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Cocktail at the British Ambassador’s Residence
Last Thursday Mrs Green, Mr Page and 4 students (Martina Freire Hidalgo, Sofia Varela, Malena Fronza and Candela Kalaidjian all from S5H) were invited to attend a cocktail held at the British Ambassador's residence in commemoration of the 100th anniversary of the First World War. As a part of the ceremony Martina Freire Hidalgo had been asked to read a passage outlining the support of Anglo Argentine women in the war effort by knitting woollen goods for the soldiers.
Martina read her piece perfectly and the girls were excellent ambassadors for the school mingling with invited guests and chatting to former students as far back as 1927.
Steven Page, P.G.C.E - Headmaster & Rector
(Español) Bachillerato Dual con USA: visita de autoridades, inscripción abierta y próxima reunión
(Español) Hasta el 15 de dicembre está abierta la insripción para los alumnos de M2 a S5 que deseen comenzar en 2015 a cursar extracurricularmente las materias online para acceder, además de al título de BDS (y a los exámenes de Cambridge), al Diploma de un High School Americano.
Informa Francisco Lehmann (Gestión de la Innovación) quien coordina esta actividad: "La semana que viene recibiremos la visita de dos directivos americanos: Daniel Meyer (Executive Director of Academica Virtual Education) y Andrés Calavia (Academic Coordinator, Somerset), quienes brindarán una reunión informativa para padres interesados en explorar esta oportunidad para sus hijos, el miércoles 12 de noviembre a las 8:30. También se encontrarán con los alumnos actuales y se entrevistarán con directivos de BDS".
Estamos finalizando el 2º año de esta experiencia con excelente desempeño por parte de los alumnos actuales (tanto los de 2º como los de 1º año). Así se refirió a ellos Melisse Vera, Global Teacher:
"I have been truly blessed and grateful for having an amazing group of students this school year. What impressed me the most has been the way that they demonstrate their hard work and dedication. Considering the fact that many have several extracurricular activities in addition to their home school academics, every single one revealed unique and admirable qualities of amazing students. They all have a place in my heart!"¿La imagen? No: no fue una fiesta de Halloween... Es la captura de pantalla de una "live session" temática, entre los alumnos que cursan el Dual y sus tutores de allá… Una verdadera experiencia de "inglés real", autonomía en los aprendizajes y acercamiento cultural.
Once again, a BDS student to participate in The Hague International Model UN
It is a pleasure to inform you that the S6L student, Alex Mysler, has been selected to comprise the THIMUN (The Hague International Model United Nations) Argentine delegation to travel to The Hague next January 2015.
Alex participated in the ESSARP Model UN that took place in June this year at Michael Ham Memorial College and at the THIMUN (The Hague Model United Nations) that took place in August in Montevideo, Uruguay (see photo).
Model United Nations is an academic simulation of the United Nations that aims to educate participants about current events, topics in international relations, diplomacy and the UN agenda. The participants role play as diplomats representing a country in a simulated session of an organ or committee of the UN. Participants have to research a country, investigate international issues and then develop solutions to world problems.
THIMUN has invited the Argentine delegation to take part in their international Model in the Netherlands for the second time. The selection process consisted of the following steps:
- Each school proposed an applicant.
- All applicants were interviewed by the two THIMUN coaches and the ESSARP Academic Director.
The selection panel expressed that the candidates proposed by the schools came to the interview well prepared, full of enthusiasm and with a genuine desire to contribute personally to the Argentine delegation.
We congratulate Alex, who will be representing BDS, ESSARP ...and Argentina! in The Hague.
Mónica Bruck - Head of Humannities, Middle & Senior
World War I: a cross-disciplinary commemoration
The following article was written by Mónica Bruck (Humanities Department Coordinator, Middle & Senior).
"2014 marks 100 years since the start of the First World War. In August 1914 all of Europe’s great powers went to war. Few conflicts in history have been so popular at their onset and eventually proved so tragic.
We decided to commemorate this catastrophe, which apart from the effect that it had upon the individual human lives, had such a huge impact upon the political and economic lives of European states that its implications barely worked out 100 years after its outbreak.
Within the frame of a general Middle & Senior assembly, Mercedes Mariño and Macarena González Virgili introduced the different parts of the presentation. Our tribute started with a short video of the assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand, the short term cause of the First World War. At the end of the video, Martina Freire (S5H), explained the long term causes, with a PPT presentation in the background, which had been prepared by Manuel Dillenberger (S5H).
After Martina’s introduction, we watched a video prepared by Juan Martín Sarquis (S5H) with the music of the early XX century. Then, there was a presentation prepared by M2A and Mónica Loria (Geography), with poems and pictures making reference to the battlefields and the scarred land left behind. S6S prepared yet another PPT about the deployment of new weaponry and the use of chemical weapons, narrated by Sebastián Grill.
A special chapter was devoted to Wilfred Owen, the greatest writer of war poetry. Yael Kohan (S5L) prepared a video and Candela Kalaidjian (S5H) recited “Dulce Et Decorum Est”. Art was also present with a video prepared by Maggie Galarraga and S6L, about Art in the early XX century. Sebastìán Papp (S6H) and Ezequiel Fernández (S6H) explained the situation of Argentina during the years of the war and the Math Department and M2C presented a Statistics project using figures related to the war.
The commemoration ended with another famous poem, In Flanders Fields, by John Mc.Crae, and a film showing the battlefields covered by red poppies, the flower that became one of the world’s most recognized memorial symbols for soldiers who have died in conflict.
We hope that everybody learnt something about the First World War and we would like to thank all the teachers who contributed to this project and all the students who willingly participated researching, preparing videos and preparing posters to help us understand how such a terrible catastrophe could have happened".
Mónica Bruck
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Causes of WWI:A Music Itinerary... And a Poem:
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