At SIS Swiss International School, children can learn both English and German or Portuguese through immersion – even if they are not native speakers of either language. Prof. Piske is an expert in the area of second language pedagogy and points out four principles that foster second language acquisition in the following article.
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The annual edition of the SIS World was published this month. As we celebrate the beginnings of SIS Swiss International School, it includes the special section “Since 1999 – Pioneering Bilingual Education” that displays different viewpoints and stories about our early years. Have a pleasant read!
We opened our first school in Germany with the establishment of SIS Stuttgart-Fellbach in 2008. In the beginning, there were 50 students attending classes up to grade 5. Ten years later, the school community has grown to over 400 students and our students have the opportunity to graduate with the Abitur and/or the International Baccalaureate. Many reasons to celebrate!
The SIS IT curriculum has been successfully introduced into our classrooms in Switzerland in the previous school year. The implementation for SIS schools in Germany and Brazil follows in the upcoming two years respectively. We aim to educate our students in the broad and vital field of information technology starting from a young age.
SPARC is an acronym for sports, art and culture. For one week, students at all levels engage in the pursuit of interesting, invigorating and exciting learning opportunities. From visiting ancient castles and ruins, to taking in the splendor of Basel’s many museums, to the placid power of the Rhein and to academic pursuits in university libraries and pharmaceutical laboratories, SPARC week has opened the eyes of many to the abundance of Basel’s very own backyard.
The winner of the SIS Best Essay Award 2018 is Vivianne Götz from SIS Basel. She investigated the main causes of the population loss of honey bees in Switzerland. The second place goes to Luisa Azevedo Sodré Garcia from ESB Rio de Janeiro. Georg Wesch from SIS Stuttgart-Fellbach secured the third place. The award honours graduating students who excelled in their essays as well as in their engagement at their schools. The first prize is a week’s stay in Rio de Janeiro with a host family from our school there, the ESB Rio de Janeiro.
For the ninth time around 40 students from ESB Rio de Janeiro visited Switzerland and travelled extensively using public transport. Next to the many sightseeing highlights, there was a special focus on the difference between a German and a French speaking part of Switzerland including their culinary peculiarities. This unique opportunity to travel to the home country of their school is given to students in grade 8 each year.
In the latest editions of the SIS News Germany on bilingualism and SIS News Switzerland on project work, the school community is highlighted from different perspectives. Read here how Marlon Murray, teacher at SIS Friedrichshafen, describes, amongst other things, bilingual teamwork during project days and then how SIS Pfäffikon-Schwyz realised a project about a gothic theme park.
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The SIS Cup 2018 was a full success and SIS Zürich was a wonderful host. Many thanks to all teams and teachers for two days of sportsmanship and a lot of fun. The proud winner was SIS Stuttgart-Fellbach. Placed tightly behind was SIS Basel and coming in third was ESB Rio de Janeiro. We are already looking forward to the SIS Cup 2019 which is going to take place at SIS Friedrichshafen.
In 2017, Dietrich Varaklis, who studied at the SIS Basel, won the SIS Best Essay Award and got offered a journey to Rio de Janeiro to explore the city and to visit the Escola Suíço-Brasileira (ESB). Find out more about his experiences in Brazil by reading his interview.
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SIS Männedorf-Zürich is presented with the SIS Award of Distinction. The school evaluation from 16 to 18 April 2018 has provided evidence to show that the school fulfils customer expectations as well as the SIS standards to the highest degree. The teaching and learning processes are on a very high level and yield lasting good results.
The SIS Maths Day that took place at our SIS schools in Germany, Switzerland and Brazil on 22 March was a great success. All participating students were very engaged in playing against students from different countries over an online platform. We are happy to announce the winners from each grade.
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The children of the kindergarten class at SIS Männedorf-Zürich learn how to program a robot. Their first robot is only made of paper and is moved by the teacher as soon as the children tell him the right way to go using paper boards with orders. After these practical lessons they are excited to soon use their new skills on a real BeeBot robot.
At SIS Männedorf-Zürich the students of grade 2 got to know more about electricity. They were impressed by the objects that are able to transmit power and were even prouder to make their own light bulb glow. This is a perfect example of hands-on investigations and working scientifically from the methodological backbone of the SIS science curriculum.
The planning for the next international activity is underway: An international Maths Day will be launched 22 March at our SIS schools in Brazil, Germany and Switzerland. The students will play against each other by answering basic math facts over an online platform. The aim of this activity is to connect the students across the countries.
The fifth and sixth grade students at our 16 locations took part in a story sharing project in which they were invited to jointly work together to create and continue stories. We proudly present the e-book version "Of Goblins, Magic Eggs, Pirates, the Mystic Rose, and the Hairy Ball".
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The annual edition of the SIS World was published this month. It contains stories of how the Educational Concept of the SIS Schools Group is practically applied in each school and how the students take joy and pride in their academic achievements.
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Three students of SIS Regensburg recently took part in a Model United Nations Conference in Arnhem, Netherlands. A Model United Nations Conference is a simulated session of the United Nations in which the participants adopt the role of delegates to the UN.
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During the book week at the SIS Rotkreuz-Zug the students had the opportunity to write and illustrate their own novels advised by the author Andreas Kirchgässner. The end of the book week as well as the publication of the book of the Story Sharing Project, in which SIS schools worldwide had been involved this year, were celebrated with parents and teachers.
Students of grade 5 at the SIS Zürich focused on building simple machines in science class. The most exciting part was to build catapults (first-class levers). Through experimentation with the catapults the students learnt how levers can make work easier. Who wouldn’t enjoy playing with catapults in pursuit of scientific knowledge?
The publishing of this book is eagerly awaited. Now it is put together as a wonderful artefact of the SIS Interschool Activity 2017. Students of all our 16 schools in Brazil, Germany and Switzerland have worked together and created continuous stories. Illustrations and texts have now been arranged and the book will go into print soon.
In order to get to know more about birds, a chicken project was launched at SIS Friedrichshafen. After placing eggs for 21 days in an incubator, ten chickens hatched. As from now the students were responsible for feeding them and cleaning their cage. This project showed that practical experience in class can be instructive and fun at the same time.
The SIS Cup 2017 finished successfully and we would like to thank the hosts at SIS Stuttgart-Fellbach and all teams and teachers for two days full of excitement and sportsmanship that ended with surprisingly tight finals. SIS Zürich-Wollishofen takes home the trophy. Placed tightly behind is ESB Rio de Janeiro. The home team of SIS Stuttgart-Fellbach stands on the third rank of the podium. We are already looking forward to the SIS Cup 2018 at SIS Zürich.
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On the occasion of the school evaluations in March, SIS Friedrichshafen and SIS Zürich have provided evidence that they fulfil customer
expectations as well as the SIS standards to the highest degree. The teaching and learning processes are on a very
high level and yield lasting good results. Therefore, they have been presented with the SIS Award of Distinction.
Only six more weeks before the SIS Cup 2017 takes place in Stuttgart-Fellbach. All teams are known by now and on 10 April the cup team of SIS Männedorf-Zürich drew the lots of the teams that will be competing with each other in the different disciplines. For more information on the teams or the upcoming event in general, please follow our SIS Cup website.
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The annual edition of the SIS World was published this month. It contains stories of how the Educational Concept of the SIS Schools Group is practically applied in each school and how the students take joy and pride in their academic achievements.
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Three countries, four languages, five narratives! The idea to strengthen the ties between our schools is proving a success: With delight, the first classes have written their chapters in German, English, Portuguese and French. Now the stories have been passed onto to the next schools. Great plots are developing such as kids getting involved in a dangerous adventure or friends setting off to search for magic eggs.
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We are excited to announce that a total of 14 schools from three different countries are going to participate in the SIS Cup 2017. In addition to the same teams as last year, SIS Brasília and SIS Berlin are also joining the challenge in Stuttgart-Fellbach in May. Get ready for some fierce competition!
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The SIS Cup 2017 will take place on 29 and 30 May 2017 at SIS Stuttgart-Fellbach. The featured trend sport will be slacklining.
Preparation is already underway and we are looking forward to another great event where teams from our three countries come together under one roof.
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Students in the final year of our Colleges had the chance to compete for the SIS Best Essay Award 2016. The three best extended essays, which students had to write as part of the International Baccalaureate Diploma Programme, were honoured. The three awards went to students from SIS Stuttgart-Fellbach, ESB Rio de Janeiro and SIS Zürich.
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SIS Zürich wins the first SIS Cup with 134 points - congratulations, well done! SIS Schönenwerd follows closely on second place with 125 points and SIS Basel ranks third with 89 points.
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