Year 11 A level Options InformationÌý
The Secondary academic team look forward to meeting all Year 11 parents and students at the combined Key Stage 5 options information session and parent-teacher consultations next Tuesday after school. Our Head of Secondary Academics, Ms Willimas, and Head of Key Stage 5, Ms Sheldon, will be leading the presentation, where they will outline our academic A level offer including the recently introduced Independent Project Qualification, our supra and co-curricular offer with its links to the Ä¢¹½ÊÓƵ Graduation Diploma and our outstanding university application and preparation programme.
The presentation, which will start at 5.00 pm is also open to external students who might be considering A levels with us or at another institution. Please do pass this message onto any families you may know who have Year 11 (Grade 10) children who may be considering starting an international curriculum in August 2025. Non Ä¢¹½ÊÓƵ students/families can register using this link.
We are also inviting applications for Ä¢¹½ÊÓƵ Key Stage 5 scholarships. If parents are aware of any excellent student outside Ä¢¹½ÊÓƵ who might need financial support, please also share this information with them and invite them to attend on Tuesday.
IGCSE Open Evening & University Fair at Ä¢¹½ÊÓƵ February 19th 2025
As part of our careers and university guidance programme Ä¢¹½ÊÓƵ is running a careers and university day on 19th February. There will be a university fair from 3.30 pm and all Ä¢¹½ÊÓƵ parents are invited to attend. We also invite all Year 9 parents to attend the Key Stage 4 IGCSE Options parent information session at 4.00 pm. Non Ä¢¹½ÊÓƵ students and families are also invited to these events and please do pass them onto any friends who may be interested especially those with children in Year 9 (grade 8) who may be considering transferring to the International GCSE curriculum next academic year.
Academic Competitions
Last week was a busy weekend for our academic teams. On Saturday Ä¢¹½ÊÓƵ took four junior teams to the Lincoln Maths competitions and four junior teams to the World Scholar’s Cup at Premier. On Sunday 9 senior teams (Year 9 & 10) took their turn at the WSC. Over the two days, over 50 year 7-10 students represented Ä¢¹½ÊÓƵ in an academic team.
2025 British Physics Olympiad – Ä¢¹½ÊÓƵ students win 4 awards in global competition
Ä¢¹½ÊÓƵ entered seven Year 11 Triple Science pupils into the prestigious 2025 British Physics Olympiad hosted by the University of Oxford. All pupils performed brilliantly each earning a commendation for their results. Additionally, three pupils achieved bronze awards (Ghazal, Khaustaub and Tanushka) and one pupil (Ede) achieved a silver award for their outstanding results.
Lincoln Inter-School Maths Competition: Ä¢¹½ÊÓƵ First and Third!
Last Saturday, on the 1st of February, KS3 students participated in the Lincoln school Mathcounts Challenge, which consisted of teams from Lincoln, KISC and Ä¢¹½ÊÓƵ. The day’s events started at 9:00, after which the first two individual rounds were held, a sprint round and target round, both of which were quite challenging rounds. Eventually, the team round was held, in which students solved 10 questions in 20 minutes in the designated groups of 4, which was perhaps the highlight of the day. After a filling lunch, the results were tallied, and one of our teams came joint third, while our A team of Jeongyeon, Sahas, Laksh and Jordhen came first, topping off a wonderful half-day competition!
World Scholar’s Cup Juniors (400 teams, 1200 competitors)
Well done to all the junior scholars!
Champion Overall Scholars
1st Shajonee
17th Meekha
33rd Aahana A
Top Ä¢¹½ÊÓƵ Teams
Champion Overall Scholar’s Team
11th Soren, Nijal, Meeka
Team Debate
29th Aahana A, Shajonee, Avyudaya
ÌýCreative Writing
1st Aahana A, Shajonee, Avyudaya
Team ChallengeÌýÌýÌýÌýÌýÌýÌý
3rd Soren, Nijal, Meeka
Team Bowl
29th Tasfia, Ahanna G, Lumila
Top debaters
11th Sajonee
15th Roman
51st Lumila
Top Writers
1 1st Aahana A
5 5th Shajonee
45 Khushi
Top Academic Challenge
Meekha (Double Gold)
Shajonee (Double Gold)
Soren (Gold & Silver)
World Scholar’s Cup Seniors (250 teams, 750 competitors)
On Sunday (the second of February) the senior Ä¢¹½ÊÓƵ World Scholars team set off to Premier International School for the triple threat day (Creative Writing, Debating and Academic Scholar’s Challenge), feeling nervous but mostly excited! After hot chocolate and a quick briefing, the team split into two groups and either headed off to complete the Collaborative Writing and the Scholars Challenge, or listened to multiple songs about alpacas and took the debate challenge. After lunch, both groups swapped activities. Having ended the day feeling positive, they headed back to school. Tuesday’s events took place at the Nepal Academy Hall, and consisted of the Scholar’s Bowl, more songs about Alpacas, the Scholar’s Show (Shout out to those brave Ä¢¹½ÊÓƵ students who participated!) and finally the Awards Ceremony. Ä¢¹½ÊÓƵ students won many medals and trophies, and represented the school to the utmost of their abilities. We are all looking forward to the global rounds! An extra special thank you to all the teachers for coming and supporting us and helping us prepare for this trip. (I still do not understand WSC’s obsession with alpacas….)
Meredith (Year 9)
All students did fantastically well and highlights were: first team in creative writing (Meredith, Araddhya, Dipashna), first team in scholar’s bowl (Maulik, Paridhi, William), sixth team in debating (Mateo, Victoria, Upasana) and 4th place overall senior team (Maulik, Paridhi, William). Individually Ä¢¹½ÊÓƵ students came second in creative writing (Meredith Y9) and had three in the top 12 debaters (Mateo 4th Y10,was our top debater), whilst William was 11th, and Ä¢¹½ÊÓƵ’ top student, in the scholar’s challenge, winning medals in all six sections (History, Societies, Art, Literature, Science and the special topic). Yajur was selected for the showcase debate and Saanvi and Sizuka were successful in their audition for the cultural show where they performed a beautiful traditional Nepali dance.
Year 10 students visit the Alliance Française to celebrate Chandeleur with traditional crêpe making.
Jeudi, nous avons visité l’Alliance Française pour célébrer la Chandeleur. Nous avons fait des crêpes à partir de rien et nous avons chacun eu la chance de cuisiner et de retourner les crêpes sur la poêle. Nous avons tous mangé les crêpes que nous avons cuisinées et préparé des extras pour les profs qui nous ont aidés. C’était très amusant de passer du temps à l’Alliance Français et nous voulons dire merci à nos profs de nous y avoir amenés!
(On Thursday, we visited the Alliance Française to celebrate the Chandeleur. We made crepes from scratch and we each had a chance to cook and flip the crepes on the stove. We all ate the crepes we cooked and prepared extras for the teachers who helped us. It was a lot of fun spending time at the Alliance Française and we want to say thank you to our teachers for bringing us there!)
Athalia (Year 10)
Sports ReportsÌý
The NiSSA senior started in style with two impressive performances against GEMS. The seniors girls team started where they ended last season with an impressive 4-0 win, extending their perfect defensive record in the NISSA league. The boys also returned a decisive 15 point victory in basketball. In a match which started competitively Ä¢¹½ÊÓƵ drew clear in the second half of the match to convincingly beat a highly rated competitor team.
