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BELVEDERE NEWSLETTER 25 February 2016 – Edition (91)

News and Events

Diary Dates

Week 7 Spring Term

Enrichment clubs continue

Year 5 Welsh Day Tuesday, 1 March

Year 5 pupils only to wear red to school on this day

Year 5 English Day

Wednesday, 9 March

Year 5 Irish Day Thursday, 17 March

Year 5 Scottish Day

Wednesday, 23 March

Dear Parents,

I am so pleased with all the fantastic opportunities our students have had to participate and

contribute to during this week. Our school community will continue to progress and build as our

students join the many events.

The Belvedere British School International Day was a wonderful afternoon of sharing and

celebrating. Thank you to the parents and families for the support of our Global Village; we had

fantastic displays, food, drink, music and dancing. The performance groups were so entertaining

and energetic. It was a great opportunity for our students to perform to a larger audience on a

big stage. It was fantastic to have some of our 58 nationalities represented in the parade. Once

again another opportunity to build confidence and self-esteem in presenting to a larger

audience.

Thank you to our PE Department Mr Baker, Mr Davies and Miss Cummings for organizing and

implementing our Sports Week. The whole school has been able to benefit from your expertise

in Physical Activity. The relays, the ball skills’ activities, the running, the skipping, the hopping all

looked like so much fun. The students were able use this forum to foster a competitiveness,

physical exertion and development of gross motor skills.

BOOK FAIR and DONATE-A-BOOK

Thank you to Mrs Baker for her organization with our Book Fair and Donate-a-Book events this

week. The school values being able to bring quality books for our students and families to be able

to purchase and enjoy. The donate-a-book was very successful and we are able to deliver these

books to our classes for our students to enjoy. The Belvedere British School support of Literacy is

obviously showing improvements in our reading levels with the students. Thank you parents for

your encouragement with reading each night and promoting a love of literacy.

RED CRESCENT GROUP

Ms Shaimaa our Social Worker is working with our Red Crescent Group on charity events. They

have had some donation boxes in the foyer to receive clothing, blankets and shoes for the

Orphan Charity Group. This will be available all next week until Thursday 3rd March. Please bring

your donations to the foyer. Thank you. Mrs Kellie Jepsen. Principal

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Mr Nick Garrett Head of Primary International Day: What a fantastic afternoon my first International Day at Belvedere British School was and what an amazing display of countries’ cultures, food, dance and music. Thank you so much to all the parents and BBS staff for putting this altogether, as it was a huge feat of organization. I had a very interesting and enjoyable time learning about all the different countries represented and sampling all the different food and drinks. All the BBS children taking part had wonderful national dress and it was very clear you had put a great deal of effort into proudly representing your country. Thank you. I do hope everyone enjoyed sharing their culture and also learnt from each other as it is extremely important that we all live and work together.

Welsh Day for Year 5 next week: Still on an international theme, I would like to remind Year 5 parents that the first of Year 5’s UK days is next week. Welsh Day is on Tuesday, 1st March and Year 5 pupils have been asked to wear red clothing for this day. I know how excited Mr Llewellyn is to teach the children all about his country in the UK and I am sure Year 5 pupils will have a very interesting day. Please will Year 5 parents also be aware of the dates for the other UK days: March 9th English Day, March 17th Irish Day, March 23rd Scottish Day.

Royal Spelling Bee Competition: The second round of the Royal Spelling Bee Competition took place last Saturday, 20th February and several of our BBS pupils took part. I know that all the BBS participants worked extremely hard at learning their spellings and I would like to congratulate all of you for doing so well. I under-stand that the scores were very close in some parts of the competition. I am delighted to announce that three of our pupils won places in their particular groups: Aashritha Karthik Kumar came 2nd in her group, Habiba Ahmed El Sherif came 3rd in her group, and Umar Ahmed came 4th in his group. This is fantastic so well done to all of you. You should be very proud of what you have achieved.

Sports week: Thank you to Mr Ryan Baker, Mr Phil Davies and Miss Hannah Cummings for running such a great week of Sports Days for all the year groups in Belvedere British School, helped by their Secondary pupils. The school was alive with the sound of music, cheers and Hakka’s, and it was wonderful to see how much effort the children were putting into their events and supporting each other. There was much competition for the Tug of War! There will be more on this week’s sports events in next week’s newsletter, but there are a few reports in this edition.

Book Fair: I was very pleased to see so many of the pupils buying books and reading them in the Book Fair that Mrs Kirsty Baker kindly organized for the school this week. As parents are aware, we place a great deal of importance on reading at BBS and getting the pupils to improve and enjoy the books they have from the library. I would love to see more Book Reviews that we can publish in the newsletter to inspire and encourage other children to read more.

Dog Handling: On Wednesday, we were very lucky to have some furry visitors to BBS in the form of specially trained police dogs. Their police handlers worked with the dogs to demonstrate some of the training and the children were fascinated to see all the skills and tricks the dogs had learnt. I know that there were some children watching who were very nervous about the dogs and I would particularly like to say ‘well done’ to those children who were very brave and wanted to overcome their fear and joined in with an activity with the dogs and their handlers. A very big thank you to Miss Shaima who organized these demonstrations for the whole school.

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Stars of the Week

Reminder—Use Accelerated Reader at Home!

Just in case parents missed this in last week’s edition, students are now able to access Accelerated Reader at home! Students are able to read and quiz using their android/ laptop or mobile! Simply follow the steps below: Log in to the Accelerated Reader website or download the APP. https://ukhosted42.renlearn.co.uk/3377066/public/rpm/login/Login.aspx?srcID=t Students should set the URL as BBS-37NC This will take students to the Belvedere home page where students should type in their username (all students have these written in their homework planners or English books) and their password which is ABC. Students will then be able to access quizzes and their bookshelves (showing which books have been read and percentage scores). Please take a few minutes to look at your child's AR record. We have had Secondary students this week re-test and in three months they have improved their reading age by TWO years!!! Here at Belvedere we are committed to improving literacy levels. When students read we see improvements in all subjects. Please encourage reading and track progress using the app. Thank you for your ongoing support; please do not hesitate to contact me if you have any questions. Kirsty Baker (Director of English, AR coordinator, AVP)

Congratulations to:

Sarah Mohammed 3D

who has been awarded a Head Teacher’s Award for fantastic work. Well done, Sarah.

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FS2C Enjoy Sports Day

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Class 2E Get Competitive for Sports Day

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Super News from Our Super 2s

Year 2 pupils have had 2 super busy and exciting weeks! First the children designed and made their very own superhero car or cape as part of a homework project and then we had Sports Day! We would like to take the time to say a big thank you to all the children and parents who supported us with these exciting tasks. The children have loved showing off their projects and Mr Garrett was extremely impressed when he visited Year 2 to choose a winner from each class.

Sports day was a huge success and the children had a fantastic time competing in lots of different races and games. We saw some excellent teamwork and it was lovely to see such enthusiasm and support from all the children!

Well done Year 2. You really have been super stars!

And the winners are: 2A Afan 2B Mohammed 2C Zaina 2D Arij and Oswa 2E Denise

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2B Sports Day Fun

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FIT FOR LIFE with Year 1 Last week, we were talking about healthy eating. We know that it's ok to eat treats sometimes, but we must remember that it's important to eat healthy food too. In Golden Time, 1C made treat kebabs with marshmal-lows and strawberries! Yum!

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FIT FOR LIFE WITH BBS It’s not only our young pupils who are keeping fit and making sure they are healthy. There is no stopping the BBS staff when it comes to health, fitness and fun. You may recognize the faces here: a teacher, a principal and Board of Governors’ member who were all involved in the Abu Dhabi Netball league Tuesday night competition.

We will release the ORIGINAL MEASLES VACCINATION CARD today to all students who received the vaccine on February 14-15, 2016. Please check your child’s school bag for this. Thank you.

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Year 1 We have enjoyed learning about materials this week. We sorted objects into different groups identifying which material they were made from.

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Year 3 loved watching the police dog show!

‘Today was great! Some policemen came to do an amazing show. It was scary but so

cool! There was a group of three big dogs and three baby puppies, who were so cute!’

By Shouq Al Eisaei, Class 3A.

‘I loved the dogs and the police. My favourite part was when the dog jumped in the

hoop!’ By Emma Al Jumeily, Class 3A.

‘Thank you to the police and your dogs!’ By Ammar Al Ouda, Class 3A.

Year 1 Hands-on

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This week Year 6 pupils have been having a very interesting time in their Arabic class. They have been learning how to make an Egyptian mummy and have made their own.

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Come Together with BBS

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Mr Simon Tarr Head of Secondary

Dear Parents,

I need to say thank you to a lot of people this week. It has been a busy seven days and a really productive and

enjoyable week.

International Day. A big thank you from me to all of the secondary students who contributed to a fantastic

International day. Many of our secondary students were involved with the setting up as well as helping on the

day, and some of the more adventurous ones contributed to the performances as well. A special thank you goes

to Malak Dawood, Ana Perez Del Omo, Ali Alhammadi and Saif Abdul Nahbil who acted as MCs during the

performance and to Mahmoud Hussayan, Taher Alkhateeb, Mohaamed Elnemer, Mohammed Al Bayed, Karam

Yosef and Mahmoud Hiritani who performed the Dabke, a traditional Arabic dance. Thanks to every family who

contributed to the performances and the stalls of the global village – it all made my first BBS International Day a

real day to remember.

Book Fair. Thank you to Mrs. Baker for another great book fair. Mrs. Baker, the English department and all of the

secondary students are making literacy and reading a real key part of our school ethos. Be a Reader is now the

message at our school. Thank you to all of the students who kindly donated a book this week – this has really

boosted the variety of reading material available to all of our students. A special thanks to Ali Alhammadi who

brought in two huge bags of new books for the school – we extend our thanks to Ali and his family for this

extremely generous gesture. All of these efforts are not only increasing the amount of enjoyment available from

reading great books, but have also produced very encouraging results from the first Accelerated Reader tests.

Sports Day. A huge thank you from me and from all of the students goes to Mr. Baker, Mr. Davies and Miss

Cummings of our fantastic PE department for putting on a brilliant Sports Week. Our Secondary students had a

great time participating and I am especially proud of our Student Competency Leaders who have helped our PE

staff every day in the organization and smooth running of all the events.

Options Evening. Thanks you to all the parents, students and families who attended the Options Evening.

Choosing a student’s GCSE route is an important event and I would urge everyone involved to ask lots of

questions and use this coming week to make sure they are well informed about their choices.

Resources. Please find contained in this week’s newsletter a list of recommended resources that will support your

child’s studies in secondary school.

Thanks to everyone for their hard work this week and thanks to all our students and their families for their

continuing support.

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KEY STAGE 3

Dear Parent,

We have listened extensively to the needs and concerns of our students and their parents. It is clear that we

need to support the families who want to support our teachers with the curriculum. As you are all aware, we

provide a dynamic and creative curriculum that goes beyond the confines of a single textbook. In line with the

ADEC vision we endeavour to provide learning experiences that go beyond a single source and encourage our

young people to think creatively about their subjects. Our teachers carefully produce resources and plan their

lessons that not only provide the students with a secure knowledge of the required skills and understanding, but

also encourage them to become independent learners and innovators. We are already seeing the benefits as

more and more of our students take control of their own learning and become self-directed and reflective young

people. We have already supplied all of our parents via email with the long term and medium term syllabus plans

of each of our subjects. We provide students with regular homework in all subjects and are currently preparing

study packs for use during extended holidays and summer breaks. To further support our students we have

compiled a list of textbooks that complement our programmes of study. It is not compulsory that you buy these

books. No child will be disadvantaged by not having these books – it is instead as a response to the many

parents who want to support their child in extra study at home and to help consolidate the knowledge their child

is acquiring each day at Belvedere British School.

Subject Title ISBN Approx. Cost

Website

English KS3 English: All-in-One Revision and Practice (Collins KS3 Revision and Practice - New 2014 Curriculum)

978-0007562817 AED 60 https://magrudy.com/

Maths Year 7 & 8: CGP - KS3 Maths Complete Study & Practice

978 1 84146 383 4

AED 55 http://www.amazon.co.uk/Maths-Complete-Study-Practice-online/product-reviews/1841463833

Maths Year 9: Edexcel IGCSE Mathematics A Student Book 1 Edexcel IGCSE Mathe-matics A Student Book 2

978-0435966911 978-0435966928

AED 130 Each

https://magrudy.com/

Science Exploring Science Year 7

ISBN 9781447959601

AED81 http://www.pearsonschoolsandfecolleges.co.uk/Secondary/Science/11-14/ExploringScienceWorkingScientifically/Buy/

Science Exploring Science Year 8

ISBN 9781447959618 AED 81 http://www.pearsonschoolsandfecolleges.co.uk/Secondary/Science/11-14/ExploringScienceWorkingScientifically/Buy/

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Science Exploring Science Year 9

ISBN 9781447959625 AED81 http://www.pearsonschoolsandfecolleges.co.uk/Secondary/Science/11-14/ExploringScienceWorkingScientifically/Buy/

French

Geography Geog.1 978-0-19-839302

-3

AED 98 https://global.oup.com/education/product/9780198393023/?region=international

Geography Geog.2 978-0-19-839303

-0

AED 98 https://global.oup.com/education/product/9780198393030/?region=international

Geography Geog.3 978-0-19-839298-9 AED 98 https://global.oup.com/education/product/9780198392989/?region=international

History Year 7: Key Stage 3 History by Aaron Wilkes: Invasion, Plague and Murder: Britain 1066-1509 Third Edition Student Book Year 8: Key Stage 3 History by Aaron Wilkes: Renaissance, Revolution and Refor-mation: Britain 1509-1745 Third Edition Stu-dent Book Year 9: Key Stage 3 History by Aaron Wilkes: Industry, Inven-tion and Empire: Brit-ain 1745-1901 Third Edition Key Stage 3 History by Aaron Wilkes: Industry, Inven-tion and Empire: Brit-ain 1745-1901 Third Edition

978-0-19-830730-3 978-0-19-839320-7 978-0-19-839319-1

AED 85.00 https://global.oup.com/education/content/secondary/series/ks3-history-aaron-wilkes/?view=ProductList&region=international

Music Edexcel GCSE Music Student Book

9781846904035 AED125 http://www.pearsonschoolsandfecolleges.co.uk/Secondary/Music/14-16/EdexcelGCSEMusic/ISBN/StudentResources/NewEdexcelGCSEMusicStudentBook.aspx?_ga=1.24304188.765722197.1452244263

Music Edexcel GCSE Music Revision Guide

9781907447091 AED40 http://www.amazon.co.uk/Edexcel-GCSE-Music-Revision-Guide/dp/1907447091

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KEY STAGE 4

Subject Title ISBN Approx. Cost

Website

English Edexcel International GCSE English A & B Stu-dent Book with Active-Book CD Paperback – 15 Sep 2010

978-0435991265 AED 121 https://magrudy.com/

Maths Year 9: Edexcel IGCSE Mathematics A Student Book 1 Edexcel IGCSE Mathe-matics A Student Book 2

978-0435966911 978-0435966928

AED 130 Each

https://magrudy.com/

Science Edexcel International GCSE Chemistry Student Book with ActiveBook CD

9780435966898 AED122 http://www.pearsonschoolsandfecolleges.co.uk/Secondary/Science/14-16forEdexcel/EdexcelIGCSEBiologyChemistryPhysics/buy/buy.aspx

Science Edexcel International GCSE Physics Student Book with ActiveBook CD

9780435966904 AED122 http://www.pearsonschoolsandfecolleges.co.uk/Secondary/Science/14-16forEdexcel/EdexcelIGCSEBiologyChemistryPhysics/buy/buy.aspx

Science Edexcel International GCSE Biology Student Book with ActiveBook CD

9780435966881 AED122 http://www.pearsonschoolsandfecolleges.co.uk/Secondary/Science/14-16forEdexcel/EdexcelIGCSEBiologyChemistryPhysics/buy/buy.aspx

French Edexcel GCSE French Foundation Student Book Edexcel GCSE French Higher Student Book Edexcel GCSE French Revision Guide

9781846904882 9781846904844 9781446903346

AED 148.37 AED116 AED31

https://magrudy.com/search/?q=edexcel+gcse+french OR http://www.pearsonschoolsandfecolleges.co.uk/Secondary/ModernLanguages/French14-16/EdexcelGCSEFrench/EdexcelGCSEFrench.aspx

Geogra-phy

EdExcel International GCSE Geography Revi-sion Guide

9781446905777

AED 45 http://www.pearsonschoolsandfecolleges.co.uk/Secondary/Geography/IGCSE/IGCSEGeography/ISBN/RevisionGuide/EdexcelInternationalGCSEGeographyRevi-sionGuideprintandonlineedition.aspx

ICT Edexcel ICT GCSE Student Book

9781846906145 AED 173 https://magrudy.com/book/edexcel-gcse-ict-student-book-9781846906145/

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Secondary English

Students of the week beginning 21st February

Accelerated Reader Super Stars:

Mohammed Al Nahdi – Year 8

Saif Baqi – Year 9

Spring Book Fair

Once again students and parents have fully supported the school book fair. There have

been lots of new books purchased. It’s great to see students walking around school

reading, sitting in the school canteen enjoying a good book!

Literacy levels are improving at Belvedere British School

Students of the week

Mr Kenny would like to nominate: Abdulrahman Nasir Al Jumaili Year 7

Miss Baranski would like to nominate: Omar Sami Year 9

Mrs Baker would like to nominate: Karam Jousef Year 9

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Celebrating Success at Belvedere Here at Belvedere, we like to encourage our students to participate in sporting activities outside of school. If

your child is a part of a club, represents a certain team, or takes part in any type of physical activity, please

send us a brief summary of the event and any pictures that you may be able to provide. Please send to one

of the following:

p.davies@belvederebritishschool.com r.baker@belvederebritishschool.com h.cummings@belvederebritishschool.com

This week we are celebrating the success of Ahmed Al Rashdi (Year 8) and Mohamed Al Rashdi (Year 9), for

their success in swimming. Mohamed was the captain of the team for this event and we wish to

congratulate both students and wish them luck for all future events!

Event: Peninsula crowned champion water polo Emirates League under 14 years interfaces and summer in

the tournament, which was organized over the past two weeks at pool Wasl in Dubai and attended by

distinguished members of the Board of Directors of the Federation and the participating clubs .