2019-2020 12TH ISSUE (18 NOVEMBER 2019)
At SSIS this month, our secondary students are busy rehearsing the yearly drama production. This year they will present the Shakespeare comedy ‘A Midsummer Night's Dream’. The cast consists of more than 40 students from Grade 6-12 and staff, including performers, crew, student assistant directors and the director.
It is great to see our students performing so well in different pursuits. I have attended assemblies in recent weeks where students are receiving acknowledgement for outstanding academic, sporting and artistic achievement whilst also receiving accolades for their commitment to service.
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Grade 4 classes hosted student families for a 'How We Express Ourselves' Sharing Morning on Tuesday, November 12th. Groups of students enthusiastically presented persuasive advertisements as the culmination of their Unit of Inquiry.
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Last week, Grade 9 Visual Arts students visited a local pottery studio by Yangchen lake. Here they had an opportunity to learn new skills from Suzhou's master potter and gain further information into the history of ceramics in China.
Last Thursday, the sixth-grade Humanities students ventured on a whirlwind journey throughout Suzhou. During this ambitious trip, students travelled via various modes of transport and covered a large portion of the city.
On the weekend we had 5 soccer teams competing in the CISSA end of season Cross River Tournaments. These events bring together schools from across the CISSA middle school network for a full day of round robin play with a strong focus on player development, learning and fun.
On Wednesday November 13th, the mathematics department at SSIS hosted once again the AMC 8 Mathematics competition in the theatre, with students from grades 6, 7 and 8. The AMC 8 was a 25-question, 40-minute, multiple choice examination in middle school mathematics content, designed to promote the development of problem-solving skills.
Suzhou’s Retirement Home is a down-to-earth service group that works to serve, entertain, and improve the living conditions of the elderly community in Suzhou’s old town. Our humble group size doesn’t speak for the kindness and aid each one of our members provides.
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Students and teachers from Geylang Methodist School in Singapore visited our campus on Monday 11th November.
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