Alumna Kat Roshan, Class of 2020 is now based in California where she is currently studying at Idyllwild Arts Academy. Although aiming to read Psychology at university next year, she continues to write music and has recently released a Disney-style song called ‘Oasis’. Click this link to watch this music video by Kat: https://youtu.be/ySJ67GVIcX4 and this link if you would like to see Kat's work: https://katroshan.com/ Kat has also recently recorded 2 new EDM tracks produced...
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Last week at GIS, we started the important process of looking at future options and planning to ensure smooth transitions in the transformative years. Collapsing the timetable for Year 11-13 gave us time and space to offer advice, guidance and support, highlighting the importance we place in ensuring our students are fully informed and prepared to take ownership of their own journeys. Year 11 started the process of thinking about their A level options, with this involving a series of A...
GIS Alumni Community Discount Garden International School was established in 1951 with a clear purpose: to provide a world-class education for its students. Since then, thousands of alumni have received an excellent education at GIS, and thousands more will continue to. As a way of celebrating our ever growing community, we are excited to share our latest offer with our registered Alumni: the GIS Alumni Community Discount. We are pleased to announce that we will be extending the new...
Year 13 Head Student Chloe Wong recently set up the GIS MentorConnect Platform to offer coaching and mentoring to students as they plan to embark upon the next stage of their educational journey, post- GIS. Engaging alumni has been a key part of this project, and we kicked off with Alumni Basil Lim (Class ‘10) who offered mentoring to students with an interest in coding. Chloe Wong GIS Year 13 Student/Student Head 2020/2021 ‘GIS MentorConnect’ is a platform which...
MedSoc is an ever-evolving CCA that has become an essential platform for supporting aspiring medics and dentists in our school over the past 9 years. The key aims are to provide an up-to-date insight into careers in medicine and healthcare, as well as ensure that our students are given additional opportunities to develop the foundational attributes to be successful in both the competitive application for medical courses and the demanding university courses thereafter. MedSoc runs weekly all...
Our GIS Alumni support a broad range of events organised by staff across our school. Keen to engage in conversations about technology to support their recent learning, our Year 3 students were given the opportunity to interview some of our alumni, who kindly gave up their time to contribute to this project. Thoroughly enjoyed by all, the experience was a great way for different members of the community to work together to extend the knowledge, skills and experiences of some of our youngest...
At GIS, we always welcome and encourage events organised by our former students and Alumni reunions are definitely a favorite of ours. The Alumni members from the Class of 1996 recently had their Alumni Reunion via Zoom Meeting on Saturday 24th, July 2021, celebrating their 25-year Anniversary. The event gathered around Alumni from this year group, Teacher Mrs Lim from the GIS Leadership Team, former and current teachers. This reunion sparked a sense of nostalgia for everyone who...
Nik Kalif, Class of 2020 is a 19-year-old content creator from Malaysia who is currently studying Accounting and Finance in the UK. His YouTube channel has over 360,000 followers and features many custom keyboard builds, making him well known across the region for his videos. How did this initiative start? I started YouTube way back in 2013; a classmate and I decided to try to make YouTube content for fun. We had individual channels and naturally, our first videos were...
Congratulations to all of our Year 11 and Year 13 students for reaching a significant milestone in their educational journeys. We are so proud of your hard work, commitment and resilience! This year’s graduation ceremonies were conducted online, but this didn’t get in the way of us celebrating what most certainly were momentous occasions for all. The added bonus was being joined by members of the community from all corners of the globe. We were fortunate enough to be joined by two...
As the academic year draws to an end, it’s the time to reflect upon and celebrate the achievements across our community. Many of our events have been forced to go online and the Student Leader Awards has been no exception. It was fantastic to welcome students, teachers, parents and alumni to the event to celebrate the learning journey of our student leaders. Students from each strand shared their amazing projects and reflected on the challenges of leading change at such a difficult...