOW CALENDAR OF EVENTS September 2019

Monday Tuesday Wednesday Thursday Friday Saturday Sunday

2 Teachers’

Working Day School Open

Day

3 Begining of the School

Year

4 5 IB Integration

Trip

6 IB Integration

Trip

7 8

9 Primary

School Orientation

meeting

10

11

12 13 14 15

16 17 18 19 20` 21 22

23 24 25 26 27 28

29

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DAILY CARE in the LIBRAY NEW RULES !!!

Have you got the latest BISC Krakow Yearbook 2018-2019 ?

Please get your copy directly from Ms Kasia for 100 PLN Please act fast, there is a limited number available.

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BISC EXTRA CURRICULAR ACTIVITIES 2019/2020

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ACTIVITY

TEACHER AGE

GROUP WHERE WHEN CHARGE

Swimming Club Ms Ania Nabielec Y3—IB2 Ingardena 4 Monday

3.45pm - 4.30pm Free

Indoor Games Club

Mr Bogdan Nabielec

Y6 – Y9

Ingardena 4 Tuesday

3.30pm - 5.00pm Free

Indoor Games Club

Mr Bogdan Nabielec

Y2– Y5 Ingardena 4 Wednesday

3.30pm - 5.00pm Free

Roller Blading Club

Ms Ania Nabielec Mr Bogdan

Nabielec

All Students Park Jordana Thursday

3.30 pm - 5.00pm September

Free

Ice Skating Club

Ms Ania Nabielec Mr Bogdan

Nabielec

All Students Cracovia Rink Siedleckiego 7

Thursday 4.00 pm - 4.45pm October—March

Free

Chess Club Mr Piotr Kaim Y4-IB2/Parents

BISC Room 15 Tuesday, Thursday 3.40pm - 4.40pm

40 Pln

LEGO Robotics Club

Robotowo’s Instructors

Y2—Y10 BISC Room 31 Thursday

15.30—16.50 1134/1260

Year

LEGO Programming Club

Robotowo’s Instructors

Y6—IB2 BISC Room 31 Thursday

15.30—16.50 1134/1260

Year

Creative Workshop Ms Kasia Trofimiuk Y10-IB2 BISC Art Room Smoleńsk 27/1

Tuesday, Thursday 4.00pm - 5.20pm

60 Pln

There are more Extracurricular activities to come Please check out regularly this page and the display board in the Foyer on the ground floor

FOUNDATION NEWS

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The Foundation team welcomes you to our

family.

Reminders: Have you logged in on Schoology yet? Are you part of the class network online? If not get in contact with your class teacher ASAP! Have you signed the Tapestry letter that is at the end of the EYFS Handbook? Please send this to us ASAP J Have you sent in the Student Information sheet to the teachers? Please do this by Monday. Please label all items sent to school, including lunch boxes and water bottles. If your child requires cutlery from home, please place it in a small case (it can be a pencil case) ladled. The children can wash and reuse them and keep them in their cubbies.

It was lovely to meet all our students this week and we had so much fun in our classes. We would like to welcome Ms. Hallie who will be assisting our FS2 class until our lovely Ms. Gosia Obora returns. We also want to welcome Mr. Randy Stava as the teacher in FS1. He is excited to be working with such a great group of kids and staff. Our old team, Mrs. Wiesa, FS2 guru, Ms. Blanka, everyone’s favourite play friend and, have really enjoyed seeing old families and new. Ms. Kasia will be our Music specialist, Ms. Marta and Ms. Jowita, the best smelling Art teachers in school, Mrs. Ania and Ms. Jowita our P.E guides and Mr. Geoff will be our ICT teacher and technology Jedi. We all look forward to meeting you on Monday the 9th at 16.00 for our orientation. Sincerity, The Foundation Team

Activity of the week: Talk with your child about this week and what they have done. What was the best part of the week and what do they miss. Do they remember their peers’ names? Can they draw their peers?

PRIMARY NEWS

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DAILY CARE in the Foundation 1 room

This year we would like to clarify the daily care procedures to make sure all the children are safe and happy. Due to the increasing amount of pupils and limited space we have, we are able to cater to only 20 pupils per day safely until 4.30pm. This daily care unit will be run in Foundation 1 Rooms (No.16-17 First Floor) by our staff members Ms Ania Mikoszewska (Teaching Assistant) and Ms Beata Domanska –Gigot (Polish Teacher). This service costs 10PLN per day and per child, to provide materials and resources for the children. If you would like your child to use that service please sign up with Mr Olaf (librarian) and pay the required amount. The list for the whole week will be accessible from Monday 9th September in Mr Olaf’s office. Please pick your children up at 4.30 pm When you arrive at the foyer we will call your child through the intercom system and one of our teachers. will escort your child downstairs

WELCOME BACK

REMINDERS Parent Orientation Meeting 16:00 on Monday. We are a Nut Free School—Please do not send your child to school with any snacks or lunches that contain nuts. When collecting your children please try to col-lect them and leave the main foyer area as we have a large amount of children needing to be collected. Don’t forget to login to Schoology as we will be using this as our main source of communication. If you have not received login details yet, please contact us.

WELCOME BACK

Welcome or welcome back to BISC Primary. I hope you all had an enjoyable summer and our students are well rested to embark on another exciting year of education. We have had a few changes to our structure this year. Some of you may have noticed Mr Randy has left our Primary department to lead the Foundation team. I (Mr Miller) have moved to Key Stage 1 for the first time at BISC and we welcome a new mem-ber to our team, Ms Charlotte Banerjee. On Monday we will be having our Parent Orienta-tion Meeting to give you all the chance to meet the teachers and get a better understanding of the school and the expectations for your child in their given Year group. The meeting will start at Smo-lensk 14 and continue back at the main BISC build-ing. Please come along and meet us.

IB RESULTS

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IGCSE Results

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Year # Entries

A*

(%) A (%)

B

(%)

C

(%) D

(%)

E

(%)

F

(%)

G

(%)

U

(%)

2019 85 14 29 39 13 5 0 0 0 0

2018 100 19 30 27 14 7 1 1 0 0

2017 107 21 18 23 25 9 3 0 0 0

2016 174 13 19 32 24 10 1 0.5 0 0.5

IB/SECONDARY NEWS

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Greetings from the IB integration camp! IB students from IB1 and IB2 have got together with their form tutors (Ms Ania and Mr Simon), Mr Bogdan, Ms Asia, and Mr Patrick to spend some time in the heavenly realms of Lubogoszcz. The aim of the trip is in the name: integration. Integration among students; integration between students and teachers; integration and integrity of purpose. We have been blessed with two beautiful days in which to carry out activities, some vigorous, others reflective: bonding games; talent show; parlour games; 'Ms Luboszcz; camp fire; mindfulness training; forest walk; etc. We plan to return with renewed energy into our collective undertaking: to experience the IB programme - warts and all - and to use the attributes of the learner profile to better surmount the obstacles on the way. We understand that the programme whilst it is based on individual achievement can and must be enriched by a collective spirit. As the saying goes, 'no man is an island'. We invite other teachers and parents in particular to sustain this spirit and we look forward to working together for the betterment of our students.

IB Integration Trip at Lubogoszcz

IB/SECONDARY NEWS

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IB/SECONDARY NEWS

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On Wednesday this week, we welcomed visitors from the Danube International School of Vienna. Their IB1 class is a little larger than ours - there were 55 students! Our IB1 acted as local guides and took them around the city centre solving Mr. Lagendijk's "Great Historical Kraków Treasure Hunt", which took them from ulica Retoryka to ulica Karmelicka, Świętego Marka, Floriańska, the Main Square, and the Franciscan Church. The clues were cryptic and based on the city's colourful history. Can you guess which object on the Main Square this one is referring to? (Imagine you are standing by Mitoraj's Head statue)

Once upon a time No numbers had houses of gentries How were they then identified? Keep quiet, as horns possess these sentries.

Answers on last page of newsletter!

All kind of IB values were developed on this visit - risk-takers, knowledgeable, communicative, inquirers, international-mindedness and collaborating with others.

We hope to keep in contact with our friends at the Danube International School of Vienna.

“Fridays for the Future” is a new initiative focused on responding to climate change as a community.

Once a month, classes from Foundation to IB will run activities which help students speak up and take action on the climate crisis. These might include tree planting, second hand clothes sales or writing letters to politicians... and many more.

The aim is to pool the resources and ideas in the school community in order to help us all be more aware and more effective in the actions we choose to take.

The idea was inspired by the climate activist Greta Thunberg and is part of a worldwide movement which recognizes that we are living in a climate emergency and that “business as usual” is not an adequate response.

This term, Fridays for the Future will be September 27th, October 18th, November 29th and December 13th. If you have an idea which will help more of us make more of a difference, please talk to your child’s teacher or email u.odonoghue@bisc.krakow.pl.

Visitors from the Danube International School of Vienna

FRIDAYS FOR THE FUTURE

BISC RECOMMENDS

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An unconventional, multimedia, and narra-tive exhibition dedicated to the life and work of Andrzej Wajda, illustrating the geni-us of this great producer, master of drama-turgy, and creator of unforgettable images. We plunge into the world of the films and theatrical presentations of the great Master. WAJDA - guided tour in English National Museum in Krakow invites you for guided tours in English in the “Wajda” exhi-bition. The meetings will tell the story of the brilliant film director who delighted generations of people in the world and has won the honorary Oscar for his lifetime

work. 7.09.2019 – 16.30 National Museum

Main Building

Al.3 Maja 1 (300m from BISC)

WAJDA—exhibition in the National Museum

25th Sausage Dogs Parade

This is undoubtedly the most crazed holiday of the year. On September 15 at noon, the "Dachshund March" („Sausage Dogs Parade)will set off from the Barbican for the 25th time. Radio Krakow and the Krakow Festival Office invite you to a special holiday of fans of the dachshund and friends of all dogs.

ART at BISC

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CHESS at BISC

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Please sign up on the list with Ms Kasia—School Office Chess sesions will take place on Tuesday and Thursday at 15.40-16.40 in room 15

LEGO Robotics

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Please sign up !!!

LEGO Programming

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Please sign up !!!

BISC Lunches

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FRESH UP

9-13.09.19 PONIEDZIAŁEK MONDAY

WTOREK TUESDAY

ŚRODA WEDNESDAY

CZWARTEK THURSDAY

PIĄTEK FRIDAY

ZUPA\SOUP barszcz czerwony zabielany z ziemniakami beetroot soup with potatoes

zupa minestrone minestrone soup

meksykańska\ soup with minced meat, corn, kidney beans and pepper

krem z pieczarek mushrooms cream

krem ziemniaczany z majerankiempotatoes cream with marjoram

DANIE 1\LUNCH 1 spaghetti z kurczakiem, boczniakami i chilli spaghetti with chicken oyster mushrooms and chilli

gotowana pierś z indyka boiled turkey breast

grillowany filet zapiekany z mozzarellą i pomidorkami\ grilled chicken breast with mozarella and tomatoes

risotto z kurczakiem, brokułem i marchewką risotto with chicken, broccoli and carrots

pierogi z mięsem dumplings with meat

DANIE 2\LUNCH2 placki z dyni z dipem jogurtowym\ pumpkin pie with yoghurt sauce

kluski śląskie w sosie grzybowym \silesian dumplings with mushrooms sauce

sajgonki z ryżem\ spring rolls served with rice

penne z groszkiem zielonym, pieczarkami, pomidor, rucolą i słonecznikiem\penne pasta with green peas, mushroom, tomatoe, rocket salad and sunflower seeds

placki gryczane z serem białym + dip ziołowy buckwheat pie with cottage cheese and herbal sauce

DODATKI\ADITIONAL

kasza bulgur \ bulgur groats

ziemniaki\potatoes

SURÓWKA\SALAD surówka\salad surówka\salad

DESER\DESSERT gruszka \pear brzoskwinia \peach ciasto z jabłkami\cake with apple

galaretka owocowa\ fruit jelly

banan\banana

BISC Lunches

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MONDAY TUESDAY WEDNESDAY THURSDAY FRIDAY

SOUP

ZUPA

Zupa brokułowa z

zacierką

Broccoli soup

with homemade

noodles

Rosół z

makaronem

Turkey noodle

soup

Zupa ziemniaczana

z kiełbaską

Potatoe soup with

sausage

Zupa soczewicowa

z kluseczkami

Lentil soup with

small noodles

Barszcz czerwony

z jajkiem

Beetroot soup with

egg

LUNCH 1

DANIE 1

Large:

Small:

Pieczona pierś z

kurczaka

Ryż

Sos słodki chilli

Surówka z

marchewki

Roasted chicken

breast

Rice

Sweet chilli sauce

Carrot salad

Polędwiczki z

kurczaka

w chrupiącej

panierce

Kuskus

Surówka z białej

kapusty

Chicken nuggets

Couscous

Cabbage salad

Pierogi z mięsem

i cebulką prażoną

Sałata z pomidora-

mi

„Pierogi” dump-

lings with pork

meat and crispy

onion

Green salad with

tomatoe

Gołąbki z mięsem i

kaszą

Sos pomidorowy

Ziemniaki

Polish stuffed cab-

bage with pork meat

and barley

Tomato sauce

Potatoes

Makaron z

indykiem w sosie

curry z warzywami

Pasta with turkey,

vegetables and

curry sauce

LUNCH 2

DANIE 2

Large:

Small:

Ryż z

truskawkami

i polewą

jogurtową

Surówka z

marchewki

Rice with

strawberries and

yoghurt topping

Carrot salad

Kotleciki jajeczna

Kuskus

Surówka z białej

kapusty

Egg cutlet

Couscous

Cabbage salad

Pierogi ruskie z

cebulką prażoną

Sałata z

pomidorami

“ Ruskie” dump-

lings with cheese

and potatoes with

crispy onion

Green salad with

tomatoe

Gołąbki

wegetariańskie

z kaszą i

warzywami

Sos pomidorowy

Ziemniaki

Polish stuffed cab-

bage with barley

and vegetables

Tomato sauce

Potatoes

Makaron z

warzywami

w sosie curry

Pasta with vegeta-

bles and curry

sauce

DESSERT

DESER

Arbuz

Watermelon

Ciasto z porzeczką

Black currant cake

Śliwki

Plums

Galaretka agrestowa

Gooseberry jelly

Drożdżówka z

wiśnią

Cherry sweet bun

GASTROPOL

Answer to quiz from page 10: rams' heads from "Pod Baranami" )