Out and About at ISOCS

Our mission requires us to help students feel connected to the community in which they live.

Therefore regular outings are a meaningful part of who we are and what we do at ISOCS!

Recent outings have included students planning visits to:

• The Cham Library (every month students select German books for personal and class use)
• The local supermarket (for Juniors to buy food for lunch and estimate cost and then to decide on transportation options)
• The local park and Mini-golf (for Juniors to use online timetables to plan an excursion)
• A local restaurant to order hot chocolate in German
• The local carnival (Fasnacht)
• A lakeside ice cream restaurant (to plan the trip and order ice cream in German)
• The Local Ludothek (toy library)

Senior students have had visits to:

• Horgen Abfallverwertung (recycling plant to investigate energy transfer)
• Zurich International school Library (to research how to manage an international school library)
• Cham Library ( to research the organisation of a children’s section in a German speaking library)

On the basis of the above two visits the Senior students took on the organization of the ISOCS student library.

Field Week May 2010

The Seniors will embark on a one week outdoor school camp in Verbier with “Les Elfes” alongside Zurich International School (www.zis.ch) to support their learning about Ecosystems in May of this year.

Junior Students and second graders will plan field trips to local farms, woods, animal parks and zoos to support their current Units of Inquiry on “Ecosystems” and “Living and Growing”.