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A Little Bit of Genius. The podcast where our students chat with world-renowned guests.

Hear from one of our NAIS Dublin Grade 9 students share her experience at our school and how she has evolved into an independent learner.

One of our proud NAIS Dublin parents shares her family's experience at our school.

NAIS Dublin Grade 9 student, Agustina, shares with us what makes NAIS Dublin special to her.

Nord Anglia International School Dublin receives the Bronze accreditation for the Rights Respecting Schools Award (RRSA) from UNICEF.

Global schools organisation Nord Anglia Education (NAE) has today launched its first student-led podcast, A Little Bit of Genius. The new platform gives talented students the chance to put their most pressing questions to those leading change across the worlds of activism, sport, the arts and business.

2020 has arrived! Last Monday saw the reuniting of our community and also welcomed many new students and families to NAIS Dublin

This week we welcomed Nicholas Mahmet to NAIS Dublin, Nicholas is a curriculum specialist for Drama from Juilliard in New York. He spent two days leading workshops with students in almost every year group. Nicholas was impressed with our students and teaching staff. He worked directly with Grade 6 and Grade 9, commenting on the creativity within these classes.

Meet the extraordinary Yoan one of our year 8 students and an extremely talented ice hockey player.

Last Wednesday we welcomed two guest speakers to share their work on Service as Action projects.

To celebrate Science Week our Science Department invited John Dunbar from NUI Galway to visit.

Today we celebrated the official opening of The Edge Sports Hall our brand new state of the art sports facility. We also celebrated our schools first birthday and it was wonderful to look back on what we have achieved over the course of a year.

The heart beat of any school is its community. It is the people and not the building! Our community of old and new students and parents sprang back into life this week as energetic new faces raced into the building fresh from their holidays and travels.

We had the final Parent Teacher Association meeting of our opening academic year on 14th June. In that meeting our PTA Chair, Erin Zhurkin, highlighted the tremendous achievements of the PTA this year and my thanks go to all involved for making what has been TRULY remarkable progress. Mrs Bateson, Mrs Cannell, Mr Dunphy and I gave a retrospective of the year and a taste of what is in store next academic year as the school scales up to meet increasing demand for places.

This week our sports team took delivery of our brand new climbing wall! Rock climbing will be covered as part of the PHE curriculum and one of our CCAs for the 2019/2020 academic year.

Nearing the end of his first year of University, Nord Anglia International School Shanghai, Pudong graduate Eric Chen shares his thought on how the rigour and well-rounded approach to academic study in his senior years at school prepared him well for his degree.

Students experience both artistic and personal breakthroughs at Nord Anglia’s newly expanded Summer Performing Arts with Juilliard program.

Creativity isn’t a trait unique to those who pursue the arts. Educators say it’s a way of thinking that leads to imaginative and unique solutions to all types of real-world problems.

Summer camps aren’t what they used to be says Pierre-Louis Martin. It isn’t just about games, nature walks and story time. His school’s camp, the Champittet Summer Leadership Course, is designed to develop leadership qualities in young people through different activities. It’s what students want.

Where you go is not who’ll you’ll be, were comments that sparked debate recently in the media and got many of us thinking, does that statement ring true for the university you choose? At ICS, as with Nord Anglia's schools around the world, our students have access to experienced university and careers counsellors to help them prepare for life after school, which, for many, includes attending some of the world's leading universities. Windermere Preparatory School’s International Student Advisor Ruth Lahnston, Counselor Nancy Gerena and British International School Chicago, South Loop’s Director of Counseling Lindsay Kafitz say students should choose a university that is the best fit for them.