A Postcard from Riverdale Country School: Sharing Art Inspired By Our Home; New York City
Eight Riverdale Visual Arts students led a discussion entitled “Art Inspired by Our Home” with 130 students from 20 different schools based in the U.S., Brazil, Bangladesh, Korea, Germany, Oman, India, Japan, South Africa, Peru, Canada, and the U.K.
Collaborative Inclusive Project – “Time to Enhance your Skills”
The project was initiated with an aim to create awareness about equity and inclusion. The delegation size of each school was 6 students with atleast 3 differently abled students. With this initiative, students with different abilities participated in a group, which helped them improve their confidence and self-esteem.
A Postcard from Sunbeam School Lahartara – The Music and Mysticism of Banaras
Sunbeam School Lahartara, Varanasi, India got an opportunity to take some of the Round Square members on a journey to unveil the ethos of Banaras. The Round Square Postcard call that was planned for 13-15 age range was a soul stirring experience with an inspiring keynote session, stimulating baraza discussions, meditative musical performances and was a great way to explore the vibrancy and chaotic pleasure of the oldest living city of the world.
A Postcard from Chadwick and The Athenian School: A Dive Into Californian Culture
Chadwick School and The Athenian School jointly hosted a one hour Round Square Postcard with the theme ‘Dive into California’s Culture’. Over twenty schools took part in addition to our hosts, connecting more than 140 students from the USA, Australia, Bangladesh, Canada, India, Oman, South Africa, and the UK. On the call we were introduced to different aspects of Californian culture before students split into breakouts groups for discussion and then participated in an online teams quiz.
A Postcard from The Indian High School – Multicultural Dubai
The theme “Multiculturalism” was chosen as it relates to the demographics of Dubai. Attendees were introduced to the topic by way of a video comprising of visuals of the country combined with examples of how the U.A.E is a melting pot of myriad cultures.
Cela fiesta- a melting pot of diverse Literature
In times like these, with uncertainty surrounding our lives, what we truly need is something that brings us together – not by virtue of our nationality, religion or even language. But by virtue of our passions that shape our lives.Literature is where we must seek our objective. Literature is the medicine for distress. It is the channel for the voiceless. It is truly awe – inspiring, the power of art, to move people, to bring people together – like it has in the fiesta.
Video and pen-pal exchanges across continents
In September 2020 Chadwick International school in California, and Renaissance International School Saigon engaged in a cultural collaboration that saw our students exchanging emails, and creating Flipgrid videos that had them speaking about a wide range of age-appropriate topics in order to learn about students from across the globe. These emails and Flipgrid videos allowed our students to explore the diversity in our student body as well as hone their cross-cultural communication skills.
A Postcard from Hyderabad Public School: Healthy eating
Lead School: Hyderabad Public School Participating Schools: Vidya Devi Jindal School- India St. Constantine’s – Tanzania Regent’s School – Bangkok IndiaSunbeam School Lahartara- India Tamagawa Academy – Japan Sunbeam Suncity, Varanasi – India St. Andrews School for Girls – South Africa Yadavindra Public School, Patiala – India Rajmata Krishna Kumari Girls Public School – India […]
Ethical Leadership Series- Inter-Community School Zurich
Participating Schools: St Mary’s Colchester- shared the resources to allow them to participate St Philip’s College- shared the resources and also connected via zoom to share their own project Overview A group of motivated secondary school students at ICS masterminded, designed, and delivered “The Ethical Leadership Series” as a professional development opportunity for other students. […]
A Postcard from Kingsley School – “Behind the scenes in England” collaboration call
Lead School: The Kingsley School Participating Schools: The Doon School (India), Gut Warnberg Schule (Germany), Chittagong Grammar School (Bangladesh), Dhirubhai Ambani International School (India), Keimei Gakuen (Japan), KC Public School (India), Palmer Trinity School (USA), Vidya Devi Jindal School (India), St Mary’s Colchester (UK), The Sanskaar Valley School (India), St. George’s College (Peru), Sunbeam School […]