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APRIL 2016 Seventy Sixth Edition

GUIDING STATEMENT OF

THE BRITISH INTERNATIONAL SCHOOL ISTANBUL

The British International School Istanbul provides a caring

international environment, fostering cultural diversity. Individual

students achieve their full academic potential, inspired to become

lifelong learners and responsible citizens of the global community.

BISI COMMUNITY NEWSLETTER

YOUR COMMUNITY! YOUR NEWS!

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Message from the Pre/Primary School

As our Guiding Statements encourage, we are dedicated to ‘educate students in a stimulating environ-ment to the highest possible standards’, we are committed to ‘strive for continuous improvement’ and ‘obtain accreditation from international organisations’. To this end, the school undertook its second British Standards Overseas (BSO) inspection using the service provider School Inspection Service (SIS). This type of inspection will now occur every three years and demonstrates our commitment to continuous school improvement. The report will be published shortly. Before the Spring holiday, all the Key Stage 2 children participated in our Cross Country sporting event. The most successful runners were chosen to compete in the Istanbul Schools’ League (ISL) against other schools in Istanbul. Mr Huegel, Head of PE, and his team, organised the ISL Cross Country event in the Belgrade Forest. Our students performed exceptionally well: congratulations students! As our Guiding Statements inspire, we ‘educate students to be respectful of, and knowledgeable about, and be involved in their local and international communities’. The PTA asked families to send in stationery gifts for children in the local community as part of the Children’s Day celebrations. These gifts were taken to our local council for them to distribute to the most needy. We appreciate your donations. Miss Tomoko and Mr. Pete have amplified our Creative Arts programme this year. In Zekeriyaköy, elected children from the Primary School demonstrated their talents at our Creative Arts assembly. In the City, a selection of Key Stage Two children demonstrated their talents during our Music assembly. The children performed outstandingly well and captivated their audience. Well done students! The Year 5 children zoomed off to Space Camp! After a short delay, the children were on their way to Izmir. Beth from Space Camp met them and they were shown to their rooms. They thoroughly enjoyed all the activities on offer at Space Camp; exploring gravity and building their own rockets! Many thanks to the Year 4/5 teachers for accompanying the children and looking after them so well. Finally, a date for your diaries! Our Fun Day is on Saturday 4 June this year. Please come to the Zekeriay-koy Campus and enjoy a day out with your children. There will be games and activities stalls, a wonderful stage set for our children to perform, bouncy castles, climbing walls and much more! We hope you enjoy this month’s Newsletter. Best regards Amanda Ilhan Richard I’Anson Pre and Primary School Deputy Director Pre and Primary School Director

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Etiler—Preschool Trip

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As part of our Science and Geography work, all of Alkent Campus visited

Emirgan Park.

Not only did we admire the beautiful tulips, we studied different things.

EYFS and Year 1 looked at all the different plants and changes in the trees

during the different seasons.

Year 2 looked for man-made and natural features throughout the park.

It was a lovely sunny day and fun was had by all!

Alison Guzel.

Alkent—Emirgan Park Trip

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Etiler—Year 3 Trip

3G in the rainforest at Florya Aquarium

We ventured forth armed only with clipboards and Ahmed and Miss Filiz’s cameras (ooh and some cook-

ies). We saw plenty of fish (no surprises there) but Russian Sturgeons in the Maramara Sea? We raced past

sharks and the Antarctic on our trek. Would we see piranhas, caiman, jaguars?

It was wet and hot. We were welcomed by an anaconda…and the fragrance of the capybara- pooh! The trees

were huge and there were lots and lots of plants. Then we saw the red-bellied piranhas in the tank. Nature-

photographer Ahmed snapped them quickly.

The children drew and labelled and noted and looked and oohed and aahed, and finally posed for a class

photo.

The rainforest is very different from Istanbul, we decided.

Carolyn Guven

Year 3G Etiler.

A Toucon

Capybara

Listening to Miss Guven

Look at that!

LOTS of plants!

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Macaws! Not too close to the anaconda!

Red-bellied piranha

Serious discussion

Sketch those leaf shapes

Sketching & labelling Tired and forms completed

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Primary—ISL Cross Country

ISL Results 2016 Primary TOP 0 12-Apr-2016

Place Y3-Y5 GIRLS Y3-Y5 BOYS Y6 GIRLS Y6 BOYS

1 Loryn Pieter Elisa Lucasa

2 Stefanie Deniz Alisha Andres

3 Louise Alessandro Lara (CITY) Lorenzo (MEF)

4 Aylin William R. Yumin Olof

5 Luise Kaya (MEF) Anna Ryan (MEF)

6 Eul Sol Hangyul Kayra (MEF) William H.

7 Thais Artie (CITY) MAYA (MEF) Sergio (MEF)

8 Mara (CITY) Pier Tayla (MEF)

9 Amelie Ruben (MEF) Theo S.

10 Julia Sungjin Giovanni

On Tuesday 12 April approximately 60 runners from our Primary school participated in the 2016 ISL cross country race. All the students did very well!

Christian Huegel

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Secondary—ISL Cross Country

On the 25 April our students took part in the ISL Cross Country at the Belgrad Forest.

Senior Boys 4km 2016 – Points total: IGA (54), BISI (33), IICS (30), MEF (3)

Senior Girls 4km 2016 – Points total: IICS (21), BISI (4), MEF (3)

Position Name Time School Points

1 Ismar 15.24 BISI 15

2 Nahar 15.27 IGA 14

3 Louis 15.38 BISI 13

4 Luke 15.47 IGA 12

5 Blake 15.49 IGA 11

6 Tobin 17.25 IGA 10

7 Philipp 17.49 IICS 9

8 Efe 18.06 IICS 8

9 Lukas 18.18 IICS 7

10 Yorgo 18.23 IICS 6

11 Enrico 18.43 BISI 5

12 Clayton 19.56 IGA 4

13 Levi 22.35 IGA 3

14 Jun Hee 22.58 MEF 2

15 Alberto 22.59 MEF 1


1 Makato 19.32 IICS 7

2 Manon 19.56 IICS 6

3 Svea 20.05 IICS 5

4 Nadia 20.53 BISI 4

5 Selin 22.44 IICS 3

6 Keely 31.42 MEF 2

7 Selin 31.44 MEF 1

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Junior Boys 4km 2016 – Points total : BISI (52), MEF (34), IICS (23)

Junior Girls 4km 2016 – Points total: BISI (59), IICS (33), MEF (34)


1 Yusef 17.13 BISI 15

2 Sehwa Jung 17.19 IICS 14

3 Nicholas P 17.28 BISI 13

4 James P 17.30 BISI 12

5 Sardor 18.11 MEF 11

6 Rezo 18.20 MEF 10

7 Max G 18.24 BISI 9

8 Eren S 18.25 BISI 8

9 Tom 18.57 MEF 7

10 Lorenzo 19.00 IICS 6

11 Matthew 19.46 MEF 5

12 Seung Joon 20.02 MEF 4

13 Henry 20.08 MEF 3

14 Pietro 20.41 BISI 2

15 Rijk 21.05 IICS 1


1 Alice 19.03 IICS 15

2 Evy 19.19 BISI 14

3 Rebeca 19.38 MEF 13

4 Elise 20.13 BISI 12

5 Olivia 20.21 BISI 11

6 Fernanda 20.23 BISI 10

7 Emma 21.33 MEF 9

8 Dafna 22.06 IICS 8


10 Caitlin 22.13 MEF 6

11 Hazal 22.53 BIS 5

12 Victoria 22.53 BIS 4

13 Pelin 23.15 BIS 3

14 Yinka 23.26 IICS 2

15 Koosje 24.43 IICS 1

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Open Boys 6km 2016 – Points total: BISI (46), IICS (32), MEF (26), IGA (15)

Open Girls 6km 2016 – Points total: IICS (71), BISI (28), MEF (15)

Overall totals 2016:

Thank you to all the schools for attending and participating!


1 Nahar 27.11 IGA 15

2 Ismar 27.28 BISI 14

3 Sardor 31.12 MEF 13

4 Louis 32.09 BISI 12

5 Enrico 33.29 BISI 11

6 Mathew 34.51 MEF 10

7 Eren 36.30 BISI 9

8 Rijk 36.49 IICS 8

9 Lorenze 37.02 IICS 7

10 Lukas 37.11 IICS 6

11 Philipp 37.11 IICS 5

12 Yorgo 37.32 IICS 4

13 Henry 38.08 MEF 3

14 Efe 46.50 IICS 2


1 Rebeca 32.10 MEF 15

2 Manon 32.54 IICS 14

3 Nadia 33.18 BISI 13

4 Svea 34.10 IICS 12

5 Alice 43.48 IICS 11

6 Yinka 44.10 IICS 10

7 Dafna 46.50 IICS 9

8 Olivia 48.04 BISI 8

9 Fernanda 48.37 BISI 7


11 Azita 49.50 IICS 5

12 Koosje 49.55 IICS 4

1ST BISI 222 pts

2ND IICS 210 pts

3RD MEF 115 pts

4TH IGA 69 pts

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Secondary—Women’s Tennis Championships

Tennis tr ips for Years 7 to 10 were organised for our students to watch some of the top female tennis players in the wor ld

circuit.

Monday 18 April: Year 7 students got to experience the opening game of the tournament with 2 of our students involved with the coin toss on centre

court with the players.

DAYANA Yastremska (Ukraine) v NAO Hibino (Japan)

Tuesday 19 April:

Year 8 students got the opportunity to have a tennis clinic from one of the pro's , (Sara Tomic from Australia)

Later watching another singles match of the tournament

MARIA Sakkari (Greece) v ANNA Schmiedlova (Slovakia)

Wednesday 20 April: Year 9 students were involved with some video recording for the players and a ball search in the ball pit for some signed tennis

balls. Later watching a DOUBLES game

REKA Luca (Hungary) / MARYNA Zanevska (Ukraine)

v CAGLA Buyukakcay (Turkey) / ANNA Schiedlova (Slovakia)

Friday 22 April: Year 10's had the opportunity to play with giant size tennis rackets (which was lots of fun) Again they all got to play tennis with

some professional coaching available. Doubles game played:

NATELA Dzalamidze / VERONIKA Kudermetova (Russia) v ANDREEA Mitu (Romania) / IPEK Soylu (Turkey)

Overall, a fantastic week of tennis and a great opportunity for our kids to see some world class sport.

Sandra Scotland

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Secondary—Badminton at IICS

1st day back after the spring holiday was the Senior

Badminton tournament, held at Istanbul International Com-

munity School, Hadimkoy.

BISI had 4 girls and 4 boys entered for the competition,

All students played singles, doubles and mixed doubles - so

lots of badminton was played throughout the day, (with each

game we scored more points, played better shots and learned

more rules!)

MIXED TEAMS Cenk Karabulut / Selin Cetin

Enrico Sessia / Nadia Klomp

Louis Dereboy / Emily Holdcroft

Ashutosh Bhadouria / Olivia Alatan

Well done to all.

Sandra Scotland

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Secondary—ISL Volleyball at IICS

On Tuesday 26th and Wednesday 27th April, our junior boys and girls volleyball teams competed in the ISL

tournament at IICS. Despite improving tremendously over the course of the day, our boys finished in 4th

place but this was after taking the top 3 teams to very close sets in all matches AND taking the 1st place team

to very close third set. Our girls finished in 2nd place overall and narrowly missed the 1st place spot on a 25-

23 and 25-21 defeat.

Congratulations to both squads and the best of luck next year!

Miss Bell & Miss Scotland

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Secondary—IB Business Studies

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Secondary—Year 7 Creative Arts Trip

The students in Year 7 have just started a Music unit called Pictures at an Exhibition, linked to Mussorgsky’s

composition (1874) of the same name. They recently visited the Elgiz Museum of Modern Art in Maslak.

They took instruments with them so that they could compose music while looking at works of art in the muse-

um; they had the opportunity to sketch and write about what they saw and heard and how it made them feel

during their performances and reflections.

Lisa Mayer

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Secondary—Year 8 Creative Arts Trip

After the inspiring trip last term to the Zero Exhibition, Year 8 visited the Sabancı Museum again; this time

we visiting a solo exhibition, entitled MACK. Just Light and Colour.

The German artist Heinz Mack is one of the founders of a mid-20th century avant-garde network known as

the ZERO movement (the focus of last term’s trip). The MACK. Just Light and Colour exhibition brings

together paintings, sculptures and kinetic works from throughout the artist’s long career.

The students used the exhibition as a starting point for creative work. During the projects, the students will

make visual art pieces (8S), musical compositions (8I), and drama (8B) based on what they saw and experi-

enced at the exhibition.

Lisa Mayer

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Secondary—Spanish Trip to Seville

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DIRECTORS OF SCHOOLS Amanda Ilhan Pre School & Primary School Deputy Director +90 212 202 7027 [email protected] Richard I’Anson Pre School & Primary School Director +90 212 257 5136 [email protected] William Bradley Director of Secondary and Principal of +090 212 202 7027 Zekeriyakoy Campus [email protected] Richard Robinson Deputy Director of Secondary +090 212 202 7027 Helen Kiran Head of PR/Communications +90 212 202 7027 [email protected] Tuba Guven Director of Admissions +90 212 286 7375 [email protected]

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