Children's Day is a holiday that is dedicated to celebrating and focusing on the well-being and rights of children, reminding us to prioritize their happy growth. On this special day, BIS Principal Mark and teacher Ray distributed gifts to students from EYFS to Year 6, and arranged a series of activities for them to have an unforgettable Children's Day.

Year 4 students chose to raise charity funds by washing school buses on Children's Day, providing better educational opportunities for impoverished children in other countries.

This term, Reception students visited the Cantonese Opera Art Museum with their teachers. Although they were still young, learning about humanities was important for their future growth.

Exciting Children's Day Activities at BIS

Written by Mr Ray

A child's smile is the most priceless thing in this world. Greetings on Children's Day!

At BIS, Principal Mark and Mr. Ray commemorated Children's Day on June 1, 2023. 

The principal Mark and Mr. Ray individually extended their best welcomes and wished all of BIS's students a Happy Children's Day as they made their way to each class. 

Each student received congratulations from Principal Mark, who also emphasized the need to celebrate this day joyfully and recognize the gift of childhood that has been bestowed upon us.

The theme for Children's day was Superheroes and Princesses. The children received a small gift and they enjoyed a longer lunch break. They appreciated their extra delicious lunch. This was followed by film. 

Superhero School Bus Driver and Year 4 students wash the school bus to celebrate Children's Day!

Written by Mr Jay

On Children's Day, the Year 4 students burst out of excitement while showing gratitude to their local school community as they learned more about "community service" and how they can contribute to the betterment of their community by supporting the main four UNITED NATIONS sustainable development goals to transform our world with the topic "Education for all"! Goal 1: No Poverty, Goal 2: Zero Hunger, Goal 3: Good Health and Well-being, Goal 4: Quality Education

The students identified the main purpose of washing the school bus as a fun experience that they wanted for celebrating Children’s Day. This event was incorporated into their learning to support a bigger global cause. Thus, this engaging activity guided the students' development of self-discipline, teamwork, awareness of the roles of leaders in their environment, and identifying community workers and the services they provide. Global Perspectives helps children to see the world from a new perspective and to think more deeply about issues that affect their lives.

Through this event, the students showed appreciation towards local community workers and gratitude for their education. As they are more aware of the Global perspectives theme of "The Right to Learn " and “Living and Working Together". In addition, it was also a great and fun opportunity for the students to get involved in another Year 4 Peacekeeping Charity Work Project of the Global Perspectives subject to collect donations to help support global peacekeeping initiatives such as educational needs through the following fund: (UNICEF) United Nations International Children's Emergency Fund. UNICEF believes nurturing and caring for children are the cornerstones of human progress. UNICEF helps to save and meaningfully improve the lives of children globally by focusing on the most vulnerable by providing health care and immunisation, clean water and sanitation, nutrition, education, emergency relief and more. 

The Year 4 students used their global perspectives lessons to plan their engagement in this event. The students worked in teams and planned their “School Bus Wash fundraiser” with mind maps as they thought about all the possible tasks, equipment and arrangements needed to organise this event successfully. The students showed outstanding leadership as they communicated and collaborated in their teams to complete the task successfully. 

On Children’s Day, the students got their water buckets, sponges, rags, mops and brooms ready for the exciting task. The students met with the bus driver and discussed how to wash the school bus.  The students' faces lit up with joy as their sponges got wet when they started to wash the school bus. The students got a sense of responsibility and thought about why they were cleaning the bus as they are the students who use the school bus daily. During the event, the students also shared their thoughts about other students globally whose schools don’t have school buses or children who don’t receive an education. After the students were done, they greeted the bus driver and thanked him for this experience. Then the students changed into their superhero and princesses clothing and continued with the rest of the exciting Children’s Day activities at school.

With great success, the Year 4 students reached their goal of raising funds for UNICEF by taking action with this exciting School Bus Wash fundraiser event to raise Peace awareness and to help provide humanitarian and developmental aid to children worldwide. As Year 4 took action during these events, it helped students develop their social/emotional skills. Thus, the reflection on the teaching outcome shows that the Year 4 students demonstrated their eagerness and curiosity as a learner, persistence and creativity in seeking solutions to problems, appropriate communication skills when expressing needs, wants and feelings, and understanding and following rules, empathy and caring for others, cooperative group play, sharing materials and experiences and taking turns, respect the rights of self and others, develop relationships with children and adults during this intended event. Spectacular Year 4, this was an activity worth remembering! The wheels on the bus go, so be part of the adventure; otherwise, it’s a long way to walk from home to school!

Reception visits the Cantonese Opera Art Museum

Written by Ms. Suzanne

Reception visits the Cantonese Opera Art Museum to enrich our understanding about the world and its people, culture and communities.

As we have been exploring traditional tales and further developing our love of storytelling, we took this wonderful opportunity to see how this traditional Chinese art form takes ancient stories from Chinese manuscripts and turns them into magical stage performances with music, singing, martial arts, acrobatics, and acting.

We did our research, got into character, dressed in our Chinese traditional costumes, donned our opera masks and transported ourselves back in time.

What a wonderful day we had exploring the museum with all of its bedazzling jewellery, magnificent costumes, wondrous hairstyles, hats and ancient weaponry. We listened to old recordings and watched footage, we explored set designs and saw how just how long it takes to apply the amazing Cantonese stage makeup.

Then we settled down to a peaceful snack beside the pond as we watched the wonderful Cantonese opera performers sing and play their ancient musical instruments.

We hope to continue to carry on the love for this wonderful tradition that has passed down from former generations and we definitely recommend it to our BIS family as a wonderful place to explore.

And we just want to thank all our mums and dad that dressed up and came with us on our adventure.