Do you know the difference between real life robots and the ones you see in movies like Star Wars? Well, you might not know, but we have a lot of robots aroud us doing their jobs everyday. If you want to learn abou them just click on link bellow to acess the Science World Magazine.

Today was an exciting day for our primary students at BCB.  We officially launched our first MIT Challenge of the year and it is called Living in Space, inspired on researches from the MIT Expert Dr. Ariel Ekblaw.

A lot of people remember doing hundreds of very repetitive questions in their maths classes. Is there a point to such repetition?

If anyone asked you what your children have learnt during the pandemic, what would you answer? They’ve learnt to wash their hands and wear face masks? Most are probably computer geniuses by now? We may well have created a generation of future ‘Bill Gates’ or ‘Steve Jobs’ thanks to online schooling and virtual playdates!

This particular newsletter was written on Wednesday, after the delayed announcement about a reopening date for schools in Sao Paulo. If that has changed you will already have received a separate communication, if not, a communication will be released as soon as we have official news.

In our Secondary blog, the importance of reading has been highlighted. And I could not agree more. Reading is definitely the extension of school in our lives. It enables us to contemplate how people can express themselves, in diverse manners. It is astonishing how plastic language can be!

Throughout the last six months, we have all had to experience change that none of us could ever have imagined. This huge shift has meant that the defining boundaries between the different areas in our lives and our relationships have been scrambled and we have been presented with many challenges. For most of us, our natural instinct, when faced with change of this level, is to avoid it. Just as we automatically recoil when we unexpectedly happen upon a dangerous animal or we instinctively pull our hand away from a hot stove, we naturally try to put upsetting thoughts and feelings out of mind. However, we cannot escape the reality of what is happening and we cannot resist the change that has occurred in all of our lives, instead we need to actively accept that there are many things that are out of our control and surrender to this change. As the pandemic that many thought would pass within weeks stretches on into the foreseeable future and becomes our new reality, we are faced with how to cope with the mental health effects. When life is not exactly as we want it to be, it can be helpful to turn our minds towards acceptance.

Dear Parents, Strong relationships between home and school are the most important way to positively engage and triangulate information between you, the teacher, your child and their learning. I believe that at times like now, these relationships are getting stronger. Contact between student and teacher are closer and more frequent through the screen, and I know parents are more actively involved in their child’s learning supporting at home and contact between teacher and parent often increased to support your child, technically and educationally.

The first STEAM challenge of the year was released last week - The coronavirus replica!

Last Year, our students in Year 7  studied in Portuguese classes about intertextuality and recreated posters of movie names and cartoons by mixing them with food names.

Dear Parents, Our British College Brazil core purpose is, ‘To create engaging and personalised learning and empower each student to achieve more than they ever thought possible by providing the best of both worlds: a global community with the best of British standards and the pride in nurturing the future leaders of Brazil to reach new heights.’

At this difficult time for all of us the arts can be an excellent way for students to explore their emotions and feelings by expressing them in different artforms. At some point this term students will be exploring their emotions in their work through Music, Drama and Visual Arts.

Music is a universal language that can engage and inspire pupils. During Virtual school we have prepared some special classes to help and engage our students while teaching the topics from our curriculum.

Following on from my blog on the 21st July, I am delighted to share with you the final design of the MakerLab as we have now selected the furniture and equipment.

Dear Parents, I wanted to write a special one-off newsletter today in support of one of our historically chosen school charities.

I can’t believe how quickly the weeks are passing by, it is almost September and I have been in Brazil for almost a month.

Reading is a rewarding experience, whether you are hyped for a brand new release or revisiting an old favourite, there is something therapeutic about reading. It's easy to become so absorbed within a world where we lose our sense of time and place with: intriguing characters; heart-racing situations; and wondrous settings. As Dr Seuss once wrote: “Fill your house with stacks of books, in all the crannies and all the nooks.” As a little boy, Dr Seuss’ influence still holds value.

Dear Parents, Welcome to my second weekly newsletter. In an attempt to effectively communicate with all our community this newsletter, and those from now on, will be in both English and Portuguese, so do keep scrolling for your preferred language.