Newsletter - St. Nicholas School
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Newsletter - St. Nicholas School
St. Nicholas Newsletter www.stnicholas.com.br :: June I :: 2010 Upcoming events June LAHC Orchestra 14th to 17th Interhouse Festival NR Thu 17th Last day for Infants and Junior (12:00) My biggest concern was language since most of the other members of the orchestra spoke Spanish. If I were the only English speaker I knew the trip would be very hard for me. I quickly discovered that all musicians studied at IB and LAHC schools and could speak English. Fri 18th Prize Giving (Hall) Last day for Senior July 26th to 28th Senior - Recuperação Wed 4th School starts for pupils Tomohisa Takeda was invited to join the LAHC Orchestra that played 4 concerts in Buenos Aires this May. There were three musicians representing Brazil, Tomohisa and two musicians from British Rio. TRIPS Tomohisa, who joined the school in August reports, I went to BA to play violin in LAHC August Year 11 - Quilombo Tomohisa Takeda (Y10) orchestra which was composed of musicians gathered from different countries, Brazil, Argentina, Mexico, Peru and Colombia. Even though everyone could play their own instrumental individually very well we needed to practice as an orchestra. It was just horrible at the 1st session and we realized that we needed to create team work. As a result, we improved by ourselves before the final concert which was the most important one because our teachers came to listen to us. LAHC Annual Members Conference Winter Fun Activities Nursery to Year 6 June 21st to July 2nd This May, Nick Thody represented St Nicholas School at the 14th Latin American Heads Conference Annual Members Conference. The conference was held at the Marriott Plaza hotel in Buenos Aires and the theme of the conference was Education for Sustainability; Education was led by two Peruvian based speakers, Tom Jolly and Dave Bruggers. Tomohisa Takeda of Year 10 joined the 90 strong international LAHC Orchestra that entertained the heads and delegates at the formal dinner. Nick serves on the LAHC executive committee and was heavily involved in the organisation of the conference and is now very glad it is over so he can dedicate himself to leading St Nicholas School. At the AGM, after two years as chair, Nick left the position and accepted the role of Student Activities Officer on the executive committee. Constitutionally Nick can serve for a further two years on the executive committee before his maximum term of six years is reached. Action Committee - Projeto Semente do Amanhã "In helping others, we shall help ourselves, for whatever good we give out completes the circle and comes back to us." - Flora Edwards One of the projects that the Action Committee supported in the year of 2009 – 2010 was “Projeto Semente do Amanhã”, co-ordinated by our dear friend Poliana who most of us know as Polly. We are very pleased to say that many of the actions we took as a community were able to help her continue with her Sunday school where she helps children from her community in many different ways. We surely learnt that there is certainly more happiness in giving than in receiving! Julio Rocha na St. Nicholas Mr Costa Autor do livro Teia Negra vem à St. Nicholas Autor conversa sobre seu processo criativo “Meus pais liam muito, e isso me incentivou a escrever. Para ser um escritor, é importante ter talento; a técnica pode ser aprendida. O elemento principal de uma história é o personagem, pois se ele não tiver profundidade suficiente, mesmo que a trama seja boa, a história não fica legal”. Estas são algumas das colocações que os alunos de Português do Year 7 (Ms. Lima, Ms. dos Santos e Mr. Costa) e os alunos de Drama do Year 8 (Mr. Trinx) ouviram do escritor Julio Rocha, que esteve na St. Nicholas para conversar com as turmas no dia 14 de maio. Ms Lima Nesta sexta-feira, dia 14 de maio, Julio Rocha, escritor carioca, autor do romance policial Teia Negra (que foi lido pelos alunos do year 7), veio ä Saint Nicholas falar sobre seu processo criativo. Autor da peça “Fui... E quem não vai?” e do livro de suspense Teia Negra, Julio Rocha demonstrou ser um autor desinibido tanto na frente de uma página em branco quanto na frente de um auditório cheio. Ele falou sobre a importância de escrever um bom início e de haver um final que “amarre” todos os personagens em um livro. Segundo Rocha, o ponto de vista é que nos permite contar um mesmo fato através de diferentes olhares. Ao darmos voz a alguém, o elegemos como foco para narrar uma história. Os alunos leram Teia Negra e gostaram muito de poder, pela primeira vez, conversar com o escritor de um livro que leram. Julio Rocha considerou nossos alunos “capazes de fazer perguntas e colocações inteligentes e com espírito crítico”. Ele acha que é importante ler os clássicos, mas é adepto da leitura como forma de entretenimento. Teia Negra acaba de ser traduzido para o inglês (com o título de Black Web) e, no momento, Julio Rocha negocia os direitos de transformá-lo em filme. Ele pediu aos alunos sugestões de nomes de atores para a possível filmagem de Teia Negra. Alguns nomes ventilados pelas turmas foram Leonardo de Caprio, Thiago Lacerda e Fábio Assunção. Teia Negra, como o título sugere, remete a um emaranhado de personagens e situações conflituosas, cujos nós precisam ser desatados (pelo leitor). É uma atividade que não desapontará o autor: ler este livro é, no mínimo, divertido. Contou que seu romance foi inspirado no assassinato de um executivo americano da Companhia Petrolífera Shell, que ficou sem resolução há alguns anos. O personagem Robert, assassinado logo no início, leva à construção do romance que se desenvolve por intermédio de vários personagens. O protagonista chama-se Michael, um ex-agente da CIA, contratado por um sino-americano, pai do executivo, que deseja desvendar e revidar o assassinato do filho. A trama se desenvolve em cerca de cinqüenta capítulos, curtos e rápidos – com teor cinematográfico – cujo autor confessou ansiar por vê-lo filmado. Contou-nos de sua ida, em breve, para Atlanta a fim de negociar sua produção cinematográfica. Informou além disso, que o livro já está traduzido para o Inglês, Black Web, com breve edição norte-americana. Os alunos de Português, do year 7, afirmaram ter gostado do livro. Participaram ativamente com várias perguntas, inclusive sobre suas cenas teatrais, gentilmente cedidas aos alunos de Drama do year 8. Foi um ótima oportunidade para se conversar sobre o processo de criação dos romances, bem como sobre a importância de se elaborar personagens reais e definir o ponto de vista de uma história. A ocasião ofereceu ensejo para levarmos adiante um projeto do Departamento de Português de trabalhar com escrita criativa. A todos fica a sugestão do livro Teia Negra, que pode ser apreciado por leitores de todas as idades. José Miguel Wisnik e o Futebol no Brasil No dia 9 de junho, José Miguel Wisnik, compositor, ensaísta e professor de Literatura Brasileira da USP, veio à St. Nicholas para falar sobre seu último livro Veneno e Remédio: O Futebol e o Brasil. Ele falou com os alunos dos Years 6, 7, 8 e 9. Wisnik veio a convite dos Departamentos de Música e de Português e da PTA, que consideraram a proximidade da Copa do Mundo uma ótima ocasião para uma reflexão sobre um dos temas mais importante para o Brasil do ponto de vista cultural. José Miguel Soares Wisnik, 62 anos, estudou piano clássico e apresentou-se pela primeira vez como solista da Orquestra Municipal de São Paulo aos 17 anos, interpretando o Concerto nº 2, de Camille Saint-Saëns. Ele tem três discos gravados e apresenta-se regularmente em shows no Brasil e no exterior. Publicou, além de Mr Neder & Mr Costa Veneno e Remédio, vários outros livros e ensaios Wisnik uniu literatura e música em seu mestrado e doutorado. Agora integrou também o futebol. Year 12 Graduation The St. Nicholas Annual Graduation Ceremony Ball was held at the Brazilian British Centre on the evening of Saturday 29th May. The event for the Graduating Class of 2010 was held on a cold winter São Paulo evening but the warmth of emotion and companionship made the event truly memorable. The 14 students of Year 12 were accompanied by their families, friends and teachers in an evening which included memories, laughter and tears as they looked back at their days at St Nicholas School and looked forward to their futures. The Headteacher, Mr. Nicholas Thody, focussed his address on how the IB Diploma was for life and the skills learned in their two years of the course would not only support their higher education learning but also their chosen occupational field. The Brazilian Director, Mrs. Raquel Muniz, speech stressed the importance of students’ following their dreams. The Graduating Class of 2010 were: Carlo Victor Carrieri Luna de Tomi Ellen Deckij Lucas Gonzalez Carrau Dohng Kim Valeria Larrinaga Fabiana Leandro Rios Pedro Lima Kento Nishimura Alice Peneau Jéssica Salomão Yoshiaki Tanabe Roger Themes Xinyan Wang The honour of the Academic Achievers Award was presented to a poised and elegant Alice Peneau while the CAS prize was awarded to a shocked Yoshiaki Tanabe. The Most Supportive Student Award was presented to an elated Ellen Deckij. Thanks to the Kirsten family for hosting the event and special thanks to Priscilla Oyola, Head of Marketing, for her dedication in ensuring the evening was a success and will be remembered by the graduates with fondness. Christopher Hudson (Y5Y) Year 5 - You Can Make a Difference Tuesday the 8th of June was an exciting day at St. Nicholas school with many different events like: the Junior Rock Band Concert and Nursery Graduation, but another event taking place was “You Can Make a Difference”. In this event, Year 5 pupils got the chance to come dressed up as the heroes they had chosen at the start of this unit. Year 5 teachers wanted to teach the pupils what a real hero is. There were interviews and a balloon debate going on and each child got the chance to show their parents their newspaper articles they wrote about their heroes and each parent took their sons/daughters article home. The balloon debate in Year 5y was between four heroes: Ludwig Van Beethoven (Se-Yun Kim), Princess Isabel (Giovanna Fletcher), Mahatma Gandhi (Nikita Ayyagari) and Florence Nightingale (Pamela Moreno). The judge was Eddie Van Halan (Thomas Geller). Each hero was trying to convince the audience that they were more important than the other heroes so as not to get thrown out of the hot air balloon, which was 2300m high. The winner of the debate was Florence Nightingale (Pamela Moreno). But every person did incredibly well answering even the hardest questions. The audience was very into it! In Year 5x, visitors were able to listen to conversations between heroes such as YiSun Sin and Ghandi, Leonardo da Vinci and Anne Frank, Socrates and Albert Einstein, Charles Darwin and Jesus, Martin Luther King Jr. and Nelson Mandela, Mother Teresa and Florence Nightingale, Barack Obama and Che Guevara, Benjamin Franklin with Abraham Lincoln and Thomas Jefferson, and Evita Peron. This day was a special day for everyone and proves that now Year 5 knows what it takes to be a real hero. Festa Junina 2010 Muito obrigado à Anna Kirsten, Padaria Delícias Colméia, Isidoro Guerreiro, Chocofesta, Laysa Murakami, Julia Macedo, South African Consulate São Paulo, Pousada do Almirante, Brm, Ianoni Empreendimentos e Participações Ltda, Jennifer Pepe, Bus Children, Débora Barros, Manutenção, Sodexo, Segurança e a todas as pessoas que, de uma maneira ou de outra, contribuiram para o sucesso da festa. A Banda Big e Democrática Agradece Mr Neder & Mr Nogara O Music Dept gostaria de agradecer aos alunos e professores que se juntaram a nós para tocar na Festa Junina deste ano. Parabéns, vocês tocaram muito bem! Recebemos vários feedbacks atestando o sucesso. Muito obrigado a: Alice Pottes, violino (professora assistente de Infants) Ana Luiza Bueno, voz (professora de português) Nicholas Bittencourt, guitarra (Y8) Nicholas Reid, bateria (Y 8) Sophie Barros, guitarra (Y9) Yum Shu, flauta transversal (Y7) A Big Democratic Band se reúne de novo para tocar no Carnaval de 2011. Contamos com vocês! YEAR 1 & 2 CAPOEIRA PE Dept. Year 1 and 2 just completed their Capoeira lessons, as part of their PE curriculum. They had two months of lessons and showed everything they have learnt in an enthusiastic and enjoyable presentation during Festa Junina. We could see how proud children, parents and teachers were. During Capoeira lessons, children were given the opportunity to have the knowledge and access to this very traditional and rich Brazilian activity, which goes beyond the physical, music and cultural enhancements. It also develops personal and social skills, as it is worked in a group environment. Self-awareness, discipline, respect, team-work and cooperation are all strongly developed. Capoeira awakens the artistic, musical and creative aspects of the children in a very fun and playful way, challenging them all the time in a positive way. Well done to all Year 1 and 2 children and a big thank you to our special teacher, Jessé, who for the fourth year has come to St. Nicholas to teach Capoeira together with Mrs. Anna Paula and Miss Débora. A HUGE Thank You! Lia & Nadia (Yr 9) Yesterday (June 8) we met with some representatives of a large group of homeless people who live around Marginal Pinheiros. They were of course more than happy to receive our donations on such a cold day. Thank you St Nicholas community for your significant support! Junior Rock Band Sports Mr Carlos Last Tuesday, we had the opportunity to witness the first Junior Rock Bands Concert. The performance of the four bands was astonishing and we could all see the 70 pupils that took part in the program making great progress and excelling when playing their instruments. We are looking forward to next term’s performance, and if you are not in one of the bands, maybe now is the time for you to join us! Loads of Rock and Roll... Rock History ECA Chacrinha Mr Moss Finishing lessons from St Nicks as the end of the season grants two St Paul wins Field Football U12 Boys: St Nicks 4 vs. St Pauls 1 U14 Girls: St Nicks 4 vs. St Pauls 1 After performances that had urgency, creativity and intensity, both victories for the boys and girls finalised a rewarding season. Gabriel (Yr6) must be considered the man of the match having an outstanding game, where he played above his years. As ever the rest of the team played an important role, creating balance, compactness and support. The irrepressible Sofia Soares was at it again and a sublime hat trick from such a fine player, Luiza Maragoni, with equally good performances from Camilla D and Julia H, were the highlights of the girls evening. This also capped off the end of the season for the girls who may win the Team of the Year award at the senior presentation evening on June 18th. Futsal Yr3&4 Boys at Home St Nicks 7 vs. St Pauls 2 With Mr Eagles’s side in this form, ‘upsets’ just don’t happen. After the loss against Heibraca’s it was with much anticipation to see if the youngsters would show ‘bouncebackability’? They certainly did as St Nicholas dominated the proceedings on the pitch and the scoreline reflected that. With characters like Jun, Paulo, Damian and the calmness of Enzo and Nicolas, the match was secured after the 1st period. There are moments that connect the young players to all their efforts this year in the ECA. This was one of them!! The movement, passing, shape and finishing was a joy to watch and if not for some excellent goalkeeping from the visitors the score line could have gone way into double figures. Student Council End of Year Disco On Wednesday, 2nd June, the Junior School Student Council organised an end of year disco party to celebrate a successful year of learning. There were dance competitions and costume competitions that were judged by Mrs Borges, Mr Chambers and Luiza Caramez. From Year 3 and Year 4, the best dancer prize went to Dhruv Bhatia and the best costume went to Lucca Kirsten. From Year 5 and Year 6, the best dancer prize went to Claudia Chakmati and the best costume went to Luanna Quinn. Thank you all for your participation! Visit to Creche Nova Esperança On Monday 7th June, the Junior Student Council visited ‘Creche Nova Esperança’ to deliver donations and spend a morning doing fun activities. Part of these donations were from the proceeds raised through this year’s Rock Band Concert. Tadpoles come to school Description of a place João Gado Fernandes Costa (Yr 5X) Ms Jenny Vinas Kindergarten Y was learning about ‘Life Cycles’ and had the great excitement of watching a TADPOLE change into a FROG. Eric Ferrari brought 10 tadpoles and a fish from his country house. The children fed the tadpoles with a delicious diet of cooked lettuce, baby fish food and dried mosquito larvae. One day the frog escaped and disappeared but came back the next day. Children wrote what they thought the frog had done that day. The frog went to The plaigrowd. by Eric Joseph I think the frog went to the tree. the frog went to KgZ. He want to eat food. by Grace Shim The frog ment to the pgrc. by Luca Calabria The frog went to the playgrand. The frog went to the muzac rm. he went to find some food. by Nanda Aizemberg The frog went to the playgrand. Then he went to the muzic room and he playd with marker. by Danny Kim The frog go to the plagrat and the frog went on the slaid and the frog stai hugri and ten the frog look for flais. by Gabriel Haddad Teh frog want to The plagroud to eat sam bee. He want to Teh plagroud to look at The trees. by Stefano Bolzan The frog went on a tree. and The frog was hungree. The frog went back to The clasroom. by Max Egger The frog went to the luchroon. he it the food. by Thomas Boyd The frog went to The bethroom end Teh frog went to the miozic clas and Hi woz hopiing in the clas. by Eric Ferrari The frog went to the playgrownd. He want to eat the fliees. by Fernanda Hattori The frog went in the lunchroom. He ate the salad. by Guilherme Munemori Lost & Found Collect from Reception Think Green Pedro Camargo (Yr 6Y) Eco Corner is coming! Eco Corner is a Project initiated by the Environmental Group, together with Mr. James Kirsten. Most of the ideas were brought by the children from the Green Technology group (PYP 2010) formed by Pedro Camargo, Gustavo Borges, Noah Cukiert, Mark Chatchnev, Miki Sugimoto, Juno Youn. The Eco Corner will be a place that will teach our community about ecological ideas that can be use in our houses as well. It will be located between both main gates, right at the entrance of our school. Yellow and red flowers group together making patches separated only by puddles of grass. Together they make a quilt of colours. Behind them towering trees with branches that cascade to the ground. Further on a pond with fish and birds. But the bright green leaves that flood the branches make a wall of curtains closing away the little pond. All theses things are together on bright, sunny, warm and happy spring day. In the Eco Corner, we are planning to implement some systems that can help people sustain the environment, such as solar panels, recycling bins, battery disposal, worm house, rain water containers, etc. The Environmental Group has been meeting in a regular basis with Mrs. Vassellucci and every other Friday with Mr. Kirsten, in order to discuss and develop our ideas about the corner. We will be more than happy to share our goals with you. If you have any good and useful idea, please bring it to us! Please be reminded that there are many items in the Lost & Found cupboard in Reception. Besides uniform there are bags, trainers, jackets, and many other items such as braces and glasses. Please collect as we will be donating what is left to Charity. Language Corner • Beatrice (4X) • Sally and Pedro Camargo (6Y) • Lizzie MacDonald (1X Teacher) Commemorations, celebrations and fun events around the world Action Committee / International Committee June 20th June - World Refugee Day, held on June 20, celebrates the lives and contributions of refugees everywhere. This was established by the United Nations General Assembly in 2000 with the date coinciding with Africa Refugee Day. The United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) selects a theme each year, and coordinates events across the globe. Father's Day falls on the third Sunday of June, and is celebrated to honour fathers, complementing Mother’s Day. This is to celebrate fatherhood, and to commemorate fathers and forefathers. Brazil celebrates Father's Day on the second Sunday of August. 21st June - The Winter Solstice, or Midwinter, occurres around December 21 or 22 in the Northern hemisphere, and June 21 or 22 in the Southern Hemisphere. It is the shortest day and the longest night of the year, marking the beginning of Winter. 24th June - The Summer Solstice, or Midsummer is observed in Great Britain traditionally with the lighting of bonfires, feasting and merrymaking. This is actually three days after the actual solstice on the 21st, the longest day of the year. Dedé Toffoli Last issue's winners: ? ? ?