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Autumn 8

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Important dates:

Saturday 18th October

No Midi Soccer

Woodlands Christian Cross

Country Meet, 8am

Basketball Clinic (Years 7-

13), 10:30am

Monday 20th

Year 7 Learning Review Con-

ference, 3:30pm

Tuesday 21st

Year 12 Learning Review

Conference, 3:30pm

No secondary clubs

Wednesday 22nd

Q&A session with Mark Hol-

den from DINE Schools,

2:30pm

Silver D of E Parent Q&A ses-

sion 3:30pm

Girls Hockey away vs.

Duchesne, 4:30pm

Informal Concert, 5pm

Thursday 23rd

Year 3 Trip to Moody Gar-

dens

New York University visit,

3:30pm

No after school clubs

Friday 24th

Last day of school before

Half term break

Next Week:

Week 2

NEWSLETTER

Upcoming Sports Fixtures Saturday 18th October - Woodlands Christian Meet, Woodlands Christian School, Woodlands, 8am

Due to the upcoming Year 12 Learning Conferences, secondary clubs will be can-

celled on Tuesday 21st October. Below is a list of the clubs affected:

(Please inform the Bus Coordinator if you will be picking up your child from school or if you would like your

child on the early bus.)

All after school clubs will be cancelled on Thursday 23rd and there will be no late

buses.

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Star of Hope Shoebox Appeal Please begin saving your shoe boxes! We will be taking part in the Star of Hope Appeal again this year, dates to follow. We sent over 1000 shoe boxes off last year and we are hoping to go beyond that amount. It’s a very good cause and the children all like to feel they are part of this, so please start saving now.

Secondary Homework

Miss K’s Arty Imps

Boys Soccer (Years 7-9)

Handball/Basketball club

Baseball Club

Jazz Band

Biology Revision

Cross Country (Years 10-13)

Computer science Plus

Dear Parents,

Please note that KS2 MIDI Soccer is CANCELLED this Saturday (18th October) due to Cross Country Teams being away in the Woodlands.

MIDI Soccer will resume after the October Half Term Break.

2014/2015 2nd Half Year Tuition Invoices have been

mailed out this week. If you do not receive your invoice by Fri-

day October 24th please contact the Finance Office.

FRIENDLY REMINDER: The 1st Term Bus Fees are now past

due.

Dear Parents,

Please note, the “Lost Property” system is now in effect as of September 29th. The system proved most suc-

cessful last year and colour coding of lost items will continue as before.

Each week a list of all articles will be sent to Primary Class Teachers, Secondary Form Tutors and placed on

the British School Of Houston website for parents to see. Items should be collected as soon as possible and

any unnamed and uncollected items will be disposed of 10 days later. The first

disposal will be on Monday 20th October 2014.

You can find the list of missing items on the school website at

https://www.britishschoolofhouston.org/news-and-publications/. In order to view

this page, you will need to login with the generic parent login details, username:

bsh2013 and password: gobulldogs.

Regards,

Neezie Munro, Receptionist


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Dear teachers and parents,

At the moment I am working on my reflective project, which is based on ‘airlines constantly changing their prices depending on an array of factors’. In this project I will be looking into this phenomenon and require some primary data as a part of this; your help of taking a few minutes to answer my survey will enable me to better understand how they change their flight prices. It is an anonymous survey, It is entirely your choice to participate in this research but your re-sponses would be appreciated and valued. All reasonable steps will be taken to ensure confiden-tiality. Below is a survey link for you to complete if should wish to do so.

If you wish to learn more about the results of the research please feel free to contact me.

https://www.surveymonkey.com/s/69KLKBY

Tom Scott, Year 13

https://www.surveymonkey.com/s/69KLKBY

Dear Parents,

We will be offering Free Basketball Clinics with Coach Brandon Pearce

(www.hoopslessons.com) starting this Saturday 18th October, and resuming

after Half Term Break, from 10.30am to 11.30am in the Red Gym.

We are hoping this can be the start of putting Basketball Teams together, for

Years 7-9, but also for Varsity (Years 10-13).

Thank you for your support, and see you Saturday.

Sincerely,

Chris Scott

Director of Sport

Dear parents and teachers,

This is for our Year 11 Media Project where we have to create our own magazine. If you are a women aged

between 25 and 35 and would be interested in helping us out, could you please take some time to complete

these three surveys below. All surveys are anonymous. Thank you very much!

Sincerely,

Eve Edgar, Luisa Hofmaier and Margherita Constestabili

Year 11

https://www.surveymonkey.com/s/85DR9L6

https://www.surveymonkey.com/s/85SDKFQ

https://www.surveymonkey.com/s/8P6NJQM


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Upcoming end of unit tests in Maths for KS3 and KS4:

Year 7 – Tuesday 21st October

Year 8 –Wednesday 22nd October


Year 10 –Thursday 23rd October


http://www.hoopslessons.com

https://www.surveymonkey.com/s/85DR9L6

https://www.surveymonkey.com/s/85SDKFQ

https://www.surveymonkey.com/s/8P6NJQM


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The Porcupines have been designing and constructing their own circus tents this week.

It was important to understand how tiered seating in a circus allows all members of the

audience to have a great view of the show. The class experimented by creating differ-

ent styles of seating using lego bricks. The planning stage involved consideration of dif-

ferent materials to join the structure such as tape, staples and glue. The class experi-

mented to decide which was stronger. Creating structural supports was the first step of

construction. The Porcupines built different style supports and had to adapt their plans

if they were not able to hold the shape. Finally, the circus tents needed to be covered

to ensure protection from the elements. The Porcupines did a great job and are looking

forward to making puppets next week to go inside their own circus tents.

Miss Chloe Hamilton


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Dear parents,

I would like to invite BISH parents to a presentation given by myself about the school Moodle and

the Global Classroom. The Moodle is an online area that BISH staff will use to set homework and

host resources and the Global Classroom is produced by Nord Anglia to give students opportunities

beyond their normal school curriculum.

This will take place on Thursday 6th November at 8.30am in the main hall. As a taster I have pro-

duced a short screen cast going over some of the basics aspects of the Moodle site. Type in this ad-

dress to access it: http://quick.as/ry0ptyjq

I would also like to refer back to the notes I put in last week’s newsletter about security, which are

below:

Keep your login information a secret; do not allow others to use it to access the Global Class-

room. Everyone needs to know that you are who your profile says you are.

Don’t share any personal information outside your private profile e.g. email address, telephone

number, Skype address. This is to prevent you from receiving any unwanted communication.

Show consideration for others and their ideas and respond to their messages in a thoughtful and

respectful manner. Bullying will not be tolerated.

I would also like to add:

Students should ensure that the password they have chosen is not something that could be eas-

ily guessed by someone (e.g. name, age, address).

Carl Newman

Senior Leader: Learning Technologies

Teacher of History & TOK


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BISH Cross Country: St. John’s Ramble Saturday 11th October: TC Jester Park

Well Done to all runners who participated in last weekend’s St. John’s Ramble at TC Jester Park. The early morning

was VERY humid for our JV runners, but managed to cool off significantly for our Middle School runners, who just

managed to dodge a thunderstorm, much to the relief of the staff and parents watching! Our students were in

amongst the medals again with Sophie Anderson and Milly Nesom in the JV Girls Race, as well as Georgia Anderson

and Kristina Price in the Middle School Girls category.

Year 8 Boys:

Sam Saragoussi 12th

Cameron Ramsay 36th

Konstantin Hofmeier 45th

Year 8 Girls:

Georgia Anderson 2nd

Kristina Price 6th

Jayden Webba-Marques 24th

Year 9 Boys:

Ronan Moore 18th

Emmet Moore 19th

Lorcan Moore 46th

AOS Dolphin Dash Tuesday 14th October: TC Jester Park

Our Middle School runners took center stage as they participated in the

annual AOS Dolphin Dash at TC Jester Park.

There were some outstanding individual performances over the 1.5 mile

course, especially from the 7th Grade Girls Team of Georgia Anderson,

Kristina Price and Jayden Webba-Marques.

Well Done to all involved, and thank you again to our parents who came to

cheer us on!

Junior Varsity Girls – 2 Miles

Sophie Anderson 10th / 51 16 mins 10 secs

Milly Nesom 11th / 51 16 mins 14 secs

Freshmen Boys – 3 Miles

Lewis Cushnie 64th / 98 23 mins 46 secs

Blair McClure 70th / 98 24 mins 29 secs

Alfie Cook 92nd / 98 28 mins 31 secs

Middle School Girls - 2 Miles

Georgia Anderson 7th / 97 14 mins 32 secs

Kristina Price 14th / 97 15 mins 08 secs

Jayden Webba-Marques 20th / 97 15 mins 47 secs

Emily Price 33rd / 97 16 mins 54 secs

Middle School Boys – 2 Miles

Sam Saragoussi 26th / 141 14 mins 03 secs

Ronan Moore 35th / 141 14 mins 16 secs

Emmet Moore 41st / 141 14 mins 24 secs

Cameron Ramsay 55th / 141 15 mins 08 secs

Konstantin Hofmaier 74th / 141 15 mins 44 secs

Lorcan Moore 91st / 141 16 mins 19 secs


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Following a record turnout of 35 hopeful upper school students at Varsity Football tryouts, Coaches Wright

and Franklin have named a PROVISIONAL 23 man Bulldogs squad for the season. The final squad will be

named just after Half Term Break. Congratulations to the following young men:

Jonathon McBain Edoardo Muzzi

Matthew Fursey Andrew Fursey

Sam Verlander David Helmore (Vice Captain)

Chris Chew Lewis Blackett

Doyle O’Neill Matt Marin

Wei-Jei Wong Fraser McCallum

Michael Gresswell Kieran Gavaghan

Connor McLean Harry Tong

Tom Millar Stuart Close

Nathan Millar Thomas Wheeler

Lewis Cushnie Jordan Egan (Captain)

Tiago Tertuliano

Furthermore, Coaches Wright and Franklin have named Jordan Egan (Year 13) and David Helmore (Year

11) as Captain and Vice-Captain respectively to lead the charge this winter season.

Congrats! (left to right): Coach Franklin, Jordan Egan, David Helmore, Coach Wright

Many thanks to all boys who made the selection process so difficult this year. There will be further opportu-nities to participate in Varsity Basketball.


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This Tuesday saw our re-match against St. John’s. Since our last game, we have been practicing our posi-

tioning, stick work and hits. The girls were ready and rearing to go. With the cooler weather on our side,

they were in high spirits.

The first half saw excellent defence from Georgia Mook applying lots of pressure on their strikers, as well as

Sophie Anderson being able to clear the ball out of the danger zone. Elisabeth Dubus once again worked

tirelessly in the goal and by half time we had only conceded three. (It was four in our first game).

Shivani Banjeree played excellently out on the wing, assertively aggressive in her tackles and Pluk Korsen

worked tirelessly in the centre midfield bringing the ball up the pitch.

In the second half, our legs grew tired and there was no stopping the mighty St.

John’s team as they had a whole new army of substitutes, where

as we only had three.

The final score was 6-0 and even with the same score line as our first game, the

girls looked much more like a team on the pitch and have impressively increased

their skills over the last few training sessions.

We have one final game scheduled this season against Duchesne next Wednesday;

we are drafting in some girls from the Junior Varsity team to help increase our

squad….watch the newsletter next week!

Miss Watson

Miss Dickson

The team: Shivani Banerjee, Samantha Lewthwaite, Daphne Chiew, Elisabeth Dubus, Anya

Adamson, Puck Van De Ven, Florence Williams, Olivia Williams, Sophie Anderson, Hannah

Anderson, Emma Harvey, Pluk Korsen, Georgia Mook and Emily Taylor.


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Join the PTSA as we celebrate the harvest with games, foods, crafts and fun for the whole family.

Volunteers and co-ordinators of activities are needed on the day. To see a list of activities and to sign up to help click here www.SignUpGenius.com/go/10C0B4CACA82AA2FA7-harvest

http://www.SignUpGenius.com/go/10C0B4CACA82AA2FA7-harvest


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