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Year 3 Daffodil class continued their Topic work entitled “Paintings, Portraits and Photographs” this week with the focus on abstract artist Kandinsky. The children researched his life and work and then responded creatively to the artist’s favourite music by Richard Wagner. The results are unique and highly creative!

Congratulations to our Global Campus Comic Book Competition runners up: Tiancheng, Ester, Carmen, Kausar and Edward from 1 Grasshopper class. The task was to create a comic book story about a superhero who saves the planet. The children worked collaboratively and created the superhero character, ‘Sea Saver’. Sea Saver wants to stop water pollution in our oceans once and for all.

On Saturday 19th January, 18 BISB students climbed the height of Africa’s tallest mountain, Mount Kilimanjaro, to raise money for the Tanzania Expedition 2019. Students asked friends and family to sponsor them in this challenge and the amount raised was close to 500,000 HUF.

It has been a busy week in the Performing Arts department with multiple events and visits from The Juilliard School.

Year 10 IGCSE Art students are working on Natural Forms charcoal drawings in response to photographs by German naturalist Karl Blossfeldt. The drawings show the fantastic progress their drawing skills have made since September. Look out for them displayed around the school!

At BISB, we believe that the richness of our multilingual and multicultural community is something to celebrate. Our common language may well be English, but our common value is diversity. Appreciating other languages helps us to nurture our intercultural understanding and allows us to embrace diversity.

Students of the British International School Budapest have once again achieved strong results in the International Baccalaureate Diploma Programme. BISB’s initial average score this year is 2½ points higher than the IB global average, maintaining the gap between ourselves and other IB schools around the world.

Congratulations to our Year 3 and Year 4 students for their amazing musical performance this week.

On Saturday 21st April, the Music Department and 16 Primary students headed to Bratislava for a day of music-making with 10 schools from 6 different countries making over 180 voices!

In Hungarian History lessons this term Year 8 students have been learning about the dualist era and the Austro-Hungarian Empire. As part of this topic, the Year 8 students visited the Royal Palace of Gödöllő, King Franz Joseph’s and Queen Elisabeth’s favourite residence in Hungary.

Year 5 went on a field trip to Memento park on the outskirts of Budapest.