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With Chinese New Year approaching at the end of this week, we spoke to one of our Mandarin teachers – Ms Jowene Chia – in Teacher Tuesday: How many years have you been teaching? 3 years and counting. When did you join KIS? August 2016, when Mandarin was first introduced at KIS as a core […]

Another amazing Book Week has been and gone, and with it a frenzy of reading activities, puzzles, competitions, and celebrations. This year’s theme of ‘Folklore and Fairytales’ inspired some amazing costumes at the Character Parade, and some excellent creativity in the artwork for the Book Door competition! The week opened with the traditional ‘Book Swap’ […]

Following last week’s successful Book Week, in our Teacher Tuesday post we speak to Mrs Frances Colbeck. As Teacher Librarian, Mrs Colbeck was one of the main organisers of Book Week. Find out more about her work in the Library and why the school puts such value on reading: How many years have you been […]

This week’s Teacher Tuesday is Mrs Shelley Dyer, who teaches Year 1.   How many years have you been teaching? 15 years. When did you join KIS? I’m a newbie – I arrived in August 2017. Using three words please describe your first impressions of KIS. Welcoming, friendly and small ☺. Why do you teach? I […]

As a number of our Secondary Students prepare to attend the Model United Nations (MUN) Conference this weekend, readers of this week’s Teacher Tuesday will learn more about the benefits of participating in MUN during our interview with Mrs Louise Davis,  Year 8K Form Tutor, Teacher of Humanities and Coordinator of the MUN ECA. How many […]

What happens at the end of the school day? ECAs – Extra Curricular Activities!   On offer today for our Primary students were: Keyboard Club, Playground Games, Netball, Rhythmic Dance, Mindful Colouring, T-Ball, STEM Club, Stone Painting, Story Telling Club, Stingrays Swimming Club and Mandarin. Tomorrow will see many more being enjoyed! Extra Curricular Activities […]

Following a short break over the holidays, Teacher Tuesday returns this week with Mr Dougal Fletcher, Year 6 Class Teacher and Head of Creative & Performing Arts for Primary How many years have you been teaching? I have been teaching for more years than I would like to remember. I started my career as a […]

Children can often be heard singing the alphabet song from a very young age, but is this really the best way to teach children how to read? Reading is a skill that children need to be taught in a structured and systematic way, to enable them to learn the necessary skills to decode the letters […]