ICS Addis Spotlight News
Debate, policy, and diplomacy took center stage in this regional event hosted by ICS.
Check out photos from an amazing experiential learning trip!
They are coaching, refereeing, and instructing a variety of sports and activities.
Watch highlights from events on campus this week!
Students are working with a community whose river is polluted with trash.
The annual tournament raises funds for student-led community engagement.
18 local and global organizations joined us on campus to share their work.
Highlights from International Breakfast, NGO Fair, and EY5 Learning Celebration
Congratulations to Ezra in Grade 9 for winning the People's Choice!
Next up, the pool will open for extracurricular activities, community use, and curriculum.
Students interviewed and were inspired by local and global NGO partners.
They are continuing to build relationships and support a local school.
The Ethiopian American scientist is renowned for his work in planetary exploration.
More than 200 student-athletes came from eight international schools.
Check out photos from this awesome trip!
New team photos of our ICS athletes and artists!
Showcasing the school's world-class academic, extracurricular, and community offerings.
Students took the lead in sharing learning with their parents!
The photography class spent a day applying their learning in the field.
The students visited many of the ICS teams and learned how they make a positive impact.
They traveled to the world-famous high-altitude training center.
Wellbeing expert Kirsten Pontius hosted 3 days of workshops for staff and parents.
More than 6,500 people registered to speak with representatives from 40 universities from around the world.
Our teachers are blogging about personalized learning and hub classrooms.
Check out photos from our first season of ASAs
A great learning experience for our Middle and High School theater students.
Link inside. Voting open until 4 October 2024.
A collaborative service project will have a lasting impact on a local community.
Earl celebrates another great school year and looks ahead.
Students partnered with the ICS Maintenance team to design and implement the systems.
EcoYouth Workshop introduces students to ongoing conservation efforts in Ethiopia.
More than 100 students and 28 volunteers celebrated together.
Culture and community at the heart of long-term success for ICS football.
Luc Reynaud has made a career out of using creativity to serve.
Calley Connelly was featured on the AISA Conference podcast.
18 ICS students performed at the UN's Spanish Language Day event.
Watch the Class of 2024 Graduation Ceremony from ICS Addis
Check out the year's top highlights from ICS Athletics & Arts
Resources and tools for families at the end of the school year.
A Grade 9 storytelling unit builds connections and empathy
Please join us in celebrating our ICS Nurses!
ICS teams earned medals in sports and STEAM tournaments across Africa.
Join us for movie night and a family picnic!
Read an article about Kubik by G5 Student Liyat E.
A look back at Autism Awareness Month at ICS Addis is 2014
Links to live broadcasts, schedule, and results! Go Eagles!
Plus information about Diversity, Inclusion, and Empathy Awareness Month activities!
Mededonia is a non-profit organization that supports the elderly and people with mental disabilities.
Six Grade 11 students traveled to Ghana for the Global Issues Service Summit and more!
Home Languages Day, a student-led IB PYP workshop, & an Early Years learning celebration!
Parent and staff volunteers hosted an amazing day of fun and fundraising for the community!
The new student-led service initiative took another step forward on Friday.
A look at a team of professionals committed to supporting ICS students!
ICS Addis has become an IB Careers-related Programme (IB CP) candidate school!
Our rugby, basketball, and swim teams competed in tournaments across Africa.
Eight ICS students played in the band made of 140 students from 47 nations.
Grade 9 and 10s wrote fictional stories featuring scientifically accurate concepts.
They developed concepts for start-ups that would create sustainable solutions.
Grade 8 students used sewing machines and laser cutters in their design classes.
ICS Addis won bronze in the 2023 InspirED School Marketers Brilliance Awards.
Students played games, learned together, and made donations.
They raised more than $4000 USD with support of the ICS community & sponsors.
High School students enjoyed a piece honoring Maya Angelou.
The Saturday program is for basketball and soccer players from Early Years 5 to Grade 3.
Get a glimpse of all the events and activities taking place at ICS this week, including a slam dunk!
ICS students built relationships with the 7,500 residents of the community center.
Playground and IT equipment donations benefit neighboring schools.
Students in the NHS exemplify the ICS mission and vision. Congratulations!
School leadership led parents through a tour to observe hub learning at ICS.
Scenes from a great week of learning and community at ICS Addis!
ICS Teacher Rob Love was a guest visitor who spoke about his personal experience.
The students explored UNICEF's Convention of the Rights of a Child.
Students took on physical challenges, as well as cultural and artistic classes.
The account aims to celebrate the impact students are having in the community.
The group raised more than 50,000 birr and sponsored more than 130 young women.
ICS has partnered with our neighboring school for more than two decades.
Elementary & Middle School students interviewed reps from 15 charity organizations.
Students traveled in Ethiopia and Zanzibar, Tanzania, for Week Without Walls trips.
Our track and field and volleyball teams faced off against international schools from around Africa.
Find the full competition schedules and links to live broadcasts of the events.
The two students are studying higher level visual art and art part of a student-run mural club.
Positive Action is a social-emotional learning curriculum with a unique international focus.
A 4x Olympic Gold Medalist & 2x WNBA Champion, and a 12-year NBA veteran attended classes and led a clinic.
We place high value on the home-school partnership because we know it positively impacts student learning.
Check out clips from another great week of learning and community at ICS Addis!
It was a fun and inspirational day of learning for everyone involved!
ICS hosted a conference for educators in collaboration with the International Baccalaureate.
Check out video of our high school students investigating Newton's Law
Explaining the traditions and sharing the plans for our annual Meskel celebration.
As a truly diverse school, our Home Language Program is designed for expat children to build community and identity.
Check out highlights from some of the great events around ICS Addis this week!
More than 100 parents gathered for food, coffee, and fantastic student performances!
Students are using their theoretical knowledge of electricity to spark real-life solutions.
Taekwondo, painting, gymnastics, coding, basketball, robotics, knitting, and so much more!
Explore the philosophy of the ICS Addis Early Years experience and watch video of learning in action!
Students learn to solve real-world problems using state-of-the-art digital tools.
Students held a service club fair to recruit new students to contribute to their causes.
The ICS Facilities Team completed more than 100 projects, including a system to store rain water for the dry season.
Join the first all parent meeting of the school year on Friday 1 September!
The ICS Community Market is one of the most popular monthly events on our school calendar.
Parents can now enjoy coffee and breakfast service every school day!
Dr. Chris brings decades of international teaching and leadership experience to ICS.
The design contest invited students to submit artwork inspired by a love of reading!
Off schedule and out of the classroom, students connect their personal interests to academic learning.
Watch a video showcasing how students are learning with our new campus gardens!
Take a look at photos from our last two weeks on campus!
The post-COVID return to campus is great. But so are the trips back off campus!
Students built and programmed robots which out-performed teams from 8 other schools.
The student-run service club hosted a party for participating students and their families.
The 50 graduates are moving to top universities and specialized programs around the globe.
Our boys' and girls' varsity soccer teams are crowned ISSAAA champions! Go Eagles!
Take a video tour of the exhibition to learn about environmental sustainability, human rights, cyber security, and beyond.
Personalized learning is in the spotlight for this week's highlight!
Students shared the personalized learning and community-focused action projects.
Take a look at a range of student and parent activities on campus this week!
The student-led service club invites business people and experts for workshops
Is it possible to cram all the fun from ES Play Day into a single video? Find out!
The trip was informative and inspirational, sparking ideas for evolving the service club's offerings.
Everyday, all the time: There is something special happening at ICS. That is why our weekly highlights are titled #EverydayICS.,
Our international student athletes and scholars competed in soccer, tennis, golf, and STEM.
Inception is a future-focused, project-based program that prioritizes personalization and purpose.
From the PTO's Community Market to HS students teaching Grade 4s science, this week had it all!
Eight faculty members hosted full-day workshops in Bahir Dar, northern Ehtiopia.
Professionals visited from the African Union, The World Bank, the UN, & the International Monetary Fund.
It was the culmination of a unit focusing on creating goods and services to meet community demand.
Sign up now to to our facilities and meet with our teachers!
They captured photos of wildlife on a safari in the mountains outside Addis.
During the project, students debated the importance of the brain compared to the heart.
ICS band and choir students joined the festival with schools from all over Africa!
Members of the school community represented 74 different nationalities at this flagship PTO event.
ICS students traveled to Lusaka for the gathering of international schools from southern and eastern Africa.
Across all areas of the school, at all ages, and all times of day, the ICS community works together.
The boys' varsity team won a thrilling final game to take the title.
Becoming an IB Continuum School ensures alignment and continuity for the highest quality education.
in line with our ICS Mission, the PTO's monthly Community Market provided a special platform for advocacy and impact.
Guacamole making. French Master Chefs. A PTO Breakfast. Plus, a wacky exploration of coordination and movement in the Early Years!
We are welcoming new families and current families with kids enrolling for the first time!
Cooking. Moving. Leading. Sharing. Playing. All are on display in this week's photo album.
Personalized learning. Team teaching. Flexible spaces. Take a video tour of our Elementary hubs!
Check out a quick video of some great things happening on campus this week!
Students dive deep into projects aimed at engagement and learning to learn.
Current and former faculty members gathered in DC with graduates from the Classes of 1971 through 2018.
An album featuring learning and community events that took place on the ICS campus this week.
Find our Eagles team photos plus links to each tournament's live stream!
A story by a group of high school students who attended the 2023 Global Issues Service Summit.
Take a peek into life on the iCS campus in this week's highlight video!
Student Council reps and the National Honors Society organized the inspirational event.
It was another great week of learning and community on the ICS campus.
A conference of 18,000+ covered topics as diverse as the musicians themselves.
Watch: Elementary students excited to reunite after break on our campus play spaces!
Adventure, exploration, and team building at ICS Week Without Walls.
Check out photos from recent events on campus, including our winter performances!
Extracurriculars allow students to further learning in a range of subjects.
Each week, we bring highlights of learning, activities, and events from campus to show you life at school!
"Everyone at ICS plays a key role in realizing our mission and vision to be our best with Africa and our world."
Snaps from November 14-December 1, including high school concerts, learning on the playground, and more!
Across all grade levels, students made agreements about rules and guidelines then created incredible artwork
The Class of 2010 graduate's film demonstrates her commitment to bridging cultures.
Rebecca Gilman is a researcher, teacher, and now author in the fields of global citizenship and service learning.
A guided independent study into the concept of inequality and the related UN Sustainable Development Goal.
Video, photos, and reflections from an incredible weekend of volleyball in Addis.
ICS students shared their learning journey at Parent-Teacher-Student Conferences.
Our school is committed to continuously improving education and creating learning opportunities for all.
ICS hosted hundreds of student-athletes, families, and friends for the city-wide meet.
The annual video celebrates the valuable contributions people with Down Syndrome bring to their communities.
“When conceptual understanding is transferred to the real world, learning runs deeper and lasts."
“At international schools, engaging with the host country is an integral part of growing, learning, and building community.”
The first of the breakfast and afternoon tea events featured Ethiopian cuisine.
Students can choose activities focused on academics, arts, athletics, service, STEM, and beyond.
Projects cover a range of topics including environmental sustainability, teaching entrepreneurship and literacy, and women empowerment.
This article by Jessica Fortin was originally published by ISC Research, a leading database of international schools.
Representing 14 nationalities, they bring experience in teaching, as well as specialized areas and industries.
Find out how ICS aims to enhance learning through innovative practice and technological integration
Video: ICS students discuss what it means to be an MYP learner.
City tours. Event support. Fitness classes. Language lessons. Crafting clubs. All with the ICS Parent-Teacher Organization.
Reading time. Launching the MYP. First days for early years learners. More!
Students are empowered to develop community guidelines aligned with school culture.
Join us on campus, as students, teachers, and parents reunited after summer break! With music by an ICS Music student!
229 new students representing 48 different countries are joining ICS this school year.