Let your picture be the voice of the ocean. Congratulation winners!

How beautiful category photo entry!

Water fun & What have we done photo entry

Silly sea monsters drawings.

Day 2 of celebrating our culture and international mindedness through a cultural food festival while the Middle and High School students organised a "kari niu" scrapping coconut competition. Scrapping coconut is a daily chore in a i taukei household. "The International Baccalaureate aim to develop inquiring, knowledgeable and caring young people who help to create a better and more peaceful world through intercultural understanding and respect. These programs encourage students across the world to become active, compassionate and lifelong learners who understand that other people, with their differences, can also be right.”" IB Mission Statement.
Enjoy a glimpse of our celebration today!

This week, we celebrate Harmony week & Library Information Week across Oceania. To celebrate books, libraries and reading, ISS Library signed up for the ALIA National Simultaneous storytime where one million children will read simultaneously on 22 May, 2019 at 11 am by sharing Alpacas with Maracas written and illustrated by Matt Cosgrove. We held part of our reading a day before with ECH2W and had so much fun dancing to the alpacas music and creating our alpaca mask. By facilitating NSS we aim to:

• promote and inspire a lifelong love of books and reading
• promote lifelong use of the library as a safe and fun place
• promote the value of reading and literacy,
• promote the value and fun of books,
• promote an Australian writer and publisher,

#NSS2019  #Readup #Speakup #Changetheworld

Say bula in your mother tongue! Where are you from? What's your favorite traditional food or custom?

Reception class using SOLO hexagon to identify & connect relationships between the library and the resources they can find within.

Fantastic way to recycle old scholastic catalog and students enjoyed reading the titles of the books - sorting, cutting and pasting into the correct column. Great way of reinforcing Non fiction from fiction.

This term in the library, 
I learned.....
I wonder....
I think I have to practice......

This term, we built awareness about the UN Sustainable development goals in students by connecting classroom UOI to the 17 global goals. The response and support from ISS students to make our world a better place by 2030 is fantastic.

 Cultural diversity is an integral part our IB/PYP school. Given the diversity of our school, today we recognized and acknowledged the different cultures and backgrounds of our students and families by celebrating #Yearofthepig through performances from the Chinese Cultural group.Children are influenced and molded by the culture and area in which they live. They identify with the values, norms, and traditions that are part of their family and the countries they're from which helps to define how we interact with one another.