NEWSWEEK
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30 April 2021
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A Letter From The Principal Dear Parents, Students, Staff and Friends of NLCS Jeju This week our IBDP and also our IGCSE examinations have begun and so we wish all our students the best of luck with this, the culmination of all their hard work. I am very pleased to see that in line with the message from Founder’s Day, we are focused on developing further our environmental strategy and ensuring that we are more responsible for our world . In the Junior School the Eco Committee has been tackling a key problem concerning masks and in the Senior School the Environmental Committee are developing a wider strategy for the whole school community which will also with the School Council, attempt to tackle the increasing issues surrounding so many students being driven to and from school and the resulting traffic congestion and environmental damage. We look forward to sharing the plans and decisions of this with you all very soon. Over the next week we are having a focus on the benefits of boarding with all our students and parents to demonstrate how the boarding experience is being enhanced further. This is a response to what students and parents and our faculty have considered and suggested to us. As we move into a new decade for NLCS Jeju there is always a need to adapt and change to take account of a quickly changing world and the demands of education. Yours sincerely, Lynne Oldfield Principal
ECO MASKS We are very happy to share a lovely story of a very eco friendly project which was conceived, considered, started and finished by our Junior School students. Here the Eco Committee share their story -
Creating Our Eco masks Covid 19 has meant that we are wearing masks on a daily basis. A lot of the people’s choice of mask are one-use which contain plastic and non-recyclable materials. Since the sudden pandemic, a lot of plastic masks have been released world-wide into the environment. The Eco Committee recognised this problem and they wanted to encourage NLCS Jeju students and staff to do their part in solving it.
Why did we want to design our masks? The pandemic is causing us to use a lot of plastic one-use masks and these are bad for the environment. We calculated that if all of the children and staff in the Junior School wore one every school day, approximately 99,000 masks would be used in one year. Some people use more than one a day and they all end up in the bin or even on the ground. We have all seen the pictures of animals with masks wrapped around their necks. The Eco Committee wanted to help reduce this problem by encouraging reusable masks to be worn, instead of one-use masks.
What was our idea? To encourage the students and teachers to wear a reusable mask we knew we had to create masks that they would enjoy wearing and be proud of. We came up with the idea to combine it with a house competition. The students would be able to design a mask that reminded people to consider the environment as well as encompass their house spirit.
What did we do? First we contacted the heads of houses to see if they liked our idea - they did! We designed the competition and came up with all the rules. Each student had to design a mask that encapsulated their house. A winner was chosen from each year group in each house, and then the overall winners of the houses would have their mask printed onto fabric masks. Secondly the marketing team helped us turn the masks into reality. They found a company who would print out the masks for us and Mr. Kim helped put the winning designs onto the computer for us. We were very impressed by all of the designs that were entered into the competition and it was so hard to choose the winners. But in the end, we think the masks have turned out amazing. We really hope that everyone will wear them with pride and choose reusable masks more often. Winners JuJak - Chloe Yerim Lee Year 6 Cheong Nam - Gian Park Year 5 Baek Ho - Leo Gyeom Lee Year 3 Hyeong Mu - Lucy Jiwon Yoon Year 4
WALK TO SCHOOL! We want to encourage all our day students to be responsible and environmentally friendly when coming to School each day. Parents - we encourage you to walk to School with your children - or encourage older students to walk alone. Cycling is another fantastic option and remember to wear a helmet. If all our students are brought to School by car then we will have congestion on the roads, air pollution - and less healthy children! Fresh air and exercise before starting lessons is a wonderful start to the day. Why not challenge yourselves to try it for a week or a month and see how much better it feels!
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Happiness is the meaning and purpose of life, the whole aim and end of human existence. - Aristotle Thank you very much to Principal, Ms. Lynne Oldfield who set the tone for the week in Senior School Assembly. She asked us all to think about happiness! How can we be happier? What habits do happy people have? We urge everyone to follow these tips and to spread happiness around our School! Let us know what makes you happy? • Direct your Focus - Smile • Practise Gratitude • Spread Positivity • Challenge Yourself
COMPUTER SCIENCE Thank you to Mr. Tajvir Singh, Head of Computer Science, who has updated us on several recent competitions where NLCS Jeju students have shone!
FOBISIA Creative Coding Challenge This challenge was held online and organised by Regents International School, Pattaya, Thailand. Over 300 entries were submitted in all. Our students spent hours of preparation after school and on weekends to complete these projects and their hard work really paid off! We submitted 4 projects - 2 individual projects and 2 team projects in all - these were all from our Key Stage 3 students. Two of our teams were in the final (Top 5) and got Runner Up certificates. William Wen - Individual 1 - Runner up Kai Ko - Individual 2 - Participation Jimin Son - Team 1 - Runner Up Sarah Sim - Team 1 - Runner Up Hwan Kim - Team 2 - Participation Jeongho Yoo - Team 2 - Participation
Canadian Computing Challenge The Canadian Computing Competition (CCC) is a fun challenge for Senior School students with an interest in programming. It is an opportunity for students to test their ability in designing, understanding and implementing algorithms. It was organised by the University of Waterloo, Canada. There were 10 participants in the Junior and Senior category - challenged in competency of problem-solving skills. Almost 7000 coders worldwide took part in this challenge in 2021. Our students performed excellently and 50% achieved Distinction. One of the participants got a 100% score. Well done to all our participants! Hyunjun Bae - Year 12 Angelina (Rina) Kim - Year 7 William Wen - Year 9 Jihong Kim - Year 10 Sunwoo An - Year 8 YunJeong (Sarah) Seong - Year 10 Kyubin (Eddie) Min - Year 10 Joonseok (Aaren) Kang - Year 10 Daniel Chang - Year 10 Yin Jie (Justin) Zhao - Year 10
ACSL Over 25 students are taking part in the ACSL/KCSL competition. The first 3 rounds are already completed and the 4th round was on 24th April. From 3 NLCS Jeju teams, the Intermediate team was in the top 5 worldwide. The finalist will be chosen after the 4th round. Teams from around the world will take part virtually on 29th May to compete for the best problem solver. NLCS was placed 2nd worldwide and 1st in South Korea last year in the Intermediate category so stakes are high! All these challenges and competitions are very popular. We thank Mr. Singh and the team of dedicated teachers for their support. Please talk to one of our Computer Science teachers or contestants if you want to know more!
RAP IN THE JUNIOR SCHOOL Mr. Mark Eyton Jones has shared with us a great video of rapper, Harry Mack, who created a personalised rap about NLCS Jeju. This has been used as the basis for a study unit for his Year 4 class. Have a listen. How can you create your own version?
BLOGGING AND PODCAST CCAs In the new CCA unit our Junior School students are trying out two great CCAs. Mr. Stewart Smith is running a Blogging CCA - where the children will create and write their own blogs - finding their voices on many diverse subjects. Mr. James Tipney is encouraging his CCA students to create their own podcasts - to listen to what’s around and create their own. Marketing visited the students and found them eager to learn about how to make their work unique and popular. We’ve promised to share the best at the end of term. Good luck to our fledgling writers and broadcasters!
UGC As promised - more stories from our Class of 2021 and their choices. This week an elite university story which makes us all very happy!
Na Young Son - A Musical Future at Stanford Everyone in School knows Na Young and she is one of our most visible students - playing music at concerts and productions, always in the Arts departments and inspiring everyone with her positivity. So we are delighted to hear that she has achieved her dream and will be off to Stanford this Autumn. NaYoung hopes to choose both Electrical Engineering and Music - her two passions. Since Year 10 she has wanted to go to Stanfordand the last four years have been dedicated to achieving that dream. Ms. Kim in the UGC has been a great help to NaYoung. “She helped me with essays and applications and really helped me focus and narrow down my choices.” NaYoung also acknowledges the help and guidance she has received from Mr. Neil Tamlyn and Mr. Harry Thorrington in Music. Mr.Thorrington persuaded her to aim high - “If you try for the best you will make it!” She says that she believes that hard work not talent is the most important thing. She advises “Do what you like not what will look good on your CV. That will shine through. Perform, try new activities and be passionate.” NaYoung is a boarder - she was a Mulchat Girl and is now in Halla East.
“The schedule and support network is really amazing. I can access the music department and other facilities all week and all weekend and that has made an amazing difference. Ms. Gissane and the team created a practice room for me in Halla. I can’t stress how important that has been.” Watch out for NaYoung in Arts Week where she will be performing in the Year 13 Legacy (a traditional part of the Week) and also in Our Story - a journey in songs.
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*Students wore masks throughout except if posing alone and apart
A MESSAGE FROM THE LITTLE 8 Every week we bring you a message from our Little 8 student leaders in the Junior School. This week it’s the turn of Jun Seo (Jaden) Lee. “It’s been more than six months since I became a member of the Little 8. During those six months, we have done so many works and contributions that benefit the school. The first contribution I made was the new student induction programme. I was very happy that my idea was actually used and we all got to tell the new students who we are and what NLCS Jeju is all about. The next thing we did were the Christmas Jokes for the other students of NLCS Jeju. It was quite small and nothing serious but I hope it was fun for everyone and became a nice way to start off the winter break. The biggest and the most honourable contribution was participating in the Daffodil procession in the Founder’s Day Assembly. We divided into two different groups, and we gathered Daffodils from fellow students. It was really fun to do it with the other members of the Little 8 and I really hope that my participation impacted the school.”
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“ It was really fun to do it with the other members of the Little 8 and I really hope that my participation impacted the school.“
Jun Seo (Jaden) Lee, Little Eight
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CHEMISTRY OLYMPIAD
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Thank you to Dr. Henry Liu who is driving an inter-school Chemistry Challenge. See the North London poster for more details!
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Interschool Virtual Chemistry Olympiad
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Sign up to challenge your knowledge!! Date: Wednesday, June 09 Time: 11:20 - 12:20 (Korea Time) Platform for the Competition: Kahoot For registration information, please contact Dr. Henry Liu: hliu@nlcsjeju.kr
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BOOK WEEK We literally ran out of space last week to share everything that went on in Book Week in our Junior School so here’s a little catch up of some more events.
Buddy Reading Students helped each other out with reading and enjoyed the simple pleasures of sharing stories. We were very proud to see our older students helping our younger classes.
Live From The Library
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Another great event was Live From The Library organised by Ms. Hannah Goddard, an allday storytelling event where children listened to books read to them by lots of different teachers in our amazing Junior School Library before enjoying a drink and special Book Week cookie at the Hot Chocolate Cafe. The event was live-streamed throughout the day on Youtube so all classes could tune in at any point to watch different stories. Watch it all HERE
Second Hand Book Sale A huge thank you to Ms. Justine Whitney and Mr. GwangHo Im who organised this amazing Book Sale along with the Library Ambassadors and Service Ambassadors. All the Junior School children came along to browse and buy. We are incredibly grateful to all the teachers and parents and children who donated their much loved books for others to enjoy. The total raised was almost 3,000,000 KRW which will all go to good causes. Students helped each other out with reading and enjoyed the simple pleasures of sharing stories. We were very proud to see our older students helping our younger classes.
Reading Marathon How long does it take to read a whole book? Well - you can see here as our students spent a whole day last Wednesday doing just that in The Big Read! A special stage was set up in the Junior School library and students from Years 3 - 6 successfully read The Explorer by Katherine Rundell from cover to cover! Raon in Year 6 started us off at 8:20 and Annabelle Fernandes finished reading page 388 at 4:24. Lots of students read and still more of their classmates and teachers came along to listen and cheer them on! Thank you VERY much to librarian Guk Hyung who made a very special time lapse video.
Opening Lines Competition Ms. Hager Braham in our Senior School Library devised a wonderful Opening Lines competition. Have a look at this and see how many you can get right!!
Opening Lines Competition Match the opening lines on the left to the book they kick off on the right. Once you’re finished hand your sheet to the Library Team. Perfect answers will bring some treats. “All I’ve ever wanted is for Julie Baker to leave me alone. For her to back off – you know, just give me some space” “It was the first day of school. Actually, it was the nineteenth day of school, but it was my first day, and all I could think about was how happy I was that I had already missed three weeks, and that this would be the last first day in this place I would ever have.” “Like a man-made magic wish, the aeroplane began to rise.” “Once, long before enchantment was eclipsed by doubt, an anxious and desperate king awaited the birth of his first child.” “Welcome to the beautiful Sinclair family.” “Human! Stop! … is what I’m thinking. As if I’ve already become something else, a different species, and I’m tired of hearing all of his worn-out, human-person logic.” “Once when I was six I saw a magnificent picture in a book about the jungle, called True Stories. It showed a boa constrictor swallowing a wild beast.” “The road that let to Treegap had been trop out long before by a herd of cows who were, to say the least, relaxed.” “Rosalind was happy. Not the kind of passionate, thrilling happy that can quickly turn into disappointment, but the calm happy that comes when life is steadily going along just the way it should.” “Old Granny Greengrass had her finger chopped of in the butcher’s when she was buying half a leg of lamb.” “When Mr. Bilbo Baggins of Bag End announced that he would shortly be celebrating his eleventy-first birthday with a party of special magnificence, there was much talk and excitement in Hobbiton.” “If you were going to give a gold medal to the least delightful person on Earth, you would have to give that medal to a person named Carmelita Spats, and if you didn’t give it to her, Carmelita Spats was the sort of person who would snatch it from your hands anyway.” “I was born in Nottinghamshire and was sent to Cambridge University when I was fourteen years old.” “Kim Jiyoung is thirty-three years old, or thirty-four in Korean age. She got married three years ago and had a daughter last year.” “It was unmarked car, just some nondescript American seda a few years old, but the blackwall tires and the three men inside gave it away for what it was.” 1 The Lord of the rings book 1 by J.R.R.Tolkien 2 We were liars by E. Lockhart
3 The Penderwicks on Gardam
street by Jeanne Birdsall 4 The Outsider by Stephen King
5 The boy in the black suit by Jason Reynolds 6 Stronger, faster, and more beautiful by Arwen Elys Dayton 7 The Peppermint Pig by Nina Bawden 8 The Little Prince by Antoine de Saint-Exupery
9 A Series of Unfortunate Events
book 5 by Lemony Snicket 10 The explorer by Katherine Rundell 11 Flipped by Wendelin Van Draanen 12 Kim Jiyoung , born 1982 by Cho Nam-Joo
13 Gulliver by Jonathan Swift 14 Tuck Everlasting by Natalie Babbitt
15 Echo by Pam Munoz Ryan
Cupcakes in Senior School The Senior School Library organised cupcake decorating outside the Green Gallery. Inspired by all things literary - this was a very delicious way of raising the profile of the library!
BRYANTS Could this be one of our favourite Bryants? Junior Masterchef Bryant on Saturday saw the children make and decorate Minion cupcakes! Developing skills and having lots of fun AND they got to eat the cakes! Thank you Ms. Hannah Goddard for sharing.
KISAC - SPORTS Last week (April 19 - 24) was a wonderful celebration of Sport! As our Sports Ambassador, Nick Oh, says of all things KISAC “It has been more than a year since our school saw this many sporting events take place over a week. Around a total of 70 different students from our school took part in the four KISAC (Korean International Schools Activities Conference) tournaments and the two separate football fixtures. Our students showed excellent performance in all of the events, and indeed, it was a joy to see the vibrant, lively sports scene come back to life again! Many of the events were played differently - for example our swimmers swam against the clock rather than each other - and all COVID guidelines were followed. You can read the detailed reports on the following events in this week’s Sports Council Newsletter
Swim Meet (HS & MS) HS Football Boys HS Football Girls KISAC HS Football Boys KISAC HS Football Girls KISAC HS Boys Badminton KISAC HS Badminton Girls KISAC HS Golf
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Contact our Sports Council to find out more! Or read the latest issue HERE
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Digital Sketchbooks Art teacher, Ms. Rachel Donaldson, has shared some amazing work from her Year 7, 8 and 9 classes. Over the year, they have been creating digital sketchbooks to showcase their work. We think you’ll agree that these are some very talented students.Thank you Gloria Hwang - Year 9, Jennifer Kang - Year 8, Jimin Son - Year 8, Sunwoo Heo - Year 9, Yejee Hwang - Year 9, Bori Kim - Year 7. Ms. Donaldson says…”It’s great to see students putting in so much effort when presenting their artwork. I also love to read students’ reflections, which is a key part of the creative process!”
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PARENT ACADEMIES Last week we were delighted to welcome parents in person and online to two Parent Academy sessions. On Monday we hosted the Senior School event - discussing our pastoral commitment with special reference to the difficult subject of bullying.Thank you to Mr.Toby Waterson and Ms. Kate Sommerville. Mr. Neil Tamlyn shared an Arts Week update and reinforced the 2021 theme - Our Journey. We were able to answer parents’ questions and introduce our Head Boy, Nick Oh, too. On Tuesday the Junior School parents heard from Mr. Jeremy Freeman - VP - Head of Juniors and Mr. Richard Washington on the subject of our commitment to student welfare and wellbeing and the expected behaviours of all students. Mr. Stewart Smith - AVP Academic then gave an update on all things academic - reassuring parents how well the children are doing. Thank you to all our teachers and to Ms. Lynne Oldfield who introduced both events. If you want to know more or attend a future event then please get in touch with your Parent Relations Manager - Ms. Mina Chang (Senior School) Ms. DongEun Lee (Junior School) and Ms. Ying Gao (Chinese Community).
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