This year, ISKL Alumnus William Birdthistle (Class of ‘91) was awarded the prestigious 2019 Teaching Award from the University of Chicago Law School. While you might imagine his focus during high school was on pursuing a legal career, in fact, William’s passions during his high school years at ISKL were soccer and drama.
Over the past four years, the robotics after school program in ISKL’s High School has supported and provided the opportunity for groups of students to acquire programming and engineering skills with the end goal of attending the Formosa VEX Robotics Competition, hosted by Taipei American School (TAS) held in December each year.
This past week the International School of Kuala Lumpur (ISKL) participated in the worldwide Inclusive Schools Week sponsored by the Inclusive Schools Network.
George Jahnke from Touch NZ was at ISKL during the last week of November to run a series of coaching and training sessions for ISKL Touch, Rugby and PE students and coaches. George is a Touch legend, having represented New Zealand more than 100 times at Open and Masters level.
I went to ISKL at Jalan Maxwell from 1973-1975, then graduated and moved to Honolulu in August 1975. I had two wonderful years there. The teachers were supportive, creative, and truly loved their jobs. Two teachers stood out for me. First, was Rodney Kling.
Bye-Bye Plastic Bags (BBPB) is organizing a trash pick up day this Saturday, November 2, 2019. As part of their ongoing work, they have reached out to students across the school divisions to take part in trash pick up, along with the Trash Hero KL group on Saturday morning; meet at Pretz n’ Beanz at 9:00 am.
The International School of Kuala Lumpur’s (ISKL) annual International Festival (iFest) was the ultimate family friendly event celebrating diversity, amazing food and respect for each others’ cultures. Held on November 16, and organised by ISKL’s Parent Teacher Association (PTA), the event saw the entire ISKL community come together as one to celebrate all the differences that unite them as a school.
As parents and educators, we understand how important a connection to the natural world is and how crucial it is for young children. To see and touch butterflies, birds, worms and lizards, not to mention flowering and edible plants, enhances every child’s understanding and wonder of the world around them.
ISKL’s Elementary School Grade 2 teacher, Alex Lancia had heard these words too many times. The tub where his second graders store their headphones was resulting in many being broken. He decided to do something about it. He asked his students to try to solve the problem of where to put their headphones so they won’t get broken.
This past week, our music department had the honor to welcome Dr. Jeffrey Boeckman from the University of Hawai‘i, Mānoa as a conducting guest artist. His time here started with a Conducting Symposium in the Robert B. Gaw Theatre where he was able to give an incredible experience to local Malaysian conductors and music students.
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