This year's Young Scientist Film Awards Competition has a much broader brief than in previous years, letting you submit as many scientific experiments as you want on whatever topics or themes inspires your students!

Awards will be given for the "Best Film of an Experiment" in:

• KS1 and KS2
• KS3
• KS4 and KS5

How to Take Part:

• Register at www.cobis.org.uk/scientist
• Make a film (less than 150 seconds) aimed at students the same age as those you are making the film with
• Upload your film to your school's YouTube page and share the link with us
• Check back on 7 May to see if you have won!

The closing date is 31 March 2017.

For more information on the competition, or to register, please go to www.cobis.org.uk/science.

The British School in Tokyo hosted the fourth COBIS Conference for Marketing, Development and Admissions Staff, 27-28 March 2017. The conference was attended by more than 75 delegates, speakers and exhibitors who travelled to Tokyo from nearly 20 different countries including Malaysia, China, Peru, Romania, Denmark and Kazakhstan. COBIS would like to thank the colleagues from The British School in Tokyo who did a tremendous job of organising this event. During the conference, students from The British School in Tokyo worked with Eye Film to create a conference film. Click here to view the final film. To view a copy of the conference programme, please click here.

For 2017, the COBIS Primary Creative Challenge looked at Life Lessons. Students were tasked to tell us, and ask others, what they thought students need to know.

In total, 21 films were submitted with suggestions on what students should know – from making pizza, to always striving to learn, to making friends, to respecting one another – the list goes one with some great, inspiring ideas!

To watch all the films that were submitted, click here to go to the COBIS YouTube Channel, where we have created a playlist of the films.

Well done to all the students who took part and thank you to all the staff and parents who helped them.

Thank you as well to Oddizzi for partnering with COBIS to run the competition and for providing the prizes of a free subscription to Oddizzi.com.

Key Stage One Winners

• Best Film – International School of Moscow
  
• Most Creative Film – Corona School Apapa

Key Stage Two Winners

• Best Film – Transylvania College
• Most Creative Film – International School of Moscow

St Saviour's School, Ikoyi took home the COBIS Champions Cup for an incredible 4th year running with strong performances from debutants Dubai English Speaking School (DESS) (joint second), Children's International School (CIS) (joint second) and Jumeriah English Speaking School (JESS) (third) at the first COBIS Primary Games to be held in the UK.

The Games brought 17 teams from 12 countries to Stantonbury Campus near Milton Keynes for three days of exhilarating action which saw students compete in swimming, athletics and football events. Although the event officially began on Tuesday 10 April, some said the first competition on Monday was to guess which teams were the most jetlagged as teams touched down at Heathrow from as far away as China. This did not affect their performance and on Day 1, students excelled in the swimming pool with some impressive times in the pool by the boys and girls from JESS and DESS who ultimately took home 1st and 2nd place in the overall swimming competition.

It was out of the pool and onto the track and field on Day 2 as the teams took part in sprints, middle-distance running, relay, javelin vortex, long jump and high jump. Both St Saviour's and The British School in The Netherlands showed grit to move up the leaderboard on the day while there were some standout runs from International British School of Bucharest (IBSB) and DESS.

The football pitch at Stantonbury was the venue for the third and final day of the Games and silky skills from the likes of King's College La Moraleja, St Catherine's School Athens, The British School of Paris, International School of Moscow and CIS threatened to put a stop to the dominance of St Saviour's Ikoyi but the Nigerian school showed nerves of steel to come through a number of penalty shootouts in the Boys event to ensure they took the overall title home to Lagos again.

COBIS and our delivery partners, the Griffin Schools Trust, would like to thank the students and staff of all of the participant schools for another enjoyable and exciting COBIS Primary Games. We would also like to thank our VIP athletes who attended and presented medals throughout the games; Joanne Jackson, Joe Roebuck, Nathan Fox and Alistair Patrick-Heselton. Finally, sincere thanks to the officials from Berks & South Bucks County ASA, Milton Keynes Athletics Clubs and MK Dons for their hard work in judging the competition and to our hosts, Stantonbury Arts and Leisure Centre and the Stantonbury Campus.

COBIS would also like to thank all who support the COBIS Games and the competing teams, especially, O'Neills Irish International Sportswear, our Headline Sponsor and all our other sponsors:

We are delighted to announce Gulf Youth Sport as our Media Partner for the 2017 COBIS Games. The GYS team uploaded videos, photos and features to the their website throughout the Games. Check out the GYS website, Facebook, Twitter, and Instagram accounts to see all the fun from the Games.

The full and final results of the COBIS Primary Games are below:

The first COBIS Wellbeing Conference was held at Dubai College, 14-15 April 2017. The conference was attended by more than 40 delegates and exhibitors from the United Arab Emirates, Qatar, China and more.

Speakers included Professor A. C. Grayling from London's New College of the Humanities, Ian Morris from Wellington College, Professor Christian van Nieuwerburgh from the University of East London, and John de Graaf, author of Affluenza: The All-Consuming Epidemic. Delegates discussed topics such as how to teach character and wellbeing, how to reduce stress, mindful parenting strategies, and coaching for wellbeing. Feedback from the conference was extremely positive, with many photos and quotes being posted on Twitter throughout the conference.

COBIS would like to thank colleagues from Dubai College who did a tremendous job of organising this event. To view a copy of the conference programme, please click here.

The COBIS 2017 Student Poetry Competition had the theme of "My Country; How I See It". Students were invited to write a poem on the country they identify with and their perspective on it.

We received 288 entries from 73 schools in total. Well done to all who entered, our judges thoroughly enjoyed reading all your excellent poems!

The winners are listed below; to read their poems, please click on their names.

Category A: 10 yrs and under

Winner: Imogen O'Connor - Jumeirah Primary School

Runner Up: Jason Oghenefejiro Egoh - Start-Rite School

Category B: 11-14 yrs

Winner: Zachary How – The British School of Brussels

Runner Up: Maia Troconis Wetter - British International School of Stockholm

Category C: 15-19 yrs

Winner: Jessica Davies - The British School of Brussels

Runner Up: Lamees Abu Saad – International Community School, Amman

Prizes:

The winning entries will be published in the May 2017 edition of World Student magazine. World Student is a print and digital magazine aimed at students in international schools around the world – and predominantly those studying in COBIS and other British international schools. Published by John Catt Educational, with the support of COBIS, the magazine features a mixture of news and information from COBIS; articles written by students themselves; international school graduates and alumni; teachers and educators. If you have a student who would be interested in contributing to the magazine, please let us know.

Judges:

COBIS would like to thank all who helped judge the poetry competition this year, including teachers at British Embassy School Ankara, Sherborne Qatar, Campion School Athens, The International School of Moscow and Jerudong International School – your help is invaluable and we truly appreciate the time and effort you put into marking the poems.

We would also like to thank the team at John Catt Educational. Once again, the success of the COBIS Poetry Competition is dependent upon the help of external judges so we are very grateful to all involved.

Well done to all who took part in the 2017 COBIS Young Scientist Film Awards. We had 106 great submissions from 36 COBIS schools, with more than 730 people involved. Well done and thank you to all who took part!

To watch all the films, please click here. We hope you enjoy watching the films as much as we did and enjoy reading the comment from a scientist at NPL on each film.

Winning Entries:

The winning entries were awarded for "Best Film of an Experiment"

Key Stage One and Two: St Lawrence College, The British School in Greece - "A Scientific Method for a Scientific Experiment"

Key Stage Three: Jerudong International School - "Which Science Teacher is the Most Dense?"

Key Stage Four and Five: Dubai English Speaking College - "Fire Bubbles"

Special Awards:

These awards have been given by the scientist at NPL, for their stand-out nature.

Key Stage One and Two - Best Multi-Topic Research Film: Prague British School - "Food Preservation"

Key Stage Three - Best Animation: Dubai College - "Saving Energy"

Key Stage Four and Five - Best Technology: Haileybury Almaty - "Paper Skateboard"

Prizes:

BrainPOP are very kindly, offering the winners in the Key Stage 1 and 2, and Key Stage 3 categories a year-long subscription for the whole school.

Thank you to all at NPL who judged the films and all the teachers who supported their students to make them!

Click here for more information.

The 2017 COBIS Student Art Competition had the theme of "Transformations", just like the COBIS Annual Conference 2017. Students were invited to interpret this theme through art, and the final pieces included drawings, painting, sculptures, and more. More than 300 pieces of artwork were received and the results are now in!

We received 333 entries from 72 schools in total. Well done to all who entered - our judges thoroughly enjoyed looking at all of your excellent pieces of art and had a difficult decision to make!

The winners are listed below; to view their artwork, please click on their names.

EYFS Category

Winner: Carola Luis de Torres (The British School of Paris)

KS1 Category

Winner: Oketomi Okusanya (Corona School Ikoyi Lagos)

Second Place: Tanitoluwa Akeju (Corona School Ikoyi Lagos)

KS2 Category

Winner: Amthaul Raiza Rasha (RISE Bangladesh)

KS3 Category

Winner: Laura Zi Ning Noble (The British International School Kuala Lumpur)

Second Place: Christin Yuniar Wulandari (Kolej Tuanku Ja'afar)

Groups Category

Winner: Transylvania College - Animals

Second Place: Park Lane International School - Year 5

Prizes:

The Prizes have been kindly provided by Browns Books for Students, a COBIS Supporting Member.

The winning student from each of the five categories will receive a £25 voucher and the first runner up in each category will receive a £10 voucher.

Judges:

COBIS would like to thank all who helped judge the art competition this year, including teachers at British Embassy School Ankara, International School of Bucharest, British International School of Stavanger, and The International School of Moscow – your help is invaluable and we truly appreciate the time and effort you put into marking the artwork.

Twenty-seven schools from seventeen countries came together to take part in the COBIS Secondary Games, 19-21 May 2017 in Sheffield, UK.

The first day started with a battle in the pool. The fantastic Ponds Forge International Sports Centre was the venue for the swimming competition with the City of Sheffield Swim Squad officials running the exciting gala. After a morning of heats, the finals were electric with Personal Bests being achieved and some speedy swimming! All the results for the swimming can be seen here.

Well done to Dubai College who won the overall Swimming Competition, with British School Al Khubairat in second place, closely followed by Doha College.

The second day dawned bright over the Sheffield Hallam University City Athletics Stadium, although the weather did not hold for long and meant that some students ran in the rain, for the first time ever!

After a full day of track and field events that saw incredible runs, jumps and throws, British School Al Khubairat took the Athletics Cup home, The British School in the Netherlands came in second place with Dubai College a close third.

Full results for the Athletics Competition can be viewed here.

Day three started with a drive to the new FA affiliated site, St George's Park Graves. The students took to the state of the art pitches, ready to compete for those precious Championship Points. A record 236 matches were played over the day, with some fantastic tactics on show and some nerve-wracking penalty shoot-outs.

At the end of the day, in the Girls Competition, King's College, The British School of Alicante were crowned the winners, beating British School Al Khubairat, who came second with King's College, The British School of Murcia in third place.

The Boys Competition had the same line-up for the final as the Girls Competition with King's College, The British School of Alicante taking first place over British School Al Khubairat with King's College, The British School of Madrid (Soto) taking third place.

Full results from the Football Competition can be viewed here.

All of this meant that after three days of intense competition, British School Al Khubairat retained the Champion Cup in 2017. Dubai College came in second place and St Catherine's British School in Athens came in third.

To see the full Championship Table, please click here.

Well done to all who competed over the three days and a big thank you to all the staff and parents who supported in the UK and also back in your home communities.

COBIS Global Social Leaders with Future Foundations

The COBIS Global Social Leaders Competition is new for 2017-2018. Through the competition, COBIS students will be able to develop their understanding of global citizenship and how to turn their ideas into reality.

Each team will decide on a project, which addresses one of the 17 UN Sustainable Development Goals. The team at Future Foundations will provide feedback to all project plans submitted in October to ensure students are delivering high-quality projects in their communities.

Students will then carry out their projects from October 2017 - March 2018 before reflecting on their project and the impact it had.

Eligibility

For 2017, the COBIS Primary Creative Challenge looked at Life Lessons. Students were tasked to tell us, and ask others, what they thought students need to know.

In total, 21 films were submitted with suggestions on what students should know – from making pizza, to always striving to learn, to making friends, to respecting one another – the list goes one with some great, inspiring ideas!

To watch all the films that were submitted, click here to go to the COBIS YouTube Channel, where we have created a playlist of the films.

Well done to all the students who took part and thank you to all the staff and parents who helped them.

Thank you as well to Oddizzi for partnering with COBIS to run the competition and for providing the prizes of a free subscription to Oddizzi.com.

Key Stage One Winners

• Best Film – International School of Moscow
  
• Most Creative Film – Corona School Apapa

Key Stage Two Winners

• Best Film – Transylvania College
• Most Creative Film – International School of Moscow

St Saviour's School, Ikoyi took home the COBIS Champions Cup for an incredible 4th year running with strong performances from debutants Dubai English Speaking School (DESS) (joint second), Children's International School (CIS) (joint second) and Jumeriah English Speaking School (JESS) (third) at the first COBIS Primary Games to be held in the UK.

The Games brought 17 teams from 12 countries to Stantonbury Campus near Milton Keynes for three days of exhilarating action which saw students compete in swimming, athletics and football events. Although the event officially began on Tuesday 10 April, some said the first competition on Monday was to guess which teams were the most jetlagged as teams touched down at Heathrow from as far away as China. This did not affect their performance and on Day 1, students excelled in the swimming pool with some impressive times in the pool by the boys and girls from JESS and DESS who ultimately took home 1st and 2nd place in the overall swimming competition.

It was out of the pool and onto the track and field on Day 2 as the teams took part in sprints, middle-distance running, relay, javelin vortex, long jump and high jump. Both St Saviour's and The British School in The Netherlands showed grit to move up the leaderboard on the day while there were some standout runs from International British School of Bucharest (IBSB) and DESS.

The football pitch at Stantonbury was the venue for the third and final day of the Games and silky skills from the likes of King's College La Moraleja, St Catherine's School Athens, The British School of Paris, International School of Moscow and CIS threatened to put a stop to the dominance of St Saviour's Ikoyi but the Nigerian school showed nerves of steel to come through a number of penalty shootouts in the Boys event to ensure they took the overall title home to Lagos again.

COBIS and our delivery partners, the Griffin Schools Trust, would like to thank the students and staff of all of the participant schools for another enjoyable and exciting COBIS Primary Games. We would also like to thank our VIP athletes who attended and presented medals throughout the games; Joanne Jackson, Joe Roebuck, Nathan Fox and Alistair Patrick-Heselton. Finally, sincere thanks to the officials from Berks & South Bucks County ASA, Milton Keynes Athletics Clubs and MK Dons for their hard work in judging the competition and to our hosts, Stantonbury Arts and Leisure Centre and the Stantonbury Campus.

COBIS would also like to thank all who support the COBIS Games and the competing teams, especially, O'Neills Irish International Sportswear, our Headline Sponsor and all our other sponsors:

We are delighted to announce Gulf Youth Sport as our Media Partner for the 2017 COBIS Games. The GYS team uploaded videos, photos and features to the their website throughout the Games. Check out the GYS website, Facebook, Twitter, and Instagram accounts to see all the fun from the Games.

The full and final results of the COBIS Primary Games are below:

The first COBIS Wellbeing Conference was held at Dubai College, 14-15 April 2017. The conference was attended by more than 40 delegates and exhibitors from the United Arab Emirates, Qatar, China and more.

Speakers included Professor A. C. Grayling from London's New College of the Humanities, Ian Morris from Wellington College, Professor Christian van Nieuwerburgh from the University of East London, and John de Graaf, author of Affluenza: The All-Consuming Epidemic. Delegates discussed topics such as how to teach character and wellbeing, how to reduce stress, mindful parenting strategies, and coaching for wellbeing. Feedback from the conference was extremely positive, with many photos and quotes being posted on Twitter throughout the conference.

COBIS would like to thank colleagues from Dubai College who did a tremendous job of organising this event. To view a copy of the conference programme, please click here.

The COBIS 2017 Student Poetry Competition had the theme of "My Country; How I See It". Students were invited to write a poem on the country they identify with and their perspective on it.

We received 288 entries from 73 schools in total. Well done to all who entered, our judges thoroughly enjoyed reading all your excellent poems!

The winners are listed below; to read their poems, please click on their names.

Category A: 10 yrs and under

Winner: Imogen O'Connor - Jumeirah Primary School

Runner Up: Jason Oghenefejiro Egoh - Start-Rite School

Category B: 11-14 yrs

Winner: Zachary How – The British School of Brussels

Runner Up: Maia Troconis Wetter - British International School of Stockholm

Category C: 15-19 yrs

Winner: Jessica Davies - The British School of Brussels

Runner Up: Lamees Abu Saad – International Community School, Amman

Prizes:

The winning entries will be published in the May 2017 edition of World Student magazine. World Student is a print and digital magazine aimed at students in international schools around the world – and predominantly those studying in COBIS and other British international schools. Published by John Catt Educational, with the support of COBIS, the magazine features a mixture of news and information from COBIS; articles written by students themselves; international school graduates and alumni; teachers and educators. If you have a student who would be interested in contributing to the magazine, please let us know.

Judges:

COBIS would like to thank all who helped judge the poetry competition this year, including teachers at British Embassy School Ankara, Sherborne Qatar, Campion School Athens, The International School of Moscow and Jerudong International School – your help is invaluable and we truly appreciate the time and effort you put into marking the poems.

We would also like to thank the team at John Catt Educational. Once again, the success of the COBIS Poetry Competition is dependent upon the help of external judges so we are very grateful to all involved.

Well done to all who took part in the 2017 COBIS Young Scientist Film Awards. We had 106 great submissions from 36 COBIS schools, with more than 730 people involved. Well done and thank you to all who took part!

To watch all the films, please click here. We hope you enjoy watching the films as much as we did and enjoy reading the comment from a scientist at NPL on each film.

Winning Entries:

The winning entries were awarded for "Best Film of an Experiment"

Key Stage One and Two: St Lawrence College, The British School in Greece - "A Scientific Method for a Scientific Experiment"

Key Stage Three: Jerudong International School - "Which Science Teacher is the Most Dense?"

Key Stage Four and Five: Dubai English Speaking College - "Fire Bubbles"

Special Awards:

These awards have been given by the scientist at NPL, for their stand-out nature.

Key Stage One and Two - Best Multi-Topic Research Film: Prague British School - "Food Preservation"

Key Stage Three - Best Animation: Dubai College - "Saving Energy"

Key Stage Four and Five - Best Technology: Haileybury Almaty - "Paper Skateboard"

Prizes:

BrainPOP are very kindly, offering the winners in the Key Stage 1 and 2, and Key Stage 3 categories a year-long subscription for the whole school.

Thank you to all at NPL who judged the films and all the teachers who supported their students to make them!

Click here for more information.

The 2017 COBIS Student Art Competition had the theme of "Transformations", just like the COBIS Annual Conference 2017. Students were invited to interpret this theme through art, and the final pieces included drawings, painting, sculptures, and more. More than 300 pieces of artwork were received and the results are now in!

We received 333 entries from 72 schools in total. Well done to all who entered - our judges thoroughly enjoyed looking at all of your excellent pieces of art and had a difficult decision to make!

The winners are listed below; to view their artwork, please click on their names.

EYFS Category

Winner: Carola Luis de Torres (The British School of Paris)

KS1 Category

Winner: Oketomi Okusanya (Corona School Ikoyi Lagos)

Second Place: Tanitoluwa Akeju (Corona School Ikoyi Lagos)

KS2 Category

Winner: Amthaul Raiza Rasha (RISE Bangladesh)

KS3 Category

Winner: Laura Zi Ning Noble (The British International School Kuala Lumpur)

Second Place: Christin Yuniar Wulandari (Kolej Tuanku Ja'afar)

Groups Category

Winner: Transylvania College - Animals

Second Place: Park Lane International School - Year 5

Prizes:

The Prizes have been kindly provided by Browns Books for Students, a COBIS Supporting Member.

The winning student from each of the five categories will receive a £25 voucher and the first runner up in each category will receive a £10 voucher.

Judges:

COBIS would like to thank all who helped judge the art competition this year, including teachers at British Embassy School Ankara, International School of Bucharest, British International School of Stavanger, and The International School of Moscow – your help is invaluable and we truly appreciate the time and effort you put into marking the artwork.

Twenty-seven schools from seventeen countries came together to take part in the COBIS Secondary Games, 19-21 May 2017 in Sheffield, UK.

The first day started with a battle in the pool. The fantastic Ponds Forge International Sports Centre was the venue for the swimming competition with the City of Sheffield Swim Squad officials running the exciting gala. After a morning of heats, the finals were electric with Personal Bests being achieved and some speedy swimming! All the results for the swimming can be seen here.

Well done to Dubai College who won the overall Swimming Competition, with British School Al Khubairat in second place, closely followed by Doha College.

The second day dawned bright over the Sheffield Hallam University City Athletics Stadium, although the weather did not hold for long and meant that some students ran in the rain, for the first time ever!

After a full day of track and field events that saw incredible runs, jumps and throws, British School Al Khubairat took the Athletics Cup home, The British School in the Netherlands came in second place with Dubai College a close third.

Full results for the Athletics Competition can be viewed here.

Day three started with a drive to the new FA affiliated site, St George's Park Graves. The students took to the state of the art pitches, ready to compete for those precious Championship Points. A record 236 matches were played over the day, with some fantastic tactics on show and some nerve-wracking penalty shoot-outs.

At the end of the day, in the Girls Competition, King's College, The British School of Alicante were crowned the winners, beating British School Al Khubairat, who came second with King's College, The British School of Murcia in third place.

The Boys Competition had the same line-up for the final as the Girls Competition with King's College, The British School of Alicante taking first place over British School Al Khubairat with King's College, The British School of Madrid (Soto) taking third place.

Full results from the Football Competition can be viewed here.

All of this meant that after three days of intense competition, British School Al Khubairat retained the Champion Cup in 2017. Dubai College came in second place and St Catherine's British School in Athens came in third.

To see the full Championship Table, please click here.

Well done to all who competed over the three days and a big thank you to all the staff and parents who supported in the UK and also back in your home communities.