Friendships here and there
In March all of the teachers and assistants at IICS attended the CEESA conference here in Istanbul. Our library assistants Lindsey Paze and Dina...
Posted 23 June, 2016
BOB 2016 winners
Congratulations to TEAM T.A.M Jams, Tallulah Burns, Alice Van Roste and Marie Van Roste of grade 6K who won this year’s Battle of the Books...
Posted 23 June, 2016
Blind date with a book
During Celebrate Reading week we created our version of Blind Date with a Book. We wrap books and then put a clue on the wrapping. Students read...
Posted 4 March, 2016
Celebrating our love of reading – ALL week
We took the week of 8 – 12 February to celebrate our reading. This is the sixth time we have had our annual Love Reading week and every year...
Posted 2 March, 2016
Battle of the Books 2016
Last year we had our first skirmish in Battle of the Books. Grade 5 and 6 made teams and together they had to answer quiz questions about the 5...
Posted 2 March, 2016
DEAR – all next week – making time for what we value
Celebrate our reading week starts next week – 8 – 12 February and every day everyone in our school will Drop Everything and Read...
Posted 5 February, 2016
Finding “age appropriate” websites
Today the grade 2 students at Hisar discovered how to use Destiny to find age appropriate websites. They need to login to Destiny with their...
Posted 1 February, 2016
Students using their book bags
Book bags are not a compulsory part of the school stationery requirements – but many of the students in grade 1 Marmara have them. We are so...
Posted 28 January, 2016
Library report September to ~November 2015
Successes Author visit Matt Dickinson October saw the return of Matt Dickinson to our school. Matt has written the Mortal Chaos series and is...
Posted 18 December, 2015
We create our own books in the library (Grade 1).
Grade one last month studied the unit about water. We finished the unit reading the book Water by Frank Asch. Grade 1 students learned a lot...
Posted 16 December, 2015
Autumn Leaves in the Library.
EY 3/4 are learning about colours. During the library time we read the story Titch, by Pat Hutchins. In this story little boy Titch gets a seed of...
Posted 27 November, 2015
