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2009

Sam Motors Sponsors the Girls’ Basketball Activity
LBIS Graduation Ceremony 2009
DEUTSCHE BANK CYCLE TOUR 2009
IB Options Evening
Cultural and Literary trip to France
Residential Project
Embellishment of Moka Government School
Form Coordinators Retreat
IGCSE Parents Evening
Pupils from Deaf School visit LBIS
Adult Literacy
Interaction Leadership Programme
History Trip To Egypt
Prospective Parents evening
National Youth Achievement Award (Duke Of Edinburgh)
Professional Development Day
Year 6 clavis visit
Music Day
Communication Contest 2009
Science Competition
Chess Competition
MUN
IGCSE Awards
Form 2 Retreat
Board/Staff Retreat
Form 5 Retreat
Sports Day
International Nite
SRC Retreat
Swimming Gala

2008

THE DEUTSCHE BANK 100KM CYCLE TOUR
National Intercollege Basketball Championships
"Best Athlete" trophy

November 26, 2009

Sam Motors Sponsors the Girls’ Basketball Activity

Our special thanks go to Mrs. Peerally, Assistant Director at Sam Motors ( www.sammotors.biz ) for sponsoring the Girls’ Basketball activity at Le Bocage International School.

Mrs Desaye-Ramar
PE DEPT.

November 23, 2009

LBIS Graduation Ceremony 2009

Le Bocage celebrated its 19th annual Form 7 graduation on the 20th November. It was a very emotional evening for our graduates, many of whom had been at the school for seven years.

My thanks go out to all of those involved in the organisation of the event, and in particular to Fatma Desaye-Ramar, the Form Coordinator, and to Shekar Dewoo, the High School Principol.

We were very honoured indeed that Dr, the Honourable Alvin Boolell, Minister of Foreign Affairs, Regional Integration and International Trade, took time out of his busy schedule to be the guest speaker at the event.

AWARDS AT GRADUATION 20089

Valedictorian Award: LUCHMUN RACHEL
Salutatorian Award: WONG PING LUN JASON
Dr Phillippe Forget Award: CAINE JONATHAN ANDREW
LBIS Ambassador-at-Large Award: BRAUNECKER DAVID
Marie Achille English Achievement Trophy: PIRBHAI HASANALI
CAS Award: NG LUN KELLY ANN
Student of the Year Award: SUMODHEE ASHFAAQ

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Andrew Scott
Headmaster

October 19, 2009

DEUTSCHE BANK CYCLE TOUR 2009

“A PASSION TO PERFORM”

This year Le Bocage fielded three teams—one in 100-km and two in 50-km race.

The 100-km race saw the participation of:

Christopher Rey F5
Stefan Lenferna F5
Kris Beehary F6
Tom Law F4 (did not finish as his bike broke down)
James Olivier F3 (did not finish; met in road accident and damaged his bike)
Wendy Olivier (Teacher; did not start; was sick).

Two teams were registered for the 50-km race.

Team A:

Robert Charoux F7 (came out first)
Thierry de Chalain F7
Xavier de Luca F7
Ashfaq Sumodhee F7
Fabrice Fournier F7

Team B:

Yannick Gross F1
Bryan Ramloll F4
William Lam F3
Dylan Kamulsing F4
Cyril Ationne (Teacher)
Marlowe Kamulsing (Teacher)

Team A won the School Challenge and Team B came out second.
Note: This was our third participation in a row, and we won the Challenge for two successive years. Congratulations to all and see you next year.

Cyril Ationne
Head of PE Department

September 22nd, 2009

IB Options Evening

The 2010-2011 IB subjects option Evening for parents took place on Thursday 10th September 2009.
The presentation included the IB Mission statement and Learner Profile, a brief description of the IBCC (Career-related Certificate), the Diploma Hexagon of subjects, an introduction to the Core components of the Diploma. Important documents were given to parents, namely the General Regulations for Students and their Guardians and the Option Form which must be returned to Mr. Ramar on the 17th of September 2009.

The evening provided an opportunity for parents to get ready to support their child through this challenging programme.

Marie-Claire Luchmun
IB Coordinator

September 11th, 2009

Cultural and Literary trip to France

The Modern Languages department organised its now yearly trip to Paris in August. After many fundraising activities and much help from parents, and the PTA, we were ready to embark on what proved to be a fantastic and enriching educational, cultural and social experience. Four teachers and a group of 47 students, stayed at the Centre International de Paris (CISP) in Paris for 7 days and embarked on a program that would bring to our knees even the bravest among us. As you may guess, this was the case for the teachers of course but not for the students...

I offer my warmest thanks to our colleagues, the parents who helped us either by donating money, cakes for Valentine’s day or other items for the raffle, the PTA and the Modern Languages department for their donation as well as the Finance department for being so patient with us .

Thanks also to the parents who readily agreed to allow their children to take part in this big adventure as this has given us the motivation to continue our project. The pleasure that could be read on the students face certainly tells us that the effort we put in and all the hard work was really worthwhile.

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Nadine Espiegle,
French Teacher.

July 23rd, 2009

Residential Project

A group of 40 form 7 students were innvolved in the cleaning and painting activity for the Duke of Edinburgh Award (Gold Level) and CAS programme.

The project lasted for 4 days 3 nights, where students helped with the cleaning and repainting of kennels of MSPCA, an organisation working for the protection of cruelty against animals in Mauritius.

Some students also helped in organising the MSPCA annual pet show which included the stamping of tickets and repainting of the different hurdles.

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Nasreen Razzak
CAS Coordinator

July 22nd, 2009

Embellishment of Moka Government School

A group of Form 6 CAS students accompanied by Mrs De Chalain and Mr Suresh Soomarchand were involved in an embellishment activity at the Moka Government School.

This involved planting flowers in flower pots which were donated to the school by the CAS department.

The flower pots were placed outside each respective class which would be responsible for them.

A special thanks to Suresh for helping in the organization of the pots and plants.

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Nasreen Razzak
CAS Coordinator

July 15th, 2009

Form Coordinators Retreat

The annual form coordinator retreat, run by the Guidance Counsellor, was held at the La Pirogue Hotel, Flic en Flac. The participants included all form coordinators (Forms 1-7) and their respective principals.

The theme for the day was pastoral care and guidance, with emphasis on team building as well as getting to know our students better.

We’re very thankful to Mrs Ristic and Mr Ramkhalawon for such enriching sessions. It was a fun but very productive day.

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Prya Jundoosing
Guidance Counsellor

July 10th, 2009

IGCSE Parents Evening

The Form 3 IGCSE Parents evening took place on the 8th of July. Mr. Roopnaraine, the Middle School Principal, welcomed all the parents and informed them about the changes that would take place as the Form 3 students move to High School: change of Principal, Form Coordinators and Form Tutors. He added that some new subjects would be introduced.

We then had a presentation on the IGCSE program, where parents were informed of the structure and aims of the courses as well as the subjects that would be offered at Le Bocage in January 2010. Three Form 4 students shared their experiences concerning their choice of subjects last year. Mrs. Prya Jundoosing presented an overview of ‘kudos’, the career’s software to the parents. Next, Mrs. Wendy Olivier directed the questions after having presented the Option Form. The formal part of the evening ended with the closing remarks of Mr. Shekar Dewoo, the High School Principal who also welcomed the parents and their children to the next educational strands leading to the IGCSE and IB.

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Nadine Espiegle
IGCSE Coordinator

July 3rd, 2009

Pupils From Deaf School Visit LBIS

A group of Form 6 students were involved with the Deaf School in Beau Bassin during activity time as part of their CAS programme. They were supervised by Mrs. De Chalain.

After several weekly visits, the group decided to have a get together at LBIS and also to involve the pupils from the Deaf school in an activity.

On the day the students arrived, they were given a tour of LBIS and then taken to the ART room for a ‘ Hand Printing’ activity.

The activity was a big success and students from both the institutions enjoyed sharing ideas and working together.

A big thank you to the Art department for the set up and providing all the relevant materials.

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Nashreen Razzack
CAS Department

July 1st, 2009

ADULT LITERACY – Venue: Centre de l’Amitie (Bambous)

Eleven of our students are involved in teaching basic reading, writing and numeric skills to some thirteen adults aged between 18 and 67. Generally, the instructions are dispensed on a one-to-one basis.

Activity supervisors: Jean Claude Maripa and Pascale de Chalain

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Jean Claude Maripa
Activity Supervisor

June 30, 2009

InterAction Leadership Programme (ILP)

The interaction leadership programme is a British Council Initiative that was launched in nineteen African countries to support emerging leaders. Its aim is to equip African leaders with the right tools and skills to face the challenges of the 21st century in their respective countries. I consider myself very lucky at being selected for the fourth cohort of ILP that was run from July 2007 to March 2008.

The culminating point of the programme was the Pan-African Event (involving leaders from all the nineteen countries) that was held in Dakar in Senegal, where I got the opportunity to interact and learn from about 110 African leaders.

After having gone through the ILP, I must say it was a very enriching experience that has contributed very positively to both my personal and professional life.

Six very important principles that I have learnt through the programme and that are guiding my life since then are:

Appreciation goodwill, and good intent;
The power of questions;
Exploiting the magic of difference;
Working with chaos and order to allow great things to emerge;
Allowing others to do great work
Working towards congruence.

The award of the certificate for the ILP was presented on the 25th of June 2009 at Westminster house in Floreal.

Simon Graham-Hill (Director of British Council) and the interaction team during a working session at Coco Beach Hotel.

June 25, 2009

Prospective Parents evening

On Wednesday 24 June, our school held a Prospective Parents evening, the purpose of which was to provide information about the school to parents who were contemplating enrolling their children into Form 1 for the academic year beginning January 2010.

Presentations focussed on our curriculum offer as well as our pastoral care provision. Five of our students, two from Form 7, two from Form 3 and one from Form 1 also made presentations to the audience.

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Robert Roopnaraine
Middle School Principal

June 25, 2009

History Trip

Reliving History:
That was the challenge that the History team took up when they decided to organize an expedition to visit the renowned historic sites of Egypt.

10 students and 2 teachers ventured to Egypt from the 9th to the 19th June.

The experience was unique, intense, awesome, magical…. the ultimate thrill!

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Mira Tapesar
History Teacher

June 24, 2009

NATIONAL YOUTH ACHIEVEMENT AWARD (NYAA)
BRONZE AND SILVER MEDALS CEREMONY
HELD ON WEDNESDAY 24 JUNE 2009 IN MULTI-PURPOSE HALL

The NYAA Programme is a prominent and very popular part of our school’s extra-curricular activities. We currently have a total of 130 students registered on the programme.

The awardees have demonstrated a great deal of good will and perseverance to get this far.

However, they still have the highest echelon to climb and reach for the Gold level.

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Marlowe Kamulsing
Award Supervisor

June 22, 2009

Professional Day

LBIS held one of its regular professional days on Friday 19th June. These events normally only involve the teaching faculty. However, on this day we were also able to welcome non- teaching staff, students and a parent representative from the PTA.

The day focused on reviewing our current Strategic Action Plan for School Improvement and setting targets for the future. Two areas were focused in on:

Student learning and performance;
School community, life and culture.

The event proved an important opportunity for different areas of the school community to work together on common goals.

A particular thanks go out to our students and parent who took the time to attend the event.

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Andrew Scott
Headmaster

June 18, 2009

Clavis Year 6 visit to Le Bocage International School

As is our customary practice, Le Bocage hosts visits by our feeder school Year 6 pupils so that they familarise themselves with the school surroundings and some of the activities and subjects on offer in our curriculum.

On Thursday 18 June, students from one of our feeder schools, Clavis Primary School, spent the day with us involved in activities such as Art, Design and Technology, Physical Education and Science.

This cohort of students is expected to join Form 1 at Le Bocage in January 2010.

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Robert Roopnaraine
Middle School Principal

June 18, 2009

Music Day Celebration

At Le Bocage, the music day was celebrated on the 17th June, through a great concert in the Multi Purpose Hall.

The concert comprised of students playing in bands as well as in solo, singing as soloist and as well as in groups.

We also had members of the staff participating in the show.

Among the singing and dancing, there was also a fascinating sketch performed by form 1 students.

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Claude Collard
Music Teacher

SKETCH BASED ON SHAKESPEARE’S “A MIDSUMMER NIGHT’S DREAM”, ON INTERNATIONAL MUSIC DAY 17 JUNE 2009

“‘If music be the food of love, play on, play on…’ said the Bard, William Shakespeare, over 400 years ago. This sketch adapted by the youngest members of the English Department (Form 1), dramatically led by their class teacher Miss Sheela Kulpoo, supported by the Department, performed for your pleasure, is based on Shakespeare’s “A Midsummer Night’s Dream”.

Without further ado, and as you like it, let the play begin!”…announced Mr Marlowe Kamulsing, Head of English Department, in his typical histrionic way, dressed in colorful, outlandish garb and chewing carrot and turnip.

The sketch lasted for about 30 minutes. The 24 actors and actresses managed to convey the fairyland atmosphere where illusion and reality blends and where people’s wishful thinking is temporarily realized. The audience had a funny, lovely and magical moment to relish the different plots woven around the themes of love and marriage.

A big thank you to Le Bocage community and especially to the parents who contributed for the stage props. And because this comedy interspersed with music, song and dance was the first of the two- tiered programme, “And now let the music play!” was quite apt to conclude this part of the event.
Remember: “He who sings, prays twice”. (St Augustine).

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Marlowe Kamulsing
Head of English Department

June 17, 2009

Communication Contest 2009

This year the Rajiv Gandhi Science Centre organized its third communication contest, which was opened to form 1 to 3 students. Some 500 entries from 45 schools across the island were received for the competition, of which 200 projects got selected. Le Bocage international school as usual did very well as fifteen of our students’ projects were selected.

In the final round, involving only eight students, two of our students namely, Yashil Sukurdeep and Alice Antwi were selected.

And Alice Antwi won the second prize with her project on Cloning(Congratulations and well done). This is the third year in a row that we are the runner up for the communication contest.

Hopefully next year we will be the winner!!
My Congratulations to Alice and Yashil

Alice presenting her project during the prize giving ceremony of the science competition.

Mr. Robert Roopnaraine offering a gift to Alice for her great achievement at the communication contest.

Gayethree Bojnauth
Head of Science Department

June 16, 2009

Science Competition

The Science department organised its 3rd science competition, which culminated on an exhibition and prize giving ceremony on the 16th of June 2009.

The theme for this year is ‘LBIS, an Eco-friendly School’.

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Gayethree Bojnauth
Head of Science Department

June 16, 2009

Chess Competition

19 students registered for the Chess contest. They were seperated into three different groups, A,B and C and paired accordingly to start the contest.

GROUP A
Melvin Chan Sun
Yuveshen Mooroogen
Dylan Chan Wah
Pascal Sum
Adeeb Moosa
GROUP B
Akash Baguant
Sanjay Goorapwa
Julien Severe
AnikateChummun
Neil seetul
Alexandre Heeraman
GROUP C
Krishen Mardemootoo
Ricky Leung
Mathew Chung
Oodhava Boodhoo
Tariq Salarbux
Ryan Osman
Abhi Nundoo
Zabioullah Fokeerbux

Mr. R.KISTNASAMY
Activity Supervisor

June 4, 2009

MUN 2009

Le Bocage MUN club has been invited this year to participate in the AISMUN 2009. The conference was held in Egypt, a new destination for our group who until now has always been to Europe for this prestigious event.

It is also the first time that we have departed from here in a group of 20 students, the biggest group in eleven years, giving the opportunity to more students to represent our school and Mauritius on an international platform.

Over 15 International Schools from different parts of the world participated in the conference and about 400 students interacted in a simulation of the United Nations Organisation. Students were representing a country’s delegation and were challenged to seek solutions through discussions to reach consensus. Our students did a lot of research work and were fully prepared. They spent three days of intense debate and gained a lot in self-confidence, leadership and public speaking skills. Many teachers were impressed by the unity of Le Bocage team despite of our ethnical diversity. It is also worthy to point out that all the participants have received a certificate, which will be an excellent reference on their curriculum vitae when they will apply to universities.

It was also an opportunity for the students to visit Egypt and to see one of the most famous tourist destination: the pyramids.

They were shocked by their perfect shape and continually asked questions about how they were built.

Camel rides in the vast Egyptian desert under the sun was also an amazing experience the student will certainly never forget.

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During the second term holidays also, a group of eight students had the opportunity to participate in the 13th MUN conference organized by the Ministry of Education in Mauritius.

Our delegation which was representing Togo and Czech Republic respectively, performed very well despite the lack of time for preparation due to mock exams, and managed to receive the award of best delegation.

Well Done! Congratulations.

Eric Pascal
MUN Coordinator

May 25, 2009

IGCSE Awards Ceremony

The IGCSE award for class 2008 was held on Friday 22^nd May 2009 at the school's MPH.
This year twelve students were presented with a souvenir for obtaining a distinction and another two students for outstanding performance:

Distinction
BANCHILLON Virginie. M
BEEHARRY S. Banon
GUNESSEE Sushim
JHUMMON Deeya J
JONES Jennifer Elspeth
LAW MIN Alexandre Jean
NG CHEONG SANG Sophie
NUNDOO Abhidheya
OSMAN Ryan Mohommed
PUNJABI Divya Parvin
SLARBUX Tariq Hussein

Outstanding performance
PULTON Vishal
SOONDROM Yadavi

The award for the most improved student went to HOW TAK PIN Steffi.
A melodious piano tune was performed by OSMAN Ryan.
The event was honored by the presence of Mr. Ingram HILL, director of the British Council.

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Shekar Dewoo
High School Principal

May 20, 2009

F2 Retreat

May 19, 2009

Board/Staff Retreat

A Board/Staff retreat had not taken place for some time. The last such retreat had taken place in 2003, with the one proceeding that being in 2001. All participants were therefore eagerly awaiting the event.

The original date of Saturday 4th April was rescheduled to Saturday 16th May. All LBIS Board members were invited to the event along with all the teaching staff and office and technical support staff. Close to the event members of the PTA were also invited. It was noted that any future event like this should also include student representatives. It might, therefore be appropriate to rename the event the Le Bocage International School Community Retreat.

Participants arrived at 08.00 for a very early start. The programme was a very full one and much was achieved form the day. The main focus of the event was looking at and revising the current Strategic Action Plan for School Improvement.

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Andrew Scott
Headmaster

May 8, 2009

F5 Retreat

Date: 6th May 2009
Venue: Jardin Botanique de Melrose.

The first plenary session was lead by the Year Coordinator at 9.30. The session was focused the impact of the IGCSE result over the subject choices for the International Baccalaureate. The requirements and expectations were clearly stated so that the students knew exactly about the possible repercussions onto their choice of subjects.

Mrs. Espiegle took over after the Garden Visit. Her intervention was about how to fine tune the final parts of the IGCSE Programme, tips about how to organize or re-organize study and revision for the exams. She ended up by explaining how we would proceed with administrative issues which going to start soon.

Based on passed experiences, the Year Coordinator wanted to have the year-group input about long-term planning. He commented on how organized one should be in order to get through the IB journey and the most common pitfalls and constraints he has been observing nearly every year. That is why he wanted to set a good calendar of events proposed by the students that would allow them to use their time efficiently by doing things that would be enjoyable and rewarding. The CAS Programme and the Fund-Raising for their form 7 Prom were mainly discussed. A few students felt that it was too early to start thinking about those events but they were made to understand that it is better to be prepared to tackle wisely than to be unnecessarily stressed-out when tackling those unavoidable issues. The ideas that cropped-up during the brainstorming sessions were Portrait-Making, Surprise for birthdays, Halloween Nights, Play station/Console Week, Fancy-Fair, Bingo Night and International Week as fund-raisers. For CAS Programme activities the students came-up with only a few ideas like, Making Wrist Band, Tutoring the younger one at school, to paint peoples’ houses and Bus Stops, cleaning Public Gardens and working closely with orphanages.

Our guest speaker Mr. Bancoult’s talked on the Chagosseans Refugees and he went on for more than an hour exceeding the scheduled time but the students wanted to know more and more. The content of the presentation really touched them and they expressed their eagerness to help the displaced population (the Chagosseans) by all means.

The social part comprised of barbecue and desert in a relaxing and casual atmosphere and everybody went for their particular social activity until the end of lunch.

A little group of students made a video clip to present an extra-curricular activity that they were participating in outside school: Tae kondo, rugby, basketball, cricket, horse-riding and summer holiday camp.

Mr. Collard and two students, May-Lynn Parley and Astrid Arlove entertained us with three songs. The retreat ended on a very positive note and students commented nicely on the event.

Gervais Ramar
Form 5 Coordinator

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April 10, 2009

Sports Day

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March 30, 2009

International Nite

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February 27, 2009

SRC Retreat 2009

The SRC retreat was held on Thursday, 26th February 2009. The Venue was ‘La Pirogue Hotel’ at Flic-en-Flac. The retreat’s discussion topics was the role and responsibilities of an effective SRC, team building and effective questioning and listening. The presenters were, Mr. Chooromonay Yogish, Mr. Scott Andrew, Mr. Roopnaraine Robert, Mr. Dewoo Shekar, Mr. Ah-Tieng Joe and the SRC president and vice president, namely Ng Kevin and Servansingh Shantanu

Yogish Chooromonay
SRC Coordinator