Collège News

Students in Mr Leaver's 6ème classes dip their toes into good evaluation practice.

In this fast-paced and engaging activity, students develop key descriptive writing skills for the IGCSE, focusing on vivid imagery, precise vocabulary, and sensory detail.

Mr Bauer's pupils have been exploring the political and literary ideas of George Orwell.

Mr Black's 5ème students consider the most renowned schools of the so called 'Golden Age of Islam'.

6ème students tackle limiting thoughts head on.

Sixième students have been visited in SIS lessons by actor and Shakespeare educator Conor Short.

Pupils in Ms. Forshaw's 4e have been building their communication skills through a dynamic group activity.

Mrs Patel's 6ème class has been getting to grips with the Roman army's tactics!

Ms Plecko's 5ème students have been working with primary sources to decode the fateful events of 1066. 

In this special newspaper edition, our 5ème pupils become journalists.

Students in 4ème start preparing for their first long-form essays.

Miss Scott’s 6ème pupils unleashed their creativity with presentations on different types of figurative language. 

Mrs Pullen's classes have been exploring the Bard.

Mr Leaver's 6ème students have been honour Julius Caesar with historical speeches and poems.

Pupils worked on developing focused, specific details in their characterisations and descriptions.

6èmes in Mrs Patel's Gounod class have been fulfilling multiple roles in one as historians!

Cakes with a smile from SIS students on Saturday morning.

6ème pupils in Mrs Pullen’s Gounod and Sèvres classes have been investigating a crime wave in Green Lake, the fictional setting of Louis Sachar’s novel ‘Holes’.

Students in 3ème visit the battlefields of the Somme as part of their Brevet programme.

What is happening at the time of writing and publishing is very influential on literature, as students have found out in Mrs Borowsky's 3eme class.

Studying the context behind literary classics

4e students have been receiving their Cambridge Checkpoint test results.

Mrs Patel's 6ème History-Geography class have been getting to grips with a wide range of vital classroom and historical skills. 

Mr Black's 6ème start their careers as historians in collège by being murder detectives!

Ms. Cox's 5ème students dug into William Blake’s "A Poison Tree" and turned it into a visual poem-tree.

With the SIS Collège Summer Reading having become the SIS Collège Summer Project, Miss Daly has done a project of her own!

As part of their study of A Midsummer Night’s Dream, 5ème students recently collaborated in small “acting troupes” to reinterpret and perform a key scene from Act III, Scene 2. 

In this interdisciplinary project, Ms Cox's 5e students creatively reimagined key moments from George Orwell’s Animal Farm.

Mrs Borowsky's 3^ème class had some questions about going into the lycée.

Students in Mr Black's 5ème classes have been completing video projects on the achievements of the Mediaeval Arab World.

Mrs Buxton's 5eD class have been performing prepared extracts from Act 2 of 'A Midsummer Night's Dream'.

To mark the end of their Victorian Novel book clubs, Miss Scott’s 6ème students made book club bracelets, showcasing both their humour and their understanding of the novels. 

Students in Mrs Patel's 4ème class get moving around to start thinking about building an analytical judgment about the Industrial Revolution

Ms Cox's 5e classes have created physical windmills linked to the symbolic significance of wind in this semester's novel. 

Students in Mr Rist's 6ème class continue to work on developing a 'growth mindset'

Mrs Buxton's 5eD class have been using Animal Farm as inspiration for persuasive speech writing.

6ème students in Mr Leaver's classes are getting to grips with the basic mechanics of PEEL paragraphs.

Mr See's 3ème have been rehearsing a rapid, condensed version of Act 1 of Romeo and Juliet.

Students in Ms. Plecko's 4ème classes are learning about the applicability of source skills in the contemporary world.

Ms Cox's class have been working on their annotation of The Great Gatsby. 

Pupils in 4ème wrote Macbeth-Inspired Holiday Charm poems.

Students in Miss Scott's 6ème class have been diving into the world of William Shakespeare.

Students in Mrs Patel's 4ème History-Geography create boardgames as part of their Age of Exploration unit. 

Pupils in sixième have been visited by actor and storyteller Conor Short.

Students in Mr Leaver's 6ème History-Geography class have been combining imagination, creativity, knowledge and inference skills to produce travel posters for Ancient Rome. 

Mr Rist's 5ème class gets stuck into the story of the Byzantine Empire.

Pupils in Mr Bauer's 6eD class at Collège Gounod have been working on honing their reading skills.

Ms Cox's 4ème class have been embracing their inner thespians!

Students in Mr Black's 4ème class learn that timelines do not just have to be created with pen and paper!

Ms Forshaw's 4ème class have been consolidating their knowledge of Macbeth.

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