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Head of Primary Blog - Collaboration

In a week when we hear of borders closing and people being kept in quarantine due to a new virus spreading internationally not to mention the UK breaking away from the European Union, my thoughts have turned to how we can work together and not work in isolation.

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Learning English is Hard, but We’re All in it Together!

Learning, acquiring and experiencing an additional language is difficult. Often we try to make sense of it using our mother tongue or we look for other connections and rules to help us make a connection with the language. But what happens when the ‘rules’ make no sense? There are approximately 250,000 words in the English language, of which about 9000 makes up 95% of our daily use. 9000 doesn’t sound that many but it is not the individual words that students have difficulty with, it is how to combine them with the other 8999 words to make sense. One of the most challenging parts of learning vocabulary is understanding what we call ‘phrasal verbs’. Many of us know the word ‘ get’, but look at some of the ways to use ‘get’ that some of our EAL students have been researching:

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The Importance of Caring

To start term 2 Secondary had an assembly to welcome new pupils, returning pupils and to congratulate our year 11 cohort on the completion of their IGCSE mock exams.

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Head of Secondary Blog - December 2019

In Secondary School as we come to the end of term one it is important to reflect on what drives us as part of the whole school community, our school vision.

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Head of Secondary Blog - November 2019

On Tuesday our U12 boys football team travelled across the city to St Paul's to play the national sport we all love in Britain and Brazil, football!!!!

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The Importance of Parental Involvement in Schools

Today we had our year 10 Parent Teacher Conference which was a great opportunity for discussions to be had between parents, pupils and teachers about how they have been doing socially, emotionally and academically in their first year of IGCSE.

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Head of Primary Blog - Harvest your Daydream

This week we have really explored our imaginations as our children, along with a little help from parents, have created some terrifyingly wonderful costumes for Halloween but where do these ideas come from?

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Sailing @ The British College of Brazil (BCB).

This week I had the pleasure of watching our Secondary pupils sailing at The Santo Amaro Yacht Club (YCSA) during their P.E lessons. Whilst watching from the dry shoreline I saw our pupils thoroughly enjoying the experience under the watchful eye of trained YCSA instructors.

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Head of Secondary Blog - October 2019

The culture of learning at The British College of Brazil (BCB) is defined by a feeling that you get as soon as you walk through the school gates. It is a feeling that is not tangible but it is definitely there. When I arrived from Cambodia via Abu Dhabi thoroughly jet-lagged the very next day upon arrival I was faced with a school community that was warm, understanding and supportive.

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Head of Primary Blog - STEAM WEEK

“Creativity is as important now in education as literacy and we should treat it with the same status.” ― Sir Ken Robinson

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Head of Primary Blog - October 2019

"Encouraging a child to go outside in all weather builds resilience, but more importantly, it saves them from spending their life merely tolerating the "bad days" in favour of a handful of "good" ones - a life of endless expectations conditions where happiness hinges on sunshine." - Nicolette Sowder

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Head of Primary Blog- Attendance Matters

Sometimes it feels like ages until we have our holidays from school, other times we seem to lots of holidays but the time we spend at school has a huge impact on how much formal education we have and how successful we are in reaching our goals.

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Head of Primary Blog - Enjoying the Process Over the Product

As teachers we want our students to be curious, to discover things and to investigate. If we want children to be excited about the world around them, they need the freedom to be fully immersed in the learning and to be engaged in following their own unique style they need to be engaged in the joy of doing rather than the final product.

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Head of Secondary Blog - Mental Health Workshop

On Monday The British College of Brazil (BCB) hosted a teenage mental health workshop with over 30 families attending hosted by Sandra Baldacci in order to raise awareness of mental well being among our pupils and how the school home partnership can function to look after them.

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Head of Primary Blog - Make the Ordinary Come Alive

I hope we all had a wonderful long weekend last week and managed to find time just to be, to be playful and to enjoy a slower pace for a few days. I was fortunate enough to spend time in the countryside and to begin my exploration of this amazing country. I really took advantage of the peace and tranquility that being in nature can bring and I was reminded of a wonderful poem by William Martin*