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The Beaconhouse Newsletter Beaconhouse Primary Branch Satellite Town Rawalpindi

in this issue Cold Cooking Competition Orientation Day Global Dignity Day Investiture Ceremony Junior Games Tournament

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Junior Games Tournament

From the Head’s Desk Dear Parents, The year 2012 has been a very good year for the school. The school premises is now exclusively housing Beaconhouse Satellite Town Primary Branch with Classes 1-V.

With your blessings and continued support, we plan on making 2013 an even more eventful year with an even better environment for our beloved students.

With warm regards, Saima Faheem

We have improved the school and teaching environment with the addition of technology through our ETAC program – Emerging Technologies Across the Curriculum. Our students are now benefitting from especially equipped IT labs and are gaining practical hands on experience while learning concepts across different subjects with the help of using the latest IT resources.

BSTR-P students have brought accolades to the school by winning different competitions. We are also happy to have involved parents in the cooking and sports activities that have taken place at school. This is in addition to our regular Parents Teacher Meetings . This year we focused on arranging a wide range of extra and co-curricular activities in school to give our students an enriched learning experience.

Student in Spotlight Faria Shahid of Class III-Yellow won second prize in the Rock Climbing Competition 2012 held in December. She took inspiration from her elder sister Bisha Shahid who got the first position this year at IBEX Club in Islamabad. Congratulations to both Faria Shahid and Bisha Shahid!

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Faria Shahid of Class III-Yellow

Bisha Shahid of Class V-Pink 1

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News & Events

Cold Cooking Competition On 7th December, a Cold Cooking Competition was held in BSTR-P. Participants were mothers of Grade 1 students. Participating mothers were briefed about the rules, they were then divided into groups of four and were allotted their group colour.

The Chief Guest, Mr. Masoom Alam, owner of the famous “Masoom’s Bakers” franchise was invited to grace the occasion. He is famous for creating the variation to the world famous cake, “Death by Chocolate” and specialises in making pastries.

The competition started at 4 pm and 40 minutes were allocated for the complete presentation of any form of dessert, salad and sandwiches.

Everyone enjoyed the competition as well as the food that was prepared.

Proud Moms of yellow group with their awesome display

Orientation Day

BSTRP hosted the Orientation Day for the session 2012-13 on 14th September 2012. The parents strongly appreciated the use of interactive white boards for learning and also praised the special emphasis on the use of Emerging Technologies Across Curriculum in the classroom. The teachers of Class I and II delivered Power Point Presentations highlighting the BSS Academic Philosophy and curriculum implementation. Three, half an hour sessions per subject were conducted by the teachers. Parents were introduced to different work patterns being followed in school for areas including home work schedules, assessment routine, co and extracurricular activities, online competitions/ contests, school rules and discipline policy among others. In addition, the IT teacher introduced the salient features of the interactive white board, its usage and impact on student achievement/positive outcomes. The parents appreciated the hard work put in by the teachers and hoped that the school continued to hold such interactive sessions more frequently.

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Global Dignity Day

“Dignity does not consist in possessing honour, but in deserving them.” Aristotle

“Dignity First”, was planned and celebrated in BSTR-P on October 17, 2012. Much had been done in this regard since 17th September 2012 as our branch was selected for an online project for Grade 4 Red. The rest of the students at school observed that grade 4 Red students were helping the gardener and the junior staff at different times of the day. They also saw that some interviews were being carried out regarding the staff’s work and their feelings about what made them proud in their life. Grade 4 Red students also talked to their fellow students about what “dignity” actually means and how we should respect and share the load of people around us. In addition, students also wrote stories of the people they interviewed and shared them with their on line partners at BSS Philippines via Skype. This project was carried out by staff members Mrs. Afshan Zahid supported by Naveed-e-Zehra the IT teacher and technical support was given by Bilal Bakshi.

On 17th October a special assembly was conducted to re-visit “Dignity First’ week. It was show time for all the class levels to display and present what had been done in the past week. The HM of BSTR-P Mrs. Saima Faheem highlighted the importance of the day and praised the efforts of all the students and teachers who made this day a success. A special tribute was paid to the junior staff. A student from Grade 5 presented an introduction to the Global Dignity Day. Class 1 presented a role play in which a student acted as an old lady who worked in different houses to earn her livelihood and how she raised her only son. This act received thunderous applause from everyone. Class 2 presented a role play about people from different professions and what makes their profession and their life dignified.

The purpose was to create the awareness that everyone is playing an important part around us and in our lives.

Grade 3 students and teachers presented a role play in which they depicted a poem written on the theme of Dignity.

Real life dignity stories from Grade 4 were presented at the end. Two students from grade 5 wrapped up the assembly with a speech and a poem. Displays from each class level were also exhibited at in different corners of the school.

“Our dignity is not in what we do, but what we understand.” George Santayana

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Students showing their posters about “Litter Free Lunch” in the morning assembly.

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“Dignity First” Assembly presentation by class 3.

10. Colourful display of cards by class 1.

11. Students of class II with their posters on using “Litter Free Lunch”.

12. A class IV teacher explaining various aspects of curriculum to the

“Bismillah Begum with her son” A role play by class 1 for “Dignity First”

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Aiman Yaqoob the newly elected Head Girl with the Headmistress

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An aerial view of football game between BSTR-P & BSS Gulraiz

Mr Masoom tasting the dishes prepared by the yellow group.

“Tug of War” - both the teams trying their level best to win the game.

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Teachers solving a problem sum which will be used as part of the upcoming discussion during Primary Mathematics Workshop.

parents on the Orientation Day

13. English translation being read by Hooria Nadeem of 5 Blue at the Investiture Ceremony.

14. Explanation by a teacher on the use of Interactive White Board and how it is incorporated in lessons on the Orientation Day.

The winners of Sandwiches and Dessert making in Cold Cooking Competition

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Investiture Ceremony

Junior Games Tournament 2012-13 On 2nd October 2012, BSTR-P hosted the first round of “Junior Games Tournament 2012-13”. At Beaconhouse School System, we believe that games are valuable, fun and an interesting way of helping children learn to work together and to raise the level of co-operative consciousness amongst students. The sports teachers of BSTR-P, Mrs. Sajida Zahid and Mr. Muhammad Siam Sajjad, planned the first round of games with BSS Gulrez Branch.

On 27th November 2012, the Investiture Ceremony for the new Student Council was held. The day commenced with an air of enthusiasm as everyone was busy in the grand preparations.

A brief introduction of the ceremony was given by Emaan Fatima of 5 Orange, the Headmistress then took oath from the elected Head Boy Anas Shaukat and Head Girl Aymen Yaqoob. This was followed by a collective oath taken by the Head Boy and the Head Girl from the prefects of all the class levels.

The proud Student Council was beaming with joy and happiness. The ceremony concluded with the Headmistress awarding the prefect badges to all the prefects, followed by the singing of the National Anthem.

The visiting team from Gulrez Branch was greeted by students of Class V. Class 1 played “Dodge the Ball” and the BSTR-P team won the game. It was followed by “Tug of War” among students of Class II from both the branches. There were two rounds and both were won by the BSTR-P team.

The football was won by the team of from BSS Gulrez Branch.

At the end there were two matches of cricket of 5 overs each, the first match was between the team of Class IVs, it was won by BSTR-P and then the second match was between the teams of Class Vs of both branches and the winners were BSS Gulrez Branch. The event was made lively by the energetic students of class 5’s; who presented short displays of exercises as fillers after every game. The event ended with the prize distribution, Mr. Mansoor Ahmed, Regional Coordinator for Sports, graced the occasion.

Now everyone is eagerly awaiting the second round of the Junior Games.

Mathelatics Competition

The Mathelatics Competition is a popular math based competition that tests students’ abilities in a range of categories. Hussain Haider of Class III-Red, of BSTRP won a Gold Award for securing 17,125 points and secured the 18th place. He also won an Emerald Award for completing all activities and games in The Pakistan Maths Challenge in 2012.

Hussain also had the honour of winning two certificates, a shield and two key chains for the Primary Branch Satellite Town ,Rawalpindi in the Mathelatics Competition. Hussain is a well mannered and intelligent boy who excels in the academic arena as well. He also takes part in all extra-curricular activities held at school.

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The Art of Recycling We observed the “Solid Waste Awareness and Recycling Week” in November 2012. On the final day a special assembly was held to mark the significance of the day. To begin with, Class 1 gave their presentation in which all the students were dressed up in the model of recycling materials and their fellow students talked about the importance of recycling in our daily life.

Class 2 talked about ‘ Litter Free Lunch’ and its importance. They also presented their related models, charts and posters. On the same notion Class 3 presented a role play in a real class situation, “Save me from Litter”.

Class 4 talked about the famous three “R’s” – ‘recycle’, ‘reuse’ and ‘reduce’, correlating them with ‘Litter Free Lunch’.

Class 5 explained how they can recycle various things and can make use of them in real life. They also explained the procedure and the materials they used to make their models. The assembly ended with a song specially prepared by the music teachers. In the end there was a very colourful display of recycling projects by all the class levels.

Professional Development Workshop " You can teach a student a lesson for a day; but if you can teach him to learn by creating curiosity, he will continue the learning process as long as he lives."

Clay P. Bedford

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Football Challenge 2012-13 Our school arranged a fun football match for our students’ fathers. Keeping in mind the tiring lifestyles of the world today, we decided to do something for our cherished parent body. This was the second such event that was held. It was highly appreciated by the fathers and they requested that such events should be held more often as this provides them with the opportunity to socialize with each other, which seems impossible otherwise.

The day was carefully planned, the fathers were invited and briefed about rules a few days earlier.

The day started with the recitation of Holy Quran by Ihsan Saleem of Class IV Blue and English translation by Hassan Naizi of Class V-Red. This was followed by the National Anthem. After this, fathers were divided into four teams and two matches of 20 mins each were played. Team A played with Team B and Team C played with Team D. In the first Match Team A won the match with the score of 2 goals against 1.Whereas in the second match Team D won with the score of 3 goals against 2.

Then the final match was played between Teams A and D. It was won by Team D again with the score of 3 goals against 2. This match was worth watching as the enthusiasm and energy was at its peak, apart from this the spectators that were the students of Class 1 and 2 were beaming with joy as they cheered the participants.

This was followed by the prize distribution, the winning team was awarded certificates and trophies and the runners up were given certificates.

The event ended with a vote of thanks from the Headmistress Mrs. Saima Faheem.

Prevention is Better than Cure

Fun Time in Prince Chocolate Castle

Students of Class V studied various diseases and they prepared a project on ‘Prevention of Diseases’. Their project was to design posters to create awareness amongst the students on how to prevent diseases.

The makers of Prince Chocolate sponsored and organized a fun filled event for the students at school. The children enjoyed the interesting activities and the refreshments.

The Science teachers helped the students to work in groups and to conduct research on the internet. The students then made their posters and displayed them in the Class V block at school. This group activity was also important as it promoted coordination and cooperation among the groups and love for research work.

The end product was amazing as students had highlighted their ideas for a healthy life in each poster.

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