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This year, it looks a little different… with the adding challenge of having to work through this whole process in a digital environment. We invited students, teachers and staff to virtually come together to showcase and celebrate the Grade 5 students' PYP Exhibition.
After a very long remote learning journey, away from teachers and friends, we are finally able to have our students return to campus starting from this week. We miss the happy faces, the laughter at school foyer, music from the piano and the excitement and vibrant atmosphere.
How to make PE classes more exciting and fun during remote learning? Check out our Virtual Sports Day!
Each year, we host our Grade 12 Visual Arts Exhibition in a physical space and would invite and welcome guests to come and see students’ amazing artworks. But due to the current pandemic situation, our Grade 12 Visual Arts Exhibition of this year has now become the first VIRTUAL Art Exhibition at SSIS.
With the help of some amazing students, the SSIS staff have put their feelings into music. Please enjoy the music video and we hope to see everyone in person again soon!
SSIS students in the Class of 2022 have continued to receive more offers from universities and colleges across the world.
With the required move to Remote Learning, it becomes hard for students to observe each other's performances, so that is why we use digital tools such as Padlet to help showcase and celebrate student work.
Our elementary students displayed their many talents on a newly launched virtual performance challenge on Padlet.
At SSIS, we understand these challenges and difficulties our students and families had encountered, and are prepared to provide assistance to support students' language learning that goes along with their subject learning.
On April 12, IB released the latest confirmation about canceling the exam in East China due to the ongoing pandemic situation.
During the time of remote learning, every teacher at SSIS has been working tirelessly and overtime to ensure classes are well organized and conducted successfully. A busy schedule for our teachers already, but they did not stop learning themselves at the same time.
As part of the SSIS 25th anniversary celebrations, the newly renovated SSIS History Wall is now completed and open to our community.
Wednesday 23rd March was World Math Day. Indeed, March is a celebration of mathematics with secondary students celebrating Pi day on 14th March too.
At SSIS, we understand the needs and we aim to establish a similar school daily routine for our little ones at home. Our Early Years leadership team and faculty team had been working constantly since day one to discuss and adjust the teaching strategies to meet the needs for a successful online learning experience.
As remote learning continues, our teachers had kept thinking and creating fun ideas to motivate students during their online learning and to boost their engagement.
Parent-Teacher Conferences (PTC) are an important way for teachers to learn more about their students from families, and provide feedback to families about students’ academic performance.
If you’ve been to our school gate on one of the “Pick Up Days” to collect students’ learning materials, you must have noticed the special library trolley bookshelves in front of the school gate.
On Feb 23rd, SSIS DP music students enjoyed the amazing experience of meeting and interacting with a special guest Juan Muñoz, principal trumpet from the Suzhou Symphony Orchestra for an online Music Masterclass.
The first full week of online learning has been successfully completed! Thanks to our students, teachers and parents during this challenging yet positive learning journey!
Last Saturday was the 4th round of nucleic acid testing conducted for all residents across SIP, it was also the 3rd time our SSIS Volunteers have been out there, supporting at one of the SIP compounds.
As part of the school's 25th anniversary celebrations, we are excited to announce the launch of SSIS newly designed website www.suzhousinternationalschool.com
To adapt to the unprecedented situation change and to support the epidemic prevention and control, SSIS leadership and management teams immediately hold several emergency meetings to go through and finalize the plan to shift school learning to online learning at all grade levels. With the close cooperation and efforts from school management and all teachers, SSIS online learning has been officially launched since this morning.
Recently, the grade 5 students began their inquiries into energy. Students were organised into six investigative groups. They rotated through six energy-related activities over the course of two lessons, which were presented to them by the grade 5 teaching team.

As we welcome the Year of the Tiger, we would like to celebrate the amazing culture of our host country in style. This week, Chinese New Year celebrations at SSIS have been focusing not only on creative and fun activities, but also on educating students and teachers about Chinese culture and history.
To celebrate SSIS 25th anniversary, the "25th Anniversary Basketball Tournament" hosted by SSIS officially kicked off on January 22. A total of 7 schools from Suzhou participated in the tournament: SSIS, Dulwich College Suzhou, Dulwich High School Suzhou, OCAC Suzhou, SIP Foreign Language School, Sino-Canada School and Suzhou Sports School.