NLCS Jeju Newsletter 20 May 2022 by North London Collegiate School Jeju

NLCS JEJU NEWSLETTER 20 May 2022

5 • PRINCIPAL’S LETTER • ENRICHMENT WEEK STORIES • OTHER STORIES FROM AROUND THE SCHOOL • A ROUND UP OF STUDENT’S AWARDS • DATES FOR DIARY • IMPORTANT NOTICE FOR DAY STUDENTS AND PARENTS

PRINCIPAL’S LETTER Dear Parents, Students, Staff and Friends of NLCS Jeju It was a real pleasure to be able to have parents on campus in the PAC attending the Year 6 production of ‘The Three Questions’. We were all treated to a wonderful production which involved all of Year 6 and displayed their many talents: acting, singing, playing some original musical instruments and dancing. This was a whole school effort and thanks go to the teachers who supported them from the Junior School as well as teachers from the Art, Dance, Drama and Music departments. It was also delightful to see the Year 10 students assisting in the production. I also wish the Year 6 students, who are away on their OutDoor Education residential trip on the mainland with teachers, a very enjoyable experience. Academically it is a challenging time for students in Year 11 and 13 who still have IGCSE and IBDP examinations continuing. In fact, the final two IGCSE examinations occur on the 20 and 21 June, after the end of term! It is also a very busy time for the Year 10 and Year 12 students who are engaged in work for the assessed parts of their examination programmes with coursework or IAs. I have also been delighted to see students in Years 7-9 engaged in Individual Project Work and various Stem Projects. This term has also seen an explosion of students developing their passions in various areas and obviously we have hundreds of students preparing for the Arts Festival, or the Visual Art Show to showcase their talents. The NLCS Jeju Middle School Rugby Squad will compete at the 51st National Rugby Championships on 26 May. As well as representing NLCS Jeju, the students have been selected to represent the Jeju Sports Council at the championships. The squad attended the Jeju Sports Council opening ceremony on Thursday 19 May. We wish them all every success both in their preparations over the coming weeks and at the competition. The whole School is also preparing for our visitors from NLCS for the Inspection Visit during the week beginning the 23 May and also Governors for the Summer Board Meeting on the 1 and 2 June. Your sincerely, Lynne Oldfield Principal

North London Collegiate School Jeju

ENRICHMENT WEEK STORIES LATIN AND PHILOSOPHY WEEK During the enjoyable Latin and Philosophy Enrichment week our Year 7 students heard a lecture on Socrates which included an entertaining reading from Plato’s Republic, as well Mr. Mundy’s Barbarian lecture, see his article. There were also several lunchtime activities including a derivative (words that come from Latin) challenge, a mythology quiz and display, Roman Board games and a Roman phrases display. Several staff and students also made use of a Roman Soldier Photo-opportunity. Thank you to all the students who helped and attended these events and to the teachers who arranged such interesting activities.

North London Collegiate School Jeju

BARBARIAN IDENTITIES Thank you to Mr. Munday, who gave a lecture to our students on 11 May, he says “The phrase barbarian today is associated with someone who is uncivilised, cruel and unclean. This phrase comes from the Romans and Ancient Greeks. This phrase is clear to us today but there is no clear definition of a barbarian from the Roman perspective. They used this phrase barbarian, the most notable being Roman general Julius Caesar and Roman historian Tactitus. What makes a Roman barbarian changes consistently throughout the Roman period and Ancient Historians link the Roman word barbarus to the Romans’ numerous conflicts with the western Germanic tribes. Unlike the Romans, the Ancient Greeks did define a barbarian. The Ancient Greek bárbaros was used to label all foreigners (including the Romans). We also believe that the origins of the word is onomatopoeic because the “bar bar” sound represents the perception of other languages to the Ancient Greeks.”

CAREERS EDUCATION EVENT On 6 May we held a Careers Education event at School for our Year 10 students. A number of external speakers, from a wide variety of careers, and two of our own Year 13 students, gave inspirational and informative talks to our students. Special thanks to: Ms. Adele Vitale (Professional Doula) Mr. Mike Forster (Advertising Agency CEO) Mr. Mike Kim (Product and Graphic Designer) Mr. Robb Harker (EDM Agency Director) Mr. Jaesung Lee (Architect) Ms. Kate Edwards (Game Industry Cultural Consultant) Angelina Lee (Year 13) Elysia Bae (Year 13)

OTHER STORIES FROM AROUND THE SCHOOL YEAR 6 PRODUCTION Our Year 6 production of ‘The Three Questions’, a Korean Folktale, was outstanding! If you missed the performance you can still watch our livestream here. A huge congratulations to all of our Year 6 students - every student had a role, whether that was on stage performing or behind the scenes making the set and props, providing technical support and much more, this was a real whole year group effort.

YEAR 6 PRODUCTION

FOBISIA SHORT STORY COMPETITION 2022 Our very own David Kwon has won this year’s FOBISIA Short Story Competition, in the Year 3 - Year 4 category! The theme was ‘Memories’ and David wrote an exciting story titled ‘The Memory Cafe” - find out what magical secret the teabags at the Memory Cafe possess, by reading his winning entry: here. In an exclusive interview with David, he explained that his passion for reading led to him having the courage to write his own stories. His love of reading started when his Mum would read to him when he was young, he now reads every day, even if he has lots of homework and is busy - he says “you can always find time to read, even if for just a short time”. David does not have any additional classes outside of school, instead he studies at home on his own. He starts his homework as soon as he returns home, organising it by the deadline date. If he completes his homework he will do some additional self study, read or play boardgames with his Mum. David’s advice to all students - “Just read! Read whenever you can! It will improve your English Language skills, it will increase your vocabulary, it will help with your writing skills. Read in other languages too, it will also help improve those language skills!” Currently reading: Frankenstein Favourite book(s): Harry Potter

2021/22 KOREAN SECOND LANGUAGE SPEECH CONTEST Well done to all our KSL students who entered the speech contest, congratulations to our winners: Beginner Level - 1st place - Peiting lI (Elvin) and Jeannie Brown Intermediate Level - 1st place - Thomas Downes and Georgina Downes Advanced Level - 1st place - Torin Harker

JUNIOR AND SENIOR SCHOOL PARENT ACADEMIES It was a great pleasure to welcome our Junior and Senior parents to the campus this week to attend the Parent Academies in person. This is the first time in two years! Our Junior parents received updates on Junior School, information about our staff Professional Development and changes to staffing from August, with our Senior Parents receiving information on the changes to our Pastoral structure. Don’t worry if you could not attend, you can still watch the live streams. We hope to welcome more parents to future events. Junior School Parent Academy Senior School Parent Academy

PARENTS AS PARTNERS Thank you to all our parents who joined us for our Parents as Partners workshop this week. The session was led by Ms. Kate Somerville, Mr. Craig Wehrle and Mr. James Caudle. The workshop focused on online safety - how to support and monitor your children. More workshops will take place next academic year.

GIANT BUBBLES Students had to make their own wands and vary the amount of reagents to see who could create the largest bubbles! The boys created their own sparklers which will be tested soon!

BOOKSALE UPDATE The Library and Service Ambassadors visited the Yehyangwon Orphange in Hallim to donate the incredible 3.5 million won they raised from their secondhand book sale. This money will be used to replace a damaged floor. The students were able to speak at length to the staff at the orphanage and have a look around, before meeting some of the children who live there. Very kindly, Year 5 students Tejy Jang, Sean Yoon, Lucy Kim and Hayoon Cho, also donated a 200 000 won gift voucher they recently received from KCTV for participating in a recording of ‘The Lion King’.

We are very proud of our kind and generous students!

AEWOL DAY OUT TO HYEOPJAE Our Aewol boarding students had a wonderful day out to the beach eating burgers and BBQ - another perk of living with all your friends on a beautiful island! Video

BOARDERS BBQ The ever changing Jeju weather couldn’t dampen our Boarder’s BBQ this weekend! They may have had to stay inside, but there was plenty of delicious food and a good time had by all!

BIOLOGY CHALLENGE Last Friday 24 boys and girls in Years 8-10 took part in the Royal Society of Biology’s Biology Challenge, a precursor competition to the prestigious Intermediate Biology Olympiad and British Biology Olympiad. Results will be announced in June, so good luck to them all! This year’s Intermediate Biology Olympiad (for Years 10-12) will be held on June 10. We are looking forward to another strong turn out!

BRITISH BIOLOGY OLYMPIAD A number of students took part in the British Biology Olympiad in January, this is the hardest challenge with students requiring knowledge at a higher level than what is taught at IB level. Mr. Paddy Yeoul described the winners as ‘The School’s finest Biologists’ and we agree! Congratulations to:

Gold Raphael Seong-Hoon Choi Shaun Jaemin Lew Philip Kim

Silver Shine Shiyoun Ryu Brian Chae-Ghang Jeong Yuta Takeda Jayden Junseo Yoon Bronze Brandon Sukjoon Yoon Thomas Tongyi Zhan

WORLD BEE WEEK Friday 20 May is World Bee Day, our students have spent the day enjoying bee related activities and finding out more about the wonderful world of bees, including: • • • • • • • •

A special bee assembly Observation Hive at School A display of hive materials and equipment - including video footage Live link to our very own hives Student run stalls Spelling Bee Pop up museum Display of our preserved insects

Photos of the day’s activities will be included in the next newsletter. For now, you can enjoy photos from two recent events (Greenbees visit NLCS Jeju 7 May and NLCS Jeju visit the Greenbees apiary on 14 May)

BEE ASSEMBLY As part of our Bee Week activities, five NLCS Jeju students lead a very informative and thought provoking assembly on bees. They focused on the rapid and worrying decline of bees around the world, they explained why bee numbers are worryingly low and what impact that has on the world. NLCS Jeju bee keeping may be small, but if we all do our part - we can make a difference and literally help to save the world. Watch the presentation here. “If the bee disappeared off the surface of the globe, then man would have only four years of life left. No more bees, no more pollination, no more plants, no more animals, no more man.” - Albert Einstein

KISAC MIDDLE SCHOOL BASKETBALL Congratulations to the NLCS teams who entered the KISAC MS Basketball Tournament. An impressive performance by all! Boys A team - 2nd place (A division) Girls - A team - 3rd place (A division) B team - 3rd place (B division)

BOOK SANITISERS

Thank you to our Junior School PRG who have purchased and delivered book sanitisers for our First and Lower School Libraries. A very generous gift that will be very useful.

OLD NORTH LONDONERS JEJU (ONLJ) ONLJ are graduates of NLCS Jeju. Each member is very important to us and because of this we are working even harder to grow and support our alumni group. Join the ONLJ alumni group today: • Receive support from a dedicated Alumni Manager, Ms. Shin - (alumni@nlcsjeju.kr) • Keep up to date with news by following our ONLJ Instagram, Facebook profiles • Connect on LinkedIn • Visit the Alumni page of the NLCS website to find out more nlcsjeju.co.kr/alumni • Receive invites to School arranged ONLJ events • Arrange your own ONLJ events with support from Ms. Shin • Provide advice, guidance and mentoring, via LinkedIn, to new graduates with a shared career or university plan • Connect with alumni in your current location, industry or university • Share your success stories and inspire our current NLCS Jeju students

A ROUND UP OF STUDENT’S AWARDS AND ACHIEVEMENTS

AWARDS AND ACHIEVEMENTS Our fortnightly round up of our student’s achievements, congratulations to you all.

Name: Thomas Zhu Award: Second Prize - London Classical Music Competition

Name: Thomas Zhu Award: London Young Musician of the Year 2022

Name: Bunny Jeein Seol Award: First Place - FOBISIA Online Visual Arts Competition - the theme was ‘New Normal’ 7 other NLCS Jeju students were runners up!

Name: Youngsoo Kim (Benedict) and Seungki Kim (Eddy) Award: Part of the winning football team in the Jeju Challenge Cup, Youth Soccer League. Youngsoo conceded only one goal and Seungki scored 9 goals over 5 matches

OTHER NEWS There is always so much happening at NLCS Jeju, check out our recent stories on our social media pages - like and follow to never miss out! • Our first beekeeping Bryant takes place • Art students make props for our Year 6 Production • Duke of Edinburgh International Award students - Mount Cheongnyang expedition • Our Junior CCA students enjoy a Ukulele lesson in the sunshine • Children’s Day activities • Year 10 Duke of Edinburgh International Award Students complete their Bronze Assessed Adventurous journey • Weekend boarding activities • Parents’ Day video • Visit from our Junior and Senior PRG for Teacher’s Day

QUEEN’S BIRTHDAY DINNER AND JUBILEE CELEBRATIONS 2022 Join us on 9 June for the Queen’s Birthday Dinner where an NLCS Jeju student string quartet, featuring Seojin Kim, Jisu Choi, Chaewon Lim and Chanhwi Lee, will be performing on stage - tickets still on sale. Poster is on the next page.

DATES FOR DIARY

BOARDING INFORMATION SESSION It’s not too late to sign up and join us on 23 May at 10am for our Boarding Information Session. Current parents should contact their Parent Liaison Manager (Ms. DongEun Lee or Ms. Mina Chang to register) and new parents can email admissions@nlcsjeju. Learn more about boarding and why we think it’s a great experience for our students.

NLCS JEJU String Quartet

9 June Queen’s Jubilee

North London Collegiate School Jeju

IMPORTANT NOTICE FOR DAY STUDENTS AND PARENTS Day students are reminded that they are not permitted to be on campus after the School day ends (after lessons/CCAs) unless they are granted permission to do so for a pre-arranged activity or event. This extends to all areas of the campus, including but not limited to the Boarding Homes, Dining Room, Sports Centre, grounds and buildings. Day students who are found on campus after this time, without explicit permission, will face disciplinary action.