News

It was a pleasure to see all classes participate in the yearly Health Run/Skoljoggen.

The Health Run is now a tradition at our school where we promote the importance of movement.

Students should run or walk for 30 minutes. Our students compete with themselves and count the number of laps they do each year. Student and staff participation is most important. No one can do everything, but everyone can do something!

This year we had the pleasure of being accompanied by the new school mascot, who cheered all students along.

Read more about Skoljoggen →

Our fantastic librarian, Robin Drozdowski, introduces and teaches the importance of Academic Integrity.

Through creative activities, our students get to explore different terminology and aspects of Academic Integrity.

Today the regional finals of the region called “Mellersta” (the middle part of Sweden) took place at Kungsholmen’s gymnasium and, just like last year, Vasa International School of Stockholm won the English competition.

All in all, Vasa International School of Stockholm had qualified in three languages: Spanish, Swedish and English. This means that we were one of the six best schools in the whole region, which is very impressive.

Our MYP4 students competed in three teams – Spanish, Swedish and English.

We wish our MYP4 students and their English teacher good luck when they travel to Malmö for the national final on 12 April.

Our MYP4 students won the regional final in English. They were in the lead during the whole competition. Our French team also gave a good performance, but Franska skolan, the only other school from Stockholm that had qualified, won that competition.

The national final in Malmö took place on 29 March 2017.

Well done, MYP students!

We have the honour to announce that Vasa International School of Stockholm is one of six schools per language in the “Middle region of Sweden” (roughly Södermanland, Uppland, Gästrikland and Västmanland) that has qualified for the regional finals in the International Language Competition.

On 10 March our regional final took place in Uppsala. Four MYP4 students competed in a live competition in two different teams, English and French.

We wish them good luck!

On 11 February 2017, a group of 16 MYP students and two teachers from our school went to visit Collège Icare, a French school just outside Grenoble, for one week.

Everyone stayed individually with French host families. The families had children in “troisième” (the final year of junior high) and they were all very welcoming. The programme for the week was great. It included spending the weekend with the families, attending lessons, doing sports activities, visiting Grenoble, learning about the resistance during the Second World War, snow-shoeing, skiing in the Alps and, not least, enjoying the French cuisine.

The group went snow-shoeing in the ski resort Prapoutel on Thursday the 16th, with the sun shining from a bright sky the whole day.

In May 2016 Collège Icare visited our school with a group of 17 French students and four teachers, so this was the second exchange between our schools. Everyone involved wishes to see a continuation next academic year.

In December, our PYP 5 students presented a flash mob in the streets as part of their student action. Their goal was to bring joy to people in the middle of the Swedish winter.

During the PE lessons for the unit “How we express ourselves”, the children organised and planned their dancing routines themselves. In order to design the whole process, the students had to implement all five transdisciplinary skills:

– Social skills (respecting others, adopting a variety of roles, accepting responsibility …)

– Communication skills (listening, speaking …)

– Thinking skills (acquisition of knowledge, application, analysis …)

– Research skills (formulating questions, observing, presenting research …)

– Self-management skills (organisation, spatial awareness, motor skills …)

They were so enthusiastic and courageous, performing twice in front of quite a few people watching them, and the result was amazing. They also made a lot of people happy with their performance and brought some unexpected warmth to people’s hearts. We are so proud of them!

The teachers,Anna and Sergi