DBIS News 
Keep up to date with what's happening in the school with our fortnightly newsletter.
November Update
Dear Parents
DBIS International Food Fair – Saturday 3 December 2011
Fun – Family - Food
Be sure to read the update being sent out tomorrow on our International Food Fair.
Year 6 China Trip: A huge thank you to all of our Year 6 students who went on the Hangzhou China trip last week. They were an absolute delight to take away and were wonderful ambassadors for the school. You would have been very proud of the way they conducted themselves. They were a credit to their families and our school.
We had a lot of fun and laughs along the way while learning about the key industries in Hangzhou of pottery, silk, tea and tourism. I would also like to thank the staff who went on the trip and in particular to Hannah Dray for all of the organisation both prior to the trip and during our stay in Hongzhou. Ian Hunt – Principal Primary School
Santa’s On Strike…. (Breaking News): Our Year I students have been practising hard for their big production of ‘Santa’s On Strike’. Only 14 sleeps until 1 December when our Year 1 students will perform at 7:00 pm in the Globe.
Secondary building update: It’s quite amazing watching the daily progress. The windows and doors are now fitted, balcony railing is being installed and the classrooms are really taking shape.
Web browser changes at school: For some time now Internet Explorer has been our main Internet browser for use within our school. With the increasing range of digital resources now used within our learning and teaching programmes, we need to ensure our selected browser gives us full support by way of displaying and activating all of the resources we plan to use. Unfortunately Internet Explorer is no longer able to meet this requirement. Having reviewed other options to determine the best browser for our needs, we will be changing to use Google Chrome.
It would be helpful if you could download Google Chrome for your children to use at home as well, to ensure that the full selection of resources built into our learning activities can be accessed accordingly.
To download Google Chrome please go to: http://www.google.com/chrome?hl=en-GB
School Advisory Committee: We have confirmed our Advisory Committee for the 2011 – 2012 period. The following parent volunteers will be on our new Advisory Committee:
Richard Bryant
Don Guinea
Stephanie Molbert
Larry Nuttall
Martin Wardle
Further information regarding our AC members will be circulated in our next newsletter. On behalf of our school community, I wish to pass on my sincere thanks to all of the parents who put their names forward to assist with this group.
FOBISSEA Music Festival – Beijing: We would like to congratulate the seven students who attended the FOBISSEA Music Festival with Mr. Walker and Miss Balka in Beijing. Our students went through four days of intensive rehearsals and then took part in a stunning gala performance consisting of a hundred strong choir and an orchestra of over 150. There was also a little time for some amazing trips to The Great Wall and The Forbidden City. Our students were an absolute credit to their school and we are all very proud of them!
Carols on the Pitch – Wednesday 7 December: Our annual Christmas concert – Carols on the Pitch – will take place on Wednesday 7 December with festivities starting at 5:45 pm. The concert will feature an array of festive sing-a-longs as well as some traditional carols performed by our school choir, orchestra and recorder ensemble. Parents, students and friends are all invited to bring a blanket and picnic. Come and join us in getting this year’s yuletide festivities off to a special family start.
Uniform update: The weather will begin to cool down a little more in the coming weeks. In preparation, new stocks of cooler weather uniform items are available in our school uniform shop. Our new hooded sweatshirts are being manufactured this month. The latest update from our supplier indicates us having them available for sale in the week starting 28 November. The hooded sweatshirt will be available for Nursery to Secondary aged students. The design is the same for all years other than the addition of the school name on the back of the hooded sweatshirts for Secondary students.
Laboratory Technician Required: If you have experience working in a laboratory and would like to work with our Secondary School science teachers preparing chemicals / equipment for science lessons, please contact Mr Andy Edwards.
DBIS Sports Round Up
Secondary Sport
Under 12 Girls Football – ISSFHK 2011 Champions!: Congratulations to our Under 12 Girls Football team and their two coaches Ms Gina Boone and Ms Katie Worthington for winning the ISSFHK Under 12 Girls Football Championship. The team had a wonderful season going through all matches unbeaten. Fittingly, the toughest match came in the final against a spirited ICS team. The game went down to the wire with Christina Angus scoring in the final minutes to secure a well earned 1-0 victory.
Semi final: DBIS 5 – Discovery College 3
Final: DBIS 1 – ICS 0
HKSSF X Country Championships – 2011 C Grade Boys Team Champions!: On Tuesday morning we took a team of six male, and two female runners to the season ending HKSSF X country Championships held at the Shung Mun reservoir in the new territories. A staggering 110 C grade (U14) runners competed on a grueling 3.5 km undulating course through a bush track. The top 4 placings for each school were combined to unveil the top running teams from all schools on Lantau Island and the New Territories. It was a fantastic day for the Discovery Bay schools with Wei Lun and Discovery College performing extremely well. Our DBIS team took home the top prize of first team with placings of 4th, 9th, 18th, and 27th. Congratulations to all of our runners on a fantastic season.
Results
Charlie Taylor – 4th Renee Orleans – 14th
Ruben Brons – 9th Kelsey Bredbury – 18th
Rei Watabe – 18th
Tegan Pye – 27th
Trevor Bagatinni – 38th
Brandon Orleans – 43rd
Primary Sport
Year 6 Netball: Good luck to the Year 6 girls netball team and their coaches Ms Walden and Mrs Basford who will be taking part in the Kowloon Schools Primary Netball Tournament today at Sha Tin College.
Sports Events – coming soon…:
Secondary Basketball Fixtures Week #1: Come and support our teams as they begin their season with three home games!
• Tuesday November 22, Under 14 Girls v AISHK @ DBIS, 4:15 pm
• Wednesday November 23, Under 16 Girls v DC @ DBIS, 4:15 pm
• Thursday November 24, Under 16 Boys v DC @ DBIS, 4:15 pm
Saturday November 26
• DBIS Football Tournament, King’s park, 8:00 am – 1:00 pm.
• HKFC Mini Hockey Tournament, Happy Valley, 8:00 am – 1:00 pm
• CAIS Under 12 Boys (Y7) Basketball Tournament, CAIS, 9:00 am – 1:00 pm
Other Sports Notices
• Year 1 and 2 Sports Day, Friday December 9 at DBIS from 9:45 am – 12:30 pm.
• Year 3 – 6 PE classes will be spending some time running off site as part of their athletics unit.
• Missing Tug of War rope: Could the parent(s) who borrowed this item please return it to the PE Department as soon as possible?
Upcoming Events
Friday 18 November
Y1 and Y6 Immunisation Programme
Y5 return from the Sai Kung Camp
Tuesday 22 November
Y8 Teacher Tutor Conference with Parents and Students
Wednesday 23 November
Y6 Science Museum
Thursday 24 November
Drama Showcase for Secondary Parents
Saturday 26 November
DBIS Football Tournament
Monday 28 November
Y4 Parent Evening
Tuesday 29 November
Y4 Parent Evening
Y9 Options Evening for Parents and Students
Thursday 1 December
Year 1 Show
Friday 2 December
Reception Christmas Concert Hall Rehearsal
Saturday 3 December
DBIS International Food Fair
ESF Netball tournament
Monday 5 December
Reception Christmas Concert Hall Rehearsal
Y1LL Pizza Trip
Tuesday 6 December
Reception Christmas Concert Dress Rehearsal
Y1EL Pizza Trip
Wednesday 7 December
Y2 Open Morning
Wednesday 7 December
Carols on the School Pitch
Thursday 8 December
Y4 Open Morning
Reception Christmas Concert in the Globe
Saturday 10 December
ESF Football tournament
Tuesday 13 December
Y1FW Pizza Trip
Rainforest and Seaside Christmas Concert
Wednesday 14 December
Y1LH Pizza Trip
Sunflower, Farm and Starlight Christmas Concert
Friday 16 December
End of Term 1
Kind regards
Grant Ramsay
Principal
Community Notices
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Christmas Sale with Little Miss Green The Party Queen & Friends: Thursday December 1st 9 – 4 pm - 3H Seabee Lane (just behind the school). Gifts, Toys, Decorations, Games and more. All Welcome to come browse and enjoy a mince pie.
