Eleven Upper School students took part in a service project in Romania during half term in February. This project involves working with people, under the Roots & Shoots club at TASIS. Students learn about how they can make a difference to the lives of others, both while working on site, and with fundraising and follow […]
Recently, our fifth grade class (year 6), built a project that we entered in the David Shepherd Wildlife Foundation’s Global Art Competition. The theme this year was, Wild Wonders. Wild Wonders compliments our class science study of animal classification, vertebrates, and how they are an important part of the ecosystem on our planet. Each student […]
After successfully composting for the past year, we have finally made a vast improvement to how we compost! We began with a compost bin, but found that it was full by the end of the school year. This caused a problem with how we were going to deal with our daily intake of food from […]
Our Roots & Shoots Wildlife Club had a busy few weeks. Firstly, we had a visit from Jo at David Shepherd Wildlife Foundation. She came to talk to us about the foundation’s work with endangered animals. This was a perfect talk for us, as we have been learning about endangered animals. The Fifth Grade Roots […]
The Roots & Shoots Wildlife Club at TASIS has been very busy. After celebrating International Peace Day back in September, our club members decided that next year we want all 750 students at our school to take part in the celebration. This includes students aged 3 to 18! We will also ask all teachers and […]
TASIS Upper School students have joined in with the Lower School to form a new Roots & Shoots Club. The new club not only works on projects with the younger students, but will also meet regularly to design projects of their own. These projects will include helping to improve life on our 46 acre campus […]
TASIS Wildlife Roots & Shoots Club celebrated the UN International Day of Peace, on 21 September. The children constructed a giant peace dove, no mean feat! Luckily, one of the students in the Upper School wants to be an engineer, and was able to help put together the wire frame beautifully! Then, they covered the […]
Teacher Wendy Gediman regularly takes Upper School students to Romania for service trips. She was recently asked to take two students who were in her fifth grade (Year 6) class last year to Romania this year. One of the girls also had her sister come along, who was in 8th grade (Year 9). The girls’ […]
Wildlife Club has had a busy spring term. Besides hatching seven beautiful ducklings, we had a wonderful visit from Kim Hale and Tiffany Cavanagh, from David Shepherd Wildlife Foundation. The theme of the visit was Earth Day 2015. For this occasion, we did work ahead of the visit and agreed that while it is wonderful […]
TASIS Wildlife Club has hatched 7 ducklings! Of course, it is important that we are responsible in our doing this project, so we have partnered with a wonderful children’s farm, Lower Shaw Farm in Swindon. The farm has provided us with some eggs, and we put them in our incubator. After about a week, we […]