Finland’s Erasmus+ Week

Last week was Finland’s pleasure to host our Erasmus+ partner countries through a virtual week of collaboration.

Each day, a partner country had the opportunity to teach virtual lessons to classes at our Erasmus+ schools. Teachers and students also prepared materials about different subjects and about their own country to share, teachers facilitated group conversations between students in different countries, and overall promoted the cooperation of students and teachers internationally.

It was a wonderful experience to see students so engaged and excited to communicate and interact with students and teachers in all partner countries.

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Greek lesson at 4th grade #ERASMUSDAY

4th grade have been learning Greek with the invaluable help of Maria from Cyprus.

Last week, we celebrate the Erasmus Days in Spain collaborating with our friends of the Erasmus project Funtasctic: Motivation starts here.

4th Grade cooperated with Cyprus in this wonderful day. We decided to share our two mother tongue. During the activity we could enjoy Maria’s company online, learning from her different Greek words and common sentences.

It was amazing spending time and learning together. We have already learnt how to say: “Hello”, “How are you?”, “red, blue, green”, and also we can count from one until ten.

Thank you Maria for your time and your patience.

Colors

Numbers

Written by Victor. 4th grade teacher.

Complete the sentence

A fun game to tell different stories in a very funny and sometimes silly way. Students sit in a circle and one of them begins a telling a story. Whenever the story teller decides to stop then the person on the right has to continue the story. By the end of the circle students laugh and enjoy themselves and feel comfortable with each other. Of course , as a class we now have inside jokes because of the story we created on the first day of school.

Playing jenga

Jenga is a fun game that requires steady hands and concentration. It was only the first day at school but students had to show some skills. The Jenga game was used as an ice-breaker and since each wooden piece corresponded to a question we got to know each other and have some fun. The students had to answer the question that they picked and ask the same question to one of the other students. If the student failed to keep pull out a Jenga piece without destroying the tower, all the class would have to answer the questions corresponding to the pieces that had fallen.

Europe Day

9 May is Europe Day. Many people know how important is being part of Europe. As European citizens, we are able to collaborate with each other in order to reach peace, cohabitation, and freedom all around the continent. In addition, we have to accept the differences between all the countries and cultures, and we have to take advantage of all of them for our own growth.

European people need to be a model for the rest of the world. We strongly believe in the power of education based on European values for our pupils.

For this reason, we would like to wish you all… HAPPY EUROPE DAY!

Coasty Co.

As students of the IMS Private School, we are participating in the annual Junior Achievement competition (JA). This competition provides us with the unique opportunity to compete with international schools and allows us to showcase our skills, entrepreneurial spirit and passion to innovate.  Our company is called Coasty Co. and specialises in the production of coasters with the distinctive ability of heating up your daily hot beverages. Our coasters function with the use of a heating element where the thermal energy is transferred to a metallic plate, thus, heating your favourite mug placed on our coaster. Our coaster is connected to a recycled USB cable, allowing the consumer to use our product in the comfort of their work spaces. During the Trade Fair at the Mall of Cyprus on the 16th March we had the opportunity to showcase our innovative product as well as develop and enhance our entrepreneurial skills. We were encouraged to decorate a stand and act like real professionals trying to sell our product by interacting with various customers and at the same time answering questions from the judges of the organisation. We are in the 10 finalists out of 60 teams Pancyprian.

Chemistry Trip

IMS school visit to Mallia Winery.Our science students visited the KEO Winery in Mallia, accompanied by their chemistry teachers. The students were shown around the plant and the staff explained the essentials of wine making, from harvest to fermentation to bottling. The students also took part in some simple QC analysis performed in the lab on wine samples. We don’t know how many of them were convinced to devote their future careers to the wine-making industry after this elucidating visit, but we definitely know how many of them wanted to try the wine.

The scientists crossword

A crossword hiding names of scientists was created for our students aged 15-18. Their task was to figure out the scientist through the the description given. The descriptions however were not simple. They included facts from physics as well as from real life. The students had to use their knowledge of the subject as well as their imagination to come up with the answer in order to find the scientist hidden and complete the crossword.

When TV meets the classroom

Television show brought to IMS. Rouk -Zouk is a fun television show which requires two teams and a lot of imagination. Due to the exam period coming up, ROUK-ZOUK served as an entertaining way for the students to revise the syllabus and prepare for exams.

How to play:

All students need to bring their headphones and mobile phones. Each team picks a leader.

There are 3 students facing away from the leader, listening to music on their headphones until their classmate taps them on their back to turn. The leader is given a word and he must describe it to the 2^nd student in the row. The student will then need to find the answer so that the game can continue. Then, the process is repeated until one minute is passed, meaning students listening to music will be tapped on their back to turn around, listen to the explanation of the word and guess the hidden word. In this way, students are able to revise for their exams and have fun at the same time.

Rules :

They are not allowed to repeat the same words in the explanation.

 

Learning through screens

Watching a movie is not only fun, but it can also serve as a useful and effective teaching tool. Alan Turing and Stephen Hawking are two very important and popular scientists, whose lives and work have served as inspiration to script writers and directors to create films and documentaries.  Two film days were set for students to watch “The Imitation Game” and “The Theory of Everything”. A follow-up discussion was held in class to test students’ understanding and of course allow them to share opinions, comment and ask relevant questions.