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Inter-House Art Competition 2016-17

Our Houses did battle for the last time this year in the Inter-House Art Competition, the last of the Inter-House events for this academic year. Presented with the challenging brief to produce a...

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Year 4 – Colombo City Tour

Colombo is a fascinating historical city which the students of Year 4 were looking forward to explore. Seat belts fastened and clipboard and pencil in hand, they toured the dynamic historic city and...

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The Duke of Edinburgh’s International Award BRONZE Adventurous Journey...

The Bronze-level students completed their adventurous journeys in March this year after their training which began in November last year. They completed their pre-journeys in December. This week on...

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Nursery Students learn about traffic lights using Jelly

Transport was our theme last week and as part of the extended activities pupils got a chance to make traffic light jelly – red, orange and green. The aim of this activity was to teach them about the...

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BSC sets out to become a Mindful School & the Summer Term Introduces 2 New Clubs

The Senior School set out to become a Mindful School on Wednesday 3rd May 2017 morning with its first session on Mindfulness Training. We meet every Monday, Wednesday and Friday at 7:00 AM in the...

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Year 3C Sets up an Investigation to find the Strongest Paper

Here is 3C planning and setting up an investigation in groups to find out the strongest paper! We love investigating, especially when we have to decide how to investigate ourselves. It was hard at...

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Year 10 & Year 12 Commerce Trip to the MAS Fabric Park in Thulhiriya

On Tuesday the 09th of May 2017 the Year 12 Commerce students went to the MAS Fabric park in Thulhiriya on a field trip. They spent the morning session at MAS Athena, the training center of MAS...

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Year 2’s Trip To The Zoo

The Year 2 classes are all visiting the zoo, as part of the topic ‘Animals And Plants Around Us’. We had the opportunity to see Sri Lankan animals such leopards, porcupines, peacock and cobras. We also...

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Senior School Vesak Celebration

The Music Department, Choir and Instrumentalists led a spectacular traditional Bakthi Gee to usher in the Vesak Season. In a whole-school assembly, we were reminded of the significance of Vesak in the...

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Year 6 look at ‘Famous People’

Over the last month, during their humanities lessons, the Year 6 students have been undertaking research on a famous person. Some of the celebrities the students looked at included Princess Diana, J.K...

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GeoDay 2017- Go Wild for Life

Every year we celebrate Geography as a World Discipline since it creates “the bridge between human and physical science”. Each year we have raised awareness about various aspects of Geographical issues...

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Applying knowledge of currency value in a practical way

Groups of children acted as buyers and sellers and set up different shops.           They used plastic coins to pay for their items and got more money from the ‘bank’ whenever they didn’t have enough....

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Senior School Inter-House Basketball Tournament

The Senior School Inter-House Basketball Tournament kicked off on the 26th and 27th of April. This Year both Girls’ & Boys’ Matches were played in Key Stages instead of Age Groups. While the Boys’...

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Tag Rugby introduced as an After School Activity at BSC

194 years after William Webb Ellis first ran with the ball and thus started the game of rugby, the game has now started at BSC. We are playing tag-rugby as an after school activity for boys and girls...

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NOVEL KNOCKOUT 2017 – 1st round

The preliminary round of the Novel Knockout was successfully concluded this morning, with 17 eager contestants vying for a place in the final.  The following students have qualified for the final which...

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Year 04 Students learn about Capacity

Learning in fun ways is what the hard-working students in Year 4 enjoy best about coming to school. In maths, they have been engaged in carousel activities learning about capacity. Working in pairs or...

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BSC Geography Tour to New Zealand April 4th – 11th 2017

It was finally time for our long awaited Geography Tour and we all excitedly gathered outside the airport for the entire BSC team to arrive. After saying our good byes to our parents, twenty-one...

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NOVEL KNOCKOUT 2017

Novel Knockout, a reading competition organised by the English Department in collaboration with the Senior School library, was flagged-off on Tuesday 28th March in the library Mazzanine with a...

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Year 3 take a trip to Colombo Harbour

Last Friday, all of Year 3 went out for an adventure to Colombo Harbour and the Taj Hotel. The harbour visit linked with our history topic and we were very lucky to have special permission to go right...

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Pygmalion

“The great secret, Eliza, is not having bad manners or good manners or any other particular sort of manners, but having the same manner for all human souls: in short, behaving as if were in Heaven,...

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