Trial by Literature

Year 13 students held a “trial by literature” of the character Meursault, from The Stranger by Albert Camus. Prosecution and Defence teams argued their cases and called witnesses; playing characters from the novel. Judge Xiao presided over proceedings in the insaka. Here, we also see Munita called to the witness stand as Salamano, Meursault’s neighbour.

Secondary university and careers guidance in Semester 1

I hope that this finds you all well and ready to embark on another school year. I wanted to take this opportunity to give you an idea of the plans in place to support your children this year as they, at various stages, prepare for their Secondary school experience and beyond.

Week 2 of "Good Morning, ISL!"

Thank you all who join our "Good Morning, ISL" program! I hope you feel energized and ready for the day after our 10 min of action!

Here are the links for week 2:

Monday, Aug 16 - exercises with a water bottle: https://youtu.be/KIaEgVQsyRQ

Tuesday, Aug 17 - exercises with a broom: https://youtu.be/0sFJKFrPfx0

Wednesday, Aug 18 - exercises with a school bag: https://youtu.be/VPTQF-beoGg

Thursday, Aug 19 - exercises with a pillow: https://youtu.be/x-dQf1YV5B4

Friday, Aug 20 - exercises with a towel: https://youtu.be/OPSonKBMOLg

Hope to see many views and participants!

Sandijs Baskevics

Athletic Director/HOD PE

Fabulous IGCSE Results

ISL is thrilled to be celebrating our most successful set of IGCSE results on record. I would like to extend my congratulations to all candidates who received their results yesterday!

IGCSE Settle In - Key Announcements and Reminders

As we commence the new academic year, we want to extend a warm welcome to our new IGCSE students in Year 10 and our continuing students in Year 11. We had a strong start to our HBL programme and I want to thank all students, parents and staff for their commitment and engagement over the last two days.

Knowing which “counselor” to contact

The word counselor can mean many different things, depending on where you are in the world. Indeed, even the spelling of the word (counselor vs counsellor...and there's even councilor) differs between countries. 

At ISL we have two types of counselors; 

Welcome to the new school year

Welcome to the new school year, and a special welcome to our new families. Although our start is once again affected by the coronavirus, we can look forward to a wonderful year ahead. If you didn’t already, you can read about our new teachers here - we welcome them to our team. We can also celebrate a number of successes, which you may read about here. All in all, school is in good shape and ready for the challenges and opportunities ahead.

Good Morning, ISL! from our new Athletic Director

It is my pleasure to introduce myself as the new Athletic Director and Head of PE department. My family has been in Zambia for almost 2 weeks now and we are very excited to start the new school year on Monday! 

I really hope that very soon we will be permitted to start our co-curricular programme to provide our students the opportunity to develop their different athletic, artistic, musical and other talents. Meanwhile, I would like to invite all the students, parents, and teachers to join our “Good Morning, ISL!” programme.

Links to Open House in Primary School

We look forward to seeing parents this evening for the Open House.

Please click on the links below to access Google Meet

Welcome back to school

 2021- 2022! Another school year begins on Monday- 9th August!

Celebrating our school

As we move into the new year, we have much to celebrate at our school. We have a strong faculty with a wonderful set of new colleagues joining us, our campus has never looked better and our exam results have never been higher. Here are some of the things we are celebrating at the moment:

Starting a parent conversation about back-to-school with Secondary students

 Regardless of whether we feel the holiday has been too short or too long, my guess is that there has not been a lot of time that parents have spent berating/negotiating/forcing their children to “hit the books”....or am I divulging too much of what my approach was?

In any case, what follows is an overview of some ideas about how to start some conversations/persuasion/coercion over the dinner table this week or perhaps over the next few weeks, ahead when the students are coming back to school.

COVID and Opening Campus - Update

Our COVID Task Force (CTF) met last week, led by our board chair, Thomson Phiri, to review the situation. The CTF considered a number of factors concerning the disease and other circumstances, along with feedback from association members left on last week's COVID blog post. The CTF made the following recommendations to our board: