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Dear Parents, Strong relationships between home and school are the most important way to positively engage and triangulate information between you, the teacher, your child and their learning. I believe that at times like now, these relationships are getting stronger. Contact between student and teacher are closer and more frequent through the screen, and I know parents are more actively involved in their child’s learning supporting at home and contact between teacher and parent often increased to support your child, technically and educationally.

The first STEAM challenge of the year was released last week - The coronavirus replica!

Last Year, our students in Year 7  studied in Portuguese classes about intertextuality and recreated posters of movie names and cartoons by mixing them with food names.

Dear Parents, Our British College Brazil core purpose is, ‘To create engaging and personalised learning and empower each student to achieve more than they ever thought possible by providing the best of both worlds: a global community with the best of British standards and the pride in nurturing the future leaders of Brazil to reach new heights.’

At this difficult time for all of us the arts can be an excellent way for students to explore their emotions and feelings by expressing them in different artforms. At some point this term students will be exploring their emotions in their work through Music, Drama and Visual Arts.

Music is a universal language that can engage and inspire pupils. During Virtual school we have prepared some special classes to help and engage our students while teaching the topics from our curriculum.

Following on from my blog on the 21st July, I am delighted to share with you the final design of the MakerLab as we have now selected the furniture and equipment.

Dear Parents, I wanted to write a special one-off newsletter today in support of one of our historically chosen school charities.

I can’t believe how quickly the weeks are passing by, it is almost September and I have been in Brazil for almost a month.

Reading is a rewarding experience, whether you are hyped for a brand new release or revisiting an old favourite, there is something therapeutic about reading. It's easy to become so absorbed within a world where we lose our sense of time and place with: intriguing characters; heart-racing situations; and wondrous settings. As Dr Seuss once wrote: “Fill your house with stacks of books, in all the crannies and all the nooks.” As a little boy, Dr Seuss’ influence still holds value.

Dear Parents, Welcome to my second weekly newsletter. In an attempt to effectively communicate with all our community this newsletter, and those from now on, will be in both English and Portuguese, so do keep scrolling for your preferred language.

Students at The British College of Brazil, part of the global Nord Anglia Education family of schools, are celebrating today after receiving their long-awaited IGCSE results early this week.

It has been an exciting start to the year for BCB Secondary School. On Monday, our Year 7s and new students started their induction into the school, meeting their teachers and tutor groups. Parents joined in too during our first zoom information meeting of the year!

We are restarting our new academic year and our teachers prepared a message for our Primary pupils!

And finally, we start the academic year of 2020/2021!

Now more than ever before we all need a true sense of optimism, this may not be easy but it is far from impossible. We need to make the conscious decision to be optimistic. It is an active decision and one that needs to be worked on every day.

BCB is hard at work over this winter period to improve facilities in The Secondary School. With the pandemic making things a little harder than usual there has been progress in the building of a second science laboratory that will also be a Makerlab where STEAM activities will take place making use of Nord Anglia´s exclusive partnership with Massachusetts Institute of Technology. (www.mit.edu).

Have you heard the saying “ if you want a job doing, ask a busy person”? This saying seems somewhat paradoxical however on closer investigation it does seem to hold true.