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TBSC BULLETIN
Week 26: Friday 18th March, 2016
TBSC Contact Details
Telephone: +58 (212) 266 2270/ 265 5870
Fax: +58 (212) 265 2141
Email: info@tbscaracas.com
Twitter: @tbscaracas
Facebook: TheBritishSchoolCaracas
Instagram: @TheBritishSchoolCaracas
Message from the Head
‘Time flies when you are having fun’: Another term passes by and it only seems like Term 1 began yesterday!
Some events have included World Book Day, World Maths Day, Stand up to Bullying Day, International Week,
EYFS and MP1 Sportsday, IGCSE and IB Mock examinations, Parents’ Afternoons, Model United Nations trip to
Rome and Learning Walks for both parents and teachers.
If that was not enough, on Saturday 12th March we celebrated our annual Spring Fayre and what a Spring Fayre
it was! Parents, students and staff had a great time. The community really came together and enjoyed
themselves. Thank you to everybody for your support. All funds raised will go towards school projects. A
special thank you to the Parent-Teacher Association (Melanie Lavegas, Adriana Tirado, Veronica Vespa,
Johanna La Rovere and Sofia Sahagun), Mariana Cohen, Estrellita Bachenheimer, Pili Siso, Tati Maldonado,
Becky Nicholls, Pamella Carrasquel and Margaret Donegan.
We wish everybody a restful vacation period. Have a great time and recharge for what promises to be another
busy and long (3 months!) term ahead.
Yasir Patel
(head@tbscaracas.com)
News
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@tbscaracas.com: All families have been given a @tbscaracas email address.
Please see the next page for more information.
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Term 3: Monday 4th April is a staff INSET (In-Service Training) Day. Students
return on Tuesday 5th April.
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TBSC’s GOT TALENT: Please note that this will take place on THURSDAY 28th
APRIL. It promises to be a fun-filled evening with varied talent on show! Please
come and support our students.
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Milepost 2 to Year 13 Sports Day: Tuesday 12th April. More information to
follow.
@tbscaracas.com - DONE
This week we passed on email addresses for all parents within our Google Apps for Education domain (@tbscaracas.com). Each family received one email
address (e.g. daviesfamily@tbscaracas.com). The reasons for these changes are:
• Security: Our Virtual Learning Platform, TBSC Bulletin and various other Google related documentation that you need to access are currently ‘open’. With
this email address, only email addresses within our domain will be able to see and visit our information.
• More information: As a result of the above, we will be able to place more information onto the platforms and websites, such as photos and videos, knowing
that it is entirely secure.
• Streamlining communications: Feedback has suggested that parents would like communications to go to an alternative email address or only receiving
selective emails. This will help towards that.
• Access to Google Drive: You will be able to access Google Drive yourself without any permission issues.
• Unlimited Cloud storage: Parents will receive unlimited storage in the cloud. You can upload any documents, videos, photos etc. However, please note
that it remains the property of TBSC.
Beginning in Term 3 (after the Easter vacations), all TBSC correspondence will be sent to the new email address only. You will be given instructions on how
to forward the email to your personal account should you wish to do that.
If you have any questions at all, please contact our ICT team (ictsupport@tbscaracas.com)
TBSC Parents’ Educational and Training Sessions
TITLE
DATE AND TIME
Internet, Social Media and Children
Tuesday 12th April 5pm
TBSC 360 Staff Appraisal System
Tuesday 3rd May 5pm
Please email our Senior Leadership Team (slt@tbscaracas.com) if you have any suggestions or topics you would like us to cover
Early Years Foundation Stage
International week was a great success in Kinder and Pre-School classes. Thank you to the
parents who came to tell us about their countries, as well as to all parents for contributing to
our International Picnic on Wednesday, and for helping your children choose appropriate
clothing to wear on Thursday.
PS-D joined Y3C to learn about
Saudi Arabia and Lebanon.
Kinder F learnt about Wales.
They did some cooking,
learnt to count in Welsh, and
treated us to a rhyme in
Welsh at assembly.
PS-P visited Year 2
Early Years Foundation Stage
PS-P learnt about New
Zealand
Kinder S made
masks from Peru.
Milepost 1
MP1 have had another great week;
improving our understanding of the
world around us and learning from each
other, every step of the way.
Milepost 2
We have been enjoying a fantastic International Week across MP2. We
travelled the world by studying Canada, Thailand, India and USA.
Here are 4P enjoying an American Diner lunch!
Milepost 2
Year 3S had so much fun performing the national anthem of Canada. They also had fun learning
amazing facts about Canada.
Did you know?
The maple leaf is the
national symbol for
Canada.
Did you
know?
Canada is the
second
largest
country in the
world
Did you know ?
In Canada the two
main languages are
French and English
Did you know? In Canada there are 30,000 lakes!
Milepost 3
International Week was a great
success. 5B learnt about Fiji and
5C about Mexico. Great learning,
great food, lots of fun and
wonderful performances!
Fiji rhythm!
“Que viva Mexico!”
Spanish Department
¡Venezuela no podía faltar en la Semana Internacional!
Culminamos nuestros proyectos sobre Presidentes de Venezuela,
Estados de Venezuela, Mamίferos venezolanos, La Gran Sabana,
Papagayos, Banderitas y Artistas venezolanos.
Felicitaciones a todos por su esfuerzo y participación.
Intentamos reproducir algunas obras del artista venezolano Oscar Olivares.
Algunos de nuestros mamíferos.
Korea y Venezuela.
Falcón, Miranda, Distrito Capital y Mérida.
Spanish Department
Nuestros papagayos: ...y que juegue con
el viento la bandera nacional.
Investigamos, aprendimos, compartimos y
conocimos muchos estados de Venezuela.
¡Amarillo,
azul y rojo,
los colores
de mi
bandera!
¿Conocen a
José Antonio
Páez, uno de los
presidentes de
Venezuela?
Primary Computing
For International week the
children visited England. Whilst
some guarded royal palaces
others visited various English
landmarks.
Do you know where they are?
Primary Computing
House Day
The end of Term 2 was celebrated with a
house day throughout the whole school.
A house quiz was held to consolidate the
amazing learning that has been
happening during the week.
TBSC Spellathon 2016
We are looking forward to this year’s TBSC Spellathon.
Mr.Glover along with the Student Council are busy
organising this grand event for students in Years 1-6!
Last year TBSC raised a lot of money and it was a
fantastic success. This year’s Spellathon will take place
on Friday 8th April.
Students will be given 100 words to learn. Each class
teacher will help select target words for their class to
practise and learn. The students will then be tested
during our Spellathon on Friday. Any donation per word
or target would be greatly appreciated and received.
The student council will be working closely with the
classes to decide where best to spend the money
raised. Students have received the words and a letter of
explanation today.
TBSC Student Magazine
Nickolai Birjoo and Danny Hernández have put together the second edition of
the Secondary Student Magazine. This is a magazine written by students, for
students. In this edition you will find everything from creative writing to fun facts
to a brand new photo section.
I would like to thank Nickolai and Danny for their hard work. Also, a big thank
you to all of the students who contributed.
STUDENT MAGAZINE
Empowerment
‘We can complain because the rose bushes have thorns or
we can rejoice because the thorns bushes have roses’
- Abraham Lincoln.
Have a wonderful positive holiday!
It was a fun and successful day for the Empowerment team on the 12th of March at the
Spring Fayre. We managed to sell all the wonderful bags and crafts made out of
recyclable materials. Thank you to all the children in Year 3S and Year 4 who worked
extremely hard.
All the money
raised will go to
support our
school charity.
Thank you to all the
adults and parents who
made this event
successful.
Pamella Carrasquel has this wonderful
book holder made by Year 3S.
Secondary House Morning
This very special
House Morning was
organised, planned
and run by the
Secondary Student
Council. As you can
see, the day was
enjoyed by one and
all! Thanks to Diego
Contreras and his
team for putting
together such a
wonderful set of
activities!
Secondary House Morning
Melon Eating!
Secondary House Morning
Catch the Balloon
Secondary House Morning
Choccy Bunny!!
Secondary House Morning
Tricycle Races!!
Primary Library
International Week 2016
We visited some states of Venezuela in a
unique way: learning different dialects,
expressions and funny words. Here you
have some examples:
Totuma (aborigin word)
¡Qué molleja! (used to express surprise in
Zulia)
Toche (used to refer to someone who is
silly in Táchira, Mérida, Trujillo)
Catire (all Venezuelan people use it to say
blonde)
Cámara/camarita (used to say buddy in Los
Llanos region).
Primary Library
A traditional song was also taught: La pulga y el piojo
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(https://www.youtube.com/watch?
Book Club
Our April book is "Submission" by Michel Houellebecq. We will meet to
discuss it on Tuesday April 12th at 6:30 pm in the Secondary library.
There will be refreshments and wine, and everyone is welcome!
This is quite a controversial book, which surely will make an interesting
read. Author Michel Houellebecq (probably France's most famous living
author) has even been forced to live in hiding after it was published.
According to the London review of books: "Michel Houellebecq’s novel
about a Muslim takeover of France is a melancholy tribute to the
pleasure of surrender. It’s 2022, a charismatic Islamist politician called
Mohammed Ben Abbes has become president, and France has fallen
under his spell. Houellebecq’s timing could hardly have been better:
Soumission was published on 7 January, the day of the Charlie Hebdo
massacre. The novel was hailed by the right as a prophetic warning, a
fictional cousin of Eric Zemmour’s anti-Muslim tirade, Le Suicide
français, and attacked by the left, in the words of Alain Jakubowicz, as
‘the best Christmas gift he could have given to Marine Le Pen’. Both
Houellebecq’s admirers and his detractors assumed that he still
believed Islam was what he’d once called it: ‘the stupidest religion’. But
Houellebecq has had second thoughts, and although his novel is deeply
reactionary, it is not Islamophobic. Houellebecq says his novel should
be read as ‘the book of a sad historian’, but the way it observes the
passing of French secularism is more bemused than sad. There is
never any question in Soumission that France doesn’t deserve its fate."
If you have any questions please email eugeniavvb@gmail.com
Upcoming Dates - Term 2
Saturday 19th March to Sunday 3rd April
Easter Holidays
Monday 4th April
Staff INSET Day (no students)
Tuesday 5th April
Term 3 begins for students