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As many of the cast and staff will tell you, BISS Puxi has a reputation for putting on fantastic productions. While the production teams may vary, and the students may change, the quality of Performing Arts remains consistently excellent. This has been especially true over the past few years due to the collaboration between our school and Juilliard.

On Friday 6 November, all students at BISS Puxi had the opportunity to dress up in animal costumes, safari-themed clothes, or Tanzania flag colours to fundraise for the charity Seeway Tanzania.

We would like to confirm our dates and show times for Seussical. Due to the current restrictions we are still unable to invite parents onto the site to watch the show. As such, we have arranged for two performances to be streamed live, with each performance starting at 14:00 with an expected ending time of 15:15.

On Friday 25 September we celebrated the European Day of Languages 2020. This year our focus at BISS Puxi was on Italian!

Every year, on the third Tuesday of September, the Dutch government announces their plans for the upcoming year. To celebrate this special event called ‘Prinsjesdag’, consul-general Mr van Wijngaarden traditionally visits Shanghai Dutch School. This year we had the honor of receiving a personalized video message.

It’s great to be back. The school is starting to feel like the BISS Puxi of August 2019, before all of the quarantine and supervision rules and staggered leaving times. It has been a long summer with many people working hard to ensure the school has taken all of the necessary steps to ensure we were able to open again safely.

In order to help keep our community connected we invited students, parents, and teachers to participate in regular 'Virtual Choir' rehearsals. This was made possible thanks to the use of Microsoft Teams which we introduced to families through our NAESVE programme. We welcomed over 90 members to the choir which included established singers, and those new to singing!

On Thursday 26 September, students in our secondary school celebrated the European Day of Languages with a special focus this year on Russian!

“An Ode to the Goose” is a short poem written during the Tang Dynasty by Luo bin wan

An introduction to our Behaviour and Social Graces programme by the school Principal, Kevin Foyle.

The subject quote by Robert Collier is one of my favourites. It encapsulates the positive attitude of our students and I am fortunate enough to see this day in, day out at the school. In recent blogs, both my colleagues and I have made references to the success of our students in many different ways: from their academic achievements with IB and IGCSE examinations, to their sporting success in volleyball, rugby, swimming and netball.

It is predicted by the US Department of Labor that 65% of the children being educated today will at some stage of their adult life be working in jobs that have yet to be created.  

This quote by Salvador Dali was used by a number of Key Stage 3 students this week in their assemblies, which were based around the theme of ambition.

It is always a great pleasure to see the sea of faces of young children, happily making their way at the end of term to the many exciting destinations and experiences that await them during their summer holidays.

The Nursery children have spent the last couple of weeks thinking about 'people who help us', throughout the whole school and into the wider community, and this culminated in a very exciting trip to the local Fire Station.

The BISS Lions have been busy with netball, volleyball and football fixtures to report on this week. U11 Netball Tournament – A team: It was an exciting but nerve racking experience for the netball team.

This week the qualities of commitment and determination have really shone though in so many aspects of school life and reminded me of just how important it is for us to ensure we are nurturing and developing these key qualities in all our children.