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Dear Colleague,

Student competitions are a fantastic way to get your pupils involved in the COBIS community. To see a full range of the competitions we offer, please click here.

Two of our recently launched competitions include:

1. The Primary Creative Challenge is a fun film-making activity for KS1 and KS2 pupils that involves showing us how you celebrate local or national holidays.
2. The COBIS Young Scientist Film Awards – this popular competition is back for another year. Submissions must be made by Friday 15 April 2016 so plan this into your spring term activities now.

Primary Creative Challenge – deadline in January!

This year’s Primary Creative Challenge, in partnership with Oddizzi, is all about sharing a celebration or festival that is unique to your country!
Re-create the experience of a national holiday, festival, celebration, or significant date in your country and produce a short film with your class (or small group) that documents the experience. To help get you thinking outside the box, here are some festivals and celebrations you could use as inspiration: 

• Thanksgiving (USA)
• La Tomatina (Spain)
• Festival on the Nile (Uganda)
• Chinese New Year (China)
• Ramadan (Dubai)
• Maslenitsa (Russia)
• All Saints’ Day (Mexico).

Categories

• Most authentic experience - KS1 and KS2
• Most creative way to share information - KS1 and KS2 

Click here for the full competition brief and entry form.

The closing date is 15 January 2016. Good luck! 

COBIS Young Scientist Film Awards

COBIS has partnered with the National Physical Laboratory (NPL) in London to create a competitive film challenge to celebrate the diversity and excitement of science. NPL is the UK’s National Measurement Institute with a 114 year history in world class science. 

What are the COBIS Young Scientist Film Awards?

Students at COBIS schools can submit up to 3 short films which describe or demonstrate science correctly in an engaging way.

• With school’s permission, films will be posted on a dedicated COBIS YouTube website
• The first 20 seconds must introduce and describe the participating school
• A submission fee of £150.00 (inc. VAT) will apply to participating schools – this covers all 3 films.

Next Steps:

• Review the 2016 Competition Brief to find out the categories and put essential dates in your diary
• To take part, please complete the Competition Registration Form, which can be found here
• To review last year’s entries, visit here: www.youtube.com/COBISScienceAwards
• Ensure appropriate permission is granted from parents. 

If you have any questions about these or any other COBIS competitions, please email Catriona Lawless at COBIS Head Office on pa@cobis.org.uk.

Regards,

Colin Bell
CEO
Council of British International Schools
55-56 Russell Square 
Bloomsbury
London, WC1B 4HP 
(t) +44 203 826 7190
www.cobis.org.uk 

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