Once a year, the 10th Grade IB Theatre students partake in a 24-hour long workshop. For an entire day, they eat, breathe and sleep theater. This year, this event took place after school on October 25-26, ending with the students … Continue reading Grade 10 enjoys 24-hour long theatre workshop

At St. John’s, we do everything we can to recognize the unique potential of each of our students and to encourage them to pursue their various capabilities. One of our star athletes accredits St. John’s in helping him build his … Continue reading Commitment key to student’s swimming success

Grade 6 had a very interesting and entertaining Skype call from students across the globe! St. John’s set up a small encounter for our students to have a chat with their peers in the U.S. Neither knew which city, or even … Continue reading Location guessing with an overseas school

“The International Baccalaureate aims to develop inquiring, knowledgeable and caring young people who help to create a better and more peaceful world through intercultural understanding and respect.”  Taken from the IB mission statement. St. John’s has been an IB world school for many years, since 1978 to … Continue reading St. John’s adds IB Middle Years Programme

As you may already know, St. John’s has a Dual Language Program (DLP) from Pre-Kindergarten up to Grade 4. The students are taught material in both French and English, to help strengthen their foundation of both languages. Next school year, the DLP will extend to Grade 5 as well. To promote the interaction in different languages, we “buddy up” children from different grades. On Thursday, we arranged a small ceremony for the buddies to meet and get to know one another. The ceremony started with a multilingual sing-a-long. The children were excited and all participated in singing “Good Afternoon Everybody” … Continue reading Getting to know your multilingual buddy

We, at St. John’s, take very seriously our responsibility to help our students grow into well rounded global citizens – prepared to embrace the opportunities they have been given and make their contribution to the world. Central to the St. … Continue reading MS students help local service organisation

This week, our 11th graders are taking Preliminary Scholastic Aptitude Tests (PSATs). As you may know, the Scholastic Aptitude Tests (SATs) are standardized tests taken by High School students, the scores of which are most widely used for admissions to … Continue reading Preparing for SATs with PSATs

First Grade has just began a new Unit of Inquiry. The Central Idea of this Unit is that communities depend on everyone cooperating to reach the same goal. To explore the concept of cooperation and working together the children were … Continue reading Working together to reach a goal

Yesterday evening, a large group of St. John’s parents attended an expert presentation on “Supporting your Child at Home”. Topics addressed included: Is homework always a battle? Do you wonder how to motivate your child to work independently? Do you know … Continue reading How to best support your child at home

The Sports Arena and Hall were filled to capacity on Friday during the St. John’s International Festival. A record 47 countries participated in the parade, while some 30 countries also hosted a stand, where students could collect stamps for their … Continue reading International Festival celebrates diversity

On the 7th of October 2016, the Greene Gallery held an opening exhibition for Frederick Bell’s series of artwork called “Looking at Looking”. Frederick Bell made his first appearance at St. John’s in 1998 with the exhibition of ‘Some Corner … Continue reading Student interview with visiting artist

Our students are always encouraged to get a thorough perspective of the world. Through many different subjects that are taught by experts at St. John’s, we give them the information and skills they need to form a more wholesome approach … Continue reading Religion and its Impact

We all know the importance of being environmentally aware. It is something that is now instilled in us, and most of us do our best to separate our garbage and recycle the right manner. In every small way that we … Continue reading Environmentally conscious 7th graders

Our MS Assembly last week found us reflecting on what it is to be principled leaders and citizens within the context of the school community and beyond. The alignment of this theme with the delivery of 12 outstanding addresses by members … Continue reading Principled Leadership and Principled Citizenship

  Rehaan (grade 11) performed in the prestigious Association for Music in International Schools (AMIS) Honor Jazz Festival at The American School of the Hague (ASH) in the Netherlands last weekend. Auditioning in spring of this year, Rehaan was one of … Continue reading St. John’s student selected for prestigious music festival

It’s never too early to teach our students about safety. Knowing about road safety could protect them from a potentially dangerous situation. So we got in touch with our friends over at Volvo, and asked them to come over and … Continue reading Safety in Grade 2: Stop. Look. Wave.

In Kindergarten we have been learning about ‘How We Take Care of Ourselves’ and ‘How We Take Care of Others’. After various “tuning in” activities, the teachers asked the students what they wanted to learn more about and grouped the … Continue reading Kindergarten students present on healthy habits

The Middle School Student Leadership Council is composed of 15 class representatives from grades 6 through 8. Most of the representatives nominated themselves to run for executive positions, which are Chairperson, Co-Chairperson, Secretary, Events Director, Research and Publications Director and … Continue reading Electing the MS Student Leadership Council

A song by the band Journey, called “Don’t Stop Believing”, tells the story about a small town girl living in a lonely world, and a city boy, both deciding to take a train going ‘anywhere’. Students that walk the halls … Continue reading The importance of teacher encouragement

Did you know a chicken’s egg shell is made up of stones? Or that the hen warms the egg to 31 degrees centigrade before the egg can hatch? If you did not know some of this information, then our curious … Continue reading Farmer Steve cracks the mystery of the egg

On a previous blog, we discussed our Student Leadership Workshop and how we aim to equip our students with various skills for their brighter future. A few days after the Leadership workshop concluded, we spoke to one of the students … Continue reading Student account of the Leadership Weekend

One of the many activities in Pre-Kindergarten which our parents enjoy, is coming into school and cooking/baking with the children. It is with great excitement that we look forward each week to see which Mom, Dad, grandparent, aunt, uncle or … Continue reading Cooking with parents in Pre-Kindergarten

Is homework always a battle? Do you wonder how to motivate your child to work independently? Do you know how to help motivate your child? If you are looking for answers to these questions, then this talk is for you: “Support your child … Continue reading Expert Presentation “Support Your Child at Home”on October 17