Words from the Director
In my view “resilience” is a vital ABC trait which requires both determination and priorities. It is very important that we understand our priorities particularly with respect to our hopes for our children and with respect to their hopes for the world they are growing up into. In my work, working and talking with young people, I get an insight into the sort of world they expect to live in and our responsibilities as parents and teachers to provide that world. All of us need to prioritize these goals and work with determination to achieve them. I hope the coming half term break will provide an opportunity for our families to do so.
Before we start enjoying the half term break we have a number of events this afternoon including the TEDEx event and College Cup football and volleyball at school. The boys U18 football team will be playing under our lights this evening at 7 pm. We also have a number of school trips including a Geography field trip to Iceland and our Model United Nations team to New York.
We are also sending out the link to our annual Parent Survey today. Please let us know what you think by completing it at some point during the holiday. You can access the survey by clicking on this link or through the message sent to your email. It should take you no more than 15 minutes to complete. Your feedback is extremely valuable to us and helps us make important decisions in the best interests of our community.
At lunchtime today we said farewell to Sara Suster who has been a leading light in the development of the ABC sports programme for 39 years. She has developed our inclusive and supportive sports programme in line with our school values. The recognition of her contribution at school today was from our current students who are part of the generation of ABC students she has inspired. We also bid farewell to Eric Quijano after ten years of service to the ABC. Eric has worked tirelessly developing leadership skills and role modelling the attributes of a ROC. I would like to thank both of them for their work and contribution to helping the school deliver its vision and mission.
I look forward to seeing your children back at school on Monday 4th March after a good break!
Words from the Head of Primary
It seems a distant memory since we started back after New Year. Now it is the mid-term break. This is an opportunity to reflect on what a great place the ABC is. I want to thank all of our hard work staff who put a lot of effort into our students at ABC. Not only are the children getting taller, but also for many they understand better the different concepts and experiences offered to them by their wonderful teachers!
I hope you all manage to have a good break. If you are traveling, please do so safely. I look forward seeing you all back on Monday, March 4th
The Virtue we are focusing on is being RESILIENT. This is defined as "the ability to recover from or adjust easily to misfortune or change.” The ability to bounce back or recover is important. A resilient child recovers from challenges, but they also learn from that experience.
A HUGE THANK YOU to Upper Primary and PE staff for a fantastic, well organized Sports Day held last Saturday. It was great to see children and parents enjoying the event! Prepa held their Night Activity on Wednesday and Grade 5 classes had their overnight camp on Thursday and Friday. Great to see classes using our community for learning.
When we return the teachers have a twilight inset which focuses on Guided Reading and is facilitated by our Literacy Coordinator Sue Dixon. We are hosting an expert in this field, Rachel Clarke (UK), who will be with us for the week.
Last weekend saw the Upper Primary students and parents compete for the honour of “Best Sports Tribe” in the Annual ABC Sports & Family Fun Day which was held on Saturday 16th February. With two sessions over the course of the morning, all of the children in Upper Primary had the opportunity to score points by taking part in fun events and relay races for their tribes. There were great performances from a lot of the children, too many to mention individually, with all of the running, catching, as well as the slip & slide events. 
With 50 points for a win, 40 for 2nd, 30 for 3rd and 20 for 4th as well as double points for relays, the whole competition came down to the last race of the day. With only a few points separating the teams, it was going to go all the way down to the wire. All the Maya had to do was beat the Pipiles and Inca Tribe in their final event of the day and the trophy was theirs. The race was magnificent, the lead changed a number of times at the start and then coming into the home straight it was just a sprint to the end. The Maya tribe ran their hearts out and took the victory, with Inca’s taking a very close 2nd Place. Aztecas took 3rd place with the Pipiles tribe coming in 4th. It was sealed the 1st Place in the last event meant that they had done enough to secure victory. Maya’s had won the ABC Sports & Family Fun Day 2019.
Congratulations to all that had taken part, it was a fantastic day. Nearly all of the children leaving looked tired and had smiles on their faces which was all that could have been asked of a school event.
Thank you to the PE staff that organised the event, as well as the UP Staff that supported the children to complete the activities. An event like this could not have happened without you.
Steam Fest Logo Competition
All our Upper Primary students have been invited to participate in the Steam Fest Logo Competition. Students must submit their hand-drawn or digital designs to Mrs Sara Mena or Mr Josue Erroa in ICT by March 5th 2019.
Good luck to our 5th grade students who left today to a great adventure camping in Portezuelo.
Student Council
We are very proud to announce we have appointed our new Primary Student Council. Congratulations to the new members:
Leilane Rivas Rubio (4th Williams) was selected to participate in the "Presidential Classic" in Orlando, Florida. She had the honour to represent El Salvador in this gymnastics competition. We are proud to share with our community that Leilane was able to bring 3 medals: 1 for Floor 7th place, 1 for Uneven Bars 7th place and one for
all around 9th place.
This is an important event where 15 countries competed at the ESPN arena a huge venue, which we are sure was very intimidating. It is clear that Leilane managed the nerves very well and did a great job. Congratulations!
The Prepa Night Activity took place on Wednesday 20th in school premises. With this activity we close our IPC Unit “Seeing the Light”. This was the first time our prepa children had the opportunity to experience a night in school. They had a great time doing searches with their torches and the night ended with a show of fireworks.
School will be closed for the half term break next week from the 25th February. Students return to school on the 4th March.
Dates for your diary
Lower Primary
FEBRUARY
Wednesday 20th - Prepa Night Activity 4.00pm - 8.00pm
MARCH
Monday 4th: Back to school
Monday 4th: 4th session extracurricular activities, starts
Thursday 7th: LP Parent Reading Workshop
Tuesday 12th: Kinder Bonet - trip to La Granjita
Wednesday 13th: Kinder Rampone - trip to La Granjita
Thursday 14th: Kinder Suárez - trip to La Granjita
Friday 15th: Kinder González - trip to La Granjita
Saturday 23rd: Sports & Family day
Upper Primary
FEBRUARY
Monday 25th: Half Term Break starts
Thursday 21st: Grade 5 Camping Night
MARCH
Tuesday 4th: Back to school from Half Term Break
Tuesday 4th: Session 4 Extracurricular Programme starts
Wednesday 6th: Ash Wednesday Mass by Comité Católico - 2:15 pm - 3:30 pm - Auditorium
Friday 8th: UP Parent Reading Workshop
Friday 15th - Ice Cream for Praying Bear Campaign supporters (must wear bracelet) and Jeans Day for Tribe with Praying Bear highest sales.
Friday 15th - No MUSIC Extracurricular Activities due to Bugsy Malone Musical
Wednesday 20th - 4th Williams Assembly - 8:15am & 12:20pm - PAC
Wednesday 27th - 3rd Dixon Assembly - 8:15am & 12:20pm - PAC
Words from the Head of Secondary
Dear parents and carers,
Thank you to all the tutor team of our Diploma years for the work at the Learning Review Day and thank you to the parents who made time to join their children at this important event. It is always powerful to have a conversation between school, parent and child in order to best support our children.
I continue to receive emails from parents sharing their thoughts regarding our proposal of banning mobile phones from our campus. We are going to send a survey to parents upon our return to gather some more data to analyse and take into consideration when we make our final decision. Thank you for your support!
ICELAND Geography trip
Happy to report the group is doing well and you can follow their trip on Mr Kilford’s blog http://abcfieldtrips.blogspot.com/?m=1
ABC Bulldog Pride week
This week we have had a great time seeing the ABC Bulldog pride on display with so many students supporting the Student Council’s initiatives. On “University Monday” we enjoyed chatting with our students regarding which universities they wanted to go to or which college their parents attended. “Wacky Wednesday” had great support and below you can see the winners of the competition. “Throwback Thursday” was interesting - from Dinosaurs to vintage 50’s and 70’s glam and finalising the week with the celebration of our pride of being ABC with a football match between students and teachers with a great win by the teachers 5-1! The match was also very significant as Sara Suster and Eric Quijano both leave us today after so many years of incredible service and leadership! We wish them all the very best in their future endeavours and hope to see them at school for future events.
A huge thank you to Sebastian Avilés and his Executive team, as well as all the StuCo reps who have made this week so special and filled with fun for all of us. In particular I would also like to mention how wonderful it has been to see our StuCo Executive working closely with KS3 Student Ambassadors as part of their leadership training! This year they collaborated in all activities. Thank you!
Photos of Throwback Thursday here: https://goo.gl/5ZNHhH
Photos of Wacky Wednesday here: https://goo.gl/NA4wTG
I look forward to seeing many of you at our second TEDxYouth event at the ABC tonight! It promises to be very interesting!
I sign off bidding Bon Voyage to our MUN delegates who leave to New York this week! I know they will make themselves and the school proud!
Have a wonderful week at home with family and enjoy a very well deserved rest.
See you all back on Monday 4th of March before 7.00 am!
Kind regards,
Natalia Cáceres Escalón
Dates for your diary
February
Friday 22nd - Last Day of first half of term 2 and TEDxYouth@AcademiaBC - 4pm
Monday 25th to Friday 1st March - Half Term holidays - school closed
Tuesday 26th to Tuesday 5th March - KS4/IB New York MUN Trip
March
Monday 4th - School reopens and IB Senior Music Recital, 5 to 7 pm PAC
Tuesday 5th and Wednesday 6th - Grade 6 Empowerment days - Camping night to Portezuelo
Thursday 7th and Friday 8th - Grade 8 Empowerment days - Camping night to Portezuelo
Saturday 9th - SAT examinations, 8 a.m. to 12 m.
Thursday 14th - School Musical “Bugsy Malone” - Matinee - 1:05 pm - PAC
Friday 15th - School Musical “Bugsy Malone”- all - 6 pm - PAC
Saturday 16th - School Musical “Bugsy Malone”- all - 6 pm - PAC
Wednesday 20th - Francophonie Day and IB Art Exhibition Opening - will be open to the public on 21st and 22nd - all day - PAC
Thursday 21st - Down Syndrome Jeans Day and Grade 8 IGCSE Options Evening, 4 pm - PAC
Tuesday 26th - Grade 10 IB Options Evening - 6 pm - Auditorium
Wednesday 27th - Grade 6 Parent Teacher Meeting - 6:30 pm - Auditorium
Thursday 28th to Saturday 30th - Multicultural Festival performance - 6 pm - Teatro Presidente
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