Newsletter :March-August 2020 Beaconhouse School System Main campus Abbottabad
Message from HM’s Desk
I feel immensely grateful to Allah who has blessed us with safety and health and continuity of learning and teaching process in these trying times. I congratulate all the As Beaconhouse shifts to remote learning during this unprecedented school clo- stakeholders for taking an active sures worldwide, BSS launched the Beaconhouse Schooling Uninterrupted (BSU). part in the educational activity BSU is an online platform designed for seamless academic operations, helping through Beaconhouse Schooling parents and teachers to facilitate student learning. Uninterrupted; an amazing online schooling platform. We look forward Teachers at BSSA have designed a mix of online and offline activities, to keep to welcome our students back to students engaged and active whilst at home. Live feedback and interaction with school as per Government of teachers through video and messaging has beneficially given a very personal Pakistan directives while ensuring touch to this new venture. This, so far, has been an enriching experience for the strict follow up of Covid – 19 parents and students alike, who are enthusiastically exploring this advanced meSOP’s.We believe in providing dium. Over the months, the increase in online student attendance at the Beaconquality education in conducive house Abbottabad and the timely submissions of assignments has been extremelearning environment. Interactivity ly encouraging to see. With the combined efforts of teachers, parents and the and student- centeredness are students, BSU can successfully set a new norm in academics. important features of BSU.
Beaconhouse schooling uninterrupted
Students and teachers confronted a new challenge which they accepted whole heartedly and worked generously on the 21st century tools for making BSU an all time success. They had their hands on Kahoot, Near pod, Google slides, Padlet wall and many other digital tools for making their live sessions more interactive and giving learning new dimensions and channels. I have been greatly impressed and reassured by the adaptaMessage bility of our students as they have dealt with these challenging from times so positively. They have not only maturely accepted their role in protecting our community and behaving appropriSMI’s Desk ately but also have adopted the virtual mode of teaching in almost no time. In many ways we are seeing the best of our students as they illustrate through their actions that they are up to the challenge of navigating through a global pandemic.
I appreciate my staff and admin team for planning activities and events with maximum outreach. Some highlights of BSU are BEL (Beaconhouse Emerging Leaders) an online competition for Secondary School and FUNtastic Frenzy for Early Years and Primary School. This academic year concluded with some great results from our outgoing classes. I am proud to share that our Matric Result was 100% with highest marks being 1054 secured by Usman Ayaz. Our O’ Levels and college programme, passing out batch has also performed exceptionally well with 27 A* and 56 A’s with 100% A2 result. We, as community, have faced unique challenges in this pandemic. I sincerely pray to Allah that academic session 2020-21 is full of pleasant opportunities and possibilities where our students generate ideas and achieve excellence in academics.