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4 teachers holding a colorful quilt created by students for ISL’s 20th anniversary

04/07/20252024-2025 School yearCelebration, Community, Creativity, Events, Kindergarten, Music, Primary school, Sportsby ISL

ISL Students Create Quilt to Mark 20 Years

To celebrate ISL’s 20th anniversary, the Primary and Kindergarten students collaborated on a beautiful giant quilt. Each student sewed a square depicting something they enjoy about school or being part of the ISL community. The quilt features many aspects of ISL life, including musical instruments, sports such as football, hockey and basketball, fruits and vegetables, and even a slice of …

A group of grade 1 and 2 students perform on hand drums

02/07/20252024-2025 School yearCommunity, Concert, Events, High school, Middle school, Music, Performance, Primary school, Secondary schoolby ISL

ISL Music Concert 2025

Tuesday 3rd June marked the annual ISL music concert at Salle Ellipse in Sainte-Foy. Over 120 students participated, from Grade 1 to Grade 11, showcasing a wide variety of film music repertoire, ensemble formations, and instruments. This event was a wonderful opportunity for students, staff, and families to come together as a school community and celebrate the learning and progress …

01/07/20252024-2025 School yearCommunity, Creativity, Film, French, Grade 7, Grade 8, Music, Projectby ISL

Grade 7–8 Create Film Inspired by Local Community

This year, the Grade 7–8 French B+ class worked on a movie project with an actor from the theatre company “La Clinquaille” from Vienne. We created a movie script inspired by pictures created by disabled adults from the ADAPEI in Ste Foy and some texts written by elderly pensioners from the résidence Beau Soleil, also in Ste Foy. Students worked …

The winning students posing with their certificates

27/06/20252024-2025 School yearCelebration, English, Events, Kindergarten, Library, Literature, Paris, PYP, Senior Kindergarten, SK, Stories, Writingby ISL

Quinn and Edward Shine in Paris Writing Festival

This year’s Young Authors Fiction Festival (YAFF) had more than 1,000 entries. Two Senior Kindergarten students, Quinn and Edward, earned two of the winning spots! We all travelled to Paris by train for the awards ceremony, which was held at the American Library in Paris, right next to the Eiffel Tower. Once we arrived, we sat in one of the …

26/06/20252024-2025 School yearEngagement in Learning, Experiment, Grade 11, High school, IB, Internal Assessments, Physics, Secondary schoolby ISL

Grade 11 Physicists Explore Real-World Phenomena

On 19 and 20 June, the Grade 11 Physicists spent two days off-timetable working on their Internal Assessment (IA) projects for their IB Physics course. These projects contribute 20% of their final grade. Subjects for research this year were diverse, including determining the clay content of pencil lead using resistivity measurements, the relationship between temperature and the speed of sound, …

Collage of photos showing student musical performances, instruments, and group singing

25/06/20252024-2025 School yearAssembly, Celebration, Community, Concert, Events, French, Music, Performance, Primary schoolby ISL

La Fête de la Musique at ISL

The primary school has been celebrating the start of summer with La Fête de la Musique, an event that has been rocking France since 1982! The school day began with the drumming circle waking up the neighbours with a lively selection of beats. To kick off lessons, we held a primary assembly featuring musical performances from many of our classes. …

The ISL students pose together at a park in Montchat

20/06/20252024-2025 School yearCommunity, French, Grade 3, International Mindedness, Penpals, Primary school, School tripby ISL

Penfriends meet at Ecole Condorcet

For three years now, the French B and French A students have been exchanging letters with students from another school in Lyon, Ecole Condorcet in Montchat. This year, Mme Delecourt, a Grade 3 teacher, welcomed us to her school. It was quite a journey—bus, metro and tram—since the school is on the other side of Lyon from ISL. Despite the …

17/06/20252024-2025 School yearCelebration, Gardening, Kindergarten, Nature, Outdoor learning, Primary schoolby ISL

Garden Harvest Celebrations

With the warm weather setting in, the Kindergarten and Primary garden are starting to yield their fruit (and vegetables). The Kindergarten have had a feast of strawberries, lettuce, and beetroot, and enjoyed turning these into wonderful treats for their end-of-year teddy bears’ picnic. The Primary have had lettuce, radishes, and strawberries. Radish tasting was less successful than strawberries, but it …

13/06/20252024-2025 School yearDesign and Technology, Earthquakes, Experiment, Grade 3, Grade 4, How the World Works, Inquiry, Natural Disasters, Primary school, Science, Unit of inquiryby ISL

Exploring Earthquake Science

As part of their unit on natural disasters (How the World Works), the Grade 3 and 4 students explored how earthquakes are measured. They investigated different types of tectonic plate movements and experimented with creating their own seismographs to observe how each type of movement produces unique waves. The classroom was buzzing with creativity and critical thinking as students designed …

Group photo of French teachers from ISL and visiting international schools, smiling outside ISL with colourful floral window decorations.

10/06/20252024-2025 School yearBilingualism, Community, Conference, French, Language, Professional Development, Teachers, Workshopby ISL

International French Educators Workshop

On Friday 6th June, ISL welcomed 11 teachers from various international schools in France, Belgium, and Portugal. The focus of the day was to discuss the challenges of teaching French as a first language in an international or bilingual school. The day began with a conference by Cathy Cohen, senior lecturer at INSPE in Lyon, who specialises in language teaching …

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ISL Students Create Quilt to Mark 20 Years

ISL Music Concert 2025

Grade 7–8 Create Film Inspired by Local Community

Quinn and Edward Shine in Paris Writing Festival

Grade 11 Physicists Explore Real-World Phenomena

La Fête de la Musique at ISL

Penfriends meet at Ecole Condorcet

Garden Harvest Celebrations

Exploring Earthquake Science

International French Educators Workshop

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