Celebrating the Year of the Tiger
By WISS Admin | February 22, 2010
Parents, students and staff gathered together at WISS on Wednesday February 10th to celebrate the Year of the Tiger.
The Tiger is the third sign in the Chinese Zodiac cycle, and it is a sign of bravery. Like the lion in Western culture, the Tiger is the proverbial King of the Jungle, admired for its […]
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Graphic Novels for Your Child
By WISS Admin | February 5, 2010
By Fiona Collins, WISS Librarian
“When I started reading graphic novels, I was struck by the fact that stories about Spider-man or Batman and Superman could have as many plot twists and turns as any story by Shakespeare, Stephen King or Leo Tolstoy” – Rob Weiner (Texas Tech Librarian and Comic Book Expert)
Parents and teachers are […]
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WISS Christmas Show
By WISS Admin | January 6, 2010
Much of the excitement of Christmas centers around the children and their joy at the magic of this particularly special time of the year. What better way to celebrate than to watch the children sing and dance on stage!
This year’s Christmas Shows tell the story of the first Christmas using the children’s beautiful voices to […]
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My City
By WISS Admin | December 9, 2009
Cityweekend Parents & Kids, Dec.3-Feb.4, 2009
by Reina Fukushima, G10 student
Shanghai has developed tremendously, and it has become very beautiful and modern. Next year, it is going to hold the world EXPO, so many people all over the world will pay attention to Shanghai. I’m very lucky to live in a place like this. My […]
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Math=Fun
By WISS Admin | November 27, 2009
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Admit it. You’ve done your fair share of groaning over algebra, you’ve flubbed a few fractions and whined at length about the uselessness of calculus. What if your children could […]
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Pre-K Friendship Picnic
By WISS Admin | November 11, 2009
On Friday November 6 Pre-K RED and Pre-K BLUE ventured out to Zhu Di Park to complete their ‘Friendship Unit’ with a friendship picnic. Parents also joined their children for fun, food and frivolities. The favorite parts of the picnic included: * eating, eating and eating* playing with the giant parachute* riding the biggest school […]
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Halloween Parade
By WISS Admin | November 4, 2009
What a busy day we all had last Friday, beginning with our Halloween Parade! Well done to all of the children and the teachers for dressing up in their wonderful costumes and for taking part in the fun of the parade with good humour and enthusiasm! There was such a happy atmosphere from the […]
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Girl Scout Assembly
By WISS Admin | October 29, 2009
An extra special assembly for parents of girls who are members of the Girl Scouts at WISS took place yesterday in the Community Room. The girls took part in a ‘bridging’ ceremony during which they received their new uniform and, of course, they did so with great pride.
Thank you to Mrs Heather Foley (WISS parent […]
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Buddy Classes
By WISS Admin | October 23, 2009
This academic year one of the many new initiatives in place at WISS is the set-up of “Buddy Classes” in Early Years and the Primary School.
It was wonderful to see our older students pair up with the younger ones during lunchtime in the past few weeks. Our Primary students were delighted to visit the […]
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CISSA Soccer Days
By WISS Admin | October 22, 2009
By Luke Griffin, PE Coordinator
Last week saw PE and class teachers and students from Grades 3, 4 and 5 travel to the Shanghai American School to represent WISS at our first ever CISSA sporting event. The game was soccer (football) and the aim was to have fun!
Each class was divided into two teams and we played 3 […]
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