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CELEBRATION OF WORLD MIGRATORY BIRD DAY, 6 MAY 2017 We as the Biology Department, celebrated “World Migratory Bird Day” to raise Prep students’ awareness on birds’ roles in the sustainable environment. The activities organized for the day are united by a common theme: “Their future is our future” in 2017. As we share the same planet with birds, the day highlights the interdependence of people and nature especially migratory birds. The students had a chance to practice with several activities about types of migratory birds, general information about bird migration, migration strategies and hazards in this journey, couples migratory birds’ features pass from Turkey - in particular Erzurum, showing their migration route on the map and bird-watching in the campus. In the light of international mindedness, our students have started to feel themselves as a responsible member of a community and a global citizen. In addition, they developed and demonstrated their attributes of caring, communication, thinking and open-minded, reflective, inquirer personalities in the light of IGCSE & IB DP learner profile. BIOLOGY DEPARTMENT THE CLAPPER 2016 - 2017 67