In keeping with the IB philosophy our programmes emphasize international mindedness, helping to create a better and more peaceful world.
Our international programme is designed to bring international mindedness to the school community. A number of international activities and events help our students to find out more about the world.
IST is committed to fostering learning opportunities that go beyond the classroom walls. International Student exchanges allow our school community to experience the immense cultural richness that exists on planet earth allowing the growth of global mindedness, increasing knowledge and the understanding of an ever interconnected world.
Exchange experiences can be online using the Internet and/or involve travel to other destinations.
The Student Exchange Programme with the International School of Zanzibar focuses on service-learning activities and includes working with different realities on preserving Zanzibar culture and heritage or helping children from a local school to improve reading and writing in English.
IST students have the opportunity to participate in various school-related and cultural activities alongside ISZ students as well as a trip to Chumbe Island and its stunning Coral Reef.
The student exchange programme with the Kodaikanal International School in India focuses on increasing our students’ sense of ‘international mindedness’, benefitting from living in a completely different environment.
The activities include installing Smokeless Stoves in local homes (eradicating the risk posed to women’s health because of the smoke emitted by the stoves) and teaching local children important aspects of personal hygiene and health care, as well as basics of mathematics and English.
Students from Brighton Primary School visit Turin biannually in Autumn as part of their journey to Italy to practice the Italian language and learn about Italian culture. IST students get to know the students beforehand via Skype. IST students show the group around Turin and the IST campus in order to share their culture and language with the guests.
As official Eco-Schools, students from both the IST’s Eco Club and DET (Dumont en Transition Eco Club) have shared activities and ways to promote ecological practices in their schools. IST students attended an Eco Fair in 2018 in Toulon while a group from DET attended our IStathon in 2019. Both groups worked together to improve their ecological activities through planning and dialogue. The two eco clubs continue to collaborate and share ideas during the year. Students stay with host families whilst in either France or Italy.
A delegation of Grade 4 students visited Turin to see the Egyptian Museum as part of their PYP ancient civilization unit and spent a morning at IST presenting what they learned. The two schools continue to exchange ideas via email and skype and plan to collaborate in the future.
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