Collège News

Mrs Borowsky’s Gounod class have been looking into context for The Great Gatsby.

Mrs Buxton's 5ème class have been perfecting their punctuation.

Ms Cox's 4ème class have been flexing their analytical skills with their summer reading texts.

6ème students in Mr Leaver's class discuss the question, 'When does History end?'

Students in 5ème bring A Midsummer Night's Dream to life... silently!

Students in 3ème keep their learning about the European Union intertwined with real-life developments. 

As 3ème students near the end of their collège years, Miss Daly asked her 2nde students for advice.

The new edition of the SIS Arts and Literary Magazine, created and curated by collège students, is now available!

Students in 5ème let their imaginations run wild!

Students face up to the challenge of timed speeches on a range of 3ème topics as they prepare for OIDNB orals.

Students in Mrs Buxton's 3e class have been working on Romeo and Juliet.

Students get creative with turning articles into poetry.

Mrs Patel's Leadership Club rises to new teambuilding challenges. 

Students in 3ème design their own Cold War propagands posters. 

Ms Cox's 3e class have written their own Romeo and Juliet newspaper.

Students in Mrs Buxton's 5ème class have been presenting on their ideal schools.

Ms Plecko emphasises the importance of good chronological understanding with her 6ème by playing with anachronisms. 

Mrs Borowsky's class have been questioning each other on the topic of The American Dream.

Mr Rist encourages confidence in the face of essay-writing through highlighting to 4ème students how they already have the fundamental necessary skills within them.

This past month, 6e students have enjoyed visits from professional actor Conor Short.

Ms Cox's students got into the holiday spirit today by getting creative with structure and language.

Ms Cox's 4e classes have been flexing their creative muscles whilst honing core IGCSE skills.

Students in 3ème combine personal research and presentation skills for student-to-student teaching. 

Students in Mrs Titus’ 6e class completed a Tuck Everlasting escape game last Thursday. 

Budding writers in Ms Cox's 4e classes have been flexing their descriptive muscles this week

Mrs Patel's collège classes are exploring various methods for encouraging and improving factual recall between lessons.

Collège students from across our three sites have been contributing to this year's SIS Magazine. 

Mrs Buxton's 3e class have been getting creative with The Great Gatsby this past week.

The SIS is excited to participate in the Poetry by Heart Middle School competition again this year and is looking for student performers to join.

History-Geography staff have been exploring new resources for active learning in the classroom. 

Mrs Loxton's 4e class spent part of the first week back revising for their Summer Reading test.

3eD at Gounod have recently produced their own games inspired by their study of 'The Great Gatsby' and 'Romeo and Juliet' this year.

6e students from across all sites came together yesterday for an evening of Shakespeare performances.

Students in Mrs Buxton's 3e class have been producing spine-chilling Gothic stories.

The winning candidates of the SIS Collège Writing Competition may now be announced. Congratulations to all who participated!

Students in Mrs Buxton’s 6e class created, justified and presented their ideal schools.

Pupils in Mrs Loxton's 4e class have been creating their own revision activities for 'To Kill a Mockingbird'.

3e students in Ms Erigio's class tried their hands at journalism, reporting on events in Romeo and Juliet.

Students in 3ème get to grips with active learning exercises in History-Geography.

Maria, Quitterie and Anna gave extraordinary performances of their chosen poems at the annual ELSA Poetry by Heart competitions in Paris on Friday 10th March (middle school contest) and Saturday 11th (high school contest)

For this competition, students needed to learn and then perform a poem of their own choice from the Poetry by Heart anthology (two poems for the high school contest). 

Poetry By Heart

Here are three key ways for 3e students to revise before their exams in May.

The first session of Mrs Patel's new Leadership Club at Collège Verhaeren kicked off with a sugary conundrum.

Pupils in Mrs Buxton's 6e class have produced some fantastic work on the history of children's literature!

"All the world's a stage..." This month, 6e classes welcome professional actor Conor Short for some dynamic Shakespeare workshops.

London or Edinburgh?? The Wheel of Fortune will decide for our 4e students which trip they will go on in May 2023. 

Students in 4e-Terminale are invited to participate in this year's theatre project which will be performed on March 29-30, 2023 at SEL in Sèvres.

A round of applause to our students in 3e, 2e and 1e who achieved excellent results on the IGCSE!

Hot off the press!!! You can see this year's Art and Literary magazine created by the SIS anglophone students from all three collèges : https://madmagz.com/fr/magazine/1964934