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This week we welcomed Nicholas Mahmet to NAIS Dublin, Nicholas is a curriculum specialist for Drama from Juilliard in New York. He spent two days leading workshops with students in almost every year group. Nicholas was impressed with our students and teaching staff. He worked directly with Grade 6 and Grade 9, commenting on the creativity within these classes.

Meet the extraordinary Yoan one of our year 8 students and an extremely talented ice hockey player.

Last Wednesday we welcomed two guest speakers to share their work on Service as Action projects.

To celebrate Science Week our Science Department invited John Dunbar from NUI Galway to visit.

The world around us is changing, and it is changing fast. Gartner, the global IT analyst, predicts that by next year, 85% of all customer service interactions will be managed without human presence and 100 million consumers will shop in augmented reality, using one of the 50 billion ‘things’ that will be connected to the internet.

Educators today face a significant challenge. The world in which we live is evolving rapidly, but the way we teach students has hardly changed in over 100 years. Are we therefore doing everything that we can to prepare students for the world they will experience when they leave school?

Today we celebrated the official opening of The Edge Sports Hall our brand new state of the art sports facility. We also celebrated our schools first birthday and it was wonderful to look back on what we have achieved over the course of a year.

The heart beat of any school is its community. It is the people and not the building! Our community of old and new students and parents sprang back into life this week as energetic new faces raced into the building fresh from their holidays and travels.

We had the final Parent Teacher Association meeting of our opening academic year on 14th June. In that meeting our PTA Chair, Erin Zhurkin, highlighted the tremendous achievements of the PTA this year and my thanks go to all involved for making what has been TRULY remarkable progress. Mrs Bateson, Mrs Cannell, Mr Dunphy and I gave a retrospective of the year and a taste of what is in store next academic year as the school scales up to meet increasing demand for places.

On 4th January 2018, I arrived in Dublin for the first time. I was driven to a recently vacated building destined to become Ireland’s first International School and the tour began. With the remnants of the Microsoft Christmas party all around me, I stood in what is now Tir na nog and began to imagine…

This week our sports team took delivery of our brand new climbing wall! Rock climbing will be covered as part of the PHE curriculum and one of our CCAs for the 2019/2020 academic year.

During last Wednesday's MYP Core Session we welcomed Lord David Puttnam for an insightful talk on change, innovation and activism.

Nearing the end of his first year of University, Nord Anglia International School Shanghai, Pudong graduate Eric Chen shares his thought on how the rigour and well-rounded approach to academic study in his senior years at school prepared him well for his degree.

A powerful online tool is spurring students into building more robust charity and social service programmes designed to create a greater, positive impact in their local communities.

Students experience both artistic and personal breakthroughs at Nord Anglia’s newly expanded Summer Performing Arts with Juilliard program.

Learning has shifted from solving a problem with a single, definitive answer to identifying problems in a given situation and offering multiple, possible solutions, Nord Anglia's Education Director, Andy Puttock says.

Creativity isn’t a trait unique to those who pursue the arts. Educators say it’s a way of thinking that leads to imaginative and unique solutions to all types of real-world problems.

Summer camps aren’t what they used to be says Pierre-Louis Martin. It isn’t just about games, nature walks and story time. His school’s camp, the Champittet Summer Leadership Course, is designed to develop leadership qualities in young people through different activities. It’s what students want.

Where you go is not who’ll you’ll be, were comments that sparked debate recently in the media and got many of us thinking, does that statement ring true for the university you choose? At ICS, as with Nord Anglia's schools around the world, our students have access to experienced university and careers counsellors to help them prepare for life after school, which, for many, includes attending some of the world's leading universities. Windermere Preparatory School’s International Student Advisor Ruth Lahnston, Counselor Nancy Gerena and British International School Chicago, South Loop’s Director of Counseling Lindsay Kafitz say students should choose a university that is the best fit for them.

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