9th March. 2012

Issue 22/2012 www.besaturkey.org

Dear Parents, This has been a super week and the children and staff have all thoroughly enjoyed BOOK WEEK! A huge thank you to Ms Ann Kardas for organising a won-derful range of activities and competi-tions which have kept us all very busy! Congratulations to all the winners of the competitions and thanks to par-ents for their support in making this a great event. It was great to talk to the parents who came to Breakfast with the Head this week. We had some very good dis-cussions about snow days, book week, competitions, handwriting and the use of the Internet and computers. I thank you for your contributions and good ideas. Keep them coming!!! The term dates have now been approved by the Board of Governors and are attached to this email. It was also decided at the Board meeting last Wednesday that BESA would not make up Snow days this year. This decision was taken based upon feed-back from parents and also the fact that the children accessed schoolwork from the VLE on days when we were forced to close. Mr Kunz father of Nadine in Year 6 shared a useful link to a site which pro-vides internet security for parents and their children: https :/ / onl inefa mil y .norton.c om/

familysafety/loginStart.fs?ULang=eng

I hope to see you all at the Wine-Tasting event this evening! Have a great weekend! Dawn Akyurek Head Teacher

March

21st March

Bring Your Parents to School Day

(Parents’ Event)

23rd March

Clubs Finish Year 2 Assembly (Parents’ Event)

Sports Relief

26th-30th

March

SCIENCE WEEK

BESA NEWSLETTER

OUR NEW WEB SITE AND E-MAIL ADRESSES

www.besaturkey.org admin@besaturkey.org school@besaturkey.org

Shining Stars

Each week the teachers choose children for special recognition. Their pictures are dis-played in school on our shining stars dis-play board. Here are the Shining Stars for this week: Nursery Lale Erbay Baran Buyukhanli Reception Dalya Guadagni Diego Ruta Y1 Katarina Miller Jack Karabulut Pragyam Tiwari Y2 Defne Kutlugun Keiichi Hirai Y3K All of Year 3K Y3E Robert Kinkead Doga Mutis Y4 All of Year 4 Y5 Sera Besev Li - Ling Warwick Y6 All of Year 6 KS3 Giampaolo Servida Alistair Burton Yamac Gultekin

Team Points

Children are awarded team points for positive behaviour and good work. These team points are collected every week and added up to reach a grand total at the end of the school year. Team points are also read out in as-sembly on Monday morning. Red Lions 92 Yellow Tigers 79 Blue Boars 88 Green Dragons 79

FPTA

We are looking forward to seeing many of you at tonight’s wine tasting at The British Embassy. The event starts at 6.30pm and please note that your tickets will be left with Security at the Main Gate. The FPTA has lots of ideas hatch-ing which will need your support if we are to raise the next 5 or 6,000tl to build our special climbing wall for the chil-dren. In the meantime, we also want to buy official coins for the children to mark The Queen’s Jubilee, so the FPTA will be running weekly hot chocolate 2tl and/or hot dogs 4tl each Friday. Please can you remember to send your children into school on Fridays with some money to buy them. Lots more news will fol-low regarding the special summer party we are preparing for, tree sponsorship and 2012 official Olympic merchan-dise. Mrs. Akyurek is arranging for the noticeboard by the main gate to be smartened up so that posters about all these events can amuse you all whilst waiting for the children! Finally, we are delighted to wel-come our new Treasurer, Nadia Erdene-suren who will be helping us make all these events profitable. Best wishes, Ros Pollock President FPTA

BALLET AND DRAMA CLUBS

Next week there won’t be ballet and Drama Clubs !

HELLO/ GOODBYE It is always difficult to say goodbye to our staff mem-bers who have made such an impact on our school and have worked hard as part of our team. We wish all of them good luck and hope they will come back to see us in the future! I would like to thank them all for their hard work, commitment and friendship over the time they have worked at BESA. Nurse Karen will leave BESA and Ankara to return to the UK on the 30th March. Good luck Karen and thank you we will miss you very much! Ms Naomi Uludamar will be our new school nurse she will be in school to work with Nurse Karen next week. Sadly, we will say goodbye to the following Teachers who are leaving at the end of this school year: Ms Gibson Year 6 Ms Hammond Year 4 Ms Er in Year 3E Ms Knott Year 3K Thank you so much for everything you have done to make BESA a terrific school! We will miss you all very much! We have recruited four new teachers for the next academic year. Mr Hakan Demiralay Year 3. Hakan was brought up in the UK and has been recently working in London and Cyprus. Ms Sarah Tutal Year 4. Sarah is currently working at the British International School of Istanbul. Mr Thomas Henley Year 4. Tom is currently working at the British International School of Cairo. Mr Fin McLaughlin Year 6. Mr McLaughlin is cur-rently working in Leicester in the UK. Dawn Akyurek

PARKING The British Embassy have put couple of metal barri-ers on the left side of Sehit Ersan Caddesi to mark NON PARKING AREA. Please don’t park beyond those barri-ers. Otherwise you will be fined and your car will be pulled away.

GOOD BOOK

- BRANDON WINANS & NINA FERNANDES YR2 - ENVER DERMANCI YR6 - HEND AL KHARAZ YR3E - JEDIDIAH ZHU YR6 - CARINA UPSON SANDLUND YR1 - YAMAC GULTEKIN YR8 - KAYRA GUVEN YR5 - ALEYNA CAKMAK YR4 - ECE DENIZ ONCUL YR4 - LOLA VADER PLAS YR4 - CALLUM LOWSON YR5 - FELIX SPOOR YR4 - RUBY ADAM & AISHA AHMED YR7 - ALIZE SUREL YR2 - MATTHW WADE YR3K - YUTARO RECEPTION - ELLA SU KOSE YR3E - LARA BOREKCI YR3E - ENGIN GEDIK YR3E - ESMA ERKURT YR5 - BULUT KIZILOT YR2 - GIAMPAOLO SERVIDA YR7 - EZRA ZHU YR3 - CHUN-CHAN WARWICK YR3E - LARA BOREKCI & ELA AKAN YR3 - KAAN BAGCI YR1 - LUCA RIDAO RECEPTION - VLADIMIR NOWAK YR5 - KOTARO FUJITA YR5

SCHOOL ROLL FOR 2012-2013

PLEASE RETURN ALL SCHOOL ROLL FORMS AS SOON AS POSSIBLE !

In Year 2 we have been making puppets this term. We made one in school and then made another one at home with our parents. We had to plan what our puppet was going to look like and then come up with a story to go with them. We decided where the puppet was going to come from and what their name was going to be. Then on Wednesday we took our pup-pets to the library for our partner reading time with year 6, and told our Year 6 reading partners the stories behind our puppets. Come into the Year 2 classroom to see our amazing puppets on display! Sam Walker

PUPPET SHOW

BACK FROM THE ARCTIC

I am slowly coming back down to earth – despite the

epic snowstorm outside at the moment! I had an amazing ad-

venture and was able to collect a great deal of information and

data for the children to use throughout the school. The trip was

both physically and mentally demanding and was full of scary

moment’s especially runaway dog teams and sleds! I have at-

tached some of my favourite photographs which I hope will

give some insight into what an amazing place the Arctic is.

Leeanne Halloren

I would like to ex-tend a big Thank you to Tony Furlong, Karen An-toine, Penny Ahearn Er, Eloise Hammond and Nuray Prebble who all gave up their valuable time to help me train effectively and return with no inju-ries.

I would also like to thank everybody who has put so much effort into raising sponsorship money for this event. I will be collecting all the money in this week and hope to have a final sum raised by Monday March 12th. I have been com-pletely overwhelmed by the generosity and en-thusiasm of everybody to raise funds for two very important charities, all of the cash raised will go directly to the respective causes.

I will announce the winners of the competi-

tion at one of the assemblies week commencing

12th March.

THE GOLBASI DOGS

As you are aware, the BESA has been supporting

the “Gőlbaşi Dogs” Home for many years and we have

provided items such as food and blankets for the dogs,

along with various fund-raising activities to help pur-

chase what they need.

Over 3000 dogs live at the Home, which is financed to a very limited degree by the local government, who also collect any

dogs in need found on the streets. More dogs arrive daily, and this winter has been especially difficult because of the terrible cold.

There are many many puppies at the home who have lost their mothers and who would die if they were left outside, along with

other dogs of all shapes and sizes that have been found. The Home sterilises the dogs and then looks after them. Very few ever find

a loving family to live with so most spend the rest of their lives at the Home. Some are lucky (!) enough to have kennels but many

live in overcrowded cages.

“ PLEASE HELP ME ! ”

“ AND ME ”

This week, Mrs. Sarah Sener and Nurse Karen Antoine visited the home on behalf of our school to see how the dogs were getting on and to ascertain what they needed. Meeting the dogs was a moving ex-perience and we were amazed to find that although they live in difficult conditions, they were loving and affectionate. As you can see from the photographs, their primary need is love and a home but if we cannot provide that on daily basis, then we can at least try to do our best to make their lives there as comfortable and good as we possibly can.

The BESA proposes to raise enough funds to build a ‘BESA Street’ for the dogs, with kennels, runways and a roof in each

enclosure. This will cost at least 2000 TL. To this end, we will be having a non-uniform and Burger day on Friday 16 March

(more details of this will follow). We would also welcome any donations, which could be given to Mrs. Melek Burton in an enve-

lope marked ‘Dogs’ Home’. Additionally, if you feel able to adopt a dog there are many at the Home who would love to become a

member of your family.

Thank you very much for your sensitivity in this matter,

Mrs. Sarah Şener and Nurse Karen Antoine

“ Tell those pups to let me sleep! ”

“ I will get to the hand first,I will ”

“ Give me a hug darling ! ”

THE GOLBASI DOGS