From Primary School:
Information letter from Mr. Paul, Head of Primary School
Dear parents and students,
We have reached the end of term 4, and the end of an eventful Gorki Spirit Week. A term filled with exciting events and experiences, and a week packed with variety and fun!
On Tuesday, we had another of our bake sales in the Upper Building, and in the Lower Building it was Silly Hair and Hat day. The next day was Dress as Your Friend Day, and Pyjama Day across the two buildings, whilst on Thursday everyone took part in Dress as a Job Day. The week concluded with Sports Day in both buildings. All of these events were conceived and partly organised by the Student Council, who wanted to promote the 'spirit' of our school, and end the term in a fun and positive fashion, and I am quite sure their hopes were fulfilled. It was lovely to see so many students engaged and happy in these different activities, whilst still working hard in their regular lessons.
Mr. Paul Curry
Head of Primary
As usual, we have messages from teachers, and we start with Year 2 and Mr Joshua:
Dear Parents
We are once again at the end of yet another term. It was indeed a busy term where we had a full programme as we learned and developed in many ways. We hosted an extraordinary Talent Show, an interesting Science Week where we learned about the earth and space, and an amazing Book Week. We would like to thank everyone who was involved to make these events a success.
This week we are celebrating Spirit Week! Everybody had the opportunity be fashionable by coming to school on Tuesday with a silly hair style or hat! On Wednesday everybody came to school in their pyjamas. On Thursday we came to school dressed up as a profession from our favourite job.
We concluded the week on Friday with a Sports Day. We all were very colourful, as we came dressed in their House colours. There were four challenges for everybody to take part in. The children demonstrated their speed at the sprinting challenge, running to a pre-determined mark and back as fast as possible. Then the children practised their agility during the space hoppers challenge, where they used space hoppers to race to a marker and back. The children had a chance to show their football skills by trying to kick the ball into the goal. Finally, their balance skills were put to test in the egg and spoon race where the children raced against each other while trying not to let the ball fall off the racket. It was truly a beautiful and sunny day. We all enjoyed spending some extra time outside!
We would like to thank all our parents, once again, for all the kind support and care provided to each child during this term. May you all have a great holiday to refresh and rest well. See you on the 11th of May!
Mr. Joshua (Year 2 Teacher)
The final teacher's message this term comes from myself and my thoughts on the term with Year 5. It has been very enjoyable to be back in the classroom with this small but select class of lovely students. In English, we completed the penultimate unit of the curriculum all about autobiographical writing, and having opinions. Students were able to express their feelings on a range of things, and support them with solid evidence. In Maths, we worked on fractions, decimals and negative numbers, and students took turns in exemplifying skills to the rest of the class. Our Science and GP lessons were all about space in general, and living on Mars in particular, via a range of different activities. I am always pleased to hear the students discussing interesting and challenging topics in English, and I am sure they will continue to flourish in Term 5.
I hope everyone has a relaxing vacation, recharges their educational batteries, and returns keen to learn from and enjoy their lessons on Wednesday 11 March!
Kind regards,
Mr Paul Curry
Head of Primary
From Secondary School:
Information letter from Mr Christopher, Head of Secondary School
Dear Parents and Guardians,
This week has been spirit week. On Tuesday, students bought in delicious home-cooked treats, which were then sold for charity. I bought a few cakes myself and they were delicious. On Thursday, students could dress in clothes relating to certain jobs. It was great to see several Rock Star dressers and Artists at our school on that day.
Today we have held our first Sports day of the academic year, and as you can see from the photos, it has been a lot of fun. Students have spent the day in their house teams, competing against other houses. I belong to that Tchaikovsky house, so I have been cheering for the students. For those that attended today, thank you very much for making the day so great.
Year 11 has finished completing the evidence to prepare for their examinations. We wish them the best of luck, in terms of their grades.I wish you all a very restful holiday, and I look forward to seeing you all refreshed for term 5. Our last term of the academic year.
Christopher Kingshott
Head of Secondary
Message from Mr. Alejo (Spanish Teacher)
Dear CIS Community.
We approach the holidays and the spring started to warm us as the Books Week we had, an exciting opportunity to engage reading to our students and we were doing a readathon, a photography contest about reading, there were a book seller at reception and tried to underline the importance of reading in the education, and all this during the nice weather we had in last days.
In Spanish, in this term we went deeper in the basics of the language and in the term we are going to see more interesting things as students are now more able to understand how the languages works and have vocabulary to work with. So now we will continue expanding the abilities of the student and they are going to create his own, original and extended pieces of material, use it and represent it in the lesson, to develop themselves in some real life situations, this is specially valid for year 10, but not only.
In year 11 we got prepared for the IGCSE and expect good results in the exams as students did a great job all over the year. I know that holidays are almost here but we must to try to enjoy the time at school as we were doing till now.
Thank you,
Mr. Alejo (Spanish Teacher)
Message from Mr. Marius (P.E. Teacher)
Dear CIS Community.
It seems like only last week we started with the term 4 and now we are already at the end where we can look back at how all the learners progressed.
The primary classes had been focusing on football skills and volleyball skills throughout the term. There were also some fitness challenges that the year 5 and 6 classes took part in.
In the secondary classes we had an opportunity to learn more about hand ball and even played a few matches. There was also a Badminton competition that learners could take part in. We are excited to continue this in term 5 and have even more students take part in the competitions.
With our sports day on Friday the students will have a chance to show their athletic ability or just to take part in all the activities to earn some house points for their teams. Some activities include sprints, table tennis, long distance running and many more.
Although term 4 has come to an end and the students deserve a break after all their work, we look forward to hit the ground running in term 5 with new competitions and activities for student to take part in.
Thank you,
Mr. Marius (P.E. Teacher)