Briteschool Brite NEWS
The latest news and developments impacting Briteschool, the students, and other stakeholders will appear here ...
2009-2010
30th November 2009
Activities Week, this year will prove interesting as always - details are to be finalised, but the line-up is starting to look good.
26th October 2009
Nick decided to leave Briteschool after more than three years. We wish him every success in his new venture, and hope that it proves less onerous than working for Briteschool ! So, we are joined by two experienced and enthusiastic teachers - Susan and Christine who are both living abroad ! Maybe future Briteschool weekends away will be organised for France and Cyprus - who knows ?! ;-)
The new ART class is proving reasonably popular.
7th Sept 2009
Briteschool's fourth full year started with no staffing changes, one or two students leaving us, one taking time out for a year, and and one or two students joining us. Welcome to the new students, and we hope the old students stay in touch !
2008-2009
4th December 2008
Activities Week, and the Primary Activities Week saw Briteschool's Autumn Term draw to a successful close. Plays, Christmas Around The World and Garden Designs were three very popular activities, as were the Storytelling Sessions, and Astronomy and the Constellations. We even spent time sampling the delights of Portuguese and Brazil. The closing Talent Show saw acts which ranged from Singing in London, Northampton and Spain, a Little Magic Show, Sailing from Cyprus, and exquisite Violin Playing from Japan. Hopefully our saxophonist in Devon will feel better next year, and delight us with her tunes at a later date :-)
28th November 2008
Jennifer, Kevin and Shannagh won Aviva-sponsored prizes from Briteschool, after correctly answering questions about Dee Caffari and the Vendee Globe round the world yacht race. Dee eventually finished this single-handed race in 99 days, and become the first woman to circumnavigate the globe in both directions, solo.
6th October 2008
Briteschool's third full year started with no staffing changes, one or two students leaving us, and a sudden influx of students in the last week of the holidays. After a settling in and assessment period, some students were moved into a new class, but with careful timetabling meaning the same (popular !) teachers were kept by all.
An "advanced" sub-class in IGCSE Maths was also started, to stretch the keenest students and hopefully help them towards the A or A* grade !
The first Digital Photography class proved very popular, although Japanese, another option, has been less well-subscribed than last year: maybe some of the new students will take up the option.
Elluminate, the classroom software company, have changed their licensing model - but, thankfully, agreed to maintain our current licence for a further academic year. This means any further expansion of classes will necessitate a new type of classroom software being used, or a tabbed and "saveable" whiteboard being found that will be useable in our Backup / IGCSE classroom.
5th Sept 2008
Carol Anderson was voted Briteschool Students' Teacher of the Year, 2007-2008. Congratulations, Carol: thanks for your dedicated work (and also for your assistance with the administration of Briteschool - webmaster :-D), and for making lessons challenging but fun for your Primary students !
2007-2008
21st July 2008
Over the summer holiday Briteschool's email system will be tweaked to enhance security and communications; we will also be switching the hosting of this site from 1&1 as it has had downtime 129 times the "guaranteed" amount by our hosts (98.71% rather than "99.99% guaranteed"). We hope eUKhosts prove more reliable and helpful.
Apologies in advance for any inconvenience or site / email errors this causes.
19th July 2008
Students' free T-shirts should be despatched within the next few days - a prize will be awarded to the person who wears their tee in the most interesting, exciting or unusual place over the coming year !
16th April 2008
Briteschool-branded merchandise available:
For people in Europe, from Spreadshirt in Germany;
and for people elsewhere / the US-based: www.cafepress.com/briteschool and www.cafepress.com/domshouse
29th February 2008
Daisy is in the news again - here (she proposed to her partner in school assembly, and got onto national news) :-)
6th January 2008
Daisy is very sad that she is leaving Briteschool - to go to Canada for a few weeks, so we will be joined by Anne who will take over the teaching of English from Tuesday 15th January, 2008.
07:10-07:15, 4th December 2007
Dom talked briefly about what Briteschool does on a programme on BBC Radio Somerset about Homeschooling in the UK.
3rd to 6th December, 2007
Activities Week - including Art, Japanese, Talent Show and Storytelling went very well and was enjoyed by all. The Talent Show recording is available after your log in if you wish to see it again.
2nd October 2007
Elaine Connell
Elaine, Briteschool's English teacher until July 2007, passed away peacefully on Monday 1st October, 2007. Our thoughts are with her partner, Chris, and her son and daughter.
7th September 2007
Des will be joining us to teach French and Spanish - his details are on the Teachers page.
30th August 2007
Ever seen a Briteschool student ? No, neither have I. But you have a chance on CBBC on Sunday 16th September, at 08:30. The BBC phoned Briteschool asking for volunteers to appear on "SMArt", and Josh was lucky enough to get through the selection process. The programme sequence was recorded today. (Further students may be selected for future programmes - contact Dom for more details).
30th August 2007
Daisy will be joining us to teach English - her details will appear on the Teachers page over the next few days.
21st August 2007
Elaine has decided that the treatment she receives for her cancer means she will no longer be able to teach on a weekly basis at Briteschool. Elaine will, however, be the judge of a Creative Writing competition (details to follow).
18th August 2007
Laura has found a full-time job from September: lucky school that she's going to ! We know she will be a success, and hope that she remains in contact with us, perhaps adding more materials to the www.ouifrench.co.uk part of the Briteschool site.
2006-2007
11th July 2007
Laura Stewart was voted Briteschool Students' Teacher of the Year, 2006-2007. Congratulations, Laura, and thanks for all your hard work, and for making it so enjoyable for the students ! Her prize is Growing Herbs from Multiple Organics, featured on one of our student-managed websites glamorganics.
2nd - 6th July 2007
Briteschool students are sitting End-of-Year Exams this week.
July 1st 2007
A new high for monthly page hits on this site - 18,023 total page hits for June, surpassing the previous high of Jan 2007:16,478 hits.
Tuesday 19th June 2007, 19:30-21:30 BST / WEST
The second Briteschool Parents' Evening took place in the Demonstration Classroom (in private, soundproof and secure Breakout rooms for the one-to-one discussions). There was also chat between parents, and virtual refreshments available in the Main Room - the virtual pizza and virtual organic "Orange Crush" went quickly ! The "cooking whisky" was untouched.
July - August 2007
The Students' Section of this website will be expanded to include the BESTimes student newspaper, and a Resources section has been included for adding materials for Home Educators to access for educational purposes and to use on a non-commercial basis.
30th May 2007
The first ever issue of The BESTimes (a newspaper written by the students at Briteschool) is released to students, staff and families. The Chief Editor and his team have worked hard to produce copy for almost the entire issue, and reviewers were "mightily impressed". Editorial highlights of the first two issues will appear on the Briteschool website in the very near future.
May 2007
Total Visits to this website passed the 60,000 mark earlier this month (whilst most of you were sleeping)
April16th 2007
Briteschool hopes to be offering the Cambridge University Pre-U post-GCSE qualification from September 2009 or 2010.
Thursday January 4th 2007
Spring Term started with two French classes, then Maths for some, and IGCSE Physics for others.
November 28th 2006
Briteschool Parents' Evening and virtual Cheese and Wine, 19:30 onwards.
All the teachers and many of the parents attended, with private rooms set up for individual chats; the subsequent virtual cheese and wine resulted in some parents being politely asked to leave by the virtual caretaker at about 1am (2am Spanish time !)
October 1st 2006
An newspaper article about bullying and how it affected the life of David (not his real name), one of Briteschool's students, and his reasons for joining Briteschool appeared in the paper edition of today's "Sunday Post"
September 7th 2006
Dom chatted to Radio Wythenshawe host Mike George for twenty minutes about Briteschool (and Dom's voluntary work reading the Trafford Talking News for the Blind).
August 25th 2006
BBC TV North-West are to chat with us, and may be filming over the next few weeks - more details to follow ... Volunteers for appearing in the classroom welcome !
Listen to news on BBC Radio Manchester to hear Dom speak about Briteschool (28/8/06).
See Briteschool in action on Manchester's Channel M TV news on 18/08/06 9pm,
click to view recording (10MB, 3.5min@56kbps).
Manchester Metro Newspaper article from 17/08/06 here.
Other news:
Briteniteschool offers four evening courses:
- Digital Photography for Beginners and Intermediate Photographers
- English as a Foreign Language for Beginners
- English as a Foreign Language for Intermediate Students
- ECDL - the European Computer Driving Licence.
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