News

Earlier this year four ISB alumni (Willem Kistemaker, Miles Mpfou, Kate and Brian Gallagher) created careers advice videos for our Senior School students for the ISB Talks series. Recently, they were invited to participate in an ISB first: a virtual workshop between alumni and students. 

ISB Head of Digital Learning, David Collett, reflects on his own upbringing and experiences and how that has played a role to see things from different perspectives in his work with students and in education today. 

Congratulations to ISB Grade 11 student, Robin Yeboah, who had great success recently at the Langbahn Schweizer Meisterschaften (long course Swiss national swim champtionships) winning a silver medal in the 100m freestyle!

We interviewed ISB Senior School English Teacher Padraig Rooney about his literary life. Padriag is a published poet, short story and non-fiction writer and is currently finishing his latest book on the Swiss writer Annemarie Schwarzenbach. We invite you to watch the video interview below.

We are very excited to see that ISB was featured in the WochenBlatt for our efforts for the Eco-Schools award and reduction of waste! 

The senior ISMTF mathematics competition took place on Saturday, March 27 with 68 teams from 25 schools taking part in this event. Twelve of our Grade 11 and 12 students participated in the event achieving the best results ISB has ever had at this level!

ISB was recently awarded the Eco-Schools Green Flag award. We’ve now received our Green Flags, one for each campus, and these will be displayed with great pride soon!

On 13 March, ISB students competed virtually in the ISMTF Junior Mathematics Competition 2021. Over 200 participants from 22 schools around the world competed including students from three schools in Switzerland. We are proud to report that the ISB team, including Jiahe (Grade 9), Bora (Grade 10) and Mats (Grade 10), won the overall team competition and the three students from the same team placed in the top 20 individually with Jiahe placing 3rd and being awarded the Bronze Medal. 

From 18 March, Global Recycling Day, to 22 April, Earth Day 2021, ISB Green Action Month focuses the ISB community on what we can do for our planet, with fun and thought-provoking activities to inspire positive environmental action.