English International School Prague

“I am thankful for all of those who said NO to me. It’s because of them I’m doing it myself.”

What a fabulous couple of weeks it has been! As you know, last week was International Week in school and this meant that all sorts of enrichment activities were planned for the students over the course of the week. There was a house competition where students worked within their house group to learn and perform a dance from around the World – and there was a great variety.

In Reception we have been working hard at learning our letter sounds, particularly focusing on S, A, T, P so far and have completed lots of fun work for this. For example, we made sparkly sixes, did skipping, played with sand, stones and ‘snow’, and cut out stars and sausages to practice our scissor skills for letter S; colouring apples and aliens for the letter A

From the very start of this academic year everyone had been talking about and preparing for the International Food Festival. Parents were seen in deep conversations with their peers chatting about what to cook and bake to make sure the Festival this year is as good as in the past.

Read an interesting article about the role of international education post-Brexit by Nord Anglia CEO Andrew Fitzmaurice on The Huffington Post.

 “I'm a greater believer in luck, and I find the harder I work the more I have of it”

Welcome to international week and the international food fayre! This week in the senior school we have been focussing on international-themed activities but before I talk about those I am going to cast your minds back to last weekend. This was the first weekend of our Duke of Edinburgh expeditions with 18 students either taking part in training activities such as first aid or a practice hike for the silver award students. The silver award students ended up hiking over 30km with a few wrong turns and some interesting weather to contend with.

Wednesday was a busy morning for our Early Years classes! In Reception class, we looked at all the different flags for the nationalities of the children. We made the flag from our home country and even did a quiz to see which flags we could recognise. We tried to find our home country on a map of the world. We also looked at different ways of greeting eachother (saying Hello or Good Morning) in different languages.