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SPRING SHOW

Wednesday, May 16, 2012 - 6:33pm

The Great Debate is coming to a close.

Wednesday, May 9, 2012 - 9:51am

On Friday of last week we had our student finals for the Great Debate. 9A Students: Hannah Doherty, Muna Yusuf & Veronika Povare Vs 8A Students: Lourdes Malinao, Nils Thun Olsson, & Oscar Sundlöf. The Topic of the finals were "Life in prison should be life". The debate was excellent! Both Parties fought a good fight, but in the end 8A took away the trophy as the student winners of the GREAR DEBATE. Read more

Art Auction Raises Thousands For Charity

Monday, May 7, 2012 - 3:35pm

Young artists from throughout Internationella Engelska Skolan have helped to raise thousands of kronor for charity after their work was sold at auction. Read more

Eurovision Trophy Goes to Internationella Engelska Skolan Gävle

Friday, April 27, 2012 - 5:38pm

A total of 18 acts from around Sweden faced the music for the ever-popular Modern Languages Eurovision Song Contest. Read more

Spanish Night

Friday, April 27, 2012 - 12:10pm

This Thursday Ms Diaz headed the spanish teachers in organizing a spanish night for years 7 & 8's. When I asked her what made you want to organize this she said "It’s important for our students to experience culture so why no make an event to celebrate it? This is the second time we have arranged a Spanish Evening for our students. We cook, eat dinner and have activities related to the Spanish and South American culture. It was a great success! Read more

Lunch Gigs

Friday, April 27, 2012 - 10:42am

This week some of our Grade 4 students really wowed us with their talents as they played a lunch time gig with Ms Odmark & Mr Thompson. The Hallways were packed with students, as these students from 4c provided us all with a taste of what is to come during the upcoming talent show taking place in May.

SCIENCE FAIR

Friday, April 27, 2012 - 10:26am

This was another very busy week at the Engelska Skolan. Starting with the SCIENCE FAIR which was held this past wednesday.Students have been working hard for the past four months to create projects that would impress the judges . Ms Buckley headed the science department in a very sucessful day.

WORLD BOOK DAY

Sunday, April 22, 2012 - 9:02pm

Several classes have written book recommendations during their Swedish lessons in conjunction with World Book Day.Many of the students have also illustrated their texts. They have created appealing book recommendations that their friends have read with great interest. Now we are working on a short promotional video where boys and girls from both lower and higher grades may present their book recommendations.

The task is part of the school´s increased focus on reading.

Friskis

Wednesday, April 4, 2012 - 9:30pm

Next school year pupils in grade 9 will be offered introduction and training in Friskis and Svettis' attractive facilities through a partnership with Friskis. The idea is to make it a student option where students enroll for one semester. Students will get the introduction to the health club to help plan their workouts. More information will be made available closer to the start of this project.

"When the cook tastes the soup, that's formative; when the guests taste the soup, that's summative."

Tuesday, April 3, 2012 - 1:03pm

"When the cook tastes the soup, that's formative; when the guests taste the soup, that's summative." Two weeks ago, I had the great opportunity to attend at the 5th TED ELT conference in Istanbul. TED ELT is an organization in Turkey which aims is to establish modern educational institutions with an emphasis on foreign language teaching. Read more