Collège & Lycée Anglophone Section News

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

Mrs Loxton's class have been creating 'theme maps' on the poetry of Derek Walcott.

Ms Lamb's Terminale students have been preparing for their BFI oral exam by getting to know each other, and the texts, better.

Mr Black gives an account of how AI has helped him to develop Active Learning in his lycée classroom.

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

Student-Delegates have arrived at the ILYMUN 2025 conference, with this year's theme of 'Democracy and Security'.

Miss Daly's 2nde class have been acting out Mark Antony's first glimpse of Queen Cleopatra.

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

Students in 2nde and 1ère arrive in Berlin to participate in BERMUN2.

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

Mrs Patel's class in Tle have been getting out of their seats to think around the question of global integration. 

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

Since October, Mrs Loxton has been running one-on-one Te revision sessions.

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. 

Mrs Loxton's Seconde class have started working on 'Antony and Cleopatra'.

Students in Mr Leaver's class use interrelationship diagrams to map out the complexity of the DRC's underdevelopment.

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.

Première pupils work on exploring the dynamics between the main characters in Kamila Shamsie's novel.

Students in Mr Black's 1ère class took sides to debate 19th century factory conditions

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

Students in Miss Daly's première class swapped ideas on character development in their BFI set text Home Fire.

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

A delegation of 1ère students start this year's roster of MUN conferences at L'Ermitage. 

Students in Mr Leaver's 2nde class take sides in a reconstruction of the Valladolid Debates.

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.

Mrs Patel's Tle groups grapple with questions about Arctic Shipping routes via role play.

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

Mrs Loxton's class have been making thematic revision posters for the opening chapters of 'Home Fire'.

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.

In order to think about poetry as a series of images, students were challenged to 'draw the poem'.

Students in Mrs Borowsky’s 1ère got creative with their BFI set text, Home Fire.

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

Students in Mr Rist's 1ère classes work on securing knowledge about Globalisation before moving on to analysis 

Miss Daly's 2nde have been drawing the imagery of Ted Hughes' poems. 

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

Students in Ms. Rock's Tle History class continue to hone their skills in source analysis. 

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.

78 SIS anglophone students have been studying intensively for their BFI exams.

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 Tle find themselves well-accompanied in Mr Black's soutien sessions. 

2nde students have continued to cut their MUN teeth with an end-of-year conference at Notre-Dame du Grandchamp in Versailles.

Miss Daly's 1ère class have been comparing and contrasting the poetry of Derek Walcott

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

Students get creative with turning articles into poetry.

Mrs Borowsky's 2nde class learnt a new poem for their IGCSE exam by taking on the responsibility of being a teacher.

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

Ms Rock's 2nde students have been using the IGCSE Global Perspectives paper to sharpen their skills of source analysis. 

Ms Cox took students to the ballet this past weekend, to complement their study of Shakespeare.

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

Students in 1ère take a hands-on, creative approach to thinking about memorialisation and collective memory. 

Students in Miss Daly's 2e class analysed poetry in a slightly different way this week.

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.

Getting creative for the IGCSE English Literature exam.

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

Ms Lamb's students have been self-assessing as part of their BFI methodology training.

As part of their BFI programme, Ms Lamb's class have been drawing parallels between poetry.

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.

Mrs Patel's 2nde class uses the interactive classroom game 'speed dating' to learn and consolidate key terms in Geography.

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

Mrs Borowsky's Terminale class recapped their study of Antony & Cleopatra.

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

As final year students head into their last semester at high school, Miss Daly has collected some Top Tips from the Language & Literature team.

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

Students in 1ère grapple with the question of how important individuals are in driving history.

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. 

Students in 2nde and 1ère tested their MUN mettle at the first conference of the 2023-4 academic year.

Miss Daly's Terminale class were up on their feet this week, getting in character whilst studying Shakespeare.

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 Loxton's class have been reviewing their learning of the BFI text 'Home Fire'.

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

Students have been debating the ethics of zoos in Miss Daly's 2e classroom, to further their understanding of poetry.

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. 

SIS students in Seconde achieved brilliant results in their IGCSE Literature exams in June 2023!

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.

Students in Miss Daly's class spend the last few weeks of the semester working towards a debate on technology.

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.

Students in Ms Lamb's class have been working on the Gothic topic in preparation for their entry in to the BFI programme next year.

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

All Terminale OIB students spent four days this week on a trip to Normandy, revising for their upcoming exams.

Miss Daly has created a suggested revision timetable for students to maximise their revision time.

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.

Terminale students who have applied to Concordia University in Montréal had the chance this week to meet Erica Porter, one of the university's Senior Recruitment Officers. 

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

Students in 2nde participated in a unique MUN conference within the grounds of Palace of Versailles. 

Here are three key ways for 2e students to revise before their exams in May.

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.

Students from The Liverpool Blue Coat School joined our 1e classes this week as part of a cultural exchange.

A successful motion for the SIS delegation at the final General Assembly vote - ILYMUN 2023. Well done to our SIS delegates!

Students in 2e debated the ethics of zoos this week as a pathway into analysing a poem by Ted Hughes.

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!

Students in 2nde and 1ère are getting ready for their MUN Conference in Lyon

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

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

This week, students in Tle are facing up to the storied challenge of the Oxbridge interview panel. We wish them the best of luck! 

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

An introduction to international universities entrance and how SIS Advisory team helps students throughout all the stages of preparing for successful applications.

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