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EYFS had a wonderful morning celebrating music with Stephen Dunn from Juilliard. Stephen demonstrated how to play the trombone and the children asked lots of interesting questions. The pre- nursery and nursery children also enjoyed making musical shakers and creating art to music.

In Maths lessons, Year 1 students have been learning measuring weight and mass. They enjoyed the carousel of activities by using balancing scales.

The Pre-Nursery and Nursery children have been developing their ICT skills this week. They loved learning all about coding and making their robotic mouse move.

As part of our creative writing unit, the children in year 6 used pictures and inference to predict the events in the Literacy Shed animation.

The beginning of the new school year is an exciting time for both students and their parents! The Uzbek BST school is glad to welcome its new students in Grade 1- 1 "A" and 1 "B" classes! The teachers have highlighted the expectations and curriculum to be covered, congratulated them on their studies and handed out Presidential gifts!

Students at The British School of Tashkent, part of the global Nord Anglia Education family of schools, are celebrating today after receiving their long-awaited GCSE and IGCSE results earlier this week. Our students’ incredible achievements have created an amazing atmosphere all across our school as we celebrate their successes.

The Year 1 and 2 students would like to say a big thank you to Mrs Iroda Tulyaganova and her team of coaches at the ‘Pro Tennis Team’ tennis school for teaching them how to play over the least few weeks. It was a great opportunity for the students to try out a new sport and the children had a brilliant time.

Another beautiful day in the mountains for year 6 and more new experiences. The children were very fortunate to have been given archery lessons by the Uzbekistan Olympic Archery Team. After a team briefing, the children were divided into two groups. One group began a warmup with the archery team while the other group continued their Native American topic by learning about and making dream catchers. Once warmed up, the ‘archers’ had the opportunity to be given 1:1 lessons in how to use a traditional bow and an Olympic standard bow. After lunch, we went to a nearby wood in search of materials to construct our own bow and arrows. The final evening was full of surprises. The children enjoyed a variety of shashlik followed by cake and ice cream. There was entertainment in the form of singing and party games. The children then went to the open air amphitheater to perform in a mini talent show. Finally we all enjoyed a peaceful moment of reflection around a campfire.

A powerful online tool is spurring students into building more robust charity and social service programmes designed to create a greater, positive impact in their local communities.

This week we started to look at different types of skeletons as part of our biology topic. To make the lesson fun and engaging we asked the children to guess what the bones of the human body looked like. They did this by drawing the bones into a life-sized outline of a student. Following this, we learnt the names of the different bones and where they are located in the human body.

The children in EYFS have been having lots of fun during science week! They are participating in lots of different science investigations. They are exploring magnets, making bubbles, learning how and why it rains and having fun with dry ice!

This term the children from year 1 A have been learning a lot about chocolate. During our Friday assembly they performed a story about where chocolate grows, who made first cocoa drink, how Christopher Columbus discovered new lands and brought cocoa beans back to Europe and also what ingredients chocolate factories add to make the most delicious treat for children! How informative! Well done!

Empowering our students to be world-changers is something central to every Nord Anglia Education school. We encourage them to share their thoughts on pressing global issues and to be ambitious about their role in making our world a better place through global-mindedness and active leadership.

At the Russian language lessons, we studied the topic “Doctor and nurse”. Children played the game “I am a doctor”. We worked on an interactive whiteboard, made crafts, sculpted from clay, played a game - how many doctors, how many nurses, the game "Assemble the puzzle." The children looked at the pictures and listened to the fairy tale “Aibolit”. At the end of the lesson, the children sang the song “About the Doctor”.

We are delighted and proud to announce our first early entry Year 11 students achieved 100% A*/A their IGCSE Mathematics when results were published today. These 9 students were the first BST students to sit these external UK examinations and the school community should be very proud of their efforts. Many thanks to Mr Morris for his work with this group.

The boys and girls from baby group had a wonderful time at school today. They were busy drawing, painting and even joined in a P.E lesson. Baby group is on every Friday at 9.30am - 11am at Sayram campus for children aged 0-2.

This week Year 1 A Bears have been learning 3D shapes and their properties. This knowledge has helped them to construct different shapes using plasticine and match sticks. Bears have made a huge amount of cubes, pyramids, cuboids, prisms and paper cones and cylinders.We have been also excited to write our invitations for parents to our Christmas Show. Looking forward to starting rehearsals. This week, in English, the children of Year 1A Bear have been learning to write an invitation. In Maths, we have been learning about 3D shapes and their properties, and in Integrated Curriculum, we have made some lucky fish, using our knowledge of shapes. Next week, we will start looking at instructions and will commence rehearsals for the Winter Show. Unfortunately, we must say farewell to one of our Bears, Sophia, and wish her all the best for the future.

Partnering with world-leading educators shows the importance of passion in work at its finest, says Ethan Hildreth, Superintendent of the Nord Anglia American International School Abu Dhabi adding that students who develop and pursue their passions easily achieve and succeed

EYFS had an amazing time at zoo today. The children have all been learning about animals this term so it was a wonderful way to finish this half term. They really enjoyed seeing all the different animals and learning lots of interesting animal facts.

Year 11 students have been working hard on their "Fragments" GCSE project and are getting very close to their final outcome presentation.