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Our youngest students enjoy their ASA workshops, where they can choose between psychomotricity, arts, dance, football, basketball, volleyball, swimming, and karate and we are very happy with their work.

In Term 4 our Pre Primary parents will be invited to participate in a shared class with their children to enjoy and see their progress and all their work during this year.

In Creative Arts classes our Grade 2 students have been working on the World Cultures inquiry unit and they came to the art room very excited with lots of information to share.

We decided to work on Peruvian culture and we chose one of their favourite themes, the huacos. We could see that there are different types of huacos, with different types of designs, with a variety of elements characteristic of each culture, as well as the use of different colours. We would like to share with all of you the process of their work since they feel very proud of the results obtained.

From July 8th to 29th, 22 of our students and 2 HB teachers travelled to England to participate in the Independent Schools Cultural Alliance – ISCA 2023 summer programme. This programme hosts more than 150 students from schools in Argentina, Brazil, USA, Uruguay, and Peru. This year our students were hosted at the Cranleigh College facilities in the district of Surrey, 72 km. south of London.

By participating in this programme, each student learns about British history and culture; the program includes visits to the best places in the south of England such as Historic Destinations: Stonehenge, Roman Baths, Arundel Castle, Tower of London, HMS Victory, Houses of Parliament; Cultural Destinations: Buckingham Palace, St Paul’s Cathedral, Westminster Abbey, River Thames, Shakespeare’s Birthplace, Stratford-upon-Avon, Shakespeare’s Globe Theatre; Modern Destinations: London Eye, Science Museum, see a West End Show.

In addition, they participated in typical English sports activities where they learned new techniques and even participated in new sports that are not popular in our region.

Some of the most important learning experiences take place outside the classroom! A field trip is much more than just a field trip, it is an enriching educational experience that offers our students unique opportunities to learn outside the four walls of a classroom.

During the four days experienced (from June 5th to 8th) during our MYP study trips our students from Grade 6 to Grade 9 had the opportunity to learn through direct experience, an immersion in the real world that allowed them to better understand learning concepts.

The trips also exposed them to different traditions and ways of living, fostering intercultural understanding and tolerance. In addition, spending time with their classmates in an environment other than school has allowed them to get to know each other better, establish new friendships, and strengthen existing ties.

In summary, going on this adventure together has made memories that will last forever.

As part of the exploration of aquatic activities, with the central idea of exercising skills and abilities to overcome challenges independently and collaboratively, our Grade 2 students experienced scuba diving in our pool, as part of their swimming classes, with the guidance of Mr. Michael Epstein, Manager, and Instructor of the "Pacific Divers” Diving School, who is also the father of our students Ethan and Liam Epstein. It was a challenging, rewarding, and enjoyable experience for our students. Thank you so much to everyone who made this session possible!

Likewise, continuing with the development of our autonomous unit "Physical activities help us understand that there is an interrelationship between the body systems that contribute to physical and emotional health", our Grade 4 students have carried out exercise routines that allowed them to perceive the muscular tension of some specific muscle groups, main bones, and joints that they had to identify in their worksheet. They have identified the locomotor apparatus; they have connected the execution of exercise routines and recreational activities with their cardiovascular system by recognizing the alteration of their heart rate according to the intensity with which they carry out these activities.

On Friday, June 23rd, the ACUSTICAS evening was held, organized by our Grade 11 students - promotion 34. The purpose of this event is to raise funds to improve the infrastructure of the I.E.P. Victor Raul Haya De la Torre located in Cieneguilla. We had 9 very talented artists, including some HB alumni, Gonzalo Calmet, Micaela Ferreira & Andrea Perez as well as 2 bands that delighted us and made us have an unforgettable night. Our theatre was full!

We would like to thank our HB Community for their assistance and support. Stay tuned to our Instagram account: https://www.instagram.com/acusticas_hb/ where we will be sharing more images about this beautiful project.

With great joy and excitement, we want to tell you that our school has acquired 8 rims 24 mountain bikes for our PE Classes. Our Grade 3 students are developing their knowledge in the cycling discipline, while our Grade 4 and Grade 5 students are developing their skills in the triathlon. This type of learning experience allows us to reinforce their basic motor skills of stabilization and manipulation; as well as, develop their physical condition, by experiencing vigorous physical activity, at the same time we prepare them for the use of the bicycle as an ecological means of transport.

Our Head Students, Alejandra & Santiago, have prepared a short video about Senior School’s Pastoral Care activities:

Our swimming pool, after extensive remodelling, was inaugurated on Friday, March 3rd with our special guest – Olympic Swimming Medalist – María del Rosario “Choco” De Vivanco Roca, who recounted her experiences representing Peru in the Olympic games; In addition, we were delighted with a demonstration of different swimming styles by our, now, HB alumni Carlos “Cali” Flores, who has won a swimming scholarship to study in the USA. The event finalised with a relay competition between the 4 houses and a fifth team of our staff. Eckford won and the teachers came second.

Our congratulations to our 7 students from Prom 2022, who achieved 40 or more points in the IB Diploma exams. These results place them amongst the highest-scoring students in the world.

Our congratulations to our students from Grade 9, 2022, who were awarded very pleasing marks by the IB for their personal projects. The chart shows the historical evolution of the results in our school.

Congratulations to all our senior students who achieved very good results in their FCE examinations at the end of 2022..

On Friday, October 21st, the Presentation of the Personal Projects of 2022 took place with our MYP Grade 9 students. This event represents the closure of their passage through the MYP. The presentations allowed us to share with the entire HB Community the work done during a year of research and preparation.

This event consists of two stages: first, the presentations of each of our Grade 9 students in the theatre, and second, consists of a panel fair where our exhibitors show their projects and/or products and present them to the rest of the student body, HB staff and parents.

During this process, our students have developed their learning skills which have been reflected during their presentations, these being of high quality and supported with evidence of the process followed. This closes the Middle Years Program (MYP) and prepares them to successfully undertake their passage through the Diploma program.

Please visit the 2022 Personal Project web here:
https://sites.google.com/hirambingham.pe/hbmyppersonalproject2022/introduction We would like to congratulate our Grade 9 students who have shown us that they have developed the attributes of the HB Profile, in addition to demonstrating their commitment and dedication in each of their presentations and information panels.

Workshops organized by Pastoral Care and carried out by TiempoAfuera were held during the third bimester, aimed at all our students from Grade 6 to Grade 10. Topics such as the importance of respect and empathy in our interpersonal relationships were worked on, as well as anxiety management.

Likewise, Fundación MAPFRE from Spain gave talks on how to promote safe and healthy habits in relation to the appropriate use of technology.

Finally, our Senior Psychopedagogical Department has been conducting a series of workshops about sexuality, which will conclude during the fourth bimester.

All these actions are the result of the sum of efforts to promote the well-being of emotional health in our students and provide them with spaces for dialogue to face situations typical of physical and mental development during adolescence.

We would like to thank all our senior school students who participated with great enthusiasm in each of the workshops and talks.

As part of our "Book Week" celebration, our Pre-Primary students experienced the attributes and attitudes of our HB Profile through different activities such as: Cookie bookie, Book walk, Choice board and a fun costume parade.

The motto of this Book Week edition, “Today a reader, tomorrow a great leader”, was enthusiastically reflected by each member of the HB Community. It was amazing to see how our Kindergarten, Pre Kinder and Upper Nursery students enjoyed different ways of listening to a story and reading it.

We would like to thank all Pre Primary families for their support and for continuing to encourage reading at home.  We would like to share with all of you some videos where we have summarized the activities carried out during this week:

We are proud that once again, the Pontificia Universidad Católica del Perú - PUCP has awarded us the 2022 Academic Excellence Award for the high performance of our alumni at this house of studies.This award was presented at a special ceremony for the award-winning schools. In the photo, Ms. Elena Vizurraga, our Peruvian and Studies Director, Carlos Garatea, PUCP Rector, and Cristina Del Mastro, PUCP Academic Vice-Rector.

From July 30th to August 14th, 13 HB students travelled to London to participate in the British English Olympics (BEO) competition programme representing Hiram Bingham and Peru.

More than 35 schools from different countries of the world participated in this competition. Our students demonstrated the skills acquired throughout their years of study at HB in different competitions such as a cappella, debate, theatre, and research, among others; managing to reach the semifinals. In addition, they had the opportunity to visit many tourist places in The UK such as Big Ben, Oxford University, the London Eye, and some locations where Harry Potter was filmed, among many others.

We want to highlight the participation of Alejandra Domínguez, Almudena Paredes, Elizabeth Fairlie, Fabrizio Chappuis, Francesca Fairlie, Kiana Sakuma, Lucía Guerrero, Mía Ruiz, Nicholas Cheng, Rodrigo Muñoz, Romina Mares, Samantha Hopkins, and Valentina Pérez; and congratulate them for their outstanding participation and their commitment to the long preparation process, which was affected by the COVID 19 pandemic, and also for having represented our school by demonstrating the attributes of the HB Profile acquired. We are very proud of you!

A few weeks ago we received the invitation to participate in the BSP Dance Extravaganza, which was held virtually.

Our Grade 3 students were chosen to represent HB, thanks to their skills and good rhythm, they prepared the Anaconda Dance, managing to return to a stage after almost 3 years.
After two years of virtual classes, it was a challenge for our Dance teacher, Milagritos Duarte, to prepare the choreography in record time, but at the same time, it has been very satisfying to see that our students express their emotions and feelings through dance and demonstrate their enthusiasm and commitment in each session.

On April 27th, Pre-Primary and Primary participated in the Parents-Teacher Virtual Conference, Three-Way Conference & Student-Led Conference in the school.

Through these conferences we were able to observe how our students assumed the responsibility to report their progress to their parents, evidencing communication and leadership skills that helped to collaboratively set goals for their future learning. Our thanks to the HB families for such high attendance levels.

Our Grade 11 students: Alonso Ortiz, David Mogrovejo, Fabiano Ugolotti, Francisco Wong, Karim Ahomed, and Nicolás Ferro, as part of their CAS Project, developed 4 short documentaries with the aim of informing our entire HB community about different problems, which little is known, but which are highly relevant today.
The titles are as follows:

In the following link, you can find these four films:https://tawacoalicion.github.io/tawacoalicion/
We hope you like it and have fun learning about these topics!

At Hiram Bingham, we follow the professional path of our former students and celebrate their accomplishments.

In this issue, we would like to congratulate our HB Alumni, Rodrigo Chaparro (Prom 2020) for making the Dean’s List at the University Of New Haven (US) for the fall 2021 semester.
The Dean’s List recognizes academic achievement within a single semester. To be eligible for the Dean’s List, a full-time student must be in good academic standing and receive a term grade point average of 3.50 or higher.

Rodrigo is working on a Bachelor of Science degree in Mechanical Engineering in the Tagliatela College of Engineering at the University of New Haven.
The University of New Haven, founded on the Yale University campus in 1920, is a private, coeducational university situated on the coast of southern New England. It is a comprehensive, diverse, and vibrant community of more than 6,800 undergraduate and graduate students on campuses in West Haven and Orange, Connecticut, and Tuscany, Italy.

- 10 Reasons Why the IB Diploma Programme is ideal preparation for University (PDF)

As mentioned in our previous communications, after having carried out independent evaluation processes of each of our programmes over the past twenty years, we are preparing to take on a new challenge, our first continuous evaluation of the three IB programmes. This is a unique experience that no other school in Peru has done yet. We pride ourselves on always staying at the forefront with over twenty years of experience offering the continuum of International Baccalaureate programmes and being a benchmark for IB schools internationally.

Over the years we have hosted international IB workshops several times and we are proud to have three people on our staff who are IB educators of international level: Ms Janet Valdez, PYP workshop facilitator and leader of IB school evaluations. Ms Martha Marengo Diploma workshop facilitator, school consultant, IB local representative, leader of IB school evaluations and former president of the Peruvian IB Association of Schools. And, Ms Elena Vizurraga, PYP and Leadership workshop facilitator, school consultant, leader of IB school evaluations, IB local representative, a former member of the IB Americas Regional Council and global trainer of new workshop facilitators and leader of IB school evaluations around the world, preparing the new leaders of the three programmes for Latin America, North America, Europe, Japan, South Korea, among other countries in Asia and Africa.

In the Diploma programme, which is assessed through internal assignments and international examinations, it is very important to have staff qualified by the IB to be official examiners for the different components. Thus, we have the following examiners: Ms. Vanessa Andrade, Visual Arts examiner, Ms. Norka Flores, Spanish Language and Literature examiner, Mr. Abhishek Kumar, Business Management examiner, Ms. Michelle Jahnsen, Environmental Systems examiner and Societies, Mr. Javier Márquez, Physics examiner and Ms. Carla Caso, French examiner B.

Additionally, all of our staff have official IB certified training, which ensures effective implementation of IB programmes.
And remember:
The continuum of IB programs is designed to develop well-rounded human beings, who can respond to the challenges of today with optimism and an open mind. It enables building resilient and self-motivated people who have the knowledge, skills, and sense of purpose they need to be successful in their lives and contribute to making the world a better place for everyone.

iGEM stands for International Genetically Engineered Machine, and it is an organization that promotes the use of synthetic biology to help solve real-world problems.  The 2021 iGEM season came to a close with another virtual competition, “Giant Jamboree,” from November 4-14. 

We are so proud of our joint high school team (Colegio Franklin Delano Roosevelt and Hiram Bingham School) for achieving the bronze medal status and their superb dedication in yet another pandemic year.

For a more in-depth look at our project, you can check out our presentation video:
Chococadmium: Tackling cadmium contamination in the Peruvian cacao industry

The expectation is that next year the Giant Jamboree, the culmination of the iGEM season competition, will be in-person instead of virtual.  We are all looking forward to the possibility of meeting up with our fellow iGEM scientists in Paris, in November of 2022!

We were delighted to be able to have a complete graduation ceremony for all our Grade 11 on December 10th.

In accordance with the current health regulations, this took place outside, in the school patios.

Our Grade 9 students recently completed their Personal Projects as the final part of the MYP International Baccalaureate programme. Their projects covered an extraordinary range of topics from emotional intelligence to make a gluten-free bakery business; from the dangers of video games to present-day feminism; from adolescent self-esteem to the Hungarian Revolution of 1956. Many of them were also of very high quality, reflecting lots of investigation, originality, and very hard work.

You can access them at the following link:
https://sites.google.com/hirambingham.pe/hb-myp-personal-project-2021

When you enter the site, click on the tabs called Global Context on the top right - please note there are six different ones and our students have completed projects in all of the areas. To see the details of any particular project, click on the photo of the student.

On November 3rd, 2021 the ADCA Arts inauguration was held, in which Hiram Bingham participated along with 10 other schools. 50 students from Upper Nursery to Grade 11 represented HB.

We are so proud of this small sample of our students’ work and are very sure that we have achieved our goals this year, as well as that our students have been able to learn and enjoy their visual arts classes showing their skills. You can enjoy the exhibition by entering the following link:
https://sites.google.com/amersol.edu.pe/adca-2021/home

Our students in Grade 3 are creative inquirers and show their enthusiasm and empathy every Friday during their Tutorial morning sessions. Many children volunteer to take part in the activities to demonstrate or teach something to their friends. Last Friday they made pizza, made an origami craft, folded characters with paper, and learned how to create a question game.

Not only did they enjoy the activity and the friendly environment but also, they were empowered and had the opportunity to develop their approaches to learning skills. If there is something that the pandemic can’t do, it is to stop them from learning.

We are very happy to inform you all that our new student leaders for the period from August 2021 to July 2022, have been chosen. We wish them every success in their new roles.

You can see them here:
https://www.hirambingham.edu.pe/files/Representantes_Estudiantiles_2021_2022.pdf

Our Grade 5 monitors have been organizing recreational activities for their grade peers. This initiative was made in response to their request to have a moment to socialize and carry out activities which were chosen by all and outside of an academic context.

Felipe, Nicolás, Sofía and Frida, our Monitors, met on several occasions with Ms. Cinthya Estremadoyro to share their ideas and the organization of the events. They took for example the idea of collecting the suggestions before and after the experience from their colleagues using Google Format.

These suggestions provided by the students helped them organize four activities in parallel, where each monitor led them. We are very happy with the results because, through these activities we see how our students have used their self-management, social, communication and research skills to put this experience into action. Congratulations not only to Frida Cabieses, Sofía Ochoa, Felipe Maguiña and Nicolás León for their initiative, commitment, and leadership, but also to all grade 5 students for participating actively in these sessions.

As part of the Vocational Guidance Programme, our Psychopedagogical Department organized our Vocational Day on Friday, June 18th for our Grade 10 and Grade 11 students. Throughout the day, our students participated in motivational talks and then had the presence of former students from various professions who shared their experiences.

In addition, informative talks were also scheduled with representatives of the Peruvian universities chosen by our students.

In these talks, the representatives of the universities made an institutional presentation and then focused on the admission processes, with an emphasis on the International Baccalaureate admission modality. At the end, they answered questions from the audience.

We also had the opportunity to learn about two programs in which our students can enter international universities, but will take their first years of study in our country. These options are important to consider since many of our parents had expressed their concern about sending their children abroad given the current situation.

Three of our secondary students, Luciano Aguirre, Renato Chaparro & Gaetano Bracale, have made an amazing model of our school using “Minecraft”.

This video shows the incredible detail of their work and how much we all miss HB! See the video here:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JDgUo3M9G_k

On Tuesday, October 20th, Hiram Bingham was proud to host the first-ever virtual During the last few weeks our Senior School students from Grade 6 to Grade 11 attended TiempoAfuera workshops during tutor periods organized by our Pastoral Care Team.

Our main goal was to provide them with the opportunity of addressing topics connected to mental health such as how to deal with stress, anxiety and uncertainty in the current context and how to control our emotions. This can open up spaces at home within the family environment to discuss any further doubts about these topics.

Our Grade 4 students are learning the importance of developing their self-management skills in all aspects of life, especially personal and academic. They all know that self-management is the ability to set goals, manage their time and organise themselves effectively as well as being able to self-reflect and manage their emotions.

In order to deepen their understanding, they have been working in groups, making agreements and proposing examples or situations when they show emotional management, perseverance, self-motivation, resilience and how they can establish goals for short or long terms, and use their time efficiently (especially when they have to present an assignment in an established deadline).

In November, our iGEM Team (FDR-HB Peru) made up of students from Roosevelt College and HB participated in the Virtual Jamboree. The Jamboree is the event that marks the end of an iGEM season. During this event, teams gather to show the work they did during the season. This event is usually held in person but this year it became an online event because of the pandemic. The iGEM competition hosts teams from all over the world who are using synthetic biology to attempt to solve real problems.

Our project consisted of detecting cadmium levels in fishmeal; we do this using synthetic biology. This year has been particularly hard since we did not have access to our lab. However, this has not stopped us from making progress. We were able to educate hundreds of people about science and get everything ready for when we can go back to the lab.

To learn more about our accomplishments this year, we invite you to check out any of the following links:

• You can watch our promotion video, which explains our project: FDR-HB_Peru: Fishing for Cadmium (2020) – Project Promotion Video [Spanish]

• As part of the competition, we also created a video presenting our project to the judges, which can be accessed at the following link: FDR-HB_Peru: Fishing for Cadmium (2020) – Team Presentation [English]

• We also have a team website, called our Wiki: https://2020.igem.org/Team:FDR-HB_Peru, which shows all of the work that we did as an iGEM team this year.

• Lastly, we created a poster for the competition to summarize our work visually: https://2020.igem.org/Team:FDR-HB_Peru/Poster

During the Jamboree a team of judges looks at all of the content we presented above to evaluate whether or not we have met the criteria for the different awards (bronze, silver, or gold levels) given by the iGEM organization.  We also had a 25minute Q&A session with the judges via zoom where we answered questions regarding our work – both what we accomplished and what we plan for next year.

Last year we were proud to attain bronze level.  Despite the difficulties with the pandemic, we earned a silver medal for our work this year!

On Tuesday, October 20th, Hiram Bingham was proud to host the first-ever virtual MYP Personal Project Exhibition. After nearly a year of hard work, our Grade 9 students presented their projects to their families and our HB Community. In their presentations, our students had the opportunity to share their successes and challenges, reflect on their personal growth, and talk about how they overcome the difficulties of doing a Personal Project in the COVID pandemic. Students presented their projects via Meet to their families and the HB community and created a website to share their achievements.

Our annual Grade 5 PYP Exhibition is the final Primary project before students move to Senior School; this project encourages them to take action as global citizens.

This year`s presentations took place virtually for the first time, and our students did an amazing job showcasing their tremendous effort and learning.

In July our teachers made a special video for all our students:

As part of our activities for the 40th Anniversary, we asked our alumni for any comments they might have looking back on their time as students at our school. We were amazed by how many responded and from a wide range of promotions. A selection of responses can be seen here:
https://padlet.com/carrie_rabel2/b375pom6jkjvyb94

Evaluación formativa para Pre Primaria y Primaria Formative assessment In Pre Primary & Primary The goal of formative assessment is to monitor student learning by providing ongoing feedback throughout the term. This has a two-fold purpose in that it can be used by teachers to improve their teaching and also by students in order to improve their learning.

More specifically, formative assessments:

• Help students identify their strengths and weaknesses and target areas that they need to work on.

• Help students recognize where students are struggling and address problems.

Examples of formative assessments include asking students to:

• Draw a concept map in class to represent their understanding of a topic.

• Submit one or two sentences identifying the main point of a lecture.

• Turn in a research proposal for early feedback.

A message from our teachers to the students sent on April 17th

Here you will find the list of platforms that are being used, some from the first term and others that children will start using in the second term:

- Starfall (G1).

- Padlet.

- Drive.

- Seesaw (Communication platform between students, teachers and parents, used to assign activities and upload evidence – New G1 and G2).

- Google Classroom (Communication platform between students and teachers. It is used to assign activities and upload evidence – G3, G4, G5).

- Bug Club (Platform that develops our Balanced literacy program. English- New from G1 to G5).

- Mathletics (Platform that develops logical-mathematical skills - from G1 to G5).

- A to Z (Platform to develop the reading plan in Spanish. New from G1 to G5).

Our Senior school students punctually attended each one of their Classrooms and remained participatory and very collaborative in this new classroom environment. In their virtual classes, they have been able to interact in real-time with their teachers, listen to their explanations, ask questions, and answer the different activities proposed.

As parents, we ask for your support by:

- Reminding your child that they need to register punctually with their tutors every morning (Registration 7:50 – 8:00) and register in every class, including independent study time.

- Staying attentive to the time that your children dedicated to virtual work, remember that they need to turn in evidence of their work to the teacher.

- If they are having problems with the technology, they (or yourselves) should contact the teacher immediately.

- Remember that tutors and psychologists are available during the school day whether you or your child have any concerns about their progress.

- Checking your Sianet for messages from teachers (check junk mail, sometimes the notifications get sent there.).

- If your child is sick and you think she/he will not be able to normally attend classes, please write to the tutors in order to justify the situation.

On Wednesday, November 13th our Grade 5 students presented their PYP Exhibition. In the final year of the PYP programme students work on an extended, in –depth and collaborative Project.
This Project involves students looking into real life issues or problems. During this process students have the opportunity to synthesise all of the essential elements of the PYP in ways that can be shared with the whole school community.
Some of the problems that guided their inquiry were topics such as Animals in danger of extinction, Inequality, Migrations, Corruption, Pollution, Animal abuse, Malnutrition and School Desertion.
We would like to say a big thank you to all the people and students who were involved in this process. A special thanks goes to the PYP Mentors 2019 and Grade 5 tutors Xiomara Claudio, Cristina Gallegos, Susana Reátegui, Rocío Ballón, Katherine Meza, Lorena Bravo, Patricia García, Jennifer Barrera, Kim Solomon, Rosalyn Perez, Milagritos Osorio and Karen Murakami.

These initials stand for “International Genetically Engineered Machine Competition”, which is basically an organisation focused on synthetic biology. https://www.igem.org/Main_Page
One of their major activities is to promote competition and learning between students from around the world in this scientific area. This years competition recently took place in Boston and Hiram Bingham participated with 7 Grade 9 students: Ana Lucía Campos, Thiago Aguirre, Diego De Vivero, Fernanda Llanos, Miski Ñopo, Alessandra Rebagliati & Camila Shimabukuro and our Science teacher Claudia Muñoz.

Our students entered into a partnership with Roosevelt school for this competition and were the only school team from Latin America. They have been preparing for this event for over a year with many hours of after school work and their results were excellent with a bronze level medal and special prizes for “Best integrated human practices” and “best education and public engagement”. Over 350 teams (70+ from schools) from around the world participated and so our students and Claudia deserves special congratulations for this excellent work. We would like to invite you to visit our team FDR-HB_PERU web: https://igemfdr.wixsite.com/fishingforcadmium

Well done!

Our Grade 1 students worked on their Unit of Inquiry: Who we are. In this unit we discovered about our abilities, talents and capacities and how to overcome certain difficult situations and to do amazing things.

As part of our learning process we received the visit of two para athletes members of the NGO “Bend but not broken”, Mr. Jorge Beltrán and Mr. Ysabelino Apaza. This organization works with disabled sportsmen and women. Jorge and Ysabelino are both confined to wheelchairs and shared with our students how they play adapted tennis. They even gave some learners the chance to experience playing tennis in a wheelchair. It was a very meaningful moment which helped our learners to develop a deeper understanding of the challenges some people face and the great courage they have to overcome them.

At the end of last bimester various ADCA Championships came to their conclusion and our teams did extremely well. Hiram Bingham obtained the silver medal in basketball in girls «juveniles», the gold medal in basketball in boys «juveniles» and in volleyball the gold medal in girls «medianas». These results are a consequence of lots of preparation, effort and commitment and all the students and trainers deserve our congratulations. It is particularly worth noting that in all of these teams we have various students participating who belong to a younger age category, which makes the results all the more praiseworthy. It is also pleasing to see us winning in volleyball after various «lean» years. Well done everyone!

During this bimester our students have been involved in various artistic events, which have involved a lot of preparation, commitment and effort. We have presented two drama productions, The Pied Piper of Hamelin and The Blood Bond (as part of the Drama Festival of the British Schools of Peru). We also hosted the ADCA schools Art Exhibition at which various of our artists exhibited their work. Finally, this week our Grade 4 students represented us at the annual ADCA Dance festival.
I would like to thank and congratulate all of the students and their teachers, for representing the school so well. Very well done!

A fun and entertaining day full of learning experiences was the description given by the students who participated at the BSP Book Look Challenge event held at Hiram Bingham premises last Wednesday 11th.
Grade 5 BSP students had to solve tasks after reading some books in advance. There was writing about reading, drama, song performances, and an art activity. It was a successful celebration of reading and friendship.

Congratulations to our student Luciano Aguirre (Grade 9) who was one of only two violinists from Peru who were selected to form the group of 90 students from 27 different countries. These young musicians joined together to form an orchestra and they rehearsed for one week before their presentation in Cancun in early May.

You can see more at this video HERE.

From May 16th to 26th, our HB MUN team traveled to Italy to participate in the "Montessori Model United Nations" conference, at the Upper Elementary Level, held in the city of Rome. To complement the days of the conference, our delegates learnt about the history, art and traditions of the cities of Florence, Venice, Rome and The Vatican.

It is very important to mention that the students who participated had a very rigorous preparation process since November of last year, researching about the politics and culture of the different countries. This year, we represented the delegations of Germany, China and the United States of America in the following committees: DISEC, SOCHUM, ECOFIN, Security Council, FAO and SPECPOL.

We would like to congratulate our students for accepting this challenge with such responsibility, because it was not only about organizing their schedules to complete all the school work and organizing their time to prepare all the documents for the conference. It was also about preparing themselves for the study trips in Peru after this trip. We know all the effort that this has required and we thank you for representing so well, not only Hiram Bingham, but also Peru.

Congratulations to our sixth grade students: Alexia Velarde, Romina Mares, Alejandra Pancorvo, Marisol Torres, Luciana Rodriguez, Fabiana Avila, Zoe Quiñones, Kamila Vilcapoma, Rodrigo Muñoz and Lorenzo Giuffra. To our seventh grade students: Nicholas Cheng, Santiago Ochoa, Kenzo Ito, Miguel González, Giorgio Martins, Joaquín Palacios, Mariano Camacho, Micaela Llerena, Ana Lucía Fiestas and Alejandra Domínguez. Finally, many thanks to our teachers who accompanied the children in their preparation process and during the trip: Elena Vizurraga, Cristina Gallegos and Rosalyn Pérez.