TES British Secondary & High School Section - NewsLetter
ESC Newsletter
Issue 6
Coming up this
month:
Welcome from the BSHS Head
6 February:
ESC Music
Concert
Chrysta Garnett, Head of British Secondary and High School Section
9-13 February:
Languages Festival
Week
13 February:
H2 Reports
13 February:
Chinese New Year
Celebrations
Inside this issue:
Student Coun- 5
cil President
University
Counsellor
6
Art News
10
Model United
Nations
12
ASPIRE News 13
Sports News
And much
more!
January 2015
16
A Happy New Year to all of
our families across all sections
at ESC. Last term already
seems like a long time ago, but
it ended in fantastic style with
an almighty Christmas Carol
‘Sing Off’ House Competition
in the Atrium on the final
school day of last year. Our
students threw themselves into
this inaugural competition, as
always and gave our small numbers of student and staff leavers a fantastic send off.
award. More news to follow in
April.
We started our new year with
some excellent feedback from
Professor Judy Silver at Exeter
University, who praised the
work we have done thus far on
our journey to becoming an
internationally-recognised
‘Thinking School’. Our virtual
accreditation visit is planned in
April and we will be the first
school in the world to pilot
this approach to attaining the
prestigious Thinking School
Our H2 and H4 students have
been more focused than ever
these last few weeks during
their mock examinations. H4
conducted themselves with
their usual committed and
studious approach to this critical phase of their IB final preparations and are now busy with
their various university applications. Likewise our H2s have
had their first experience of
formal school exams and not
even an earthquake managed
to deter their intense application to the task in hand! We
are hopeful that these two very
special cohorts will continue to
fly the TES flag for academic
excellence in the coming
months.
Finally, our fabulous new
Sports Facility has been christened this month by our ECA
sports teams, who have enjoyed the brand new, world
class Astroturf pitch and tennis
courts. Attention will now shift
to the renovations of the buildings, to include changing
rooms, clubhouse and fitness
suite. We are very excited
about how our facilities are
continuing to grow on Yangmingshan and our thanks to all
members of the school community who are supporting our
continual growth in this area.