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How to Remember
Recently I started to read a new book, or at least I thought it was new, not brand new, the book had been read before but I am a great lover of sharing books so a pre-read book was perfectly normal to me. I was about a quarter of the way through when some of the scenes had a sense of the familiar about them, I felt I had met the characters before, a few more pages in and I realised I had actually read the book before!
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Why Play is So Important
Children’s right to play is a human right On 1 February 2013 the United Nations Committee on the Rights of the Child adopted a General Comment that clarifies for governments worldwide the meaning and importance of Article 31 of the Convention on the Right of the Child : Article 31 “That every child has the right to rest and leisure, to engage in play and recreational activities appropriate to the age of the child and to participate freely in cultural life and the arts. That member governments shall respect and promote the right of the child to participate fully in cultural and artistic life and shall encourage the provision of appropriate and equal opportunities for cultural, artistic, recreational and leisure activity.”
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Year 5 Got Talent!
In Year 5 we have many talented students. Including musicians, artists, athletes, singers; among many others.
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Sua Lee, Year 2, Wins the COBIS Art Competition 2020
We are delighted to share that our student from Cidade Jardim in Year 2, Sua Lee, has won the COBIS Art Competition 2020, under the KS1 category!
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Creating Cross-Curricular Opportunities for Science.
One of the aims of international education is to nurture our young people, developing them into productive, global citizens who can use their talents, knowledge and learned skills to support themselves and others. These learned skills can be seen on a day-to-day basis in the most mundane of places. What skills do you use when you make a purchase at a supermarket? Analyzing the health benefits of food, Science. Running a cost analysis in your head, Maths. Considering the implications of purchasing locally sourced goods, Geography. Seeking more information from a worker, the Languages.
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The World Needs Engineers
Climate change; urbanisation; housing; an aging population; water scarcity; the energy-water-food nexus; pollution; global health; biodiversity; wealth distribution; are all major problems needed to be solved in the 21st Century. Therefore, scientists and mathematicians are going to be in high demand. So, what is the role of humanities in Twenty First Century education?
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Driving the Technology Revolution With You, For You.
Technology at BCB always aims at working towards driving the cyber world to create a better future and discovering the silicon world of bits and bytes! This term our children are on the path of showcasing a wonderful aptitude towards programming codes to make different applications. Taking over from Robotics in the last term, designing and creating their own website through templates and codes is what our students are having up their sleeve and enjoying it to the fullest.
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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 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 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 - 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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