NewsletterIssue 33 25 June,2015

A YEAR OF SUCCESSES

We like to think that each school year is better than the last. However, this year has been particularly memorable. Here are some of the outstanding achievements by our students, beyond their daily work in class, in 2014-2015.

Performing Arts

Secondary Drama Arsenic and Old LaceSchool Musical FootloosePrimary Musical Dracula and the Rock ShowGlobal Orchestra Three orchestra members, including Principal Violinist, andofficialGlobalOrchestraJournalist(newthisyear)Music Tour ParisSummerConcert StudioBuffo(newvenuethisyear)

Global Campus

Secondary Tanzania trip, Arusha tribal villageSecondary Winner(BestResearch),MakeitRightGlobalClassroomChallengeSecondary Winner,AdvancedSoloInstrumental(piano)Secondary Creative Writing Anthology, four winning entriesSecondary KS3, KS4 and KS5 Mathematics Competitions in Toulouse, Vienna and London respectively

Schools

IB Karen Hill Tribe, Thailand, outreach trip IB Model United Nations at the Polish ParliamentIB Model United Nations Conference host at Warsaw UniversityIB Model United Nations trips to Wroclaw and Istanbul

Secondary Careers DaySecondary, Primary, EYFS Peer Reading ‘Buddy Group’Dabrowskiego Mother’sDayTea(newthisyear)Dabrowskiego Dads‘n’Doughnuts(newthisyear)Dabrowskiego WelcomePicnic(newthisyear)Dabrowskiego FestivalofLearning(newthisyear)

Sport

Primary Champions,DeichmannLeague(31teams)(all-Polandfinals)Primary, Secondary Champions, NAE Tournament Bratislava

Charity

All School Nepal Earthquake ReliefIB,Secondary ArkaFoundation,Warsaw(newthisyear)Secondary Charity BallDabrowskiego The Giving Tree

New Clubs this year

Primary Run by TBS teachers: Gardening, Writer’s craft, Minecraft,Fiitball External: Drama club,Tap dancing,Programming

Secondary Alternative music club, horse riding club, tap dancing club, ballroom dancing club, computer programming club, drama club,running club, powtoon club, investment club, debatingclub,film-makingclub

Community

AllSchool Yearbook,singlepublication(newthisyear)

School and PTA A remarkable list of events and celebrations that included: Fireworks Night Hilton Christmas Brunch Christmas Bazaar International Carnival

We congratulate our wonderful children on a remarkable year. We also thank all the parents for their unstinting support of the School.

Let’s celebrate today but aim higher tomorrow!

Dr. John KennardPrincipal

DąbrowskiegoNews“Don't cry because it's over. Smile because it happened.” Dr. Seuss

As I thiswill bemyfinalpieceofwriting fromDąbrowskiegoand Iwish toreflectonmytimehereatthisamazingsetting.IthasbeenextremelyrewardingseeingtheEarlyYearsCentreatDąbrowskiegotransformsinceIfirstarrived.It has become a vibrant community of learning and achievement, where students from various parts of the world learn together, play together and make friends, each and every day. Watching the students’ enthusiasm as they excitedly arrive for lessons every morning has showed me how much our school means to them. I will miss the tangible buzz of excitement about learning in a truly dynamic community where every child, every parent.... where everyone, matters.

AsIreflectonthepastthreeyears,Ibelieveitisfairtosaythatwehavehelpedourstudentsenjoytheir learning at school and hopefully this has set the foundation for them to keep on learning after they move to new schools, wherever they may be. We have celebrated the importance of students becoming effective communicators and powerful listeners, allowing them to make effective presentations, enjoy reading andwriting andhavemany opportunities to perform. Ihave found that helping students to appreciate their strengths, their favoured ways of learning and supporting them in areas that they need to develop has helped them to become truly effective learners. It has always been my desire that the students who come to Dabrowskiego are happy and make a positive contribution to their friendships, their learning, the wider community, their family, and their school. We have certainly provided our students with numerous opportunities to learn to work in teams, contributing as a leader and a follower.

Iamdelightedthatourstudentshavebeenabletoenjoyschoolinachildcentred,purposedesignedbuilding. We have introduced and used technology to promote learning as we want our students to be technologically astute using it appropriately, responsibly and for the greatest impact on their own learning. We celebrate the students’ creativity, talents, skills, knowledge & understanding in meaningful and exciting ways.

OneofthekeyelementsthatmakesDąbrowskiegouniqueandspecialistheimportanceweplaceon service. It is something I am very proud of and which I have seen make a tremendous impact on our students and community. Service is the different ways in which we help other people. You as parents have been instrumental in partnering with me to support the different initiatives during mytenureatourschool.Thesignificantroleyouhaveplayedaspartnersinthislearningjourneycan in no way be diminished. Your support and constructive feedback has been outstanding and I would not have been able to achieve as much as I have without your unwavering dedication and commitment.

I look back on my time with great pride and a tremendous sense of accomplishment and wish you everysuccessforthefutureasyoucontinuetomaketheBritishSchoolWarsawyourfirstandonlychoice.

In conclusion I leave you with these words from the ‘Irish Blessing’: May the road rise up to meet you. May the wind be always at your back. May the sun shine warm upon your face; the rains fall soft upon your fields and until we meet again, may God hold you in the palm of His hand.

Michelle Stevens Head of Dabrowskiego, Early Years Centre

Primary NewsIt is hard to believe that the end of the school year has arrived! 10 months have passed very quickly! The year’s end always brings with it a tremendous sense of accomplishment. So many things have been accomplished this year! From the numerous fund raising events students have hosted, to the Year 6 Graduation – our students have been involved in an extraordinary number of activities. Of course, we should not forget the tremendous amount of learning which has taken place during the year. Throughout all of these activities our students have demonstrated great character! Our academic achievements have included;. Year Six SATs results;. 19% of students achieving Level 6 in Maths . 19% of students achieving Level 6 in Spelling, Punctuation and Grammar. 7% of students achieving Level 6 in Reading. 65% of students achieving at least Level 5 in Maths. 65% of students achieving at least Level 5 in Reading. 69% of students achieving at least Level 5 in Spelling, Punctuation and Grammar

(TheDepartmentofEducationindicatesthatmoststudentsattheendofYear6shouldachieveaLevel4)

•3studentsachieveda‘VeryGoodintheInternationalKangarooMathsCompetition.•18studentsachieveda‘Good’intheInternationalKangarooMathsCompetition.•PaulinaSielskaachievingtheWinner’sShortlistfortheGlobalClassroomCreative Writing Anthology•Winnerof‘BestResearch’categoryfortheGlobalClassroomMakeItRightBigChallenge Our charitable contributions throughout the year have included:

•WarsawVoluntaryMissionFoodDrive•Kids4KidsClubWordVisionSponsorshipChildofNary•WarsawMission-FamiliesinCrisis(EasterAppeal)•NecktiesforNepal,NepalDisasterRelief•SwimathonsponsorshipforFundacjaAvalonandFriendsofLitewskaChildren’sHospital•CrazyHairDayinsupportofFriendsforLitewska•SummerCampforFamiliesinCrisiscoindonationsandHousecompetition•HostingstudentsfromtheARKAFoundation•Proceedsfrom4CRRainforestRecipeCakesdonatedtotheWarsawVolunteerMission•Year6fundraisingtobuy5goatsfor‘SendaCow’charity

Our theatrical and musical achievements include:

•KeyStageTwoproductionofTheDraculaRockShow•EYFSandYear1ChristmasProduction•Year2SummerFunConcert•Year3WinterWonderlandConcert•EYFSandYear2SummerExtravaganza•HiltonChristmasBrunch•ABRSMconcertrecital•TBSSummerConcert•JazzBandandPrimaryChoirperformancesatThePTAChristmasFair and International Carnival•PrimaryFolkSingingperformanceattheInternationalCarnival

We have excelled in Sports throughout the year, participating in numerous events locally and internationally:

•NAEEuropeanChampions,KeyStageTwoGirlsNetball•NAEEuropeanChampions,KeyStageTwoFloorball•NAEEuropeanChampionsKS2BoysFootball•Y4wonDeichmannFootballLeagueandwillproceedtothePolishFinals. U9 won Juventus Turyn 5: 2 in the Asti Football Tournament.•U11Footballteamfinish4thplaceoutof31teamsinDeichmannLeague For those families who will be returning in September, school will begin on Tuesday, September 1st. Class lists for September will be posted on Monday 29th June in the Reception areas on both campuses. Please be aware that due to new enrollments occurring over the holidays, the composition of classes may change over the summer break. On behalf of the school and staff, I would like to take this opportunity to congratulate all pupils and their families on such a successful year with The British School. We wish you all a safe and happy summer.

Zoe Richardson,Head of Primary School

Primary News

Primary News

Year 6 Transition 24th – 26th June

We were delighted to welcome Year 6 into the Secondary School this week where they experienced a taste of Year 7. It was also a great pleasure to see so many parents accompanying their children for the initial welcome address and presentation and have the chance to address your questions.

The teachers put a great deal of thought into preparing lessons which are interesting and challenging, fun and authentic. The students began their experience with an extended Form Time and an Orientation lesson. These lessons were designed to give them vital information as well as help them find their way around the rooms they will need to navigate from next September. They also had to answer quiz questions as they went.

Try some for yourself here.

Before this experience the Year 6 students were asked what they were most looking forward to in Year 7. This is what some said:

‘ things that I’m good at’ ‘science experiments’ ‘fun stuff’

‘Art, PE ….. maybe …….. Maths’ ‘lessons but …… no homework’

‘ping pong’

Walking the corridors during the transition lessons this week, the one quote that will stick in my mind is a very serious-looking Year 6 declaring to his friend ….

“…so being in Year 7 doesn’t seem to be that bad after all”

Praise indeed!

Alison Fox Team Leader Year7

EAL Summer LearningMaintaining English language levels whilst boosting levels of the

Mother Tongue during the summer vacation

Summer holidays are the best times for children in international schools to raise their levels of their Mother Tongue. The level of a child’s Mother Tongue is one of the best indicators of how good the child’s English can become. It is also important to remember that children’s Mother Tongues can get eroded in International Schools unless we actively promote it at home. In order to maintain a healthy balance of bilingualism, child should be engaged in both languages in a fun way over the summer.

Young children who are either unable to read or are still trying to gain fluency should be read to in both languages.

Older children who are or are becoming fluent readers should read 30 to 40 minutes a day alternating the languages they read in. The level of the books they read is important here as children should not spend hours reading a book that they cannot comprehend without effort. Reading should be effortless and fun but at the right level of challenge.

Watching age-appropriate children’s documentaries and movies are also a great way to promote not just language development but can enhance general learning. Just be aware that you can make screen time more active by talking to the children. Ask them what they are going to watch and what they think it may be about. After watching, ask them to tell you what you missed while you were getting dinner, etc.

Taking children out to museums, theatres, anywhere outside of home will provide fun and engaging ways to learn things about the world. If you want to put a language spin on this, the child can recount his or her experience for a relative – like a grandparent - who missed out on the experience.

Outlined below are some age specific ideas on how you can keep your child using English over the summer break.

EAL Summer LearningChildren in EYFS and KS1

The English Speaking Teddy!

This is a fun and easy way to get your young child to speak English over the summer break. Buy your child a soft toy that you know they will love. Make up a story about it saying how he is lost and lonely but only understands English. Get your child in the habit of telling teddy about all the things that he/she has done in the day. You may need to keep adding to Teddy’s story if you need to rekindle interest for the child. The success of this will depend on how much your child likes pretend play.

Language Games for Journeys

Try not to allow your child to spend too much time on a phone or I-pad during journeys or any other time when you can be talking to your child. Limiting screen time on journeys will help your child engage verbally.

I Spy

This can be done at different levels. The traditional game focuses on the initial letter sound which is very good for children who are ready for this but can be quite limiting. So rather than say, “I spy with my little eye something beginning with ‘k’; you can say, “I spy with my little eye something that has big branches and green leaves or I spy with my little eye an animal that gives us milk” etc.

You can also play I Spy with colours.

What am I thinking about?

This is a game that you can make as simple or as complicated as your child can handle. The basic idea is that you describe something and they have to work out what you are thinking about. So it could be as simple as, “I am thinking about something that has 4 wheels and goes on roads.” Or it could be more abstract like “I am thinking about something with lots of pretty colours. You usually see it in the sky when there is sunshine and rain. It has a curved or arch shape.”

EAL Summer LearningSinging

Do this before your child is old enough to be embarrassed when you sing! So much language can be learnt from songs. If you don’t feel like singing yourself, you can always download some children’s songs. The advantage of singing is that you can mess with the words and make it funny!

Audio Stories

These are very good for long journeys and children like to listen to them over and over again. It is much better than watching TV as it helps the child visualise what they are listening to. There is too much visual stimulation for children these days and listening to stories while they are strapped into their car seats is a very good habit to develop.

Reading to your child

If you have not already got your child into a routine of “bedtime stories” we strongly recommend that you do. This can be done in both languages. Getting a child dependent on a story from you each night can encroach on your social life but the rewards on their language development and education as they get older are huge.

A Holiday Journals

Children do not have to be independent writers to keep a holiday journal. You could take the lead on this and help them contribute. Here are some great ideas.

https://www.pinterest.com/continentalkids/travel-journals-continental-kid/

However, the most important thing to remember is that if your child wants to tell you something, try to drop what you are doing and give them your full attention. Resist finishing their sentences for them but stop them from getting frustrated. Listening to your child’s message and responding to the message is very important in developing them as communicators.

EAL Summer Learning

Older Primary Children

With the exception of the English Speaking Teddy and possibly the singing, all the strategies mentioned in the KS1 and EYFS section can be adapted to support older Primary children. The main difference is that they are able to read and write and must continue to develop these literacy skills.

There are many different platforms children can use to keep writing over the summer and you will have seen some of these ideas presented by the class teachers.

One idea that can be popular with older children is keeping a learning log. This is where the children answer a simple question … “What do I know now that I did not know this morning?” This helps children to be more aware of their learning and gives them a chance at repeating it to themselves to further cement the learning. However, if children do this in English, it can improve the English that they need to access the curriculum. As children only record what they are interested in, it can be a fun way of improving their academic English.

There is a large number of language-learning websites that older children can use and some of these are listed below.

http://www.phonicsplay.co.uk/ParentsMenu.htm

http://more.starfall.com/index.htm

http://learnenglishkids.britishcouncil.org

http://eslgamesworld.com

http://a4esl.org/q/f/

http://www.eslgamesplus.com/adjectives-adverbs/

EAL Summer Learning

EAL Summer Learning 2015

Secondary

There are quite a few activities that your child in Secondary could use to practise their English skills over the summer. The most important thing is that they engage with the language regularly, preferably every day.

Reading books is one way they can practise, and watching films is good for their listening skills. Watching a film in English with English subtitles is worth trying, the subtitles can be helpful when the dialogue gets too difficult to follow aurally. It’s also a good idea to discuss the book or movie afterwards.

Keeping a learning log as suggested above is a good idea. If your child likes playing computer games, for example Minecraft, they could keep a log of what they’ve done in that game. This would work especially well with games that have a wide world to explore. And an activity like this is always more productive when related to something the learner enjoys.

The following websites contain games, videos and other activities for older children:

http://learnenglishkids.britishcouncil.org

http://learnenglishteens.britishcouncil.org

http://www.esl-lab.com/

http://www.sporcle.com

http://eslgamesworld.com

http://a4esl.org/q/f/

http://www.bbc.co.uk/learningenglish/

From the EAL team

(Jean Kingham, Monika Boruta, Madga Swiatek, Neil Britton)

Secondary News

For the final newsletter of this academic year we are celebrating the prize winners for the academic year 2014-2015. The students below have demonstrated that they have contributed a great deal to our school and deserve to be congratulated. The awards

will be handed out at the final assembly of the school year on the Friday 3 July 2015.

Secondary School – PRIZES

YEAR CLASS TEACHER/S ATTAINMENT AWARD

EFFORT AWARD

FORM TUTOR AWARD

7P Neil Britton Ngoc Tram Ta Duy Trung Pham Henrietta Hope Edwards

7B Norah Buckley Bartosz Kołodziej Bianka Scott Aleksandra Górzyńska

7C Kevin Crozier Katarzyna Murawska

Takeshi Osugi Stępień

Alice Garlick

8 K Katarzyna Kordowska Marta Zawada Louisa Von Werner

Marko Vuina

8 M Evelina Mroczkowska Jacob Williams Kaat Lambrecht Yong Qi Looi

8 P Magdalena Pukos Vincent Dwyer Nataliia Voloshyna

Aitor Urciuolo

9 H

Adam Holda Patricia Pont Oisin Verhoog Grzegorz Koc

9 C Anthony Crewdson Phuong Anh Pham

Laura Stagite Florence Edwards

9 G Paul Grundy Jan Bachowski Christian Martinez Contreras

Mor Ben-Zvi

10 K Magdalena Konrad Anna Yesenfeld Cam Tu Hoang Roch Leschallier de Lisle

10 J Susanne Jansen Tiago Brinkmann Torres Uva Paul

William Bezodis Owen Dilworth

10 P Piotr Pukos Kacper Nihalani Zahra Dry Inka Hadiputro

12 F Carl Fowler Agnieszka Wąsikowska

Dominik Vuina Agnieszka Wąsikowska

12 D Owen Doherty Pauline Marie-Jose Bekkers

Marketa Vlckova

Michał Majcherczak

Wishing everyone a safe and happy summer holiday.

Mrs Izabella Sloczynska Head of Secondary School

For the final newsletter of this academic year we are celebrating the prize winners for the academic year 2014-2015. The students below have demonstrated that they have contributed a great deal to our school and deserve to be congratulated. The awards

will be handed out at the final assembly of the school year on the Friday 3 July 2015.

Secondary School – PRIZES

YEAR CLASS TEACHER/S ATTAINMENT AWARD

EFFORT AWARD

FORM TUTOR AWARD

7P Neil Britton Ngoc Tram Ta Duy Trung Pham Henrietta Hope Edwards

7B Norah Buckley Bartosz Kołodziej Bianka Scott Aleksandra Górzyńska

7C Kevin Crozier Katarzyna Murawska

Takeshi Osugi Stępień

Alice Garlick

8 K Katarzyna Kordowska Marta Zawada Louisa Von Werner

Marko Vuina

8 M Evelina Mroczkowska Jacob Williams Kaat Lambrecht Yong Qi Looi

8 P Magdalena Pukos Vincent Dwyer Nataliia Voloshyna

Aitor Urciuolo

9 H

Adam Holda Patricia Pont Oisin Verhoog Grzegorz Koc

9 C Anthony Crewdson Phuong Anh Pham

Laura Stagite Florence Edwards

9 G Paul Grundy Jan Bachowski Christian Martinez Contreras

Mor Ben-Zvi

10 K Magdalena Konrad Anna Yesenfeld Cam Tu Hoang Roch Leschallier de Lisle

10 J Susanne Jansen Tiago Brinkmann Torres Uva Paul

William Bezodis Owen Dilworth

10 P Piotr Pukos Kacper Nihalani Zahra Dry Inka Hadiputro

12 F Carl Fowler Agnieszka Wąsikowska

Dominik Vuina Agnieszka Wąsikowska

12 D Owen Doherty Pauline Marie-Jose Bekkers

Marketa Vlckova

Michał Majcherczak

Wishing everyone a safe and happy summer holiday.

Mrs Izabella Sloczynska Head of Secondary School

Secondary News

YEAR 7 English Trip Assembly

You may remember that in mid- May Mrs. Fox’s English group went to Warsaw Zoo and to the Director’s Villa within it as part of a literary/historical trip. We were given a tour of the villa by a published English author called Antony Lishak, whose novel ‘Stars’ was based around the events which took place at the zoo.

The villa was used by Mr. and Mrs. Zabinski, Director of the villa, to shelter Poles, Warsaw resistance fighters, and Jews form Nazi persecution and life in the Ghetto.

Since then Year 7a English have been working on presentations of what they learned from this trip. Last week they presented in their groups to the other Year 7 English classes who voted for the best presentation which was then delivered in assembly.

Well done everybody, all the presentations were very good and effectively consolidated what we had learned from this trip.

Mrs Fox

Please add photos here, taken by marketing during assembly

Secondary News

WONDERWALLSome excellent examples of the written work produced by our students are being displayed on the Wonderwall board outside the English classrooms. To give these creations the wider audience they deserve, they will also be re-printed inthisNewsletter.Thisweek’sspeechisbyastudentfromMsBarańska’sEnglishclass.

The stop of the rotation written by David I.,7P

It is a sunny day in Washington D.C. when Jim Miller takes the plane to travel to Brussels. He is one of the leading astronomers of the United States of America and in Brussels there is the annual astronomer conference and he will give a speech about the risks of the particle accelerator CERN in Geneva, Switzerland.Duringtheflightheisfinalizinghis speech as he will talk about his concerns of the experiments conducted at the particle accelerator CERN. At the same time Peter Busch, a German astronomer, is traveling from Berlin to Brussels by car. He is very angry about the traffic jam on the highway. Next timehe will for sure take the train to arrive to the conference fully relaxed. In Brussels he will also attend the annual astronomer conference. Miller and Busch have been friends for a couple of years. Before the conference starts they meet at the bar of the hotel to have a drink together. They both share the concerns about the particle accelerator, but they have different theories about what could happen if the experiment goes out of control. Miller says: “After the particle collision a new gravity would exist. This gravity would be in opposite to the earth’s gravity and thus stop the spin of the earth. As a result one part of the Earth would have all the time day light and one part always night. The gravity at the poles is stronger so the oceans will move towards them and they would be fully covered with water. There will be only one big continent along the

equator as most of our current continents would be under water.” Peter Busch is not fully aligned to this theory. He replies: “I don’t think that this theory is fully right. If the rotation stops everything on the Earth will continue to move and thus everything would be destroyed and the oceans will flood all the continents.” They discuss forseveral hours but can’t reach a consensus.

The next day both astronomers present their theories to the participants of the conference. There is a big discussion about these theories, and many scientists are also worried about the risks of the particle accelerator. In the audience there is also Herve Le Bidois, a physicist of CERN. He denies the risks shared by Miller and Busch. He explains the security mechanism that can guarantee the full success of the experiments. Le Bidois says: “After a proton collision there are new particles created but they can’t create a new center of gravity thatcouldhavean influenceontheEarth.We have already done several hundred of experiments and could never see the creation of a new center of gravity”. The speech and attitude of Le Bidois is seen by Miller and Busch as very arrogant. It looks like Le Bidois wants to neglect the risks.

Secondary NewsAfter the conference Peter Busch and Jim Miller travel to Germany to spend some days together. As they are very good friends for a couple of years and every year they spend some days of vacation together. This time they decide to go to the German mountains close to Garmisch-Partenkirchen. One morning Peter reads the newspaper at the breakfast table. He sees an article about a new experiment at the CERN. In the interview Le Bidois explains that in a couple of days there will be a super experiment at the CERN. Peter shows Jim the article and they are both worried about the consequences if the experiment goes wrong.

Five days later the experiment starts at noon. First the experiment works without problems but from one minute to another the experiment goes out of control. The proton streams collide with each other and suddenly a big gravitational force starts to grow and it starts absorbing big parts of the city of Geneva. After two hours the gravitational force gets so strong that it startstoinfluencetherotationoftheearth.This effect is immediately noticeable also in Germany. Miller and Busch get a call from Le Bidois who could escape the Geneva area as he realized that the investors aim to go beyond any safety limit of the machine. He drives on the highway to Germany. Miller and Busch also take the car to meet with Le Bidois in Strassburg.

The three take a plane to London to escape the growing center of gravity. In the plane they discuss the best options to stop the phenomenon. Le Bidois doesn’t see any option to stop it. He sees only one chance: if the experiment had not started, they could have stopped the investors going beyond the safety limits of the machine. This gives Jim an idea. He has heard of an inventor called Paul Piker who made some experiments with a time machine. As the three arrive at Paul Pickers laboratory, Paul is working on his inventions. Peter asks Paul whether he has a time machine or not. Paul answers that he

has one prototype but no human has used it before. Peter, Jim and Herve want to take the risk and use the machine. Unfortunately the machine is not working, but Paul Picker has an idea about what he can change. After two days Paul changes the machine and they meet again. The appearance of the machine looks completely different. The time machine consists of four cinema chairs and in the middle a big silver looking box with two displays. One is for the Year and Day and the second one for the place of the journey.Thefourpassengersenterthetimemachine and Paul enters the correct dates. They want to travel 7 days before the start of the experiment at CERN. The machine starts tomovefirstslowly thanfast like ina hurricane. Different time periods wander past like behind a shadow. Suddenly the machine stops. They find themselves ingreen meadows with high ferns and massive trees. Ten meters away is a creature with big horns and scaly skin. It is a Triceratops with a length of 9 meters. Perter asks Paul: “Are we68to66millionyearsbackintime?”

Paul answers:” Yes, I think so, but that means we are in great danger!” Jim consequently jumpsoutofthetimemachineandexaminesthe Triceratops from a distance. As a result Herve screams:” Come back into the time machine or this animal will eat you for lunch!”

Paul answers:” Yes, I think so, but that means we are in great danger!” Jim consequently jumpsoutofthetimemachineandexaminestheTriceratops from a distance. As a result Herve screams:” Come back into the time machine or this animal will eat you for lunch!”

Jim laughs:” Calm down that’s a herbivore. He will eat leafs for lunch.” After some minutes the other three also go out of the machine. Peter asks Paul:” What is the reason for the change ofthetime?”Paulthinksaboutthereasonbuthecan’tfindanylogicalreasonfortheproblem.

Secondary NewsIn parallel Jim starts to explore the environment. Herve, Paul and Peter follow him. At a big lake Jim stops and says:” Oh my god is this real? Are there really overtwentydifferentspeciesofDinosaurs?Thisis a Pteranodon who eats fish and overthere is a Corzthosaurus who eats plants.” Suddenly the earth starts to tremble like in an earthquake. All the animals start to run. Peter starts to cry: “Oh my God, there is a T-Rex hunting the dinosaurs and is coming towards us. RUN!” The four run back towards the time machine. They pass through trees and fern. The time machine is onlyfivemetersaway,buttheycanstillhearthe T-Rex coming closer. As they approach thetimemachinetheT-Rex is justbehindthem.TheyjumpintothemachineandJimgives the order that all need to stay calm. Paul enters a new date and location with shaky hands. The twelve-meter-long T-Rex is above them and is trying to smell his food. The machine starts to shake as Paul presses the enter button. The T-Rex starts to open his mouth to bite into the machine but luckily they disappear from that time. The last thing they can hear is the roaring T-Rex. Jim asks Paul: “Which date did you enterthistime?”

Paul answers: “I found the mistake we did last time and we should now arrive a week before the disaster at CERN.” Herve is still so shocked and he closes his eyes. When the machine stops he asks the others: “In which timedidwearrive?”Peteranswers:“Iseethefountain of the Geneva Lake and I see cars, so we are at the right place and it looks like weareintherightcentury”.Tofindouttheexact date they buy a newspaper. This time Paul has entered the correct date and they are one week before the experiment. They start to plan how they are going to stop the experiment. The idea is to convince Herve and the director to stop the preparation and execution of the experiment. The four take a taxi to CERN, and Paul and Herve wait on the parking lot as Herve can’t meet himself in CERN. Peter and Jim go to the entrance

of CERN and ask for a visitor access pass. TheywanttotalktoHerve(theoneintheearlier time) and the director of CERN toconvince them to stop the experiment. As Peter and Jim are known scientists they are grantedaccesstotheofficeareatomeetthedirector and Herve.

The two start to explain them about their travel to the past, but the story is so confusing that Herve and the director don’t believe them. They think that Jim and Peter are crazy and call the police as they fear the two are planning to interrupt the experiment. The security service is called and they lock themintoanofficetowaitforthepolice.

As it takes so long that Herve on the parking lot gets nervous and decides with Paul that we will look for the other two inside the building. When Herve uses his badge to enter the building an alarm starts as he is already inside according to the system. He can convince the security personnel that it must be a defect of the system as he went out of the building just amoment before.Theylethiminandonhiswaytohisofficehe runs into his younger Herve. They are both surprised. The older Herve pulls the younger one into an office right next tothem.

He says: “I’m from the future and we need to save our planet together. We need to stop the experiment immediately.” The younger Herve is not fully convinced and asks: “Do youhaveaproofofyourstatement?”

Herve from the future answers: ”I don’t have a proof as I didn’t took a picture of the disaster after the stop of the rotation but you need to believe me”. The younger Herve replies: “I believe you as I can’t imagine a reason why somebody is travelling in the time machine”.

Secondary News They work a plan to convince the director. Herve arranges a meeting with him and on their way to the meeting room the older Herve sees Peter and Jim locked in one room. He opens the door and gives them the order to wait before they get out and arrested again.

Thedirectorasks:“Whatdoyouwant?Weneed to continue the preparation of the experiment. This is the most important experiment we have ever done”. The older Herve tries to convince the director but he says: ”You are too tired and for today you go home to get sleep and hopefully you get well very soon”.

Three days later Herve tries again to convince the director but he fails again. In the evening Peter, Jim, Paul and Herve (the young and the older one) are sittingtogether and are thinking of a plan to stop the experiment. Paul asks Herve if the generatorcanbestoppedfromonespecificpoint. Herve knows that there is a control panel in the main control room but it won’t be possible to access this during the start of theexperiment.Sotheyneedtofindanotheroption to stop the generator. They need to gettheelectricalplansofCERNtofindtheoption to stop the experiment. As Jim, Peter and Herve are known by the director and other employees of CERN they decide that Paul will enter as a cleaning man. The next day Paul enters via the employees entrance and he uses Herve’s badge. This time there is no alarm as Herve isn’t in the building. Paul got good directions fromHerve and findsquicklytheofficeofthedirector.Luckilyheisn’tinhisofficesoPaulcansearchforthedrawingsonthecomputer.Hefindsthefilesand copies them onto his pen drive. When he is about to leave theoffice thedirectorenters and asks him what he is doing. Paul shows the bin that he wants to empty. So he can go out.

Onthecomputerthefiveareexaminingthedrawings. The only other possibility they

find is to interrupt the infeed of themainpower supply. The generator is fed by gas andtheyfindamainvalvethatisoutsidethebuildings. They make the plan to enter the property of CERN the next day as it is the day of the experiment and to buy uniforms of the gas supply company. So no one will notice and stop them.

Paul and Jim enter the CERN property in the gas company uniforms and the security let them pass. At the valve they realize that it is locked with a lock. Luckily Paul had put a box of tools into the car so that they can break the lock. This takes 30 minutes and at the end they hear the sirens indicating that the experiment is about to start. They quickly close the valve and 2 minutes later the alarm of the power generator goes off as thereisn’tanygassupply.Paulfindsinhistoolbox another lock so that he can block the valve in the closed position. Immediately a lot of people are coming out of the building to check what is happening. They enter the power generator building and don’t realize that Jim and Paul are behind the building at the valve. So they can exit the CERN property. At the same time the younger Herve is in the control room and waits for the signal from the alarm of the power station. When the alarm starts the director starts to swear and looks at Herve as he thinks that he stopped the power generator. In that moment the older Herve comes into the room and the director is fully confused to see two Herve’s. He says: “That’s a trick or doIdream?”.TheolderHervereplies:“Noyou aren’t dreaming I am from the future and we want you to come with us to our time machine.” Due to the power shortage the experiment can’t be started again so the director decides to come with the two Herve’s to the time machine.

Secondary NewsAt the time machine Jim, Paul and Peter are already waiting. Paul starts the machine as the directorandthetwoHerve’sarrive.Heasksthedirectortojoinhiminthetimemachine.Theyflybacktothefuturetothedayoftheexperimenttoshowhimtheconsequenceswiththestopof the Earth rotation. The director is shocked and asks Paul to take him back urgently to the past so that he can stop the experiment and to convince all people to not use CERN any more. When they are back in the past they can convince the people as the director this time took pictures from the consequences. At the end the older Herve, Peter, Paul and Jim travel back to the future. Peter says:”Let’sgobacktothe28June1914andstoptheFirstWorldWar.” Paul immediately answers: “We can’t do this as this will change the history and can have an influenceonourownexistence.Wecangobacktothepast,butwecan’tchangeanything.”Peteragrees: “You are right; I forgot that this would change the whole world and also our own lives. Whichtimedowewanttosee?IwouldbeinterestedtoseetheStoneAge.”Theothersagreeandthey travel back to the past.

The end

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Music Trip to Paris HereisonefinalreminderbeforewesetoffonSaturdaynight. Don’t forget…

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If you have any questions or emergencies whilst your child is away, please call school on +48 22 842 32 81.

Kindest regards Alison PorterHead of Music

PTA Charities 2014-2015The PTA Charities Team has had a busy year. The PTA has organised another successful Christmas Giving Tree, Charity Clothes Collection and disbursed funds to good causes both in Poland and abroad.

Christmas Giving Tree

Again the parents and children of the British School of Warsaw have been incredibly generous. 114 children at Lekowo School in North West Poland received Christmas Presents. In addition Broken Ties Foundation in Warsaw nominated 11 families for Christmas hampers containing groceries, seasonal treats and children’s gifts. Gardening Equipment was also given to Lekowo School. 3 000 zl donation of food was given to the local food bank and goods were given to Broken Ties foundation to support their work with needy families.

The Charity Clothes Collection

In March over 40 boxes of clothes were collected at school, sorted, boxed and sent to NW Poland to be distributed to families in need by FCSR.

Distribution of Funds to other Charities

MierzWysoko(AimHigh)-AfterSchoolClubPraga 10000zl(Fundingforadditionaloutings/refreshments)

Qzmianom-PsychologicalSupportPraga 2500zl(torenovatepremises)

BAZA-PragaSchoolBreakfastClub 7000zl(topurchasefood)

Poznan Orzeszek -Special Needs Nursery (FundedbyQuiznight) 4825zl

NepalEarthquake-PolskaAkcjaHumanitarna10000zl

Kids4Kids 1 200zl

UkrainianFamilies 1980zl

Over 37 000zl has been disbursed to charities.

Thanks for your continued support.

Anne Martin, Anna Butruk-Sidor, Basia Sypytkowska-Williams & Anita Rekusz

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