European Secondary Campus Newsletter 16

ESC Newsletter
Issue 16
Coming up this
month:
Welcome from the BSHS Head
Chrysta Garnett, Head of British Secondary and High School Section
 3 March:
HS ParentMeetings
Dear Parents
 4 March:
Community
Lunch
 7-11 March:
Maths Week
 8 March:
H2 University &
Careers Evening
 18-25 March:
IB Art Show
Inside this issue:
ESCPA
3
English
5
CNY
6
German
Section
8
French
Section
12
Sports News
14
And much
more!
February 2016
As I write, there is definitely
the smell of spring in the air in
Yangmingshan…. well almost!
It has been a very chilly few
weeks up here and students
have been remarkably stoic in
the face of such cold temperatures, which have been so
unusual for Taiwan.
The advent of our annual Chinese New Year Celebration
assembly, however, always
signifies we are moving into the
Spring Term and this year’s
performance was considered
to be the best yet. The ceremony was opened, as usual, by
our Chinese Drumming group,
who were louder and better
than ever this year, mostly
thanks to a new instructor,
generously funded by one of
our parents, who has encouraged our team to play with
even more focus and volume.
The drumming was followed by
other fantastic performances,
ranging from the ‘Journey to
the West’, bravely enacted by
students and staff from the
ESC, to a professional acrobat-
ic and dramatic performance of
‘The Monkey King’ by students
from the National College of
Performing Arts. My thanks to
our wonderful CLC team who
co-ordinated the whole event
and ensured that the TES Year
of the Monkey got off to a
superb start.
In conjunction with our
French, German and British
Primary colleagues and students, our Languages Festival
dominated the ESC campus in
the first week of February. A
series of innovative events,
collaborations and cross section visits saw the whole of
TES celebrate our tremendous
range of multilingual talents. A
group of students are working
behind the scenes with Mr De
Lange to produce a Special
Edition Languages Festival
Newsletter featuring more indepth updates, so watch this
space.
A delightful evening was spent
on Wednesday of this week
watching the courageous and
jaw-droppingly talented performances of our students in our
annual TES Music Concert.
Always a joy to attend, this
year saw pieces from many
genres of music; from Ave
Verum Corpus to classic Big
Band numbers and musical
numbers like Wicked to our
student Rock Band performing
Smells Like Teen Spirit. Our
ESCPA were on hand as usual
to provide tasty refreshments
during the evening and my
huge thanks to go to them for
their support of whole school
events.
Despite such festivities, we
retain our strong academic
focus as always, and welcome
our parents and High School
students to attend our HS
Parents’ Evening on March 3rd.
In line with our new approach
to parent-teacher conferences,
we now actively encourage all
High School students to attend
with their parents to help lead
the learning conversation
around their academic targets
as they work towards their
crucial IGCSE and IB examinations. I look forward to seeing
you there.
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Message from the Deputy Head
Sonya Papps, BSHS Deputy Head
Our ESC Chinese New Year
celebrations marked the end of
another successful Languages
Festival Week. Students from
across all three sections came
together to celebrate the diverse range of languages spoken in our community. Storytelling was the theme that inspired the week’s activities:
 TES Book Day Dress-Up
 The Atayal Storytelling Pro
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Lunchtime Storytelling
QR Codes - Our Stories
THUNKS
ESC Reading Spaces Launch
Student Teachers – Teaching Languages at the EPC
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Language Exchange Launch
Our Stories Student Videos
ESC Book Fair
Language Week Quiz
Signing Stories – Telling
Stories Through Sign Language
Our Favourite Stories in a
Tweet
Chinese Speech Competition
Storytelling Trip to EPC
Chinese New Year Celebrations
tunity to thank all the teachers
and students who led activities
throughout the week – it was a
joy to see such enthusiasm and
already we are making plans for
next year’s event!
Special Note:
Parents of H2 students: Please
remember that on the evening
of Tuesday, 8th March there will
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be a University and Careers
Information Evening held in the
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Phase 2 Atrium. Our UCC
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counsellors, Mr Jack Shull and
Mr Eric Swan will host a session for H2 students and their
A special edition Languages
Festival Week Newsletter is in parents titled Preparing for the
the works and will be published University Search and Selection
soon by our H3 English B class. Process. The talk will comI would like to take this oppor- mence at 6:30 pm.
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Focus on Progress
Daisy Rana, Assistant Head
On the day of writing, students have only 25 school
days remaining until they start
their study leave and then
they begin their formal examinations soon after.
the upcoming Parent-Teacher
meetings and H4 students
have been engaged in pin
pointing their focus areas for
the remaining 25 days in order
to produce detailed action
plans based upon concepts
and skills which they aim to
refine in the final few weeks of
school.
To prepare them for this
phase, H2 students have enjoyed learning the principles of
Coaching in order to structure the learning conversations with their teachers in
The upcoming High School
Parent-Teacher meetings on
Thursday 3rd March will be a
fantastic opportunity for you
to meet with your child’s
teachers who are looking
The countdown for H2 and
H4 students is well and truly
underway!
forward to sharing examples
of the impressive work that
the students have produced
this term.
As this will mark the final
Parent-Teacher meeting for
H2 and H4 students before
embarking upon the next
chapter of their learning, we
look forward to a strong student attendance and as always,
your invaluable support during
these meetings.
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News from the ESCPA
Anna Durmus, ESCPA
“Xin nian kuai le” to all of you!
We hope that you all had a
relaxing holiday and are ready
for a wonderful year ahead!
Those of you who stayed in
Taipei during the break, witnessed the best weather ever
that lasted for the whole week,
something we thank Mother
Nature for.
a delicious vegetable pasta salad, which was greatly appreciated by the kids. We are thrilled
to see an increasing number of
kids giving healthy and yummy
food a try. And we would love
to encourage ESC Parents
community to take turns in
hosting this event – your kids
will definitely be proud to show
off their parents’ cooking skills
The ESCPA has had a delightful
and share their home comfort
start of the year, with several
food with their friends! If you
fun events and many more to
would like to give it a try,
come. At the end of January,
please get in touch with Adriwe had our traditional Casual
anne or Chin ay escpacommitCoffee Morning at Wendel’s,
tee@gmail.com
where the old-timers and newcomers got together and talked We also had a fantastic Carniabout virtually everything –
val, a.k.a. Crepe Day, to mark
school, kids, shopping, places to this truly European celebration
eat, afterschool activities, the
(albeit with a slight delay due to
upcoming Chinese New Year – the Chinese New Year holiyou name it. It was lovely to
day). We were extremely hapsee so many people and to
py to have such an overwhelming number of volunteer parshare a pleasant morning.
ents who came to spread NuCecilia Cecchia hosted the
tella and Cinnamon Sugar over
January Vegetarian Lunch with
750 crepes! Thank you, moms
and dads, for being there for
the ESCPA and your kids! This
event would never have run so
smoothly without your participation! 700 kids and about 50
ESC staff members were elated
to start their morning with a
delicious crepe and an entertaining video about Carnival
celebrations all over the world!
ESCPA is busy preparing for
many other fun events, including the Secondary Music Concert and Europe Day Celebrations. Please stay tuned for
more information, or share
your ideas to help us make our
events more entertaining. Remember, your participation is
always welcome and enriches
our experience!
See you all next month,
Sincerely Yours,
ESCPA
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Drama News
Rowena Bracken, Head of Drama
H4 Collaborative Project
On the 3rd of February, the IB H4 Theatre Arts Group performed their Collaborative Project. The production was
devised by the students. They had chosen to use ‘Theatre of the Absurd’ to
explore current issues from the refugee
crisis. Each scene tackled a range of perspectives and left the audience faced
with many unanswered questions. The
group decided to combine some theatrical conventions from ‘Commedia Dell
A'rte’ with the devising methods of the
‘Complicite’ theatre company. This unit
of work accounts for 30% of their IB
Theatre Arts grade. They will be assessed on their documentation of the
process, their research and reflection of
the final outcome.
H1 Drama Class Experiment with Costume
This unit provided students with the experience of creating a director’s notebook. They
had to decide on how they would stage the play, taking into account the choices for the
set, costumes, lighting and overall style of performance.
Year 8 Explore Taiwanese Aboriginal
Stories
These images show the students using physical theatre and
mime to tell the stories of the Atayal tribe.
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English News – Languages Festival Week
Jonathan Booth, Head of English
Languages Festival Week leading up to the Chinese New
Year was as action packed as
ever in the English department.
Students were able to celebrate the many different and
diverse languages and cultures
throughout the school through
many English enrichment activities and embed their English
learning in lessons. With connections to all the other languages in the community, as
well as considering the role
that English plays as the international language here at TES
and throughout the world,
students were able to understand the importance of how
communication plays a vital
part in all learning.
and other languages. These
stories and recordings were
then displayed around the
Phase 2 Atrium and using QR
codes, students could listen and
sometimes view how, through
oral storytelling, language
comes to life. It also gave an
opportunity to link together
vital skills of oral communication and descriptive and narrative writing.
Year 7 students practised, rehearsed and performed pieces
from Willy Russell’s schoolbased drama Our Day Out in
English and Drama lessons and
were able to make connections
between the subjects, as well as
beginning to understand the
impact of oral storytelling and
Drama.
During the week the English
team were able to publically
The English and ASPIRE departdeliver some of their favourite
ment were able to launch a
passages from novels to stuReading Buddies programme
dents during lunch. George
during the week, where older
Orwell’s dystopian novel and IB
students will encourage and
text Nineteeen Eighty-Four was
mentor younger students to
read by Mr Booth and Mr Kenread more and improve their
ny. Mr Taylor read his childEnglish. Several Reading Spaces
hood favourite, ‘How the Elewere placed around the school
phant Got Its Trunk’ from
This year’s theme was
and students were encouraged
Rudyard Kipling’s Just So sto‘Storytelling’. Students were
to use free time between lesries. Mr Bracken read from
able to make connections with sons to get into the reading
Harry Potter and the Prisoner of
how language and storytelling, habit. Reading for pleasure still
Azkaban, ably assisted by his
both written and oral, have
continues to be an enjoyable
Year 8 English class performing.
spread ideas and literacy
and purposeful way to develop
The week culminated in Ms
throughout cultures. The Indig- literacy outside formal learning
Bacon’s reading of the High
enous Cultures Project has
and in particular broaden voSchool novella, Of Mice and
been a key project for the
cabulary. A student that reads
Men by John Steinbeck, which
school since Values Day. Recquality texts for 20 minutes a
allowed for the whole departognising the importance of
day or 3600 minutes in a
ment to take advantage of the
TES’s mission to place learning school year can hope to disthemed Storytelling Dress Up
in a Taiwanese context, stucover nearly 1.8 million new
Day on the Thursday, involving
dents in English throughout
words to use in all manner of
the whole school, and act out a
KS3 and H1 were encouraged written and oral communicapivotal scene dressed as charto translate the Aboriginal
tion in school and throughout
acters from the classic Ameritribal leader Atayal’s childhood life. This is a really worthwhile
can text.
oral stories into written English project that is ongoing to enform and then record their
courage students to read more
own oral storytelling in English and learn more.
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Chinese New Year
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Chinese New Year
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German Section Visit the Art Space Germany Exhibition
Sarah Schmidt-Koschella, Charlotte Dohnle and Alice Foehr (Edited by Henrik Engel & Helen Gamble)
On the 8th of January, Klasse 7
and 8 of the German Section
went on a trip to the GuanduNational Arts Museum. At 8:00
am, the students met at the
ESC equipped with only a pen.
When we arrived at the museum, we met Ms Chen, who
gave us an introduction to the
exhibition, together with Dr
Engel. We were then allowed
to roam freely around the corridors in the museum, looking
at paintings and artwork in
order to fulfil our given tasks.
Dr Engel had prepared worksheets on which we found information about the exhibition
and tasks to complete. One of
these tasks was to describe
your favourite piece in the
exhibition and here is what one
student, Alice Föhr, wrote:
painting, I asked myself: "Who
was this person? Why is she crying? Is that a tear of luck or of
sorrow?" Then I entered into a
fantasy world. There were very
funny, as well as sad fantasies. I
have taken one of them as a
metaphor for my own life. It is
about a girl named Ariella, who
was not recognised and respected
because of being an outsider.
Ariella did her best to be accepted
by the others, but when it seemed
hopeless and when she believed
“My favourite piece of the exhibithat she would simply never be
tion Art Space Germany was
normal, like others, she collapsed
‘Tears in your Eyes’. It’s an
and let her tears flow. When the
artwork by Jieh-Wang, from his
first tear appeared, she thought
series Nadja’s Mystery. The
that it was something special and
picture shows an eye with a tear
unique. I have chosen this painting
and is a simple watercolour paintfor my essay, because it is so
ing. In my view this painting is
beautifully painted and because it
something profound. It is not just
means something special to me.”
an eye with a tear, it is much
more... When I first saw this
The museum displayed many
objects by various artists on
four different floors. We completed our tasks as we passed
through. At the end of our
visit, the Head of the Museum,
Ms Chang, told us a bit about
its recent history. Afterwards
we went for lunch in the student cafeteria. The food was
good and inexpensive. After
that some students walked in
the park by the Taipei National
University and we went to a
meadow where buffaloes
grazed. Then we all met up
again at 2:00 pm to go back to
school. It was quite a beautiful
and informative trip!
Further information about the
exhibition, which was jointly
hosted by the Goethe Institute,
can be found at:
http://
www.kdmofa.tnua.edu.tw/en/
index.php?
REQUEST_ID=bW9kPWV4JnBhZ
2U9ZGV0YWlsJllZPTIwMTUm
RUlEPTE3NA
http://www.ifa.de/kunst/
ausstellungen-im-ausland/
bildende-kunst/kunstraumdeutschland.html
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Year 7 Experience Forces and Flight
Amanda Marcon, Scott Powell, Andrew Weng and Yoko Tsai
for the aircraft. Students
worked in teams, anticipating
and overcoming difficulties
throughout the process, while
modifying their designs. It was
anticipated that students would
develop an understanding of
how the Design Cycle works in
Design Technology, the Four
Forces of Flight in Science and
Students viewed Boeing simula- Physics and the process of
tions and discovered various
building a kite through trial and
consequences, such as an enexperimentation. Additionally,
gine that is too big or too small
Year 7 Art and Science joined
forces in an integrated learning
project that saw students introduced to the concepts and laws
of Physics involving forces.
How the four forces are used
in flight was demonstrated by
using the Design Cycle to build
a kite that would fly.
Ian Wengmann takes his kite for a test run
students could compare a variety of kites and write about
these experiments and trials in
their sketchbooks or journals.
Students gained an understanding of prototypes and the importance of this step in the
Design Cycle, before embarking
on their final designs.
Daphne Wu
Here are some pictures of the
students test flying their prototype kites.
Candy Hsu, ChaeEun Lim, Angel Liao and
Hayley Yeow test another material for flight
Yves Dubois, Taavi
Hoffmann, Nicholas
Chou, and Leo Chen
building a diamond kite
to test materials.
Teamwork
Katelyne Chuang, Silvia Fang, Vivian Stocker
and Giselle Feng discuss scale in relation to
the available materials
Ben Grigsby experiencing success with his
kite design
Angel Liao
Katelyne Chuang and Leanna testing forces in
the Science lab
Leo Chen tries the
downhill option
Elliot Potter and John
Wang put the finishing
touches on their kite in
the Science lab.
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IB History Trip
Jade Tsui, IB History Student
As the H4 IB History students
are starting a new topic, the
Chinese Civil War, we all
took a break from learning
with books and the classroom
and went into central Taipei
to explore more about the
topic. Our first stop was the
Chiang Kai-Shek Memorial
Hall, where we learned about
the KMT and Taiwan’s role in
World War II. Glorious images of KMT’s efforts in defeating the Japanese during World
War II were especially emphasised.
After that, we visited the 228
Peace Memorial Museum,
where we were given a detailed overview of the tragic
‘February 28 Incident’ in 1947.
As the museum is self-funded,
the guide assured us that we
were learning about the event
from the civilians’ point of
view. Although the 228 Incident was a key event in Taiwanese history, listening to
stories about innocent civilians
who were executed by the
KMT was still quite depressing.
To wrap up the trip, our day
ended with a delicious meal at
a restaurant specialising in
Shanghai cuisine, in sync with
the theme of our trip.
Overall, I think that the variety of information presented
about the KMT’s role in Taiwan and their involvement in
the Chinese Civil War were
extremely useful for our
course. As history students,
however, we also benefited
from the opportunity to evaluate the information and assess
the causes of different interpretations within these
sources as museum exhibits.
News from the ESC Library
Angela Chang, Head Librarian
The Languages Festival Week
was a very exciting week for
book lovers. This year, the
Library once again invited
the Eslite Bookstore,
Librairie Le Pigeonnier and
the German PA to participate in our two-day Book
Fair and a great variety of
books were on offer to
everyone in the ESC community. Many teachers and
students were so excited
that they couldn’t resist starting to shop while we were still
setting up the stalls.
Another exciting event was the ed on the big screen. ParticiLanguage Week Quiz at Thurs- pants had only 10 seconds to
day lunchtime. Organised by
answer each question via the
Kahoot! App. It was great to
see students from different
sections helping each other
to answer questions about
what they had learned from
various Language Festival
Week activities or simple
cultural questions in different languages. Congratulations to team JoJo Power –
the Library and the French
Jonathan Yuan and Irene DuSection, 25 questions about
bois – for winning first place.
Language Week activities
across sections were present-
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Spanish News
Irene Kuo, H3
FOOD! I can say with confidence that ‘food’ is a word
that catches my attention. The
day Ms Ramos mentioned the
idea of going to a Spanish restaurant for dinner to apply
what we learned in school to
real life excited all of us. For
the whole week, we couldn’t
stop thinking about the dinner
and counted the days until it
arrived.
of his students along, which
was nice. We walked to the
restaurant together with empty stomachs, ready to fill them
track of which dish we were
on and how much I had eaten.
It was an interesting night. We
chatted and laughed throughout the meal and stuffed ourselves with any food that came
into our sight. That was how
nice it tasted.
Though the event was small, it
was special and made me love
learning Spanish even more.
Thank you to all teachers who
We met on a Thursday after
came along that night and to
with delicious Spanish cuisine.
school at ZhongShan MRT. Ms
Ms Ramos for coming up with
The meal started off with the
Snow Frost, Mr García and Mr
this event and teaching us with
dish Braves Potatoes, followed
Robla (from the French Secso much passion and heart.
by Assorted Mushrooms and
tion) were also there. Mr Rosalad. Later came Shrimps al
bla, who organised the activity
Ajillo and many more dishes
with Ms Ramos, brought some
that were so tasty that I lost
Year 7 PSHCE – Study Skills
Ashley Bousfield, Year 7 Form Tutor
As we began Term 2, the Year belongs in an introduction and
7s began a new approach to
conclusion and how to stay
focused in their main body
writing, to prepare them for
the academic expectations that
lay ahead in KS3, IGCSE and IB.
The Year 7s looked into how
to write an effective five paragraph essay with a well argued
thesis. After modelling some
clearly written hypotheses in
class, each pupil created a hypothesis of their own in an area
that interested them. After
doing some research into their
chosen topic and refining their
thesis, they then explored their
chosen area by justifying it with
a five paragraph essay. The
students also examined what
paragraphs. The students covered issues from ‘How the
military can best defend their
boarders’, to explaining ‘Why
students should be allowed to
use their mobile phones in
school’.
After completing their essays
and peer assessing their work
with a rubric that was created
for this unit, they presented
their findings in a TED talk that
then was opened up to questioning by their peers. I found it
incredibly interesting to see all
of the speakers defend their
findings. It was a great demonstration of how each student is
becoming a confident individual,
who is feeling more and more
secure about their academic
ability. I look forward to seeing
their academic abilities
strengthen and develop over
the course of the year.
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News from the French Section
Andria Spring, French Section
French Section 3ème Students: Teachers for a Day
Languages Festival Week saw
its second incarnation this
year, around the theme of
story-telling. It was fantastic
this year to see the Secondary
students getting involved with
EPC activities – sharing their
knowledge and knowhow with
younger students and helping
them to develop a taste for
languages too.
Juliette taught Spanish, while
Abdul taught Arabic. Everyone
present was impressed by
their maturity, responsibility
and creativity. Some even
thought they spotted some
future language teachers in the
making.
Eleven French Section
troisième students volunteered
to give up their Wednesday
afternoon and teach the EPC
kids some basic foreign language skills. They worked hard
and prepared very professional-looking Prezi presentations
for their eager audiences.
Armed with their laptops, the
eleven of them took on small
groups of British Primary Section Year 6, German Section
Klasse 4 and French Section
CM2 students.
Cette année a eu lieu la seconde
édition de la Semaine des
Langues, avec le thème suivant :
raconter des histoires. Et en
l’espace de deux années seulement, certaines activités sont
devenues des rendez-vous incontournables de la TES sur le campus du primaire. C’est le cas
notamment de la Parade des
Langues et du Festival de la
Gastronomie Internationale. Une
nouveauté réjouissante de cette
année : le campus du primaire a
accueilli des élèves du secondaire. Ils sont venus partager
leur savoir et savoir-faire avec les
plus jeunes, pour développer
chez eux aussi le goût des
langues étrangères.
Anissa, Olivia, Anne, Victor
and Marc taught French, Yana
taught Russian, Yvonne and
Sophie taught Latin, Alice and
Des élèves de 3ème:
professeurs d’un jour
En effet, certains élèves de troisième ont volontairement renoncé à leur mercredi après midi
pour donner aux enfants du
primaire des cours d’initiation à
une langue étrangère. Et ils n’ont
pas ménagé leurs efforts pour
concocter des cours dignes de
professionnels qu’ils ont présentés à un public avide de découvertes.
Armés de leur ordinateur portable, les onze collégiens ont pris
en charge de petits groupes de
la Year 6 de la Section anglaise,
de la Klasse 4 de la Section
allemande, et du CM2 de la
Section française.
Anissa, Alice, Anne, Victor et
Marc ont proposé une initiation
au français, Yana a enseigné le
russe, Yvonne et Sophie le latin,
Alice et Juliette l’espagnol, Abdul
l’arabe. Toutes les personnes
présentes ont été impressionnées
par la maturité et la créativité de
ces collégiens. Certains ont
même pensé que se révélaient à
cette occasion des enseignants
de langue étrangère en herbe.
Great results in International Programming Challenge
This year, for the first time, all
of the French Section Secondary students took part in the
Castor international programming challenge. More than
340,000 students in France and
around the world took part.
Technology teacher, Julien
Desponds supervised the
French Section middle school
students, while Maths teacher,
Alexis Kauffmann supervised
the High School students for
the first round of the challenge,
which took place in November.
Only the top 10% would qualify
for the second round. Of our
70 French Section secondary
students, 18 qualified! We
were particularly proud of
Rebecca Guerra, who came 5th
out of 30,0000 competitors in
her year group, 6ème (Year
7). The second round took
place on Friday 5th of February, and we are eager to find
out where our programming
geniuses are ranked this time.
Well done to all who took part
and good luck!
l'informatique et les sciences du
numérique. Cette année, il y avait
plus de 300.000 participants en
France et dans les lycées français
à l'étranger. Les élèves du secondaire ont particulièrement bien
réussi ses épreuves . Sur 345 000
candidats, 18 de nos élèves se
sont placés dans la première
tranche des 10% et sont donc
Castor Informatique qualifiés pour le second tour. 18
élèves qualifiés sur 70, c’est 25%
en Secondaire
de réussite. Bravo à tous et en
Supervisés par Julien Desponds
particulier à Rebecca Guerra qui
au collège et Alexis Kauffmann au est classée 5ème sur les 30 000
lycée, tous les élèves du secparticipants pour le niveau 6ème.
ondaire de la FS ont passé avec
Le second tour a eu lieu vendrei 5
brio le concours Castor Informafevrier. Nous attendons les résultique durant la semaine du 16 au tats !
20 novembre. Le concours Castor
vise à faire découvrir aux jeunes
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Alumni Guest Teachers
Modelling, discretisation and
digital simulation were all on
the agenda during Yannick
Deleuze’s conference with the
1ère S, French Section High
School class. Mr Deleuze is a
researcher at Taida Institute of
Mathematics and a former
French Section student. He is in
fact also the President of the
French Section Alumni Associa-
tion. He joined Mr Kauffmann’s
Maths class to share his experiences as a scientific researcher
with our students.
Modélisation, discrétisation et simulation
numérique
la section française de la TES et
jeune doctor à Taida Institute of
Mathematics, est intervenu en
1ère S dans le cours de mathématiques de M. Kauffmann pour
témoigner et échanger avec les
élèves autour de sa pratique de
chercheur scientifique.
Yannick Deleuze, président de
l'association des anciens élèves de
French Culture in Taiwan
In a week celebrating languages,
culture and story-telling at TES,
the 3ème class went on an
outing which was rich in French
language, French culture and
the type of storytelling that the
French do best: they went to
the ‘L'ouvre 9 打開 羅浮宮九
號’ exhibition, which features
comic-strip versions of master- en langage et en culture franpieces from the Louvre muse- çaise : ils se sont rendus à l'expoum in Paris.
sition L'ouvre 9 où des bédéistes
ont travaillé et créé des BD autour
Les 3èmes au Louvre des œuvres du Louvre. Merci à
Fabien Bourcy (http://
Pendant cette semaine à la TES
www.evolution-f.com) pour les
au cours de laquelle on a fêté
images.
les langues et la culture, les élèves
de 3ème ont fait une sortie riche
Tabitha Valentine’s Day Quiz
Moeti Sparks, H3
A group of H3 students organised a Valentine’s Day Quiz to
raise money for the organisation called Tabitha, who we
work with all year raising money so we can build houses for
families in Cambodia.
only raise money, but to raise
awareness of what we are doing. We transformed a serious
and important event into a fun
quiz so people could have fun
and help people in another
country.
We came up with fun questions for students to answer in
pairs in the Phase 2 Atrium;
questions seeing how well they
know each other, for example:
'How many cousins does your
partner have?' The pairs paid
money to enter and this money
was added to the money we
are raising to build houses.
We have got many more fun
things planned to help the families in Cambodia and I just
want to say thank you to everyone who is helping us – every
little thing helps!
The pair who got the most
questions correct each won a
teddy bear. We wanted to not
If you would like to donate
some money or learn some
more about what we are doing,
you can visit this link https://
www.gofundme.com/4wadxby4
or drop your change into the
'Change for Change' pots
around the school.
Page 14
ESC Newsletter
A Word from the Head of Sport
Kwok Chow, Head of Sport
It was a great end to the High School Basketball Season, with our Varsity Boys Basketball Team
winning the TISSA Tournament for the first time in TES history. The High School are now starting Volleyball and Football for Season 3. KS3 are still training hard in preparation for their Football tournaments on the 5 March. The Sports Leadership Team are busy starting to prepare for
this year’s TES Sports Awards on 18th May in the Phase 2 Atrium starting at 6:00pm. If you would
like to attend please contact christopher.lub2017@stu.tes.edu.tw or ivory.leeb2017@stu.tes.edu.tw, our sports executives. Also in this edition are nominations for Most
Improved Player and Most Valuable Player for Season 1 & 2. Lastly, our U13 FOBISIA Team are
practising intensely for their up and coming games at Kellett International School Hong Kong
from 15-19 March.
Athlete of the Month
Jim Lu making the 3 pointer that won the TISSA
Varsity Tournament
2015/16
U13 FOBISIA TEAM TES TITANS 2015/16
Good luck to the u13 FOBISIA team travelling to Hong Kong in March 2016:
Austin Tsai, Justin Chen, Takeru Dannoue, Freja Hoffman, Ivan Lim, Ben Grigsby, Amber Herwegh Vonk, Sabrina Lin, Kaz Lai, Chris Lin, Chelsea Kuys, Alice Wikström, Andrew Liao, Prince
Dennis, Katelyne Pia Chuang, Leanna Lee, George Chang, Hippolyte Lee, Charlotte Le Magnan,
Virginia Yu, Nicholas Lee, Roman Herleb, Emily Chang, Jewel Lee, Arsalan Mir, Shubh Lashkery,
Tiffany Lin, Shannon Chen, Brian Tsai, Ian Frost, Evelyn Di Rienzo
Issue 16
Page 15
Most Improved Player Nominations
Season 1 2015-16 Most Improved Player
Teams
Coaches
Position
MIP No1
MIP No2
MIP No3
MIP No4
Y7 Girls Volleyball
Hannah Brooks
5th Place
Katelyne Chuang
Rikke Liebrand
Evie Wickham
Alice Wikstrom
Y7 Boys Volleyball
Neil Harris
1st/2nd
Daisuke Kijama
Orion Sparks
Alex Ban
Ian Frost
Y8 Girls Volleyball
Rob Neroutsos
Pool Stages
Evelyn Di Rienzo
Chaerin Oh
Helena Nutall
Lindsey Nien
Y8 Boys Volleyball
James Woodall
Pool Stages
Elliott Gamble
Patrick Kuo
Y9 Girls Volleyball
Wanda Snowfrost
Pool Stages
Shannon Peng
India Lilienthal
Y9 Boys Volleyball
Jared Duxfield
Pool Stages
Junwen Tham
JVB Boys Football
Jon Booth/Dan
O'Shea
Pool Stages
Vincenzo Italia
Toshi Brands
Vatsal Savani
Sam Kuo
JVB Girls Volleyball
Alice Juan
2nd Place
Molly Di Rienzo
Hani Sparks
Yuko Nogawa
Michaela Lintott
JV Girls Volleyball
Ming Chien Li
2nd Place
Angelina Chen
Lute Durham
Ivory Lee
Kimberly Marie
Chuang
V Girls Volleyball
Ming Chien Li
4th
Ivory Lee
Kimberly Marie
Chuang
Natalie Yu
Lute Durham
JV Boys Football
Stephen Weston
1st Place
Rishab Bamb
Varsity Boys Football
Stephen Weston
2nd Place
Jean Jacques Blanc
Ishaan Hiranandani Francesco De Gan
Charlene Chui
Dheeman Shahri Bruno Cadamuro
Abdual Almuslemani
Belor Stockhecke
Peter Lee
Shawn Lam
Rishab Bamb
Eric Hsu
Jacques Hill
Season 2
Teams
Coaches
Position
MIP No1
MIP No2
MIP No3
MIP No4
Y7 Softball Girls
Hannah Brooks
Mixed
Teams
Leanna Lee
Leonna Lee
Evie Wickham
Alison Tsai
Y7 Softball Boys
Neil Harris
Pool Stages
Nicholas Chou
Vic Chuang
Takero Dannoue
Daniel Yao
Y8 Softball Girls
Ian Stewart
3rd
Amber Vonk
Jewel Lee
Megan Wu
Helena Nuttall
Y8 Softball Boys
Raymond Imbleau
3rd
Xin Ray Penland
Obrien
Justin Chen
Kaz Lai
Nicholas Lee
Y9 Sotball Girls
Francesca Simmons
4th
India Lilienthal
Jessy Lee
Allie Hei
Chloe Donovan
Y9 Softball Boys
David Bracken
2nd
Ken Huang
Dheeman Shahri
Dev Shah
JVB Girls Basketball
Alice Juan
1st
Jessy Lee
Vianne Tseng
Jemmi Chan
Yu-Ting Chen
Alida Lilljequist
Neel Bhimani
JV Girls Basketball
Jared Duxfield
1st
Natalie Yu
Kimberly
Chuang
JVB Boys Basketbal
Dylan Bullard
3rd
Kristopher Chou
Tom Wikstrom
Toshi Brands
Chao-Chen Chu
JV Boys Basketball
Ming Chien Li
3rd
Mason Lee
Curtis Chen
Perry Lin
Weir Hsu
V Boys Basketball
David Lin
Champion
Jacob Wu
Thomas
Ostrowski
Howard Lin
Vincent Huang
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ESC Newsletter
Most Valuable Player Nominations
Season 1 2015-16 Most Valuable Player
Teams
Coaches
Position
MVP No1
MVP No2
MVP No3
MVP No4
Y7 Girls Volleyball
Hannah Brooks
5th Place
Silvia Fang
Leanna Lee
Alice Wikstrom
Virginia Yu
Y7 Boys Volleyball
Neil Harris
1st/2nd
Ben Grigsby
Elliot Potter
Chris Lin
John Wang
Emily Chang
Jewel Lee
Shannon Chen
Shubh Lashkery
Y8 Girls Volleyball
Rob Neroutsos
Pool Stages
Amber Herwegh
Vonk
Y8 Boys Volleyball
James Woodall
Pool Stages
Aidan Myall
Arsalan Mir
Austin Tsai
Y9 Girls Volleyball
Wanda Snowfrost
Pool Stages
Jemmi Chan
Renee Hsiao
Jessy Lee
Y9 Boys Volleyball
Jared Duxfield
Pool Stages
Justin Huang
Bernard Yang
Jeremy Wu
Brian Huang
JVB Boys Football
Jon Booth/Dan
O'Shea
2nd
Tom Wikstrom
Erik Litstrom
Bo-Chyan Topham
Luc Pichot
JVB Girls Volleyball
Alice Juan
2nd Place
Annabella Sula
Hannah Kuo
Molly Di Rienzo
Audrey Lam
JV Girls Volleyball
Ming Chien Li
2nd Place
Irene Kuo
Alida Lilljequist
Ellen Cervell
Natalie Yu
V Girls Volleyball
Ming Chien Li
4th
Marie Josephine
Blanc
Irene Hung
Irene Kuo
Marie Beatrice
Blanc
JV Boys Football
Stephen Weston
1st Place
Malthe Jensen
Abdoul Sankara
Junyoung Yoon
Charlie Wikstrom
Varsity Boys Football
Stephen Weston
2nd
Charlie Wikstom
Junyoun Yoon
Berkay Onaz
Malthe Jensen
U15 FOBISIA Boys Award
Kwok Chow
2nd
Tom Wikstrom
Franky Tsai
Douglas Lee
U15 FOBISIA Girls Award
Kwok Chow
2nd
Anna Bella Sula
Jemmi Chan
Hani Sparks
Hannah Kwuo
Season 2
Teams
Coaches
MVP No1
MVP No2
MVP No3
MVP No4
Hannah Brooks
Position
Mixed
Teams
Y7 Softball Girls
Leanna Lee
Alice Wikstrom
Katelyne Chuang
Evie Wickham
Y7 Softball Boys
Neil Harris
Pool stages
Chris Lin
Elliot Potter
Daisuke Kijama
Ian Wengmann
Y8 Softball Girls
Ian Stewart
3rd
Evelyn Di Rienzo
Emily Chang
Emily Staude
Chaerin Oh
Y8 Softball Boys
Raymond Imbleau
3rd
Shubh Lashkery
Aidan Mayall
Ausitin Tsai
Ian Chan
Y9 Softball Girls
Francesca Simmons
4th
India Lilienthal
Jessy Lee
Renee Hsiao
Jemmi Chan
Y9 Softball Boys
David Bracken
2nd
Mika Huang
Bernard Yang
Ray Yang
Sylvain Pichot
JVB Girls Basketball
Alice Juan
1st
Hani Spark
Audrey Lam
Annabella Sula
JV Girls Basketball
Jared Duxfield
1st
Alida Lilljequist
Ivory Lee
Irene Kuo
Irene Hung
JVB Boys Basketball
Dylan Bullard
3rd
Douglas Lee
Ryan Shih
Frankie Tsai
Nicholas Lin
JV Boys Basketball
Ming Chien Li
3rd
Howard Lin
Ethan Chen
Brian Wu
Sam Chen
V Boys Basketball
David lin
Champion
Ryan Patterson
Abdoul Fatar
Jim Lu
Oliver Lin
Issue 16
Page 17
Varsity Boys TISSA Basketball Tournament
Report by Ryan Patterson (Captain)
didn't get the result we wantThe
day team
started
early
and our
ed; our
spirit
really
Varsity
Team
had
already
showed that afternoon!
worked up a full sweat by 6:30
The Our
boys’first
swimming
was next.
am.
game started
at
Some
of
the
boys
didn't
even
7:00 am against AST. After
have theirthe
lunch
andtogether
just went
gathering
team
for
to
warm
up.
All
the
boys
a pre- game warm up and did an
outstanding
job. was
Douglas
chant,
everyone
eagerwon
to
four medals
onestartgold,
start
our firstincluding
game. The
twofive
silvers
and went
a bronze.
Doning
players
on and
ny won
three
medals,
including
lead
by 20
in the
first quarter.
one gold
bronzes.
After
the and
firsttwo
quarter,
the Our
team
relay
also
did
an
awesubstitutes played for the resome job.
Many
of us aren't
maining
three
quarters
and
really
good
at
swimming,
butaall
were able to come out with
of us tried our best and as a
24 point win by the end.
team we won quite a lot of
medals. Our
was really
Following
thecoach
first game,
the
team
proudgathered
of us. in the fitness
room for some well-deserved
Overall, the school got quite a
rest and discussion. The skill
lot of medals for athletics and
level of the next team ICA was
swimming and everyone was
unknown, therefore it was
proud of themselves. Although
decided that we shouldn’t unsome of us got injured, we
derestimate them. However,
were Titans and we kept
similar to the first game, the
fighting like
starting
five Titans!
drew a commanding
of 17
points
in the first
On lead
the last
day,
the boys
quarter.
From then
on out,
played football
and the
girls
coach
to let
startplayeddecided
basketball.
Wethe
vowed
ing
players
resttwo
andmore
prepare
to bring
back
goldfor
skills to guide us towards a win.
the
while the
Thefinals
final score
was substitutes
21-12 to
maintained
the
lead.
us.
girls' next opponent. At first,
we thought that they would be
an extremely strong team.
They had a few talented players
and overall played well, but our
teamwork rose above their
Our last basketball game was
against Pudong. They had beaten us in football two days before, so everyone was determined to win at basketball. The
game started off with some
The boys
played
Kellet after
After
3 hours
of anticipation,
NAIS.
To was
be honest,
we should
the
finals
finally upon
us.
have been able
to beat
them.
Co-captain
Oliver
Lin gave
a
However, wespeech
made ainsilly
motivational
the misfittake which
us the
dearly.
ness
centrecost
to get
teamThey
took the
ready.
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we stepped and
on the
court,
walked
to thewas
centre
scored.we
The
final score
0-1.
where we gathered in a group
The third game that the girls
huddle for our team chant.
played was against BSJ. KnowFollowing that, two teams gathing that they had already lost to
ered on opposing sides to
schools where we had won, we
warm up. The first quarter kick
guessed that we could beat
-started with TES playing specthem. However, everyone still
tacularly as a team. Passes were
tried their hardest to make a
made at the right moment to
win of 14-9. In this game, the
the right person. However,
whole team had a chance to
MCA persevered and the first
play on court.
quarter
ended with a point lead
Our
third football game was
to
TES.
against Ho Chih Minh School
The
second
and they
hadquarter
a reallywas
fast excitplaying,
as both
teams traded
baser. He
ran around
the pitch
kets
until us
thea very
The
and gave
lot ofend.
trouble.
Although
we stuck
were at
tired,
we
lead
was still
5, but
still tried
our best
to defend
MCA
gathered
everything
they
and and
follow
him.a Unluckily,
had
made
run in the we
third
lost by 1 The
goal.lead was reversed
quarter.
The fourth game was against
medals for TES. Let's go Titans! DCB, who were our toughest
Day 4. The first basketball
competition. The game started
game was against Kellet. Every- with us leading, scoring points
one was nervous, but we man- and free shots. In the third
aged to keep the lead for the
quarter, DCB had caught up
whole time. In the end, the
with us on points and many
score was 14-10 for TES girls. players had become injured or
hurt during the game. However
The guys played against NAIS
in the last quarter, we managed
firs, and the first half was really to pull away with a final score
good. We only let them score
once. However the start of the of 25-14.
second half was a little disapThe boys played BSJ for our
pointing. The defence was real- fourth game. BSJ was the team
ly weak and we let them score that seemed the best. All the
four goals in five minutes.
boys were nervous. We still
However, our team got back
tried our best and we successtogether again. Sadly we still
fully defended them. The final
score was 0-0. Everyone was
lost by five.
Ho Chih Minh School was the proud of themselves.
great plays from both teams,
though
welead
keptbythe
lead
and MCA
7 at
thethe
end
whole
way.
In
the
last
minutes
of the third quarter. The fourth
of
the game,
weand
onlyeveryone
passed
quarter
started
the ball around to take up time.
on the
TES team
knew
The
buzzer
signalled
thethat
endthis
of
was the deciding quarter. Evethe game and our win.
ryone played like they had
For the boys, the last game was
nothing to lose and players
against DCB, who were a really
shone on
theThey
courtscored
as welltwo
as
strong
team.
the bench,
roars
TES
goals
in theasfirst
half.ofHowever,
cheers
rang
through
theafter
gym.all
our
team
didn't
give up
the
support
coming
from the
All the
cheers
and encouragecoaches
and team
Tom
ment provided
themates;
five players
finally
scored.
It
was
an
amazing
on the court with the energy to
goal. It was the first and only
outlast the opponent and ultigoal for us.! We were pumped.
mately
getplaying
the win.
And
We
kept
hard
andwith
tried
that,best,
a perfect
season
conour
but soon
thewas
whistle
cluded.
TESwas
remained
blew.
Time
up, weundefeatlost.
But
guess what?
No one put
ed amongst
international
their
heads
down. throughout
Everyone
schools
in Taiwan
was
proud.
the whole year. It was a rather
emotional moment when everyone realised that they had
accomplished what we had set
out for and claimed the title of
the best international basketball
school team in Taiwan.
Our school has attracted regional and worldwide attention with its
unique model for integrating German, British, French, and High
School sections in terms of their curricula, administration, finance,
buildings and facilities.
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Photography
India Lilienthal,
Students & Staff
The Taipei British School (TBS), Ecole Francaise de Taipei (EFT); and
Deutsche Schule Taipei (DST) began around 1990 in response to the
needs of expatriate families with young children, living in Taipei. The
schools soon realised that there was much to be gained by joining
forces to establish a combined European campus. This would allow
the schools to share some facilities and resources yet teach their
own respective national curricula.