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Graduation Ceremony 2018

Congratulations to the Branksome Hall Asia Class of 2018! We wish them all the best as they leave us and move on into their university years. Their positive and collaborative spirit as exemplified by their year’s theme, “I shine when you shine,” will be felt at Branksome Hall Asia for years to come.

Jane Park delivered this year’s valedictory speech at the ceremony. Her speech to was a heartfelt tribute to the parents, classmates, and teachers who helped support the Class of 2018 throughout their time at Branksome Hall Asia

ABRSM is now at Branksome Hall Asia

ABRSM – this abbreviation stands for the Examination board for Associated Board of the Royal Schools of Music. On 13 May 2018, Branksome Hall Asia became an official examination centre for the Royal Schools of Music in London. This Board was established in 1889 and now administers Music exams on all instruments and voice to 93 countries in the world. These exams provide a structured framework for progression from Beginner (Grade 1) to Advanced Musician (Grade 8).

Martin Cotton, the first examiner at Branksome, was a King’s College Cambridge and Royal Academy graduate. He remarked at the impressive venue of our Performing Arts Centre, and the hospitality and organized structure of the day. There were 21 Branksome Hall students and 6 external students. From the start of the Itinerant Music scheme here till the present day it was the Music Department’s aim to make this a venue for these exams. The growth of the number of our instrumental students caught the eye of the Music Board and we were approached by London to become an examination Centre for them.

Now Branksome Hall Asia students can take these prestigious instrumental exams on home ground. Preparation for these exams foster good technique, aural ability and most of all, disciplined practice because they demand a high level of skill in order to be successful. It is therefore, my pleasure to report that this is the beginning of even more advanced levels of music performance at Branksome Hall Asia.

G5 students are preparing for the PYP exhibition

Grade 5 PYP exhibition at Branhsome Hall Asia is our significant event in the life of our Junior School and all our G5 students. It is an excellent opportunity for our students to review their PYP learning years and share with the whole Branksome Hall Asia community. It is truly a culminating experience, and an opportunity for our G5 students to exhibit the attributes of the IB Leaner profile that have been developing throughout their PYP learning in Branksome Hall Asia.

Our G5 students are now working together putting some finishing touches to their Exhibition presentation.

“空碗”行动是一个为解决当地社区饥饿问题的草根活动。在全世界，会有很多学生在家里动手制作好空碗，烹制食物盛放在碗中并在晚宴上卖出碗和食物。所有义卖所得，都捐赠给支持食物储备和当地社区活动的基金会。

今年布兰克森在5月11日举办了第三届“空碗活动晚宴”。很多学生、家长、教职员、学校领导参加了我们的活动。

布兰克森家长和教职员们一起，通过在“空碗活动晚宴”上捐赠家常饭菜、点心、年糕、面包或饼干来支持这个充满爱的活动。这俨然已成为了布兰克森的传统。

感谢所有参与我们5月11日晚举办的“空碗活动晚宴”的家庭！这是我们社区内的又一个友谊和慈善之夜。筹集到的400多万韩币捐款，将捐赠给Good Neighbors-一个支持当地儿童的基金会的的济州分部。尤其特别的是，捐款将用于在周末和假期当中（公立学校午餐项目短暂停止时）为中小学生提供午餐。

GRADE 1 GOODS AND SERVICES MARKET
The 3rd floor of the Lower Junior Pod was transformed into a bustling, lively Marketplace on Tuesday afternoon. This was a culminating summative assessment for a Unit of inquiry under the Transdisciplinary Theme “How we organize ourselves”. Grade 1 students have been studying the forces of supply and demand as they wondered about and inquired into the Central Idea “Systems help people trade goods and services”. The students manufactured various goods and sold them (with paper money) and supplied services such as hand massages.

Innovative and New MYP Interdisciplinary Units of Study

This past school week, all Grade 6, 7, 8, and 9 students participated in MYP Interdisciplinary Units of Study (IDU’s). This unique aspect of the MYP program challenges students to use skills and concepts from multiple courses and disciplines to solve a problem, create a product, or explore a complex subject. All students were “off-schedule” during this time and working collaboratively in groups. The Grade 9s designed, built, and tested wind turbines; the Grade 8s investigated and experimented with novel ways to clean up oil spills; the Grade 7s created films on the impact of technological advances on society; and the Grade 6s created montages of various cultural creation myths. This great effort on the part of the BHA MYP teachers was a great success in terms of promoting transdisciplinary thinking and learning and will be continued next year.

Empty Bowls Season has come back. Finally we are having an Empty Bowls Dinner on May 11(Fri) at 5:30 in STEM V Area.

Over the past several months, we have made over 200 bowls and are ready to serve food in those bowls for a dinner event.

Empty Bowl is a grassroots initiative that addresses hunger in local communities. Around the world, students make home-made bowls that are filled with soup and sold at a community dinner. Proceeds are donated to a local charity supporting food banks and initiatives in the local community. This year we are holding our 3rd Empty Bowls Dinner on May 11th, 5:30pm. Please join us for an evening of art and food donated by parents and local community. All the proceeds from this event will be donated to Jeju Branch of Good Neighbors, a charity that supports local children. Specially, the funds will be used to provide meals to school children during the weekends and school holidays when the public school lunch programs are temporally stopped. Please see the details:

It has been a tradition that BHA parents, faculty and staff support this event by donating home-made food, pastries, rice cake, bread, cookies for Empty Bowls Dinner. Food Donors will be provided a free ticket to the event. Please continue to support the tradition of contributing to our community.

BOOK CHARACTER DAY

There were nearly 400 "guests" on campus last Friday, or so it seemed, as everyone in the Junior School, teachers included, came in costume dressed as their favorite book character. We paraded through the Junior School pods and out onto the podium level where we all assembled. A thoroughly enjoyable and colorful end to the Book Week. Many thanks to our wonderfully creative students, parents and teachers and to Mrs. Robins for organizing this fun event that has become a Junior School tradition over the years.

请阅读《南华早报》关于我校的新闻报道文章-东南亚最大的英文报刊。（2018年2月23日刊）

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报道文章1:采访赋权的布兰克森霍尔亚洲学院学生。 （点击这里）

报道文章2: 采访布兰克森霍尔亚洲学院教师 。 （点击这里）

报道文章3:重点报道布兰克森霍尔亚洲学院的STEM-V课程，和它是如何提高赋权女性在科学和工程学科领域的领导的。

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点击这里了解更多布兰克森霍尔亚洲学院信息。

布兰克森霍尔亚洲学院：设计思维领导者（2017年11月28日）

布兰克森霍尔亚洲学院：帮助学生成就非凡（2017年10月27日）

布兰克森霍尔亚洲学院：梦想实现的地方（2017年2月27日）

请点击这里欣赏济州岛当地电视台KCTV关于我校Plaid Tidings 冬季义卖会的专题报道：INSIDE JEJU-济州岛上

We had our annual Week Without Walls Camp for students in grades 6 through 12.

Each trip was varied with its own theme and activities but the shared goal was learning through experience.

2017年7月，IB文凭考试结果公布后，全球共有159,400 名学生为他们的成绩而庆祝。

在此，要骄傲的和大家分享布兰克森霍尔亚洲学院2017届毕业生IB文凭考试取得的优异成绩。

不论是作为学生个人，还是作为一个集体她们所取得的成绩都是令人惊叹的！

2017届毕业生考试成绩亮点：

• 全校平均分36分，全球平均分为29.95分。这也是目前布兰克森历届毕业生取得的最好成绩。
• 100%成功通过IB考试的学生获得了双语IB文凭毕业证书。和世界平均水平28%相比，这一成就无与伦比。
• 92%的我校毕业生，IB考试分数在世界平均分29.95分之上。
• 至少25%的我校学生IB成绩达到40分及以上。（世界平均水平7%）
• 有多门学科的单科平均分达到6分及以上（满分7分）。
• 本届布兰克森毕业生100%获得全球排名前100的名校录取。

我们为学生和她们所取得的成绩感到非常的骄傲和自豪！学生取得的优异成绩也表明， 布兰克森学生和集体成员致力于为所有学生创建一个具有高度包容性的教育团体。布兰克森霍尔亚洲学院全体成员，向我们的学生和家人们，还有辛勤的布兰克森全体老师们表示祝贺！

作为世界领先的IB国际学校，布兰克森霍尔亚洲学院备受瞩目。

世界将变得更加卓越非凡，骄傲吧！

再一次恭喜我们布兰克森霍尔亚洲学院2017届优秀毕业生顺利毕业，并在IB DP 考试中取得优异成绩！最近公布的IB 考试成绩，再一次证明本届布兰克森年轻的杰出女学者们有着非凡的学术能力。

全校IB DP平均分36分，并有1/4 的学生取得了40分以上的成绩。同时，所有IB考试合格的毕业生100%获得双语毕业证书。这个成就为布兰克森霍尔亚洲学院设立了新的成功标准，也定将激励和鼓舞我们未来的毕业生们去追求超越这一目标。

很快，你们就要在众多世界顶级学府中开始新的探索和挑战，母校在这里向你们致以我们最美好的祝愿！

梦想实现的地方

恭喜2016届布兰克森霍尔亚洲学院毕业生顺利毕业！

勤奋好学的布兰克森2016年毕业生们，不畏挑战、倾尽最大努力。终于功夫不负有心人。我们的女学子们顺利毕业，即将成为我们新一代卓越的人类学家、艺术设计师、建造师、生物学家、化学家、医生、金融分析师、经济学家、工程师、平面设计师、历史学家、数学家、药学家、心理学家、科学家、教师等等各行各业的人才...

我们的毕业生所选择的专业领域涉及的广度着实令人钦佩和自豪！非常了不起的成绩！！

世界，再一次，因您们而更加卓越！

2015年11月17日, 布兰克森霍尔亚洲学院的学生们应邀参加美国大使馆和韩国创业者基金会组织的一次活动，庆祝首尔的全球创业周（GEW）。

全世界的国家和不同社会均庆祝创业周，使创新者、开拓者和创业专家聚集在一起分享并讨论起知识、成功的故事和最近的创业趋势和政策。

在这次活动中还庆祝了2015年女性创业周，专门为那些接受挑战要去打破性别旧观念而实现梦想的女性而安排了一整下午的专门时间。

瑞典大使安妮霍格仑德（Anne Hoglund）向与会者致贺词。孙智爱（Ji-ae Sohn）教授（美国有线电视新闻网前首尔总裁、前阿里郎（Arirang）总裁）、美国环球妇女问题秘书处顾问格蕾丝蔡女士（Grace Choi）、Dr. 高级创新顾问欧干古热尔(Ogan Gurel)博士、美国大使馆公共事务处罗伯特 奥格本（Robert Ogburn）先生 分别带领学生辅导会，强调妇女可以促使生活和社区发生变化。 他们指出，我们在当今世界面临的挑战的规模、飞速发展的创新要求我们用新的方法去领导，这不同于现代经济所依赖的集权和有效的模式。他们鼓励青年女子与会者去做转变型领导、不畏失败、培育适应力和坚韧不拔的精神。会上还指出，使男性成为同盟对女性的发展至关重要。此外，还鼓励她们对不合适的解决方案要去挑战常规智慧、推出思想、开放思路。 对学生总体的信息是，人的精神具有巨大的能量可以去应对挑战，实现宏大梦想的一个方式就是无论性别如何要“达到自己认为达不到的目标”。

布兰克森霍尔亚洲学院的潜水俱乐部成员们上个星期六在西归浦外寒冷的碧海中勇敢地完成了其开放水域潜水。女生们在两次水底潜水中分别达到31和32分钟并考察了深达11米的大海。这次活动体现了友情、团队精神和团队成员间强有力的相互支持，这些都是作为NAUI开放水域训练一部分的空气和应急上升程序而训练出来的。

比西先生(Percy), 德意志先生（Deutsch）, 巴克先生( Barker)和我对我们杰出的潜水队感到无比自豪！

李博士（Dr. Lee）和比西先生。

您可以通过以下视频观看更多辉煌的成就。

布兰克森霍尔亚洲学院首尔的加拿大大使馆举办了首届校友聚会派对。这是两个校园的家长们相互联络的机会。加拿大大使参加了这一活动并对学校的第一届毕业生的优异表现表示祝贺。

学习到底是什么？每个课堂和学校都会向学生讲述一个不同的故事- 它感觉如何，样貌如何，发展永恒的理解的机制如何运作。通常，命令和压力会成为许多教师和学校领导主导基调，学校也因此变成“完成任务”的场所，因而不能为学生提供丰富的学习的故事。可悲的是，教室则成为服从的场所而非让学生成为更好的思考者和学者、使其在毕业离校后依然为其服务的场所。

多年来，“哈佛大学使思考变得可见的零工程”团队始终有这样的问题：如何使课堂和学校变成学生们和教师们的思考的丰富文化？这会对其学习有何影响？

如何创造思考的文化这一问题不容易回答。思考本质上是不可见的- 它发生在人的头脑内部。使思考变得可见这一想法有助于清晰的勾勒出富于思考的课堂文化是怎样的。这可以透过诸多方面反映出来如常规办法的使用、注意语言、创造思考的机会等等。在教师们力求将文化转变的更加发人思考、使人投入的学校里，教师们会自问：学生若要深入理解，她们会使用那些思考方式呢？学生们是否有机会相互发展和解释其理论呢？学生们构建了那些创造性的解决方案？我怎样邀请学生就一个计划或问题的复杂性进行辩论？

如果教师们将重点放在这类创造学习环境的问题上，学生们则会更用心学习、更能发现学校与外界生活之间的有意义的关联，因而也更能展现我们最乐意在学生中看到的态度，即思想开放、有求知欲、合理怀疑和对理解的渴望。

本研讨会的设计是要把各个层面的教育者聚在一起参加这个使思考变得可见的讨论。参与者将有机会与其他同事合作并进行反思从而在其学校和课堂上创造有力的学习故事。参加者要考虑具体策略、工具和工作画面以扩大其自身的视野，弄清学习的新的故事该是怎样的，如何通过创造一个思考的文化来实现。