CREATING A CARING COMMUNITY
PARENT CONNECT HEADS HOW TO BECOME A PART OF PARENT CONNECT You already are! Once your child is enrolled, you automatically get a membership to Parent Connect. Wow! HOW CAN YOU HELP? 1 Be a Class Parents Representative – 2 class parents/class (build relationships with other parents, support class field trips/activities) 2. Attend and support […]
LITTLE SHOP – BIG CAST!
By Josh Hatt Auditions this week have delivered a fantastic cast of students ready to take to the stage in this year’s Secondary musical ‘Little Shop of Horrors’. More than 30 Upper School students from QAIS and AWS (Annie Wright High School) lined up in pairs hoping to score a role in this year’s MYP […]
21st CENTURY COMMUNICATORS
By Comine Howe MYP 5 students were collaborative communicators, using smartphone photos to create their Photo Poetry. Hazel Lee, MYP English, introduced the Korean trend ‘DiCa-Poetry’ to her MYP 5 (Grade 10 Class) and had students creatively thinking about poetry. DiCA Poetry is short for digital camera poetry; where personal photos are used to write […]
“NOT-SO-ALIVE-LONG” LOVE OF LEARNING
By Comine Howe MMUN-electives (Montessori Model United Nations) have kicked off for MYP (grades 6 -10), and Humanities teachers, Bill Murray, Penelope James and Giovanni Romeo, are getting students excited about MMUN as students are faced with the task of preventing a Zombie Pandemic! Through the process of role-playing, each student becomes a delegate of […]
A GLOBALLY ENGAGED ENVIRONMENT
What is International Mindedness? At QAIS it is a founding principle, a way of life and an ideal we strive for every single day. This paradigm shift requires of every single staff member, student and parent to remove their own cultural lens and look at the world with an international mind. A way of thinking, […]
RISK-TAKERS ROCK AT ROBOTICS 敢于冒险—QAIS学生勇闯机器人大赛
2nd PLACE AT THE WORLD ROBOTICS CONFERENCE The QAIS Robotics Team came in 2nd Place at the World Robotics Conference in Beijing (Aug 20-25)! The Team of Grade 12, Grade 11, Grade 8 & Grade 7 students, under the leadership of Coach Jack, was invited to this exclusive Regional Champions Only-tournament. Over 1000 teams from […]
Parent-Teacher Association Sets the Bar High with Champagne & Canapé Evening
“This is what we want to achieve as the PTA moving forward; collaboration, connection, innovation, closer bonds and much more” – Parent-Teacher Association Heads This school year was a year of firsts. Last Saturday evening, QAIS saw its first parent-led Parent Teacher Association, headed by four dedicated moms, Aslene Kho, Kun Zhai, Alexandra Schroeter and […]
Congratulations, Class of 2019!
Inspiring speech to the graduates by Alzbeta Springer – MYP-DP Teacher, Head of Humanities Dept. & MMUN Coordinator If you were a tree, what tree would you be? Would you be a high reaching Sitka spruce, a stout baobab, a majestic oak, a magical beech tree with paper-thin bark, a fragrant magnolia, or a Japanese […]
QAIS’s Top Robotics Team travels to Silicon Valley
FIRST things first, robots are cool. The For Inspiration and Recognition of Science and Technology (FIRST) Robotics Competition 2019 in Silicon Valley, California, welcomed 15 000 students from across the globe to participate in what high school students have dubbed “the hardest fun you will ever have”. Four students from Qingdao Amerasia International School spent […]
