Children explored pentagon shapes with ice cream sticks, integrating maths with lessons on communities. They discovered that a house is the smallest community and reinforced their understanding by crafting miniature pentagon shaped-houses.

Through our transdisciplinary theme, how we organise ourselves, our Early Years students inquire into different community helpers and how they play an important role in our everyday life. Students are then given the opportunity to take on the role of different community helpers, such as gardeners and plant edible delights to harvest later with friends.

A key feature of PYP is to foster inquisitive minds and encourage them to be risk takers. Our school offers a fantastic adventure club where students from all ages join on scheduled weekends to explore local forests, learn how to make fire, navigate maps and tap into the natural curiosity of young minds.

Year 4 students delve into the world of maths by calculating the volume of various shapes using Centicubes. Finding the volume of an object helps determine the amount required to fill that object. This connects with their current UOI in which students are testing scientific experiments and collecting data for their hypothesis.

"All life is an experiment. The more experiments you make, the better.”

Ralph Waldo Emerson. 

Through hard work and collaboration, the secondary students were able to showcase their investigative work via creative display boards. This year the students provided each other with feedback on the quality of their experiments, the analysis of the results and the conclusions they were able to draw.  The winners will be submitting their projects to the Vienna Science Fair.

Year 7 to 9 students recently went to Krakow, Poland for a week.  This was a great opportunity for them to see one of our neighbouring countries, learn how to travel and to make memories that will last a lifetime.  It was an action-packed trip from start to finish with tours of the Wieliczka Salt Mine, The WWII Jewish Quarter, Schindler’s Factory, the Wawel Cathedral, the Museum of Illusions and more.  An adventure to inspire future globetrotting.

While the Secondary students were in Poland, our Years 10, 11 and 12 students took a quick trip to Budapest, Hungary.   They got to know the city with the help of an excellent tour guide who brought humour and wit to the story of such an important city in this part of Europe.  Along the way, they made stops at the Great Market Hall, the Hospital in the Rock, the Spa and the House of Terror.  Stay tuned for next year’s international trips.

We are very proud of our careers exploration programme here at ISB.  It allows our students to get out in the world and explore different career options which can give a sense of direction and purpose to their studies.  Some of our High School students recently went to a 5-star hotel in Prague to explore Hotel Management with students from other international schools in the Czech Republic and Slovakia.  Their experience at the Carlo IV hotel in Prague was illuminating, inspiring and fun.

• Book Week in Primary

• Secondary Service Learning

• Climbing Lessons

• Student led assemblies

• Duke of Edinburgh Expeditions

• ID Diploma Exams