April has been an incredibly busy month for our students. Students in Nord Anglia Education’s family of 42 schools have been occupied with challenges and competitions in school, online and worldwide. Read our special report to learn more about what's been happening in our school and Nord Anglia Education schools around the world.
Stacks of dictionaries, books, cardboard tubes, lollypop sticks, masking tape, empty plastic bottles and many other seemingly mundane items lay strewn across gym floors in Nord Anglia Education schools around the world. Students mill around, thoughtfully picking and choosing items. To a stranger, this may look like a massive recycling project, but there’s more to the scene than meets the eye.
Students in our school have harnessed their creative and problem solving skills to perform an ordinary task in an extraordinary way for this year’s Global Campus challenge. We asked our students to create an ambitious Rube Goldberg machine and children of all ages have worked together to design and construct complicated chain reactions with amazing results. Global Campus Lead, Mr. David Robinson organised for all our Primary pupils to make their machines in the hall. Check out a video from the NAIS Rube Goldberg day , a video on our Year 3s who we have submitted as part of the global challenge and the blog.
Most recently, our Science teacher Mr. Scott MacKinnon and four Secondary students attended the Cambirdge Science Festival in Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA. 105 students from 13 schools in 5 continents joined from our Nord Anglia Education schools around the world in an annual celebration of science, technology, engineering, art and math (STEAM) based at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT). There were involved in six days of workshops, demonstrations, engineering and building sessions and a bit of sightseeing. They got to explore everything from rockets to robots, labs to lasers, and solar cells to supercomputers. For more details on their activities, please click here for our Instagram and Twitter account.
Encouraging ambition
This challenge, along with all our activities, embodies Nord Anglia’s philosophy of being ambitious We encourage our students to stretch themselves further, to try something new and to believe that they can achieve beyond what they may have thought possible.
Earlier this year, students from across our family of Nord Anglia Education schools shared what being ambitious means to them through videos, raps and poems to inspire other students to be ambitious.
Students also explored our philosophy of being ambitious in this year’s Creative Writing Competition. Hundreds of students shared entries, and from short stories of ambition to biographical sketches of people that have shaped our world, the standard of writing was outstanding.
The winning entries will be published in an anthology later this year to celebrate their accomplishments and to encourage them to continue writing, creating, and being ambitious.
Being ambitious is also taking students outside the classroom. Over the last few months, more than 600 Nord Anglia Education students have participated in our citizenship expedition to Tanzania where they have worked hard to build and install solar powered lighting systems, smokeless stoves and goat sheds for families in the villages around Kitefu and Madi ya Chai, and constructed two houses for teachers at Kitefu Primary School.
So how does Global Campus support your child’s learning? We are committed to creating unique opportunities for our students which inspire them to be ambitious in their learning. In addition to helping broaden your child’s knowledge linked to key curriculum areas, Global Campus activities are designed to nurture key transferable skills such as creativity, collaboration and critical thinking, which will benefit every child in school, university and later life.
Visit our new social hub to see how children in Nord Anglia Education schools around the world are learning, growing and having fun in our Global Campus every day.
What is the Global Campus?
Our students are part of more than just one school. They join Nord Anglia Education’s Global Campus, connecting them with friends in Nord Anglia Education’s 42 international schools around the world to learn together every day.
Through online, in school and worldwide experiences, Nord Anglia Education helps every student explore the world, learn new skills and set their sights higher with an international perspective.
Global Campus Online is a secure and moderated environment where students can access a wide variety of challenges and resources, learning with 34,000 other Nord Anglia students around the world.
In addition to the outstanding curricula and programmes offered in Nord Anglia Education schools, Global Campus In School’s activities and competitions enables students to collaborate in teams to create innovative solutions.
Finally, Global Campus Worldwide takes learning beyond the school campus, bringing together students from around the world through truly inspirational experiences.
