Sports Day

Our annual Sports Days at Primary were held on 17th and 18th April this year. The children demonstrated their physical skills and also took part in a number of fun races. Everyone had a fantastic time in the glorious sunshine!

Thanks to Mr Daniel for organising the events and thanks to all of the parents who came along to support their children.

Secondary News

Congratulations to the Year 8 drama students who performed some very interesting versions of some classic tales to the children in Reception, Year 1 and Year 2 before Christmas.

We were also very lucky to be invited to a road safety roadshow, an initiative of the local authority.

Our end of term outing (ice-skating, bowling and the cinema) and our Christmas Prom were also a great sucess.

Outstanding Cambridge Learner Awards

Once again we are first equal in Spain, out of over 200 centres, for the number of Outstanding Cambridge Learner Awards that we have received. Special congratulations to María Alonso who who obtained the highest mark in Spain in three subjects at A-level and also to Victor Attwood (highest mark in Spain in AS Business Studies), Claudia Fernández (highest mark in Spain in AS Mathematics) and Miguel Barriola (highest mark in Spain in IGCSE French).

Christmas Shows

Many thanks to all of the children, parents and teachers who helped to make this year's Christmas performances such a great success. Foundation Stage performed some Christmas classics, KS1 presented 'Away in a Manger' and in KS2 we had 'It's a Party' and 'Ebeneezer'.

Art Contest

The ISM 6th annual Art Contest sponsored by the APA in the Primary School was a terrific success.  The theme this year was 'The Enchanted Forest' and hundreds of children from Nursery to Year 6 participated.  Well done to all those who took part and helped to organise the event. Click here to see the winning entries.

Congratulations to our Year 7 rugby players who won the first British Schools Rugby Tournament. Nine schools competed in all and we have a fantastic trophy to celebrate coming first. Mr Alex would like to thank Ignacio, Alejandro and Pablo for their help in coaching the children in the workshop prior to the tournament.

Congratulations also to the Year 10 girls who came third in the recent inter-schools Football Tournament organised by ISM.

Hallowe'en

Hallowe'en was a lot of fun again this year. We all had a lot fun dressing up in scary costumes and having parties. We also enjoyed our lunch of rats tails, fried brains with blood sauce and juicy eyeballs for dessert.

On 14th and 15th June  some enthusiastic Secondary students volunteered to attend the mini-MUN conference at ICS. On Thursday morning all students were divided into their committees and had to make agreements and persuade other countries to write a resolution with their country, which would be debated in the committee debates later on. These were followed by the General Assembly where the resolutions that passed in the committee debates were debated.

World Book Day

World Book Day was celebrated on 23rd April. In Secondary, each form decorated their tutor room to represent a book of their choice and the students and teachers dressed up as characters from the book they had chosen. A number of contests and events were held during the day, including an attempt by some pupils from 8R to organise a way to beat the record of the most people dressed up as a character from a book reading at the same time. Well done to all involved!

ISM celebrated its 40th anniversary in December 2011 with a reunion for former pupils and staff. Thanks to all those who attended and made the evening a very memorable one.

ISM at the Bonn United Nations Conference

At the beginning of September ISM was very proud to be involved in the 64th Annual UN Conference, entitled "Sustainable Societies, Responsive Citizens". Mr Wickham, Head of Secondary led a workshop entitled “What can I do? I’m only a volunteer”, focusing on the ‘ethical aspects of efficacious volunteerism’. As seen in the picture, he was assisted by an ISM student. The purpose of the workshop was to try to convey that sustainable societies are only possible if their lasting relationships are founded and built on peace and intelligent harmony. ISM’s philosophy is in direct accord with these aims.

ISM on the TV!

Year 4 children from ISM feature in the new series Let's Play on the Aprende Ingles TV channel. The first episode will air on Monday 11th April. A trailer for the series can be found here, or you can visit their website www.aprendeingles.com.

Musical Evening

The first of this year's Musical Evenings was held in the theatre on 31st March. The evening featured a mix of instrumentalists, vocalists and dancers and once again the standard was incredibly high. Many thanks to Mr Roberto for organising this wonderful event and to all the children who took part.

Money Talk!

We were very fortunate recently when the well known Spanish economist, Ramon Tamames, gave a talk to Years 10 to 13 on the present and future state of the world economy.

Mamma Mia

Congratulations to all involved in the Secondary production of Mamma Mia! on Tuesday 15th and Wednesday 16th March. The show was a tremendous success.

Spanish Olympic Team Visit

We were recently very fortunate to be joined in by members of the Spanish Olympic team, who demonstrated the use of equipment to children in Years 8 and 9 in Secondary and Years 4 and 5 in Primary.

ISM on the News!

A while ago some pupils from Years 1 and 2 appeared on a news report for Telecinco. You can view the report online by clicking here.