Almost 100 teams of Thailand’s very best students competed this weekend, and a Bromsgrove team was in the top 3 overall in both the Junior and Senior divisions. An awesome achievement! Well done to Daisy, Joon Ho and Nina (3rd place Junior team) and to Meetu, Surabhi and Thomas (3rd place Senior team)!

Bromsgrove’s top Junior and Senior teams each placed 3rd in the Regional Round of the World Scholar’s Cup last weekend

 

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On Monday, our students had the outstanding opportunity to meet a talented musician, and receive expert advice and guidance from a celebrated pianist. It was an absolute pleasure to invite a role model of high prestige to inspire our music scholars at such an early stage in their musical lives.

Bromsgrove was honoured with the presence of Dr. Junghwa Lee, a celebrated Korean pianist who has frequently appeared in concerto performances, chamber concerts, lecture recitals and solo recitals. She has toured her musical talents around the globe, performing solo in Korea, Holland, France, Canada, Australia, New Zealand, Singapore, Thailand, Taiwan, China, the United Kingdom and the United States. Following such an impressive list of performances, the staff and students at Bromsgrove were particularly excited to host her as a visitor to the school, where she performed a very special piano recital during the afternoon, and parents were invited to be a part of her audience in the Performing Arts Centre.

Dr. Lee also offered our students the opportunity to attend unique one-to-one masterclasses, which was of particular interest to our BIST Piano students, Music Scholars, GCSE and A Level Music students, who embraced the day wholeheartedly. Dr. Lee has a wealth of teaching experience, having taught students at Oklahoma State University as the Visiting Assistant Professor of Piano, at Fort Hays State University as the Assistant Professor of Piano and at Southern Illinois University Carbondale, where she is currently the Associate Professor of Piano and the Director of the SIU Summer Piano Camp and the SIU Summer Piano Competition. Now she can add Bromsgrove International School Thailand to her list of inspired students.

Thursday’s visit of the prestigious universities of Bath, Exeter and Warwick proved to be an excellent opportunity for Year 11 and 12 students to start thinking about the things they can do to make their applications to top universities successful. The strongest message was that universities want to see interest and enthusiasm in the subject to go with good grades and that there are many excellent ways to show this, such as attending university summer courses, reading widely or even starting up a club in your own school. Students left with a much better idea of how to spend their time in order to succeed in the ever increasing competition of top level higher education.

This weekend, we were delighted to host the 2nd Annual FOBISIA Data Conference, welcoming over 40 middle and senior leaders from over 20 schools across the whole of the FOBISIA region to Bromsgrove for two days – from Mongolia in the north to Jakarta in the south, and from New Delhi in the west to South Korea in the east. This was a fantastic opportunity for us to share our cutting edge practice in the field of student data and assessment, and the approach to personalised learning we like to call ‘The Mona Lisa Effect’. There are many reasons to be proud of BIST – and this conference has added one more reason to the pile! Many thanks to the handful of Bromsgrove teachers who gave up their time and energy to make the conference such a success, and to the following students, whose ‘student panels’ were one of the highlights of the weekend: Harry and Weili (Y5), Jamie and Jazzy (Y6), Mike (Y7), Rapee (Y9), May (Y11) and Iga (Y13).

Bromsgrove students on a ‘student panel’, answering a wide variety of questions about data, learning and assessments by teachers from across the FOBISIA region