A DIFFERENT AWARD SYSTEM :)

January 30th, 2011

Grade 8 students were introduced with a new award system.  For two month prior to Foreign Language Week, students were given awards for completing homework on time, excellent classroom participation and behaviour, exceptional work and for giving a helping hand when needed.  During language week the students were given the opportunity to collectively or independantly [...]

CONGRATULATIONS TO THE DEBATING CLUB !!!!!!!!!

January 28th, 2011

  Yesterday , Thursday 27th January, 5 girls, from İstek Acıbadem High School, took part in the Eurasian Debating Competition, competing against other students from İstek Atanur Oğuz High School. We are very proud to say they won!! The competition continues and we wish them the best of luck for the forthcoming debating heats.  27 [...]

FOREIGN LANGUAGES WEEK

January 24th, 2011

Yabancı Diller Haftası tüm okulumuza duyurulmak üzere okulun çeşitli yerlerinde ilan edildi. Bu yılın sloganı ‘Languages make  the world go around’. Bu tema ile yola çıkarak bu hafta öğrencilerimize yeni bir dil öğrenmenin önemini anlatan mesajlar verdiler. Bu mesajlar göz önünde bulundurularak öğrencilerimizin ilgilerini dünya dillerinin üzerine çekmeye çalışıtık. Hafta boyunca tüm İngilizce öğretmenleri ders [...]

İSTEK ACIBADEM IN EURASIAN SCHOOLS DEBATING CHAMPIONSHIP-2011

January 20th, 2011

We are proud to participate the inaugural Eurasian Schools Debating Championships in Istanbul between January 27th and February 1st, organized by the Robert College Debate Society, supported by Yeditepe University, ESU Turkey and many more. We hope that this event will be an opportunity for our debater students to meet debaters from all around the [...]

After School Lessons for Working Mom’s Kids

January 20th, 2011

We have recently begun an after-school homework workshop for the children of working moms. In this workshop, some of our high school students stay after school from 4:00 p.m. – 5:05 p.m. and give special lessons to the primary students. The high school students watch over the primary students while they do their homework. This [...]

PREP END OF YEAR PRESENTATIONS

January 20th, 2011

PREP END OF YEAR PRESENTATIONS Our prep students here at İSTEK Acıbadem, have been very busy preparing for their end-of-year portfolio presentations. As part of their presentations, we are currently shooting a short film showing “a day in the life of a prep student” and short individual student interviews based on their portfolio topics. These [...]

LITERATURE PROJECT

January 20th, 2011

İSTEK SCHOOLS Foreign Languages Department is hard at work putting together a very exciting project!!! We have collected several different poems from many students and these poems will become part of a professionally published book. One hundred and fifty-three students have volunteered to sell these books once they are published. Their goal (and ours) is [...]