We read the book ‘The Plight of the Orangutan’ by Mikayl Harchandani a few weeks ago. This book sparked so much interest in our students that we decided to do an entire project on it. Please watch our Orangutan Assembly […]
Last week was literacy week here in school and we had lots of scheduled events to make it fun and interesting for the students as well as to advance their language skills and ideas. We did several activities in a […]
After our amazing experience in Marbella the ISBe Lions boys team was eager to confirm their great performance at the next big tournament. With teams coming from all over Europe and the Lions competing for the first time in an […]
Last week was literacy week and there were numerous activities taking place across the school. Students could submit photos of themselves – READING IN AN UNUSUAL PLACE. There was a very interesting collection but also a few outstanding ones: […]
The students in primary are enjoying the Dutch lessons! Revision is key to success when learning another language. The more we practise, the better we will remember it. This week we did a flipped classroom activity in which the children […]
Throughout history, the written word has both inspired and frightened people because language has the power to shape meaning and our reality. With the recent ban of one of the first graphic novels in Western literature, Art Spiegelman’s Maus, in […]
Late this term we were joined by two new students from Israel and Ukraine. It is amazing to celebrate the diversity of languages in our primary group. We have speakers of Dutch, Spanish, Portuguese, German, Swiss German, Hebrew, Ukrainian, and […]
It has been an exciting end to term 2 and students are involved in lots of events. The two Reconnect Events over the last two Saturdays were a big success. It was great to see so many parents and […]
Head, shoulders, knees and toes? Who doesn’t know these famous lines? Or even better, who knows them in French? Well, class 5 does. Last week, their task was not to create a song but create their own little monster, making […]
What holds an empire together? Perhaps it is faith, perhaps it is dependency or perhaps it is leadership. But the bigger they become, the more difficult they are to hold together… In C5 students study about three ancient civilizations. […]