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The Pre-Nursery and Nursery children have been developing their ICT skills this week. They loved learning all about coding and making their robotic mouse move.

As part of our creative writing unit, the children in year 6 used pictures and inference to predict the events in the Literacy Shed animation.

The beginning of the new school year is an exciting time for both students and their parents! The Uzbek BST school is glad to welcome its new students in Grade 1- 1 "A" and 1 "B" classes! The teachers have highlighted the expectations and curriculum to be covered, congratulated them on their studies and handed out Presidential gifts!

Year 2 Sloths had a wonderful start of the year. Despite the range of changes, children successfully entered school life, learned new class rules and made new friends. We are looking forward to continuing our adventure in the world of knowledge and friendship.

Students at The British School of Tashkent, part of the global Nord Anglia Education family of schools, are celebrating today after receiving their long-awaited GCSE and IGCSE results earlier this week. Our students’ incredible achievements have created an amazing atmosphere all across our school as we celebrate their successes.

The Year 1 and 2 students would like to say a big thank you to Mrs Iroda Tulyaganova and her team of coaches at the ‘Pro Tennis Team’ tennis school for teaching them how to play over the least few weeks. It was a great opportunity for the students to try out a new sport and the children had a brilliant time.

Another beautiful day in the mountains for year 6 and more new experiences. The children were very fortunate to have been given archery lessons by the Uzbekistan Olympic Archery Team. After a team briefing, the children were divided into two groups. One group began a warmup with the archery team while the other group continued their Native American topic by learning about and making dream catchers. Once warmed up, the ‘archers’ had the opportunity to be given 1:1 lessons in how to use a traditional bow and an Olympic standard bow. After lunch, we went to a nearby wood in search of materials to construct our own bow and arrows. The final evening was full of surprises. The children enjoyed a variety of shashlik followed by cake and ice cream. There was entertainment in the form of singing and party games. The children then went to the open air amphitheater to perform in a mini talent show. Finally we all enjoyed a peaceful moment of reflection around a campfire.

Day 1 - Monday 13 May 2019 As part of our IC topic: Native Americans, 33 very excited Y6 children left school at 9am for an adventure in the mountains. After a 2 hour journey, the group arrived at Layner: home for the rest of the week! Once they had devoured a light snack, the children were given the grand tour before being shown to their rooms. The first activity of the day was to make and play a Native American stick game. The children were quite competitive and made some very authentic sound effects.

Nearing the end of his first year of University, Nord Anglia International School Shanghai, Pudong graduate Eric Chen shares his thought on how the rigour and well-rounded approach to academic study in his senior years at school prepared him well for his degree.

A powerful online tool is spurring students into building more robust charity and social service programmes designed to create a greater, positive impact in their local communities.

This week we started to look at different types of skeletons as part of our biology topic. To make the lesson fun and engaging we asked the children to guess what the bones of the human body looked like. They did this by drawing the bones into a life-sized outline of a student. Following this, we learnt the names of the different bones and where they are located in the human body.

The children in EYFS have been having lots of fun during science week! They are participating in lots of different science investigations. They are exploring magnets, making bubbles, learning how and why it rains and having fun with dry ice!

Today was another day full of new experiences for the children attending the STEAM trip in Boston. The day started with a lecture about measuring and enhancing performance which was delivered by Prof. Leia Stirling. The children then attended group workshops where they had to work as part of a team to follow an engineering design process. John Feiler challenged the children to design and build a prototype for the desk of the future.

What an amazing first day! The children were tired after their long journey but that didn’t stop them from playing key roles in all of the STEAM activist MIT today.

Exposing younger students to the complexities of global issues will not only enable them to thrive in an inter-connected and multi-cultural society in the future but empower them to want to make greater positive change in the world.

On Friday 15th March 2019, children in all year groups at BST took part in International Day. Each year group decided how they would celebrate the day. Some took part in a quiz, teachers and children dressed up in a colourful array of traditional clothing, classrooms were decorated and some children even brought in a selection of different food from around the world. The whole occasion was brought together by the music department hosting a match the flag to the national anthem style quizz.

Year 3A enjoyed investigating books during their Book Week Maths lesson. They had to find out whether the book with the largest perimeter is always the thickest book. Find a member of 3A to see what they found out!

Students experience both artistic and personal breakthroughs at Nord Anglia’s newly expanded Summer Performing Arts with Juilliard programme

In the age of automation, developing strong values, a sense of purpose and well-being will enable students to succeed in the future, Dubai education expert says.

Where you go is not who’ll you’ll be, were comments that sparked debate recently in the media and got many of us thinking, does that statement ring true for the university you choose? Windermere Preparatory School’s International Student Advisor Ruth Lahnston, Counselor Nancy Gerena and British International School Chicago, South Loop’s Director of Counseling Lindsay Kafitz say students should choose a university that is the best fit for them.