From the Headmaster
Wednesday 30th April is the day when the Class 2014 will be making their entry into school for their final day of classes. Traditionally this is an opportunity for the whole school to recognise the achievement of the graduating class. Please note that on this day the bottom car park will be closed from 6.55 am to ensure the safety of the graduating class as they enter school. The top car park will still be open but we do ask that all parents make an effort to get their children to school a little earlier that day to avoid delays.
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Primary News
Food collection
On behalf of the 10th Grade students who organised a collection of basic foodstuffs we would like to thank everyone who contributed. In exchange for support during our Easter activities we collected the following items to be donated to a local old peoples home.
Rice 196lbs
Beans 200lbs
Sugar 149lbs
Milk 37 litres
Flour 69lbs
Also a variety of items such as oil, cereal, salt, oats, pasta, tuna, coffee, soup etc
UP Parent/teacher meetings
Optional parent/teacher meetings in UP begin immediately after the Easter holiday. If you would like to arrange to meet your children’s class teacher please email Claudia Avilés, Verónica Lindo or the class teacher - remembering that our teachers too need a holiday so may not get back to you immediately!
Marcela Alger
Marcela Alger, who has previously worked as a learning assistant in both lower and upper primary, has been appointed as a Spanish teacher after a very thorough selection process. Marcela, a fully trained teacher, will be working with the children in Grade 3 for the remainder of this school year and will be happy to meet with parents of those children during the week beginning 28th April when we have our termly UP parent/teacher meetings.
4th Avilés assembly
We look forward to welcoming the parents of children in 4th Avilés to their class assembly on Wednesday 30th April. Please remember to use the emergency car park for these events.
Specialist Teacher workshops - w/b 5th May
During the year we have presented different workshops for primary parents to help them to understand how our curriculum works. A number of parents have expressed an interest in finding out more about our specialist classes and curricula and, therefore, during the week beginning Monday 5th May our specialist teachers in Art, Music, PE and ICT will be leading workshops for parents to help them to understand the importance of these subjects in the education of the whole child. We will send out sign up sheets after the Easter holiday and look forward to seeing you at these events.
Upper Primary Talent Show - Registration for Auditions
Registration for Talent Show Auditions will be open on Monday 28th of April until Friday 2nd of May (no students will be accepted after these days).
Please read the Talent Show Guidelines before sign up to the Auditions here:
Auditions will take place the 7th, 12th and 14th of May; programmes will be sent to relevant students and published in the newsletter.
Attendance
We were very disappointed with the poor attendance of children in the Primary school on Friday 11th April, particularly our Grade 5 pupils who missed their swimming gala which, consequently, affected all the arrangements made previously by the PE/ Swimming teachers. Every day in school is important and swimming galas are a great way of developing swimming skills, healthy competition and teamwork and loyalty. Normal lessons and assessments took place in 5th Grade classes from 7 - 11am. Children who missed school on this day will be registered as having an unauthorised absence.
Dates for your diary
Lower Primary
Monday 14th - Friday 25th April: Easter Holiday
Monday 5th May: First Vásquez family day
Tuesday 6th May: First Fastiggi family day
Wednesday 7th May: First Aguirre family day
Thursday 8th May: First Quintanilla family day
Tuesday 13th May: Kinder Rampone family day
Wednesday 14th May: Kinder Súarez family day
Thursday 15th May: Kinder Lima family day
Friday 16th May: Kinder Francés family day
Tuesday 20th May: Pre Kinder Flores family day
Wednesday 21st May: Pre Kinder Carbajal family day
Thursday 22nd May: Pre Kinder Cáceres family day
Friday 23rd May: Pre Kinder Siri family day
Monday 26th May: Prepa Cáceres family day
Tuesday 27th May: Prepa Monks family day
Wednesday 28th May: Prepa Burrows family day
Thursday 29th May: Prepa Pashley family day
Friday 6th June: Moving up day
Friday 13th June: LP reports go home
Friday 20th June: Last day of school
Upper Primary
Monday 14th - Friday 25th April: Easter Holiday
Wednesday 30th April: 4th Avilés Assembly, 11.55pm, PAC
Secondary News
Easter Holidays
The Easter Holidays start today and we hope everyone has a safe and happy break. Students in Grade 10 (Class 2016) and Grade 12 (Class 2014) return almost immediately to their IGCSE and IB Examinations and it is really important they study and revise well during the Easter break. We ask that parents help by organising somewhere to study and providing all the support you can. The IGCSE Examinations and IB Examinations are very important to the students in terms of preparation for future courses either here at school or at University.
We look forward to seeing all our students back in school on Monday 28th April.
Congratulations
As I am sure you are aware the U18 Boys football team won the Bilingual League Football Cup last Friday with a 1-0 victory over the Liceo Frances. and they took part this morning in the Lap of Honour and yesterday some of them were interviewed in school by the ESPN Football Correspondent Mr. Fernando Palomo who visited the school. We also would like to note we are also very proud of the U18 Girls Football team who came second in their Bilingual League and also participated in the Lap of Honour.
Lap of Honour - Effort led to Success
Congratulations to all the students who paraded around school this morning in a lap of honour to recognise the recent achievements of ABC teams in football, swimming, athletics, archery, Mathcounts, and the ESEN debate. It has been a fantastic term in terms of the success of our teams and while it is nice to be successful we also want to remind our community that for us at school the prime importance is in taking part with dignity, enthusiasm and respect. We would like to celebrate this alongside the successes we have recently earned
Secondary dates for your diary
Friday 11th April: Last day of term two
Monday 28th April: First day of term three
Wednesday 30th April: Last day of classes for Class 2014. Class 2016 IGCSE Exams start
Thursday 1st May: Public Holiday
Friday 2nd and Saturday 3rd May: A practice expedition to the Montecristo park in Metapan.
Monday 5th May: IB Exams start
Tuesday 6th May: Parents Partnership meeting for Grade 9 and 11 parents, 6pm PAC
Friday 16th May: Spring Musical Recital
Thursday 22nd May: ABC Digital Award, 5pm PAC
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