Archive for March, 2009
WISS Hosts Playgroup
Friday, March 20th, 2009WISS resumed its playgroup on Tuesday, March 3, which is welcomed by parents with younger siblings.
Lead by WISS parents, the playgroup caters to toddlers up to three years old, between 8:45 am and 10.45am each Tuesday in the Kindergarten building. The school and the parents jointly provide materials for this program. Besides play and circle […]
WISS Seeking to Develop a Culture of Giving and Caring
Friday, March 6th, 2009From Shanghai Daily, March. 04, 2009
Students from Primary School at Western International School of Shanghai recently were engaged in sorting and packing school resources in preparation for transporting them to their contemporaries in the Xingren Town Primary School in Sichuan Province’s Anxian County, which was devastated […]
A Conversation about learning for the Future
Wednesday, March 4th, 2009
The March issue of Shanghai Family magazine contained an interview with WISS Director Dr. Alfonso Orsini, where he spoke about the current world situation, the future our children may encounter and the needs that education today must fullfill.
“Knowing how to think is the key skill for the future. If you learn about math […]