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GMTV
15 September 2006
GMTV - The popular breakfast show broadcast an interview on Friday 15th September about the The British International School of New York.
interview (mp3)
New York (WCBS NewsRadio 88)
1September 2006
The all-news news station for New York (WCBS NewsRadio 88) broadcast an interview on Friday 1st September about the opening of The British International School of New York.
ThE times – US EDITION
6 JUNE 2006
New Yorkers are bowled over by cricket on the curriculum
by James Bone
New York is finally getting a school where children can play cricket, eat shepherd's pie, and pronounce tomato so that it does not rhyme with potato. Come September, genuine British schoolchildren in natty red-and-grey uniforms will be seen on the streets of Manhattan with the opening of the city's only British school...
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ThE new yorker
29 MAY 2006
Eton on the F.D.R.
In Great Britain this week, schoolchildren are off—free to veg in front of the telly or to terrorise their mums and governesses. Then it’s back to class (“half term” is the occasion for breaking), with lessons in penmanship and geography straight on into July, while their American counterparts are happily running around the back yard with Super Soakers. “We have horrible summers in England,” Lucy Mellors, a London transplant in Manhattan, said the other day. “What would be the point of having the whole summer off for holiday when it rains all the time?”...
Evening standard 7 april 2006
Ever since Harry Potter's first term at Hogwarts, New Yorkers have fallen for the idea of a proper English education. Step forward Elizabeth Perelstein, who's magicked up a British school in Manhatten...
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interview (mp3)
BLOOMberg 9 March 2006
A private school for four- to seven- year-olds offering British-style instruction scheduled to open in Manhattan in September said it will expand to accept older children to meet applicant demand.
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New York parents opt for English education
20 MARCH 2006
by Jon Boone, Education Correspondent
A new school in Manhattan hopes to attract well-heeled residents by teaching according to the English national curriculum.
The school was originally designed to appeal to expatriate Britons who wanted to ensure continuation of study for their offspring in a city where there are currently no international schools offering the English system...
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British school opening in prime real estate
21 February 2006
The British International School plans to open in September in prime real estate along the East River at 23rd Street.
The school has 100 spots for kindergarten through second grade (4 to 7 year-olds) and will be the first school in the New York area with the British National Curriculum, a standard set by the United Kingdom education ministry, according to a statement from the school. The British program will be blended with an International Baccalaureate curriculum designed for primary students.
Google /Yahoo News 21 February 2006
BISNY will combine the British National Curriculum with the International Baccalaureate Primary Years Program as its teaching methodology. Co-founders Elizabeth Perelstein and Andrea Greystoke, two professional educators from New York and London, respectively, were surprised to learn that the British curriculum was not offered in a city as international as New York. "Until now, if New York parents wanted their children to follow the esteemed British National Curriculum, they had no option," noted co-founder Elizabeth Perelstein. "We are excited by the prospect of providing an attractive new educational alternative for discerning New Yorkers."
New York Magazine 20 February 2006
Hogwarts on the Hudson [come on guys, the school's on the East River] ...what kid doesn't want to go to Hogwarts? more