Students from ESB Rio de Janeiro now have a new cafeteria where they can enjoy peaceful, nutritious and tasty meals. Not only did both cafeterias undergo renovations, but the kitchens were also modernized. We now have green kitchens that work with minimal environmental impact and waste production. Food is not just what you are eating, but a complete experience, involving the environment and setting.
We welcomed our students for a new school year. It is with great joy that we see our corridors, patios and classrooms full of life. We also celebrated the cone (known as Schultüte) ceremony with the students of the 1st year of Elementary School. A German tradition, which marks the beginning of a new school stage, that will certainly remain in the memory of the children and their families.
Before the end of the year holidays, we held our school sports week for 2021 with all students of SIS Brasília. It was a week for all students to participate and compete in a variety of individual and team sports and games, earning points for their house. It was a great event as a school community with everyone participating, showing excellent sportsmanship, coming together as a team, cheering on and encouraging others with all their energy and excitement.
No dia 10 de dezembro, celebramos a formatura da 3M de 2021, data que ficará na memória dos formandos, seus familiares e de toda a equipe. Aos nossos ex-alunos: “A ESB Rio de Janeiro será sempre a casa de vocês. Por favor, voltem sempre! Venham nos visitar e dividir conosco suas histórias, que serão, para sempre, parte da nossa história.” (Rachel Guanabara, diretora executiva)
We are pleased to share the 2021 edition of our group megazine SIS World! Annually, we collect insights from all our 17 school locations and merge them into the SIS World publication. Find out more about the SIS network by clicking on "Read more" and browsing through the publication online.
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06.12.2021
On Friday 29th October we celebrated Halloween at SIS Brasilia. Grade 1 students had a lot of fun and came with some great costumes! We learned new vocabulary with some halloween activities and had a costume parade to show off all the wonderful costumes, both spooky and cute!
Uma das comemorações mais esperadas do nosso calendário, a Festa Suíça, está de volta! Em um sábado dedicado à cultura do país, nossos alunos participaram de atividades e jogos que resgatavam tradições e costumes suíços. As turmas realizaram o famoso cortejo das lanternas ao som da canção “Ich geh mit meiner Laterne”! Que dia especial!
Os alunos do 3º ano da SIS Brasília experimentaram uma aula de capoeira e descobriram que a prática, além de reconhecida pela UNESCO é, também, tombada Patrimônio Histórico e Artístico Nacional. A atividade fez parte do estudo sobre fluxo migratórios no Brasil e as principais influências na formação da identidade do povo brasileiro.
The Primary Years Programme (PYP) classes participated in the “Jogos Esportivos 2021” with a lot of energy, enthusiasm and fair play! Students were divided into mixed year level Teams, with each Team represented by a different colour. Students also collected donations for the HAJA Institute, which helps families to lift themselves out of extreme poverty.
Professores e alunos da ESB Rio de Janeiro se reuniram em um sábado dedicado a explorar tradições e costumes de países ligados às línguas estudadas na Escola. Os alunos vieram com roupas típicas e participaram de jogos e brincadeiras em inglês, francês, alemão e português durante uma manhã agradável e, claro, multicultural!
Grade 3 started off the Book Week celebration with a fun Harry Potter themed activity. After reading and learning about the author JK Rowling students were able to make their own wands! “Expectro Patronum, Wingardium Leviosa, Expelliarmus, Lumos, Alohomora…” Choose your favourite spell, cause our 3F class is ready for magic!
We are pleased to announce the release of this year's edition of our magazine emphaSIS Brazil with the main topic being IT in Schools. IT has occupied an important place, giving space to new technology in teaching and learning. As SIS schools, we aim to empower students to use the various possibilities offered in a conscious and critical way. Enjoy reading!
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This year, the long-awaited Mostra Cultural, which marks the end of the semester, was presented in an innovative way using the Sway app from Office365. Due to the pandemic, families could not attend in person, but thanks to technology, they were able to accompany the students' work and progress made so far through the websites developed for each class.
Após a leitura do livro “Brasília, de cerrado a capital”, os alunos do 3º ano escolheram alguns monumentos da cidade para representar com maquetes. Durante as aulas de inglês, construíram um grande mural com curiosidades sobre monumentos ao redor do mundo. Além de muita criatividade, os alunos demonstraram grande interesse e respeito pela história.
Grade 1 students celebrated 100 days of school this year! During the first 100 days they have learned and grown so much. We reflected on and consolidated what they have learned with fun activities about 100. Students demonstrated how they can count to 100, write numbers to 100, and write 100 high frequency words. These are just some significant goals and achievements for Grade 1 and they all should be proud!
Em junho, celebramos a nossa tradicional festa junina na ESB Rio de Janeiro. Ao som de Luiz Gonzaga, Francisco Alves, dentre outros clássicos da cultura brasileira, os alunos da educação infantil à 5F, junto com professores e funcionários, participaram da comemoração que contou com apresentações de dança de cada turma e muitas brincadeiras! Estávamos com saudades da nossa festa!
Pre-School II students participated in a very special activity on tooth brushing. In a playful and fun way, they investigated the importance of oral hygiene, conducting experiments with eggs, emerging them in water, orange juice and soda, in addition to research on habits and foods that help maintain oral health.
A equipe da SIS Brasília encantou os juízes com a coreografia do hit "Mas que Nada", de Sergio Mendes com Black Eyed Peas e garantiu o 2º lugar na modalidade de dança durante os jogos da SIS Cup 2021! Mesmo à distância, o evento cumpriu o propósito de reunir nossas escolas e estamos orgulhosos dos nossos atletas, que deram um grande exemplo de fair play e trabalho em equipe durante a competição
We celebrated World Earth Day by sharing understandings about our systems and the environment. In the last few weeks students have developed projects related to recycling, made observations of the earth and sky, planted seedlings, and also developed campaigns with a focus on environmental preservation. In doing so, students had the opportunity to reflect on their rights and responsibilities in sharing finite resources.
O Pré II está empenhado na unidade de investigação sobre organização. Os alunos fizeram uma ronda em todo o prédio da Escola identificando os espaços que precisam de melhoria e aqueles que servem de exemplo na organização. As turmas também experimentaram formas de sequenciar e categorizar objetos, introduzindo noções importantes da matemática.
Valentina Bulc se formou na ESB Rio de Janeiro em 2018 e, hoje, cursa cinema na PUC-Rio. Nossa ex-aluna, que foi a 11ª colocada no vestibular de cinema, é atriz desde a época de escola e, no momento, está no elenco da novela “Salve-se Quem Puder”, da Rede Globo. Valentina relembrou um pouco sobre a sua época de escola e contou como a formação multicultural tem ajudado a sua trajetória até hoje. Clique aqui para saber mais!
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Every Year, the creative talent of SIS students is challenged by the competition for the SIS Christmas card motif. Of all the drawings submitted from Switzerland, Germany and Brasil at the of 2019, we have selected the work of Giovanna Souza, grade 10 from ESB rio de Janeiro. The artwork is inspired by the artist Joan Miró and we congratulate Giovanna for the ordinary composition!
O Pré I visitou a horta da Escola, como parte do trabalho de investigação sobre a natureza, permeando questões como a preservação e os benefícios que ela traz para a nossa saúde. Os alunos aprenderam sobre plantio e cuidado com a terra para o cultivo dos alimentos. Eles mesmos colheram alguns vegetais, observando suas texturas e cores! Durante o lanche, a turma também aprendeu sobre compostagem e resíduos orgânicos!
Congratulations to the winners of this year's SIS Best Essay Award, that honours the three best extended essays from graduating students. Beatrice, from ESB Rio de Janeiro, won second place for her essay entitled, “Quando a violência legitima a poder ” that compares the relationship between violence and power in two short stories; “Feliz Ano Novo ” and “O Cobrador ”, both by Rubem Fonseca. We are proud of SIS students!
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Essa semana, na nossa série Alumni SIS Brasil, conversamos com o ex-aluno Nicholas Borsoto, que se formou em 2012, na seção alemã da ESB Rio de Janeiro, e foi para a Alemanha estudar economia na Freie Universität Berlin (FU Berlin), uma das maiores universidades do país. Nicholas fundou sua própria empresa, a Archgriffin Consulting, na Alemanha.
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SIS Brasil schools implemented the Office 365 solution offering our community a more flexible and modern online learning platform. Office 365 is a cloud-based software that provides online access to MS Word, Excel and PowerPoint, cloud storage and many other possibilities. Teams for example, allows real-time conversations and collaboration between students and teachers.