It’s tough being a teen!

We’ve been talking about stereotypes in English A with grade 11 recently. After covering the typical ones – gender, race, nationality – we started talking about stereotypes very near and dear to our 11s’ hearts: those concerning...

Grade 10s Write a Formal Report

Grade 10 IGCSE English involves learning how to write in a variety of styles. One style that we just learned about is the formal report. So to practice this, students took on the role of a visiting CIS committee, and created a report about the school and its...

In-depth analysis through Tableaux

Grade 9 English have been reading the IGCSE text Spies for the past few weeks. This week they arrived at a key chapter where many tense moments and character decisions happened. To help students really dive into the scenes, and to identify these key moments, they are...

Get your tickets for Alice@Wonderland!

Tickets go on sale for our musical production first thing on Sunday morning! Prices are 2 OMR for adults and 1 OMR for students. Students from Grades 5 to 11 have worked very hard on this show and would love to see you there. The students will be acting, singing and...

Science Fiction Tableaux

8th graders have been part of Science Fiction book clubs, and once we finished the books they were asked to create a tableaux performance to present the book to the others in the class. They enjoyed the task, as it gave them the chance to dramatically interpret key...