School Blog

Dear Parents and Students,

We have had a wonderful start to the term and as the leaves turn golden we are looking forward to welcoming you into school next week for the Student, Parent Teacher talks (SPTs).  This is one of the most important times of year for us, as we believe the feedback we provide is key in enabling our students to understand their learning. Students, you have been working very hard and have already achieved some excellent results and you are really showing a positive approach to your learning at school in all you do. Well done to year 4 students, your positive and enthusiastic start at our school has been amazing.

Parents, please discuss the feedback our teachers have provided in the rubrics in school soft with your children: The key questions are: What have I achieved so far and what do I need to improve on in my subjects? How do I go about achieving this and which areas do I need to practice to become an expert learner?

Our focus this school year is a refocus on our Approaches to learning (ATLs). Being Punctual, Positive, Prepared, Active, Cooperative and Respectful are key tools in successful learning: Do I need to change the approach to my learning to achieve my goals in all subjects?

We have had a busy first half term, including extra activities such as the year 6 Aesthetics day, Year 9 canoeing day, Swedish author visits, European Language week, Sports Days and Orienteering.

We have one more week until the autumn break and during this week we have several fun activities in school including our annual dress up day for Halloween. We love to work hard, but play hard too at IEST.

I would like to take this opportunity to inform you about up and coming events at our school:

• Open House for new year 4 students on 19^th November (By invitation only)
• Cambridge University training days for teachers hosted at our school on 28^th and 29^th November
• PRAO for year 8 and year 9
• Lucia celebration 9^th December (More details to come)
• Year 7 Movie Night on 24^th November
• The Junior school “ Winter White” disco is planned for December 2^nd

I am looking forward to welcoming you in to school next week and would like to thank our professional and creative staff and teachers for all they do to make IEST such an outstanding school.

I believe it is important in my role as Principal to actively listen, learn and lead our school and I am delighted to have such an experienced leadership team behind me to support with the operational aspects of running our school, so we also have time to focus on our strategic planning and focus on the quality of education and life- long learning at our school.

I would like to end by wishing you all a lovely autumn break and I welcome everyone back on November 7^th.

Best Regards,

Ms. Gina Ericsson

Principal

Nu har alla våra åk 6 varit på Tekniska museét och deltagit i Uppdrag Media. Det har varit otroligt lyckat och mycket givande, och våra elever har varit så duktiga. Många har sagt efteråt att de skulle vilja arbeta med något sådant här i framtiden och det känns såklart extra roligt. 

Hälsningar,

Jenny Helsing

HoD of Swedish department

Dear Students and Parents,                                                    

We are delighted to be able to welcome all our students in junior school in years 4-6 to our beginning of school ceremonies on Thursday 18th August 2016. The assemblies take place during Thursday in our student lounge areas in the senior school on Nytorpsvägen 7A.  After the welcoming ceremony the students will then proceed to the junior school building accompanied by their mentor for registration and their first mentor time in their mentor class. Parents are welcome to pick up their children at the school entrance at 10.00 for year 6, 14.45 for year 4 students and 15.15 for year 5 students.

New students in Year 4

Student, Parent, Teacher meetings week 33

During the first two days of the autumn term we start with a 20 minute introductory talk (student, guardian and mentor) for all our new students starting in year 4. These meetings will take place during week 33 on Thursday morning August 18^th and on Friday 19th August. This will be a great possibility for you to meet your child's new mentor and get to know each other as well as discuss your child’s individual academic and social needs. The new mentor will assign a day and time to meet you and your child and this time will be sent out during of week 32.

Introduction Day

Year 4 students will have a home introduction task for Friday the 19th and they will have their introduction day on Monday 22^nd instead. So there is no regular school for year 4 on Thursday the 18th and Friday the 19th. School schedule starts on Tuesday 23rd and Junior Club opens on Tuesday 23rd August.

Have a wonderful summer and we look forward to seeing all our students on Thursday 18^th of August 2016.

Best Regards

Ms. Gina Ericsson, Principal

On Friday 10th June, our year 9 students graduated in Karolinska Institutet’s Aula Medica as record breakers!  The students achieved a meritvärde of over 297 points, improving their score from the end of the autumn term by over 20 points, to comfortably be the highest achieving year group IEST - a staggering achievement!  

This year’s Valedictorian, Alice Carlsson (9A), and Salutatorian, Ludvig Skare (9A), were joined by 10 other students with perfect scores of 340 points - also a record!  Congratulations once more to Victor Sannicolo (9A), Clara Falkenek (9B), Rebecca Lejdström (9B), Parasto Naghibi (9B), Amy Chen (9C), Olivia Eineborg Schön (9C), Jennifer Jerand (9C), Erik Luo (9C), Vidar Stenqvist (9E), and Alicia Barker-Åström (9F)!

The ceremony, hosted by year 8 students Maya Bhattacharyya (8B) and Eros Carinci (8A), also included performances by Ms Berzelius singing the national anthem, Ellen Sävenäs (9D) singing ‘Try’ by Colbie Calliat, Victor Sannicolo (9A) playing ‘All of Me’ by John Schmidt on the piano, and Felix Westerlund (5E) singing the traditional den blomstertid nu kommer.  Outgoing student president Isabelle Aiken (9A) also gave a heartfelt speech.With so many successful students at IEST, there was much to celebrate.  Class of the year, for their positive attitude went to 9A, whilst student of the term went to Axel Vide (9B).  Academic prizes went to the highest achieving students in each of the subjects.

Students in years 4 to 8 graduated the day before in ceremonies held in the student lounge at school.  Students in 6C treated all year groups to performances of Du Gamla Du Fria and Den Blomstertid Nu Kommer.  Ukulele ensembles from 5C and 5E and recorder players from year 4 also wowed the audience in years 4 and 5, as did the school’s results in Bästa Fyran, the Big Challenge, and the Short Story Competition.  

In year 7 and 8, Johanna Grahm (7B) played the piano, and Josefin Sirc (8A) wowed the crowd with a rendition of James Bay’s ‘Let It Be’.  We also found out the eagerly awaited results of the PTA sponsored year 8 Dragon’s Den project, with the winning entry coming 8B - congratulations Emma Ström and Isabella Lejdström!

Classes and students of the term went to 4A and Rafael Bröms-Thell (4E), 5C and Embla Åberg (5D), 6A and Miranda Elmer (6F), 7E and William Ericsson (7D), and 8E and Hanna Bjöörn (8F).

We would like to wish all students, and their parents and guardians a wonderful and well-deserved summer break - see you all in August!