4th Grade Spelling Championship

Our first spelling contest was held on 29 Nov 2011 at our Conference Hall. Top 3 champions of each class (15, in total) took part in the final round. The standard of performance was so high that there were altogether 4 grand champions – Champions of Champions :
                                  
                                               4-A      İpek Demir
                                               4-B      Beyza Baktır
                                               4-C      Alper Özkan
                                               4-D      Tan Özöğlu

In the second part of the competition, 2 representatives from each class were randomly chosen to compete for the Class Champion. The winners were :

                                               4-A  (Kaan Gürgan)
                                               4-C (Eda Molu)
                                               4-D  (Selen Peker)

Congratulations to all of them. We would like to thank all our hard-working 4 graders for their impressive effort and active participation for the past few months.

Looking forward to the second Spelling Championship in January 2012!

Well Done!

Our 9th grade students regularly display their projects which they do in English lessons on the notice boards in corridors.

THE EUROPEAN YOUTH PARLIAMENT ORGANIZATION

Our school participated in the 10th European Youth Parliament Organization which is held twice a year with our 6 students and our English teacher, Billur Özbay, in İstanbul TED College.  Our participating students managed to work actively in their own groups and show themselves up. By having a duty in the opening and closing speech of their groups, and in the ‘attack question’ part, Selin Somuncu, Ahmet Buğra Keleş and Aslı Özhamurkar could win a name for our school.

Parent’s Meeting

An informatory meeting for the parents of all grades was held this semester in our college’s new conference hall.
The parents were informed about the lessons process and materials by the English teachers.
A slide show about the activities of the previous year was also presented.
Special thanks for the participation of the parents.

ESOL Cambridge Examination

On 25th October 2011, a ceremony was organized for all the students that joined the ESOL Cambridge Examinations with great success.
The students were given certificates for their achievements.

OUR TOUR TO ENGLAND

Between 25th July and 7th August 2011, 20 students from  9th and 10th grades have been to Frensham Heights School connected to Churchill House Summer Schools in Farnham, a town of England, to improve their English grammar, speaking, reading, comprehension and writing skills with the guidance of Deputy Principal, Erol Dede and the English teacher, Eda Avcı. The school’s physical condition was observed to be extremely safe in terms of the region it locates. Including our students, 117 students who are Russian, Spanish, French, and Italian participated in this programme. On the first day of school, our students took a proficiency test and  they were divided into classes according to their English levels, and they took courses accordingly.
According to the school’s programme, our students participated in lessons between the hours of 9:30 to 12:30, and in activities such as archery, cooking, dancing, painting, football, basketball, and gymnastics in the afternoons every day. In the performance nights, held in every Friday evening, our students exhibited short plays with their classmates by using the scenarios they wrote themselves and scenes with the help of teachers and they enjoyed themselves a lot.
Within the city tours, usually held on Wednesdays and Saturdays, we visited Portsmouth, Guildford, Oxford and London. Also, we visited the Windsor Castle which was built 900 years ago, went to the town of Greenwich and had a boat tour on the River Thames. In addition, we went to the town of Fulham and watched a premier league match.

MEETING FOR THE PARENTS OF OUR
1ST GRADE STUDENTS

Teachers of  the Kindergarten and 1st grade students of TED Kayseri College held a meeting for the parents. They were informed about the lessons, techniques and materials that are going to be used in the classrooms.

2010-2011

ENGLISHRECOVERYCOURSESFOR
OURNEWSTUDENTS

Teachers of the English Department of TED Kayseri College organized English recovery courses for the new- coming students. Eight teachers helped 46 students to improve their levels in four different classes. Afterwards an evaluation test was hold to confirm the students’ language development. The parents were invited to school and were informed about the actual state of the students.

Special thanks to both our teachers and students!

      ROMEO and JULIET

      Ted Kayseri College drama club in high school  performanced the play of  William Shakespeare ‘s Romeo and Juliet  after two semesters of painstaking work. 

      Students planned and organised each phase of the play from decor to costume. Soon, got high admiration of the audience.

   THE SECOND ENGLISH FEST
   The second English Fest was held on 9th May 2011 in the school garden. Plenty of students attended the fest with English and German songs, shows like “Celebrity Museum”, “Guess Who”, “Film Review”, “Talent Show”, “Fortune Teller”, “World Cuisine”, and “Magic Show”. We would like to thank all the English teachers, participants and parents for their huge support and active involvement.

                                                           TED KAYSERI COLLEGE 7TH GRADER’S

                                                        NUCLEAR POWER CROSS -FIRE DEBATE

                                                     Held In The TED College Conference Hall

                                                                        On 21st APRIL 2011 At 2p.m.  

          Is Nuclear Power safe??  Well, at the end of April, the School audience enjoyed listening to ten of the best Seventh Grade students presenting their arguements for and against nuclear power in a fierce but well balanced contest in English!       

                                              THE SEVENTH GRADE SPEAKERS IN THE DEBATE   

         Cross-fire questions were then raised at the end by some of the audience who were  brave enough to go up onto the stage to question the speakers and put their own arguements forward.     

                                                                              THE JURY                                                                                                                     

THE JURY: Ali Uyar 7D, Berke Altınışk 7E, Alperen Güpgüpoğlu 7B, 7D, Sila Payas7A , Ayşenur Erciyes 7B, Meral Güpgüpoğlu7B (Chairperson), Bendehan Demir 7C

At the end of the debate a Jury, made up of seven students voted in favour of those students arguing against nuclear power and favouring  alternative sources of energy instead such as wind and solar power.The points awarded by the jury were high for both sets of student speakers.  However the final decision, based on the

Points awarded was really quite close.

                                                THE DRAMA: ‘VILLAGE POWER V NUCLEAR POWER’

THE DRAMA CAST:  Mustafa Zor 7D (Nuclear Power Officer), Atakan Bılen 7D(Muhtar), Emre Iyıgün (TED Express Journalist)7E, Necmettin Alpöz 7C, Mehmet Aslandağ 7C, Furkan Çiftçi 7C, Tayfun Özlok 7A, Tuğçe Mahiroğlu7C ,Kaan Kuşcuoğlu 7E ,Ayşen Yeşil 7C,Gokçe Gürlek 7E,Gamzenur Karagöz 7C,  (The Village

Protestors)

 Before the debate started some of the students performed ‘Village Power’, a drama performance  which told a short story about Turkish villagers, lead by the village  Muktar protesting against the erection of a proposed, nearby  nuclear power station. A nuclear power officer was trying to assure the village that they would be safe but the villagers did not believe him.However at the end of the day, a reporter from Ted Express Newspaper made a report of the complaint from the Muktar and they all agreed to go the Ted College Debate to hear the arguements for and against. 

The order of speeches was as follows:

                                                       For Nuclear Power                                   Against Nuclear Power

1) Opening Speeches:                     Begum Susal 7E                                         Hande Ersaydı 7B

2) Nuclear Power for

    earthquake prone

    countries?:                                   Utku Eser 7C                                             Rana Ulubaş 7C          

3) Nuclear Power

    Is it a clean source

    of energy?:                                   Buse Özer 7B                                              Alperen Günana 7D

4) Wind Power or

    Nuclear Power?:                         Ali Doğüs Temızoy 7A                                Efe Buğra Soyuer 7C

5) Solar Power or

    Nuclear Power?:                        Metehan Eşel 7A                                         Güçle Bıçakcoğlu 7D

                                                            THE PRIZE GIVING CEREMONY

Well Done!! to All those took part in the Debate and congratulations to those students who won the Debate who, in a short ceremony at the end, also  received books from Ümit  as prizes for winning the Debate. Thanks again to Ümit as Director of the Drama Performance and Debate and to Miles Kentish for presenting the Debate.      

New TED School Newspaper in English!

''The first edition of Ted Express is now available. It introduced the Young Ted Journalists with a picture of them on the first page. 

 Other news in the newspaper includes:

A Book review ; tourist news about skiing in Erciyes Mountain;TheRepublic Day celebrations; International news about Paul the predicting octopus and teacher and student news about Mr Kentish the new native english teacher and   exam news.

There is also a crossword puzzle in English!!

Have a good read!!! ''