What a fun filled day we had celebrating Easter! We had lots of fun in the morning making yummy chocolate Easter nests, before we had to find all the Easter eggs the Easter bunny had left for us!

A very relaxing and mindful day was had here for our termly Wellbeing and Mindfulness day here at KISE. 
The children started their day with yoga and meditation before enjoying lots of therapeutic activities on the patio! 
We also thought about things that are positive about ourselves. 
If you visit the school please come and see our Mindful display!

King’s College schools of Madrid, Alicante and Murcia have been recognised among the best international schools in Spain by the RANKING DE LOS 100 MEJORES COLEGIOS, a highly respected publication that the Spanish newspaper EL MUNDO has issued every year since 1999.

While King’s College Madrid and King’s College Alicante have been consistently recognised in this ranking in the past, this is the first time King’s College Murcia has also been cited. This is due to the fact that this year the school in Murcia has reached its 10th anniversary and thus, has been able to apply for consideration in the Ranking.

You can read the full press release here.

You can also access the full ranking by clicking here.

Our second visit to Elche seniors, the retirement home opposite our school, has been a great success. We put on some music and everyone joined in our Dough Disco activity.  All shapes and designs made possible through the precision crafting of our home made play dough. What a lovely way to share some time with the residents of Elche Seniors while we play together.

Green Class has been busy reading and recreating the story of Goldilocks and the three bears this week. By carefully mixing the different ingredients and following the instructions our little chefs have been able to make the perfect porridge! Not too hot… Not too cold… Just right, it even satisfied their appetite!

 

Everyone at KISE had been practising very hard for our upcoming Christmas performance. We were delighted to invite the Year 1 children from KCA to come and watch our show to practise before the big performance for our parents. The Year 1's came over on a bus and were very excited. Everyone enjoyed the performance and we especially enjoyed sharing snack time together and showing them our new climbing frame. What a super morning! We hope you can come back soon. 

It was a chilly morning late in December and the children of KISE suddenly heard a jingle bell... what could it be? Who could be coming? We followed the noise and suddenly heard a 'ho ho ho'! It was Santa!! Everyone was so excited. We sang him songs we know about Santa and then were so lucky to receive a present from him. We are all feeling very Christmassy and ready for the holidays!

On the 14th of December the children were very excited to be visiting Elche Seniors, the retirement home opposite our school. We carefully walked there and once there got our Christmas hats ready to perform our Christmas Show. The children sang beautifully and waved hello to all the elderly people there. The audience were fantastic and thoroughly enjoyed the show, with everyone joining in with the song Feliz Navidad at the end. It was so heartwarming to see the children and elderly people interacting and we will be visiting monthly in the future. 

Yellow Class had a fantastic morning reading the story of Whatever Next, making their own jam sandwiches and then flying to the moon to have a picnic! The children were so excited and when the rest of the school returned from their picnic at KCA were eagerly telling us in English that they had been to the moon! 

Pre Nursery Yellow Class have been exploring lots of different ways to make marks this month in KISE. Outside painting, using different materials and objects to mark with... and having lots of fun and getting messy of course!! I think we have a few artists in the making here! 

We were delighted to welcome Simon Manley, the British Ambassador to Spain to our school on the 22nd of November. We were proud to show him the progress we have made at school and how fanstastically the children are doing. Simon was 'delighted to visit the latest jewel in the King's Group crown'! 

What a spooky Halloween we enjoyed at KISE! The children and teachers all came to school dressed as scary characters and we did some fantastic art activities to make the school super spooky. Our core song and core text for the week before Halloween were Incy Wincy Spider and Room on the Broom which really got us in a spooky mood! Everyone loved our Halloween party we had altogether playing apple bobbing, donuts on a string and even drawing scary faces on our afternoon snack! 

On Tuesday the 24th October we celebrated the official opening of King’s Infant School, Elche. We welcomed Sir Roger Fry and the Mayor of Elche as well as parents to join us in our celebrations. Mateo from Yellow Class Pre Nursery, the first pupil who signed up to attend the school, was given a special mention during the ceremony and a plaque was revealed in the entrance hall to mark the occasion. We are all very proud to be part of such an exciting new venture and are eager to see the school continue to grow and prosper.

Lots of children in all classes have recently been very interested in nature and the world around them, especially when finding insects on the patio! We worked together to provide a nature garden for the children to use to observe the things that live and grow there and provide many opportunities to explore their curiosities. The children were very excited and look daily to see what they can find in the garden.

On the 10th of October KISE celebrated World Mental Health Day. We learnt lots of things like practicing meditation, some yoga moves and lots of sensory activities through art therapy. Everyone especially enjoyed the array of sensory activities the teachers had set up outside like bubble blowing, moon sand, corn flour gloop, ice painting and sensory bottles. We ended the day by drawing things that make us happy. We will definitely be repeating this day again next term!

The children in KISE were very excited to get planting this month. We have turned the big space on our patio into our very own herb garden. Everyone carefully took turns smelling each plant and touching the leaves to see what they felt like. We then worked together to dig holes in the soil. When we took each plant out of its pot everyone was very fascinated by the roots underneath the soil. We then planted each plant and practiced lots of English by following instructions! We will take it in turns to water and look after our garden, come and visit when you can!

Last Friday we celebrated our first ever assembly in KISE. Everybody was very excited! We listened very carefully as two children were presented with a special certificate for the super work they have been doing so far in school. We then sung a song together, and as it is getting close to Halloween we sung a spooky Halloween song! Well done to Valentina in Blue Class and Anni in Green Class who were awarded certificates. We look forward to many more assemblies together in the future!

During our first month the children from Pre Nursery to Year 1 made lots of hand prints in many different colours. We made this into the welcome rainbow that can be seen in the entrance area of our school. We chose to have a rainbow to represent KISE to celebrate everyone's differences, working together and being kind to each other. Underneath and around the rainbow are all the members of our school family. Next time you are at school, please come and have a look! 

In Green Class the Reception and Year 1 children have made a brilliant start to their year at KISE. New friendships have been made and lots of learning through their environment and different activities. We have started learning our phonics sounds, practising saying the sound of the letter and writing them as well. We have especially enjoyed our first Core Text- Brown Bear and were even able to make and record our own versions of the story! 

 

Nursery have made a fantastic start to their school life at KISE and we are really happy with how the children have settled in. They are enjoying exploring their new classrooms and environments and lots of fun things to do. Their core text for the first two weeks was ‘Brown Bear, Brown Bear, What Do You See?’ They are fantastic at retelling the story and knowing all the animals names and colours. They also enjoyed the fantastic activities in the classroom, especially finding the animals from the story with a magnifying glass. 

 

Pre Nursery have had a super first month in their brand new school! All the children have settled in really well and are all getting used to the new routines. They have been exploring their new environments as well as enjoying some wonderful activities. One of their favourites has been exploring colour names and getting nice and messy whilst exploring it! They have also loved their ‘Squiggle While You Wiggle’ sessions developing their motor skills through dancing and mark making. Lots of smiles from everyone!