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Parents information evening
1. WELCOME TO THE YEAR
AHEAD AT TU XUONG
“BIS is an excellent school. It provides a very high
quality of education and care for its students.
The quality of learning, teaching and leadership is
outstanding.”
British Schools Overseas Inspection Team 2013
2. Parents Information Evening
• Learning with the Brain in Mind
• Blogging
• Meeting the specialist teachers
• Finding out about your child’s year ahead
3. Our Specialist Teachers
Information Literacy
Richard Marlow
PE
Charlotte Pemble
Music
Robbie MacKinnon
ICT
Jocelyn and Tue
Learning Support
Nicola McSweeney
Art Intern
Charlie Gorringe
EAL
Steve Jennins
Heather Robinson
Alexea Stevens
5. Foundation Stage
• Setting up a new learning unit in Foundation Stage 2
• Development of the outdoor environment
• British Schools Overseas inspection report:
• ‘ The initiative at TX to make large free-flow
classrooms in Foundation Stage 1 and 2 has had
an excellent impact on learning: learning areas are
highly stimulating, creative and well-planned’
6. Information Literacy
• New subject introduced to enhance research
skills
• Team teaching and sharing skills
• British Schools Overseas inspection report:
• ‘The implementation of an information literacy
programme on the TX campus has had a
considerable positive impact on the
curriculum.’
7. ICT
• Laptops introduced
• WIFI installed; new server at TX
• ICT Development Group created to determine the way
forward for TX
• Parent Coffee Mornings: safety on-line (Robyn Treyvaud)
• Networkers in Action – empowering children to
disseminate information and peer teaching
• Changing a culture: integrating technology to enhance
learning
• Blogs to communicate and share learning
• ICT conference hosted at TX
• Digital Learning Journeys
8. Outstanding Learning
• Development group set up to establish what
outstanding teaching and learning means to us at
TX.
• British Schools Overseas Inspection Report:
• ‘The school has a clear and common
understanding of what constitutes outstanding
learning. This has been focussed on by the
Learning and Teaching Development Group, who
have gathered ideas from teachers and students,
and are beginning to seek the views of parents’
12. Sleep Quiz
1. True or False?
We spend nearly one-third
of our lives asleep?
13. Sleep Quiz
True.
Sleep is essential to
our daily lives, to
our wellbeing and
to our learning and
behaviour.
14. Sleep Quiz
2. True or
False?
Sleep disorders
are common in
young people?
15. Sleep Quiz
Sleep disorders are amongst
the most common of all
health problems. Some
researchers suggest that up
to 90% of teenagers have a
sleep disorder
True.
16. Sleep Quiz
3. True or False?
Kids with sleep problems have
more learning problems in
school than kids without sleep
problems?
17. Sleep Quiz
True.
Dr. Sarah Blunden
(a Sleep Psychologist) found that
children who snored or suffered
from other sleep disorders had more
behavioural problems and poorer
performance levels on attention and
memory tests than children without
sleep problems.
18. Sleep Quiz
4. True or False?
Young people need more sleep
than their parents?
19. Sleep Quiz
True.
Age 2 - 4 require about
16 – 18 hours sleep each day.
Primary pupils need about 9 hours
per day. Adults need about 7 – 8
hours. Young people’s brains are
highly active therefore need more
sleep for rest, learning and growth.
20. Sleep Quiz
6. True or False?
Staying up late to study
before a test or exam is a
good idea?
21. Sleep Quiz
False.
The brain requires sleep
to help it learn new things.
Staying up late increases the
chances that your brain won’t
learn!
22. Sleep Quiz
7. True or False?
Sleep is a quiet and restful
time for the brain?
24. Sleepy kids behave poorly
and underperform at school.
Having an awareness of your sleep difficulties and
fixing the problem could improve the quality of
your life’. Dr Sarah Blunden
26. ABOUT 70% OF YOUR BRAIN IS WATER
used in the Brainy kids CD?
27. CEREBROSPINAL FLUID
Nick, can we use part
of the Emily
dissection where the
brain moves up and
out of the skull
leaving the CSF
dripping?
Your brain floats in about 140 millilitres of cerebrospinal fluid.
Hydrate
your
brain!
Keep your
brain
moist!
Drink
water,
not sweet
drinks!
You need
to replace
your CSF 4
or 5 times
each day.
The brain
dehydrates
very
quickly.
Dehydration
leads to
headaches.
29. Optimum Performance -daily
Students who regularly ate breakfast had:
- Higher school grades, particularly in maths
- Fewer days off school
- Less lateness to class.
Those who regularly skipped breakfast were:
- Twice as likely to be depressed and
anxious.
The good news is that those students who
went from no breakfast to eating breakfast
every day had big gains in academic
performance.
30. Best Brain Foods
• Fish
• Eggs
• Nuts
• Dark green vegetables
• Chicken
• Fruit
• Whole-grained breads
and pastas
• Brown rice
• Milk
• Omega 3: can be
taken as a supplement
or naturally by eating
oily fish.
Why?
• Produces myelin to
strengthen pathways in
the brain.
31. Albert Einstein
“The important thing is not to stop questioning.
Curiosity has its own reason for existing.”
Ask your child. ‘What questions did you ask
your teacher today?’