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MEF International School, IstanbulWeekly Newsletter17 April 2020 |
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This week Ms Elif went into the Live Cameras at San Diego Zoo and Atlanta Aquarium with some of our students this week, and they got really excited to visit the animals. |
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We want to thank some of our students for taking part in our Children’s Day collaboration with the National School. Here are some of the students that shared their Children's Day video messages with us. |
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Grade 5 students have been creating drawings filled with as many different kinds of lines as possible. Here is some of their work. Thank you Ms Blunden for this. |
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Some of our Grade 4 students have been raising awareness of how to take care of themselves physically, mentally and emotionally. Here is a powerpoint presentation showing us some ideas. |
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Grade 4 students have also been thinking about the things that are important to them. Here is an example of a photo collage of things that are important to one of our students. |
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As part of the Unit of Inquiry How We Express Ourselves, in MFL classes for French and Spanish, the children went through an inquiry process to learn about the meaning of colours in flags. They also created their own flags out of different materials! Most of them look absolutely yummy! Indian Flag: Tanushri, American Flag: Serena, Koren Flag: Leo, French Flag: Adam, Chinese Flag: Martina, Korean Flag: Ein. |
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Today our Kindergarten Classes ran a 'No Technology Day.' Families could choose from a Tic Tac Toe choice board that included baking with family, learning to tie your shoelaces, writing a page in your journal and doing yoga with Ms Vicky. We hope Kindergarten students had an enjoyable day together as a family! |
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Many of the MEF IS staff living at the MEF Housing, joined to raise 3500 TL to help the housing’s workers and security staff. Gift packages of essentials like sanitizers and other basics as well as cash were presented to them. The recipients were so grateful not only for the gifts but equally for the “emotional significance”. Ms. Goldie would like to thank all the generous donors, and as the MEF IS community, we hope to continue this tradition regularly to help those in need. |
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A bit of healthy online competition between the Grade 7’s during an English class. Students were challenged to use their new-found knowledge of news article format and guidelines during a class game on Quizlet. |
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Students in Art 9 participated in the Getty Museum quarantine challenge: to recreate a work of art with objects (and people) in your home. The results are humorous and clever and gave the students a break from their other lessons. See the whole collection or submit one yourself here. |
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WW1 Propaganda posters from Grade 8 Humanities |
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WW1 Trench cross section diagram from Grade 8 Humanities |
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Grade 6 students began recreating the setting and characters of ‘A Midsummer Night’s Dream’ in order to demonstrate their understanding of the play at the end of the school year. |
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English students in Middle School took part in live online peer editing, plot timeline recreation and opinion essay debate using the Google application Jamboard, which promotes working together in real time. |
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IB1 Eng B students used Jamboard to prepare for the literary component of their IOC. Students brainstormed arguments about Post-War Italian immigration to the USA based on Arthur Miller’s “A View From the Bridge.” |
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Grade 8 students are completing an online revision quiz on probability during a mathematics lesson |
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A Grade 7 student demonstrating her project on Coding with mathematical functions. |
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Grade 7 students participating and asking questions related to interdisciplinary computer science projects |
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MEF Seniors have received over 180 offers from universities in multiple regions! The countries from which Grade 12 students have received the most offers are the UK, USA, Canada, and The Netherlands; however, other offers are from universities in Asia, particularly from Hong Kong and South Korea, as well as from home countries. We are extremely proud of their accomplishments in this regard in particular, as well as generally in all other aspects - they are indeed a graduating class that is a cut above, and will long be remembered as a truly unique and memorable group of young people … the future will be a much better place because of them! |
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The CCD invites you to have some of your questions answered and concerns alleviated while watching two presentations offered to counselors, parents and students around the world.From the USA: College Admissions: Impact of the Coronavirus (04/14/2020) |
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From the UK: Impact of COVID - 19 on UK University Admissions (04/08/2020) Additional Resources shared from CIALFO: |
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Grade 9 students working hard during Mr. Ibbotson’s online PE workout. |
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The Secondary Student Council got together virtually to try out some online games in preparation for some upcoming events they are planning |
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