The first week back of red level infection control for grades 1 to 7 ended and everything has gone well. The students have been quick at settling in their routines and the classes have been held with as much normalcy as is possible. 

The playground is used for more than sledding and making snowmen, some of the P.E. lessons have been held outdoors too! 

Although the tables and hands got very messy from the chalk pastels, the students in 3A had fun creating their Northern lights landscape during their Art lesson, pictured above. 

Grade 1 has begun their fourth unit: Space Exploration! 1A was lucky enough to have Miss Deonne share her experiences at the Kennedy Space Center in Florida with the children last week. The children loved learning about the International Space Station in particular.

In Grade 7 all students wrote a speech in their response to the task provided by UNICEF and TV2. Some students recorded their performances and participated in the competition "Barnas tale 2020". We are very proud of one of our Grade 7 students who was chosen to hold the New Year's speech this year! Well done Josefine! The speech will be broadcasted on December 31st. 

In the spirit of giving, for Christmas jumper day this year, the AIS staff decided to not only spread some cheer at school but also to raise money for Blå Kors and their Christmas initiative, minJUL. We proudly raised 2000kr to support vulnerable children and families over this Christmas period. https://www.blakors.no/minjul/ 

As part of their Design lessons, the Grade 6 students are competing in a logo design competition against all IB schools in Norway (NIBS). Students are using digital software to design their logo. The winning design will be the new NIBS logo. Let's go AIS! 

We wish all students, staff and families a safe and relaxing winter break and a happy 2021!

For our planning day we were extremely fortunate to have Kath Murdoch, who is an inquiry specialist, run a session with the entire PYP Staff including all the assistants, see above. We also invited PYP Coordinators from other International schools to continue to encourage beneficial collaboration with one another. 

The session was based on:

- Building learner’s capacity to inquire more independently

- The role of shared and personal inquiry

- Bringing an inquiry stance to teaching across the curriculum

- Key teaching practices for effective inquiry

All participants left the session inspired and eager to embed what they learnt into the lessons to come.

We were also very proud with our PYP team for receiving 12 commendations as a result of the International Baccalaureate Evaluation Visit which took place October 2020. 

The students in Grade 5 were introduced to a new initiative that centres around leadership in sport. This will be a program that develops as students progress through the school. The program aims to:

Develop leadership, organisation and communication skills

Improve students' confidence

Employment opportunities when students leave school

To give students the opportunity to give back to the school and wider community

Allow students to be role models

More information to follow shortly!

We are very proud of our 2020 Grade 5 students, pictured above, who scored No 1 in Maths amongst international schools in Norway in the Nasjonal Prøver they took earlier this year. Congratulations to the PYP team (and it is a whole team effort). A lot of graft has been done in an effort to improve provision and coverage. 

The students are mostly students who have completed their primary education at Asker International School, which is why the outcome is important (we are a new school, only 7 years old). Not only that, we had to go through an evaluation with the International Baccalaureate in October this year (every 5 years), not to mention all the Covid hassle. Ergo the extra pride in the team and the kids. They've worked their socks off and it should be celebrated. 

We also wish all the families celebrating Diwali this weekend a very happy celebration!