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• Now that the COVID situation is stable in Nepal and school is open, we have returned to full time in-class learning. This means that our online provision will come to an end on the 3rd of December. We will of course retain the facility to switch swiftly to online provision if the need arises, either as a whole-school move or for specific year groups/ subjects e.g. during mandatory self-isolation.

Hi Everyone,

We hope you’ve all had a great week this week! It’s getting significantly colder these days, especially in the mornings and evenings so please make sure you’re dressing warmly. 

This Week:

Well done to all the students who have participated in MUN this week! So far there have been several incredibly interesting debates on topics like ‘The Question of Cyber Surveillance on Civilians’ and ‘Safeguarding Migrant Workers’ Healthcare’ and the MUN team were challenged to produce resolutions (official UN documents) with detailed yet creative solutions for how to mitigate each of their individual issues. We hope that you all had an amazing experience and will be eager to join MUN once again in the future.

The Sports Prefects have had discussions with PE teachers over the past few weeks and came up with the idea to start the ‘Ģ¹½ÊÓƵ Combine’. This comes from a fitness test called the ‘NFL Combine’ (NFL- National Football League) where students all the way from primary school to Year 11 will be tested on various aspects of their fitness. The Key Stage 3 Ambassadors have also come up with a great idea to host a fun run and are currently discussing how to make that idea come to fruition. 

The KS5 Ä¢¹½ÊÓƵ Volleyball league: We would also like to share some very exciting news that we have added a 4th team into our KS5 volleyball league. This will allow us to have a semi finals showdown between the 4 teams with finals to be held in Week 8. Information will be shared with KS5 students and the parents of players who will be invited as spectators to the finals series.

Next week:

The Creative Arts Prefects have arranged for ‘Musical Mondays’ to go ahead. Watch out for performances as students enter school on Monday. We are very excited for everyone to see this. We also hope that all KS5 students and parents enjoy the upcoming IGCSE and AS Awards celebrations.

Have a great weekend.

As we look forward to the Christmas season, a time of generosity and gifts, we are keenly aware that our school community lives in a wider community with many children who are in need. This season, as part of our community work, Ä¢¹½ÊÓƵ would like to bring in the spirit of Christmas and reach out to four of our community partners – Disabled Service Association,  Hope Rising Children’s Home, Mary Ward – Jhamsikhel and Mary Ward – Lubhu.  We will be supporting them by providing each child from these schools and organisations with a Christmas gift bag filled with essential items. For this we need the help of our Ä¢¹½ÊÓƵ students and families. Please read the letter shared with you this week and fill up a Christmas bag. We hope we can bring joy to many children!

We would like to introduce the newly elected Primary Community Ambassadors to you, Zeeya and Aryaman from Year 4 and Anandi from year 5. They will be taking the lead in organizing and coordinating events for our (wider) community together with the Primary Community Ambassadors who will continue their role, Yaja, Nabirah and Lilian. The Primary Community Ambassadors will work in close partnership with the Community Prefects and Secondary Community Ambassadors.

Although Lilian was elected as House Captain by her fellow students, she has decided to hand over her role to make sure other students can also gain experience as a leader. We were very impressed by her conscientious attitude and understanding of the magnitude of these roles.

We congratulate Meera on her new role as she has now been elected as House Captain of Dhaulagiri.

Winter Concert is fast approaching. Featuring performers from Foundation all the way to Year 13, it promises to be a night to remember. Primary performance will start at 2:00pm while the secondary performance will start at 5:20pm. Due to Covid restrictions we will have to limit to two family members per student. Please sign up by filling the form below.

This term, there has been a real focus on the practical skills in Drama and on developing collaboration, communication and creativity in group work after so much time online and working independently.

Year 7 students have been exploring physical theatre, tableaux, mime and building tension using Darkwood Manor as a stimulus.

Year 8 have been studying the play Refugee Boy by Lemn Sissay (adapted from the book by Benjamin Zephaniah) and considering how to demonstrate tension, empathy and a range of physical and vocal skills from the text. They have also been discussing the experiences of refugees around the world and looking at how they can use that understanding to make their work relevant today.

In Year 9, we started a scheme of work based on ‘The Night Circus’ by Erin Morgenstern developing physical theatre, tableaux and building tension. The students have had a lot of fun considering where the circus might have come from and exploring what different people and attractions could be inside.

In Year 10, students are devising a piece of theatre from scratch, taking inspiration from physical theatre companies like Frantic Assembly, DV8 and Paper Birds. Their work is based on verbatim research and  the students have been working hard to find first hand accounts of people’s experiences. One group is looking into selective mutism and the other into loss and its impact on future generations (be that loss of country, identity, family or loved ones). The students are also developing monologues for the FOBISIA Monologue competition and the best of these will be entered into the competition at the end of November.

Year 11 students have had a busy start to the academic year and I am so proud of them for their hard work and diligent approach. At the end of last term, they had their first GCSE exam (worth 20% of the course), and the students are now working in groups for their second examination (also worth 20%) which is a performance of an extract from a published play. Shayan and Ishan are performing a scene from ‘Dealer’s Choice’ and Shridha, Sanstha, Pukar, Em and Needadh are working on a section from ‘Our Country’s Good’. This exam will be on the 3rd December so wish them all the best for this! The students are also having fun with the set text ‘Moliere – The Cabal of Hypocrites’ and looking at French Farce.